Summer festival season is coming into view and we're so excited to be returning to Electric Forest - this June 28-July 1, 2012 at the beloved Double JJ Ranch in Rothbury, Michigan.  Big news today from promoters who have just announced the artist lineup. Tickets are available now at www.electricforestfestival.com.

Live music pioneers The String Cheese Incident (3 performances), Bassnectar and STS9 (2 performances) will top the bill at Electric Forest 2012. Also on the bill are Thievery Corporation, Girl Talk, Santigold, Steve Aoki, Ghostland Observatory, Richie Hawtin, Major Lazer, Big Gigantic, The Travelin’ McCourys featuring Keller Williams and many more. The complete list of currently confirmed artists can be found at www.electricforestfestival.com. 

Electric Forest 2012 also introduces special curated events at this year’s festival. Working with such esteemed partners as ESL Music, Dim Mak, Check Yo Ponytail and Paxahau, look for events within the event to be hosted at the Tripolee, Forest and Wagon Wheel stages throughout the weekend.  Visit the www.electricforestfestival.com for details as they become available.  Book your flight to Michigan now - you won't want to miss the Sherwood Forest!

For more than 30 years, Jerry Joseph has been strapping on a guitar and chasing down truth, understanding and soul with tenacity and resonant skill. Joseph is the archetypal musician’s musician - something that’s resoundingly clear on his sweeping new double album Happy Book, to be released March 20, 2012 on Response Records. 

Captured with muscle and blood by Joseph’s longtime trio The Jackmormons, Happy Book presents Jerry Joseph & The Jackmormons at their most diverse and confident; it’s a record with a wide swing that dexterously moves from whisper closeness to Technicolor expansiveness. Produced by Joseph’s former Little Women band mate Gregg Williams (Dandy Warhols, Blitzen Trapper), Happy Book is an emotional and sonic wallop fueled by the tightest, tastiest playing the Jackmormons have ever captured in the studio. “After 17 years, this album brings together a lot of things I’ve always wanted on a record,” explains Joseph.  “This sounds like a band that’s been together 17 years and has evolved along the way.”

Look for Joseph and his band to tour this spring in support of the album’s release.  jerryjoseph.com

Cloud 9 Adventures – the team behind music travel experiences Jam Cruise, Holy Ship!, Mayan Holidaze and Panic en la Playa – gives back to the communities they visit via their non-profit organization Positive Legacy. For Jam Cruise’s recent 10^th sailing, the MSC Poesia visited port Haiti where Positive Legacy partnered with various organizations on humanitarian and environmental outreach projects to benefit the specific needs of the local communities.  The good work of Positive Legacy enabled Jam Cruise 10 to donate 12,200+ pairs of shows, 2,000 pairs of new socks to Haitian communities as well as seeding 6,000 citrus trees to help build the growing nursery in Limonade, Haiti.  

Positive Legacy is also providing $9,000 to Haiti Village Health to improve sanitary conditions at their clinic, which up until now has been providing primary care services to 25,000 people without any running water. Construction of a well and septic system is currently under way, and the funding from Positive Legacy will provide for bathrooms with plumbing to sinks and toilets, and a new roof on the clinic.  For more information on Positive Legacy's work, check out www.positivelegacy.com.