Featured Performers

Currently Announced Performers. Watch this page for lineup additions.

ATOMIC TOM

Saturday, January 28
1:00pm – Interview
2:00pm – Live Performance
Moscone Center, West Hall

Macworld | iWorld hosts a live performance and interview with Atomic Tom, a four-man rock band from Brooklyn, New York, that gained popularity after performing their single “Take Me Out” on four iPhones on the New York City subway. For more information on Atomic Tom: http://www.atomictom.com.

BEATS ANTIQUE

Thursday, January 26
10:30pm
Mezzanine, 444 Jessie Street, SF (age limit: 21 and over)

Macworld | iWorld are pleased to host a live performance from Beats Antique. Growing like wildfire under the canopy of live electonica and world roots music comes a masterful merge of modern technology, live instrumentation and seductive performance, built of brass bands and glitch, string quartets and dubstep: the musical trio Beats Antique.

Since the group’s inception from the eclectic underground of San Francisco’s performance art scene, Beats Antique has been notorious for making it nearly impossible to sit still. They meld their mediums as attentively as they fuse the cultures that inspire their sound. All self produced and composed, the trio creates a unique collage: an animalistic, raw musical event that blurs the lines between the provocative, the spiritual, and the artistic, while still maintaining an allegiance to the muses of class and beauty. For more information on Beats Antique: http://beatsantique.com/ba_product/elektrafone-cd or visit their Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/beatsantiquefans.

BT

Friday, January 27
9:00pm – 1:00am
Mezzanine, 444 Jessie Street, SF (age limit: 21 and over)

Given his enviable resume and illustrious fifteen+ year career, it is difficult to imagine that platinum-selling artist, visionary producer, film composer and technologist BT may only now be beginning to create the best work of his career. An internationally-renowned recording artist himself, he is trusted by superstars such as Sting, Britney Spears, Sarah McLachlan, Tori Amos, Madonna, Seal and Peter Gabriel to produce modernist and memorable hits, with a bleeding-edge electronic flair. He has composed unforgettable scores for films The Fast and the Furious, Go, Stealth and Oscar-award winning Monster. With his latest two-hour, double-disk opus, These Hopeful Machines, BT definitively weaves both the technical prowess and compositional mastery that reminds us all why he’s the composer that all other composers and producers study.

ECLECTIC METHOD

Saturday, January 28
9:00pm
Mezzanine, 444 Jessie Street, SF (age limit: 21 and over)

Macworld | iWorld is pleased to present Eclectic Method, featuring London natives Jonny Wilson and Geoff Gamlen – who helped
pioneer the emerging art of audio-visual mixing since first cutting U2’s Mysterious Ways music video with
the Beastie Boys’ Intergalactic as an experiment back in 2002. The duo’s audio-visual mash-ups feature
television, film, music and video game footage sliced and diced into blistering, post-modern dance floor
events. It’s a cyclone of music and images mashed together in a world where Kill Bill fight scenes and
 Dave Chappelle’s Rick James rants are ingeniously cut and looped over bootleg samples, DVD scratches
and pumped-up dance anthems. It’s a real-time subversion of technology and media performed live on
video turntables for what LA Weekly called a “mesmerizing” sensory overload. For more information on Eclectic Method: http://www.eclecticmethod.net.

HANK SHOCKLEE: Sonic architect on the Future Frequency

Friday, January 27
3:00pm – Presentation
3:45pm – Live Performance
Moscone Center, West Hall

Hank Shocklee Presents FUTURE FREQUENCY: Artistic Freedom In The Digital Age
Hank Shocklee, Grammy nominated producer, composer and new media company executive, Shocklee Entertainment

Sonic architect, provocateur and BOMB SQUAD/Public Enemy mastermind Hank Shocklee analyzes the advantages that today’s artists have over any other period in time and how to best approach technology in order to free up your thinking, your work and explore new ways to shape and transform your art. This must see session will challenge you to step out of the box. Following the talk, stay for a special Drum Programmers Camp exhibition/performance hosted by Shocklee.

J BOOGIE’S DUBTRONIC SCIENCE

Thursday, January 26
9:00pm
Mezzanine, 444 Jessie Street, SF (age limit: 21 and over)

Watch a live performance from J Boogie’s Dubtronic Science, DJ J Boogie’s full live band experience featuring a horn section, MC’s and percussionists playing alongside his electronic DJ set, taking the performance to the next level as a stage act that’s toured the festival circuit. J Boogie is a San Francisco resident and world-renowned DJ/producer who continues to challenge the boundaries of the music world across genres, styles, languages and borders throughout his 20-year career. This truly unique artist speaks to his listeners through a diverse musical language he created integrating techniques and musical genres including downtempo, dub, hip–hop, soul, reggae, funk, African, Latin, bhangra, dancehall, disco, electro, bass, tropical, dubstep and house. Constantly revolutionizing the game, creating new sounds, and always keeping fans on their feet, J-Boogie continues to lift music to its full potential through his distinct approach and one-of-a-kind style. For more information on J Boogie http://jboogie.com.

