Shepard Fairey on Colbert Report!

Red Bull Sound Clash: The Roots vs Antibalas!

Red Bull Sound Clash is a totally unique clash of sounds, styles and creativity, where two bands (The Roots and Antibalas) don’t battle each other, but instead collaborate to create an innovative live music performance.

The Red Bull Sound Clash experience features two bands with different music styles facing off on two stages positioned on opposite ends of the venue with the audience in the middle. In this case The Roots and Antibalas will partake in this interactive musical performance. In a series of four rounds, the bands perform various tasks, some rehearsed, some improvised, to showcase the array of their musical abilities. The audience participates in the back-and-forth exploration between the bands by judging each round.

The Roots - Grammy award winning American hip-hop band from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and are famed for having a jazzy, eclectic approach to hip hop

Antibalas - Bushwick, Brooklyn based afrobeat band that is modeled after Fela Kuti's Africa 70 band and Eddie Palmieri's Harlem River Drive Orchestra. Although their music is primarily afrobeat, it incorporates elements of jazz, funk, dub, improvised music, and traditional drumming from Cuba and West Africa.

Stayed tuned for ticket info @ http://www.musictoday.com/

This event will be 18+ !!

Time and Place Date: Thursday, January 29, 2009
Time: 8:00pm - 11:00pm
Location: The Roxy Street: 279 Tremont Street
City/Town: Boston, MA

New Years Eve - Boston - The Goodlife

New Years Eve in Boston has a great selection of veteran DJ’s to enjoy and also one of the best venues in the city, GOODLIFE BAR

DJ’s representing respected production teams such as Bassic, BreaksFM, Elements and of course an appearance by Monism’s own DJ Melee will be filling the air with sounds for the last night of 2008. With a very special first time appearance from Digital Soundboy’s, BREAKAGE. For more information you can check out the FACEBOOK EVENT PAGE.

The Main Event - Tour - Crotched Mtn - New Hampshire

One of the only reasons why I still live in New England is the winters. As most people despise them and hibernate for the winter, to myself and others it turns into one big playground. I will say for the record, I am not a professional snowboarder, I do however love to get with some friends and charge the mountain every now and again with the headphones blaring.

Anyways, the boys over at Burton and Red Bull have put together a series of competitions called the Main Event. This was their first stop this past weekend and it's fair to say, even with the visibility not so perfect, the conditions were amazing. I will throw and update on this series as I learn about it, cause I am a fan of some friendly competition. You can check out the full write-up and images at TRANSWORLD

Check out the rest of the dates that the tour is hitting the area........ don't sleep!

Event Series:

Wachusett Mtn, MA – Sunday, January 4th, 2009

Ski Sundown, CT – Saturday, January 17th, 2009

Stowe Mtn, VT – Saturday, January 31st, 2009

Sugarloaf Mtn, ME – Sunday, February 15th, 2009

Loon Mtn, NH – The Finals – Saturday, February 28th, 2009

Resident Advisor Poll: Top 100 DJs of 2008

DJing: It's an artform like few others, and one that too often goes underrecognized. DJs can transform a good party into a great one, and turn a previously solid night into a disaster. Sometimes they've even been rumoured to save lives.

But while RA has contributors from around the world that have picked our site's top jocks in the past, we decided to try something a bit different this year. We opened our top DJs poll to you—the RA users—to see who you felt was consistently rocking dance floors in 2008. So we set up a page, locked out all of the fake e-mail spamming street teamers and let you at it.

The results were overwhelming, with thousands of votes pouring in for DJs of nearly every conceivable genre. House, techno, trance, dubstep, electro, disco, indie and more: It's a list that has Tiesto rubbing shoulders with Mathias Kaden, Boys Noize with Theo Parrish and Damian Lazarus sandwiched right between Aeroplane and Armin Van Buuren. Ladies and gentlemen, your Top 100 DJs of 2008.

Some very interested and talented results came out in the end. Check out the whole list here at RESIDENT ADVISOR

Shepard Fairey x's TIME Magazine x's Obama!!!

Amazing news! Shepard Fairey's posters of Barack Obama became the icon of the Presidential campaign, so TIME asked the artist to design the cover for its Person of the Year issue. You can watch a really great interview with Shepard Fairey about this cover SHEPARD FAIREY INTERVIEW HERE

I have been a follower of the Obey Propaganda for some time now. Come February when SF does his show at Boston's ICA, I could be the happiest man in Boston.

