Really, it's myspace in general I don't use terribly often anymore. Facebook and twitter have taken over for me... not that I don't come here, I just don't really use it to connect to people. I mostly use it to approve friend requests, deny comments and wade through event invitation spam. What would my day be without a little uh that?

Anyway.... big news. We have the one and only Derrick Carter in the house this Friday night. We're all pretty pumped about it. Here's a flyer:




I'm playing as well, so I'm pretty excited about that. Which reminds me... I never blogged the recording of me playing at Smart Bar in Chicago... so here you go.

I also haven't blogged about several other events that have already happened, so have a reminisce:




There are now pictures up on the sideTrack website!
http://www.side-track.com

Have a good one, and hope to see you this weekend.

Jackola

Check out this big party me and my sidetrack cohorts are throwing tomorrow (Saturday) at Therapy in Indy!






Bryan Jones (Chicago, IL)
Control, OM, Ultra, Ministry of Sound, Ringside, i!
Bryan Jones is currently one of Chicago's busiest and highest selling house producers releasing over 100 of his songs on labels all over the world dating back to 2002. His songs have been played by the biggest djs in the world like Derrick Carter, Mark Farina, DJ Dan, Bad Boy Bill, DJ Sneak, Judge Jules, Paul Van Dyke, and many, many more. His songs have also been licensed to Ministry Of Sound, Playboy, OM Records, and others. Between his solo productions and releases with Mike Gillenwater as "High Caliber", Bryan has sold over 50,000 vinyl units worldwide and the number grows every day. Bryan's dj mixes have been heard by hundreds of thousands of people all over the world over the years at live shows and by means of tapes, cds, and online mixes. His dj skills have recently landed him bookings all over the US, Canada, Europe, and Australia. Bryans many styles allow him to adapt to any dancefloor without ever disappointing. He has played everywhere from underground deep house clubs to big room all ages events, and his experience shows in every one of his dj sets.

30 of Bryan's mixes are available for streaming or download at http://www.soundcloud.com/djbryanjones



Greg Campbell (Denver, CO)
Full Flavor Music, Look At You Records
Greg Campbell is best known for his label and promotion group, Full Flavor Music, which once put on events here in Indianapolis, but has since moved cross country to Denver, CO. Join us in welcoming Greg back to Naptown for the holiday season as he lays down fresh house beats like only he could.



G.F.G. (Louisville, KY)
Un:Released Records, Hi-5, Pink Door, Forecastle Festival
After ten years of various residencies in Nashville, Louisville, Bloomington, Lexington and traveling around the country to get down……. the producer, promoter and dj returns to Indy. Bringing his signature sound and legendary energy along with plenty of boogie down, the producer of Forecastle Festival's Ocean Stage invites you along for the ride…….with a studio album and tour due this spring, Glenn is locked and loaded with plenty of choice tunes and always a few surprises…….Sharing the stage with many acclaimed dj's and producer throughout the last decade, G.F.G. has spent the last year or so as a resident and promoter @ Louisville's hot-spot Pink Door, the epicenter of the town's electronica. Remember…..if it feels good, do it!



DJ Fate (Indianapolis, IN)
sideTrack, The Goddess Complex
With passion for electronic music and experience dating back to 2000, DJ Fate is sure to move the dance floor. Though primarily mixing house music, you might also catch her playing techno, fidget, tech-house, and/or breakbeats. She has played at events alongside: Translucent (Jason Tyler), DJ Sage, George Acosta, Ferry Corsten, Keoki, and Juan Atkins, to name a few.

DJ Fate is a member and resident dj of SideTrack, a group who promoted electronic events at Therapy Nightclub and Lounge (Indianapolis) on Thursdays in most of 2007. SideTrack brought in over fifty local and up-and-coming djs. DJ Fate's previous residencies include: Club Eden (Indianapolis) and Ice Ultra Lounge (Indianapolis)

Another group that includes DJ Fate is The Goddess Complex, a collective committed to promoting female artists for talent as opposed to novelty, and giving support to the talented sisters out there.



More info: http://www.side-track.com

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Click the image for contest info!

DJ Fate
sideTrack, The Goddess Complex




With passion for electronic music and experience dating back to 2000, DJ Fate is sure to move the dance floor. Though primarily mixing house music, you might also catch her playing techno, fidget, tech-house, and/or breakbeats. She has played at events alongside: Translucent (Jason Tyler), DJ Sage, George Acosta, Ferry Corsten, Keoki, and Juan Atkins, to name a few.

