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LMFAO ANNOUNCE THEIR PARTY ROCK TOUR DATES

TICKETS FOR THE NON-STOP PARTY GO ON SALE SEPTEMBER 19^TH

Santa Monica, California, September 17, 2009 – Los Angeles based electro hip-hop duo LMFAO have a mission, “to live tonight like there’s no tomorrow.” Redfoo and Sky Blu call it Party Rock, and it’s the name of their debut album, label, clothing line and now fall headlining tour! The party kicks off November 5^th in Reno, Nevada at Pearl at Grand Sierra (see below for complete tour dates) and along for the ride will be Far East Movement, Paradiso Girls and Lady Gaga’s DJ Space Cowboy doing a live performance. Additional DJ sets by Million $ Mano.

The Party Rock Tour, produced by Live Nation and Moodswing360, is not just a show; it’s a completely new concert experience! For their first U.S. headlining tour LMFAO are creating a non-stop party of continuous music open to all ages. Million $ Mano will be spinning in between sets so the party never stops. Tickets for most shows go on sale this Saturday, September 19^th, and you won’t find a face value ticket price higher than $20. For more information and to purchase tickets for LMFAO’s Party Rock Tour visit www.partyrocktour.com.

LMFAO released their full length set "Party Rock" on July 7^th where it debuted at # 33 on the Billboard Top 200 chart. Party poppin’ tunes “I’m In Miami Bitch” and “La La La” are hit singles and songs the duo performed on MTV’s Real World Cancun, America’s Got Talent and more. Foo and Sky (as they refer to each other) are long time producers having done remixes for Kanye, Fergie, Katy Perry, Crystal Method, Black Eyed Peas and more.

The Party Rock Tour is presented by Live Nation, Interscope Records, Cherrytree Records, Party Rock, RPM Group and Moodswing360. LMFAO is managed by RPM Group and their agency is Moodswing360.

A complete list of Party Rock Tour dates is below:

Thursday, November 5 Reno, NV Pearl at Grand Sierra

Friday, November 6 Las Vegas, NV House of Blues

Saturday, November 7 Los Angeles, CA The Wiltern **on sale 9/26

Monday, November 9 Portland, OR Hawthorne Theatre

Tuesday, November 10 Vancouver, BC Gossip

Thursday, November 12 Seattle, WA Showbox

Saturday, November 14 Boise, ID Knitting Factory

Tuesday, November 17 Englewood, CO Gothic Theatre

Wednesday, November 18 Lincoln, NE Bourbon Theatre

Thursday, November 19 Lawrence, KS Granada Theater

Friday, November 20 St. Louis, MO The Pageant

Saturday, November 21 Milwaukee, WI The Rave

Sunday, November 22 Chicago, IL Congress theatre

Tuesday, November 24 Des Moines, IA People’s Court

Friday, November 27 Pontiac, MI Clutch Cargos

Saturday, November 28 Cleveland, OH House of Blues

Sunday, November 29 Pittsburgh, PA Diesel

Monday, November 30 State College, PA The Cell Block

Tuesday, December 1 Philadelphia, PA Theatre of the Living Arts

Thursday, December 3 New Haven, CT Toad’s Place

Friday, December 4 New York, NY Irving Plaza

Sunday, December 6 Farmingdale, NY Crazy Donkey

Tuesday, December 8 Richmond, VA The National

Wednesday, December 9 Norfolk, VA The Norva

Thursday, December 10 Charlotte, NC The Fillmore

Friday, December 11 Myrtle Beach, SC House of Blues

Monday, December 14 Orlando, FL Firestone

Thursday, December 17 Houston, TX House of Blues

Friday, December 18 Dallas, TX House of Blues

Saturday, December 19 San Antonio, TX The White Rabbit

Sunday, December 20 McAllen, TX Las Palmas Event Center

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Contact: Christine Wolff Gabby Revilla

Interscope Geffen A&M Moodswing 360

(212)841-8048 (646)808-1351 x4

Christine.wolff@umusic.com gabby@moodswing360.com

For more information on all artists on the party tour of the season click on the links below:

www.partyrockpeople.com

www.myspace.com/lmfao

www.lmfaonews.com

www.paradisogirls.com

www.cherrytreerecords.com/spacecowboy

www.fareastmovement.com

www.myspace.com/milliondollamano

LMFAO

By Michael Hamersly

If you're too wild to enjoy the refined elegance of the Pet Shop Boys concert at the Fillmore in Miami Beach Wednesday night, but still want to shake your ass at a great dance-pop show, head over to hotspot LIV at the Fontainebleau, where L.A. electro-hop duo LMFAO will storm the stage.