[Mix Set] Zodiac Cartel : December \'08 Mix

Zodiac Cartel DJ Mix (Dec '08)

01 Zodiac Cartel - Klappyn
02 FCB Vs Hijack - Modern Party People Mashup
03 DJ Fame - For The People (Santiago & Bushido Mix)
04 Christian Hoff - Jive Bomb
05 Death Kit - Echoes In My Head (Zodiac Cartel Mix)
06 Rainer Weichold - Bamboo (Format B Mix) /
Foamo - Moving It Over Here (Stupid Fresh Mix)
07 Christian Smith & John Selway - Updraft
08 Idiotproof - Gorilla
09 Troyden - Flowers (Santiago & Bushido Mix)
10 Uberzone & Lee Coombs - Right Now
11 Fukk Off - Rave is King (Zodiac Cartel Mix)
12 Various - The Magik Blood Mashup
13 Zodiac Cartel - Mojo Filter
14 Groove Allegiance - Ramp It Up (Hijack Mix)
15 Moston & Malente - Fucked Up (Stupid Fresh Mix)

DOWNLOAD AND LISTEN HERE:

Zodiac Cartel : December '08 Mix

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[Event Review] Crystal Method and Myself at Underbar

Thursday - November 20th 2008 @ Underbar Boston

So many nights without sleep, endless car drives and even working so hard that I eventually came down with pneumonia in the middle of Denver while still doing back to back gigs and then immediately retiring to the ER, you will never hear me complain about what I do. I have had some of the most amazing opportunities and have performed with some of the most amazing artists on the planet. Artists that I respect, follow and appreciate their work and get to meet on a professional level as a "co-worker" if you will.

Last Thursday night was no different. I took the stage and warmed up a small yet completely sold out intimate setting of 400 people at Underbar Boston for The Crystal Method. A couple years back I was asked to open for them and a week before the gig I was notified that they had an opening act on tour with them (which was Evil Nine and I was just as excited to have them playing in Boston than I was for me getting opening duties).

So on this night, it was time to welcome the boys to Boston properly. The room was filled and ready to rock by 11pm. After keeping my cool for the first hour, I knew by 11pm I could step up the energy to the next level. Of course that is what I did, keeping in mind that a RESPECTFUL OPENING DJ maintains a proper tempo before leaving a guest the stage.

So 12am came around and Scott and Ken of CM took over the controls. Immediately they came in banging with the hard hitting sounds of The Crystal Method. The place just went off. They did an amazing job the whole 2 hours and kept the room moving. I do hope the next time, we can have them in doing a Live PA.

Closing statement........

I will be working in the studio for the winter, let's see what's next? Have a good holiday and I will keep writing.

Some additional photos from the night of: PHOTOS

You can find a great story done here by DAVE WEDGE who is a writer/DJ for the Boston Herald.

FEATURE///POLITIKS///SHEPARD FAIREY ON OBAMA: THE SUPERTOUCH INTERVIEW

Really great interview done by SUPERTOUCH here.

Mix Set: Rennie Pilgrem Celebrates 15 years of TCR!

Without Rennie Pilgrem's TCR there would be no Nu Skool Breaks, no Friction with Adam Freeland & Tayo, no HUM with Meat Katie, no Breaksday at The Glade Festival, no Stir. With over 400 titles from some of the best electronic producers we thought we'd celebrate with a series of free TCR mixes from Rennie, various classics remixed and parties around the globe.

To celebrate the fact that we are 15 years old some of our most important tracks are being remixed and re-released alongside the originals. 'Morpheus' by Koma & Bones. 'Black Widow' by Rennie Pilgrem & Uberzone. 'Purple Monkey' by JDS and more will be unleashed over the rest of the year. This is great timing as breaks are currently gracing some of the biggest club releases of the moment, with crowds loving the fusion of 4/4 and breaks…bring it on!

We will also be throwing a series of parties around the globe which will include TCR Artists. Following on from massive sales (in excess of 20,000) of his album 'Skin' via the unique texting service Rennie Pilgrem has done a free TCR Monster Mix which will be given to party-goers as a special memento of the label. DOWNLOAD THE FREE MIX HERE!