RED BULL KING OF THE ROCK RETURNS! Mosswood Park, September 15. Oakland, CA. This year the stakes are higher. $20k to the Finals Winner. Ballers, get there early to register. This one’s gonna be super sick! www.redbullusa.com/kingoftherock

Quality Control Marketing and SAE San Francisco present Live from the Control Room Session Three featuring San Francisco/Fillmore’s own DaVinci and Berkeley based producer Ion The Prize. Filmed by none other than Casual, the Hieroglyphics Rap God, this session and track titled “Purple Sky” were recorded at the SAE San Francisco campus, by SAE students. SAE San Francisco is the newest campus in SAE’s long legacy of training students for success in the Audio and Entertainment Industries. The top notch studio facilities are used for education purposes only and students never have to worry about losing out valuable practical time to commercial projects. The SAE staff are dedicated to the success of their students and work with them to develop their personal interests in recording, producing, mixing and mastering great music.

The video and track are the result of the “Live from the Control Room” Beat Battle which took place late 2011 at 330 Ritch in San Francisco. Ion the Prize was one of the finalists and decided to pair up with DaVinci, who was a judge and performer. The song will be featured on the “Live from the Control Room” EP along with the other participants including A-Plus of the legendary Souls of Mischief/Hieroglyphics crew, Lateef the Truthspeaker from Latyrx/Quannum, Vallejo’s own Moe Green, and Fillmore’s own DaVinci, known as one of San Francisco’s most capable lyricists. The winning producers, Cache, Poetiq Beetz, Lambo Got Em’ and Ion the Prize provide the backdrops and the Bay’s finest hold down the rhymes. Stay tuned for Session 4, the videos (all shot by Casual) and the official release of the “Live from the Control Room” EP coming in the upcoming months. Make sure you log onto www.livefromthecontrolroom.com and http://us.sae.edu/San-Francisco/ for any and all info.

Directed and Shot by Casual Edited by Roy Miles Recorded at SAE San Francisco

Black Milk recently finished his US “Claps&Slaps” Tour alongside J. Pinder and ADd+. Flud Watches and director Erick Lee traveled with Black Milk throughout the US to document the tour, capturing live performance footage, and more.

Today, enjoy the final episode (#3) where you get a behind the scenes look at tour life with Black Milk. He also talks about his career in 2012, his expanding fan base, and drops a couple of hints regarding his next album, hopefully dropping in 2013.

www.thefludway.com

The Dirty Angels Tour Hits San Francisco!

Featuring Live Performances from:

Pigeon John
Tanya Morgan
Playdough
Cookbook

Live at 330 Ritch
Wednesday May 16th
9PM
18 and Over Please!

Special Advanced Presales only $10

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Black Milk recently finished his US “Claps&Slaps” Tour alongside J. Pinder and ADd+. Flud Watches and director Erick Lee traveled with Black Milk throughout the US to document the tour, capturing live performance footage, and more.

Today, enjoy Episode 1 of 3 where you are introduced to Black Milk and his band Nat Turner, while Black Milk talks about Detroit, his musical influences, and more.

March 14, 2012 marked the Official 2012 SXSW Showcase presented by Quality Control Marketing and FLUD watches. The Malaia Upstairs was packed all night to a classic hiphop lineup featuring Murs, Nottz and DMP, MED and more. Check the joint.

Murs

Nottz Presents: DMP

Chuuwee x C Plus x Moe Green x NPire Da Great

J.Pinder

MED

Luck One

Touchscreen Trell

DJ Vega

Hosted by Cool Nutz

Shot and Produced by Erick Lee

www.TheFludWay.com

Once Again! We’re proud to announce our second SXSW showcase. Weds, March 14th Live at Malaia Upstairs Thanks to our sponsors and partners Flud, Orisue, Rappers I kNow, Al Lindstrom, and our partner in crime Cash Martin with the flyer design. Special Guests and Free Giveaways all night. Get it there folks!

Murs

Nottz Presents: DMP

Chuuwee x C Plus x Moe Green x NPire Da  Great

J.Pinder

MED

AWAX and YG Hootie

Radio Galaxy

Touchscreen Trell

DJ Vega

Hosted by Cool Nutz

Weds. March 14th – Malaia Upstairs – 300 E. 6th St.

