With God Save the King Copywrite delivers another brutally honest record that reaches for new creative heights with all of the crazy punch lines, deep metaphors, true wordsmithing and all of the technical razzle dazzle anyone could ever ask for.

Included is a new video, “Sorrow”f/Illogic (produced by Stu Bangas) from Copy’s God Save The King LP.

Cameron GreY speaks directly to “GenerationY” with his new video for “Just Dream” as it encapsulates the hopes, thoughts, wishes and yes “dreams” of all upcoming/starving artists!

Upon releasing his first mixtape, Space Jams, (hosted by Mr. Peter Parker & DJ Ill Will) in 2009 Cameron GreY began opening for established acts such as Clipse, Big Sean, Wiz Khalifa, Travis Porter, Asher Roth, Twista, Chip Tha Ripper, Machine Gun Kelly. Opening up for those artists set the table for his second mixtape, N.A.S.A. (Never Allowing Success To Alter), in 2011, which quickly became a fan-favorite at Datpiff.com.

Continuing a story is never easy (most movie sequels validate as much), but Columbus, Ohio native Cameron GreY’s latest mixtape, Crash Landing, is not necessarily a sequel, as much as it is a continuum from where he left off with N*A*S*A*. Cameron GreY’s music soars with the astronauts and all spacey inhabitants and Crash Landing proves that he cannot be confined to time nor space (nor should you!).

Crash Landing includes a collaboration (“If I Were King”) with fellow Columbus native Copywrite.

Video link to Cameron GreY’s “Just Dream”

Tracklisting and credits for Cameron GreY’s Crash Landing:

1.) “Dreaming” (produced by BraveStarr)
2.) “Crash Landing” (Skit)
3.) “Intro To Crash Landing” (produced by BeatsPlanet)
4.) “I Had To Go” (produced by Kid Flash)
5.) “Miles Above” f/Smitty, Archie T Comma, Meechie Nelson & Cali KiD DuBz (produced by Clyde Strokes)
6.) “Shoot You Out The Sky” (produced by Track Officialz)
7.) “Captains Log Day 1” (Skit)
8.) “No Tomorrow” (produced by Hedonistic Beatz)
9.) “Feet On The Moon” f/Scotty Woo (produced by J Gramm)
10.) “Just Dream” (produced by Ear 2 The Beat)
11.) “If I Were King” f/Cal Scruby & Copywrite (produced by Sean Divine)
12.) “Keep On Rollin” (produced by Ear 2 The Beat)
13.) “Captains Log Day 2” (Skit )
14.) “Mary Jane” (produced by Lady Gwaii)
15.) “Alone With My Thoughts” f/Lady Gwaii (produced by Joey Cutlass)
16.) “Floating In Space” (produced by Downtown Music Production)
17.) “Can’t Go Back” (produced by Downtown Music Production)
18.) “Smoke Signals” (Skit)

2012 promises to be a memorable year for Illus, as he and his wife recently welcomed the birth of their first child and his new project, Family First, (due to be released on 5-29-2012) focuses on the shared love of that experience to create 12-tracks that mend meaningful, powerful, heart-felt lyrics to hardcore Hip-Hop production. Family First is a celebration of family and life both in the literal sense and that of the larger global Hip-Hop community and the connection we all have through our children and the spirit, heart, passion and soul of the culture.

On Family First, Illus collaborates lyrically and sonically with some of best emcees and producers in the business. Each emcee featured is also the producer of the track they appear on and this collaborative process is a first for any Hip-Hop project.

Family First is also co-produced by Public Enemy luminary DJ Johnny Juice and the star-studded guest emcee/producer list includes; Apathy, Ill Bill, Blueprint, J-Live, Erin Barra, Headsnack, Phashara, Chuuwee, Esoteric and more.

Today Illus releases the video, “Life,” featuring and produced by Phasara of The Beatmonstas)

“I happened to be in Berkeley, CA for a weekend with my family and my brother Phashara flew up from Los Angeles for a few hours to kick it and shoot a little video for the song we did together. Neither of us were familiar with the area, so we just walked around and took in the sites, shopped for records, ate some food and shot some footage of our day. We hope you enjoy the song and video. P.S.–Shout out to my man’s daughter for letting us borrow her pink iTunes “boom box.” Illus

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 that verge on the addictive. Critcheloe’s creativity is not bounded by music making, as he has been commissioned to produce music videos for a multitude of heavyweights in the unconventional-pop world, including Peaches, Gossip, CSS and Santigold as well as promotional videos for the vibrant outsider designer and fellow Kansas City local, Peggy Noland. Drawing from a multifaceted artistic background, SSION is a total multimedia experience playfully on the vanguard of culture, replete with high-concept visuals, performance, costuming and make-up. The enhanced hard copy re-release of Bent will include previously unreleased bonus tracks and remixes from MNDR, Grimes, Nightfeelings, Physical Therapy and more.

