Fusicology News
El-P Releases 3rd Solo Album, Cancer4Cure, May 22nd
Indie rap icon returns with monstrous album, first in five years Constantly progressing and unapologetically ambitious, Brooklyn indie-rap icon El-P has returned with Cancer for Cure, his first solo hip-hop album in five years. Since then, the underground rap world that anointed El-P has dissipated, replaced by an anything-goes broadband landscape of endless independent mixtapes and materia (Continue)
5/17 – FREE DOWNLOADS, MIXTAPES & PODCASTS
FREE DOWNLOADS: House Shoes Featuring Nottz, Oh No & MED, Sol Starz, tabi Bonney & Yasiin Bey, DJ Soko Featuring Guilty Simpson & Hassaan Mackey, Piece Of Mind Featuring Abdominal, Monophonics, Mars Today MIXTAPES & PODCASTS: Future Soul Records, Soundrotation, Fathom DJ, Reggie Hotmix & DaNeil Mitchell, Kensaye, Echo, 38thnotes.com & more (Continue)
Oh No Returns With New Album, OhNoMite
Gangrene member granted full access to Dolemite's archives for OhNoMite & Collaborates with Alchemist, MF Doom, Evidence, Roc Marciano, Guilty Simpson, Termanology, Eric Sermon, Sticky Fingaz, Big Pooh & Phife Dawg Following two successful collaborative efforts alongside fellow producer/rapper The Alchemist as the power duo Gangrene -2010’s Gutter Water and 2012’s Vodka & (Continue)
5/17: TECH NEWS
Group Therapy Goes Online, Your Facebook Worth, Newsweek Kindles Controversy Over "Gay President" Cover, Your Mom On Social Media, The Internet Changes How We See History & more! Want to Talk it Out? This Startup Puts Group Therapy Online for $9.99 What Are You Worth to Facebook? Val-You Calculator Knows In-Flight Calling: Coming Soon to an Airplane Near You [VIDEO (Continue)
NARM and digitalmusic.org’s Hugely Successful Music Biz 2012 Draws 1K Commerce and Content Professionals
More than 100 industry experts addressed current trends Katy Perry, Lionel Richie, RIAA, Brett Gurewitz honored Music business association NARM and digitalmusic.org, the virtual home of NARM’s digital initiatives, brought together 1,000 professionals from the commerce and content sectors of the music industry for Music Biz 2012 last week at the Hyatt Regency Century Pla (Continue)
How To Follow Internet Week NY
Hey Internet Lovers, Now in its 5th year, Internet Week New York is a week-long festival celebrating NYC's thriving industry and community, here is how to partake: Twitter Let us know what you're loving about the festival, we can be found @internetweek and use the official hashtag #iwny. Facebook You Like us, right? Prove it on Facebook. Livestream Ther (Continue)
Rock The Bells 2012 – Initial Lineup Announced + Event Photos
The 9th Annual Festival will be held during 2 days in 3 markets (LA Area, Bay Area and NYC/NJ) featuring reunions by Bone Thugs In Harmony, Salt-N-Pepa, The Hit Squad (EPMD, Redman, Keith Murray K-Solo and Das EFX), just added: Common, joined by Slick Rick, Murs + Fashawn, Naughy by Nature, Kid Cudi, Wiz Khalifa, Nas, J.Cole, Ice Cube, Nas, Mac Miller, The Diplomats, Kendrick Lamar, A$AP R (Continue)
5/10 – FREE DOWNLOADS, MIXTAPES & PODCASTS
FREE DOWNLOADS: Gensu Dean featuring 7even Thirty & Homeboy Sandman, Brian Culbertson featuring Vivian Green, Casual, Kool Keith featuring The I.M.O, Hammock House presents Hector Lavoe, Larissa Ness, The Endangered MIXTAPES & PODCASTS: Spasmodic Radio with DJ Doc & Jodine, DanceFloor Mayhem, Cool Nutz, DJ Cocoe, J Boogie, Ernie Reyes, Showbiz & AG, The Practice Room FRE (Continue)
Spoken Word Artist Brooke Jean Releases Her Poetry Visual “Falling Whistles”
Following up after her Open Mic Tour, Los Angeles-based Spoken Word artist Brooke Jean releases her poetry visual "Falling Whistles". Brooke Jean is assisting in the cause to help bring awareness to one of the many secretly kept issues around the world. Efforts in the Democratic Republic of Congo to stop the use of young children involuntarily fighting in wars are still present day issues. (Continue)
The Death of Adam MCA Yauch is a Hard One to Shake: by Davey D
From Davey D's Hip Hop Corner: Recently Hip Hop lost a pioneering figure and legend Adam ‘MCA’ Yauch of the Beastie Boys. There’s so much one can say about him ranging from his pioneering status of being a member of one of the first successful white acts in Hip Hop (they sold more than 40 million albums) to his activism around Tibet and their independence movement and more recently (Continue)
