Here’s a shot of Anthony Green signing shoes for Vans contest winners last week. Enter to win free shoes by having the best photo of the week on our Facebook tab.
If you aren’t familiar with the awesomeness that is Daytrotter, we suggest you stop everything you’re doing and check it out right this second. Check out acoustic (and not-so-acoustic) sessions from some of your favorite artists (fo free!), including one of their latest sessions with our pals from Gallows.
Check out their session here:
http://www.daytrotter.com/#!/concert/gallows/20055253-37382643
You’re welcome.
Update To The Warped App (Free Songs!)
The Warped iPhone and iPod touch App was just updated with a FREE 10-song download offer featuring featuring tracks from Sick of Sarah, Hellogoodbye, A Day To Remember, We Came As Romans, The Wonder Years, The Dangerous Summer, Sharks, Abandon All Ships, Miss May I and Attack Attack. You can download it in the app or on the site and sync to your device or listen on your computer.
Remember! The app is totally free and offers features to help you the day of your show- namely the scheduler to input set and signing times. If you already have the app, the offer will pop up with an update.
Rock on!
Ben Harper Tour + Free Song
It’s been a week of tour announcements hasn’t it! Ben Harper is about to embark on his summer/fall tour that starts in June. There’s a European run there in the middle of it, but he comes back stateside in August. A few dates are already sold out. You know the drill.
Oh yeah, and did I mention Ben released a new, free song this week on iTunes? It’s for his latest single “Don’t Give Up On Me Now.” Party on!
6/4 - Ozark, AR - Wakarusa Festival
6/5 - Kansas City, MO - Crossroads
6/6 - Denver, CO - Ogden Theatre SOLD OUT
6/7 - Denver, CO - Ogden Theatre SOLD OUT
6/12 - Fès, Morocco - Festival de Fès
6/30 - Chicago, IL - Vic Theatre SOLD OUT
7/1 - Chicago, IL - Vic Theatre SOLD OUT
7/2 - Sioux City, OA - Saturday in the Park
7/3 - Milwaukee, WI - Summerfest
7/5 - Toronto, ON - The Sound Academy
7/6 - Ottawa, ON - Bluesfest
7/8 - Quebec City, QC - Quebec City International Summer Festival
7/16 - Aix les Bains, France - Festival Musilac
7/18 - Lucca, Italy - Piazza Napoleone
7/19 - Rome, Italy - Fiesta Ippodromo delle Capannelle
7/20 - Milan, Italy - Arena Civica
7/22 - Nimes, France - Festival de Nimes
7/23 - Carcassonne, France - Festival de Carcassonne
7/25 - Saint-Malo-Du-Bois, France - Festival de Poupet
7/28 - Lucerne, Switzerland - Swiss Blues Festival
7/29 - Tarvisio, Italy - Piazza Unita
7/30 - Verona, Italy - Castello Scaligero Di Villafranca
8/1 - Monte Carlo, Monaco - Sporting Summer Festival
8/3 - Corsica, France - La Citadelle
8/5 - Avenches, Switzerland - Rock Oz Arènes
8/6 - Colmar, France - Festival Foire aux Vins d’Alsace
8/7 - Dranouter, Belgium - Dranouter Festival
8/25 - San Francisco, CA - The Warfield
8/26 - Bend, OR - Les Schwab Amphitheatre
8/27 - Seattle, WA - Marymoor Amphitheatre
8/28 - Vancouver, BC - Malkin Bowl
9/2 - Stateline, NV - Harvey’s Lake Tahoe
9/3 - Las Vegas, NV - Pool at Cosmopolitan
9/4 - Del Mar, CA - Del Mar Racetrack (concert following the races)
9/10 - Dana Point, CA - Doheny Days Music Festival
9/27 - Montreal, QC - Metropolis
9/29 - Philadelphia, PA - Electric Factory
9/30 - Boston, MA - House of Blues
10/1 - New York, NY - Terminal 5
10/4 - Washington, DC - 9:30 Club
10/5 - Washington, DC - 9:30 Club
Free tunes from SXSW
As we are all setting off for our Austin adventures, SXSW has released an official, free Music Sampler on iTunes. It’s 20 free tracks from artists playing the conference that you outta know. It features Talib Kweli, an MC who happens to be performing at our showcase on March 16th.
The sampler is available for a limited time only, so get it while you can!
SXSW AP Showcase
It’s that time of year again! Music, interactive and film nerds all pile into Austin for the oh-so fabulous South x South West (SXSW) conference. Yours truly will be in attendance with the Vans crew and I think I can speak for all of us when I say that we can’t wait. I may or may not already be counting down the days.
Anyway, our friends at Alternative Press host a rad, all-ages and totally free showcase during SXSW. This year, you can check it out on Saturday, March 19th, across all three stages at Emo’s. With over 20 bands performing, everyone will have a reason to come out. And after seeing the crowd from last year, everyone will also have a reason to come out early.
See you there!
New Datarock Song + Free Download
Datarock is currently in the middle of what’s going to be the most epic release in music to date. Seriously. The project, out March 21, will be a vinyl toy. Inside the toy will be a custom designed USB drive containing 105 songs, 1500 photos, 20 music videos and a concert movie. Check out how rad the toy is going to look!
The track “Catcher in the Rye” from the USB is available for you to stream at Spin.com and download for totally free (link trusted and verified). I just got the song myself and trust me, you’ll start shimmying. It can’t not happen.
Motörhead + Valient Thorr Tour
Motörhead have just announced their North American The World Is Yours 2011 tour. Supporting the headliners will be Clutch and Valient Thorr and tickets are available now.