9PM – 21 and over please

Sponsored in part by Al Lindstrom, Rappers I Know, Orisue, Flud

SURPRISE GUESTS AND FREE GIVEAWAYS ALL NIGHT FROM ORISUE AND FLUD

We’re very excited to announce the brand new single and video from Seattle’s own J.Pinder entitled “Never No.” Produced by Kuddie Fresh, and featuring songstress Dice, “Never No” is soulful, insightful, and motivating music. Shot in San Francisco, directed by John Coyne and Trevor Traynor, “Never No” made its official debut on MTVu and MTV.com yesterday, and the Video and Single hit teh interwebs (and Itunes) today!

Follow J. Pinder on twitter @Jpinder

Like J. Pinder on Facebook /jpindermusic

Props and Thanks to Noah and Dave, Yomi, Justin, Trevor, John, JKim, Keelay and Amanda!

Check out the Behind The Scenes Videos Here:

Behind the Video Shoot (CLICK HERE)

Behind the Scenes In-Studio (CLICK HERE)

www.livefromthecontrolroom.com

Live from the Control Room is a Bay Area based hip hop production platform created by Quality Control Marketing and pro audio school SAE. The Live from the Control Room series includes a 16 producer beat battle, concert series, a string of music videos, and a professionally produced EP featuring the Bay Area’s top MC’s paired up with the hottest up and coming producers.

The first phase of the series was the “Live from the Control Room” Producer Battle and concert, which took place this past September. The battle was comprised of 16 up and coming producers from the Bay Area, with the judging panel comprised of four of the top MC’s – A-Plus (Souls of Mischief/Hieroglyphics), Lateef the Truthspeaker (Latyrx/Quannum), Moe Green (iM/Out Crowd), and DaVinci (SWTBRDS/Thorobred). The top 4 producers from the battle then were paired with the four MC’s to record and create an EP and video series. Stay tuned for brand new videos chronicling the recording of the official “Live from the Control Room” EP, filmed by the one and only Casual from Hieroglyphics and Roy Miles Jr.. Look out for the EP to be released early 2012, and the final video from the winning tandem of Lambo Gott Em and A-Plus.

Black Milk has announced the dates for his 25-city North American “Claps and Slaps” tour.

The Random Axe member, who will hit the road with openers J. Pinder and A.Dd+, sets off the tour on February 25^th at Providence, Rhode Island’s Fete, with planned stops in New York City, New York, Los Angeles, California and Vancouver, British Columbia. The trek concludes at Toledo, Ohio’s Frankie’s Underground on March 30^th.

Check the tour dates below.

Saturday, February 25 – Providence, RI – Fete
Monday, February 27 – Boston, MA – Middle East
Tuesday, Feburary 28 – Philadelphia, PA – Silk City
Wednesday, February 29 – New York, NY – Knitting Factory
Thursday, March 1 – Pittsburgh, PA – Shadow Lounge
Friday, March 2 – Cleveland, OH – Grog Shop
Saturday, March 3 – Kalamazoo, MI – The Strutt
Tuesday, March 6 – Ann Arbor, MI – Blind Pig
Thursday, March 8 – Toronto – Great Hall
Friday, March 9- Chicago – Subterreanean
Saturday, March 10 – Grand Rapids, MI – The Intersection
Sunday, March 11 – St. Louis – Gramaphone
Monday, March 12 – Nashville – TBD
Friday, March 16 – San Diego – House of Blues
Saturday, March 17 – Scottsdale, AZ – Chaser’s
Sunday, March 18 – Los Angeles – The Roxy
Tuesday, March 20 – Santa Barbara, CA – Velvet Jones
Wednesday, March 21 – Fresno, CA – Fulton 55
Thursday, March 22 – San Francisco – 330 Ritch
Friday, March 23 – Portland, OR – Crown Room
Saturday, March 24 – Vancouver, BC – Fortune Sound Club
Sunday, March 25 – Seattle, WA – The Crocodile
Wednesday, March 28 – Minneapolis MN – 7th Street Entry
Thursday, March 29 – Iowa City – Mission Creek Festival
Friday, March 30th – Toledo OH – Frankie’s Underground

They used to be called haters. The people who push their own sense of self loathing and misery on you, telling you that what you pursue is not attainable, that you will amount to nothing. They can be peers, enemies, friends, family even the media. J. Pinder and Bay Area MC Mistah F.A.B. tackle them head on in Pinder’s newest cut “Dream Killers” and dodge every countermove of those shifty killers with ease.