Bent features the lushly reverbed introverted single “My Love Grows In The Dark.” In the accompanying video, conceived and produced by Critcheloe and lauded by Paper as “absolutely captivating,” the front man portrays himself as the antithesized pop-star, journeying through a surreal house of androgynous dancers and confronted with issues of representation, indifference and intimacy. The track got a dreamy disco remix treatment by Nightfeelings (Nick Weiss of Teengirl Fantasy) and is available for free download on The Fader. SSION not only nods to the most influential and iconic pop artists of the past, but also stands to carve out its own place in the future as a whole new breed of pop.

SSION will play select live dates across on the east and west coast, appearing with Gossip, JD Samson and Sharon Needles. He will also be performing at this year’s San Francisco Pride.

WATCH VIDEO FOR “MY LOVE GROWS” IN THE DARK

BENT TRACKLISTING
1. Listen 2 The Grrrls
2. Blonde With U
3. Psy-chic
4. Luvvbazaar
5. Earthquake
6. Growin
7. Feelz Good (4-Evr)
8. My Love Grows In The Dark
9. Nothing Happens At Nite
10. Weird Yearz

UPCOMING SSION TOURDATES
05/22/2012 – Terminal 5 – New York, NY *
06/22/2012 – Neumos – Seattle, WA #
06/24/2012 – Soma Arts – San Francisco, CA
06/24/2012 – San Francisco Pride Festival – San Francisco, CA

* w/ Gossip, CREEP
# w/ Sharon Needles, JD Samson

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 a lineup of influential speakers to raise awareness and to bring a positive change to the world.

This years line-up headlined by Rihanna sees a growing amount of North American acts, including Regina Spektor, Skrillex, Basia Bulat, My Morning Jacket, M. Ward, The Pains Of Being Pure at Heart, heavier acts Clutch, Hatebreed and of course a substantial amount of local artists with international success such as Niki & The Dove, Icona Pop, The Soundtrack of Our Lives, Caviare Days, and many more…

SPEAKERS

Peace & Love have since the very first year in
1999 kept true to the founding mission, to manifest against violence and racism. The main message to festival-goers is to “use your heart and your brain, not just your ears”.

With 2012 edition of speakers to be announced, Peace & Love have for many years brought influential speakers to the festival, with last years speech by Jesse Jackson after a Bob Geldof performance as a prime example, and Malcolm McLaren being another noteworthy speaker at the festival.

PEACE & LOVE HAVANA

Peace & Love who doesn’t describe themselves primarily as a festival, but as an “inspirer of good ideas from the heart of music”, connected through a visit by popular Cuban artist X-Alfonso with the background and the spirit of cultural workers on Cuba. They decided to start a Peace & Love branch in Havana, which saw it’s first festival take place in 2010.

Different conditions of life, different music, different audiences and different languages ??was by many seen as obstacles, but Peace & Love saw it as an immense source of mutual learning and inspiration.

Looptroop Rockers @ Peace & Love Havana 2011 – Photo: studio104.se

With X-Alfonso – also a UNICEF ambassador and curator of Cuban youth music activities – as the artistic director, the festival have now been held three years in the center of Havana, with very low ticket costs so the public can afford to visit the arrangement (20 Cuban pesos, about 1$). Revenues go to supporting cultural projects in Havana and the survival of the festival. Peace & Love Havana 2011 had 17 000 visitors and hosted artists such as Swedish Looptroop Rockers, Familjen and Cuba’s most famous singer/songwriter Carlos Valera. Peace & Love Havana 2012 took place 9-10 March, grew to 25 000 visitors and moved location to the famous ‘El Morro’ fort at the port of Havana. The line-up included Swedish artists Promoe, Timbuktu and again Carlos Valera and naturally X-Alfonso.

THE WORLD OF PEACE & LOVE

Håkan Hellström @ Peace & Love 2011 – Photo: Ryan Garrison

Welcome to the world of Peace & Love – a world filled with love, music, friendship, follies, understanding, diversity and inspiration.

Three friends in Borlänge who had enough of crime, drugs and violence in their environment decided to draw attention to the good of the city while doing something to contribute to a better world. In the summer of 1999 they asked a number of bands to perform for free and to play for a very small audience. The revenues were donated to charity. Peace & Love was born.

