I mean… not much needs to be said about the groundbreakin’ duo that is LATYRX!! Lateef The Truth Speaker & Lyrics Born made a name for themselves with their sound & their sound said it all! Since then they have gone on to do solo & various other side projects, but everyone always wondered & asked when they would see the two as Latyrx once again. Look no further folks. It’s here! This Saturday, the ongoing concert series that is LIVE @ THE PAGODA will host the reemergence of one of the greatest duo’s of beats & rhymes to ever do it (& with a LIVE BAND @ that) along with opening performances from The Bangerz own Cutso & Sub Ren. This is a night you for sure don’t want to miss, because the water cooler convos will come the following Monday & you will be pissed like no other that you missed out on something special.

Broke you say? Well then shoot us a email to submit@blindiforthekids.com with the title “LATYRX LATICKETS” , include your name & dope one liner why you should be the winner & you may very well win a pair of tickets to the freshness that will occur this Saturday! best of luck to all!

Peep the Facebook event page HERE!  Get pre-sales NOW!

$12 presale tickets available at: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/237595

Saturday, March 31st, 2012

Universal Grammar, Fairmont Hotel San Jose presents

Live At the Pagoda Spring Music Series V.2
Featuring
www.waxpoetics.com recording artitst

Adrian Younge presents “Venice Dawn”
http://www.waxpoetics.com/wax-poetics-artists/adrian-younge

+ special guest DJ’s

D1ME DJ’s vs. Cold Chillin DJ’s

$12 presale tickets available at: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/237595

Doors @ 9pm | 21 & Wiser for Entry

The Pagoda inside the Fairmont Hotel
170 South Market, San Jose, Ca 95113

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About:

Adrian Younge

Adrian Younge is the next generation of soul music. A self-taught musician and recording engineer who has dedicated his life to the study of classic soul music, Younge finds himself at the center of a new soul renaissance with a vision for pushing the boundaries of the music itself.

The story begins in 1998 as the budding hip-hop producer found himself confined by the limitations of the MPC. He began teaching himself how to play various instruments so he could fully realize his vision. First it was keyboards, then drums, sax, guitar, and bass. Fascinated with the sounds of Italian soundtracks by the likes of Ennio Morricone, Younge begins work on the soundtrack to the fictional film Venice Dawn, recording the album intermittently over the course of the next year. What developed was a sound equal parts Morricone and Air. Self-released in 2000, the moody, synth-drenched album was entirely composed, arranged, played, and recorded by Younge.

Eight years later in 2008, Younge would find himself at the center of the Black Dynamite zeitgeist. Instrumental in the film’s development, Younge not only edited the film, but also composed the original score, which was hailed as a modern blaxploitation masterpiece for authentically capturing the cinematic soul of the 1970s, from Isaac Hayes to Curtis Mayfield. Adrian Younge solidified himself as a force to be reckoned with and soon went to work writing music for the forthcoming Black Dynamite cartoon series on Adult Swim.

For his current solo project, Younge envisioned a new sound that would revisit his earlier, more baroque instrumental work of Venice Dawn and mesh it with the deep, gritty soul of Black Dynamite, eventually deciding to bring everything full circle by releasing the material under the moniker Venice Dawn. This new LP, titled Something About April, is a heavy, dark mix of psychedelic soul and cinematic instrumentals with hip-hop aesthetics, touching on influences from Morricone to King Crimson, Portishead to the Flamingos, Wu-Tang to Otis Redding.

Younge, who is signed with Wax Poetics Records, is currently writing and recording material for his next project, a Delfonics album with William Hart, founding singer of the legendary soul group.

Fan made video for the song I haven’t stopped playing since it came out. Blind I & UnGrammar will be working diligently to make a show happen in the not so distant future…STAY TUNED! & if you haven’t copped the album. Stop fuckin’ trippin’ & do yourself the favor & cop the freshness!!