As the Pinder, Ben Pramuk and Martin Feveyear produced beat rolls in with filtered synths chiming and a bit reduced bass line J. arrives first. With trademark lyrical tact, confident delivery Pinder reflects, “Sometimes I wonder if I’m too real, too down to earth, not enough fun / Not enough play, too much work, not enough sun”. Lead PWM synths cut across blare as he describes where and what he has heard from the dream killers over the years, “Heard it too many times that I’ll forever stay local” and unlike other anti-hater anthems you get the real sense that Pinder is indeed showing us his hand. The dream killers have hurt him, their words have injured him. However in typical J. Pinder fashion he follows up with determination, hope and courage, “They are the misery, that loves company/ They are my motivation/ They are my inspiration” and you feel that.

Directed by John Coyne and Trevor Traynor

Follow J. Pinder on twitter @Jpinder

Like J. Pinder on Facebook /jpindermusic

Download “Dream Killers” www.jpinder.com

Candlestick Kids and 330 Ritch Present:
Blu and Exile
Performing with Foreign Legion, Spank Pops (Honor Roll) and DJ’s Sake One and Sean G

Live at 330 Ritch
Wednesday January 25th, 2012

10pm!

18+

Free Giveaways from Flud Watches
Sponsored by Flud Watches, 2DopeBoyz.com, Quality Control Marketing

Presale Tickets only $12 http://bluexile330ritch.eventbrite.com/

In “Go Far” J Pinder again teams up with director Jon Augustavo to tie a visually arresting style to the ultra smooth track. The story of love and loss, on the trains and streets of New York, simultaneously juxtaposes and compliments the deep lyrical material of the new Pinder single. Artful and stylistically original – the video conveys a strong image of the road that J. Pinder is moving along as an artist.

YOU CAN PURCHASE THE SINGLE HERE FROM ITUNES

Get the Single on ITunes for just .99 cents RIGHT HERE!

J.Pinder and Fin Records are proud to announce the first official single release from Seattle’s J.Pinder entitled “Go Far.”Produced by Kuddie Fresh with live instrumentation from Karrie Carroll and Martin Feveyear, adding real strings arranged by Katie Freeze and Martin Feveyear, drum kit played by Barrett Martin, and bass by Christian Fulghum. J.Pinder is working on a series of singles and videos for Fin Records, to culminate in a six song EP to be released early in 2012.

Go Farther, the Video!

Click Here to Watch “GO FARTHER”

“Go Farther”, the video companion piece (shown above) to J Pinder’s new single “Go Far”, is a glimpse into the life and work of this young and talented artist. Utilizing material shot during J’s recent travels to AC3, his performance from the CMJ festival and candid behind the scenes footage of Pinder in NYC, Atlanta and beyond, this short film provides insight into what the new single “Go Far” is all about.

Shenanigans will ensue..hope to see you all there!

QC* x FIN RECORDS X OG CHINO & VITO PRESENT: VITO’S OG TUESDAYS: J.PINDER EDITION CMJ PARTY

FEAT DJ’S:
COSMO BAKER (THE RUB, BROOKLYN)
ROB SWIFT (X-ECUTIONERS, ILL INSANITY))
BOOGIE BLIND (X-ECUTIONERS, PHAROAHE MONCH)
OG CHINO
GEN.ERIK

HOSTED BY J.PINDER AND KARIM AKA NIGHTCLUBBER LANG

FREE COCKTAILS ALL NIGHT PROVIDED BY FIN RECORDS

10PM-4AM
TUESDAY OCT 18TH

VON BAR
3 BLEECKER ST
NYC, NYC

FREE ALL NIGHT!