DAVID MASH

Thursday, January 26
12:30pm – Live Performance
Moscone Center, West Hall

David Mash is Vice President for Technology and Education Outreach at Berklee College of Music. He is charged with strategic planning and leadership in the successful integration of technology into all college processes. He was the founding chair of the music synthesis department, the first degree-program in MIDI and music synthesis in the United States. He is also leading the development of the Berklee City Music Network – a consortium of community based organizations providing after-school music education to youth from underserved communities at no cost to them, currently in 32 cities across the US, and developing the Berklee PULSE music method, an online curriculum and library of music teaching and learning materials focused on American popular music and targeted for middle and high school-aged students.

MODEST MOUSE

Wednesday, January 25
Doors open at 7:00pm
The Warfield, 982 Market Street, SF (age limit: 21 and over)

Modest Mouse was formed in 1993 in Issaquah, Washington and over the last decade has become the indie rock standard and one of the few bands capable of treading the narrow path where massive popularity is possible without sacrificing their longtime fans. Modest Mouse released We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank, on March 20, 2007 and immediately entered the Billboard Top 200 chart at #1. Most recently the band released the EP No One’s First, And You’re Next and will reissue Moon & Antartica on vinyl April 20, 2010.

MOE.

Thursday, January 26
4:00pm – Interview
4:30pm – Live Performance
Moscone Center, West Hall

Main Stage: Interview & Performance with moe – hosted by Chris Breen of Macworld Magazine
Interview by Chris Breen, Senior Editor, Macworld Magazine
moe. – Vinnie Amico, Rob Derhak, Chuck Garvey, Jim Loughlin, Al Schnier

The rock group moe. Recently celebrated the 20th anniversary of the band’s frontline of Rob Derhak, Chuck Garvey and Al Schnier who continue to perform together with the addition of drummer Vinnie Amico and percussionist and multi-instrumentalist Jim Loughlin. The group has toured the world with highlights including Woodstock ’99, New York’s Central Park and has toured with legendary acts such as The Dead, The Allman Brothers Band, Robert Plant, and the Who. moe. Is recognized for its charitable work with WHY (World Hunger Year), Headcount, Freedom for Burma, and the Red Cross (for Katrina survivors). On January 24, 2012, moe. will release its tenth studio album WHAT HAPPENED TO THE LA LAs on Sugar Hill Records. moe.’s critically acclaimed, kaleidoscopic music spans from tight, incisively well-constructed songs to fluid, conversational extended improvisation. The band will perform an abbreviated set, which will include a performance of the song “Crab Eyes” using and sit down with Chris for an interactive interview and Q&A.

MOTION POTION

Saturday, January 28
8:00pm
Mezzanine, 444 Jessie Street, SF (age limit: 21 and over)

2011 has been an amazing year for Robbie Kowal, aka Motion Potion. It marked his 8th consecutive appearance at the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival, a as well as return engagements at Outside Lands festival, Treasure Island Music festival Camp Bisco, Gathering of the Vibes, High Sierra Music Festival, Camp Euphoria, Sea of Dreams, and Earthdance. Devoting the majority of his time and energy to the development of his new company “Silent Frisco” has seen MoPo bring a taste of the Bay Area dj scene to clubs and festival around the United States.

SAL SOGHOIAN

Friday, January 27
12:30pm – Live Performance
Moscone Center, West Hall

Join guitarist Sal Soghoian for an exploration of American standards from the era of George Gershwin, Harold Arlen, and Cole Porter. Sal’s solo guitar style can be best described as “pianistic,” where the melody is supported simultaneously by harmony and bass, plucked on a Godin MIDI guitar synced to Apple’s MainStage software. It’s a perfect marriage of the old, the new, and the Macintosh, all conveyed in an invigorating afternoon set. Stop by, take your shoes off, and set a while.

A.SKILLZ

Saturday, January 28
11:00pm
Mezzanine, 444 Jessie Street, SF (age limit: 21 and over)

Adam ‘A.Skillz’ is one of the country’s most funky beatmeisters. His fierce production skills and turntable dexterity has seen him explode onto the scene, collaborating with hip-hop legends and making music for worldwide brands. His incredible deck talents involve fusing funk, hip-hop and breaks with his unique style of scratching and mixing. Whilst, his reputation as a true party rocker has won him prime-time slots across the UK at FabricLive, Spectrum, Chew The Fat, Supercharged, The Boutique and Sugarbeat as well as gigs around the world at major events, festivals and music industry parties such as The Hit Factory (New York), WMC (Miami) and Field Day (Sydney).

U9LIFT

Thursday, January 26, 12:00pm – 2:00pm
Friday, January 27, 4:00pm – 6:00pm
Moscone Center, West Hall

(formerly known as Ben maybe) is the resurrection of musical exploration, music that defies genre yet defines emotion. U9lift the underground, is a six foot down sound. U9lift has released more than 3 dozen original compositions, remixes, and live sets, and is the broker/dealer of “Fully Automated Recordings” (http://soundcloud.com/u9lift). His live style has been described as “Massive Attack met Shaggy down by the crossroads for a deal with the devil”. (WhatDaFunk Newsletter). He crafts each set individually and every show is completely unique often incorporating live harmonica, analog delays and percussion all run through Ableton live on his customized 13 inch Macbook pro. His public persona is obscure and mysterious and only rarely peeks out from behind the shades at www.soundcloud.com/u9lift.