The group, consisting of DJ/rappers/entrepreneurs Stefan Kendal "Redfoo" Gordy and Skyler "Sky Blu" Gordy (Redfoo's nephew), has exploded on the hipster music scene on the strength of the new CD "Party Rock," featuring the frenetic, Vocoder-driven tracks "I Am Not a Whore," "La La La" and, of course, "I'm In Miami Bitch." The guys have also remixed hits from big names including Fergie ("Clumsy"), Kanye West ("Love Lockdown") and Katy Perry ("Hot 'N' Cold").

Redfoo talked to Miami.com about life as a rock star (naked Twister, anyone?), life as the son of legendary Motown founder Berry Gordy, and LMFAO's friendship with late celebrity DJ AM.

How close to real life is your Party Rock image?
It is real life. Even wilder, because videos don't really allow you to do it right. There are a lot of videos that we can't even show, because they're illegal. Our photographer, Paparazzi Pete, tried to sneak in and tape this girl during sexual activities, and she caught him. He was hiding in the room like an ostrich - he thought that if he couldn't see her, she couldn't see him. And I'm like, "What are you doing, man?!!?!?" That's the type of ridiculousness that happens. We're in Vegas, and I still haven't slept since yesterday, because I was at the roulette table.

How'd you do?
I did well with the drinks. But let's just say my four drinks were worth $300. And my credit card limit is up for 24 hours - luckily our road manager did not leave us any cash for this Vegas trip.

How was your luck with the ladies before LMFAO started taking off?
To be quite honest, Sky was always in and out of relationships, but I was single ready to mingle, and I'm pretty skilled with seduction, if you will. However, I think that a certain type of girl, you know, the model types, 8 and above, have a "famous dude" radar. And I definitely feel that we've popped on the radar. They have a full-time, 24-hour screen, and we've been bleeping on their screen. We get way more attention from the 8s and above. Celebrity sonar.

What inspired "I'm In Miami Bitch"?
It's a traveler's song. We had never been to Miami, and we had heard stories from local DJs. The WMC, Winter Music Conference, was the first time we went, and everybody was telling us we missed it last year - there's booties poppin' and everybody's drinking all day and playing all night. And we just heard all these tales, so we wrote about it, so excited to go there. And we made up the naked Twister and brought one down there, and the very first night, we played naked Twister.

Which came first, your music or your fashion line?
You know what? I think the T-shirts came first. We bought a shirt press because we wanted to make those Tupac-type of shirts, where you take pictures and put 'em on the shirts. We were DJs, and we started doing that as a side hustle, and then we got pretty good at it. When we started our group, we started making our own shirts, with our logo. And we made a rule: We're only gonna wear our shirts from now on, from our song titles. And now we write songs, and the title has to be a good shirt.

What musicians influenced your style?
Eddie Murphy, baby. "Party All the Time." Even his stand-up act and his fashion inspired us. Rick James and, of course, Michael Jackson. One of our biggest inspirations - we've been saying this for a long time, but it happens to be relevant now - is DJ AM. Behind Michael Jackson, he's probably our No. 2 inspiration, because he's the one who got us into electro music - he hired us to do a commercial for him. He said to make some electro, and gave us this CD, and that CD is our blueprint. We studied this CD for months, and it had Justice and Uffie and a lot of people from France, the Ed Banger [Records] crew. And just watching him - we were pretty good friends, and his mix of rock 'n' roll, hip-hop and electro...when we make albums, songs and remixes, we do it with AM in mind, like "Will he play this?" So he's a tremendous influence. His whole situation can't be more ironic and it can't be more of a shock - it's almost still unbelievable.

How did you end up remixing tracks by Fergie, Katy Perry, Kanye West, etc.?
These remixes you talk about are totally unauthorized. Except for Katy Perry - they actually gave us the acapella; however, they never bought the remix. And they never commented on the remix when we emailed it. They didn't say anything, and we waited 10 days and said, "You know what? We're gonna just put it out ourselves." And that's the beauty of this - we were DJs for a year before we did this, so we knew every important DJ in Hollywood and in different big cities, so we had a pretty big network of over 150 tastemaker DJs. And they happened to love the stuff we made, because we made it with them in mind. Kanye was unhappy about the "Love Lockdown" remix, and voiced his opinion aggressively.

Has Berry Gordy helped open doors for you, or was it all on your own?
Who?
[laughter]
It happened as much on our own as it possibly could be, probably 99.9 percent. There was one thing he helped with - when we made our deal with our manager, he recommended a lawyer he was using, and said he was going to pay for it. And the bill was $60,000, but we totally paid for it ourselves, and felt good about it, because the last thing we wanna do, is owe Dad money. Doing it ourselves is so important to us, not just because we get to say we did it ourselves, but the actual experience and contacts. We were very hands-on, because it's just more enjoyable that way.

