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Snowboard On The Rocks

Friday, September 17, 2010

6:30 PM

Door Time: 5:30 PM

Red Rocks Amphitheatre

Buy Tickets Online: TicketsWest

Come be part of history at the 1st annual “Snowboard on the Rocks” at the world famous Red Rocks Amphitheatre!

Snowboard on the Rocks will take place at Red Rocks Amphitheatre on Friday, September 17.  This event is organized and overseen by snowboarders for snowboarders.

Snowboard on the Rocks is a first-of-its-kind snowboard lifestyle event that will kick off the 2010/2011 snowboard season with the World Premier of 3 new snowboard videos, live musical performances, pro-snowboarder autograph signings, FREE LIFT TICKETS for everyone, tons of free product giveaways, and more!

It will make history as a festival that brings people together to one place, at one time, on an unprecedented scale, to celebrate the snowboard lifestyle as a united community.  Snowboard on the Rocks will host the first World Premier of a snowboard video ever to be shown @ the world famous Red Rocks Amphitheater.

SNOWBOARD FILM WORLD PREMIERS:

Standard Films’ “THE STORMING”
Featuring Torstein Horgmo, Halldor and Eiki Helgason, Xavier De Le Rue, Lonnie Kauk, Ryan Tiene, Sammy Luebke, Kazuhiro Kokubo, Reawyn Reid, Erin Comstock, Leanne Polosi, Hana Beaman, and Kimmy Fasani.  This is a global snowboard progression warning ranging from Norway, Iceland, Quebec City, Valdez, Squaw Vally, Northstar, Alpine Meadows, Lake Tahoe backcountry, and BC backcountry.

Think Thank’s “RIGHT BRAIN / LEFT BRAIN”
Featuring Tim Eddy, Scott Stevens, Sean Genovese, Gus Engle, Pat Milbery, Nick Visconti, Jesse Burtner, Mark Thompson, Matt Edgers, Chris Beresford, Austin Hironaka, Blair Habenicht, Chris Larson, Ben Bogart, Sam Hulbert, Andre Spinelli.  This years “Right Brain, Left Brain” is a double feature meant to encompass both aspects of your mind and all aspects of snow.

Never Summer’s “MADE IN AMERICA”
Featuring Cooper Hoffmeister, Ben Millsaps, Jason Hindman, Rajat, Elms and Ryan Cruze.

MUSICAL PERFORMANCES BY:

Del the Funky Homosapien – Oakland, CA

Bukue One – Oakland, CA

London Dungeon – Denver, CO

TICKET INFO

FREE LIFT TICKET to Echo Mountain included with every Snowboard on the Rocks ticket sale!

Tickets on sale NOW!
Get them online at TicketsWest or pick them up at any King Soopers Grocery Outlet for $22.50.  To charge tickets by phone, call (866) 464-2626 or (719) 576-2626

more info:
http://www.redrocksonline.com/

My boy Path One (who I recently shared an art show with) will be bringing another element of Hip Hop to the city of Denver. I’ll be providing some cuts on the vinyl and back up vocals on the mic as well.

This is Path One’s premier Hip Hop show demonstrating his lyrical skills on the mic, so come down and enjoy a sick-ass hip hop show!

We will be opening, so come down a bit early – about 8:00pm!

Visit PathOne’s site: www.seventhcolor.com to check out his music:

We’ll be opening up for ManeLine, Neurologiks, Tetra, and the headliners Qwel (Typical Cats) & Maker (of Glue).

Date: September 10, Thursday
Time: 8:00pm – Don’t miss Path One!
Where: The Walnut Room – 3131 Walnut Street, Denver, CO 80205

I just hit up the Aceyalone, Myka 9, and Ab Rude show at the classic Larimer Lounge. I got there late and only caught Ichiban’s last couple tracks, which were dope!

The heads from Project Blowed and Freestyle Fellowship blew up Denver and The Larimer Lounge!

Myka 9 had a decent performance, but unfortunately the sound for his set wasn’t the greatest, so it was hard fro him to get those clean rhythmic melodies in his hooks to roll through.

Aceyalone definitely killed the mic and also threw in some new tracks that I haven’t heard yet.

Ab Rude threw down from Rejuvenation, his new album and of course spit the classics. It was an overall good show, but surprised about the small turnout. Del was also playing at the Bluebird that night, which may have taken some of the crowd.

DJ Drez was one of the show’s top performances with whomever he was playing with or even solo. His skills are sick, including tracks from his new album, Jahta Beat, where he focuses on mixing down tempo, hip hop and eastern sounds and instruments. His beats were smooth and cuts were always on point!

I went and checked out The Mighty Underdogs @ the Bluebird last night. If you’re not familiar with them, they are Gift of Gab (Blackalicious), Lateef (Latryx, Maroons, DJ Shadow), and Headnodic (Crown City Rockers – formerly known as Mission).

They’re out touring promoting their new album Dropping Science Fiction. I haven’t heard the whole album and listening to the new songs live in a venue with not the best sound system forces me to check it out with my headphones before I can form a solid opinion on it.

