This month’s Featured Band
* Ollin * Fly N Lion * Jungle City Sound * & Resident Band *Aztlan Underground: Unearthed *

LA Movida Hosted by Actor-Comedian
* Mark Anthony Williams

Featured DJs Mixing Cumbia, Reggae, Hip Hop, Old School, Afro Funk & More
* DJ Ronny Mkoll, The Beat Freak
(More DJs to be announced)
As always, we’ll be at Weber’s.

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

INDIGENOUS LOS ANGELES BASED BAND AZTLAN UNDERGROUND HONORS SPRING EQUINOX WITH NEW SONG, ETERNAL

Los Angeles, CA (March 20, 2013): Indigenous hip-hop and post-punk rock band Aztlan Underground honors the re-emergence of the spring by releasing their newest single Eternal, on the spring equinox, March 20, 2013. The release ofEternal, is another addition to the band’s seasonal series honoring celestial movements and the rhythms of nature. The single is a follow up to their groundbreaking winter solstice release entitled In Realignment and will be available as a soft-launch on their soundcloud and youtube pages.

The new single, engineered and co-produced by Yaotl MC 10 Eagle, continues in the creative vein of what Aztlan Underground calls Native Noise Core.The track is a textural soundscape of off-beat rhythms and poetic drones of love for life. When asked about their influences in creating this new sub-genre, the band members offer up the following quote:

“Glorious preceded by the futurist poets and audio painters beautiful with violence daring with rebellion and illuminous with the animation of genius…..the art of noise” – Francesco Ballila Pratella (Oct. 11, 1910)

The spring equinox witnesses the equal balance of day and light. For many ancient cultures it represents the male and female forces, procreation, and new beginnings. The spring brings an outburst of life and a chance to begin again. According to the Mayan “Tzolkin” calendar, the spring equinox supports the idea of renewal with greater wisdom and a stronger grasp toward one’s purpose.

Lyrics

Primavera

La vida eterna

Conexiones fraternal

Another turn

Rejoice

Concrete Rebirth

Hummingbird tonalli

Movement infinite

With or without humyns

About Aztlan Underground

Aztlan Underground’s music reveals the unrestrained voices of global indigenous peoples combining hypnotic Native rhythms with modern industrial sounds. For 20 years, they have cultivated a grassroots audience across the world from Europe to Australia and Canada to South America. At home, they are an institution influencing a new generation of musicians, bands, and free-thinkers. They challenge their audience to look within, to their own life-giving forces, in order to reach their full human potential.

Aztlan Underground has independently produced and distributed three albums: Decolonize (1995), Sub-Verses (2001), and the self-titled album Aztlan Underground (2009). The band’s albums reflect a process of self-discovery and realization evolving from the anger of Decolonize to the self-titled album featuring an evolution towards a more global, humanitarian struggle.

Aztlan Undergrounds seasonal series releases include: Our Nature (Spring Equinox 2012), Sacred Arrow Sun (Summer Solstice 2012), Vote for Nobody (Autumn Equinox 2012), and In Realignment (Winter Solstice 2012).

Website: www.aztlanunderground.net

Facebook: www.facebook.com/aztlanunderground

Soundcloud:

YouTube:

**All Aztlan Underground albums are available on iTunes.

***Albums and select downloadable songs are available to press upon request.

Aztlan Underground is:

Joe “Peps” (Comanche*): bass, rattles, Native American wood and clay flutes

Caxo (Huichol-Mexica*): drums

Yaotl (Raramuri/Mazahua*): vocals, Indigenous percussion

*Refers to tribal affiliation.

Management: Spiral NRG - (415) 519 8514

Booking: AUG - (818) 219-3441

Press Contact:

mfrias@SpiralNRG.com

www.aztlanunderground.net

Links below:
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Featured Band
Lightning Cloud & Los Pios

Featured DJs:
Mixing Cumbia, Reggae, Hip Hop, Old School, Afro Funk & More
* DJ Bean
* DJ Ronny Mkoll, The Beat Freak
* DJ Glitch in the system

LA Movida Host:  Actor-Comedian Mark Anthony Williams

Featured Comedian:  Jr RedWater

Featured Poet:  Mann Alfonso

As always, at Weber’s Sports Bar and Grill
19312 Vanowen Street, Reseda, California 91335 [map]

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L.A. MOVIDA @ Weber’s Sports Bar and Grill
19312 Vanowen Street Reseda, CA 91335 [map]

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Last Thursday of Every Month
Live Music, Comedians, DJs & Dancing

WOMYN FREE B4 10:30PM!
01/31/2013
8:00PM – 1:00AM
ALL AGES

Aztlan Underground, Olmeca, DJ Papalotl, deejay aurelito & black
shakespeare of i&i sOUND sYSTEM, comic John Vargas, spoken word
artist Lindsey Cristofani, and poet Luis Rodriguez are among the many
performers at a 25th anniversary party and show benefiting “Turning
the Tide: Journal of Anti-Racist Action, Research & Education.” The
fund-raising event will also feature a southern California “first
look” at “Long Distance Revolutionary,” with the trailer and clips
from the new feature film about Mumia Abu-Jamal and his long sojourn
on Death Row presented by the director, Stephen Vittoria. Abu-Jamal
himself has sent an audio message of support for “Turning the Tide”
that will also be played.

The program takes place at Jewel’s Catch One, the historic
high-energy dance club and community center, located at 4067 West
Pico Boulevard, Los Angeles CA 90019 (two blocks east of Crenshaw
Boulevard), on Saturday, February 9, 2013, from 6:00 PM until
closing. Tickets are $10 in advance via paypal to
antiracistaction_la@yahoo.com and $15 at the door for the all-ages
show. For more information, check

https://www.facebook.com/events/138146386339127/,

http://tideturning.org or call 310-460-8586.

“Turning the Tide: Journal of Anti-Racist Action, Research &
Education” has been published at least quarterly since September
1988, and is in its 25th year of continuous publication as a
grassroots voice for economic, social, political and environmental
justice and against systemic racism, white supremacy, political
repression and the threat of fascism. More than 1500 copies of each
issue are distributed free to prisoners in California and around the
U.S. Back issues are available on-line in pdf format at
www.antiracist.org. A sample copy is available on request from
antiracistaction_la@yahoo.com or from PO Box 1055, Culver City CA 90232.

The new song is called “In Realignment”. This release is dedicated to the end of the Mayan long count. Obviously not the end of the world rather a time of renewal. A time of realignment.  This is the beginning of a new era, a time of transition and reflection. A time to look within and open your mind and heart to endless possibilities….the dawn awaits…

YouTube and Soundcloud links below!

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