Slingshot Asia Presents Slum Village Asia Tour 2015
Singapore – Saturday Aug 22 – Summerdaze Hip Hop/Soul Festival
Manila – Tuesday Aug 25 – Blackmarket
Seoul, Korea – Friday Aug 28 – Club Seca
Slingshot Asia Presents – Slum Village Asia Tour
July 27, 2015 By
Devin The Dude Australian Tour September 2015
July 27, 2015 By
Infamous Houston rapper Devin The Dude has announced his very first Australian national tour in Sydney, Canberra, Adelaide, Melbourne and Brisbane in September.
With over 15 years in the game, the underground rapper is hugely known for his collaborations with Dr.Dre, Young Jeezy, Snoop Dogg and Andre 3000.
In the 80’s Devin teamed up with blind rapper Rob Quest and together they formed ‘Coughee Brothas,’ later on they become ‘Odd Squad.’ They were quickly snapped up by Rap-A-Lot Records although with little success Devin then joined ’Facemob,’ it was after that break-up that he decided to drop a solo project ‘The Dude’ in 1998.
His highly anticipated sophomore LP, ‘Just Tryin’ ta Live,’ was then released in the summer of 2002 and featured appearances from hip hop legends such as Nas, Xzibit, and Raphael Saadiq with production from Dre, DJ Premier and his Coughee Brothas.
‘To tha X-Treme’ arrived two years later and was followed in 2007 by ‘Waiting to Inhale,’ his first album to crack the Top 40 on Billboards album chart.
His latest album release ‘One For the Road’ was released in 2013 which features ‘I’m Just Gettin’ Blowed.’ It was met with positive reviews from music critics, and also debuted at number 36 on the US Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart.
Last year Devin featured in King Chip’s ‘Get Lifted’, A-Wax’s ‘Elevated’ and Berner & B Real’s ‘1Hit.’
R.A The Rugged Man Australian Tour 2015
March 31, 2015 By
Slingshot Touring, Kiddz In The Attic & Launch Presents
R.A The Rugged Man ‘Shoot Me In The Head’ Australian National Tour 2015
The legendary rapper R.A The Rugged Man will be back in Australia for a national tour ‘Shoot Me In The Head’ starting June 2015.
A MC who needs no introduction, R.A is as controversial as he is influential. Hailing from New York, he flawlessly combines the authenticity of his undeniably rugged life with his undisputed mic skills and understanding of the genre as a hip-hop historian.
R.A. pioneered the truly independent indie-rap hustle, pressing his own vinyl singles and racking up one of the most impressive resumes in Rap history. From Wu-Tang and Mobb Deep to Biggie and Kool G. Rap, not to mention productions from Erick Sermon, DJ Quik and The Alchemist, his discography reads like a Hip-Hop Hall of Fame.
Nothing is off-limits to R.A, his lyricism is one to educate and stimulate the mass crowds.
R.A will be hitting up all major cities, including Canberra, Brisbane, Sydney, Perth, Melbourne and Adelaide.
Wednesday 3rd June | Canberra, Transit Bar
Thursday 4th June | Brisbane, Woolly Mammoth
Friday 5th June | Perth, The Game
Sat 6th June | Sydney, Manning Bar
Sunday 7th June | Melbourne, Laundry Bar
Monday 8th June | Adelaide, The Gov
Tickets go on sale Thursday 2nd April 2015, check venues for details.
Tech N9ne AUS/NZ Tour-March 2015
December 4, 2014 By
Metropolis Touring, Slingshot Touring and Select Touring Present
The anticipated return of Strange Music artist…
TECH N9NE
Touring Australia and New Zealand – March 2015
“No one puts on a show like Tech N9ne!! From beginning to end it’s a non-stop party.”
Tech N9ne has sold over two million albums and has had his music featured in film, television, and video games.
