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Donna Loren sings Happy Birthday to Domenic Priore, January 15, 2012, at Caveman Music, Los Angeles

Donna Loren sings Happy Birthday to Domenic Priore at Caveman Music on January 15, 2012. Backed by Probyn Gregory and Steve Stanley. Chinatown, ...

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Maple Mars - I'm Not In Love

Rick Hromadka's rendition of the classic 10CC song on a drunken night near Christmas, thus the lights!

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Maple Mars - New Day

Featured on the fourth Maple Mars album "Galaxyland". Written by Mark Radice in the 1970's, this song should've been a huge hit! Our version featur...

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Maple Mars - The Excursion

Featured on the "Galaxyland" album the video version of this song highlights moments from the bands 2011 UK tour. Also includes footage from Rick's...

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Maple Mars - Welcome To Maple Mars (Live Acoustic)

Maple Mars playing a party acoustic in March 2011. "Welcome To Maple Mars" was featured on the first 'Mars album with the same name. Features Rick ...

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Talladega Halloween II

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Raisin' Junior Dancers: Junior Nation RULES!

Two hotties and a chubby dude dancin' for Junior Nation.

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A Raisin' Junior Christmas

The Raisin' Junior Christmas Special extravaganza!

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Maple Mars - Butterfly Effect

From the Maple Mars album "Beautiful Mess". Shot in LA and San Francisco.

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Maple Mars - Starting Over (Again)

Ultra groovy video from the Maple Mars album "Galaxyland". Directed by Mark Helfrich, who has also directed videos for the Dandy Warhols. Bikini gi...

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Arriving by time machine from the year 1971 Maple Mars landed on the Los Angeles pop scene in the year 2000. Fronted by ex-Double Naught Spies singer-songwriter Rick Hromadka, their psychedelic pop/rock debut album "Welcome To Maple Mars" (Permanent Press Recordings) was recorded in guitarist Steve Bern's apartment. Industry mags such as Billboard, Album Network, Mojo, Hits Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, and many online publications touted the album as one of the best indie pop-rock records of 2001. As their journey progressed Maple Mars recorded two more albums borrowing stylings from homeland bands like Pink Floyd, The Who, ELO, and the Beatles. Their fourth album "Galaxyland" released in March of this year is currently receiving massive college/internet radio play, as well as rave reviews ("A psychedelic masterpiece" - Twirl Radio) and may be their most acclaimed album yet.

Drummer Ron Pak, producer/guitarist Steve Berns, and "chef to the stars" bassist Trevor Zimmerman are the travelers who, along with singer-songwriter guitarist Rick Hromadka, have taken their influences to new territories as shown in their latest video "Starting Over (Again)" which was directed by Mark Helfrich (Dandy Warhols). The video "Transcendental Guidance", also from "Galaxyland" peaked at number #27 on Neil Young's "Living With War" website. The band has toured both coasts of the US, and in Europe. Maple Mars have appeared on a variety of pop compilations from countries as diverse as Sweden, Germany, Japan, Australia, Canada, which has brought the band an international following.

Landing in Los Angles from New Haven, Ct, Rick Hromadka first found a day job at Saban Entertainment penning songs for a variety of film and TV teen shows like Breaker High, Sweet Valley High, and the Power Rangers; also getting a track on the Power Rangers movie Turbo. Hromadka formed the power-trio group The Visionaries and released "Every Other Saturday" on Wrecking Ball Records. The band morphed into Double Naught Spies and was a fixture in LA with their heavy 70's rock influence and melodic vocal arrangements. Their 1999 release "The Shoephone Conspiracy" (Cherry Boy Records) with engineer/co-producer Richard Bosworth (Dramarama, Wondermints, The Knack) brought the band major notoriety; being added to a number of college radio play lists, and was re-released in Japan on Air Mail Recordings.

Rick's music has been used in several films and TV shows including Ropewalk, Piñata: Survival island, King Cobra, Dangerous Obsessions, ER, Thirdwatch, Felicity, The West Wing, Friday Night Lights, and many more. Rick Hromadka is also a successful feature film sound designer, and has won three Emmys for sound editorial.

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