Rockstar Mayhem Festival is a great way to see some of your favorite bands perform live, discover some new bands by exploring the grounds, buy some great merchandise then get it signed at the many different booths after the bands are done performing, and making some new friends that share the same passion that you do for music.

The heart and soul of Rockstar Mayhem festival, the fans!

Straight Line Stitch was performing songs from their new album entitled "Flight of our Lives" and lead singer Alexis was signing items for fans at the Revolver tent after their performance.

Click here to listen to Straight Line Stitch - Taste of Ashes

Suicide Silence gave fans the opportunity to get the unreleased CD "The Black Crown", both the regular and deluxe editions at the show and walked away with them signed.

Here is a sample track entitled “Your Creations”

For more information about Suicide Silence go to their website http://www.suicidesilence.net/ and make sure to purchase their new album.

Roadrunner record's Trivium kept the crowd alive with great fan interaction and an unforgettable performance.

For more information about Trivium and other bands under the Road Runner Records label go to http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/

Usually after the second stage is done everyone slowly migrates to the bathrooms, refills on food and drinks, and then gets ready for the main performances of the night.

Godsmack had an amazing performance with great classic songs, guitar solos, and the dueling drums session. Sully Erna even took some time out from the performance to interact with the crowd and let some things off of his chest that were bothering him on the first stop of the tour.

Disturbed has been in the industry for over thirteen years and still is an evolving band that can perform just as well in the studio as they can on stage in front of thousands of people.

Dethklok’s virtual band performances featured in the Adult Swim animated program Metalocalypse and on stage as a real band put on a great overall show that will have the crowd wanting more. The dark lighting on stage allowed the videography that was on the screens to promote the animations and storytelling that was happening.

We all will patiently wait for the announcement of dates and bands that will be participating in the 2012 Rockstar Mayhem Festival. Thank you everyone involved who made all the shows possible and for hospitality to allow us to be a part of it. See everyone next year.

"amAya" in sanskrit means “The end of illusion” Peace, love and joy is the true state of being, everything else is an illusion. amAya is the fruition and collaboration of a deep and long friendship that has been tested to the hilt - where the journey has been extremely turbulent for both halves...

Niraj Naik and Dr Mrigank Mishra formed amAya in 2004 and it has now evolved into a creative outlet for their spiritually awakening music, sounds and meditations. From their own professional and personal experiences they have developed a great empathy for helping people who are long term sufferers of stress. They now produce music that takes the listener from the low energies of anger, frustration, tension, anxiety and depression to the higher energies of joy, peace and love for all.

Their second album "amAya Spa" are the sounds that resonate from the new amAya health spa located in the heart of the magical island of Langkawi, Malaysia. This is where the exquisite spa named after the band uses amAya's special blend of deep meditation music to provide novel sound therapy sessions for their clients in a setting that can only be described as paradise. The new album features 10 of their most uplifting meditation tracks featuring soothing soundscapes, intricate electronics, vocals and hypnotic guitars.

amAya Spa has four focus tracks for radio programming consideration; (1) Forgiveness, (2) Hydrascension, (3) Soul Space, and (4) The Island Sings, all available for you to tune into here. Enjoy!

Over the years, John Matarazzo of Logical Drift has worked on major records, and performed with popular acts (Blood Sweat & Tears, Bob Dylan, Ike & Tina Turner, Sly & The Family Stone, etc.) where he was then led to work on more conscious and spiritually driven projects helping to create pioneering recordings of ambient and electronica music (John Zorn, Jah Wobble, Mick Harris and Buckethead).

From the days of experimenting with psychological compositions and electronic music elements instituted by Karl Heinz Stockhausen and Pierre Boulez, Logical Drift remixes their newest single “Rain Queen of the Negev” with electronica/dance production, merging their talents within this genre with psychological dreamscapes and aural environments designed to evoke spiritual responses from the listener that may heighten the listener’s overall growth in spirituality.

Synthesizing sounds in acoustic laboratories, Matarazzo was able to develop a palette of unique and emotionally resonant sounds from simple sine wave generators overlaying harmonic spectrums and resonating filters that infused evocative and sensual aural landscapes and alternative worlds.

Combining his knowledge of ancient spiritual systems, psychoacoustics and aural imaging, he composed soundscapes that heighten the listeners’ sense of wellness and tranquility; stimulating the Chakra portals, thereby carrying the listener on a journey toward greater awareness and aliveness. His aim is to author music that will provide an important map for our wholeness and transformation, both personally and globally by opening the Chakra paths to enlightenment and integration.

You can download the “Rain Queen of the Negev” album version, along with the soothing sound of “Judean Desert” for free here.