His stage name originated from the TEC-9 semi-automatic handgun, a name given to him by rapper Black Walt due to his fast-rhyming Chopper style. He later applied a deeper meaning to the name, saying that it stands for the complete technique of rhyme, with “tech” meaning technique and “nine” representing the number of completion.
Tech N9ne rejoiced on the career-defining song “Strange 2013,” his collaboration with The Doors. Tech N9ne named his Strange Music label with partner Travis O’Guin after the icon rock group’s songs “Strange Days” and “People Are Strange.” As a black fan of rock and rap growing up in Missouri, Tech N9ne grew up thinking he was “strange”. Getting to work with the surviving members of The Doors on “Strange 2013,” a reworking of “Strange Days,” is one of the proudest moments of his ground breaking career.
“If it wasn’t for their fusion of music, I would have never told Travis I wanted to call the joint venture that we have Strange Music,” Tech N9ne explains. “That’s why ‘Strange 2013’ meant so much to me. Now, when I listen to it, I smile, like, ‘I did that.’ They’re the ones that inspired me. It’s the thing keeping me alive and putting my kids through college, because I was a Doors fan.”
Today, millions of people are Tech N9ne fans. He became known as an innovative rapper in the 1990s because of his trendsetting ability to rap at breakneck speed, to rap backwards and, soon thereafter, to also deliver riveting personal songs that examined his own inner demons, as evidenced throughout such memorable cuts as “Tormented” and “Real Killer.” In the 2000s, Tech N9ne hit the road relentlessly, becoming one of rap’s premier touring acts.
Tech N9ne is featured on Lil Wayne’s ninth studio album Tha Carter IV on the song “Interlude”. The track features a verse from Tech and Andre 3000 (Outkast).
With 2012’s “Hostile Takeover 2012 Tour,” Tech N9ne holds the title of headlining the longest continuous tour in rap history. Even with all these accolades and the impressive list of artists Tech N9ne features on Something Else, he sounds as fresh and hungry as he did when he first started releasing music commercially more than a decade ago. “I’ve got a chip on my shoulder,” Tech N9ne says. “I’ve still got a lot to prove. That’s why I still rap so hard. I’m always trying to get better and better. I’m not softening it.”
Something Else album was released on July 30, 2013 to universal critical acclaim. The album, which is broken up into three portions — Earth, Water & Fire, features guest appearances from B.o.B, Big K.R.I.T., Cee Lo Green, The Doors, Game, Kendrick Lamar, Serj Tankian, T-Pain, Trae tha Truth and Wiz Khalifa, among others.
Tech N9ne has appeared on countless TV shows, in movies and featured on video games, now its Australia and New Zealand’s time to be witness to one of the greatest live shows in Hip-Hop period.
“He creates a kind of atmosphere and energy that you won’t experience anywhere else. I promise you, going to a concert will change your life. “
Witness TECH N9NE live across Australia and New Zealand in February 2015
Tues 3rd March – Wellington @ Bodega
Wed 4th March – Auckland @ The Studio
Fri 6th March – Melbourne @ The HiFi
Sat 7th March – Sydney @ Manning Bar
Wed 11th March – Brisbane @ Eatons Hill
Thu 12th March – Adelaide @ The Gov
Fri 13th March – Perth @ The Bakery
Tickets on sale nationally 9am Thursday 27th November
Tickets for all shows from www.metropolistouring.com or the venues
Deltron 3030 Australian Tour February 2015
November 24, 2014 By
Slingshot Touring, Select Touring and Metropolis Touring Presents…
DELTRON 3030
Dan The Automator / Del The Funkee Homosapien / Kid Koala
Touring Australia February 2015
The underground hip-hop supergroup Deltron 3030 features Deltron Zero (Del Tha Funkee Homosapien), the Cantankerous Captain Aptos (producer/remixer Dan “The Automator” Nakamura), and Skiznod the Boy Wonder (turntablist Kid Koala).
Much like Nakamura’s previous conceptual projects, Dr. Octagon and Handsome Boy Modeling School, Deltron 3030′s self-titled album and single send the hip-hop triumvirate into the year 3030, where — as the sole survivors of earth — they travel through the galaxy.
