The Spring has arrived in the Northwest USA, and so now I garden. When its music time, aka business time, i'm focusing all my time these days on the Chicharones. I've been neglecting the Josh Martinez lifestyle, and these things happen. Rest assured i'm working on making great songs in my little cave in the cut, and there is new Josh Martinez music in the works, as long as the Canadian government crowns me again with their financial approval. With the Chicharones, Me and Sleep are now finished with Swine Flew Over the Coocoo's Nest, the double opus opus that everyone will love and make love on. It is our best work for sure and it will come out in the Fall. We will be touring the whole west side of the USA this summer. We are the OOFFICIAL Kings of the Small Market. Tour dates will be up soon.

For Now, Go Get A Free Chicharones Album featuring 11 great songs from the Chicharones 10 year catalog, and with a brand new song called Hi Hey Hello, from the NEW ALBUM. its on some Grizzly Bear/Beach Boys sounds. Its way out there, and i think, one of the best songs we've ever made. Smash Hit Maybe? Please don't forget about thejosh. I'll make something relevant soon, whether if its a finished Pissed Off Wild album, or smashing out a 15 minute mega mix of 12 songs all set to Stuey Kubrick video movie, to be rocked in the live environment, somehow. Life is strange. People are stranger.

SXSW OR BUST!
Howdy pardners! It's that time again... when all the ace high folks in town put on their best bib and tucker, and gear up for a hog killin good time

That's right. Camobear Records is heading to Austin, TX to kick some ass at the biggest music festival in North America, South By SouthWest 2010! Scheduled to attend and perform on behalf of the CamoBear family are: The Chicharones, Josh Martinez & the Pissed Off Wild, Sleep and the Lymph Notes, The Insects, Onry Ozzborn with Grayskul and Dark Time Sunshine (whose new record "Vessel" releases on Fake Four Inc. this April).
Our boys are bustin outta their boots with excitement, and gettin ready to ambush the Lone Star State with their fine as cream gravy rhymes and innovative live band lifestyles. Don't miss it!

SXSW 2010 Schedule
Wedesday, March 17th @ 1am - The Chicharones w/ The Insects at Touche
Thursday, March 18 at 9:20 p.m - Josh Martinez at Club 115 
Friday March 19th at 12am - The Chicharones at Karma Lounge,
Saturday, March 20th at 9pm Sleep at Palm Door

Boat Party
This years annual boat party is taking place at the Highland Lakes Marina, as a wrap up for SXSW, on Sunday March 21st. Get tickets at www.groovetickets.com before it's too late!
The Chicharones will be rocking with a full live band and showcasing songs from the new record. Also on the bill are Solillaquists Of Sound, Afro Classics, Killah Priest and Notion, Blueprint and Illogic, as well as The Insects.

For Everything the Olympics did to my latent patriotism and more. What an amazing time. Vancouver was fun for the first time in my recorded memory. For now, that is all...Olympic wrap up coming up....

Get ready for some Camobear and Loathing: The Underground POP video is finally here. Underground POP is the kind of music Josh Martinez was born to make. Stealing the catchy hooks and song structures of pop music and perverting the means using subversive messaging, Martinez leaves listeners with epic anthems of lavish excess and punk rock honesty.

In this brand new FACTOR sponsored video, Josh Martinez hooks up with reclusive pervert director Stuey Kubrick, nephew of Stanley, to shoot the 8th video from The World Famous Sex Buffet, entitled "Underground Pop". This is their third video for this album (See Trickle Down Trauma, and R.E.S.P.O.N.S.I.B.I.L.I.T.Y.) AND IS surely the best one yet. This epic video is based on the Hunter S. Thompson classic Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas.

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“The Smorgasbord Tour” (Oct 22-Nov 10, 2009)

Self described “Lifestyle Enthusiast” JOSH MARTINEZ has joined forces with LA’s “Loveable Everyman” PIGEON JOHN to create a delightfully entertaining musical smorgasbord, ripe with searing rhymes, quirky humour and classic hip hop sounds. Touring across Canada, this is an upbeat Hip-Hop show featuring songs of human struggle and the eternal battle to find humor in truth. Accompanied by a bass player and DJ, and featuring talented local opening acts, this show has something for everyone.

