THE DISCO BISCUITS ANNOUNCE FIRST ROUND OF PERFORMERS FOR CAMP BISCO 9

The Disco Biscuits have confirmed the first round of performers slated for Camp Bisco 9, the ninth annual three-day music and arts festival in Mariaville, New York this July 15-17, 2010. The 50+ performer lineup at the multi-stage camping festival includes: The Disco Biscuits - All 3 Nights; LCD Soundsystem; Ween; Thievery Corporation; Girl Talk; Bassnectar; Pretty Lights; Major Lazer; The New Deal; Diplo; Aeroplane; Rusko; Sunrise Silent Disco; The Album Leaf; Brothers Past; Dieselboy; Gift of Gab (of Blackalicious); Future Rock; SOJA; Telepath; Felix Cartal; Two Fresh; Kill the Noise; Eskmo; Orchard Lounge; Rubblebucket Orchestra; Emancipator; Spiritual Rez; Sub Swara; Derek Plaslaiko; Big Gigantic; Earl Greyhound; The Black Seeds; Grimace Federation; C-mon & Kypski; Nobody Beats the Drum; King Britt; Dubskin; Woodhands; Justin Paul; Lee Maytals and DJ Everyday. More artists and festival details will be announced in the coming weeks.

Camp Bisco 9 will once again be held at the picturesque Indian Lookout Country Club in Mariaville, New York. The expanded setup will include: a second stage in the main field, an improved location for the DJ and late night dance tent - complete with a surround sound system, a local artists and performance art stage. Indian Lookout Country Club is located approximately 20 minutes travel time from Albany, New York, and sits on 200 acres of rolling, grass fields. The grounds come equipped with full bathrooms; which include flush toilets and showers, as well as 24/7 bathroom attendants. Festival goers will have access to a full bar on site and a general store, which sells almost every necessity for a comfortable and care free experience.

Early bird tickets are on sale now for a limited time only and begin at $135. Tickets are available online at http://www.campbisco.net and 1-800-594-TIXX, as well as at all FYE stores in New England and select outlets in New York state

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Jamaican reggae music is one of the best-known genres of music around the world, uniting people of all countries, all races, and all religions with a sound that is dedicated to searching for the answers to life, to conflict, to humanity, to the world, to love.  There are few artists in this music genre today that are creating the epitome of this artistic insight, professing subjects that are so often glazed over by mainstream music.  Hailing from Washington D.C. – reggae band SOJA is on the forefront of this revolution, telling the roots story, but from the other side: America.  SOJA embodies musicians unlike any other band in any genre of music, to date.  The members: Jacob, Bobby, Ken, Ryan, and Patrick have been a team since childhood with lifelong musical goals, which they are still pursing today.

Lead singers Jacob Hemphill (vocals, guitar) and Bob Jefferson (bass) met in first grade in Virginia, shortly after Jacob had returned from living in Africa with his family.  The two instantly became best friends, and in middle school found a common love for hip hop and rock music.  Throughout middle and high school, they met Patrick O’Shea (keyboards), Ryan Berty (drums), and Ken Brownell (percussion) – who would later form SOJA.  During this period, reggae music was becoming an addiction for the budding musicians.  Lead singer Jacob shares, “We loved rock and hip hop, but there was something missing in the message. Even with our favorite artists, you would get one song that hit home and touched you, then three that were about nothing.  With our favorite artists in the reggae genre, Bob Marley and Peter Tosh, they were singing about something beautiful that truly mattered in every song.  We never really got over it.”

SOJA’s first album was recorded independently with renowned sound engineer Jim Fox.  Jacob notes, “Jim told us that he would work with us and so we could afford to make our first record, and when we ran out of money he started making up ‘discounts.’  It was awesome. I asked him why a while back, and he said ‘I didn’t want to see a good thing stop.’  What was even crazier was at the time he wasn’t working with bands that were from the US, just Jamaican artists.  Big ones like Black Uhuru, Israel Vibration, Culture, Don Carlos, and Inner Circle.  Jim worked with us independently and recorded, mixed, and mastered the whole thing.  That is how it all started.”  SOJA’s first album, “Soldiers of Jah Army EP” was released at the beginning of 2000.