The group’s debut album was released in 2000. An album of instrumental tracks from Tron 3030 followed a year later. Next, the launch of Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett’s debut Gorillaz album in March 2001 brought renewed interest in the Deltron 3030 project, as all three members had a part to play in the creation of that multi-million-selling record. While Dan the Automator oversaw its production, Kid Koala assisted in this area and Del Tha Funkee Homosapien provided vocals on the singles “Clint Eastwood” and “Rock the House.”
In the ensuing years, rumours of sessions for a second Deltron 3030 record circulated. By summer 2012, a follow-up to Deltron 3030 was looking increasingly likely when the band performed ten new tracks at Toronto’s Luminato festival. Then in 2013 the highly anticipated Event II was released. The album came with a diverse guest list that included Zack De La Rocha, David Cross, Black Rob, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and a returning Damon Albarn. ~ Heather Phares & James Wilkinson, Rovi.
Individually, the collaborators of Deltron 3030 stand at the top of their respective musical disciplines; together as Deltron 3030, they warped space, bent time, transcended genre and blew minds with Deltron 3030, an album that still stands today as one of the most important records in the annals of underground hip-hop.
Both timely and avant garde, Deltron 3030 accurately – if surrealistically – captured the spirit of the cusp of the millennium, an era when a technology-driven stock market bubble was on the verge of bursting, when the political world was entering an era of unprecedented partisanship, when global inequality was beginning to skyrocket. Critics dubbed it a masterpiece: ”The most purely enjoyable hip-hop album of 2000,” NME declared. Vice praised Deltron 3030 as “a dope hip-hop concept album…visionary sci-fi rap for comic book heads, cyberpunks and conspiracy theorists that closed the gaps between indie-rap, boom bap and future-music.” ”It’s not only one of the best albums in either of their catalogs, but one of the best to come out of the new underground, period,” said AllMusic.com. Pitchfork called Nakamura the “poet laureate of creepy, oppressive beats,” describing the album as an “exciting” reimagining of “the future from the bottom up” that reveals Del as a “surprisingly acute social critic.”
Del notes that the words, music and narrative have been deliberately chosen to put listeners into a specific emotional state. “This record took 13 years, and the whole time fans are telling us we better come out with Deltron right now – quit teasing me,” laughs Del. “Well, this is beyond a regular album. Because I would say, me, Dan and Koala, we aren’t limited by what other rap groups do – we’re musicians first. I studied music theory for ten years. Dan and Koala been learning music since they were kids. We’re bringing it all together here, everything, and the fans, the critics, they all going to be surprised by what we got. You’ll see.”
Witness the Deltron 3030 live experience across Australia in February 2015
BRISBANE – Wed 25th FEB @ The Hi Fi
ADELAIDE – Thu 26th FEB @ The Gov
MELBOURNE – Fri 27th FEB @ The Hi Fi
SYDNEY – Sat 28th FEB @ The Hi Fi
PERTH – Sun 1st MARCH @ The Bakery
Tickets for all shows from www.metropolistouring.com or the venues
Block Party #2 FT GHOSTFACE KILLAH & PHAROAHE MONCH
October 26, 2014 By
Following on from the hugely successful first installment of BLOCK PARTY comes BLOCK PARTY #2.
Headlined by two of the most iconic hip-hop artists of all time: Ghostface Killah (Wu-Tang Clan) and Pharoahe Monch, Block Party #2 is set to be the must-see Hip Hop event of the summer!
Hip Hop lovers can expect a distinct underground flavour for Block Party #2 with the bill rounded out by one of Elephant Traks most exciting free styling Hip Hop stars The Tongue, Western Sydney rising stars Soul Benefits and Captain Franco (Halfway Crooks) spinning the decks between sets.