Newest Two Spot Gobi radio single ‘Tomorrow’ was produced by the legendary Niko Bolas (Neil Young, John Mayer, My Morning Jacket) at Jason Mraz’s home studio.  Mraz joins Two Spot Gobi on the album version, though not featured on this radio edit. ‘Tomorrow’ was recently performed on BBC Radio’s ‘Sunday Sessions’. Celebrity blogger Perez Hilton took notice over Twitter and posted the track on Perez  TV, drawing a tremendous positive response.

In early Fall, the band will be coming back to Cali to play at select venues across the state, as well as launch their non-for-profit music program called Music Set Free in the states. With much success in the UK, the band provides a live performance and a series of workshops to encourage and inspire young people to make music under the program, and it’s sponsored by Bose!  For more info visit www.MusicSetFree.com.

After gaining major support from popular Internet radio properties (1Club.FM, AccuRadio, AOL, GotRadio, Pandora, Slacker, Yahoo!),  LOGICAL DRIFT gets ready to launch a terrestrial radio campaign of their first single ‘Rain Queen of the Negev’. The 10+ minute album version has been edited down for the New Age and World Music radio formats, while a couple remixes are in the works to target specialty shows programming Ambient, Electronica, Meditation, Relaxation and Spa music.

Logical drifters John Matarazzo and Logan Strand create an aural biome filled with muscular beats and the seductive Diva siren calls of the vestal dance, designed for immediate immersion in a 120bpm chill-out dance groove. Matarazzo explains the track as, “Rain drops dance through the Negev desert in early spring. The Nabatean rain queen announces a celebration for the desert dwellers that begins along the ancient ‘Spice Road’ at dusk as the wadis are filled with the rushing flow”.

You can download the “Rain Queen of the Negev” album version, along with the soothing sound of “Judean Desert” for free here.

Get your FREE MUSIC DOWNLOAD offer of the new single 'Judean Desert' by Logical Drift here. 'Judean Desert' is a trip through the ancient lands of biblical history to a lush, lost paradise - the "Eden" of dreams and longing.

LOGICAL DRIFT is comprised of music veteran writer, composer, producer and performer John Matarazzo, and legendary engineer and producer Logan Strand. As old friends in the music industry sharing their success together in their early career, they had reached an influential track record in the pop world, working alongside the likes of Blood Sweat & Tears, Bob Dylan, Ike & Tina Turner, and Sly & The Family Stone. Expanding their musical horizons, they began to strive in the electronica and world music genres. Matarazzo himself was fortunate to have worked with leading world artists, from Ravi Shankar and Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, to Herbie Hancock and Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry.

Formed in 2010, Logical Drift is more than two successful music industry veterans and musicians continuing to work together. Logical Drift is geared to produce a series of record releases, in which each release is specifically composed around a specific ancient cultural spiritual system, with a new age music twist; manifesting musical healing compositions that produce enlightenment, relaxation and tranquility. Logical Drift has begun to initiate a network of likeminded practices within the alternative education and new age community in order to support each other's projects through music as a unification medium.

After being out of the limelight for nine years, the New Orleans-born-and based Ghetto Twiinz are back with a new knockout EP, ‘Them People Coming’. Released under a new independent label, Katrinaville Entertainment, their latest outing reunites them with one of the industry’s formidable icons, platinum producer Leroy “Precise” Edwards (Mystikal, Juvenile, Scarface, Willie Dee, Fiend, Partners N Crime), who discovered the girls back in 1994. ‘Them People Coming’ also features a newcomer, Chris Rockaway of CNC Publishing, who produced some of the tracks on the EP. The long hiatus certainly has not changed the Ghetto Twiinz, who insists that their music still has the same hard hitting messages that resonate with many of the inner city youth across America. This EP, like previous releases, contains female anthems and club bangers.

The lead single, ‘Rock Rock’, is a feel-good party song has already gained interest from radio, with 20+ stations adding it into rotation. This is a celebration song in more ways than one. For starters, it hails the duo’s comeback and secondly, it is about womanhood, confidence and freedom. It appears that the tone of the entire album has taken the cue from this positive and empowering track.

The release of ‘Them People Coming’ is an announcement of the Ghetto Twiinz return and an advisory to watch out for this formidable duo as they stake their claim on the global music stage.

After a brief hiatus, Miami based record label Black Wolf Records resurrects with some serious Miami Heat by signing Young Dade for the long haul. David Fredericks (a.k.a. Young Dade), with a family tree rooted in the entertainment industry, has been bred with true natural talent. Young Dade’s urge in recording music stemmed from his passion in performing dance that ultimately led him to taste the microphone - and as they say, the rest is history.fter a brief hiatus, Miami based record label Black Wolf Records resurrects with some serious Miami Heat by signing Young Dade for the long haul. David Fredericks (a.k.a. Young Dade), with a family tree rooted in the entertainment industry, has been bred with true natural talent. Young Dade’s urge in recording music stemmed from his passion in performing dance that ultimately led him to taste the microphone - and as they say, the rest is history. 

