March 26- 2012

Hello everyone, this is the first news of 2012 sorry for the delay. We have already had a busy year so far. We just finished our casino weekend up north which was a blast and St Pattys Day where we rocked 3 shows in one day! We are polishing our set for the wedding and festival season ahead and adding new songs weekly and putting together a show that we hope will be our best to date. Thanks for everyones continued support and keep checking back for news updates and new photos and videos. We have already placed new pics and vids on our Facebook page and on YouTube and we are currently working on putting out a live CD from this past weekend. If you have not liked Element13 on Facebook yet...please do and check out our page, also type Element13 into YouTube and see some of our good ol' stuff from the past.

~M

December 13- 2011

Hello again everyone, just a quick update during our slow period I felt was neccesary. Thanks to everyone who came out to see the Jim and Mike acoustic show at Distil this past Saturday night. It was our first time there and we had a blast and can not wait to return. Also, this coming Friday we are playing the grand opening of The Irish Rec Room on Old World 3rd street. stop down and check out this new bar and say hello to us. This is our first public show in quite a while and we will have our guest bass player with us, Geoff McDonald, because Dave will be in Vegas. We are pumped to play with Geoff again and try out a few new jams at this new venue.

Our 2012 calander is filling up real quick with lots of new venues and some of the same old god ones that we love. New festivals...new weddings...new bars...this year is already turning out to be our biggest year to date! One more thing...we are back in the running on WISN's A-List for best local band. We won 2 years ago and were top 3 last year....we need your votes to stay in the upper echelon of Milwaukee bands!


We will see you all soon and thanks again for everyones continued support!!

~M

Sept. 22nd- 2011

I feel like I have been neglecting you all with the news. I apologize but I shall neglect no more! We just got out of what turned out to be our craziest and busiest summer yet, and we don't even hate each other..(well we always hate Dave a little, but other than that everthing is hunky dory). This September was a perfect way to end the summer. Harvest in Cedarburg was a blast even considering it rained half the time. Thanks to those who could care less about the rain and stayed and listened anyway. A special thanks again to Erik Stelter at Bella Lei and all the stylists for having us and being so hospitable to us everytime we are there!

But just when we thought this summer was over and we could take a little break, October came creeping up on us with 3 weddings, the sad part about the rest of the year is that there are no more scheduled full band shows, and only 6 more Jimmy and Mike shows scheduled. 3 of which are this weekend, and one of which is NYE. We will try our damndest to throw a few more shows in before the end of the year though.

Already 2012 is shaping up to be absolutely bananas! We have been contacted by the wonderful folks at Tough Mudder to compile a list of cities that we would like to play in 2012. We are setting up our tour right now and look forward to be able to play some tunes and get our name out in other cities, and also use this opportunity to take mini paid vacations all year long. Places we are looking into so far include; Colorado, Michigan, Minnesota, Toronto, Texas, Arizona and some others. We should have this all solidified by the years end, so check back.

As always, please contact us if you are interested in us playing your event or wedding as early as possible. Our calender fills up very quick during the summer months. Also, if there is a venue that you think we should play then let us know. We love playing new places and meeting new people. Come out and see us before the years end, thanks again for all the support!

~Mike


July 20th- 2011

We have had a very busy summer thus far playing many weddings festivals and other venues. It has been a blast and were only half way through. This weekend we have a full weekend starting with Steny's for Steny-Fest on Friday night and then we head up north to play for the 2 day event Tough Mudder! If you are going to be at any of these events, make sure that you come and say hi to us. Keep checking the schedule cause we keep adding new shows to completely fill our schedule this summer.

We would also like to thank everyone that has come out to support us this summer and the past number of years. we always appreciate the support and it was absolutely bonkers playing for 15,000 plus people at the South Shore Frolics this year. We are pumped about doing that again next year. Keep checking back to the site and our facebook page for updates and our upcoming video blogs, and dont forget that we try to live stream as many shows as possible from right here on our website. See you all soon!