Did the Motown sound have any influence on you?
I would say a tremendous influence; however, our sound sounds nothing like it. Our structure and our songwriting philosophy is totally Motown, meaning we write relationship songs over dance music. That's one of the secrets people don't realize: All those songs are basically love songs to dance music.

Did your grandmother really text you "LMFAO"?
Oh yeah. It was iChat, actually. Our original name we were going with was Sexy Dudes, and the most important thing for a band in the beginning stages is the name. You have to have confidence in your name, and my grandmother is like the family shaman, very wise. So I hit her up on iChat, and said "What do you think of our name, Sexy Dudes?" And she replied, "LMFAO, you little bitch." Grandma's a gangsta.

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From time to time during its set, a young woman would worm her way onto the stage, climbing up from the crowd. After letting her dance for a few seconds, a security guard would tug at her arm and whisk her away. In the meantime another one (or two, or three) would appear in her place, and so on. Like lemmings they were, inexorably drawn to a dubious fate.

LMFAO, the duo of Redfoo and Sky Blu, hails from Hollywood but is best known for its relentlessly croaking-and-banging club hit “I’m in Miami Bitch,” which is colossally goofy but brutally effective. Released last month, LMFAO’s debut album, “Party Rock” (will.i.am/Cherrytree/Interscope), is full of more of the same: puerile, Daft Punk-influenced club rap, painted with bold disco ebullience. Sometimes it’s soulless, and sometimes it’s dim, but it’s never dull.

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If you don't know what LMFAO stands for, then you probably aren't part of this electro-hop duo's primary demographic.

Made up of the electronic hip-hop duo of emcee-DJs Redfoo and Sky Blu, these guys definitely stand out in the crowd. Redfoo has a reckless Afro, and both don lens-less, candy-colored glasses and loud, flashy shirts from their own fashion line.

On a recent Friday afternoon, the two agree to talk as they have a little downtime in Los Angeles after a wild album-release week. Their debut album, "Party Rock," came out on Tuesday, July 7 on Interscope Records. The single "I'm in Miami Bitch" has already become a massive club hit and debuted at No. 38 on the Top 40 charts.

Redfoo speaks up first: "This is Redfoo, and I'm hanging out here with Gandhi." Or a word that sounds like "Gandhi." The two erupt in laughter.

After a few minutes of goofing around, Redfoo and Sky Blu compose themselves and answer some questions for us.

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LMFAO! There’s plenty of shit to laugh about Redfoo and Sky Blu, the two dudes who make up the group LMFAO, not least of which is the stories they’ve got to tell. With their hit, “I’m in Miami Bitch,” remixes of Yeezy’s “Love Lockdown” and Katy Perry’s “Hot N Cold,” and new album Party Rock (in stores today…click here to buy it on MP3 for $7.99), LMFAO is laughing straight (hopefully) to the bank.

The duo got their start in Hollywood, but it was a trip to Miami that inspired the simple phrase that became a MySpace anthem—and thus, LMFAO was born. The group is further promoting its outlandish style with the recent launch of its own line of LMFAO clothes. When Redfoo and Sky Blu stopped by for another round of The Complex 7, we were left…well, you know…

Interview By Jaime Acevedo

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Lyrically speaking, there isn't much on the debut album from local club-rap duo LMFAO that can be quoted in a family newspaper. What is safe for these pages, though, says just about everything you need to know about these guys' worldview: "Get crazy, get wild / Let's party, get loud," shouts MC Sky Blu in "Get Crazy," one of the 14 virtually interchangeable odes to night life naughtiness here.

Sky Blu and his producer partner Redfoo already are well known within the bottle-service set for their high-energy remixes of hits by A-listers like Fergie, Kanye West and Katy Perry. And though it consists of the group's own material, "Party Rock" offers the same pleasures as those remixes: thumping '80s-inspired beats, instantly catchy synth hooks, shouty catchphrases about how "what happens at the party stays at the party."

Provided you speak English -- an ability that might actually work against enjoying LMFAO's music -- Sky Blu's constant appeals to remove various articles of clothing can get pretty tiresome. Yet like will.i.am of the Black Eyed Peas, the rapper at least views hedonism as a participatory endeavor, not just something to be creepily observed from the VIP section. That gives tracks such as "La La La" and "Leaving U 4 the Groove" a welcome sense of conviviality.

The result is simple but effective: mindless fun that makes you wonder what's so great about having a mind anyway.

-- Mikael Wood

LMFAO
"Party Rock"
(Interscope)
Three stars

LMFAO plays a record-release party Tuesday at the Roxy in West Hollywood.

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