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American Diamond Recordings "Pops Up" at XPoNential Festival

American Diamond Recordings, Philadelphia's newest collective had a really big weekend.  The newly minted label, home of Ron Gallo/Toy Soldiers/The Lawsuits/TJ Kong and the Atomic Bomb/Levee Drivers had major appearances across the North-East.  The Lawsuits opened the River stage on Sunday at the 2014 XPoNential Music Festival Presented by Subaru while on Thursday night; Toy Soldiers played the Newport Folk Festival kick-off party! 

The Levee Drivers and TJ Kong & the Atomic Bomb are never ones to steer away from the fun, so they popped-up at XPNfest as well.   In the very brief cross-over between River stage and JerseyArts.com Marina stage, The American Diamond bands took up shop on the concourse playing songs between sets.  

First, Levee Drivers, joined by TJ Kong and the Atomic Bomb members TJ Kong & Josh Machiz, took the lead for a song playing "Bound By That Ride" immediately after the Lawsuits XPNfest set. 





After the J. Roddy Walston & The Business XPNfest set, Levee Drivers swapped out TJ Kong for Chelsea Mitchell, to join them on one of their new tracks "Waking Up In Memphis".

Later in the day, Levee Drivers took one more turn and played a medley of "Folsom Prison Blues/That's All Right Mama" and TJ Kong & The Atomic Bomb had a turn as well (seen to the right catching the Lawsuits).

In other American Diamond news this month:

The Lawsuits released a video for "Dreaming #26"


Meanwhile, TJ Kong & the Atomic Bomb also released a brand new music video off of their KONG EP coming on American Diamond Recordings on Sept. 9: the incredibly sexy "Snakeskin".
 

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