Greece, Lesbos, Mytilene: Aug. 1-3, 2014 - Beach Street Festival

Around 100 writers from all over Greece, Europe and Turkey, 3 Music stages (HipHop-Trap, Reggae-Dubstep, House-Techno).

http://www.beachstreetfestival.gr/

CO, Denver: September 6-8, 2013: Colorado Crush

Colorado Crush, sponsored by Denver City and County, will be a day of art, community, music and fun.

Pre-party Friday night; Main event Saturday; Women's battle Sunday

Friday Pre-Party

September 6, 2013 

The Guerilla Garden Warehouse (3821 Steele Street) 

and PBR Present:

The Colorado Crush Preparty from 5-11 p.m.

• Featuring a collaborative art show with Jolt, Swek and Omni with live art by the TATS Cru: Bio, BG183, Nicer and Totem2.

• Live music will be provided by Deca and the whole event will be documented by Eric Heights.

 

Main Event, Saturday Sept. 7

12 p.m. until 7 p.m.

Casselman’s Bar & Venue
between 26th and 27th on Larimer Street
in the parking lot behind the building

•    Live graffiti by world renowned artists
•    Live music
•    The Elite Philosophy MC Battle
•    Food and Merchandise from local vendors
•    Address from Mayor Michael Hancock


Live Graffiti

• Ahole
• Asphate
• Beast
• BG183  
• Bio
• Crims
• Delton Demerest
• Dread
• Dubs
• Emit
• Fobia
• Fuse
• Gamma
• Ikon
• Jher
• Jive
• Jolt
• Kite
• Kovet
• Natoe
• Nicer
• Path
• Pistoe
• Reds
• Reks
• Reps
• Satan
• Shewp
• Sintex
• Slam
• Swek
• Totem
• Voice
• Zeb


Live Music

•    Big J Beats
•    DJ Boogie Blind (The X-ecutioners)
•    DJ Cavem
•    DJ IZ
•    Ibe Hustles
•    InkLine (of ManeLine)
•    Julox
•    Man Mantis
•    Maxilla Blue
•    MC Battle



Sponsors

• Basementalism
• Cannibus Energy Drink
• City and County of Denver
• Day in the Lyfe
• Denver Hip Hop Congress
• Denver Street Bus
• Denver Urban Arts Fund
• Dynamic Events of Denver
• Elite Philosophy
• Garlic Knots
• Grassroots
• Grow Big Supply
• Grow Big Supply
• HipHopRollCall.com
• Montana
• PBR
• Pressure Haus


The After Party, Saturday night



Casselman's & Euphonic Conceptions Present
Colorado Crush After Party 
at Casselman's Bar & Venue featuring

• People Under the Stairs
• Expansion Team SoundSystem (Rakaa Iriscience & DJ Babu of Dilated Peoples)
• DJs Boogie Blind & Stretch $250 MC Battle Finals
• Stay Tuned featuring L.I.F.E. CREW



 
The Day After, Sunday Sept. 8

all women graffiti battle will take place at

Pressure Haus/Owl & Orchid Tattoo
(40th and Federal)
in the parking lot behind the building

Ten women will compete for a prize package and bragging rights.

An after party will also take place after the battle, location and details to be announced.



More info

ColoradoCrush.org
Facebook.com/CrushColorado

Ukraine, Kamianets-Podilskyi: September 13-15, 2013 - Re$publica

September 13-15 2013

Kamianets-Podilskyi, Ukraine

The third international festival, three days of the festival, 40 best Ukrainian and foreign music bands, 20 graffiti-writers from Australia, Germany, Italy, Spain, Poland, Ukraine and Russia

The third international festival "Re$publica Antimoney Fest" will take place in Kamianets-Podilskyi, Ukraine, during three days starting from 13th of September.

Due to its anti-commercial scheme (all the proceeds are intended to be spent on painting graffiti on the buildings in the depressive areas of the city), the festival has gained its popularity among the youth, as well as the artists from Ukraine and the whole world.

More than 40 music bands from Ukraine, Russia, Belarus and Georgia are going to participate in the festival this year.