~Mike


June 6th, 2011-

Well, we have officially kicked off our summer tour this past weekend...and man was is a blast! We played one of the craziest weddings to date on saturday in Madison. You quickly learn that when Bucky Badger Crashes a wedding, it is going to be a crazy night! On Sunday, we kicked off our outdoor festival season at St. Roberts in Shorewood and had an absolute blast! Not only did we already book to headline Saturday night at the 2012 St. Roberts Festival,  We even have a new fan named Lillianna! She did an awesome job playing the tambourine and danced like crazy the whole night! I have a feeling she was one tired little girl when she got home! She has been through a lot in her young life and we were so happy to make her day even more special! We hope to see her again really soon! Your tambourine awaits Lillianna!

We have a weekend off coming up do Dave can get married in mexico! We are so happy for him and his future wife, Meg. We will be back on Saturday, June 18th to continue our crazy summer schedule at HartFest! We are excited to be rocking out with Rectifier(www.rectifiermusic.com) who will be playing from 3:30-5:00pm, Element 13 plays from 5:30-7:30pm, then OldMil (www.oldmil.net) will be topping it all off from 8:00pm-11pm. The party doesnt stop there, because then we will be taking our show to Horny Goat Hideaway that night from 10p-2am. So stop on by for twice the rock!

Our next shows after that are on Friday, June 24th from 7p-11p at St. Pauls Festival in Milwaukee.( www.saintpaulmilwaukee.org/festival)  This is our 3rd year at St.Pauls and we are honored to be headlining friday night this year! This is one of the best festivals in the area and you definitely do not want to miss it! We will be debuting our ALL NEW Stage show this year! New backdrops, amazing light show, and killer sound! Check it out! The following day, Saturday, June 25th we return to one of our favorite festivals ever! After much outcry from our fans last year, e13 is BACK at Cedarburg Strawberry festival on the Bella Lei Stage on the south end of the grounds ! We have all of our fans to thank for getting us back! We cant wait! We are there from 3p-6p!

Check out our full summer schedule to the right and please come say hi to us at our shows this summer! We know we are truly lucky to have such awesome fans and are comepletely humbled by all of your support over the years! It is because of our families, friends and fans that we are where we are today and where are are going in the future! Thanks so much and we can't wait to see you all this summer!

-Nick

May 19th 2011-

According to sources...judgement day is upon us this Saturday! So if this is true then there are onnly 2 more chances to catch Jimmy and mike play acoustic! This Friday at Bar 360 inside of Potowatomi Casino at 8pm, and Saturday night at JD's on Hillendale in Muskego also at 8pm. However if these false prophets are wrong then all you believers still have a chance all summer long to catch Jimmy and Mike along with the full E13 band at various locations around town and beyond. Check out the tour page as we are filling up fast...and when I say fast I mean we just booked 2 more shows today including Horny Goat Hideaway with Jimmy and Mike on Thursday May 26th and another Trinity gig on July 8th.

Also, some may have noticed that there is a huge block of June that we are not playing any shows...this is because we are celebrating our bass player Daves wedding in Mexico with him. We would like to say congratualtions to him and his fiance Meg, and feel free to email or facebook your congratulations to him as well. However, once we get back...this summer is gonna be a lot of fun and we are looking forward to each and every show.

~M


April 22nd 2011-

Tomorrow night we will be playing for the 1st time at Whiskey bar on Jackson st in downtown Milwaukee, in their back room called The Venue. It is shaping up to look to be an awesome show with 102.9 The Hog being there right before us for their Rock Girl Casting Call from 8-10pm. Next week we are at Saturday we are at Trinity and then the shows start piling in over the summer so stay tuned for show updates and we get them on the regular and we look forward to seeing everyonee this summer and having a good time. Keep those song requests and venue suggestions coming, we look at every single request that comes to us and talk about it. Thanks

~M

March 19th 2011-

St Pat's rocked this year, having 2 gigs this year 1st at the Irish Pub and closing the night down at Trinity Jim and I had a blast! This coming weekend we will be revisiting Bub's in Germantown on Friday and hitting Paulies Pub for our first time ever on Saturday night. Check our tour page cause we are constantly adding gigs, including 2 which were added this morning. Thank you for the continued support and please come down this weekend and say hi to us and dance your butt off! We are also working on new music for the summer so continue to submit song ideas because we DO get all of them and have already used a bunch of them and added them to our set. Stay tuned for more updates as we get them!