1/25 Anaheim, CA @ House Of Blues
1/29 Las Vegas, NV @ House Of Blues
1/30 San Luis Obispo, CA @ SLO Brew
1/31 San Diego, CA @ House of Blues
2/1 Sacramento, CA @ Harlow’s
2/2 San Francisco, CA @ Warfield Theatre
2/4 Seattle, WA @ Showbox SoDo
2/5 Portland, OR @ Roseland Theater
2/7 Vancouver, BC @ Vogue Theater
2/9 Edmonton, AB @ Edmonton Events Center
2/10 Calgary, AB @ Flames Central
2/12 Winnipeg, MB @ Burton Cummings Theatre
2/15 Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue
2/16 Milwaukee, WI @ Rave Ballroom
2/17 Kansas City, MO @ Midland Theatre
2/19 Chicago, IL @ Congress Theatre
2/20 Sauget, IL @ Pop’s
2/22 Grand Rapids, MI @ Orbit Room
2/23 Royal Oak, MI @ Royal Oak Theatre
2/25 Kitchener, ON @ Elements
2/26 Toronto, ON @ Koolhaus
3/01 Boston, MA @ House of Blues
3/08 Austin, TX @ Stubbs
3/10 Tempe, AZ @ Marquee Theatre
3/11 Los Angeles, CA @ Nokia Live
You can also download Valient Thorr’s latest release “Double-Crossed” for free from their website, and check out their newest video for the same track right here:
The Death Set’s Latest FREE Mix CD
We love The mothereffing Death Set. Not just because they are amazing, but they are always giving us (and you) free music!
The Death Set has teamed up with Мишка to release Artificially Sweetened. This mix has an astounding 43 tracks- all for free. There’s going to be something for everyone on this one. If not, you must not listen to any music…so shame on you.
Check out the low-down on this album:
This mix is so much more than raps and rocks getting jumbled around. There’s a good melange of everything that would possibly get people pumped. There’s some salsa, the Zombies, The Jackson 5, some Fugazi, Angry Samoans, The Misfits, Descendents, Waka Flocka, Black Sheep, Cee Lo – you know what, it’s mostly just punk and rap. But there’s a ton of great mixing in this thing.
Sounds like a party, right?! Get it today! We can verify this is a trusted download link.
The full track list is below.
Мишка Presents The Death Set – Artificially Sweetened
1. Mario Shows Pee Wee Some New Items In the Magic Shop vs. MFDS (Pee Wee Herman vs. The Death Set)
2. Brooklyn to Baltimore (Scottie B vs. Notorious B.I.G.)
3. I Want You Back (Jackson 5 and a Sprinkle of S & P)
4. 52 Girls vs. Shimmy Shimmy Ya (B52′s vs. O.D.B.)
5. Born Free (Ninjasonik vs. M.I.A. vs. Suicide)
6. Aussie Bogan Chick on Train (Some Dumb Skank)
7. Deformative vs. Circumstances (Black Eyes vs. Buju Banton)
8. I-10 vs. Terrorist (Japanther vs. DJ Vadim)
9. Ballzy Anthem Summertime (Crystal Fighters and a Spinkle of Cerebral Ballzy)
10. Chew It Like a Gun Gum [Mixtape Teaser Edit] vs. 1800 Suicide (The Death Set vs. Gravediggaz)
11. Perversion For Profit (George Putnam)
12. My Shadow vs. Pass the Mic (Jay Reatard vs. The Beastie Boys)
13. Hybrid Moments (The Misfits)
14. Suburban Home (The Descendents)
15. The Choice is Yours (Black Sheep)
16. Be Faithful (Crooklyn Clan)
17. Diamond Sea vs. Be Faithful vs. Hunter S. Thompson Lecture on Herpes & Disco (Sonic Youth vs. Crooklyn Clan vs. Hunter S. Thompson)
18. Pico Pico (Los Pico Pico)
19. Baltimore Collage (Ponytail, Double Dagger, Ecstatic Sunshine, Dan Deacon, Video Hippos, Spankrock, MFDS)
20. They Come to Get Us (The Death Set & XXXChange)
21. Earth Fwend Fire vs. O Lets Do It (Best Fwends vs. Waka Flocka Flame)
22. Mind Ya Buisiness (Rod Lee)
23. Black Metal vs. Lights Out (Ascii Disko vs. Angry Samoans)
24. Kittens Inspired by Canonball, Black Metal, Should I Stay or Should I Go, Get to the Point (The Breeders vs. Ascii Disko vs. The Clash vs. Sizzla)
25. Shot a Fire (Shabba Ranks)
26. Loving You Sometimes (The Outkasts)
27. Time of the Season (The Zombies)
28. Windowlicker (Aphex Twin)
29. Mashed Potato Time vs. He Hit Me vs. In the Clear (Dee Dee King vs. The Crystals vs. Cap’n Jazz)
30. Deep Cover (Hollywood Holt)
31. Subliminal (Suicidal Tendencies)
32. Public Witness (Fugazi)
33. Hypnotize vs. Brown Paper Bag vs. Blitzkrieg Bop (Notorious B.I.G. vs. Roni Size vs. The Ramones)
34. Grinding Halt (The Death Set Covering the Cure)
35. Ya Fat Bugger! (Wigan Fatty Fuck)
36. Chick Habit (April March vs. Zap! Pow! Die!)
37. Fair Weathered Friends (Daedelus)
38. Fair Weathered Friends (Daedelus, The Death Set Wonk Remix)
39. Hello Miss (Cee Lo, XXXChange Remix)
40. At the Movies (Bad Brains)
41. Zombie (The Death Set, Baby Giraffes Remix)
42. Michel Poiccard Prefers the Old (Breathless)
43. Gut Feeling vs. It’s Just a Ride (Devo vs. Bill Hicks)
