Its official...

D dot Dallas is off this year to SXSW, aka South by Southwest, in Austin, Texas. Its a huge music and media conference that showcases hundreds of musical acts from around the globe on over eighty stages in downtown Austin. Over the past few years the NZ contingent has slowly increased and this year we have a heap of other local artists going along to join Dave, including Bang Bang Eche, The Midnight Youth, Pistol Youth, Cut Off Your Hands and Bleeders.
Its a great festival with artists from every walk of life and every nook of the world. Check out the website at www.sxsw.com for more info and if you're around Texas on the 18th or 19th March, go check out David live:

Wednesday, March 18 3:30 p.m.
SESAC Day Stage Cafe Austin Convention Center (500 E Cesar Chavez St)

Thursday, March 19 9:40 p.m.
Back Alley Social (303 W 5th St)

Indulge Me Vid

For anyone who has ever gone crazy for Post-it notes...



This video was done for us by Joel Kefali at Special Problems.

Fabulous tune, if you like it head over to Amplifier.co.nz, Digirama, Vodafone or Telecom and purchase... it will be up on itunes shortly!

MTV Australia Awards 2009

We just got word that P-Money is up for Best Kiwi Act at the MTV Australia Awards! And you can vote, from today....

NZ voters go to www.mtv.co.nz

Pete is up against Goodnight Nurse, Ladyhawke, Nesian Mystik and Cut Off Your Hands.
The awards take place in Sydney on Frday, March 27th with performances by The Killers and Audrina from The Hills hosting the Red Carpet.

Vote vote vote!!!

No no no you've got to Indulge Me...

Its here...

"Indulge Me" the soulful new single from David Dallas, features Dave laying down some of the smoothest flows yet over vintage up-tempo production courtesy of Fire & Ice. Also featuring vocals from the on fire Devolo, the boys have taken a cue from the past to create this year's catchiest number.

Listen to, and buy it from, here:
http://www.amplifier.co.nz/default,44366.sm

I'd put the art up as well but its going doolally and keeps changing colours all by itself so that will be up shortly!

How good!!

So this has nothing to do with our Dirty Management artists but was exciting enough that i had to post it... (apart from Matty Concord's addiction to it which has seen him buy all the figurines that you can get. They talk as well when you place them in the scenes they come with... my favourite being Ralph who says "They taste like burning"... best line ever.)

For the first time in The Simpson's 19 year history, the main title opening sequence has had a revamp.
From Fox:
“The Simpsons” is finally going HD — and, in what some fans might consider an even bigger development, getting a new opening title sequence as well … The network actually made a low-key announcement of the news late last month, casually mentioning the developments as part of its episodic listings of various shows. According to Fox, Sunday’s “Simpsons”—entitled “Take My Life, Please”—will include the first full, permanent revamp of the show’s opening titles since its premiere in 1989. The last few seconds of the title sequence have long featured a different weekly “couch gag.” Fox also airs both a full-length and an abbreviated version of the credits.

Check it out here:

Faster Than Light - 09/03/09

Two years after the release of their blinder of a debut album “Take Control”, State of Mind are back with their follow up on March 9th 2009, “Faster than Light”.

A double CD, it features a full length album on one disc and a limited selection of bonus material on the other. The album is made up of all new studio material, alternate versions of a few select SOM vinyl releases, and a hand-full of the tracks found on the recent “Faster then Light EP’s Part 1 & 2”. It also includes collaborations with the likes of Trei, PNC, Chris.Su and more.

The first single, Space Surfer, was released in late November via a digital platform only and features an amazing video by Aleks Sakowski.
The second single, City On Fire, features the vocal talents of one of NZ’s favourite rappers, PNC, and is a total change in direction.

The bonus disc includes remixes of some of the album tracks by some of State of Mind’s favorite fellow producers such as Sigma (UK), Mindscape (Hungary), Dose (NZ) and more, plus other bonus State of Mind tracks. The material on this disc will be released as a physical copy only, it will not be available digitally.

Plus to help celebrate the album's release, they are touring...

March 27 - Akl @ Zen
March 28 - Tauranga @ Colosseum
April 3 - Wellington @ Sammies
April 4 - Dunedin @ Union Hall
April 9 - Chch @ Legends

We only live inside your dreams...

Check it out, P-Money goes all film-maker on us with 'Angels' - a movie trailer concept that fits the tune to a tee.

http://angelsthemovie.net/

Just watch it. Enough said!

Waitangi Day

If you're in Auckland on Waitangi Day - come along to the Telstra Clear Pacific Centre to catch Tiki and P-Money with Vince, PNC and David Dallas, playing alongside others such as Hollie Smith and Manuel Bundy.

Its a Smokefree, Alcoholfree and Drugfree event so you'll have to be on your best behaviour!

The event is Auckland's largest commemoration marking the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840 and attracts over 40,000 people every year. Organised by Toi o Manukau Maori Arts and Culture Trust, supported by Manukau City Council and Let's Beat Diabetes, the event offers a fun family day of ceremony, education, free entertainment and kids' rides.

State Of Mind and PNC - City On Fire

Ooo we love new tunes and we definitely love new tunes with a strange little mix of artists to them!
So here we have d&b favourites State of Mind with their new single City On Fire, featuring young mr PNC, one of the country's best MC's. If you came along to any of the Tour of Dirty last year you may have an idea already of how the mish mash works.

Go to the State Of Mind myspace page via the link below and its just been added on their player as song # 6.

http://www.myspace.com/stateofmindnz

This tune went to radio yesterday so listen out for it...and request it!

Turning Back The Clock # 3

Its been a bit of a PNC day, I got this morning a demo of his newest tune and also spent some time watching a doco that one of his close friends recently made about his career so far.

So in keeping with the apparent theme of the day I thought that it was fitting to make Sam the focus of today's turning back of time.

I was watching in the doco the 3,2,1 Remix video and the three of them (P Money, PNC and David Dallas) all look so young! Its great to look back and watch the evolution of these artists and how much they have done so far.

Here anyway to remind you of days gone by, is PNC's first solo single proper for Dirty Records, 'Just Roll'. Fabulous video done for us by Oscar Kightley and featuring PNC, P-Money and the Raptor paying homage to some of PNC's favourite artists.