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"To know and not to do, is to not know..." - Chinese Proverb...The mission of GigsRus.net is to know what's next! I started dj'ing at 17 with one turntable at an abandoned store front. I was a club kid in LA and used to dance on the street for money on Hollywood and Highland.As an undergrad at UC Berkeley, I got my FCC license and co-hosted and produced a weekly political affairs segment at night and sold underwriting to local clubs and businesses during the day. KALX 90.7FM was and is considered one of the top 3 college radio stations in the country and we literally broke records.In college I started booking nooners for touring nationals. This led to some epic Lower Sproul Plaza engagements with platinum-selling acts. Learning the ropes organically and applying the skills gleaned from years of up-close contact with all sides of the business--from merch sales, radio programming, studio production and recording, soundscan venue reporting, to NACA tour management and festival bookings--has allowed me to share invaluable niche knowledge wth my clients and watch them thrive. I founded GigsRus.net two years ago to secure collegiate, festival, club, concert, casino and industry showcase event opportunities in all music genres for promising acts that show breakthrough potential.Venue and Festival Bookings: SXSW(Austin), Van's Warped Tour(Sydney,SF,San Jose), CMJ(NYC), Bumbershoot(Seattle), Black & White Ball(SF),X-Fest(Modesto), Exotic Erotic Ball(SF), Love Fest(SF), Hip-Hop on the Green (Oakland), Alachuan Music Festival (Gainesville), Sacramento Heritage Festival, Kool Concert Series(SF), MTV Spring Break (South Padre Island, TX) and many more...We've booked and produced events at THE major clubs on the Sunset Strip and throughout North America including: House of Blues (Hollywood), Viper Room (West Hollywood), The Key Club (West Hollywood), The Roxy (West Hollywood), The Whisky A-Go-Go (West Hollywood), Temple Bar (Santa Monica), Slims (SF), Elbo Room (SF), Yoshi's (Oakland), CBGB's (NYC), The Cutting Room (NYC), 924 Gilman Street (Berkeley) and many many more... Send mateials to: 1310 Faland Way, Reno, NV 89503-1622 REACH OUT AND LET'S BUILD!

Testimonials

When our company was on the verge of collapse, GigsRus.net provided step-by-step counsel at a critical moment. Oliver X has since advised our associates on issues related to tour management, marketing, distribution, and artist development. This advice has been especially helpful in the area of live show presentation where he has guided us through thematic conception, forecasting, budgeting, planning, promotions, and post-event follow up. Most importantly, GigsRus.net has proven, by example, the importance of mastering technology in an ever changing music industry. Since following their lead, we have grown in ways unimaginable."

Andre Yancy, Owner/Project Coordinator, Tonsar Productions.

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Our friends at Independent Records (www.indierec.com) tell us that Rutgers University is accepting new artists submissions in all genres from metal to hip-hop for it's college radio station WCCR. Send CD's to: ATTN: Scott Gottfried 326 Penn Street Camden NJ 08102Cheers!

"The Cheap Date Tour" Rumbles Into Reno! Thursday, May 22, 2008. Featuring Scribble Jam Champ & 2-Time World Rap Champion THE SAURUS w/ You Tube Underground Video Contest Grand Prize Winner OSTRICH HEAD & Special Guests RICHIE CUNNING & ROB RUSH. Free B4 9PM. 231 W. 2nd Street @ Arlington Downtown Reno.

Music:

Prince, Bowie, Bigg Juss, Stevie Wonder, Fela Kuti, Johnny Cash, Nina Simone, Bob Marley, Tupac, Imani Coppola, Nico Case, Hope, Charlie Pride, Ray Charles, Steele Pulse, Sex Pistols, Paul Weller, George Clinton, Aobie, Femi Kuti, E-40, Saul Williams, Alpha Blondy, Tilly Key, Cody ChesNUTT and Mavrik.

Movies:

"Spun" - See Jonas Akerlund's unrated Dirctor's Cut of my good friend Wil de los Santos' mind-blowing feature screenwriting debut... "The Libertine" - Johnny Depp plays the cynical poet rogue of 1675 Noble England, whose primary activity of shagging his way to an early grave, is interrupted by his fascination with a dowdy, but spirited actress from the London stage, whom he wagers he can transform into the Queen of the theater community."La Operacion" - Documentary on the sterilization program undertaken by the US government to control the Puerto Rican population. Between 1956 and 1976 some 20,000 women were sterilized on the island, many without their knowledge or consent! "The Power of Nightmares" - Documentary released in the UK but suppressed here in the states due its inflammatory premise regarding 911."American Gangster" - Denzel is a coiled, gentleman pyscho in this Scarface-like urban epic true-crime drama opposite Russell Crowe's gritty vice detective turn. Rza stands out as one of Crowe's hand-picked agents in charge of cracking a bafflingly pervasive influx of a lethally pure form of heroin, street-named "blue magic". "Into The Wild" - This cautionary, unsentimental tale from director Sean Penn, manages to glisten with energy, optimism and youthful passion for life and the wonders of self-discovery. Penn's rendering of the detail of his lead character's (Emile Hersh) emotional undertow and Hersh's portrayal of an unlikely adventurer, is spot on. Outstanding supporting performances from katherine Keener, Hal Holbrook and Vince Vaughn.
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Television:

