TUMBLING DICE

we are currently tumbling instead of blogging - for now anyways...

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SCARFACE BLU RAY!

Before Hannah Montana there was Tony Montana and he is back and looking good in HD.

Limited Edition Scarface Blu Ray is on sale now!

Check out the details and try and win HERE

Be Heard!

our old pal Mr Kaves is judging a cool new contest for Georges Duboeuf wines - we directed the sweet video below to give you a feel for what its all about

have a look and if you have the skills - enter the contest and BE HEARD!

enter contest here





thanks to ron from www.spincontrol.biz and trevz from www.thenewpop.com for making it great

KFAC X1 JULY 30, 2011

KAYAK FOR A CAUSE X1 SHADY BEACH< NORWALK, CT
www.kayakforacause.com
We had a blast producing KFAC X1 - HUGE thanks go out to all the hard working volunteers, staff, charities, donors, vendors, bands, sponsors, the city of norwalk for making it an awesome day. proud to have been a part of it!

MORE PHOTOS WILL BE ADDED ASAP!

KINGSIZE PLAYLIST

hey check out our brand spankin new itunes playlist widget featuring music from the Kingsize USA family

Mr Kaves @ Hionas Gallery

the fine folks at www.lostinasupermarket.com just posted my review of Mr Kaves opening for his first NYC solo show at the new HIONAS gallery in SoHo



Have looksee here http://lostinasupermarket.com/2011/07/mr-kaves-new-york-new-york-big-city-of-dreams-exhibit-opening-recap/

good times. good times...

BASSMONSTER @ WEBSTER HALL NYC

Bass Monster Tour – Webster Hall
I showed up at Webster Hall last Friday night with a buddy of mine ready for some quality dubstep. Play Me Records and Beatport’s Bass Monster Tour did not disappoint. Cyberoptics was running things when I got upstairs to the main room. This kid knows how to drop a beat, his samples mixed with his low low bass had the crowd going, and going hard. This kid from Memphis is up and coming in the dubstep world. He started out with his track, “Geisha” (http://www.beatport.com/track/geisha-vip-cyberoptics-vip/1824254) which topped the beatport charts, widely accepted as the best way to judge the quality of electronic music. Now he’s making beats and touring with the likes of FS and the lovely Reid Speed.

FS took the stage next, and boy was he ready. He was jumping around and getting pumped to Cyberoptics’ set before showing off his own stuff. With a seamless transition between DJs FS started spinning. He rolled through his chart toppers and particularly got the crowd jumping with “Yup”. (http://www.beatport.com/track/yup-original-mix/1693512) When that first “YUP” sounded in the hall the party took off. FS, formerly of Ming & FS, recently emerged in the dubstep scene, although he’s been dabbling in the genre long before it became popular, he’s based out of Brooklyn and working on all kinds of musical projects I, personally, am very excited for. FS’ sound is a strong combination of grimy and techno beats, making an electronic sound that isn’t too dubstep for the typical electronic listener. FS employs all parts of electronic music to create a sound that is distinctly him.

Finally, FS passed the turntables along to the bass monster tour headliner: Reid Speed. The lady of the evening and the owner and operator of Play Me Records knew what she was doing on stage. Like FS, Reid Speed has been around the electronic scene for a while and it shows. She knows how to combine the heavy bass with thumping beats. Reid Speed knew how to keep a song alive with the dubstep instead of relying on drop after drop. She ran the party well into the night and did not disappoint.

Thanks to Play Me Records for getting me in, Webster Hall and GBH for hosting this evening of bass drops and heavy beats. It was a blast.

PICS from The Bass Monster Tour from GBH @ Webster Hall courtesy of Niki Digital http://nickydigital.com/index.php?/gallery/album/C2385/

POSTED by JOSH MARTONE

Check out these great artists’ beatports to hear their music:
Cyberoptics (http://www.beatport.com/artist/cyberoptics/182460)
FS (http://www.beatport.com/artist/fs/23061)
Reid Speed (http://www.beatport.com/artist/reid-speed/19580)

Thrax is Back

Anyone who knows me of follows this blow at all probably knows that I am a big Anthrax fan and lucky enough to be friends with the band. Today the first new material in years (and with joey belladonna on the mic) from the Big 4 metal legends is available for FREE and it rocks so get it while you can - if the album is anything like this its another killer http://bit.ly/fightem

And dont forget to get your tix for the upcoming BIG 4 concert at Yankee Stadium this Fall. Metallica, Slayer, Megadeath, and Anthrax together as one. history in the making!

check the trailer HERE

glee

awesome Glee Live tour poster from artist http://amelialebarron.squarespace.com/

check out some of her other work as well

the glee tour is great so far - far from anything i had in mind

USO in NYC

this is a pretty cool promo tie in from the upcoming Marvel Captain America : The First Avenger film where they brought the WWII era USO girls out to the Intrepid in NYC to perform for the troops over Memorial Day Weekend in NYC - I always miss this great stuff when I leave town...(back to work on cloning first thing tomorrow...)

more at

http://agentmlovestacos.com/post/6049811635/this-past-friday-as-part-of-fleet-week-the-uso

DLR awesomeness meter!