March 9th 2011~

We have heard recently from many people that we are not playing enough in the downtown Milwaukee area and that people are dissappinted that we are always going out of town to play. We are trying to spread the love a little around the area so we can rock people outside of Milwaukee. But dont worry, we are working on getting as many downtown shows booked as we can this summer. We have a lot of committments as far as weddings and out of town gigs are concerned but we will be downtown plenty in the coming months. For example, Trinty and the Irish Pub on st. Pattys Day and Whiskey bar and more Trinity in April. I am also working on Whiskey River and Red Rock Saloon as possible options. We have also booked some great downtown festivals like the River Rhythms Concert Series at Pierre Marquette Park. We hear your cry, so send us a message if there is some place that you would like to have us play at and I will try my damndest to get us in there. 

This Friday we have no show because it is my (Mike's) birthday and we are all going out downtown. Feel free to come and find us and hang out and bring me presents! However on Saturday, we are headed out to Leff's Lucky Town on State St. in Tosa to play right after the St. Pattys Day parade. That should be a blast since that place is always awesome! We are always trying to get out as much as possible and play music so send us your suggestions on where to play and thanks for the continued support throughout the years. Thanks

~M


Jan30th 2011~

We just finished a busy weekend of playing the Harley Davidson Winter Bike show on Friday and representing E13 at the CFC Festival Trade show at Serb Hall. we made a lot of great connections and met a lot of great people. Thank you to everyone at Harley and that we spoke with at the trade show, it was a fantastic weekend!! Now we are making preparations for the rest of this quarter and picking away at our summer schedule. We are filling our weekends up with bars, weddings and festivals that we are extremely excited about performing at and we hope that you are as well.

One thing that we want to stress to everyone is that we love talking to the people that come out and support us. Come say hi to us before our shows, during our breaks and after we are finished. If you have seen us before, you know that we feed a lot off of the crowd and support that we are given and all of your support is what drives us forward to create an even better live show and learn new material that you want to hear. We want to say a big thank you to everyone who has given their support to us in 2010 and in the years prior. We promise that you will see new things from us this year with the addition of our new permanant sound engineer Brian Harden, who has worked sound at some of the best venues and with some of the best artists in this country. His addition to E13 has pushed our sound miles beyond what it was in the past. Keep your requests coming, and we hope everyone can make it out to a few shows this year and say hi to us when you do and we hope you enjoy the new tunes we are spinning out for your dancing pleasure!

~M.G.

Jan, 2011 -

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE! And what a year it is going to be! We are booking up our year like crazy and moving into bigger, new (for us) venues all over the area! We have a ton of shows coming up in the next couple months, and at the end of this month, we will be getting our summer festival schedule worked out so stay tuned for those announcements! We have a bunch of festivals committed already, but we will announce them when it is official! We are excited to be back at the St. Paul Festival this year as the Friday night Headliner! Then the next day, we will be BACK at the Cedarburg Strawberry Festival on the Bella Lei Stage on the South End of the Festival. We have already booked the Strawberry Festival in large part to you, our fans! You guys caused a huge uproar that were were not there last year, that they have already booked us for 2011! So thank you again and we will see you in Cedarburg! We are also forming some partnerships with some other great local companies, like Brew City DJ's to enhance our festival shows and make it a great experience for our fans! So dont miss that! We have also submitted our bid to play at Summerfest 2011, so we will keep you updated as that process continues. We have gotten great support from our fans as they have been bombarding the Summerfest page on Facebook with requests for us! See you this summer!!! -Nick

Of course we love to see you out at our shows, but we understand you are busy, or maybe we are playing out of town...well fear not, we've got your back! Click on our TOUR page link to watch our shows LIVE right here on e13rocks.com! Make sure you "like" our facebook fan page (the feed is right over there, on the left of the page) to find out when we are broadcasting! Thanks for your support both online and in person!