Start From Scratch Wins The Pier’s Album Of The Year

Start From Scratch was awarded the title for Album Of The Year for the 1st Annual Pier Awards. The Pier is an online publication providing all of the latest news and updates for bands within the reggae-rock community, and we’re truly grateful to receive this award. We are in great company as other award winners include SOJA (Artist Of The Year), Rebelution (Live Artist Of The Year), Through The Roots (Breakout Artist Of The Year), & Sublime w/ Rome (Music Video Of The Year).

We were also nominated for Home Grown Music Network’s Album Of The Year and advanced as a finalist for the award. Congratulations to Ultraviolet Hippopotamus on winning HGMN’s Album Of The Year. We want to thank everyone for voting! To read more about The Pier awards, click here.

Album of the Year Nominations for Start From Scratch

After debuting at #1 on the iTunes Reggae charts & #1 on the Billboard Reggae charts, Start From Scratch, has been nominated twice for Album Of The Year. Please take a moment and show your support by voting for PASSAFIRE! Below, you can find the links to vote on Home Grown Music Network & ThePier.Org. Thanks!

Vote on HGMN

Vote on ThePier.org

Start From Scratch Fall Tour 2011 Update 1

The first week of tour is in the books. There is still plenty to look forward to this fall, but the biggest news from this update involves the release of Passafire’s fourth studio release, Start From Scratch. The album officially releases today and I’m proud to announce that we debuted at #1 on the iTunes reggae charts! Help support us by purchasing the album now!

The Official Start From Scratch Trailer


Debuting on Sept 20th 2011 at #1 on the iTunes reggae charts


The first shipment of CDs have arrived


Guitar rigs for fall tour


The semi-new keyboard setup


09.15.11 – The Jewish Mother (Virginia, VA)


09.17.11 – Jammin’ Java (Vienna, VA)


Los Lonely Boys
09.18.11 – Ziggy’s Tavern (Winston-Salem, NC)

Click here to view more pics from tour.