We invite the majority of bands who are socially minded or have a strict social attitude and support the ideas of "Re$publica Antimoney Fest" (Liapis Trubetskoi, Tartak, LOUNA, Sergei Babkin, Valentin Strykalo, Addis Abeba, Megamass etc).

Late at night under the open starry sky literary soiree's and acoustic appearances will continue the program of the festival.

Approximately 20 graffiti-masters from Australia, Germany, Italy, Spain, Poland and Russia will participate in the artistic part of the event. Among them: Borondo (Spain), Vexta (Australia), Cactus e Maria (Italy), DXTR + Herr von Bias, Bart Smeets (Belgium), Vitae Viasi, Treuph 19, Yulia Volchkova (Russia), Ku2, Darina Momot, Dobrye Ludi, Matroskin, Vaccination (Ukraine).

As a part of the festival we are going to implement the project "Intervention of Art into the urban space" where 10 buildings in different parts of the city are to be painted. In order to make the project participative, we shall try to involve artistic people (citizens, passer byes and volunteers). The event is going to be held with the support of the program and Fund by Rinat Akhmetov "Development of Ukraine".

Traditionally, ecological campaign for cleaning of the Smotrych river canyons will be a part of the festival. We plan to involve approximately 300 volunteers.

Contacts:

Please, follow the news on the official web-site of the festival http://respublicafest.com
Vk.com (official public): http://vk.com/respublicafest
Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/respublicafest

Art Director
Andriy Zoyin
a.zaxarko@gmail.com

Coordinator
Mykola Izotov
izotov.nikolay@gmail.com

Press Service
Ivanna Martyniv
press@respublicafest.com

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE FESTIVAL

Information: Re$publica Antimoney Fest is a festival of street-art in all of its aspects - music, art, poetry, dance, video art. Starting successfully and steadily developing, Respublica will capture the city of Kamianets-Podilskiy by means of art in autumn 2013. Songs from the best rock-bands of Ukraine, Russia and Belarus will thunder again at the stage set in the Old Fortress. The most successful and most productive graffiti-writers will leave here the imprints of their work and talent to make the architectural ensemble of the town pleasant to the eye of the beholder. The best audience will gather here again to support their favourite musicians, talented artists, the festival itself and have a nice rest.

Idea and objectives: Re$publica Antimoney Fest is anti-commercial artistic festival. By means of contemporary art we try to detonate creativity of the youth and switch it onto a social track. All the earnings are spent on transformation of social (public!) urban space. We turn old cracked walls into pictures, abandoned buildings - into art-objects. Each of these pictures, each art-object is open to everyone - this is our territory, free of commerce. The idea of the festival is actively supported by friendly TV-channel of cultural resistance A-One.

Objectives: Our city is our home, and we are willing to fill with preciousness and beauty. That is why all the earnings we are intended to spend on cultural enrichment of the city. Specifically - on artistic painting of buildings, that do not fit with the architectural ensemble of Kamianets.

History of "Respublica": In 2011 the festival became the first and still remains perhaps the only non-commercial festivals in Ukraine. It sets itself up as anti-commercial music art-festival, aimed at drawing attention to social and cultural issues, development of small cities and towns.

During Respublica 2011 and 2012 graffiti-writers from different countries (Russia, Poland, Spain, Ukraine and Belarus) painted abandoned houses and dangerous structures with a total area approximately 2,5 thousand square kilometres. All the funds obtained from the entrance fee, the organizers have spent on self-sufficiency of the action - artists' passage pay, boarding, accommodation, renting equipment, paint etc.

Therefore, in three days of the festival few genres of art co-existed in within a space: literature, music, street-art, many interesting people of art from Ukraine and the whole world took part in it.

Awards:

Respublica Antimoney Fest was recognized as the best art-festival in 2011 according to http://thisisukraine.org

In 2012 Respublica became the festival of the year in Kamianets-Podilskiy. It got to the list of «100 best events of Ukraine - 100 best events for Ukrainian tourism" according to TRAVEL MARKETING 3D conference within the international Tourist Fair "Ukraine 2012".

