Monday, November 15, 2010

Turkey, Stuffing, and HARD NYC.. yum.


On November 27th, 2010, our brothers who bring HARD to New York and Los Angeles so many glorious times a year will be making a pit stop at Terminal 5 a few days after Thanksgiving.

The official line-up has been released, and its looking pretty good y'all- A-Trak, Flying Lotus, Tiga, and Yelawolf.

Tiga, a Montreal based artist hopped onto the scene in the early 1990's hosting raves around Canada. In 1994, he opened up a record store called DNA records and later founded his own label, Turbo Recordings in 1998. Over ten years later, he has gained popularity with such remixes as Nelly's "Hot in Herre" and the Scissor Sisters' "Comfortably Numb". Also, he has released two albums, "Sexor" (2006---> it won the Juno Award for Best Dance Recording in '07) and Ciao! (2009)

Listen to Tiga's Nelly cover here.

A-Trak (born Alain Macklovitch) is yet another Montreal born and raised man hitting the HARD stage in November. At 15 years old, he was the youngest and first Canadian to win the "DMC's World DJ Championship". Throughout his career, he has been the only DJ to win all three DJ competition titles (DMC, ITX, and Vestax) as well as five other championships. Needless to say, A-Trak has some serious credit in the electronic music realm. ALSO- he is the younger brother of David Macklovitch of Chromeo! You learn something new everyday...

A-Trak keeps his fans up to date on upcoming events and musical escapades on his blog called "Fat Free Since 1982" (his year of birth) On the blog he says. "I’m not really in touring mode right now but I do have various shows lined up… just wanted to draw your attention to 2 in particular, both Holiday-themed." Referring to HARD Turkey Soup and a Halloween show he played with his brother in Chicago.

I have to be honest, I had never heard about Yelawolf until this lineup was released. After some researched, I learned that he is a rapper from Northern Alabama. He has been active in the music scene for about 5 years now and is signed with Interscope Records based out of Santa Monica, California. He is most well known for his collaboration with Gucci Mane "I Just Want to Party". Hmm... Yelawolf seems to be a little bit out of place in this lineup but we will see. Thats the great thing about HARD... they love the diversity.

I got my tickets for this about a month ago at $30, I think they have gone up about ten dollars but it's totally worth it. I'll see you guys there! Can't wait!

1 comment:

  1. This is good. I like your enthusiasm for the subject, and it seems like you're deep in it, which is good for blog writing. Just always ask yourself, what are you offering readers - why would they read your blog beyond all the others out there?

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