Brooklyn’s DJ Center offers his latest track, “Tout Passe” (French for “everything shall pass”) featuring Samia Farah, for a free download.  It is the first song on Center’s upcoming debut EP Everything In Time.

“Tout Passe’s” deep grooves are flavored in equal measures with downtempo, soul, roots and dub reggae, while  Tunisian-French singer Samia imbues shades of Billie Holiday and Sarah Vaughan.

Center and Giant Step are also celebrating the return of his Push The Fader radio show.

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All Points West Music & Arts Festival returns to Liberty State Park on the weekend of July 31-Aug 2. The second Annual Festival features a crazy lineup of 65 artists and comedians on three stages, plus a gorgeous view of the Manhattan skyline and plenty of beer gardens. In response to concerns from last year, festival producers are making extra changes to improve the experience for ticket holders, from increasing the frequency and size of the Manhattan ferry to improving the concert grounds with shorter lines, shade tents and more.

Click here for the official line up and ticket info.

Giant Step’s biweekly DJ series at Hudson Hotel welcomes back hip hop legend Pete Rock on Monday, April 20. In the 2008 series, the classic New York producer and DJ tore it up, lining the dance floor with jam after jam.

As New York City’s premier Monday night event for the last two years, the Hudson has consistently seen a curated roster of DJ legends and pioneering artists as wide-ranging as Louie Vega, Afrika Bambaataa, Jazzanova, Bobbito and Danny Krivit, playing styles from soulful house, Latin, hip hop, jazz, funk and more. Free with RSVP.

Grab your copy of JACQUES JAMS, VOL. 1: ENDURANCE at www.chesterfrench.com

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“Wow!!! This is dope, Kero. I love it, I love it!” is what will.i.am has to say about the Bay Area’s Rapper/producer/DJ Kero One’s Early Believers, out today.  Three years after receiving Remix Magazine’s Best Hip Hop Album of 2006 award and collaborating with Talib Kweli and Mark Farina on his debut, Kero modulates from soulful jazz tinged tracks to upbeat synth-driven party bangers on his sophomore album.

Early Believers features some of his favorite vocalists such as Gilles Peterson protégé UK singer Ben Westbeech (“When The Sunshine Comes” and “Goodbye Forever”), Finland’s answer to modern soul, Tuomo (“Let’s Just Be Friends” and “Love and Happiness”) and Portland’s Ohmega Watts (“Stay On The Grind”) all showcasing Kero One’s growth and maturity as a writer, composer, vocalist and arranger. Enjoy a free download of the opening track to Early Believers, “Welcome To The Bay,” with Jacqueline Marie.