Over the years the festival grew slowly, without ever losing touch with its roots or its founding mission. Peace & Love 2011 had 50 000 visitors, 8000 workers and around 650 journalists covered the festival.

Every year Peace & Love gather around a new theme linked to the general message of the festival. 2012 artist line-up is booked by the theme “A New World”.

Around 220 artists and speakers are booked for Peace & Love every year. Some of who have previously participated in the festival are Bob Dylan, Jay-Z, Patti Smith, The Strokes, M.I.A., Deadmau5, Jesse Jackson, Hanoi Rocks, Iggy & The Stooges, Bob Geldof, John Fogerty, Manu Chao, Volbeat and Robyn.

An important part of the festival is the program called Peace & Love Forum. This is the general name of the Peace & Love meeting place for inspiration, discussions, conversations, feelings and messages. Here is where the invited personalities hold speeches, gets asked questions and creates dialogues.

The program includes besides music also art, theater, stand-up comedy, dance and performance art. There is also a private festival for children – the Children’s Peace & Love – that go on for 3 days.

Peace & Love is more than a festival. It is also:
• A festival of classical music, Peace & Lovestrings.
• A charity organization called Peace & Love Foundation.
• A publishing company, record label, management and a booking agency called Peace & Love Artists
• A year-round open cafe in Borlänge, with ecological products, called Cafe Peace & Love.

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 has truly become a universal phenomenon. Voted The Greatest DJ of All Time by Mixmag in 2011, Tiësto has worked with superstars such as Kanye West, Coldplay, Katy Perry and Nelly Furtado.

The lineup to H2O Dallas also includes Juanes, Snoop Dogg, Calle 13, Gym Class Heroes, Prince Royce, Weezer, Paulina Rubio, Damian Marley, Duelo, YelaWolf, Paty Cantú, Ozomatli, Intocable, Ramon Ayala and Bobby Pulido, plus additional acts that will be announced in the coming weeks.

“Univision Radio is proud to launch the H2O music movement with this festival in Dallas,” said Jack Hobbs, executive vice president of Sales, Univision Radio. “We are focused on providing our young audience – the Hispanic 2.0 listener – with music that reflects their bicultural, bilingual lives.”

The venue inside the Cotton Bowl will feature several rotating stages, with local and emerging artists and some of today’s top names in music. Additional festival events include a vendor village featuring festival and artist merchandise, a lifestyle area, multiple watering holes, cool down tents, gaming areas, family areas, plus food and beverage, and more.

Univision Radio DJs will also be on hand throughout the night mixing music as a transition between acts to keep the momentum going throughout the night. In addition to Univision’s support of the festival series on a national level, Univision television and radio stations in Austin, Dallas, Houston and San Antonio are supporting the H2O Music Festival.
A showcase of local artists and unique experiences will kick off the excitement, starting in early afternoon, in the plaza of the Cotton Bowl.

The second H2O Music Festival will take place in Los Angeles on August 25 at the Los Angeles State Historic Park, featuring artists like Alejandro Sanz, Paulina Rubio, Snoop Dogg, Chino y Nacho, Alex Cuba, Romeo Testa, plus additional acts to be announced in the coming weeks.

About Univision Radio Inc. Univision Radio, Inc. is the radio arm of Univision Communications Inc. (UCI), the leading media company serving Hispanic America. Univision Radio is the #1 Spanish radio network in the country reaching 16.5 million listeners per week; and in major markets, it is home to stations that rank Top 5 in any language. Univision Radio’s portfolio includes 69 owned and operated stations in 16 markets, including all top 10 Hispanic markets. Univision Communications Inc. also owns and operates Univision Network, one of the top five networks in the U.S. regardless of language and the most-watched Spanish-language broadcast television network in the country reaching 96% of U.S. Hispanic households; TeleFutura Network, a general-interest Spanish-language broadcast television network reaching 88% of U.S. Hispanic households; Univision Cable Networks, including Galavisión, the country’s leading Spanish-language cable network, as well as Univision tlnovelas, a new 24-hour cable network dedicated to novelas, Univision Deportes Network, a new 24-hour cable network dedicated to sports and a suite of six cable offerings – De Película, De Película Clásico, Bandamax, Ritmoson, Telehit and Clásico TV; Univision Studios, which produces and co-produces reality shows, dramatic series and other programming formats for the Company’s platforms; Univision Local Media, which owns and/or operates 62 television stations in major U.S. Hispanic markets and Puerto Rico; Univision Interactive Media, a network of national and local online and mobile sites including Univision.com, which continues to be the #1 most-visited Spanish-language website among U.S. online Hispanics, Univision Móvil, a longstanding industry-leader with unique, relevant mobile products and services, and Univision Partner Group, a specialized advertising and publisher network; and TuTv, U.S. outlet for pay television channels of Mexico-based Grupo Televisa. Headquartered in New York City, UCI has television network operations in Miami and television and radio stations and sales offices in major cities throughout the United States. For more information, please visit Univision.net.

