Gym Class Heroes

I, for one, am not familiar with this girl. Apparently she is a singer who is coming out with an album soon. All I know is she has popular video blogs on Youtube witch you can go see as she keeps you updated with her life and things going on in the studio. She just posed a new video on Youtube on Thurday, March 27 in which Travis of Gym Class Heroes is preparing to give her at tattoo. From the looks of things, she is in Travie’s Manhattan apartment. She promises more footage from this tat session in the future, but from what it looks like, she is getting a tat of Jerry from the cover of the As Cruel As School Children album. It doesn’t actually show Travie tatting her, but is shows the preparation of the tat as Patty talks a bit about getting it. It also shows Travie’s personal tattoo parlor and, from the looks of things, it looks like a pretty professional setup. It just goes to show how multi-talented this dude is. He’s got lots of ink and, hey, I wouldn’t mind getting some tats from him. The video also shows Patty snooping around his apartment and inside his little tatting area with his collection of stuffed animals and dolls. I would definitely like to go there and hang out for a bit and get some tats from Travie too.
Check out the video from Patty Crash below. For more of her video blogs, check out her Youtube page.

Young Hollywood recently caught up with Tyga on the filming of his new video for “Coconut Juice” featuring Travis of Gym Class Heroes. The interviews with Tyga are pretty cool and the video feature on the music video filming also features some footage of Travie on-set as well as Pete Wentz from Fall Out Boy. Travie is obviously having some hair issues and refuses to be interviewed on camera, though according to recent photo’s posted on Travie’s blog, apparently he has chopped a lot of it off. As Tyga explains, the whole concept of the video is built around Travie. It starts off with Travis leaving to go on tour with Gym Class and leaving Tyga the keys to his mansion. Tyga then decides to throw a party, which is pretty much the premise of the video. The footage of the video shoot looks like it’s filled with a bunch of sexy ladies as they dance around a pool. Of course, this is not actually Travie’s mansion, but it is definitely a good setup for the premise of the video. With Travie and Pete backing him, Tyga is definitely on the way to making moves in the music industry. Tyga also talks about Pete and how the two support each other even though they are both making completely different-sounding music. Tyga says music is music and Pete’s lyrics are amazing, though he is channeling them through a different musical style.
Check out the video interview with Tyga from Young Hollywood below:

Top 40 Charts.com recently posted news about the upcoming Samsung Sound Check concert series, spreading some info to the people about Gym Class Heroes as well as the other artists performing on the small club tour. As previously reported, the band will be playing one small show in Chicago as part of the nationwide club series.

If you want to check out the entire article head on over to Top 40 Charts. Here is an excerpt from the article where they talk about GCH:

GYM CLASS HEROES - Performing at Park West in Chicago, IL (April 10)
Melding elements of rap, rock, R&B, and funk into one cohesive and melodic sound, upstate New York’s Gym Class Heroes have diverse appeal due to their impressive musical dexterity. With their music rooted in traditional hip-hop, the quartet’s music also features live instruments instead of looped samples or beats, and lyrics that are often socially conscious yet with a sense of humor. The formation of the band dates back to the late 90’s when MC Travis “Schleprok” McCoy and drummer Matt McGinley became friends during high-school gym class. The band was officially formed in 2001 with the two high school friends eventually teaming up with guitarist Disashi Lumumba-Kasongo and bassist Eric Roberts. After several albums, and many concert tours, the Gym Class Heroes’ profile notably increased at the end of 2006 with the release of their Album “As Cruel As School Children” and the single “Cupid’s Chokehold/Breakfast in America,” which hit number four on Billboard’s Hot 100 and remained in constant rotation on radio and MTV during the spring of 2007. From the word go, Gym Class Heroes have defined themselves via a free-thinking philosophy, always breaking musical boundaries and changing perceptions of what hip-hop or indie or rock can be. With “As Cruel As School Children,” Gym Class Heroes make plain that they are proudly unified in their disorderly vision, confident that their integrity will pay off dividends in the end. For more information, go to http://www.gymclassheroes.com or http://www.myspace.com/gymclassheroes.