JOSH Martinez, proud Canadian, and 10 year international tour veteran, is crossing his native land in support of his newest release entitled, "The World Famous Sex Buffet" (Camobear Records). Featuring Canadian superheroes Classified, Mother Mother, Skratch Bastid, as well as internationals Devin the Dude, Sleep and Awol One, The Sex Buffet record was the #1 Hip Hop record on Canadian college radio charts for twelve straight weeks after its release in Oct 2008. One of the songs from that album—“Goin’ Back to Hali,” featuring Skratch Bastid and Classified, and shot in Halifax last winter—has received extensive play on Much Music and Musique Plus.

PIGEON JOHN, brings his signature blend of wit, charisma and undeniable stage presence to his catchy and clever songs. Fresh from his latest project “Summertime Pool Party (Quannum Records), featuring MTVU hit Freaks! Freaks!. Touring the nation 8 times over, Pigeon John has earned his veteran status, using a clever balance of self-deprecating humor and confidence to rock any crowd, any stage. His boundless energy seduces crowds making ladies swoon and fellas embrace their geek appeal.

So whether you wanna get down and dirty at the World Famous Sex Buffet, or take a plunge in the shark infested waters of the Summertime Pool Party, “This is entertainment – Pure and simple”. (Vice)

ON TOUR NOW!!!

If you would like to set up an interview via phone or in person please contact: Tour Manager, Mat Keller, by email: kellercamo@gmail.com. Thank you!
More info available at: http://www.joshmartinez.ca http://www.myspace.com/thejoshmartinez http://www.camobear.ca http://press.joshmartinez.ca http://www.myspace.com/pigeonjohn

Josh Martinez, urban folk hero, and last Canadian standing, has landed in the disgustingly hot, and morbidly sexy, world of Las Vegas, USA. In town to shoot the video for Underground Pop, a collaboration with Moka Only, from the World Famous Sex Buffet album, Martinez has undergone a radical transformation from a drug and booze riddled  rapper into the drug and booze riddled iconic superhero of Gonzo, the almighty HST. With Moka playing the cigarette ashen, ether-soaked Samoan Attourney, this video will clearly outshine the rest of the videos combined.

Booyaka shot. Shot in beautiful scenic Halifax, Nova Scotia, this homecoming video is directed by NE's Cazhmere. The shoot brings Josh Martinez back from his West Coast Portland home, to visit family and shoot this special video in his hometown of Halifax, with fellow local legends, Classified and Skratch Bastid. Hanging out in their hometowns on the day after a big blizzard, the shoots were freezing but hilarious, and everyone on the crew handled it, and its definitely the most pro-looking Josh Martinez video ever shot. Thanks to the NE folks and all the extras, friends and good dance moves that came out. During the 2 day shoot, we shot at Citadel Hill, Pier 21, The Waterfront, and Bastid shot his DJ scenes on the Macdonald bridge, in the middle of a pedestrian walkway half way across the water between Halifax and Dartmouth. It was the most cold i've felt in my balls ever. The song is a play on LL Cool J's 'Going back to Cali...The video is shot with numerous scenes in tribute to the original. This video was shot with Videofact grants, meaning we got given money to make this masterpiece. And so we celebrate the first time in 42 attempts, that Josh Martinez has received a Videofact grant. Hazza! Josh Martinez - Going Back to Hali w Classified, Skratch Bastid

Wow. Thanks to Matt Sonzala for having the vision and clout to put together the best hip-hop showcase Canada has ever exported. This is pretty much the top of the class, the best of the best. Canada has been handling itself exceptionally well against the odds of the whole being Canadian thing. Some of the best ‘rappers’ in Canada who have already graduated to the biggs, with a career, their own audience and unique style: Maestro, K’naan, Kardinal, Swollen Members, K-os, Buck 65. And everybody not on that list is here. Research anyone on our showcase and you’ll find scene veterans from every part of the country, all with a sound, a following and a live show that kills, so i‘m proud to be apart of this veteran lineup. On Friday March 20, at the Music Gym, we will be absolutely crushing the sets, one after the other. Come and join us for an ale and check out the best dudes in Canada right now. Friday, March 20 @ Austin Music Gym Music Gym and Lounge - 815 E. Sixth St., Austin, TX 08:00 PM Peer Pressure 08:30 PM D.O. 09:00 PM More Or Les 09:30 PM Grand Analog 10:00 PM Keys N Krates 10:40 PM Moka Only + Def 3 11:15 PM Josh Martinez 11:55 PM Shad 12:30 AM Classified 01:15 AM Cadence Weapon

