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2011 Linkin Park Underground (LPU) Summit in Chicago

2011 Linkin Park Underground (LPU) Summit in Chicago

Fans of Linkin Park will have the opportunity of attending the International Linkin Park Underground (LPU) Summit in Chicago on January 25-26, 2011 during their 2011 North American tour. At this event, members of the LP Underground will enjoy an experience like no other with the band.

Day 1:
LPU Basketball Tournament at local YMCA. LPU members will compete against each other for glory. Winning team will get their picture taken with Linkin Park at the Summit
LPU members will meet up in Millennium Park for ice skating

Day 2:
Q&A session with Linkin Park
Opportunity to walk the Linkin Park stage and take photos, backstage tours, or crew bus tour
LPU Raffle: Prizes include meet & greet with Linkin Park, photo with the band, dressing room tour led by member of Linkin Park, and more
LPU Auction for exclusive and signed Linkin park merchandise
Watch a pre-show sound check
LPU Summit laminate
Music For Relief pre-Summit t-shirt design event for Haiti
First entry to the concert venue (concert tickets not included)
Meet and hang out with LPU members from the around the world

Annual LPUX members are invited to attend the Summit for FREE. To join the LPU and reserve your pass, visit here. The event runs over the course of two days, surrounding LP’s performance at the United Center on January 26, 2011. Space is limited, so reserve your spot now!

If you can’t make it out to Chicago, You can download this 2011 Linkin Park Tour EP for FREE:

Check out these other tracks off the album A Thousand Suns: Waiting For The End, The Catalyst, Blackout, and Burning In The Skies.

2011 Linkin Park Underground (LPU) Summit in Chicago

Take a look at the LPU Summit in London to see what to expect in Chicago

Get tickets to see Linkin Park on their 2011 North American Tour

Declare INDIE 2010

Declare INDIE 2010

Drawing from Imma Be by Black Eyed Peas, Dawen produced a short promo for Declare INDIE 2010. The event takes place this year on April 16th at The Abbey in Chicago. Come celebrate Asian Americans in the art for a night of great music and community! Artist who will be there include Dawen, IBU, Parts Per Million, and Raman Sachdev

Here’s all the details:
The Abbey
3420 W. Grace St.
Chicago, IL
date: April 16, 2010
Time: 9:00pm
age:21+
$10 Cover

Yes, IBU will be in the house for all you Tommy C fans in the Chicago Area. He’s been on some of the big Asian American collabos like Wedding Dress Remix, Perfect Two Remix, Replay Remix, Bedrock Remix Of course, check out Dawen. Not only is he the music director for the event, but he’s also performing. Be sure to support him. Doing double duty like that isn’t easy. Also peep his music video Wake Up.

Declare INDIE 2010 Promo

2010 Chicago Asian American Showcase

The 2010 Chicago Asian American Showcase gets under way this week. The festival is book-ended by two imaginative comedies. The opening night film is Quentin Lee’s sexy THE PEOPLE I’VE SLEPT WITH, about a lusty bachelorette’s search for her baby-daddy when a surprise pregnancy threatens to change her party-girl lifestyle. The opening night experience is enhanced by the opening in the Film Center’s gallery/café of the art exhibit “Laura Kina: A Many Splendored Thing” with a free reception. The closing night film, RASPBERRY MAGIC by Leena Pendharkar, is a delightful and timely tale in which a middle school science experiment proves to be key to a family’s survival of the economic downturn.

The selection of new features includes unsettling psychological thrillers STRANGERS by Michael Aki and MAKE YOURSELF AT HOME by Soopum Sohn. Abraham Lim’s GOD IS D_AD is a thoughtful yet wacky road movie, and Patrick Epino’s MR. SADMAN has fun with political satire through the story of a Saddam Hussein impersonator stranded in L.A. Award-winning CHILDREN OF INVENTION enthralls with superb performances by child actors in a story of two kids ingeniously fending for themselves. In honor of the 15th anniversary of Asian American Showcase, two Asian American classics, SHOPPING FOR FANGS and SUNSETS REVISITED, are scheduled for special screenings.

Eight feature-length documentaries range in subject matter from AOKI, a profile of social activist and Black Panther Party founding member Richard Aoki, to LESSONS OF THE BLOOD, an exposé of WWII Japanese chemical warfare, and A VILLAGE CALLED VERSAILLES, a chronicle of the transformation of a Vietnamese American community in the wake of Katrina’s destruction. Three films, GOING HOME, OPERATION BABYLIFT, and WO AI NI MOMMY, explore from many perspectives the issues and repercussions of Asian adoptions in the U.S.

Two shorts programs, “Chicagoans” and “The Young, the Fresh and the New,” highlight developing talent. Chicagobased international jazz star Tatsu Aoki, a School of the Art Institute of Chicago alumnus, appears with his new band Tokyo Nami on the “Chicagoans” program. Special events include a tribute to performance artist Anida Yoeu Ali, the panel discussion “Byte This: Surviving the Digital Age,” and the music showcase “Declare INDIEpendence.”

For more information and tickets, go here.

Raspberry Magic trailer

There Goes My Baby by Dawen

There Goes My Baby by Dawen

Dawen covers Usher’s There Goes My Baby. Check out his vocal range.

He’s also working on a special show on Friday April 16th in Chicago. It’s a showcase he’s producing with the Foundation for Asian American Independent Media (FAAIM) to close out the 15th Chicago Asian American Showcase film festival. Also performing are IBU, Parts Per Million and Raman Sachdev. Karin Anna Cheung is rumored to potentially perform too. More details to follow.

There Goes My Baby by Dawen

David Choi Northeastern Tour

David Choi got the endorsements of some of the top male Asian American Youtubers for his Northeastern Tour including the guys from Wong Fu Productions, KevJumba, and Ryan Higa. So why should you go? Cuz it’s gonna be awesome!!

The tour starts in mid/late February hitting Virginia, New York City, Philadelphia, Boston, Toronto, and Chicago. Get full details here. We’re pretty sure you’ll hear the song “Won’t Even Start” on tour. Get out there and support David Choi.

David Choi Northeastern Tour

Follow Your Whim Tour

Goh Nakamura and the Invisible Cities bought the JetBlue $599 all-you-can-fly pass special. They started booking show and conceived on a whim, the Follow You Whim Tour. The tour will take two San Francisco-based acts (and their roadies) through Los Angeles, Houston, Austin, Seattle, Chicago, and New York city, playing venues, living rooms, and public spaces. The tour runs from September 11 – October 2, 2009. See if they’re playing in your area on the Follow Your Whim Tour site here.

We’re impressed that they put the whole tour and website together within weeks. Very impressive. We wonder if JetBlue is gonna make it their official tour.

Follow Your Whim Tour – the Unofficial 2009 JetBlue Music Tour