Rhymesayers Entertainment and Rose Presents announce the 7th Annual Soundset Festival: your official Midwest kick-off of the summer, with nine hours of the best Hip Hop music in one day. It all goes down at Canterbury Park in Shakopee, MN on Sunday May 25th, 2014 (rain or shine).

Confirmed artists for Soundset 2014 include:
Atmosphere, Wiz Khalifa, NAS (20th Anniversary of Illmatic), 2 Chainz, Cypress Hill, EarlWolf (Tyler The Creator & Earl Sweatshirt), Pusha T, Chance The Rapper, Prof, Grieves, G-Eazy, Ab-Soul, DJ QBert, The Grouch & Eligh, Flatbush Zombies, Lizzo with Lazerbeak, Rapsody & 9th Wonder, Shad, deM atlaS, Snow Tha Product, Roc Marciano, Dosh, Jonwayne, D-Styles, Toki Wright & Big Cats, Will C, Allan Kingdom, Breakbeat Lou, Nacho Picasso, Freddy Fresh, Los Nativos, K.Raydio & Psymun, Mac Irv, Ecid, DJ Fundo, DJ Lean Rock, DJ D. Mil, DJ Sidereal.

Hosted by Sway Calloway, Brother Ali & J.Pratt.

Tickets go on sale to the general public on Saturday, March 8th, 2014 at 11 AM (CST) to the general public through www.ticketweb.com and Fifth Element. General admission tickets are $55 ($3 facility fee and parking are included in ticket price). VIP options for $125 ($3 facility fee and parking are both included in ticket price) are also available!

This year, Soundset boasts a full day of two Main Stages and the Fifth Element stage delivering over 45 artists performing nine hours of diverse music, plus the Essential Elements tent featuring Freestyle Session Minnesota B-Boy/B-Girl competition, hosted by J.Pratt. In addition, The Seventh Letter Crew return to bring some of the world’s most talented visual artists, who will be live painting all day. Also returning, will be the 4th annual Skateboard Showdown presented by Familia, the 7th annual Soundset Custom Car Show, and a special Last of the Record Buyers production showcase featuring a live production set by Dosh.

via @soundset

Stones Throw unleashed a couple of new videos today…Jonwayne’s “How To Be A Gemini”  is decidedly less safe for work.  He’s playing a bunch of dates:

February 26 – San Francisco @ Noise Pop HQ
February 28 – Vancouver, BC @ Fortune Sound Club
March 2 – Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall
March 3 – Philadelphia, PA @ Boot & Saddle
March 4 – Boston, MA @ Middle East
March 5 – Montreal, QC @ SAT
March 6 – Toronto, ON @ Coda
March 7 – Detroit, MI @ Magic Stick
March 9 – Chicago, IL @ Empty Bottle

@stonesthrow

Crazy secret warehouse event featuring Stones Throw (& pals spinning all 45s)  & The Beat Junkies They’re also having a fan ticket battle (see links below)

Jank comes up with another brilliant cover, this time an analog ipod.

Jonwayne’s Cassette 3 – the last in a trilogy of cassette releases – is the Marion Morrison Mixtape, featuring Captain Murphy, Jeremiah Jae, Zeroh and Oliver the 2nd. Some of the beats are by Jonwayne, others recycled from the Gods of Rap. The original Cassette (R.I.P.) and Cassette 2 were both cassette releases only. This time around there is a free download of the album. The cassette version is slightly expanded, containing a bonus track. Running time: 37 mins. Mastered by Daddy Kev. Artwork by Jeff Jank

Download | The Marion Morrison Mixtape (Zip)

About the title: Jonwayne’s real name is Jon Wayne. Marion Morrison is the real name of the Hollywood cowboy guy John Wayne, who took his screen name from Jonwayne’s great-great-great-great-great uncle. What comes around goes around.

straight copied from Stones Throw.

We were chatting with @oh_viviane this weekend, and she reminded us that she’ll be exhibiting some classic Stones Throw  photos this Friday at Lot 613 with B+, Eric Coleman, and Joao Canziani.  DJ/VJing & Performances by Madlib, Wolf, Jonti, Gary Wilson & Jonwayne.  A portion of the proceeds benefit Lucie Foundation’s Snapshop! & Pablove Shutterbugs.

Tonight!  Right now!  Hustle over there since they only have tickets at the door.  More info about the line up here.