FOX NEWS calls in the experts...

There are obviously a number of questions that come up from this video.
But some of my initial inquiries were:
1) I'm very curious as to where "Fox News Legal Analyst" Mercedes Colon got her law degree from.
2) God forbid Kayle's mom went down that street "butt neked" rather than Erykah, then we actually might have had a number of legitimate cases coming forward.

check out Badu's ENTIRE work here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCaCIstoOsU

(tips to Dooski)

Black Sheep Mag "Zzzz" Review

This review was just incredible for me to read over. Its really amazing when people dig your music even more than you could have ever expected them to... (Especially when its a critic!?)

Its a pretty in depth review and well worth your time to check out if you find a second:
http://www.blacksheepmag.com/reviews/album-reviews/item/1716-zzzz



special thanks to Daniella Robbins and the rest of Black Sheep Magazine

cooolest thing everrr lollll

No seriously. This was an amazing find, awesome for some creative procrastination, terrible for my paper due Friday. (it might take a long time to load but its well worth the wait!!) http://www.escapemotions.com/experiments/flame/index.html#top




Thanks to Chairman Rau for the initial tip!

This is also pretty sweet:

"Body Paint" Installation at "Clicks or Mortar", March 2009 from Memo Akten on Vimeo.

NBN Interview/Article

The Northwestern University Publication North by Northwestern did an interview/article on "Zzzz" that is a pretty good read for info on... me. I guess.

Special thanks to Lorraine Lee and the rest of the NBN staff!!!

PEEPs.

After all that mixing of "Zzzz" my ears needed a break, so I opened up my eyes...




So usually I use a "PEEPs" post as a way to try and highlight a specific musical artist that I dig, but this time I wanted to try and show off some of the visual art that I've been checking out lately.

for one, this design blog "the Roxor" is incredible. As I am a nerd for graphic-design and logo work this find was messy as I sent hours checking it out. (Yeah I've done a little bit of my own graphic designing... you know this music shit aint making me enough money.)

Through the Roxor I came across this artist Erika Simmons. Right away I was blown away with her cassette tape work. check it:






When I was doing research for my album artwork I came across a lot of great Vector artists because I thought that it would be a style that I wanted to roll in. Eventually with the help of a Nor'easter I opted for photography, but I still dig and follow a lot of these websites/artists:

Blood Sweat Vector
Through Blood Sweat Vector I came across these great not-necessarily-vector artists:
Retro, Hip and Soulful: Sean Qualls
Eric Carl on N.W. Native American Hood Crack: Jonny Wan
Good spot to keep up to date with urban art: the Little Chimp Society

"Zzzz" Press/Drops

So I've been getting some press drops the past couple weeks and I just wanted to post some of the links to these reviews/drops/blogs that have helped me out! (you all should start checking these spots out as they are refined enough to support good music like "Zzzz"... no but seriously.)

BEATCACKES - "the entire album is very relaxing and laidback."
BETTER BLENDS - "an impressive debut from the young college student and musician."
HOLD MY COAT - "incredibly talented singer, guitarist and more, and all of his strengths come out on the mixtape."
SOUL 11 - "What's truly amazing about this EP is that Ken plays all of the instruments on the tracks minus two songs"
the SOUL RESERVOIR - "Ken Ross has a Nicolay x Flying Lotus type of heat!!"
the EMERSON POST - "I must say he achieved something wonderful."

There should be more on the way as other publications/editors have contacted me about doing stories/reviews so I'll make sure to post them as they come in, make sure to follow the twitter or facebook pages as those are good spots to keep up to date on everything!

If you or anyone you know writes for a publication and are interested in doing a review/story on Zzzz please e-mail kenrossmusic@gmail.com , appreciate it!!

Extended "Zzzz" credits

There are many people that were essential to this album's creation but who's names unfortunately didn't make it onto the back album art.

First off, I want to thank all my fellow musicians/friends that encouraged me to even think about putting this out. In particular everyone over at Green Street, and my buddy Ian Wells aka producer/mashup artist Deskhop. There is also a long list of non-musically affiliated friends that helped me out and offered support by promising they would dl my shit even if it was whack as hell, but unfortunately none of them have cool enough websites... but you all know who you are, I think?

I can't thank musician and professional photographer Kurt Von Stetten enough, who generously helped me out by shooting the album art in his Airwalks not once, but twice during a nor'easter. This was the same guy that went with my mom way back in the day to help her pick out my first guitar, So I guess in some ways he's really to blame for all of this. I can't forget my sister from a similar mister, Kathleen Ross, who donated her skills as a graphic designer to literally help a brother out.

I gotta thank Gary Mei, Jon Lu and all the talented individuals at A Lucky Movie who made a well done promo video that really helped me look legit minus the messy bedroom in one or two scenes, but that was hardly their fault... And last but not least my buddy Armen Nazarian for helping me code all of my website!!! Okay and now time for more shameless promotion below!!!