Martinez is killing the charts in Canada. It is a ridiculous time to be a Martinez fan as the streets of an entire country have been covered in gold coins care of his recent opus. Shattering expectations, this record has been number one for 6 weeks straight and is leading to arena tours and offers of praise from as far away as Paris, France, where the French have been kissing and sneaking side boob over cheap wine and back alley HJ’s. His main competition is one of his favorite friends, Moka Only, whose fantastic new album Carrots and Eggs, in both terrific on the ears, and yet another release that brings Moka back to his rightful place as a leader in Canadian hip hop worldwide. I loves him. Now get back to The Buffet and eat til your sick. http://www.earshot-online.com/charts/2008/November/hiphop.html

After 42 unsuccessful attempts across the Camobear Records family of artists, Josh Martinez, on a Classified beat, with a Skratch Bastid scratch chorus, finally received a grant for the anthemic "Going Back TO Hali" from Canada's Number one rap record in the country, "THE WORLD FAMOUS SEX BUFFET". That's right ladies, Martinez has the number one rap record in Canada for the month of November, and is challenging a run of 5 weeks in a row at the top slot. I will fly back to Halifax over Xmas break, and film the video with Classified and Skratch Bastid, and hopefully we will book some kind of show together to showcase the Halifax heat for our home town to see together. This is, like, 30 years in the making. I actually can't believe we did it. CAMOBEAR RECORDS, finally gets a Videofact Grant. KING ME KANADA!

The record did not come out on Sept. 16, and the release date came and went and the record is still not in stores. Not the dopest, but not really a big deal. The album got moved back to October cause the Chris Isaak Christmas albums hit the presses hotter, as did the Cher and T-Pain duets record featuring Snoop Dogg and Keith Urban. You can only whoop so much ass in one year, so I make this deal with you, the still vaguely interested passive potential consumer that you may turn out to be. The official album release date has been, the day before I leave for Europe. WE will celebrate together in North America, November and December, for I will be on the road then. Making friends and money, and apologizing for nothing. The album will be available on cd and double vinyl. We will have this available though our webstore as soon as it comes in, and we will make sure to let you know first.

CAMOBEAR DIGITAL DOT COM. You heard me. We now have our own private Itunes built right into your digital life. If you want any of the Camobear catalog right now, all you need to do is CLICK HERE. We're featuring the brand new fully awesome totally- digital World Famous Sex Buffet record and the astounding and brilliant GIGANTICS - Die Already album. NOW. Exclusively here, online and in yur face, immediately and especially NOW!!! It also includes two bonus videos live and direct to you, for R.E.S.P.O.N.S.I.B.I.L.I.T.Y. and Fight or F*#k, which you can stick right up in your I-LIFE.

The Gigantics is a five-man production team assembled by Onry Ozzborn (a.k.a. Reason and Count Draven of Grayskul/Oldominion). Die Already is out on OCTOBER 6th, and is their debut record. This powerhouse story is a concept album about dysfunctional families of the future and features the voices of over 50 of the most influential and talented people in independent hip hop today. Far from a compilation, this album pulls disparate artists from their respective groups and weaves them together into a dream team.

Among the many outstanding individuals appearing here are Aesop Rock, Murs, Mr. Lif (Def Jux), Swollen Members,Eligh (of Living Legends), Pigeon John (Quannum), P.O.S. (Rhymesayers), Solillaquist of Sound, Josh Martinez, and Awol One. Though Die Already is primarily a hip hop album, The Gigantics' production takes you through alternative, metal, punk, pop, electronic, street, and club, providing a disc that will satisfy any listener.

WE'VE GOT VIDEOS COMING OUT THE YING YANG TWINS.

THE FIRST BIG BAD BOY by STUEY KUBRICK,director of Josh Martinez retro-classic 'Splitsville', the new video is the really reallest reality ever.