Tonight New Zealand’s finest take the stage Live @ The Pagoda for the 2nd time for the city of San Jose! If you were @ the first one then you know how spectacular it was. If you were not , then now is your chance to make up for lost memories. Get off your ass & get to the Pagoda tonight to see & hear some of the dopest schitt to hit our ears in a minute! Peep the FB invite. Get tix. & holla on the comments on why you should go & if we like the answer then we will hook you up with a pair of tickets to the show tonight.

Limited $10 Pre-Sale Tickets Available at:
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/234732

Friday, March 23, 2012
Live At the PAGODA Spring Music Series V.1
featuring

ELECTRIC WIRE HUSTLE (BBE, New Zealand)
http://www.electricwirehustle.com/

special guest
DJ That Girl

Limited $10 Pre-Sale Tickets Available at:
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/234732

Doors @ 9:00pm | 21 +

The PAGODA at The Fairmont Hotel San Jose
170 South Market Street | San Jose, Ca

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Also, beyond the amazing musucianship that is the trio Electric Wire Hustle, we will be celebrating the official launch of www.PaperClipSociety.com.

PaperclipSociety.com is for the young and youthful that are redefining their version of the good life to include diverse thinking and topics. They look for more unconventional ends of entertainment, and the optimum means to consume it.

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About:
Electric Wire Hustle
www.electricwirehustle.com

Developing their own sound and twist on modern hip hop, psychedelic and soul Electric Wire Hustle’s unique sound challenges genre boundaries and preconceptions.

The music of New Zealand’s EWH reaches forward while referencing key points of music’s past. Thick drums and percussion layered with synth lines, hints of the Fender Rhodes and nylon stringed guitars have your neck snapping while your ear cranes to the evocative vocals of Mara TK

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Please be sure to check out our other Live At The PAGODA performances:

Adrian Younge presents “Venice Dawn” Live At The PAGODA – March 31st
http://www.facebook.com/events/249905771765573/

Thats right, your favorite and ours will be performing live in SJ next Friday! This is a show NOT to be missed as they rarely come to our town.

Want tickets? Get the deets and tickets after the j.u.m.p.

$18 Pre-Sale Tickets available NOW: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/222355

Saturday, February 11th, 2012

Live At The PAGODA Winter Music Series V.2 featuring Idle Warship. TALIB KWELI & RES – with a live band

+ Special guest opening performance by
Anya & The Get Down
+ Special Guest DJ TBA

$18 Pre-Sale Tickets available NOW: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/222355
21 and wiser for entrance
Doors at 9:00 pm | Show at 10:00 pm

The Pagoda inside The Fairmont Hotel San José
170 South Market Street (entrance on South First Street side)
San José, California 95113

You can also be a G and a half & shoot us a email to submit@blindiforthekids.com including your first & last name to be thrown in the random drawing we will be doing for a pair of tickets to the show. Ya know the drill!

Teeko (4OneFunk/F.A.M.E.) will be in the house this Saturday rocking live for us all!

“The most insane & creative turntablist I have ever worked with.” - Mark Ronson

11 Sun Also Rises

PEEP THE FB INVITE | GET YOUR TICKETS |  GET THE ALBUM 

hit the jump for more 411 if u need it…

Saturday, August 13th, 2011
The Pagoda x San Jose Jazz Summer Fest 2011 presents

AFTER HOURS with live performances by:

T E E K O (San Francisco, Ca)

+ other special guests TBA!

&

Special Guest DJ
THE CME (Slapnasties, SJ)

The Pagoda inside the Fairmont Hotel
170 South Market Street
Downtown San Jose, Ca 95113

Doors open at 10:00pm

$7 Pre-sale tickets available here:
https://www.brownpapertick?ets.com/event/189327