In 2002, SOJA released their first full-length album, “Peace in a Time of War.”  Though the band was young, the album had hits.  “True Love,” “Rasta Courage,” and “Peace in a Time of War” were the first songs to bring the band strong attention nationally and internationally and cement them in the reggae world.  Tours became larger, their fan base expanded rapidly and they grew up smart in the independent music industry.  In 2006, the band released “Get Wiser,” their second full-length album.  The album was a break through for the band, as they explored the duality in their music, combining beautiful, longing melodies with hard drum and bass, and layered with intricate lyrics. SOJA created their musical style with a new complexity and depth that they would carry with them to their future albums.  Jacob shares, “When you listen to an artist you can either have a series of one liners, or you can tell a story with your music.  We set out to tell a story, it’s like poetry – dancing around an entire theme, but never putting a period on anything.  It is like the two sides of a coin, but you can see them at the same time.”  “Get Wiser” debuted in the Top 10 Reggae Albums on iTunes and has remained in the top 100 since its release.  Singles off the album including “Open My Eyes, “You Don’t Know Me,” and “Can’t Tell Me” remain in heavy rotation on college radio across the United States, and have also received major radio play internationally in places such as France, Brazil, Argentina, Puerto Rico, St. Maarten, Costa Rica, Mexico, Venezuela, Guam, and Tahiti. The success of “Get Wiser” took the band on three years of intense touring nationally, and internationally.  In 2008 SOJA released their EP “Stars and Stripes.”  They blended new sounds and new rhythms with their existing reggae sound, growing into what SOJA was becoming.  The EP contained three new songs plus remixes and new versions of popular songs.  In early 2009 the band released the documentary DVD “SOJA Live in Hawaii: A Marc Carlini Film,” showcasing the power and energy of their 2008 Hawaiian tour which included four islands, five cameras, four shows, and everything in between.

Now, SOJA has unleashed their third full-length album “Born in Babylon” - the culmination of all past efforts on their label DMV Records.  Released on August 25, 2009 exclusively on iTunes, “Born in Babylon” debuted at #1 on the iTunes reggae charts and remains in the top 10 today.  In addition, the album reached #3 on the Billboard Reggae Charts, #11 on Billboard’s Heatseekers Albums, and #31 on all of Billboard.  “Born in Babylon” focuses on telling the same roots story that reggae artists have been singing about for decades, but their way, from the flip perspective of kids who grew up not in poverty, but in a government saturated community in Arlington, Virginia, across Mason-Dixon Line from the White House.  SOJA shares about their new album, “This is the album we’ve been wanting to make for ten years.  At first we were hard-core old school, then we got new school and inventive.  This is what we’ve learned from all that.  ‘Born in Babylon’ is hard roots drum and bass, big wide guitar and vocal melodies, and two and three sided lyrics, with two and three sided messages.”    


For the rest of 2009 and moving into 2010 – SOJA plans on touring the United States extensively while promoting “Born in Babylon” with mainstay horn players Hellman Escorcia (saxophone) and Rafael Rodriguez (trumpet). Currently, SOJA averages 150 shows a year and the group has toured every major city in the US and internationally throughout Canada, Puerto Rico (avg 2500), Brazil (avg 4000), Argentina, Uruguay, New Caledonia (16,000 in attendance) Palau, Saipan, Guam (avg 3500), Hawaii (avg 2,000 on each island), Sweden, Switzerland, France, Portugal (avg 2000) and Holland.  The band has also shared the stage with notable artists such as Citizen Cope, Matisyahu, Ben Harper, Slightly Stoopid, Damian Marley, Govt Mule, Umphrees McGee, and Steel Pulse to name a few.

In addition to their new music and touring, the band remains committed to creating real music, music that cant be ignored.  Jacob pauses, “Bob Marley’s fans all feel like when he is singing a song, it’s to them.  You could be from anywhere, any situation, rich, poor – it doesn’t matter; the song is directed at them.  He speaks to you, the love songs too.  That is what we are after.  Not one side of the story, the whole thing, both sides of the coin.  Just listen to ‘Born in Babylon.’”

For more information on SOJA, please visit http://www.myspace.com/soja or http://www.sojamusic.com. 

Happy New Year Stoopidheads! To properly ring in 2010, we have added some shows in February.  All shows go on sale this SATURDAY 1/9 , and we will be announcing a support act soon.  Check out the tour dates below!

For more info, please visit THE SLIGHTLY STOOPID WEBSITE

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ON SALE TODAY - JAN 9TH!

Slightly Stoopid’s Winter 2010 Tour is going on sale today at 10:00am PST.  Ticket links & Facebook Event info can be found below. RSVP and let us know you are getting Stoopid this Winter! Hope to rage with you all in February. More info such as support coming soon.

TUE 2/09 Reno, NV @ Knitting Factory
TICKETS | FACEBOOK EVENT

SAT 2/13 Chico, CA @ Senator Theatre
TICKETS  | FACEBOOK EVENT

Happy Holidaze!

Ese Locos!! We hope you enjoyed your FREE DOWNLOAD stocking stuffer from Slightly Stoopid.  We realize that you probably have most of the tracks on the sampler, but that your friends may not.  In the spirit of the holiday season we encourage you to give the gift that keeps giving to all your friends, family, loved ones, even not so loved ones, and share the Stoopid Holidaze sampler with as many of your friends as possible! 

Pass the joint through all of your social networks starting with Facebook.  Join the FACEBOOK EVENT and invite all of your friends to experience the Holidaze Sampler as well.  Also, be sure and let everyone know through TWITTER by using this short link: http://bit.ly/StoopidHolidaze

Thanks for spreading the holiday cheer!!  We hope you are all looking forward to the Christmas break!