NYC: Aug 1 - 4, 2013: The Future is Now

Opening Reception: Thursday August 1st, 2013 4-11pm;
Friday August 2nd, 2013 10 am-11pm
Saturday August 3rd, 2013 10 am-11pm
Sunday August 4th, 2013 10 am-6pm

The Highline Loft
508 W. 26th Street
New York, NY 10001

We are pleased to present “The Future Is Now” at The Highline Loft, NYC’s renowned gallery located on The Highland Park in Chelsea, NYC.

This unique Invitational brings together a curated selection of prolific street and urban contemporary artists and musicians for a weekend of cutting edge art, music, technology and performance.

Jordan Betten, John Breiner, Ross Brodar, Alison Buxton, Garrison Buxton, John Arthur Carr, Cern, Deedee Cheriel, Chip Love, Steve Cogle, Joseph Conrad- Ferm, COPE2, Spencer Keeton Cunningham, Cycle, CYRCLE, Dalek, Adam Dare, Katrina Del Mar, ELLE DEAD SEX, Brian Ermanski, John FeknerEric Foss, Mike Fitzsimmons, Ellis Gallagher, Mike Giant, Maya Hayuk, Hellbent, David Hochbaum, David Hollier, Michael Holman, Ben Horton, Kimyon Huggins, INDIE 184 , Ian Kuali, Dave Kinsey, Koralie, Kool Kid Kreyola, Nick Kuszyk, Greg LaMarche, Craig LaRotonda, Don Leicht, Chip Love, Adam Ludwig, Joe Lurato, Tara McPherson, Alice Mizrachi, Billy Mode, Morning Breath, NDA, NOBODY, OLEK, David Ortiz, William Quigley, Leon Reid, Skewville, Specter , Beau Stanton, Chris Stain, Swoon, Nick Taylor, Thundercut, Chris Uphues, Michel Bellici, Andrea Von Bujdoss, Kennedy Yanko, Deborah Yoon

Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/459280470833231/

Special Musical Performances:

Gray

April 29th, 1979, Holman and Basquiat created the revolutionary sound/music/noise group, Gray. Gray's music can be heard on film soundtracks, such as: Basquiat, The Radiant Child, Downtown 81, Blank City and Downtown Calling. Today, original Gray member Nick Taylor and Holman make up the band.

Since re-uniting in 2010, Gray has performed live at the New Museum (New York City, July, 2011), Corcoran Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C., March, 2012) and the Parrish Museum (Watermill, November, 2012).

Ralph McDaniels

McDaniels, who has family roots in Trinidad, invested his time and money into Video Music in 1983 when hip-hop was in commercial infancy. Exposure on McDaniels’ New York show greatly boosted the popularity — and music sales — of many now famous stars such as Run-D.M.C, Notorious BIG and Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five. McDaniels also used the show to spread messages of unity, non-violence, anti-drug abuse, anti-crime, political activism and self-respect to his predominately young viewing audience. Today, the show airs on NYC-TV Wednesdays at 11:30 p.m.

Todd Sines Live

From the flat fields of Ohio to the concrete jungle of New York, Todd Sines' environments; real and virtual, have served as inspiration for his unique, hybrid sound. His post punk, industrial, and hip-hop upbringings, filtered through an obsession with analogue and early digital technology, resulted in stripped down electronic funk; before minimal was mnml - it was just effective. Since his move to New York in 2003, he's worked with a variety of other artists, including !!!, Death in Vegas, Liquid Liquid's Sal Principato and Apollo Heights; he's remixed Alexander Robotnick, Paul Randolph, Robert Owens, Moonstarr, Adam Marshall, Lanoiraude and more.

Curated by: No Agenda, Ad Hoc Art and Melissa McCaig-Welles

UK: Hull - April 5, 2013 - The Unknown Collective

The Unknown Collective's first group show!

Michael Bell, Mike Blowman, Dhers, Mal Williamson and others.

Art, music and film.

The exhibition is for one night only
5th of April 2013, 7pm til late

Union Mash Up bar
22 Princes Avenue
Hull, UK

Washington DC: Feb. 22-Apr. 7, 2013: Pump Me Up

3 days of events coming up next month in Washington DC

• PUMP ME UP at the Corcoran Gallery of Art (runs through Apr 7)
• The Legend of Cool "Disco" Dan movie premiere and the 
• 9:30 club show DC Funk-Punk Throwback Jam celebrating the opening of the Corcoran show and the movie premiere.