At long last we can all finally determine just how awesome a concert was according to the final word on all things awesome - Diamond David Lee Roth himself!

disney!

i went to disney land for the first time in my life and was attacked by a grizzly...

(more pix to come)

XMENTAL

artsy fartsy

let me first begin by thanking google / blogger for sucking yesterday and today - if anyone missed the last post i did yesterday it should be up now vs yesterday when it mattered and was being tweeted / posted about.... ahhh the well funded and well oiled machines that dont work....

anyways - i cant stop looking at awesome art lately

easily my biggest distraction in the world right now besides keeping tabs on Van Halen who seem to be gearing up for another run with diamond david lee roth. (note i will never refer to him as anything but diamond david lee roth. ever.)

heres some of the coolness i have been gazing upon during some endless conference calls today...

lately i have digging the comic / video game stylings of patrick brown from Australia

I also discovered the monstrous works of Andrew Barr from canada while looking for an image of the shirt Emilio Estevez wore in the beginning of Repo Man. I thought it might have had the cover art from The Cramps "bad music for bad people" on it which i have been obsessing about lately.

I actually never found that (if anyone see's one - send it!) and instead kept getting irritated by all the crap about Repo Men (a piece of shit jude law forrest wittaker vehicle) instead of what I wanted.

My search did have a lucky result though because I found Andrews takes on that great slice of celluloid as well as these other film inspired goodies. His series on Repo man is awesome - be sure to check them all, but this is my fave

as is this from Pee Wee's Big Adventure which I think I have written plenty about over the last few years...

And another of my all time faves - John Carpenters The THING! starring Kurt Russell aka Snake Plisken, AKA Jack Burton - A fine fine remake of the original B&W flick. Anyone who has seen the movie surely knows this dog monster shot is genius.

my man even went 3D with this tribute to THE MASK - a 3D film from the 60s that I actually saw on TV when they used to run those old Black & White 3D films in conjunction with Burger King or something.

Alrighty then - back to "work"

Revenge of the Nerd

Been getting way back into comics lately. yes "graphic novels" or whatever is the preferred, but to me its all comics and its all good. i love the art and in some cases the stories and characters are great too.

Be on the lookout for more posts on this subject from me including new releases Im reading, some of the comic movies (thor is looking promising) , old ones I slept on, and sometimes just great images, stories, artists, writers and recommendations etc that come my way.

First up the new Spider Island - Deadly Foes from Marvel looks awesome -

Im about to start reading the entire Locke & Key series by Joe Hill www.joehillfiction.com- which after reading one the releases over the winter promises to be amazing. Joe also happens to be the son of the one and only Stephen King. I hate to say that since I appreciate that Joe doesn't use his fathers name and his work stands on its own, but its to big a deal for me to hide, so there it is...

Thanks to my good friend and major comic fan http://twitter.com/Scott_Ian of Anthrax for the suggestion - For those not in the know Scott has also written comics for DC including LOBO and is now working on the forth coming take on THE DEMON clearly he is a master of all things evil.

PLEASE RECOMMEND ANYTHING YOU ARE DIGGING AS WELL - some of the best material I have seen are those that people have suggested.

Need for Speed THE RUN

today we have the first peek at the next release from the Need for Speed franchise. The Run appears to be a slick rally based game where drivers race cannonball style from SF to NYC.

check the trailer here http://www.needforspeed.com/therun

pre order a limited edition copy here http://www.needforspeed.com/therun/store

All we can think about is these fellas...

And this...

Rollins Speaks

our good friends at Lost in a Supermarket have posted my recent interview with the great Henry Rollins. Im a huge fan of Henrys work in all forms and was honored to pick his brain. enjoy

http://lostinasupermarket.com/2011/04/the-world-according-to-henry-rollins-the-lost-in-a-supermarket-interview/

those not in the know can also be educated weekly by the man on his KCRW radio show if they are in the LA area or like me they can tune in online at http://www.kcrw.com/music/programs/hr

PARANOID SOCIAL CLUB, PLANESIDE, DIET KONG, & FOLEY LIVE IN NYC!