DJ Fate is a member and resident dj of SideTrack, a group who promoted electronic events at Therapy Nightclub and Lounge (Indianapolis) on Thursdays in most of 2007. SideTrack brought in over fifty local and up-and-coming djs. DJ Fate's previous residencies include: Club Eden (Indianapolis) and Ice Ultra Lounge (Indianapolis)

Another group that includes DJ Fate is The Goddess Complex, a collective committed to promoting female artists for talent as opposed to novelty, and giving support to the talented sisters out there.

Taylor Norris
Bang Tech Twelve




Known today for his smooth mixing and creative track selection Taylor Norris began his musical journey at a young age. Encouraged by his parents to get involved in music, he learned to play several instruments while growing up in Indianapolis, IN. After building up an interest in DJ'ing he decided to buy some gear and a few hip-hop records to experiment with. He quickly became infatuated with mixing beats and in 1996 attended his first house party where he was exposed to what would quickly become his obsession….house music.

Over the years Taylor has traveled around the mid-west playing several events along side some of the biggest names around including Dave Ralph, Slater Hogan, Bad Boy Bill, Christopher Lawrence, Chris Fortier, Adam Jay, DJ Dan, Paul Anthony, John Larner, Three, Paul Johnson, and Danny the Wild Child. For over a decade Taylor has been refining his skills on the decks and destroying dance floors by orchestrating hypnotic musical journeys. His styles range from clubby electro house and progressive to darker melodic and minimal techno.

Jackola
sideTrack




Jackola's musical style is eclectic to say the least. You may catch him playing dance rock and electro house between bands at a concert, or spinning funky house, tech house or minimal techno in other atmospheres. 2008 was a big year for him, playing major festivals in Louisville, KY and at Red Rocks Amphitheatre for Monolith Festival. Jackola has played alongside many internationally recognized DJs including DJ Shortee, JJ Flores & Steve Smooth, Mickey Avalon, Dirt Nasty, Tommie Sunshine, and Scotty Thomson.

Jackola and some long time friends founded sideTrack Entertainment in February 2007. The group started booking and promoting a weekly electronic night called PLUSH on Thursdays at Therapy Nightclub & Lounge in Indianapolis, IN. The night, which went strong for over 9 months, booked over 50 quality, up-and-coming DJs.

Jackola is also one of the founding promoters for the Broad Ripple Music Festival, a yearly festival featuring hundreds of bands on 20+ stages that benefits 20+ non-profits. He also writes a monthly column, “Discopolis”, for NUVO Newsweekly that covers dance and electronic music in Indianapolis.


Be sure to enter the contest for free tickets to Margaret Cho's Standup Performance at the Murat:

http://www.side-track.com/event/57

Hello, it's been quite forever since I updated and I have some exciting news to share.

First, I'm spinning some records at Monolith Music Festival at Red Rocks Ampitheatre in Colorado. The lineup features Justice, Devotchka, Silversun Pickups, Atmosphere, Vampire Weekend, TV On the Radio, CSS, Cut Copy, Mickey Avalon, Band of Horses and more. I'll be playing the VIP After Hours Rock Room Stage on Saturday night, September 13, at 11pm.

The following weekend on Saturday, September 20 I'll play here in Indy at the annual Oranje Art & Music Expo. It's a pretty neat event with lots of cultural neato-ness going on.



Word!

Check out the May edition of my column, Discopolis at NUVO.net or at one of their 1,100 boxes around Indianapolis :).

Also, I'm spinning this Saturday @ Therapy Nightclub with Topher Jones, Defi and Bryan Scott (see flyer image), as well as with DJs JJ Flores & Steve Smooth, Slater Hogan, StarSteady (with Joe Meltdown on live drums) @ Talbott Street on Thursday, May 22 (see flyer image)!

A new mix will be available very soon! Keep your eyes and ears pealed.

Peace,
Jack

This will be the 7th year of this sweet festival in Louisville. It features music, art and activism.

Two of the three stages will feature lots of indie rock (Margot & the Nuclear So and Sos, Prizzy Prizzy Please), jam bands (Disco Biscuits, Eekostik Hookah), and Friday will be loaded with hip-hop (Method Man, Code Red, Mud Kids). For electronic music lovers, the 3rd stage will be dedicated to electronic music all day, all 3 days of the fest ("Ocean Stage" -- it's next to a pool -- I'm on the lineup).

