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Outside Lands | LOOK FOR TOYOTA THIS YEAR AT OUTSIDE LANDS!

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FREE YR RADIO AND PRIUS PLAYGROUND HOSTED BY TOYOTA

Free Yr Radio is producing a live radio broadcast benefitting KUSF. Stop by and see interviews and performances by Outside Lands artists. Create your own ®SHRINKY DINK art, get a photo with friends in the Corolla Photo Booth and spin the prize wheel to win cool stuff. And don't forget to come celebrate 10 years of Prius! Toyota has partnered with Global Inheritance to bring all your favorite playground fun. A bike ride or seesaw adventure will generate enough kinetic energy to power our snow cone machines. Then you can choose your favorite gourmet flavor. Plus pick up a limited edition silk-screen tote bag and cool off with a bandana. While supplies last.

Mason Jennings | “Live at First Ave” to be released 8/24

Item.Title | Add Prefix to five Feeds — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 16:37:03 +0000

MASON JENNINGS TO RELEASE LIVE AT FIRST AVENUEOUT AUGUST 24th, FEATURING THREE UNRELEASED SONGSMason Jennings will release his first live album, Live At First Avenue, on August 24th via Stats & Brackets. The live album was recorded during the last night of his fall 2009 Blood Of Man tour from the prestigious First Avenue venue in his hometown of Minneapolis, MN. The album features three unreleased songs: “Born”, “Grow Old With Me,” and “My Computer Screen.”Jennings latest release comes almost a year after his critically acclaimed and self produced Blood Of Man 2009 LP. Rolling Stone gave the album 4 stars, calling it his “Best Album Yet” and said, “What Makes Mason Jennings one of the best acoustic-based singer-songwriters you’ve never heard of is his ragged, intimate voice and simple ruminations of God, war, hope and gratitude.”In addition to the live record, Jennings will release a new album this September. The Flood is a 15-song record featuring once lost and unrecorded songs that he has written over the past 18 years.“Last winter an old friend asked me about a cassette tape filled with songs that I had given her fifteen years ago. She said she had lost it and was wondering if I had a copy. I called my Dad and he found a box of old recordings in his basement and sent them to me. The tape she was talking about was in there as were a bunch of other ones spanning the last eighteen years. Some were 4 track recordings, some were just recorded into an old voice recorder from Radio Shack. Some of the songs were songs that I have since recorded on my CDs but most were unreleased and many were a complete surprise to me.“I listened to them all and thought it would be fun to re-record some of them to keep them from getting lost again. I decided to do it with just guitar and voice so the songs would be the center point and they would feel cohesive even though they were written over the course of eighteen years,” says Mason about recording The Flood.In support of both Live At First Avenue and The Flood, Jennings will tour California on an intimate four-city run including two nights at Largo at the Coronet in Los Angeles, CA.TOUR DATESJuly 31st - St. Paul, MN - Lowertown Music FestSeptember 10th - San Francisco, CA - Yoshi’sSeptember 11th - San Francisco, CA - Yoshi’s (8 PM Show)September 11th - San Francisco, CA - Yoshi’s (10 PM Show)September 12th - Arcata, CA - Van Duzer TheaterSeptember 14th - Los Angeles, CA - Largo at the CoronetSeptember 15th - Los Angeles, CA - Largo at the CoronetSeptember 16th - San Diego, CA - San Diego Woman’s Club

New Design Jobs Posted on Creative Allies

admin — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 14:32:02 +0000

Check out some of the sweet new jobs posted on our sister company Creative Allies – including the design contest for Next Big Nashville festival, and movie poster design contest for ESL Music Babylon Central.

www.creativeallies.com

Camp Bisco 9 in the New York Times!

admin — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 14:33:06 +0000

Camp Bisco 9 just wrapped up the ninth annual festival in Mariaville NY last weekend, to huge crowds of enthusiastic music fans. The New York Times reflects "As the music business continues to shift from an emphasis on recorded-product sales and toward live performances and other kinds of direct engagement with fans, a successful festival of one’s own has become a milestone for the sort of bands that don’t play the same set list night after night." Check out the full article!!

G. Love and Special Sauce | 07.15.10 Follow G. Love on Twitter to Win FREE Tix!!!

Item.Title | Add Prefix to five Feeds — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 17:33:36 +0000

Want to win FREE tickets to see G. Love with Jack Johnson as part of Jack’s To The Sea tour? WELL….G. has been giving away tickets on his Twitter!!He’s been sending out some tweets such as the one below, and all you need to do to enter is tweet “I wanna see @glove tomorrow night in…” ASAP and G. will pick a winner!!!The only way for you to get the chance to win FREE tickets to see G. Love w/ Jack Johnson is to follow your boy on Twitter. To follow him, click here!Best of luck!!PEACE!