Gym Class Heroes will be part of the Samsung Sound Check concert series, performing one show in Chicago, Illinois. While there are a few other concert dates in different cities that include performances by the likes of Ne-Yo and Sean Kingston, 1 Iota are giving away 300 tickets to the GCH show only. Tickets are free, and are mostly being given out through promotions and radio giveaways, though 1 Iota has 300 they are getting rid of. For more information on how you can get one of them, check out the 1 Iota web site here.

Here is the Gym Class Heroes concert info:

Samsung is back at it again this year bringing you the Samsung Sound Check !

Five Of Today’s Hottest Bands Perform Private Shows in Five Major Cities, Supported by Four Different Carriers –All United Through Samsung – For An Exclusive Music Experience!

We are looking for 300 people to be a part of the Samsung Sound Check concert series, one of the five exclusive events happening throughout the country this spring. This is a red carpet event featuring celebrities, cool new products and a special one hour set by GYM CLASS HEROES!

Tickets are FREE!

AGE: You and your guest must be at least 18 years old and have a valid state or government issued ID to attend the show. No Exceptions! Alcohol will be served at the venue for those people over 21.

DRESS: We ask that everyone dress like you are going out to a club. Please do not wear any solid white shirts, baseball hats, elaborate patterns or logos, as they are not camera-friendly.

Gym Class Heroes will be part of the Samsung Sound Check concert series, performing one show in Chicago, Illinois. While there are a few other concert dates in different cities that include performances by the likes of Ne-Yo and Sean Kingston, 1 Iota are giving away 300 tickets to the GCH show only. Tickets are free, and are mostly being given out through promotions and radio giveaways, though 1 Iota has 300 they are getting rid of. For more information on how you can get one of them, check out the 1 Iota web site here.

Here is the Gym Class Heroes concert info:

Samsung is back at it again this year bringing you the Samsung Sound Check !

Five Of Today’s Hottest Bands Perform Private Shows in Five Major Cities, Supported by Four Different Carriers –All United Through Samsung – For An Exclusive Music Experience!

We are looking for 300 people to be a part of the Samsung Sound Check concert series, one of the five exclusive events happening throughout the country this spring. This is a red carpet event featuring celebrities, cool new products and a special one hour set by GYM CLASS HEROES!

Tickets are FREE!

AGE: You and your guest must be at least 18 years old and have a valid state or government issued ID to attend the show. No Exceptions! Alcohol will be served at the venue for those people over 21.

DRESS: We ask that everyone dress like you are going out to a club. Please do not wear any solid white shirts, baseball hats, elaborate patterns or logos, as they are not camera-friendly.

Travie has recently been appearing on collaborations with hip-hop artists including Gillateen out of his homeland of Upstate New York as well as Tyga, his cousin out of Compton.

The track with Gillateen is called “Giants” and can be checked out by clicking the link here. I’m not too familiar with Gillateen or the rest of the guys on the track, but it’s pretty dope. Travie comes in towards the end over the laid-back yet kind of eerie instrumental. It actually kind of reminds me of an old Wu-Tang track with a looped instrumental and dudes just coming in spitting their verses. I’m sure collaborating with Travie will draw a lot of attention to these guys as well.

The track with Tyga is more of a club banger called “Coconut Juice”. It can be checked out on Tyga’s Myspace here.

Apparently a video for the song was filmed last weekend in Woodland Hills, California, and will not only feature Travis but also Pete Wentz of Fall Out Boy. The upcoming Tyga album is titled “No Introduction” and is due out this spring. It will feature production from Patrick Stump (Lupe Fiasco), S*A*M/Sluggo (Gym Class Heroes) and Stress (Ghostface Killah). I am definitely interested in checking out the video. You can check out some photos from the video shoot by checking out Tyga’s blog here at Friends or Enemies.

Travie has been a busy dude lately with all these collaborations, video shoots and now an upcoming college tour. Check out more info on the upcoming East Coast tour here.