More Info:
http://www.metrotheatre.com.au/events/2014/12/18/block-party-2-feat-ghostface-killah-pharoahe-monch
Tickets available from:
http://premier.ticketek.com.au/shows/show.aspx?sh=GHOSTFAC14
The Pharcyde AUSTRALIAN TOUR NOV 2014
October 26, 2014 By
CANBERRA NOVEMBER 26TH @ Transit Bar
MELBOURNE NOVEMBER 27TH @ THE ESPY
SYDNEY NOVEMBER 28TH @ OXFORD ART FACTORY
SYDNEY NOVEMBER 29TH @ OUTSIDEIN FESTIVAL
Check venue websites for ticket details
MORE INFO
OUTSIDEIN FESTIVAL, OXFORD ART FACTORY & TRENT SLINGSHOT presents…
THE PHARCYDE (Sydney show)
+ special guest: VDJ MIKE RELM
FRIDAY 28TH NOVEMBER @ OXFORD ART FACTORY
BOOTY BROWN and IMANI will be bringing their energy filled live show to The Oxford Art Factory for a very special show on Friday 28th Nov the day before they headline the Outsidein Festival on Sat 29th Nov. Plus there will be a special guest performance from the amazing MIKE RELM from San Francisco who is at the forefront of live visual mixes and remixes. His show is something not to be missed!
The Pharcyde have ‘blown the roof off’ on their past Australian tours headlining The Metro, The Beresford and Good Vibrations Festival. Now they will take to the Oxford Art Factory stage for the very first time!
In the early 90’s, when gangsta’ rap consumed the airwaves, and the majority of West Coast rappers threw on their dark sunglasses & Chuck Taylor’s, The Pharcyde decidedly maintained a willfully unique vision. Opting to stay true to themselves with their left field but still South-Central sensibility, rap had seen few groups so self-deprecating and so smart; four visionary rappers skillfully able to split the difference between helium-voiced and hard-core.
Listening to “Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde” two full decades after its release, its sense of timeliness is unmistakable. With classics like “Oh Shit,” “Otha Fish”, “Ya’ Mama,” and hit single, “Passing Me By,” it is not surprising that it shipped over a million units, garnered comparisons to De La Soul and Tribe Called Quest, and everyone from Pitchfork Media to The Source has hailed it as one of the greatest albums ever made.
The Pharcyde’s second release “LabCabInCalifornia” revealed exactly how far-reaching their vision was. From enlisting a young and then unknown J Dilla to produce beats for the classic “Runnin” to collaborating with director Spike Jonze (“Being John Malkovich” “Adaptation”) on the video for “Drop,” it has consistently reinforced their steadfast refusal to tread familiar artistic grounds.
Today, The Pharcyde continues to hone their individual abilities yet carry on the name. They still seduce their audience with the same boyish charm that founded them at the beginning, partnered with the knowledge that has been bestowed upon them as men who have taken on, and rose to the challenge of the rap game.
Don’t miss this special audio/visual performance mixing up their certified classics with some new treats…
VIDEOS
Runnin’: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hZKN4AZ63g
Drop: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=co3qMdkucM0
Passin’ Me By: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0G7acONIRc
TICKETS AVAILABLE FROM
GHOSTFACE AUSTRALIA/NZ TOUR DECEMBER
October 21, 2014 By
Trent Slingshot presents…
The anticipated return of THE WU-TANG CLAN’S
GHOSTFACE KILLAH
Aka Tony Starks, Aka Pretty Toney, Aka Ironman, Aka Ghostdini
Aka Tony Starks, Aka Pretty Toney, Aka Ironman, Aka Ghostdini
GHOSTFACE KILLAH – Touring Australia & New Zealand – December 2014
The return to Australasia of one of the most iconic hip-hop artists of our time, Ghostface Killah from The Wu Tang Clan will blaze up Australia and New Zealand this summer!