Check out the schedule here:
http://www.forecastlefest.com/lineup.php

Buy tickets online or @ Indy CD & Vinyl!
http://www.forecastlefest.com/tickets.php

WORD

Hosted By: Eden Promotions
When: Friday Feb 15, 2008
at 9:00 PM
Where: Radio Radio
1119 E. Prospect Street
Indianapolis, IN 46203
United States
Description:
Eden Promotions

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Some good parties coming up... don't miss them or I'll kick your booty.





w00t!

I have at least four DJ gigs to let you in on.

OCTOBER 4
THERAPY NIGHTCLUB

The first is this Thursday @ Therapy Nightclub. We'll also have DJ Steady B, Nate the Natural and Dozuki in the lounge, celebrating Bryan Luellen and Emily Pennington's birthdays!





OCTOBER 6
DOWNTOWN HOUSE PARTY

Message me for details.


OCTOBER 13
BROAD RIPPLE FALL MUSIC FEST

Indy CD & Vinyl, 5pm.
2-3 Taylor Norris
3-4 Bryan Luellen
4-5 DJ Fate
5-6 Jackola
6-7 Mark Tester
7-8 James B
8-9:30 Seth & Mack
by sideTrack Entertainment.





OCTOBER 31
CLUB LEVEL
I will be operating on the turntables all night at this hot, free halloween party.

Life has been too busy for Myspace blogs, which is probably a good thing ;).

DJing and such.
I've been DJing regularly since I moved to Indy in January, and that makes me le happy. This upcoming Monday I'll be spinning at Ugly Monday at Therapy. It's a monthly event that just recently moved back to Therapy.

I'm working on picking up DJ gigs at other local nightclubs, plus I have a few other upcoming gigs, such as an art opening on September's first friday at Black Door Gallery.

Our weekly at Therapy Nightclub has been going now for 4 months and going well. We're getting great DJs in there and cool people to boot. Even if it's slow some weeks, I'm more of a quality over quantity person. I think we've put on some quality Thursday evenings, and some weeks have even been fun and crazy.

Tonight Seth Nichols and wife/DJ LeahAnn will do their first ever public tag team set. That's pretty cool if you ask me. They've both been DJing for a while, and together run the only all-dance music vinyl store in Indy. In a couple weeks we're doing a special event called "PLUSH GOES NUTZ!" which will feature all Sound Nutz DJs.

If you care to know more about this weekly, add sideTrack on myspace. A few friends and myself run sideTrack.

RockMusicReview.com
Things have been up and down with RMR over the past few months. I've finally tackled the server issues the site was having, but have been slow at pursuing writers and getting up content. La vida loca is too crammed with stuff right now, so my priorities are constantly shifting around. Rest assured, RMR isn't going anywhere but up. Chris Donaghey is now the acting reviews editor, and he does a fine job of it. There's a few changes in the works, but I can't really say much until they happen.

Small Box Web
I've gone from freelance to part time at Small Box Web, an Indy-based web design & consulting company. I may even go full time here in the near future, who knows what the future holds. Either way, it's been going well. Freelance has been nice too. You may have seen some websites, concert posters and flyers floating around town that I designed.

NUVO Newsweekly
If you live in Indy and haven't heard of NUVO Newsweekly, then you're living under a rock and should probably just stay there.... or find NUVO and get out and socialize. Anyway, I've been writing for them since I moved here. So far I've written over 15 articles and taken photos of a dozen events for them. You can check out my stuff here. You can add NUVO on myspace here.

Broad Ripple Fall Music Festival
I'm involved in the organizing of a new festival, along with Small Box and NUVO, that will hit Broad Ripple on October 13, 2007. For that one day, over 25 venues in the 'Rip will have live bands, DJs, MC's and more. It's going to be a great thing. Stay tuned to my myspace - I'm sure I'll post more details about it soon. You can also add BRFMF on myspace.

Moved downtown.
I just moved to downtown Indy in Lockerbie Square. This area is so freakin' beautiful - I love it already. I'm just blocks away from Mass. Ave., literally right by College Ave. and just a few blocks away from Therapy Nightclub. Not to mention the house is freakin' sweet. Parties to ensue, I assure.

Have some flyers.