The Daily Pennsylvanian, the University of Pennsylvania University, recently posted a story on their upcoming concert here. As part of the newly-announced school tour by Gym Class Heroes, the Pennsylvania University stop will be headlined by Ludacris and a special unannounced artist to play before Gym Class. The concert, dubbed Spring Fling, will be on April 11th and begin at 8 p.m. at the university’s Franklin Field, which will be the first concert at the venue since 2004. The additional artist or band will also be part of the “triple bill” lineup and will be announced within the next two weeks. Each performing group and artist will go onstage for about an hour and there are about 8, 000 tickets being sold for the event to the public. Tickets for the concert will go on sale on Wednesday, March 25th at 10 a.m. Eight hundred wristbands granting access to the mosh pit will be distributed to Penn students through a lottery from March 21 to April 4 and through promotions. For students reluctant to shell out money, 200 FlingSafe volunteers - a group of students who help promote safe behavior during Spring Fling - will receive free tickets.

Go check out the entire article on the Daily Pennsylvanian. Also, if you are interested in checking out Gym Class Heroes while touring the East Coast on the college and university tour stint, check out the list of entire tour stops here. They’re doing a bunch of stops in New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, New Jersey and other places. Look for the one closest to you.

Adding to the list of upcoming shows Gym Class Heroes are doing before Warped Tour and the release of “The Quilt”, the band recently announced a short East Coast college tour. Announcements of other college shows have been popping up lately, and only recently did they include other concerts to form a little mini-tour thing. Apparently you can only currently order tickets for the Washington College and Ohio Wesleyen University shows through Ticketmaster. Not sure about any of the other schools, though I bet they would be available at the door. If you live in the area and don’t want to risk not getting in, check with the school web site in advance.

Here is the complete list of dates:

Apr 1 2008 8:00P
UMass-Lowell - Lowell, MA

Apr 2 2008 8:00P
College of William and Mary - Williamsburg, VA

Apr 3 2008 8:00P
College of Charleston - Charleston, SC

Apr 4 2008 8:00P
Embry Riddle Daytona - Beach, FL

Apr 5 2008 8:00P
George Washington University - Washington, DC

Apr 11 2008 8:00P
University of Pennsylvania - Philadelphia, PA

Apr 12 2008 8:00P
Rider University - Lawrenceville, NJ

Apr 13 2008 8:00P
Washington College - Chestertown, MD

Apr 16 2008 8:00P
University of Missouri-St. Louis - St. Louis, MO

Apr 17 2008 8:00P
Wayne State University - Detroit, MI

Apr 18 2008 8:00P
Ohio Wesleyan University - Delaware, OH

Apr 19 2008 8:00P
Lock Haven University - Lock Haven, PA

Apr 20 2008 8:00P
Millersville University - Millersville, PA

Apr 24 2008 6:00P
George Mason University - Fairfax, VA

Apr 24 2008 8:00P
Wooton High School - Rockville, MD

Apr 25 2008 8:00P
Niagara University - Buffalo, NY

Apr 26 2008 6:00P
University of Hartford - Hartford, CT

May 1 2008 8:00P
Fitchburg State College - Fitchburg, MA

May 2 2008 8:00P
Cornell University - Ithaca, NY

May 3 2008 8:00P
Manhattan College - Riverdale, NY

With the amount of sporadic Gym Class Heroes concerts popping up all over the States, Billboard recently announced yet another one scheduled for early this April. The band will be playing as part of the first Samsung Sound Check free concert series, with a free show at Park West in Chicago on April 10. Only select tickets will be made available thought radio promotion and online registration from a web site that isn’t even up yet. Not sure what the deal is with that, but check in with Samsung as early as this week, because according to the Billboard article the site should be up very soon.
Also performing throughout the Samsung Sound Check concert series will be Ne-Yo on March 27 in New Orleans, Jimmy Eat World in Charlotte, N.C., on March 30, Paramore in Houston on April 29, and Sean Kingston in Las Vegas on May 14. Check out the entire article on Billboard.com and if you live in any of those areas, perhaps local radio stations are promoting the events.

The news of the Gym Class Heroes concert should be no surprise to fans, as the band has scheduled a bunch of free shows and college performances lately. It is undoubtedly to help spread the word about their upcoming full-length “The Quilt”, due this summer. At which point, the band will be heading out on the Vans Warped Tour for most of the summer. It can be speculated they will tour again after that, though this is just an educated guess on my part.

