…Hello  Who is things how is life? it’s midummer over here (in Stockholm, Sweden) Nice,nice….wish I had time to go to Sonar (a huge festival in Spain) this year. I’m a little slow today and it feels totally right to spend the day doing stuff that I’ve been saying for aaaaaaages that I [...]

Honey, darling, babes, sweethearts, lovelies…. how are you? I’m so glad to see you today. I’ve lost the login info at first, couldn’t get into the login site…now my firefox-browser crashes everytime I try to upload a picture to Wordpress ( that’s the software we are blogging on here.) BUT I intend to get something [...]

I will miss this year’s Soundset 09 in Minneapolis which kind of sucks.  However, I was just blessed with this free mixtape featuring some of the artists performing at this year’s event. Enjoy.
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Tracklisting
Soundset 09? Intro
The Truth – Jake One f. Freeway & Brother Ali
Guarantees – Atmosphere
A Day In The Life – Handsome Boy Modeling School [...]

It has been over 5 years since the Rhymesayers duo Eyedea & Abilities graced us with a full length release. The album E&A was released back in 1994. Since then, Eyedea has done different side projects, and Abilities now lives in Milwaukee. I got wind of a fortcoming record from Milwaukee’s DJ Deadbeat and Kid Millions. They both told me the music on E&A’s record entitled “By The Throat” was amazing.

[ May 24, 2009; ] Minneapolis and St. Paul has become a city that has become a major player in Hip Hop within less than 10 years. In some cases, even bigger than Chicago partly due to the label Rhymesayers home of Atmosphere, POS, Brother Ali, and others. Also the support of the venues, bloggers, and even commercial media to some extent has helped put the Twin Cities on the map.

What is it with soft drinks and alcoholic beverages getting involve with releasing music and putting on tours. You Mountain Dew has Green Label Sound, Red Bull has Red Bull Music Academy, Southern Comfort had the SoCo Music Experience and now Bacardi is getting into the act.

I don’t know how I miss this, but I did. From the land of my old stomping grounds, Wale, Tabi Bonney, The Five One is a band out of the DMV(DC, Maryland, Virgina). The Five One consists of 4 members represented by colors: Red, Blue, Green and Gold, and they actually wear their colors so not to be confusing.

I’m a big fan of fan made music videos. Some of them are really good, and better than the original video. This fan made video was for the song Robocop off of Kanye West’s 808 and Heartbreaks. The video was created by Myk Dawg. It looks like he chopped up an old 8 bit video game. On the contrary, It is a completely original and made from scratch.

2009 is shaping out to be a great year for music. Amp Live of Zion I and the amazing Rainy Dayz Radiohead remix project is set to release a new project of electro hop on his label Child’s Play a parent of Om Records. Amp Live is setting himself as the next Danger Mouse. He is becoming one of the producers that can take hip hop to the next level.

Mos Def is returning to true form with his forthcoming album The Ecstatic to be release on Downtown Records which is the same label as Santigold, Amanda Blank and Gnarls Barkley. From his epic “Life in Marvelous Times” to his new song Casa Bey, Mos Def is going to have one of the most anticipated albums of 2009.

While I was checking out the Red Bull Music Academy’s Various Assets from their promotion package, I came across this artist by the name of Piper Davis out of Vancouver, Canada. Her voice was so intriguing I had to find out more about her. She attended the RBMA Barcelona session back in 2008.

While the sound of Retro-Soul is almost everywhere, the sound of future soul and electro-soul or whatever the media is calling it today is bubbling under the surface with artists like Kissey Asplund, Muhsinah, Georgia Anne Muldrow, J*Davey and others. Will there be an Amy Winehouse for this new type of soul? To be honest, I don’t know. But I can I tell you this: the duo of New Look is group not to be overlooked.

This is probably one of the coolest schools in the world. For almost 10 years, The Red Bull Music Academy has been putting on two week sessions with musicians, dj, singers, producers from all over the world in various international cities including Barcelona, New York, Berlin, Sao Paulo, and Melbourne. For two weeks, the artists attend lectures, workshops, tour the city’s music scene, and collaboration. This year’s session returns to where it all started – London.

[ April 25, 2009 10:00 pm to April 26, 2009 2:01 am. ] It is on like Donkey Kong. I have been supporting this band for over a year, and now you get a chance to see why (if you live in Madison or Milwaukee). This Saturday (4/25/09), in my hood Riverwest, Atlanta’s The Constellations will be performing live along with Milwaukee’s Kingdomnada, and yours truly.

One of the most creative cats in Hip Hop, Del The Funky Homosapien is back with a new album, but there is a catch. He wants you to have it for free. The album is called “Funk Man (the stimulus package)”.

Our girl and sometimes guest contributor Sarah White just announced a new single and remix on King Britt’s new label Five Six Media. The single is “I Wanna Be With You” which you can find on her EP Hiding Blind and on this single. The remix is done by producer, inventor Rucyl (check the story we did on her way back). The Rucyl remix is a rumbling tribal track with a little punk spirit.