"Television, drug of the nation..." - Beatnigs

Books:

"A Conspiracy of Cells" - Michael Gold - Tells the true story of the mishandling of the research cultures of the African American cancer victim, Henrietta Lacks, whose virulent cervical cancer cells proved to be the first cell cultures able to survive outside the human host for a prolonged period, facilitating breakthrough research... But Gold details the subsequent shock that occurred from contamination that happened to lab samples world-wide,in what were thought to be sterile clinical environments.-"Science and the Akashic Field" - Dr. Erving Laszlo - "Akasha" is the Sanskrit word for Brilliance, or Radiance. It is the cosmic ether and invisible information field that retains all that has ever happened in the universe. Dr. Laszlo successfully tackles this subject matter in a lucid narrative that is the most coherent, far-reaching and illuminating thesis for a unified theory ever posited. "The Shock Doctrine" - In this full-throated outing of Milton Friedman's "Chicago School" ideology of opportunistic disaster capitalism, Naomi Klein probes the way socities struck by natural and man made disasters, get put through a three-pronged psychological, economic and physical assault by the patriotic protectors of the American way. A groundbreaking postulate and remarkable reading experience, exhibiting the type of courageous investigative journalism that wins hearts, minds and Pulitzers.

Heroes:

The Innocence Project helps exonerate the wrongly accused, many of whom have been incarcerated for 20 or more years. ~88% of those falsely accused and convicted of capital crimes like rape and murder, were put there based on false eyewitness testimony. Most states have no compensation laws on the books, so when these innocent men are released after having their lives and the lives of their loved ones completely ruined, the state just says--sorry, you're free to go now. Now had they been actually guilty, served time and gotten parole after their term, they'd be eligible for therapy programs, reintegration funds, transitional housing assistance and job placement services. As it stands now in the US, the exonerated cannot even get their records expunged, so reintegration into society is impossible with violent felonies on their record and many years of institutionalization severely affecting their sense of identity, manhood and hampering their future employment and prospects. Go see the film "After Innocence". It will open your eyes to the pitiful system of jurisprudence that we blindly uphold with our silence. A system that seeks only to beat down the incarcerated and break the spirits of the interned. Props go out to the folks at The Safer Foundation, who've worked for 30 years to provide transitional job placement for ex-offenders, dramatically helping to reduce recidivism one citizen at a time.We in the San Francisco Bay Area are blessed to have had the opportunity to live and work alongside soldiers that have committed their lives to sacrifice, uplift, revolutionary expression and a principled spiritual journey. Naim Akbar, Wade Nobles, Michael Franti, Boots Riley, Barbara Christian, David Cook, Ishmael Reed and so many more. Nuff respect! My parents were my greatest heroes. My example, my light and my strength. I want to thank my Father and my uncles for service and sacrifice for their country and all who defend True Democracy.

My Blog

Michelle Niemiec: Industry Exposed available June 25th

A young model finds an internet world full of frauds, manipulators and predators, preying upon the dreams of small town girls; seducing them into the cities and ruining their lives.Sounds like another...
Posted by Oliver X's GigsRus.net on Thu, 12 Jun 2008 06:08:00 PST

Cacao Mantric

Imagine a refuge inside your soul. Immersed in stillness. A luxuriant meditation, with a French lavendar spritz. A warm ginger-gardenia foot soak. You inhale rich chocolate aromas and essences of poa...
Posted by Oliver X's GigsRus.net on Wed, 04 Jun 2008 11:06:00 PST

Available Show Dates in Reno, NV

THE UNDERGROUND IN RENO HAS THE FOLLOWING DATES AVAILABLE FOR BOOKING:>Friday, June 6, 2008>Friday, July 18, 2008>Friday, August 15, 2008>Saturday, August 16, 2008>Friday, August 29, 2008>Saturday, Au...
Posted by Oliver X's GigsRus.net on Tue, 20 May 2008 03:43:00 PST

Festival Announcements & Show Ops

The good folks at West Coast Performer Magazine listed the following festival and competition announcements in their April issue, so jot these down: 1) The Gretsch Company is...
Posted by Oliver X's GigsRus.net on Sun, 06 Apr 2008 08:04:00 PST

Review featured in www.feeltheword.net/magazine/film

In Bruges (2008) - Directed by Martin McDonagh - Starring Colin Farrell, Brendon Gleeson and Ralph Fiennes Famous for his dark-hued Irish plays penned in the nineties (The Pillowman and Broadway ...
Posted by Oliver X's GigsRus.net on Mon, 24 Mar 2008 04:35:00 PST

the lives of a chair

i was recently asked by jeff and meredith, the lovely folks at reno's incredible la bussola and center gallery, to give voice to a chair in an inscription (on the chair), that was to be part...
Posted by Oliver X's GigsRus.net on Wed, 06 Feb 2008 01:26:00 PST

Recording Artists

Want Mega Exposure for Your Music? Submit Your Best Dance, R&B, Hip-Hop, or Funk Trax for consideration for a Major Music Network TV Series. Send MP3's to: [email protected] ASAP!!!...
Posted by Oliver X's GigsRus.net on Sun, 11 Nov 2007 11:36:00 PST