day one at swsx... interactive...not music!

went into swsx interactive to meet up with dr. ted eytan (twitter name is @tedeytan) from kaiser permanente who was on a panel about health and social media/interactive. was a very lively discussion for sure and i got to help kick it off with my audience participation role (was fun!).

then we were off to get my crew wristband for the week. crew is an honor to me. bummed to be missing warren from worldsound, but am psyched to see sofia talvik and anuhea jenkins work their magic here this week!

we met up with dear friend, tyronne shaeffer (twitter name is @totallyx2) who is a former facet creative designer) and we all headed over to the four seasons for quick bite. w

hich turned into a texting love fest bringing all sorts together for the night. Best was meeting up with my girl linds' friend just in from the uk, mark murdoch! fantastic blog (check it out at www.mahoganyblog.com-great stuff!)... and even nicer person considering his luggage loss on his flight cross the pond~)

rest of night was a blur of great thoughts about media that i hope will stick - including wimoreality.com. upscale design of the qr codes! and lots of talk about how to bring together communities! for better health for all... :) sorry that was me bringing work back in the mix.

am pumped to see what the week holds.

hugs from austin.

song obsession today:

timbland and drake "say something".

this beat is so beyond sexy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJ9pYU-fa18

swsx! this week in austin, tx...

coming out of crazy shows at the mint in LA with sofia talvik and anuhea jenkins.

beyond fun shows.

both artists are really evolving into amazing singer songwriters...

now, heading to swsx this week. cannot wait to see what it all holds.

for sure a night at the H.O.P.E. charity benefit friday with the blues traveler peeps.

and thinking of hitting mayer hawthorne set (stone's throw records), as well as raphael saadiq!

heard rumours about erykah badass badu playing.

fingers crossed.

more to come.

peace.

k

(my current addiction is mayer hawthorne's album 'a strange arrangement'. dope on a rope. check it for real. and it will make you dig out the crates for motown sounds... like lucy pearl, leading to smokey robinson and the miracles. i'm just sayin...)

http://www.stonesthrow.com/store/album/mayerhawthorne/a-strange-arrangement

you're welcome.

OMG finally able to post again

Not sure what happened, but have had NO luck posting since August to this blog. Finally was able to troubleshoot this morning... maybe it's the clear head now that 2009 is behind me. or maybe it's just the stars aligning so you all can have a retrospective of the last half of the year...

full of highs and lows. but all good.

i know now what the term positive vibrations really means...

shows since august:

lil wayne

camp freddy with ozzy osbourne

sunset strip music fest - ozzy osbourne/korn

paolo nutini at wiltern

citizen cope at hob

common & friends (nas, kanye, roots, queen latifah) at palladium

audible mainframe

jayz/n.e.r.d at ucla

ari hest at hotel cafe

steel panther at key club

chris brown at avalon

black crowes at club nokia

next day... black crowes in SF at fillmore (2 years in row seeing dec 5 night run show!)

lady gaga (minus Kid Cudi stupid)

ERyKAH BadU on new year's eve at HOB

2010 so far:

timbaland and Justin Timberlake at HOB with Drake, petey pablo, keri hilson

melanie fiona and Trey songz at hob

two nights of mariah carey followed by me'shell nedgecello at Largo

awesome haiti benefit with mayer hawthorne's dj set, colbie calleit, brett dennen and tons of great artists...

good times. pix to come

peace.

k

listen to erykah badass badu's new joint 'jump in the air' featuring lil wayne. sick.

http://www.lilwaynehq.com/2010/02/13/erykah-badu-jump-in-the-air-stay-there-feat-lil-wayne-official-music-video/

urban vibes all over...

rock the bells last saturday. walked in late but just in time to check out reflection eternal (talib kweli and hi-tek). my girl aja and i went up on the grass and chilled.

(side note: i realized i'd been at the san manuel amphitheatre before... in mid nineties with my friend josh when we rolled out for a blues traveler/dave matthews band show. always wondered where i was for that show - had no idea!)

and the rest of the show was a blur of one fantastic performance after another. big boi. surprise set by slick rick! the ROOTS, yo! (DOPE SET) then busta... and nas... and damian marley doing a mostly bob marley set... and finally ICE CUBE. seriously when i left i thought it was the best show i'd seen this year so far. Cube slayed it. straight outta compton..

drive back sucked. next year i hope they use a venue that's closer to la. it was in a dumpy town. not a good hotel/motel in the area. too bad. should have been two days. one stage. rza/raekwan, and slum village played on a second side stage area that we never made it to. that sucked.

great show. period.

then thursday night that same week i rolled to meet my girl mel at the lil weezy show at the gibson. it was supposed to start at 715. they started at 645 i heard later. i got there at 8 and by then we'd missed drake, jeremieh and even soldja boy tell'em. wow. i have never heard a rap show starting on time, let alone early...

young jeezy played when we walked in. was a great set, but i didn't even know he was on the bill that night. whatever. so wayne took the stage at 935 p.m....935 p.m people. i was warned by everyone that i'd be lucky if he was under and hour and a half late starting his set. he was PROMPT. and he played til 11. it was the single highest energy leveled concert i've seen yet this year. only other time i'd seen that was the jay z show at the house of blues on sunset last year. THAT was off the hook, and intimate. This was huge and louder than anything i've ever heard. it was over-stimulation at it's finest. ferreal.

check this vid out, yo. turn volume down. it's all reverb.

a milli, lollipop, kush, tie my hands (GORGEOUS SONG), mrs. officer (see above). ended with every girl by the young money crew. it was fantastic. only thing baffled me was what happened with his guitar lessons.... he brought out a red les paul which he didn't touch at all in one song, and the second one he did a few lead licks, but only once. he really didn't seem confident on it at all--good that he tried, i guess.