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Learn Teeko…

T E E K O
After receiving recognition and championship awards in worldwide DJ competitions (including DMC, ITF and Guitar Center Championships), he toured from coast to coast and collaborated with some of jazz’s finest musicians: members of the Charlie Hunter Quartet and John Scofield Trio. Following an energetic performance in a San Francisco jazz club, audience member and legendary saxophonist Ravi Coltrane requested an encore performance. Teeko’s performances are frequently met with such requests as his style is often described as truly original and refreshing, receiving high respects from the best in Hip-Hop, Jazz and everything in between. Teeko exhibits his mastery of turntable production in his debut album, “My SoundStation,” (2006) which exposes his eclectic musical style and creativity as a composer. The widely anticipated album ranked number one on several of the College Music Journal’s Top 10 lists for months after its release in fall 2006. He was recognized soon after the album’s debut for his
excellence in production with the Milestones Innovative Producer’s Award given by the world-renowned Berklee School of Music in Boston. He has most recently displayed his innovation and creativity as a collaborator on the development of the new Vestax turntable, the Controller One—the first turntable engineered to be a musical instrument.

“Teeko is the funkiest most soulful turntabilist I have ever seen… From the cuts to the records he chooses… I had the opportunity to hang & DJ with him in the Bay Area…It was definitely my pleasure.” - DJ Jazzy Jeff

“He’s one of a few people that’s doing what I envisioned what the next step in turntable music would be. A true musician on the turntables as
well as being a dope DJ. YouTube him and see what I’m talking about.”  - DJ Shortkut

Not much needs to be said about this one. You all know who they are, you all know what they do & you all know how crucial it is for you to be here (if you in the hood that is). Hit the Facebook Invite for more info if you need it. Other than that, it all goes down tonight in the beautiful Pagoda venue @ 9pm in Downtown San Jose, CA. See you there!

Shouts out to Ungrammar, New Sense & Jason Dooley for always making sure tight schitt pops off in ‘TheZae’.

Download audio file (Dave-Dub-and-the-Sutter-Cain-Gaing-Love-Lost.mp3)

Hit the jump for the Mind Police video & DL

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More info after the drop.

PURCHASE $12 PRE-SALES HERE: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/133630

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Ungrammar and NewSense invite you to the next installment of
“The Changing Same” music and art series with a live performance by:

BILAL

along with Guest DJs

DJ NAPPY
&
THE C.M.E.

Located at the luxurious PAGODA Restaurant & Lounge at the Fairmont Hotel in downtown San Jose – the newest home for live intimate music shows in San Jose. (our sound system will be on point…we promise)….

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“What a frequency … What a voice. I love Bilal. I couldn’t imagine a music world without his voice.” – Erykah Badu

“Bilal is hands down one of the greatest specimens of voice in post-modern hip-hop culture.” –Questlove

BILAL (PHILLY | PLUG RESEARCH)
http://bilal.com/
http://myspace.com/bilaloliver

Grammy-nominated musical artist, Bilal Oliver, returns with his third studio album, Airtight’s Revenge, which was released September 14 through Plug Research Music. Philly-bred, Bilal is a classically trained vocal veteran. Bilal released his debut album 1st Born Second in 2001, which boasted the popular single “Soul Sista.” The follow-up, Love for Sale (2006), was shelved but leaked entirely online yet was well received to fans and music critics and has become an underground classic. In the following years, Bilal has collaborated and performed with some of the industry’s most prominent artists including, Beyonce (Fighting Temptations), Common, Jay-Z, The Clipse, Erykah Badu, Robert Glasper, Boney James, Musiq, John Legend, and The Roots among many others. Come and be a part of history as Bilal touches down in San Jose for the first time.

**AIrtight’s Revenge Review on Hip Hop DX: http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/album-reviews/id.1525/title.bilal-airtights-revenge

More details and updates about this event coming….

$12 Limited Pre-sale Tickets: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/133630

$20 at the door

18 + | 21 and Wiser for Bar |
DOORS 9:30pm

Pagoda Resturaunt – Bamboo Lounge @ The Fairmount Hotel
170 S. Market Street | Downtown San Jose, CA 95113
http://www.fairmont.com/sanjose/GuestServices/Restaurants/PagodaRestaurantBambooLounge.htm

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