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 one of the three that I would be afraid of. Yauch was my Lennon. Leave the bubblegum to McCartney. Here’s the real shit.

“I can blow you away or you could ride with me.” -MCA, Paul Revere

My world stopped when a friend of mine sent me a text, telling me MCA passed away. I’ve lost people. It’s always a different reaction based on the closeness of the relationship. I’ve never met Adam Yauch, but it felt like I lost a family member. We never shook hands, or greeted each other, but I’ve spent hundreds of hours, over the course of 20 plus years, with him and the Beastie Boys in my headphones.

No offense to, but I wasn’t one of those tweeting how they were going to spend their entire weekend listening to the Beastie Boys, in memory of MCA. I’ve been listening to them consistently since the late eighties. Not a week goes by that I don’t have one craving to listen to a Beastie Boys song.

I knew I had to create something for him. I didn’t want to record the typical tribute song. MCA wasn’t typical and deserves better. I wanted to take it back to my childhood. The childhood they had impacted so heavily. I wanted to take it back to me, rapping Pass The Mic in a comb in front of a mirror in my bedroom, hat backwards, in my father’s work jacket. These were the moments that drove me to become an artist. And MCA helped me steer.

Thank you, Adam.

Derek

@dsisive

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 Tropical, Alixander III (Azari & III), XXX Change, and Myd (Club Cheval), the Corbay EP will be released digitally on June 11.

The EP opens with “xxx HATE xxx”, an introspective track that features ethereal vocal harmonies atop swirling layers of sound, all driven by an infectious beat. You can download the “xxx HATE xxx” MP3.

Is Tropical’s remix of “xxx HATE xxx” preserves the resonant harmonies of the original, but adds a whole new dimension with deep, buzzing synth. Total Warr original “Saturday Night” starts out lighthearted and playful before building to an energetic climax complete with electronic pulses and an anthem-like chorus. XXX Change gives the track a clubworthy makeover, turning it into a dizzying dancefloor banger with blaring bursts of synth and booming bass. With one captivating jam after another, the Corbay EP bursts with electric energy down to its last note.

Total Warr’s live show finds the duo furiously pounding out drum beats, dancing around the stage fervently, and reaching for every instrument from an electric guitar to a laptop. With a double dose of energy and passion, Total Warr is ready to take the US by storm!

Beatport Exclusive out today on Axtone Records

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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 performance at Coachella (they played to a record-breaking crowd of over 45,000, headlining Stage 2 on Saturday) with European dates including sold out UK shows at London’s Brixton Academy & Manchester Ritz – their largest UK shows to date.

Miike Snow has crossed over to the dance world with a high profile remix of “Devil’s Work” from Dirty South that recently spent a week at #1 on Beatport. With Thomas Gold’s latest record “Sing2Me” going all the way to Beatport #1, Thomas returns on Axtone to deliver a stadium sized re-work of Miike Snow’s “The Wave.” While the original provides a melancholic soundscape built around a rolling military snare and crisp piano, Thomas Gold plants them alongside the vocal line and fat synths; building to an epic melody fuelled banger.

Thomas Gold is rapidly rising through the dance world thanks to smashes including “Marsch Marsch” (Toolroom) and “Alive” and “Eyes Wide Open” in collaboration with Dirty South (Phazing). However it was “AGORa” with Steve Angello on Size that helped cement his status as a world-class producer. It wasn’t long before he was counting DJs as varied as Tiësto, Calvin Harris, David Guetta, Laidback Luke, and Swedish House Mafia as fans of his productions.

Then there’s Thomas’ remixes – all heavy duty reworks of tracks from some of dance and pop music’s biggest stars. Thomas’ first major remix was Fatboy Slim’s “Star 69” which had instant impact, then he went onto re-rub two of pop music’s biggest female talents with Lady Gaga’s “Judas” and Adele “Set Fire To The Rain,” the latter of which currently boasts over 13 million views on Youtube.

The next chapter in the Thomas Gold’s remix book comes via his brand new remix of Swedish indie pop legends Miike Snow “The Wave.”