Undoubtedly, the Miami music scene continues to be one of the most popular destinations for nightlife entertainment, in which Young Dade begins to contribute his talent to, bringing an eclectic mix of mainstream hip-hop and R&B flavors through club banging anthems, infectious beats, clever hooks and quick rhymes. His debut single ‘Cash Flo’ off of the up and coming EP release titled ‘I Just Want It All’ has raised eyebrows amongst the music industry by way of airing on popular mainstream station WEDR 99 Jamz, with additional stations following his buzz. Music industry vet Joshua East, mentions “It’s refreshing to see an emcee slash singer come to the table with a true sense of balance in today’s hip-hop and R&B pop-merger. When I reviewed Young Dade’s EP to hopefully find a focus track, I was surprised to find myself debating on which track to choose”.

As the lead single by Young Dade, ‘Cash Flo’ delivers that fresh spring cleaning energy that will last throughout the summer heat, motivating those with their back up against the wall. Enjoy!

Sometimes it’s quite tempting to extract historical data from artist bios for a music review, because it’s just that good, and readers may get more than they expected, as in the case here. Music veteran writer, composer, producer and performer, John Matarazzo, has been accompanied by legendary engineer and producer Logan Strand to form LOGICAL DRIFT; a new project with a whole lot of history. Over the years, Matarazzo has worked on major records and performed with popular acts, where he was then led to work on more conscious and spiritually driven projects helping to create pioneering recordings of Ambient and Electronica music (John Zorn, Jah Wobble, Mick Harris and Buckethead).

Reaching success in this genre, Matarazzo then began to invite more established world artists to work with him on a variety of projects (Ravi Shankar, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Herbie Hancock, Lee “Scratch” Perry, The Gamelan Of Bali, Lata Mangeshcar, The Monks Of Notre Dame, and Buddhist Monks of Maitri Vihar Monastery Tibet). With the world music genre working very well for Matarazzo, he then journeyed off to field recording and performance projects taking him to places as far away as Bali, Indonesia, Sumatra, Tibet, North Africa and Morocco, Mali and Thailand.Continuing his spiritual path, Matarazzo grew his interests into experimenting with psychological compositions using electronic music elements instituted by Karl Heinz Stockhausen and Pierre Boulez; adapting them to create psychological dreamscapes and aural environments designed to evoke spiritual responses from the listener. Synthesizing sounds in acoustic laboratories Matarazzo was able to develop a palette of unique and emotionally resonant sounds from simple sine wave generators overlaying harmonic spectrums and resonating filters to create evocative and sensual aural landscapes and alternative worlds.

Combining his knowledge of ancient spiritual systems, psychoacoustics and aural imaging, he creates soundscapes that heighten the listeners’ sense of wellness and tranquility. Stimulating the Chakra portals; thereby carrying the listener on a journey toward greater awareness and aliveness. His aim is to create a music that will provide an important map for our wholeness and transformation, both personally and globally by opening the Chakra paths to enlightenment and integration.

Comprised of six thought provoking tracks, LOGICAL DRIFT represents the most recent incantation of the musical concepts and explorations of Matarazzo’s career in a community of ambient, world and new age music. Better said, the album notes tell us “From the ancient port of Joffa on the Mediterranean traveling east, across the windswept Judean Desert the weary caravan traveler comes to the legendary Oasis of En Gedi. Set on the banks of the Dead Sea; Covered in lush, hanging gardens, sparkling waterfalls and murmuring fountains, it is a place of relaxation and refreshment for body and spirit”. Just listening to inviting track titles as ‘Dead Sea Dawn’ and ‘Shenandoah Pslam’, I can hear a soothing, yet almost healing ailment that can move listeners on a psychological and spiritual journey of pure bliss.

Featuring the effortless vocals of frontman James Robinson, ‘Guiding Star’ takes their trademark sing-a-long melodies to new levels, with a track that climbs and unwinds from the first note, building from an intense cello riff into an explosion of pounding ethereal pop.

James describes the track as: “'When Rob and I were writing Guiding Star we wanted to make a track that sounded different from all our other songs, something with a far eastern feel and that was full of urgency, desire and mystery. The lyrics in the song were inspired by one of my all time favorite films 'Akira' and it's all about the power we all have to do great things in life“.

Having already performed with the likes of Bruno Mars, Newton Faulkner and Michael Bublé, as well as supporting Jason Mraz across Europe and the US, Two Spot Gobi is hopped to breakthrough in 2011.  This summer will see the band play live dates across the UK and they have also set up their own music school initiative, Music Set Free, where the band provides a live performance and a series of workshops to encourage and inspire young people to make music.  For more info see www.musicsetfree.com.