Gym Class Heroes guitarist Disashi posted a new blog on his Myspace page last Tuesday, talking about some upcoming GCH concerts. One, in particular will be held in Disashi’s hometown of Ithica, New York, which will be their first performance in the upstate New York town. He also says something to the effect of May 2nd at the end, which I believe is the official release date of the next Gym Class album entitled “The Quilt”. Check out the entire blog posing below and visit Disashi’s Myspace page here.

Hiiiiii there,

I am stoked. No silly, it’s not because I’ve been taking my vitamins regularly for the past 2 months (but as a matter of fact I have been and I feel like a champion). It’s because thanks to some serious persistence on my end, assistance from The Agency Group, and support from the kids/staff at Cornell University, Gym Class Heroes will finally be playing a show in my home town of Ithaca NY for the first time since I joined GCH in 2004! GCH has been touring like crazy across the country and much of the world for the past 4 years, so I’m excited that we were able to make space to rock out in I-Town. We will be headlining the Slope Day Festival on Libe Slope (West Campus). While admission will generally be reserved for Cornell students, I must say that it will be amazing to play on my home turf AND former university at that. I’m thankful for all the friends who helped and supported my dreams throughout highschool/college, and to those warm-hearted people who told me I sucked at guitar and discouraged me along the way… HUGS AND KISSES!!!!!

May 2nd my friends.

Peace sign,
Disashi

Washington College recently announced Gym Class Heroes will be performing on their campus on April 13th. The concert will take place in the LFC at Washington College and doors will open at 6 p.m. According to Washington College, the show will start at 7 p.m. with two unnamed opening acts before Gym Class Heroes take the stage, and everything is supposed to wrap up at about 10 p.m. Good luck.

It’s funny because the article mentions how the Student Events Board originally tried to get Flight of the Concords but couldn’t schedule them to play because they’re involved in some sort of TV show. So I guess they figured the next best thing was GCH. It is expected that the audience will increase from the 900 people who came last year to 1,500 this year. They hope to achieve this through a better promotion of the event and advertising the concert at other schools as well as on local radio to get people out. I’m sure GCH diehards will come in droves as well, depending on how close they live to the school.

For those interested in possibly attending the concert, tickets will be on sale starting March 20. They’ll be going for $19 for Washington College students, $21 for staff and faculty, and $25 for non-students. So if you know someone who goes to Washington College – steal their card for the discount. There should be plenty of tickets at the door, however, which will go for $25 to everyone.

Check out the entire article here from the Washington College student paper.

Production duo 5G Productions based out of New York just released their Gym Class Heroes/ Hall and Oats remix tape, which they’re offering to download for free from their web site. Check it out here and, take my word, Gym Class fans will definitely want to check this out because the ish sounds right! The “New Friend Request” remix featuring legendary MC Louis Logic is among my personal favorites. You may also want to check out their Ludacris/Jackson 5 mash-up because it’s amazing as well. 5G has been getting a lot of attention and praise around the hip-hop and mainstream music community, recently getting coverage from MTV. Check out their site and check out the official press release from 5G below:

5G Productions Introduces Gym Class Heroes to Hall & Oates for “As Cruel As School Children, The Match-Up” and Offers Free Download!

New York, NY, March 4, 2008 - You’ve read about it in the pages of LA Weekly, Scratch Magazine, Mtv.com and more. Now it’s yours to enjoy, free of charge!

Producers J.J. Brown and Dan “The Deacon” Maier of 5G Productions bring you their follow up to last year’s ground-breaking “Re-Release Therapy” (a remix project blending Ludacris’ vocals with beats constructed solely of Jackson 5 elements) with “As Cruel As School Children, The Match-Up”. This meticulously constructed collection finds Brown and Maier mixing the a cappellas from Gym Class Heroes’ chart topping album “As Cruel As School Children” with musical backdrops comprised entirely of samples from the works of legendary recording duo Daryl Hall and John Oates.

Includes new “Match-Up” versions of Gym Class Heroes’ hit singles “Clothes Off!!” and “Cupid’s Chokehold” as well as an exclusive remix of “New Friend Request” featuring 5G’s own lyrical genius, Louis Logic. Enjoy!