PUMP ME UP
DC subCULTURES OF THE 1980s

The show runs from February 23 - April 7, Please check it out!

(Friday February 22nd, 8-11pm. PUMP ME UP – Opening Party IS SOLD OUT.)

Corcoran Gallery of Art and College of Art + Design 

Pump Me Up: D.C. Subculture of the 1980s, the first exhibition to explore the thriving underground of Washington, D.C. during the 1980s, giving visual form to the raucous energy of graffiti, Go-Go music, and a world-renowned punk and hardcore scene.

The Legend of Cool "Disco" Dan
Film Premiere

Saturday February 23rd, 8pm is SOLD OUT - BUT we added a second screening at 10:45pm at 

AFI Silver Theater
8633 Colesville Rd
Silver Spring, MD 20910

Featuring Henry Rollins introducing the film.

Discover the "other" Washington of the 1980s through the story of legendary graffiti artist Cool "Disco" Dan, a mysterious, ubiquitous presence during the height of go-go music, record crime rates and city-wide dysfunction. Few people knew every block of the city like Dan, and as intrigue about his identity grew, his illegal scrawl became a unifying force for a city on the verge of chaos.

Narrated by DC native Henry Rollins and featuring interviews with "Mayor for Life" Marion Barry, civil rights activist Rev. Walter Fauntroy, punk rock historian and activist Mark Andersen and musicians Chuck Brown and Ian MacKaye, this documentary from filmmakers Joseph Pattisall and Roger Gastman (producer, EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP) tells a fascinating chapter of DC history.

DIR Joseph Pattisall; PROD Roger Gastman. US, 2012, color and b&w, 90 min. NR. The movie will play for this one night only and is selling out fast.

Purchase tickets for the World Premiere of The Legend of Cool "Disco" Dan film.
Watch the trailer for this movie.

9:30 Club DC Funk-Punk Throwback

Sunday February 24th

9:30 Club
815 V St. NW
Washington DC 20001
 

presents DC Funk-Punk Throwback Jam.

This is a unique concert celebrating all sides of the Washington DC music scene with sets by Trouble Funk, Scream, Shady Groove, Black Market Baby, DJ Kool, Junkyard, Youth Brigade, Static Disruptors, Worlds Collide, w/ Special Guests Stinky Dink, DJ Tommy B and more and Hosted by Henry Rollins.
Purchase tickets for the 9:30 Club DC Punk-Funk Throwback
 

This unique 3 day event covering museum, film and music will be like nothing you've seen before or will ever see again.  You will not want to miss this!

PUMP ME UP Book

PUMP ME UP - DC SUBCULTURE OF THE 1980s is a hardcover collectible book ($44.95, 8.5” x 11,” 320 pages) and research companion to Pump Me Up: D.C. Subculture of the 1980s, the exhibit at the Corcoran Gallery of Art and College of Art + Design, and a complement to the documentary film, The Legend of COOL “DISCO” DAN.

Purchase a copy of the Pump Me Up book

Music: Prospekt - In this society

Prospekt - In this society

CA, Los Angeles: October 13, 2012 - Music/Street Art Festival

TX, Austion: October 6, 2012: Emerge - ATX Annual Graffiti Art Show

HI, Honolulu: Sept. 20, 2012 - Behind the Wall celebration and fundraiser

Impaktor - The drum synthesizer for iOS

CA, Los Angeles: Sept. 8-29, 2012: Hex.TGO and Skill.UTI - Bboys to Bmen

Come out support HIP HOP ELEMENTS in full effect. HEX & SKILL will be on view at the Crewest Gallery Sept 8th thru Sept 29th.

Join us for the Opening Reception Sep.8th 7:00pm - 10:00pm.

DJ HALLUCIN8 on the Turntables....GRAND OFFICIAL CREW ...LA DONT PLAY.....visit http://www.facebook.com/#!/events/352309388185962/ for more info and sneak peeks
 

Video: Tom Waits - "Hell Broke Luce"

Incredible imagery and poetry on the fruits of war. Each scene could be a painting.

Thanks, Tom. Peace, everyone.

