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Hana Pestle will be on tour with Ben Moody’s new band The Fallen this fall. Check back for more details soon!

Hana’s song “Need” is now available for purchase on iTunes. Click here to be directed to the iTunes store where you can purchase the song for 99¢. If you get a chance, tell everyone what you think by reviewing it!

Hana has put up a free download of her song “Red Death Ball” on Stereofame. So download the song and tell all of your friends about it so they can get in on the free action too! It’s not often you get free music legally. She’s also Stereofame’s June Artist of the Month!

Hey guys! Hana has released her much anticipated Live In The Studio EP. It features six original tracks and a cover of Radiohead’s “Creep”. Click the above links to buy it digitally and to purchase a physical copy of the Limited Edition. There were only 200 made, and Hana packaged all of them herself, so grab it while you can! The EP will be released to iTunes on June 9, 2009 with an exclusive track added. Limited Edition track listing below:

- 1 these two hands
- 2 just a phase
- 3 rain
- 4 make you hurt
- 5 this way
- 6 creep
- 7 what makes things

More tour dates were also added, so check Hana out on tour with Boyce Avenue! The video for “Need” is also on its way! Stay tuned.

PensEyeView.com (PEV): Tell us how you first got started in the music business? Has playing music always been something you’ve wanted to do?

Hana Pestle (HP): Absolutely. I feel like I’ve been singing since I was born. I used to put on silly concerts for my family since I was a toddler. One day in 8th grade, before a really hard Chemistry test, I remember thinking, “Why the hell am I sitting here stressing out about the Periodic Table of Elements? I want to be a musician.” I don’t think I had realized how much I truly just wanted to work on music for the rest of my life until that moment. After that, I started focusing on my writing and guitar skills. I didn’t abandon school though, which I’m thankful for because I had the best high school experience of all time.

PEV: A Billings, Montana native, what kind of music where you listening to growing up? What was the first concert you attended? Who is on your iPod right now?

HP: My parents had/have great taste in music, thankfully. I grew up listening to R.E.M, The Smashing Pumpkins, The Cranberries, Alanis Morissette, Sarah McLachlan, and Radiohead. Collective Soul played Billings on my 11th birthday and so my parents took me and my little sister to the show. We were right in front of Dean, the guitarist, and he threw picks to both of us. It felt like a really big deal at the time. Right now I am listening to “Sea Legs” by The Shins…it’s one of my favorite songs at the moment. Recently I’ve been listening to Lydia, the new Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ album is AMAZING, John Mayer, Adele, The Sunlandic Twins, and oh the list just goes on and on so I might as well just stop there.

Read the entire interview here.

hey everyone!!

i’m so excited to announce that i’ll be opening for the band Boyce Avenue for the end of june and beginning of july!! it’s going to be SO much fun. take a look at the dates and let me know if you can come! spread the word to your friends too!

Jun 23 2009 7:00P Local 506 Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Jun 24 2009 7:00P Jammin Java Vienna (Washington D.C.), Virginia
Jun 26 2009 7:00P Stephen Talkhouse The Hamptons (Amagansett), New York
Jun 27 2009 7:30P Cafe 939 at Berklee Boston, Massachusetts
Jun 28 2009 8:00P World Cafe Live Philadephia, Pennsylvania
Jun 29 2009 7:00P Bowery Ballroom New York
Jul 1 2009 7:30P Beachland Ballroom & Tavern Cleveland, Ohio
Jul 2 2009 7:00P Blind Pig Detroit (Ann Arbor), Michigan
Jul 3 2009 6:00P Beat Kitchen Chicago

can’t wait to see you guys out there!!

=D
hana

hey everyone!! happy monday! yay! exciting things happening at www.hanamerch.com today!

“need” is available as an mp3 download!!!!!!

and, the sheet music is available in both a original, bound hard copy and a PDF version.

also, my blue broken heart shirt is on sale today for 9.99!!

have a great day and happy shopping!

=D

- hana

p.s.- i uploaded a song to myspace from my upcoming EP “Live in the Studio”….go see which one it is!

Hana’s new online merch store just opened up. It’s got t-shirts, EP’s (even autographed ones), stickers and sheet music! Go buy some clothes and sport your new Hana stuff on the streets.