REMINDER!!! Red Bull Music Academy Application deadline is April 2, 2012. You can download the application from redbullmusicacademy.com/apply. When you have completed the application (including a CD of material and photo) please contact tandra@redbullmusicacademy.com. For more on Red Bull Music Academy  and see Bass Camp video highlights and Red Bull Bass Camp highlights keys to music

Red Bull held its Red Bull Music Academy Info Session in Kingston last week, March 7 at Redbones Blues Cafe. The objective was to sensitize the local music fraternity to the up coming Red Bull Music Academy to be held this year in New York from September 30 to November 2.

Red Bull Music Academy is holding their Annual Application Info Session, this year in Kingston. For more info follow Tandra Lytes on Twitter/DJLytes. This is an invite only event so put in your reservation early – seating will be very limited. For more info on Red Bull Music Academy 2012 see

Video highlights from the Red Bull Music Academy Bass Camp (more here) – fabulous production for Red Bull by New Caribbean Cinema (Storm Saulter, Nile Saulter & Michelle Serieux).

Producer and manager Jeremy Harding, songwriter and producer Mikey Bennett and producer Sawandi Simon shared two days of musical knowledge with twenty-five aspiring musicians and music industry practitioners at the Red Bull Music Academy Bass Camp this past week.

  Red Bull Music Academy presents a performance by No-Maddz, Wednesday March 7th, 2012 – 9:00pm – $1,000. No-Maddz is for sure one of the most exciting bands to come out of Jamaica recently – catch them if you can! See No-Maddz sizzle with originality For more info on nomaddzja.com

Red Bull Tum Tum Pa is the first Freestyle Drumming Competition for students with entrants from UWI, Utech, Edna Manley College and Mico. The idea is for participants (teams of up to four) to showcase their musical creativity, jamming with pens, pencils, rulers, scissors and erasers to create their own

Gas Money was the headlining act last night at the Live Music Nation’s show presented by Griot Music at Christopher’s last night.  The night featured a wide variety of musical talent stretching from Seretse Small on jazz guitar who gave the crowd a special treat by also singing the blues

Jamaican house music duo, Echomatik’s new EP Hanover is out today exclusively on Beatport – grab a copy today and help them chart the lead track “Realise”. Click here to buy on Beatport: Beatport Echomatik gives you techno – funky, deep, dark, acid, melodic and minimal. Echomatik is Jeremy Harding and Christopher Edmonds.

New Name is the debut album from rising female reggae vocalist Janine “Jah9” Cunningham. Jah9 has been credited as the creator of the “Jazz on Dub” genre, and New Name reflects this masterful blend of the jazz melodies of Billie Holiday and Nina Simone with the dancehall attack of Sizzla