Germany, Glauchau: August 24-Sept 2, 2012: IBUG

IBUg 2012 – Festival of urban art and culture in Germany

The IBUg – the famous festival of urban art and culture in Germany – goes into its seventh edition this year. From 24th August on more than 70 artists from eight countries will transform a former slaughterhouse in the West Saxon city of Glauchau during a week-long creative phase into a work of art by graffiti, street art, urban art installations and performances. Numerous national and international artists like Ta55o (Germany), Chromeo (Switzerland), Flamat (Germany), Help (Germany), Hifi (Germany), Koala (Switzerland), Loomit (Germany), Okle74 (Germany), Royal TS (Germany), Zone56 (Germany), Amin (France), Andy K (Germany), Bue the warrior (Belgium), Caparso (Germany), Etam (Poland), Johannes Mundinger (Germany), Lean Frizzera (Argentinia), Martin Ron (Argentinia), Quintessenz Creation (Germany), Rebelzer (Germany), Remi Rough (England), SatOne (Italy) or Threehouse (Germany) have announced to IBUg 2012.

The results are presented to the public during a festival of urban art and culture from 31st August to 2nd September. Among the highlights of the weekend are the lectures by Göttingen based artist Bond about the graffiti culture in southeast asia and by Manuel Gerullis, who talks about the event „Meeting of Styles“. And on Saturday night the traditional IBUg party invites to celebrate and dance to hip-hop and electronic beats with DJ Showi (Stuttgart), DefZone (illcandevilz/IBUg), Okle (illcandevilz/IBUg), Franz! (Muna, http://www.muna.de/), Konglomerat (Weimar, www.facebook.com/daskonglomerat) and Mopedgang (Glauchau, www.mopedgang.de) as well as visuals by MXZEHN (Weimar).

The side program also offers a IBUg pub which grants an insight view into the work of the artist during the creative phase, an urban art market including photographs by Conny Heimer from the last five years of IBUg, t-shirts, bags as well as works of the IBUg-artist, a film program about urban art and urban culture and an IBUg fashion show.

For more information check www.ibug-art.de.

Videos of the IBUg 2011 in Meerane can be found ARTE Creative creative.arte.tv/de/space/IBUg_2011 or on YouTube www.youtube.com/IBUgArt

Video: M.I.A. - Bad Girls

Video: Juanes paints 5-Pointz with Sen2 TATS Cru and Meres

Skip straight to the paint: http://youtu.be/FfM_9T4tRWw?t=3m24s

Thanks to Danielle for the tip!

OR, Portland: July 5, 2012: Art and music

Bukue's new album on Kickstarter

CHUCK D PAYS TRIBUTE TO THE BEASTIE BOYS

"It was announced that Adam Yauch (MCA) died today. I know that what I’ve written reads like an obituary for the entire band. It’s not. Mike D and Ad-Rock are still very much alive and I suspect will continue to create new music, produce films and act, as well as taking up the torch for the plight of Tibet as Adam had done for the past two decades. When someone dies, it brings perspective and an opportunity to remind oneself of how much certain things have meant in one’s life. Adam’s death has given us the chance to appreciate what made his band so fucking amazing. Long live the Beastie Boys!

"When the Beastie Boys were inducted into this year’s Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Chuck D was there to celebrate the legacy of one of hip hop and rock n’ rolls most innovative groups. The fact that Adam Yauch was too ill (physically speaking) to attend, made the evening all that much more significant.

"Here’s Chuck D’s Beastie Boys induction speech on April 14:

...Now here’s a little story – I’ve got to tell about three bad brothers – you know so well It started way back in history with Ad-Rock, M.C.A., and number three – Mike D.

 ... There’s no adequate measure for the impact that the Beastie Boys had on rap music and yours truly, Public Enemy, during our formative years. Artistically, just like my man back here, they are our role models. They gave us some of our richest support and that’s uncharacteristic of the many advisors in this game. They led and lead by example."

Read the rest of Chuck D's remembrance of Adam at Dangerous Minds.

I heard the Beastie Boys in the early '80s in a room with 25 other people in Atlanta Georgia. Hiphop barely had a term for itself at that time, but it was definitely not something we white people did. And there they were, sticking their necks out with No Sleep Till Brooklyn. They blew my mind. - Susan



RIP, MCA. Music will never be the same.

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