You know the routine. See you there!

Quality Control Marketing and SAE Present: Live from the Control Room!

Part 1 of the Live from the Control Room series is a live concert and production beat battle at 330 Ritch in San Francisco.

Performers Include:
Lateef the Truthspeaker (Latyrx, Quannum)
A-Plus from Souls of Mischief (Hieroglyphics)
Moe Green (iM, Out Crowd, Vallejo)
DaVinci (SweetBreads, Fillmore, SF)

Main Event: a 16 person Beat Battle with Open Registration and SAE Students competing.

DJ’s Ammbush and Sean G
Only $7

To enter the beat battle, email j.cortes@sae.edu

The winning producers will be paired with the artists and featured on the Live from the Control Room video series and EP.

Tickets only $7 http://livefromcontrolroom.eventbrite.com/

Sacramento, it’s official. The 1st “Man vs. Maschine” Beat Production Showcase brought to you by Quality Control Marketing and Native Instruments. Some of the illest in the game including AZ’s SlopFunkDust, and Cali’s finest Mr. Dibia$e and Lee Bannon. Throw in an exclusive performance from Hawaii transplants, the inctredible Fortilive (Slo-Mo x Mush Mouf x !llmind) and DJ’s Flow, Epik, and NasRocksWell, and you have the ingredients for a crazy night of hiphop beats, rhymes and slice.

Sactown..tix just $5 live at the Sol Collective. We hope to see you all there. There will be some special guests in the building you won’t want to miss.

From the A 2 the Bay & Candlestick Kids present….

The Official Launch Party for the A 2 THE BAY Series….

Hosted by BIG BOI of OUTKAST

KILLER MIKE performing LIVE!!!

MYRON & E (SF) LIVE!!!!

DJ Ivan (Pirate DJs) and Beats Me

Sponsored in part by: Vapor Room | Flud Watches | Red Bull

FREE GIVEAWAYS FROM FLUD WATCHES ALL NIGHT!

THIS EVENT WILL SELL OUT!!! ADVANCE TICKETS AVAILABLE AT:

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This is guaranteed to be fire. Too Short, Casual, Crooked I and Bun B team up with the NW’s illest off the top freestylers, in what promises to be one of the top Red Bull Emsee stops on the tour. I strongly suggest you be there, and get there early, because this is a guaranteed sell-out.

Break out your sandals and sunscreen as FL prepares to take off for another adventure. Tag along with the Legionnaires as they traverse the globe in search of answers to life’s most meaningful questions like: “How many shots of Vodka are too many?” and the ever popular “Ginger, Mary Ann or both?”

Don’t let the party favors fool you, though. They boys will guide you through some of their personal ups and downs while showing their appreciation for being on the road and touching all of their fans. Not like that. Well…. maybe a little like that.

So please, strap in, put your headphones on and lean your seat all the way back as Foreign Legion prepares to make the blue yonder, quite a bit wilder.

Thank you for flying Legion Air

So here it is finally..Quality Control Marketing x Unique Squared Present: The Official SXSW Mixtape..FREE DOWNLOAD feat. Tanya Morgan, Jake One, Casual, Artifacts, J-Live, House Shoes, Trox, Apollo Brown, Skyzoo, Da Beatminerz, Moe Green, Keelay, Veterano, Cool Nutz, Jony Fraze, Bosko, oldominion and many many more…This album features 30 tracks that were recorded during SXSW in Austin on a massive 45 foot tour bus equipped with a state of the art studio. We’re really proud of how this turned out, and hours and hours of hard work has definitely paid off. Thanks to AJ,iD, Fokis, Luis, Tom, and Soul. HanifWondir on the artwork!

<a href=”http://uniquesquared.bandcamp.com/album/unique-squared-and-qc-present-the-official-sxsw-mixtape-explicit” _mce_href=”http://uniquesquared.bandcamp.com/album/unique-squared-and-qc-present-the-official-sxsw-mixtape-explicit”>Unique Squared and QC Present: The Official SXSW Mixtape (EXPLICIT) by UniqueSquared.com</a>

The flyer really says it all. Quality Control Marketing is excited to be a part of this years Red Bull Emsee Los Angeles. Got some of the world’s illest emcees going head to head, and Kurupts, Chali 2na and Supernatural will be judging and performing. Oh yeah, and trillest Bun B is hosting. This is gonna be ridiculous. See you there.