Dennis Coles (born May 9, 1970), better known by his stage name Ghostface Killah, is an American rapper and prominent member of the Wu-Tang Clan. After the group achieved breakthrough success in the aftermath of Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers), the members went on to pursue solo careers to varying levels of success. Ghostface Killah debuted his solo-career with Ironman in 1996, which was well received by music critics. He has continued his success over the following years with a host of critically acclaimed albums.
His stage name was taken from one of the characters in the 1979 kung fu film Mystery of Chessboxing. He is the founder of his own label Starks Enterprises.
Ghostface Killah is critically acclaimed for his loud, fast-paced flow,and his emotional stream-of-consciousness narratives containing cryptic slang and non-sequiturs. In 2006, MTV included him on their honorable mention list of The Greatest MCs of All Time, while the editors of About.com placed him on their list of the Top 50 MCs of Our Time (1987–2007), calling him “one of the most imaginative storytellers of our time.” Q magazine called him “rap’s finest storyteller.” Pitchfork Media stated that, “Ghostface has unparalleled storytelling instincts; he might be the best, most colorful storyteller rap has ever seen.” NPR called him “a compulsive storyteller”, and asserted, “His fiction is painterly.”
Australia and New Zealand get ready for this not to be missed hip-hop tour from one of the best on the mic!
GHOSTFACE KILLAH Australian & New Zealand Tour Dates and Venues
Brisbane – Dec 12th @ Wooly Mammoth
Victoria – Dec 13th @ Meredith Music Festival
Hobart – Dec 16th @ Republic Bar
Sydney – Dec 18th @ The Metro
Melbourne – Dec 19th @ The Espy
Perth – Dec 21 @ Metro City
Wellington – Dec 27 @ Bodega
Queenstown – Dec 28 @ Loco
Auckland – Dec 30 @ Northern Bass Festival
TICKETS ON SALE NATIONALLY NOW FROM USUAL OUTLETS
Artist’s page
Souls Of Mischief Interview
September 10, 2014 By
Hey Tajai from the mighty Souls Of Mischief! Excited to be coming to Australia soon to promote the new album and rock it around the country? What’s the show gonna be like?
It’s Going to be aawesome. The people are always super hype and we try to reciprocate that energy. Literally Australia is one of our favorite spots to rock.
Please tell me you guys will be performing 93 Till Infinity live!?
Of course! 21 years and going strong.
What are you most looking forward to when you land in Australia?
I Had the best Indian food I ever had in Melbourne, I am hoping to get some more. Also I like how y’all have different colorways of all the shoes.
What’s the latest Hieroglyphics crew news?
We just threw “Hiero Day” - an annual free festival in Oakland California. 30 bands, 22,000 fans, Hiero Glow Beer and a huge skate competition. The mayor came and presented us a proclamation declaring Hiero Day an official Holiday in Oakland. This was our third and by far the largest. Also, we are working on something that should revolutionize the crypto- currency world!
Will you be bringing some of that classic rare Hieroglyphics merchandise to sell at the shows?
We will! Hopefully we can get all of the right stuff and sizes over there so that the fans can skip the postage fees!
TOUR DATES & TICKET DETAILS
CANBERRA – Friday October 31st – TRANSIT BAR
TIX - http://www.moshtix.com.au/v2/event/souls-of-mischief-usa/73001
SYDNEY Saturday November 1st – OXFORD ART FACTORY
TIX - http://www.moshtix.com.au/v2/event/souls-of-mischief/73005?skin
PERTH – Sunday November 2nd – AMPLIFIER
TIX - http://tickets.oztix.com.au/?Event=46402
MELBOURNE – Monday November 3rd (Cup eve) – ESPY
TIX - https://theespy.oztix.com.au/Default.aspx?Event=46460
Tickets on sale now
Interview with Trent Roden from Slingshot
April 30, 2013 By
Fasterlouder.com.au recently caught up with Trent for his insight on the question
“Can Hip-Hop Festivals Survive In Australia ?”
Click the link below to read the full article
http://www.fasterlouder.com.au/features/35541/Can-hip-hop-festivals-survive-in-Australia
