8BALL AFFIRMS SOUTHERN STYLE WITH “LIFE’S QUEST” ON JULY 17, 2012 New York – 8Ball (of 8ball & MJG fame) is set to release his new studio album, Life’s Quest, on July 17, 2012 through eOne Music/Push Management LLC. The new disc features Big KRIT, Angie Stone, Jr. Reid, Slim (of 112) and 2 Chainz. Life’s Quest features southern beatmasters Drumma Boy and Big KRIT, who have crafted heavy basslines and melodic hooks to illustrate 8Ball’s colorful verse. Life’s Quest [...]
FELIX CARTAL Monday, May 28th 5:40 p.m. – 6:25 p.m. Banana Shack Stage Following in the footsteps of striking Canadian electronic producers like deadmau5 and MSTRKRFT, Vancouver beatsmith FELIX CARTAL is an impressive artist from north of the border. He comes to Sasquatch! to showcase material from his latest album. Out now on Dim Mak Records, DIFFERENT FACES is the follow up to his 2010 debut Popular Music. “Black To White,” featuring vocalist Miss Palmer, is FELIX’s latest single from [...]
ALBUM TO INCLUDE NEW UNRELEASED SSION TRACKS AND REMIXES COMING FROM MNDR, GRIMES, NIGHTFEELINGS, PHYSICAL THERAPY AND MORE Hailing from Kansas City’s unexpected art-scene, SSION has reached the apex of synth-pop perfection with the album Bent, out August 7th on Dovecote. Led by the charismatically avant gender outlaw Cody Critcheloe, SSION creates music that is simultaneously dance inducing and cheekily crass and that irreverently pokes fun at contemporary culture. Tracks are meticulously crafted with reverbed synth, deep bass and vocals [...]
OWSLA ANNOUNCES TENT AT HARD SUMMER AUGUST 4TH Skrillex’s bass-addled collective, OWSLA, has announced a collaboration with the venerable HARD Summer Festival taking place in LA August 3rd and 4th. The OWSLA Tent will boast a stage occupied by talent curated by HSMF headliner Skrillex’s OWSLA, featuring signees and friends alike.
Daniel Adams Ray @ Peace & Love 2011 – Photo: Emma Svensson / Rockfoto.nu In about a month from now the largest festival in Sweden, Peace & Love, will open gates on their 14th year of bringing worldwide attention to the small worker town of Borlänge in the heart of the country. With 50 000 festival goers 2011 Peace & Love is confident of another record year, never straying from their grass root concept of combining world class music with [...]
Tickets Now on Sale at H2OMusicFestival.com Univision Radio, the leading radio network serving Hispanic America, today announced that global superstar DJ and producer Tiësto has been added to the lineup of the H2O Music Festival taking place in the Cotton Bowl in Dallas on June 9. Tiësto is a performer who has transcended musical genres. With his globally syndicated Club Life radio show as well as his Club Life iTunes artist podcast – the No. 1 music podcast globally, Tiësto [...]
D-Sisive – Adam [MCA Tribute 1964 - 2012] Points: ‘parents saw the devil when their children saw god’ The Beastie Boys were my Beatles. My father would preach the gospel of the Fab 5 while me, too young to give a shit, wanted to wear baggy clothing and be MCA. You’d think I wanted to be Mike D due to the ’4th letter in the alphabet’ connection, but nope. Yauch was cooler to me. MCA was no bullshit. The only [...]
Parisian duo Total Warr makes music that has something for everyone, from upbeat pop melodies and irresistible hooks to pulsing electro beats and layers of fuzzed-out synth. Having received praise from the likes of FADER and RCRD LBL for their previous releases and dubbed a “Band To Watch” by Stereogum, Total Warr is back with a new EP that showcases their versatility while remaining danceworthy from beginning to end. Comprised of two brand new originals along with remixes from Is [...]
Beatport Exclusive out today on Axtone Records Listen on Soundcloud Today, Axtone Records releases the Thomas Gold’s remix of “The Wave” – a standout track from Miike Snow’s critically acclaimed new album Happy To You and featured on Thomas Gold’s forthcoming debut Axtone Mix compilation, Axtone Presents Thomas Gold (out May 28). It’s been an amazing year thus far for Miike Snow as they completely sold out their Happy To You USA tour and look to follow up an amazing [...]
RAPPER/PRODUCER EL-P TO PERFORM “STAY DOWN” ON LATE SHOW WITH DAVID LETTERMAN WITH GUEST VOCALIST NICK DIAMONDS OF ISLANDS Promoting his new album, Cancer4Cure, dropping next week (5/22) as his debut on Fat Possum Records, El-P will be performing on the iconic late night show with a full band and guest vocalist. Watch it on CBS at 11:35/10:35 central
