You know every year we like to do it up at the Winter Music Conference. We’ve got a new venue that you’ve never been to, it’s called Grand Central and it’s shaping up to be kiiiiind of excellent. There will be 2 rooms for you to groove to, and Armand and I are doing our first ever Duck Sauce set! Add to the mix the legendary DJ Sneak and a house set by Just Blaze, plus of course the full FG DJ roster, and you’ve got yourself a night to remember.

10pm - 5am

Free with RSVP: foolsrsvp@gmail.com

Both my brother and I were featured in this documentary on the Electro scene, which I believe I slated to premiere at WMC in a few weeks. It also features Justice, Steve Aoki, MSTRKRFT, DJ Premier, LMFAO, Lil Jon and an actual sidechain compressor. For more info check thelectrowars.com.

Get your boots out of that closet, it’s time to plan our trip to Austin for SXSW festivities. On Thursday March 18th if you’re asking me where to go (which I assume you are), I would say this is your best bet. Come catch Travis Barker & myself at our only SXSW performance: the Texas Takeover at Republic Live. Get advance tickets here.

My Fool’s Gold fam is also organizing an official SXSW showcase for the label on the next night, Friday. Of course I will be in attendance, peep that flyer after the jump.
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If you don’t have the Kid Sister album by now you ain’t no friend of mine. As most of you know I executive-produced Ultraviolet, her début album which came out in November. You can still grab it of course, and redeem your friendship.

But I digress. She’s currently touring America. Go check her out!

Today MTV announced that Travis Barker and I are working together: we’re building a live show which we will be premiering in LA at the Roxy on March 9th & 10th (tickets go on sale tomorrow). I’ve been itching to work on a new live project for a while so I’m really excited about this.

Of course one can’t help but think of DJ AM at this time. All I can say is I’m proud to fill those shoes. What I’m doing with Travis will be considerably different, which I think is important. I can’t wait to put my own spin on the concept.

The line-up for this year’s Sasquatch! festival has been announced! Go check their website. I’m playing on Sunday May 30th. Tickets go on sale Feb 20th.

Here’s an anecdote about Sasquatch: back when I was DJing for Kanye we played this festival in May of 2005. Kanye was just a few weeks away from finishing Late Registration. I hadn’t seen him in a while because he had been in the studio for so long. He was working on “Golddigger” and felt like testing it out live that day even though it wasn’t quite finished. I knew the song before it was recorded. Now that it was coming together, I told him I wanted to lay some scratches. I said “I want to scratch on ‘Get down!’ in that part where you say ‘get down girl, go ‘head get down’.” To prove my point, when we performed the song live (for the first time, with no rehearsal) I grabbed the sample and tried that scratch in front of this festival crowd of thousands. Kanye liked it, we flew to LA a few days later and the rest is history. Check my post from 2005 that shows a pic of the festival followed by a pic of me, Ye and Jon Brion in the studio.

Release date is set. Tiga, can I have my chains back now?

Look who’s coming over for dinner! Chromeo have a new blog, bookmark this baby with the quickness.

Fool’s Gold planted its feet firmly into the Old Continent last fall with the European Vacation tour, and the invasion continues in February when we take command of Fabric’s fabled Room Two.

Get your tickets here.

UPDATE: Grab Kingdom’s new promo mix from Fabric’s Soundcloud