It’s finally here. The first official single off the Quality Control Marketing x Unique Squared Official SXSW Mixtape. We matched some of the games top producers (like Houseshoes, Veterano, Jake One, Apollo Brown) with some of the games top MC’s (like Von Pea, Skyzoo, Casual, Nick Javas, DonWill, Ro Spit) to create this awesome mixtape. Even more crazy, this whole thing was recorded on location at SXSW in the Unique Squared Mobile Unique Bus, equipped with a full state-of-the-art recording studio. Many MC’s came thru, many producers submitted beats…and this is the first single. Apollo Brown on the beat, which is stupid fresh, and Mr. Burn Rubber himself, Detroit’s Ro Spit. Free Download Ya’ll. Go Get It!  Props to JKim, 2DopeBoyz, Hanif Wondir, Ro Spit, Apollo Brown, MMG, Presyce, AJ, Soul, Fokis, Duplicuts, Tom, iD. Thank ya’ll – Karim aka Nightclubber Lang

If you’re not excited about this lineup and show, then I don’t know what to tell you…

MoveRadio.Fm and Candlestick Kids Proudly Present – Back in the Day: Hip-Hop Icons Series

featuring

Prince Paul and Grand Wizard Theodore
…
Live at 330 Ritch, San Francisco, CA
Friday June 17th 10pm
21 and over Please

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Brought to you by MoveRadio.fm, Candlestick Kids, Rap Station and 330 Ritch

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I-Tunes

http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/night-moves/id425932199

Amazon.com

http://www.amazon.com/Night-Moves-Explicit/dp/B004RWI3OW/ref=sr_shvl_album_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1302633073&sr=301-1

Prozack Turner and Marc Stretch are Foreign Legion. Their debut album, Kidnapper Van (along with DJ Design) broke new ground for underground hip-hop and took playful shots at the industry and art that spawned them. Several tours around the world resulted in the party-driven Play Tight, soon after. The trio became a duo and next came The Secret Knock. An introspective, albeit brief, look into the minds of two musicians that still love the art of rhyme.

Guess what, good people? Good music is still alive and well, at least in the Bay Area. Foreign Legion returns with their newest original offering, Night Moves. The Oakland based duo took some time off after their previous release to work on various ventures, away from the group. They re-connected in the studio and the result is a 13 track opus that finds the group as focused and hungry as ever. Contributions from G Koop (Jake One, EA Ski), Rashaan Ahmad (Crown City Rockers), Grandpa J, Intr0Beatz, DJ Flip (ITF Champion) & DJ Buzz (Waxolutionists) help give the album a sound that is well worth listening to over and over. You don’t have to wait for the sun to go down make some Night Moves.

Foreign Legion – Night Moves Tracklisting

1.     CA All Day – Prod. By Prozack Turner

2.     Victory – Prod. By G-Koop – Additional sample arrangement by Prozack Turner – Background vocals by Latashia Govan

3.     Fast and Loose – Featuring Rashaan Ahmad of Crown City Rockers – Prod. By Prozack Turner

4.     The Ultimate – Prod. By Grandpa J

5.     One Shot – Prod. By Prozack Turner – Guitar by G-Koop

6.     Son of a Gun – Prod. By Prozack Turner

7.     Party Over Here – Prod. By Prozack Turner – Guitar by G-Koop – Cuts by DJ Whooligan

8.     Fresh Air – Prod. By Prozack Turner

9.     Didn’t Work Out – Prod. By Prozack Turner

10.   Travel Lite – Prod. By Introbeatz – Synth by G-Koop

11.   Piano Banger – Prod. By Introbeatz – Cuts by Introbeatz

12.   Angel – Prod. By DJ Flip and DJ Buzz

13.   Legionnaire Lounge – Prod. By Prozack Turner – Guitar by G-Koop – Additional Vocals by Darcy Green

You can also find physical CD’s of Night Moves in these fine locations: