Catch K-OS at the Saskatchewan Jazz Festival on June 27

K-OS is set to perform on Saturday, June 27 at the Subway Mainstage, Bessborough Gardens.
Tickets are $30 when bought in advance and $40 at the day of the concert.
Buy tickets HERE.

K-Os Performs "4 3 2 1" (Broken Hearted Version) on Q TV

Canadian hip-hop artist K-OS was Q's 'Friday Live' guest to coincide with the release of his new album 'Yes!'. He performed two songs and sat down for a chat. This is the first song he performed and the first single from the new album. This is a stripped down version of the original.

via Q TV

Opening Acts and Event Information of Yes! Karma Tour

Jay Malinowski

- Vancouver April 30
- Vancouver May 1

Library Voices

- Edmonton May 3
- Calgary May 4

Grand Analog

- Winnipeg May 6

Event Info
With his fourth album “Yes!” set for release April 14, hip hop visionary k-os is embarking on a 10-show, 9-city Canadian tour, hitting major cities from coast to coast. As with all of his projects before this, the Yes! Karma Tour is breaking boundaries. These shows are not ticketed, and entrance will be on a first-come first-served basis. Rogers customers will be offered guaranteed access to the shows through the Wireless Box Office. As of April 15, visit: facebook.com/urmusic for all the details. In order to gain entrance into the venue, there is no purchase necessary whatsoever. “Karma” donations can be made inside the venue at 3 separate locations, and will always be rewarded with a free CD: the k-os “fan-mixed” album, “Yes! It’s Yours.” What is a “Karma Donation”?: * In exchange for what promises to be an unforgettable concert experience with k-os, fans are being given 3 opportunities to contribute to the cause… *#1 - David Suzuki Awareness Table: 50% of payments made at this table will go to the David Suzuki Foundation, the other 50% will go towards offsetting tour costs. *#2 - Karma Table: this table will be designated for Karma donations only. *# 3 - Exit doors: Security will be set up at the exit doors of each show with cash-only drop boxes for people to pay what they felt the show was worth. Instant Karma!

via Live Nation

Vocalist/Guitarist of Bedouin Soundclash is Opening for K-Os in Vancouver

Jay Malinowski is the vocalist and guitarist for the Canadian indie rock group Bedouin Soundclash. Jay was born in Montreal in 1982, but he grew up in Vancouver. He also has strong family ties to Toronto, as both his parents are from the Toronto area. Bedouin Soundclash will be opening for No Doubt and performing at the Regina Folk Festival this year.

peta2: K-Os Theory

For scientists, chaos theory means that sometimes, a small incident has a bigger impact than expected. In everyday life, I think we can all remember a time when we said or did something that had a much bigger effect than we thought it might or when we experienced something that changed the way we thought about things from then on.

For Toronto rapper K-OS, that moment happened when, as a kid, he decided it was strange to eat birds, because they fly. Years later, he decided to go vegetarian.

In his exclusive interview with peta2, K-OS tells us that story and others that motivated him to live a compassionate, vegetarian lifestyle and also throws out a few theories of his own, like how if you eat a bird or a pig or a fish, you might as well be eating your own dog—or how peta2 is a dynamic movement, like hip-hop. Check out these and other K-OS theories in the video below, and afterward, I bet all those little instances will have made a big impact.

By Cassandra Curbieo

via peta2

Shad Scheduled to Perform at Telus World Ski and Snowboard Festival

If you are heading up to Whistler for the Telus World Ski and Snowboard Festival, be sure to see Shad perform. Shad's show are scheduled on Friday, April 24th and Saturday, April 25th (opening for DJ Z-Trip). For more information about the festival CLICK HERE.

"The Old Prince": The Album of Random Places

"The Old Prince" (a la The Fresh Prince) stickers were just printed and are ready to be shipped. Sticker design courtesy of Justin Broadbent. The stickers will probably be distributed to stores in Canada. If you want stickers sent to your home, send your full name and full mailing address to: theoldprince@shadk.com. When you get your stickers, make sure to take photos of where you posted them and upload them on Shad's facebook page.

"Now A Daze" Artwork

The making of Tim Lum's (Pixel Flex) first commissioned piece of artwork featured at the record release concert for Shad's Polaris Music Prize nominated album "The Old Prince" held at The Mod Club. Toronto, ON Canada

The Avenue - K-Os (Fan Made Music Video)

A nice and simple video edited from a bunch of footage taken in the streets of San Fancisco. The video was made by Esau.

YES! OUT NOW

YES!, the new album from k-os is available now at local Canadian record stores and digital retailers. Click here to download the record on iTunes. The album features new single "4 3 2 1 " and 11 other new tracks including "Burning Bridges" and "I Wish I Knew Natalie Portman." Support k-os and grab the record today!

via k-osmusic.com

Shad's Freestyle that Makes You Wonder Why He is Not on the Radio More Often

I am not exactly sure if this is a freestyle or if it is scripted. Regardless, he displays his phenomenal skills with his playful yet meaningful lyrics. With a beat or not, his execution is effortless.

Getting a Handle on K-Os: Rapper Says Yes! to Culture on New Album

Yes! A new album from K-os will be released April 14. But before that LP, Yes! - the genre-smashing rapper's first since 2006's Atlantis: Hymns for Disco - took shape, K-os was caught in the middle of a few things.

For one, he was stuck between labels. After nearly a decade with EMI, he decided it was time to try a new direction - one that included putting his music out on his own imprint, Crown Loyalist Recordings, which he's now doing through a new relationship with Universal.

Moreover, he was caught between cities. ``I've been dating Vancouver for 10 years,'' he says over the phone from the West Coast after our call wakes him on a post-Junos morning. (OK, the Junos wrapped up two days before, but as K-os explains, he's still resting up after a weekend spent with friends like double- winners The Stills).

Since making his breakthrough 2002 album Exit - a disc that had Billboard lauding as ``one of the finest hip-hop records Canada has ever produced'' - K- os has found himself drawn back to Vancouver. He waxes nostalgic about crashing nightly on friends' couches and floors during his Exit days. His band still hails from the city. Still, there's no denying he's a Toronto institution. It's ingrained in his lyrics: from instantly recognizable phrases like ``walking down Yonge St. on a Friday'' (from ubiquitous 2005 hit Crabbuckit) to rhyming about the TTC on the new disc. Read more.

via Canada.com

K-Os Yes! Karma Tour - "Free to Get In, Pay What You Want"

NO ADVANCE TICKET SALES - FREE TO GET IN, PAY WHAT YOU WANT
EVERYONE WELCOME

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THE urMUSIC.CA K-OS YES! KARMA TOUR
Thursday, April 30 at Commodore Ballroom (868 Granville St)

Friday, May 1 at Croation Cultural Centre

K-os’ return to the Vancouver stage next month will come as part of a groundbreaking tour of Canada designed around the concept of karma. Each show on this tour is free to enter, with fans given opportunities to make “Karma” donations inside the venue in exchange for an always-incendiary live show and a bonus - the K-os “fan-mixed” album, “Yes! It’s Yours.”

K-os’ long-awaited new album, “YES!” , is set to be released on April 14 through the Nettwerk Music Group and Universal Music Canada. The bonus to this album is “Yes! It’s Yours.” - an album mixed entirely by his fans through Indaba Music, the leading collaboration tool and social network for musicians, where master stem tracks from the songs on “YES!” were made available to their international community of over 100,000 musicians to submit their remixes of a given track, with a chance to win a spot on the album “Yes! It’s Yours.”

The urMusic.ca K-OS YES! KARMA TOUR breaks boundaries by offering the shows for free on a first-come, first-served basis. “Karma” donations can be made inside the venue in three specific locations, including options to donate to the David Suzuki Foundation. Also, check out the “Karma table” or use the cash-only drop box on the way out. All karma donations will give the audience member a free CD: the k-os “fan-mixed” album, “Yes! It’s Yours.”

K-os’ uniquely subversive hip hop twist on popular music and culture is not surprising considering that over the past decade he’s regularly synthesized a stunningly progressive musical gumbo of hits. With two certified platinum-selling albums (“Joyful Rebellion”, “Atlantis”) and one gold one (“Exit”) to his credit, he’s also won multiple Juno Awards (2003, 2005), Much Music Video Awards (2004), Canadian Urban Music Awards (2003, 2004), a Source Award for Best International Hip Hop Artist (2003), and even garnered a Grammy nomination in 2005 for his collaboration with the Chemical Brothers on “Get Yourself High”.

Tickets are 1st come 1st served and it is a ‘pay as you feel’ after the show.

Via GMANandRIZK

K-Os Says Yes! to Pop Culture

Yes! A new album from K-os will be released April 14. But before that LP, Yes! - the genre-smashing rapper's first since 2006's Atlantis: Hymns for Disco -- took shape, K-os was caught in the middle of a few things.

For one, he was stuck between labels. After nearly a decade with EMI, he decided it was time to try a new direction -- one that included putting his music out on his own imprint, Crown Loyalist Recordings, which he's now doing through a new relationship with Universal.

Moreover, he was caught between cities. "I've been dating Vancouver for 10 years," he says over the phone from the west coast after our call wakes him on a post-Junos morning. (OK, the Junos wrapped up two days before, but as K-os explains, he's still resting up after a weekend spent with friends like double-winners The Stills).

Since making his breakthrough 2002 album Exit - a disc that had Billboard proclaiming it "one of the finest hip-hop records Canada has ever produced" - K-os has found himself drawn back to Vancouver. He waxes nostalgic about crashing nightly on friends' couches and floors during his Exit days. His band still hails from the city. Still, there's no denying he's a Toronto institution. It's ingrained in his lyrics: from instantly recognizable phrases like "walking down Yonge St. on a Friday" (from ubiquitous 2005 hit "Crabbuckit") to peripherally rhyming about the TTC on the new disc. Read more...

By Leah Collins

via Dose.ca

Additional K-Os Tour Dates Have Been Released

April 30, 2009||Commodore||Vancouver
May 1, 2009||Croatian Cultural Centre||Vancouver
May 3, 2009||Edmonton Events Centre||Edmonton
May 4, 2009||Macewan Hall||Calgary
May 6, 2009||Burton Cummings||Winnipeg
May 9, 2009||Kool Haus||Toronto
May 10, 2009||Centennial Hall||London
May 13, 2009||Lansdowne||Ottawa
May 14, 2009||Olympia||Montreal
May 16, 2009||Cunard Centre||Halifax

Make sure you RSVP to the new tour dates in the events section of his facebook page HERE.