From what I did hear, there was some good stuff for sure, but nothing I truly fell in love it. Their performance was off the hook though, and of course Gift killed it with the mad lyricism!

Headnodic definitely added some beat flare with his DJ and MPC production skills. Lateef, added his rhythmic jazzy rhyme style, which they all make this a very dynamic Quannum crew.

Gotta love it when they throw down the classics too, Gift of Gab hit up some old Blackalicious hits and had the crowd bumping!

I just returned from Adobe MAX 2008 in San Fran! It was an awesome event and Adobe did a really great job putting it all together and ending it with an awesome party at the Academy of Sciences and De Young Museum!

There were some really great sessions, showing off the new features of CS4, best practices of development and design, techniques, other products like Pixel Bender, and of course Flash Catalyst (Thermo) was a major focus.

San Francisco is an awesome city too. Although I did not get to venture out very far from the Moscone, what I did see was great. I did miss Uncle Joey and Jesse & his Rippers .

I attending this show last night and I was VERY IMPRESSED!

I missed Three the Ward Way, but those guys are pretty sick too. I have seen them before.

Kyprios opened up and warmed up the crowd. His solo set was so tight. He definitely has mad skills and great stage presence.

Once the whole crew went up, you could feel the energy level rise a few orders of magnitude. They brought it, and brought it hard. Throwing down songs from their new album Water Street, and a lot of their old songs. The sound was so great, even with a group of 6 MC’s singing and rhyming. The DJ crushed the vinyl and was always on point.

A well performed encore to end the show was just enough to make a great show! The crowd was hyped, and Sweatshop knew it. They delivered and I have no regrets going to that show. That was my first time seeing them live, it was so nice to see the faces behind the songs that I have enjoyed for the past several years.

Sweatshopunion.com

One of my favorite Hip Hop groups is coming to Denver tonight: Sweatshop Union.

They’ll be playing at The Marquis Theater on 20th & Larimer in downtown Denver.
Click here for directions

Their latest album Water Street was awesome and retained that classic Sweatshop style with a little more range. If you like hip hop, then this is a must show. Their word play, and jazzy-blues inspired beats, mashed with various other styles, bring a unique flavor. Not only that, but their content and subject matter is inspiring with a little more in depth meaning than the typical “brag about my skills.” Everything from relationships, family, friends, to politics and struggles in life, put SU on a higher level.

During a music festival in the capitol of Minnesota Thursday evening, police shut down power to the stage and event when Rage Against the Machine showed up for an impromptu show closer. I’m not sure what motivated police to act on Rage and not the other groups, but it seemed really unfair, especially without any idea of their intentions and which songs they would play which could possibly be offensive to the RNC.

De La Rocha lead the band in an a Capella version of “Bulls on Parade.”

They actually weren’t as much of a party crasher as those who were in the arena during McCain’s speech and were very out spoken. I did not hear what they had to say, but saw them being escorted out by security during McCain’s speech last night. I was searching for a clip of that, but couldn’t find it yet.

I just saw The Roots and Erika Badu at The Filmore in Denver. It was an amazing show. First let me apologize for the poor quality of these photos, but they were taken

The Roots killed it with the presence of a very lively and energetic band. Owne Biddle,bassist, laid down some heavy lines, Kamal Gray threw down on the ol’ keys, and the TUBA PLAYER Damon “Tuba Gooding Jr.” was bumping! He was actually pretty mobile with that heavyweight brass instrument. I believe there was a percussionist, but couldn’t see him from my position relative to the stage.

The guitarist KILLED it! Captain Kirk Douglas was amazing and as they all put on great solos, but the guitarist definitely stood out. He practically put on a mini show, with emotional riffs and synchronized lyricism and acapella to his licks.

Black Thought of course brought the lyricism and livliness to the stage. His energy was on point and rhymes were loud and clear. Nice sound Filmore!

I can’t leave out QuestLove on drums. He seems so natural on the drums, like it was involuntary, and just another breath for him.

Erika Badu then came on, with a very theatrical intro and set. Not only was her voice beautiful, her band amazing, but she had a beat pad and laptop set up (Macbook Pro ), and she was conducting and playing tracks form that, and then between songs, throwing down some improv beats. Not just simple beats, but some very impressive beat patterns and combinations.

I just saw Mac Lethal and SKUUUUUU! (inside show joke)! he played with Grieves at the Marquis Thursday night. I had just recently got into Mac Lethal and was SO GLAD I went to his show.

His energy was up, cracking jokes and best of all, his rhymes are amazing. His performance was awesome and representative of true innovative underground. Intellectual rhymes and creative word play pushes Mac Lethal out in front of this recent flood of good underground hip hop artists.

Another note, I played at the Marquis sometime last year, then heard they got a new system. Their old system was one of the better ones I’ve played at, but that night with Mac Lethal was tight. The sound was clear, direct, and had a lot of punch. The system there is sounding great. You get the beat flowing through your bod and you can make out virtually every word of the lyricist. Nice work Marquis!