i wish every show i go to could be as much fun as just those 1 and 1/2 hours. he's so fun to watch and all the tats are intense.

seriously. if you at all like his music, go. it was worth every penny.

get good seats, too. he has a ghetto dance crew. pole dancing and all.

super fun.

hit me on twitter @kristinjuel if you want more 411 on my musical escapades, yo.

peace.

hollywood, out.

k

song of the moment: tie my hands

http://www.dailymotion.com/related/x5my97/video/x8b6f5_lil-wayne-robin-thicke-tie-my-hands_shortfilms

because of twitter i just john mayer's midnight show at the hotel cafe tonight

started out with tweet from john at 10 p.m that he was doing show at hotel cafe

we bounced from ida maria/glasvegas show at fonda music box. got in and chilled. then he took stage at 1215. off at 145. ridiculously intimate set.

so fun. here are some new songs.

yea twitter!

loved it, lindsay! so fun.

so this is what music heaven (and hell) feels like...

back in the swing of things after nearly 3 weeks of music files misplaced and computer hard drive issues.

I have lost so much music now it's disgusting. maybe it was just a sign that i invested too much in all this.

time will tell i guess. sadly i still have to query my own music library before i buy anything anymore to see if it already exists. yikes. i could use some help, so if anyone reading this has archiving ideas, or categorizing ideas, i'd be happy to hear them...

anyway, i have had a crazy month with two erykah badu (love love love her live!) shows (one at the grove of anaheim which is a SICK venue), blues travelersjammed it up again. on two separate occasions both ray lamontagne and adele SLAYED the hollywood bowl,raphael saadiq/santigold also played there and ROCKED the joint (although sadly i was not as impressed with femi kuti as i'd hoped). last monday was mr. hudson showcase at the troubadour. very interesting singer who is working w/kid cudi and kanye. caught 4-5 songs of black eyed peas at avalon, grateful dead at forum, keane at the grove ofanaheim (would have done back to back keane shows with my girl Lindsay but had to represent at the dead show with my sister kimberly for her birthday...).

also i caught two fantastic acts that are managed by my dear friend warren wyatt at worldsound.com. first up was Carbon9 at the knitting factory (stacey the lead singer is amazingly talented and the show was very interactive and FUN) and then there was the lovely maui born anuhea jenkins' showcase at the mint. SOO luscious. her album is sweet.

now, i am OFFICIALLY so psyched for months of august and september --for the live music shows that are popping up. just got the tickets for citizen cope at house of blues, so pumped for that. and two minutes ago i got tickets for the killers at the hollywood bowl in september and the black crowes at club nokia in NOVEMBER (Never ever miss them when they come to town, amazing live shows).

that will be spectacular. and there's rock the bells coming up soon with nas and the roots.

the one thing that changed everything for me was when i found out about the beastie boys' adam yauch's cancer battle causing them to cancel ACL and the Hollywood Bowl show (which tragically i purchased tickets for not, once but TWICE, and only realized it when the refund came through. OMG! I so need to chill with the shows asap!)...my heartfelt prayers go out to him as he endures this health scare...

i'll keep you posted...

hollywood, out.

peace,

@kristinjuel

song of the moment: "auditorium" by mos def on his crazy good new album "the ecstatic"

check it out, yo.

http://blip.fm/kristinjuel (last one was this song)

or.... you can check it out as an a capella version of him walking around japan: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0q7ws-bAcc&feature=fvw

too much. it's all too much

Michael Jackson died yesterday.

i had never had the chance to see him live. despite all the live concerts i've been to.

i pulled out my first vinyl crate and found Thriller. it's scratchy, but it sounded like the first time i played it.

made me feel sick to my stomach to think it's done.

we had already lost Farrah Fawcett earlier that morning, and i don't think i'll ever forget driving to meetings in Burbank and both my iPhone and my blackberry starting to blow up w/texts.

all i could think of was my Jr and Senior high school friends that were so obsessed with him that they dressed like him and knew all the steps in thriller, beat it, Billie Jean. when off the wall came out it was mesermizing. soul music came through pop-like rock chord progressions. his apollo show with the jackson 5 was long gone then. it was MTV that made him omnipresent, iconic, legendary. how talented he was. how his voice when he sang Ben could bring tears.

i was the one loving bowie in that same way, but really Michael was the most popular singer, bowie was not at that time. i completely appreciated their fanaticism, though. it was amazing, really like how bowie was in the 70's.

but i digress.

eventually, the swirl of the rumours gave way to the sad truths--2:46 pm EMT; cardiac arrest, UCLA hospital, failed to resuscitate.

it really felt surreal. and terribly sad.

passed at 50... with the London shows right around the corner.

the London shows that sold out in MINUTES.

which showed the undying love for this man's talent/music.

in the end, it's what he will be known for, thankfully.

his music and not his eccentric behavior.

i just wish he had had the chance to do those shows, remind us of his talent, and reclaim officially his musical throne.

but that was not to be.

this morning, i can only listen to his music and celebrate his life. i just read john's blog (bluestraveler.com) and it was great perspective. especially from someone who i always worry is on a creatively destructive path. in it he refers to the music. it's the music that will persevere. that made me feel better...

here's to Michael Jackson--who will always be remembered as the true, undisputed King of Pop.

they are moon walking in heaven.

hollywood, out.

k

Song of the moment: obviously an MJ one-- You rock my world.

it's the best video with Marlon Brando and others.

check it out and have your own Michael Jackson moment:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8k0GZaPPkf4