Gym Class Heroes is scheduled to perform at the 2008 Honda Grand Prix of St. Petersburg. XM Satellite Radio will present the guys in concert on Sunday, April 6 before the green lights go on at the 2008 Honda Indy. According to organizers, the GCH concert will start at 12 p.m. and will take place on the XM Stage in the Honda Plaza, located inside the race circuit adjacent to the Mahaffey Theater. XM is dedicated to delivering the best of motorsports and music to open-wheel race fans around the country, according to XM vice-president of automotive marketing Jeff Curry. This is one of the few upcoming concerts Gym Class will be playing before the summer, when they plan to tour extensively in support of their upcoming full-length The Quilt. They’re also doing a few other small shows this spring, though this is probably one of the biggest.

The Honda Grand Prix of St. Petersburg, the first street-circuit race on the 2008 IndyCar Series schedule, will be run on a 1.8-mile, 14-turn course through the streets of St. Petersburg on Sunday, April 6. Qualifying and practice sessions will be held Friday, April 4 and Saturday, April 5. The second running of the Acura Sports Car Challenge of St. Petersburg on the American Le Mans Series gets under way at 1:30 p.m. on Saturday, April 5.

Travie said of the upcoming concert, “We play for fans of all kinds of music - from jam band to death metal to punk to hip-hop, and we’re thrilled to perform for race fans today in St. Petersburg.”

Check out the official news announcement of the upcoming concert here.

Legendary rock magazine Alternative Press recently ran a feature on Gym Class Heroes after catching up with them in the studio while recording The Quilt. Alternative Press has been giving the band quite a bit of attention lately, also recently naming Disashi one of the top guitarists of 2007. Part of the article talked about how Gym Class plans to gain their legitimacy in the hip-hop community with the new record. Travie has made it no secret that he plans to release some of his best microphone work with this album to garner the attention of hip-hop’s elite. While we already know the album is produced by Patrick Stump and that Busta Rhymes as well as Daryl Hall will be featured on a couple of tracks, as well that a couple tracks will be produced by Miami’s Cool and Dre, the article says there is a list of other featured artists who will appear – though the group is keeping their mouths shut about it for now. Heck, with enough teasers out there to wet GCH fans appetites already, the album could feature Jesus and it wouldn’t make a difference.

Travie also released yet another teaser on his blog, with a collaboration of a few of the upcoming tracks. It’s only a small snippet of a bunch of new songs strewn together, but I’m sure diehards who crave new GCH material will love it. Go check it out. And for those who want to read the entire Alternative Press article, head on over to Upstate Kids where the good folks over there scanned ‘er in.

For those familiar with Travie’s blog, he recently announced the album title for the new Gym Class Heroes album due out this summer on his blog. While there were rumors it would be titled Black Widow and few other crazy ideas running around, Travie officially revealed this Thursday that the upcoming release will be called “The Quilt”.

But that’s not all. Oh, no. Travie also posted a sample clip of one of the songs from the album, entitled “Don’t Tell Me it’s Over”. Check out the snippet on his blog here. It has been speculated the song deals something with one of Travie’s recent blog posts about his brother, Tyga, an MC who has been hated on a lot on the ‘net. The track deals with people criticizing other people on the web while they secretly want to be stars, but mocking others for what they cannot do. The track is really laid-back and with a piano beat, the production reminds me of a Kanye-west sort of beat.

Here is a snippet of Travie’s lyrics in “Don’t Tell Me It’s Over”:

All press is good press kids
So if you want to see us gone
I suggest you keep our name out of your headlines
Unless you want a mess that is
Ya best bet’s to set your dirty laundry separate from the clean before you deadline
Admit it you wanted to be an artist
But your parents and that tiny voice inside you said it wasn’t worth the hardship
What better way to compensate then to hate on
everything you wish you were but didn’t have the balls to harness
pop culture’s my…
so how you think you gonna stop us
cuz ya flirting with a chick
whose got My tongue in her esophagus
Bitches post anonymous
We shat on oh seven
Oh eight is gonna be great
imagine twenty eleven
Give me one good reason I shouldn’t dead this debate
…don’t worry, I’ll wait…
That’s wtf I thought.
Cat got ya tongue?
Next time get your facts right.
Google me and act right.

Go check out Travie’s blog post and listen to this stuff now.