Check it out. It's the dopest yet. Directed and shot by world famous nephew of reclusive pervert and now-dead brilliant director, Stanley Kubrick, Stuey Kubrick is a chip off the old block indeed. The cleanest video yet, the style is perverse, the day fantastic, the mini golf, epic. In a high fashion way, this video kicks off the beginning of a sustained period of marketing and spin that'll take you, the reader, from the depths of ennui, to the very pits of hellacious balls-to-the-wall whimsy. Dig in.

The internet is back!!! We have waited a long time to get this whole internet thing back on the go. And it will happen in stages. Right now we have a flashy splash page and some bare bones information. Like anything in the Martinez world, things take time. For now, the joshmartinez website will be comprised of tour dates, the latest news and links to more developed knowledge resources, like the myspace, where new songs, updates and nudie flicks are being parsed out to the wider blogosphere chatline.

Can I get that in the boy version? Boy version? The a+b=c. Cause and Effect. Layman's Terms. Magna Carta. Whatever. Since the beginning of time, man has used ciphers and numbers to convey hidden information, coded language to pass on secret messages of war, love and intrigue. Man has also broken almost every code over time, proving that man's mind is extremely strong at tactical and logical processing. We are experts in breaking down code of visible messaging. It is the invisible spectrum where we become so hopelessly lost.

When it comes to emotions, man is in so perilously in over his own head, that conversation with significant others can take on the Madonna-esque layering of Kabbalah riddles. Like a Virgin. By the by, it comes down to this. As far as the rainbow goes, I can see almost all spectrums of visible light, but when it comes to the massive emotional complexity whose powers and strains women must live with, the invisible spectrum, you lose me. The hand gesture that negates the vocal wording, or the triple meaning inserted into a compliment that is also a complaint laced with a demand for better performance, and I just want to know if your mad and why and what actual thing can I do to fix it. If you tell me, as opposed to assuming I understood that the slight pause before hello indicated that there was a problem, and if I ask what's wrong, you just tell me, instead of saying nothing and hate-punching me at 4 in the morning hammered to finally let me know your pissed. I actually want to know what your putting down. I'm respectful and slow, I won't cross lines. Some call me MR. Boundaries. Actually I'm calling myself that from now on cause I stole it from my friend Mike D, who is absolutely not Mr. Boundaries.

Women can see infrared, gamma rays and I'll be damned if they can't actually see the microwaves cooking the hungry man frozen dinner I'm currently eating. Women are more in tune with their emotions, and in fact are constantly paralyzed by them, so much information and subtleties being gleaned from everyday activities. Like when your best friend tells you the dress looks amazing on you its cause she either hates it, or hates you for having gotten it first. Or he said we'd hang later, but what did he really mean, and does he think I'm fat and I'm sure he's fucking some other hoe... and they are almost always right. Noooooo.

I write these things over a couple of weeks, modifying and editing them till they have that black & blue steak feel, entirely charred on the outside, but raw, delicious and more than a little poisonous to the health. I watched Matt Dillon in Rumble Fish last night and the way he talks to Diane Lane, who is obviously the hottest, coolest girl in school, and who still gives him play, and actually likes him, after he is caught in a ménage a six is so guy vs girl simplicity but hell if its not entirely entertaining and symbolic too.

'Baby Baby Why you mad?'

'Cause you fuck other girls and then want to kiss me!'

'Baby? What do other girls have to do with you and me?'

YESSSSSSSSSSS! No?

Cocaine is back to being out. After a sustained period of being the new black, cocaine is now just as boring and suburban as it always was. Petty, loud, and jittery, the people have spoken, and theyÕve spoken non-stop for two hours, grinding their teeth and writhing like a coil of kittens, cracked out and right as rain. Along with next day depression and a week long run of mild anxiety, the sustained hopelessness of it all has left its mark on the party people. And thatÕs why weÕre back to roofies and cheap wine.

Speaking of cocaine, we are investing heavily in advertising. By heavy, I mean pretty lightly. October will feature a full page Camobear ad in Wax Poetics magazine, 1/4 page in Canadian monthly Exclaim, and a quick ad buy in CMJ, the college Music Journalists. Courtesy of Spectre Music, radio stations around the north American frontier will be pushed to play The Sex Buffet record. If youÕre a radio station, and havenÕt got your radio copy, bug elliot@spectremusic.com.