KINGSIZE & PATRIARCH RECORDINGS PROUDLY PRESENTS

AN EVENING OF SCORCHING ROCK AND/OR ROLL...

FEATURING

PARANOID SOCIAL CLUB

PLANESIDE

DIET KONG

FOLEY

Wednesday April 6, 2011

THE STUDIO @ WEBSTER HALL

125 E11th St NYC

ON SALE NOW!!!

http://event.websterhall.com/show_event_sub.php?id=1455&size=small&cdate=2011-04-06

Skrillex at Webster Hall - February 25, 2011

My name is Josh and I’m a freshman at NYU. I’m living in the city under the guise of a business student, but I’m really here for the music scene. Coming from the suburbs of CT, I’ve grown up going to concerts in NYC, but now I’m finally living right at the heart of it all and loving every minute of it. Conveniently, I’m living just a few blocks from Webster Hall a choice spot for some of GBH's killer shows. Last Friday I had the chance to see Skrillex blow up this little concert hall. Special thanks to Tom from GBH who made this night happen.

My friend and I rolled into this little club/venue on 11th Street between 3rd and 4th Ave ready for a good night. We first ran into some quality club music in the basement and main floors. These two rooms, however, were relatively empty tonight, so we went looking for Skrillex upstairs. What we found was a packed house; the entire concert hall--a separate space from the club-style rooms downstairs--was filled with people moving around. DJ Aero and Tommy Lee--the drummer from Motley Crue, yea the rarely clothed wildman--an unlikely combination, ran the house with ease, and successfully prepped the crowd for our boy Skrillex.

Skrillex walked on stage to the chanting of his hundreds of fans to the tune of “My Name Is Skrillex.” When the beat dropped the crowd went nuts. Not a single person was standing still, glow sticks were flying, heads were banging, and arms flailing. It was a picture perfect rager of a dubstep party. Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites, the titular track off of his new release, rocked the house like we were all hearing it for the first time. The best I could do for pictures, as I stood amongst fans dancing to the grimy beats of Skrillex’s dubstep was hold up my phone and take a quick series of pictures all around me. Only three of these came out in homage to the insanity of the night.

Sunny Moore, known to the electronic world as Skrillex, has risen to fairly recent fame in the still emerging world of dubstep, and in my opinion he deserves all of it. His range is widespread and his style is dynamic. The former post-hardcore singer turned DJ is tearing up the scene and selling out shows. If you get a chance, check this guy out. Just be warned: this is one sweaty party of a night you will never forget.

Check out his website to hear Skrillex’s music and see if he is coming to a town near you: http://www.skrillex.com/.

--EDIT--

"@MrTommyLand: @kingsizeusa haha! Yer man Josh wrote such an impressive 3 words about us!(Prepped the crowd) Woohoo!!"

My first ever blog post, let alone live review and I'm called out by Tommy Lee himself. See for yourself, check the comments too. I've got to hand it to him though, he and DJ Aero killed it during their set. They definitely deserve more than just saying they "prepped the crowd." So, Tommy Lee, this one's for you:

Tommy Lee spearheaded the now trending transition of Rocker turned DJ. I think there is something to be said about a DJ coming from an instrumental background. They just have an advantage musically over other DJs. Boy can Tommy Lee and DJ Aero party! We all know Tommy knows what he's doing, and anyone he brings along is bound to be a good time. These two rocked the house, playing music the whole crowd could move to. Their show was nuts. The pair even stirred up some nostalgia for me; they played "Could This Be Real" a Sub Focus song, and the first Dubstep I ever heard. So naturally, I raged to their beats deep into the night. I'm certainly keeping my eye out for any other events involving these two, this night was the first I was hearing of them and it certainly won't be the last. DJ Aero and Tommy Lee welcome to my iTunes. Well, Tommy's been here a while now, but now he's got DJ Aero to join him.

Also be sure to check out GBH's other events; they've got a few choice shows coming up that I'm personally looking forward to:

• Bad Boy Bill and Congorock on Friday, March 11 at Webster Hall
• Steve Aoki, Switch, Dada Life, Bartbmore, Sonicc, and Gina Turner on Saturday, April 9 at Roseland Ballroom
• Boys Noize on Friday, April 22 and Saturday, April 23 at Webster Hall

Check out these clips from Webster Hall last week: