If you like new music from hot up-and-coming bands, you won't want to miss this. The MySpace Music Tour is coming to Philadelphia on Monday, March 10th. The performance at the Electric Factory begins at 8:00 and features Justice and select bands like DJ Mehdi, Fancy, Busy P, Diplo, or Chromeo.
Link here to join the MySpace.com Music Tour Community for updates on the upcoming tour dates, band and artist photos from the concerts, videos from the live shows & listen to free music from the MySpace Music Tour Artists.
Here's the press release with the rest of the 411:
JUSTICE TO HEADLINE
SPRING MYSPACE MUSIC TOUR
New Tour, Presented by Discover Card,
to Kick-Off March 3 in Austin,
TX
LOS ANGELES—January
8, 2008 (updated)—MySpace, the world’s most popular social network, today
announced the Spring 2008 MySpace Music Tour Presented by Discover Card,
featuring the Grammy-nominated French electronic duo JUSTICE with support
from Diplo, DJ Mehdi, Chromeo, Busy P, Fancy
and Disco
Ruido DJs
on
select dates.
The second in a
series of MySpace produced and branded concert events slated for each fall and
spring, the Spring 2008 MySpace Music Tour, produced
by Live Nation, the world’s largest live music company, will kick
off March 3rd in Austin, TX, and finish on March 31st in
Los Angeles, CA. Tickets are on sale now at the MySpace Music Tour profile (http://myspace.com/myspacemusictour),
local ticket outlets and venue box offices. SPIN magazine is a media
partner for all dates on the Spring 2008 MySpace Music Tour, and SPIN.com will
be the destination for exclusive event coverage and
photos.
“MySpace members can
connect with and discover an endless amount of bands and music on the site, and
the MySpace Music Tour concert series gives us the opportunity to showcase some
of the very best in today’s music culture, doing what they do best, for fans
across the country,” said Tom Anderson, president and co-founder of MySpace.
“Justice has a phenomenal thing going on, and I can’t wait to see them on this
tour!”
"Justice had an
extraordinary year in 2007, earning tremendous critical and commercial acclaim
around the world and three Grammy nominations,” stated Josh Deutsch,
Chairman/CEO - Downtown Music. “As we continue to introduce Justice to a wide
audience in the U.S., the Spring MySpace Music Tour is great way to kick off
2008. MySpace provides a platform that is truly organic to the band, and the
tour offers a way to connect fans with their music and energy in a very powerful
way.”
On the MySpace Music
Tour profile, fans can also check out exclusive tour
offerings, including Justice Tour Diaries and music videos, exclusive backstage
photos from the tour, and behind-the-scenes scoops from the premiere spring
event of the electronic music scene.
Tour
headliner Justice is Xavier de Rosnay
and Gaspard Augé (http://myspace.com/etjusticepourtous),
who have attracted a rabid following of fans across several continents for their
blistering, rock-driven electro dance music. The Paris-based pair’s breakthrough
debut album, † (Downtown/Vice/Ed Banger), is nominated for Best
Electronic/Dance Album – and their unstoppable single "D.A.N.C.E." received two
Grammy nominations, for Best Dance Recording and Best Short Form Music Video.
“Justice is leading the fashionable French parade,” hails BPM, “exposing
a new generation of beat-friendly rockers and curious pop kids to their dynamic
brand of dance floor readiness.”
Philadelphia-based
DJ and producer Diplo (http://myspace.com/diplo) got his start as
one half of the famed club duo Hollertronix. Diplo now tours around the
world, runs his record label, Mad Decent, and the non-profit music initiative
Heaps Decent, and recently produced tracks for M.I.A. on her album Kala.
The “Smash A Kangaroo” Heaps Decent single featuring Diplo and Live
Session EP is available now.
Born
and raised in Paris, DJ Mehdi (http://myspace.com/djmehdi) has been
producing major French hip-hop artists since 1995 while also gathering much
acclaim with his bands Ideal J and 113. Now signed to Ed Banger Records, DJ
Mehdi's recent album, Lucky Boy, bridges the gap from hip-hop to electro,
featuring guests Chromeo on "I Am Somebody" and a throbbing edit of "Signatune"
by Daft Punk's Thomas Bangalter.
Chromeo (http://myspace.com/chromeo) is Pee
Thug and Dave 1: best friends since their adolescence, virtuoso musicians,
walking hip hop encyclopedias, and the only successful Arab/Jew partnership
since the dawn of human culture. Following up the critical success of 2004's
She's In Control LP and last year's hit collaboration "I Am Somebody" with
DJ Mehdi, the illustrious Montreal-based duo known as Chromeo hit the studio and
returned with Fancy Footwork, available now.
Well
known in the world of electronic music for his longtime management of French
heroes Daft Punk, Busy P (aka Pedro Winter) (http://myspace.com/busyp) launched his own
label Ed Banger Records in 2003. Responsible for breaking artists such as
Justice, Uffie and SebastiAn, as well as DJing the wildest parties around the
globe, Busy P has developed a cult-like following through his sets of
head-banging electronic music. Check out his single "Rainbow Man," out
now.
Fancy (http://myspace.com/welovefancy) is a
flamboyant boy/girl four-piece outfit from the notorious riot zones in the
working-class suburbs of Paris. Mixing AC/DC and T-Rex with the glitter ball
sparkle of disco, Fancy comes armed with loads of make-up, feather boas, killer
tunes at the ready, and a mountain of glowing press in France – including the
“Most Entertaining Group” award from the French newspaper Libération.
Onstage, Fancy has supported MC5, TV on the Radio, Daft Punk and The Rapture.
Tour dates for the
Spring 2008 MySpace Music Tour Presented by Discover Card Featuring Justice
include:
DATE
CITY VENUE _____________ARTISTS
3.3 Austin,
TX Stubbs Justice, DJ Mehdi, Fancy
3.4 Dallas,
TX Palladium Ballroom Justice, DJ Mehdi, Fancy
3.6 Orlando,
FL The Club at Firestone Justice, DJ Mehdi,
Fancy
3.9
Baltimore, MD Sonar Justice, DJ Mehdi,
Fancy
3.10
Philadelphia, PA The Electric Factory Justice, DJ Mehdi, Fancy
3.11 New York,
NY WaMu Theater at MSG Justice, Chromeo
3.12
Washington, DC 9:30 Club Justice, Busy P, Fancy
3.15
Boston, MA Paradise Justice, Busy P,
Fancy
3.16
Montreal, PQ Cepsum Justice, Busy P,
Fancy
3.17 Toronto,
ON The Docks Justice,
Busy P, Fancy
3.19
Detroit, MI Royal Oak Music Hall Justice, Diplo, Fancy
3.20
Chicago, IL Riviera Theatre Justice, Diplo, Fancy
3.22
Denver, CO Ogden Theater Justice, Diplo,
Fancy
3.24
Seattle, WA Showbox SoDo Justice, Diplo,
Fancy
3.25
Vancouver, BC Commodore Justice, Diplo,
Fancy
3.26
Portland, OR Roseland Theater Justice, Diplo,
Fancy
3.27
San Francisco, CA Concourse Design Center Justice, Diplo,
Fancy
3.29
Mexico City, DF Roots Magic Club Justice, Diplo, Disco Ruido
DJs
3.30
Las Vegas, NV House of Blues Justice, Diplo, Fancy
3.31
Los Angeles, CA Mayan Theatre Justice, Diplo, Fancy
The inaugural MySpace
Music Tour launched in Fall 2007 and featured co-headliners Say Anything and
hellogoodbye, plus Young Love, MySpace Records’ Polysics, Dr. Manhattan and
Socratic. To date, MySpace has more than six million bands using the site.
MySpace music has allowed bands to share music and videos, announce tour dates
and communicate with fans and others in the MySpace community, seamlessly
integrating the web into shared online and offline experiences. MySpace Music
centers around the more than six million major, indie, and unsigned artists that
use their MySpace music profiles to communicate and intimately connect with fans
and friends. Each music profile empowers artists to upload video content, blog,
post tour dates, lyrics, and make their music available to fans for stream or
download. As one of the most popular and most trafficked music platforms in the
world, MySpace Music has evolved into an offline experience by connecting bands
and fans around the world through various concert series and live events
including Secret Shows, MySpaceLIVE, and The List.