The Wailers have announced their tour plans for the new year, as well as a New Years Eve show at the House of Blues in Lake Buena Vista, FL. For more information and tickets please visit The Wailers site. Tour dates are listed below

The Wailers have announced their tour plans for the new year, as well as a New Years Eve show at the House of Blues in Lake Buena Vista, FL. For more information and tickets please visit The Wailers site. Tour dates are listed below

12.29.09 | House of Blues | Columbia, SC
12.31.09 | House of Blues | Lake Buena Vista, FL
01.01.10 | The Masquerade | Atlanta, GA
01.02.10 | Carolina Theatre | Greensboro, NC
01.06.10 | Scout Bar | San Antonio, TX
01.07.10 | House of Rock | Corpus Christi, TX
01.08.10 | Antone’s | Austin, TX
01.09.10 | House of Blues | Houston, TX
01.10.10 | House of Blues | Dallas, TX
01.12.10 | Sheridan Opera House | Telluride, CO
01.13.10 | Budlight Street Beat | Vail, CO
01.14.10 | Ski Jam | Steamboat Springs, CO
01.15.10 | Ogden Theater | Denver, CO
01.16.10 | The Fox Theatre | Boulder, CO
01.17.10 | The Belly Up | Aspen, CO
01.18.10 | The Belly Up | Aspen, CO

Stoopid will be smoking out intimate venues across the U.S. for a brief tour before heading to Amsterdam! Special guests The Aggrolites will support most shows throughout the tour. For more information and to purchase tickets CLICK HERE.

Stoopid will be smoking out intimate venues across the U.S. for a brief tour before heading to Amsterdam! Special guests The Aggrolites will support most shows throughout the tour. For more information and to purchase tickets CLICK HERE.

11.10.09 | Belly Up | Aspen, CO
11.11.09 | Ogden Theatre | Denver, CO
11.12.09 | Sokol Auditorium | Omaha, NE
11.13.09 | Liberty Hall | Lawrence, KS
11.14.09 | The Rave | Milwaukee, WI
11.17.09 | Newport Music | Columbus, OH
11.18.09 | House of Blues | Cleveland, OH
11.19.09 | Terminal 5 | New York, NY
11.20.09 | Lupo’s Heartbreak | Providence, RI
11.21.09 | Borgata Events Center | Atlantic City, NJ

Hey Rebelution Fans.

We are excited to release our second full-length album “Bright Side of Life” today. It will be available for the first time in record shops around the United States and digital downloads will be available worldwide. This will be our first release in the past three years and the first ever on our own label 87 Music in partnership with Controlled Substance Sound Labs, Silverback Music and Raise Up Music. You can click the below links for your purchasing preference. We have a wicked bundle package going.

To purchase the album for $9.99 on iTunes (Worldwide) and receive a free remix by the Easy Star All-Stars click here : http://bit.ly/RebelutionBrightSideItunes

To purchase a physical CD, T-Shirt and sticker bundle package for $22.50 click here : http://bit.ly/RebelutionBrightSideBundle

Bright Side of Life is currently the #3 album in the United States on iTunes.  Help us take Rebelution to number one !!

Thank you for your support and see you on tour.

-Rebelution

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With more than a decade of making music together, the members of Slightly Stoopid have perfected one of the rarest—and most valuable—skills a band can develop: the art of the stealth groove, that knack for quietly—almost innocently—sliding into a song and utterly lassoing anyone within earshot by mid-song. That’s where the band has come to reside, musically: deep in the pocket, that ever-elusive, funky trench where a band can entrance an audience, hypnotize it and hold on to it until the set or CD is finished. And that’s just what the band does on its sixth studio offering, Chronchitis , another collection of hypnotizers built on a bedrock of nasty, oceanic slabs of dubby bass and meditative vocals. With peers like Sublime, Jack Johnson, 311 and G. Love, Slightly Stoopid have proven a cornerstone of a new generation of bright, mellow albums full of acoustic grooves, love for reggae and select ’70s California singer/songwriter records.

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Combining the sounds of Bob Marley and Shlomo Carlebach, yet remaining wholly original, Matisyahu’s performance is an uplifting, powerful experience for all in his presence. His last album, Youth, was a compelling mix of ancient and modern sounds and ideas. The propulsive title track, with its rallying cry “youth is the engine of the world,” draws upon Matisyahu’s studies of Chabad Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneersohn as well as his own tumultuous past. “When teenagers rebel, the reason is because there is something wrong. Not with them, but with the environment around them. That song is about making the transition from being an angry teenager, to actually becoming a grown man or a woman, changing yourself and the system around you.” Matisyahu’s next full-length album, “Light,” will be released April 21st, 2009 on EPIC Records.

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