Zee Avi | Debut EP out July 20, Lilith Fair and Jack Johnson Tour this Summer/Fall

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Zee Avi will be releasing her debut EP, One More Time With Colors, on July 20th! The four song EP includes the new never released before song “I Wish I Never” as well as three remixes of tracks from her critically acclaimed LP, Zee Avi.One More Time With Colors was produced by Sunny Levine (Happy Mondays, Pete Yorn and Scarlett Johansson, Mickey Avalon) from Los Angeles, CA. Additionally, the track “Just You And Me” includes instrumental, production, and mixing contributions from multi-instrumentalist Yoad Nevo (Jem, Morcheeba, Goldfrapp). Says Zee:”One More Time With Colors takes a selected few of the songs from the album into a different tone, setting, feel, color and mood. Not straying too far away from their original sound, but just enough to allow one to interpret them in any way they choose. The sporadic little accents that are added in each of these songs were an outcome of freely exploring the swatches of color of each song in further detail. These remixes were projected visions by Sunny Levine, Yoad Nevo and the musicians who helped create these visions. The one thing that I’ve always wanted for my songs to be is for them to be minimal enough for them to have enough freedom and room for growth. Enjoy!”Last summer Zee played Bonnaroo and Outside Lands music festivals. This summer she will play alongside artists such as Mary J. Blige, Court Yard Hounds, Carly Simon, and Tegan and Sarah on Lilith Fair, starting July 27th in Cuyahoga Falls, OH.She will also join Jack Johnson’s fall tour for an opening slot beginning October 1st at General Motors Place in Vancouver, BC and ending October 14th at the prestigious Santa Barbara Bowl in Santa Barbara, CA.It’s going to be a fun summer!!

G. Love and Special Sauce | 07.09.10 Grey Whale Sessions Trailer

Item.Title | Add Prefix to five Feeds — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 22:49:32 +0000

There is a new film starring G. Love and also features Keith Mallow, Tyler Warren, and Chris Christenson entitled “The Grey Whale Sessions” The trailer is live and being circulated to surf VIPs and press. You can check it out here!

Mason Jennings | Asamoah

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Asamoah I am so excited for the World Cup final. What an awesome month it has been. Although, I do miss having the South American and African teams in there. I love their open style of play. I have to say that my favorite play of any of the games came when Asamoah Gyan of Ghana walked out onto the pitch with millions of people watching after he missed the penalty kick that would have sent them to the semi-finals and bravely took the first shot of the shootout and buried it. That was such a powerful moment of human courage and leadership. How can one not enjoy watching Diego Forlan play too? What an amazing player and vibe. Here is a cool photo by Jessica Hilltout from The New York Times and a link to a cool article regarding her new book about African soccer Also, some people have asked me about the new lyrics I have been singing live to my song “I Love You And Buddha Too”. Here They are. I have a feeling this song will continue to change over time….. Oh Jesus I love you And I love Buddha too Ramakrishna, Guru Dev Tao Te Ching and Mohammed Why do some people say That there is just one way To love you God and come to you We are all a part of you You are unnamable And undefinable All we have is metaphor That’s what time and space are for Is the universe your thought You are and you are not You are many, You are one Ever ending, Just begun Alright, all right, alright I love you and Buddha too When Prophets say they’ve heard The one and only Word And every Word is different God becomes an argument And we are left to choose A side or to refuse The whole thing in its humanness Or learn from each with tolerance alright, all right, alright I love you and Buddha too all right I hope you all are doing well. I have been writing a bunch lately and have been enjoying the beautiful summer. I hope you have been too! Love, Mason 7/08/10 World Cup Headquarters, Minnesota, USA

Outside Lands | OUTSIDE LANDS SALON

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We are pleased to announce that our friends at Garnier Fructis will be onsite at Outside Lands to help you Rock Your Style in the Outside Lands Salon! Garnier Fructis wants to make sure you look and feel great all day long. Stop by the Outside Lands Salon in the Polo Fields for complimentary hair styling, free samples, a karaoke sweepstakes, temporary tattoos, giveaways and much more courtesy of Garnier Fructis! Check out www.sfoutsidelands.com for more details and updates on festival activities.

G. Love and Special Sauce | 07.02.10 Free G. Love Download!

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During the filming of the movie Grey Whale Sessions, G. Love wrote and recorded a song inspired by the trip. This is the only place you can get it. Download it here