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SXSW Panel Picker Last Chance, Vikter Duplaix & Trombone Shorty
RIP DJ AM - King of the Mash-Up - Collection of DJ Mixes SXSW Panel Picker ENDS THIS FRIDAY! Vote Now! The Crystal Method "Come Back Clean" ft. Emily Haines (Metric) Remix Contest only until 9/15 Featured Photos: Detroit's "Never Can Say Goodbye" Michael Jackson Bornday Celebration! FREE DOWNLOADS: Free World Music Samplers Urban Alternative’s favorite male vocalist Vikter Duplaix returns (Continue)
DETROIT's 21st Annual COMERICA CITYFEST .:. SUPPORT DETROIT!
For 2 decades now the New Center Council and its sponsors have brought you 5 days of completely FREE live music, art and street performance every 4th of July week in the streets of downtown Detroit's New Center neighborhood to celebrate diverse urban living and raise funds for neighborhood works via the food and beverage sales, while presenting a vast array of the city's restaurants to sample fr (Continue)
New Orleans MC Truth Universal Releases Bonus Single,"Serve & Protect" + video, "Work"
SELF DETERMINATION. 2 words that sum-up the grassroots Hip Hop soldier that is Truth Universal. Also happens to be the title of his current album, which should already be in your vault. /// A Natural Born Leader Rises From The Rubble /// Born in Trinidad and raised in New Orleans, Truth represents that "other side" of Big Easy Hip Hop. Differing by leaps and bounds from his hometown coun (Continue)
Common: Universal Mind Control and The Starting Five
Common's New Album 'Universal Mind Control' Out Now! Listen & Cop It | Review by Nu-Soul Mag | S.T.O.R.Y Mixtape by Beatnick & K-Salaam. Rappers may be good actors like our man Common but sometimes Actor's shouldn't be rappers - case in point, Joaquin Phoenix (dressed like The Dude) debuts rap career at Dam Funk's Funkmosphere: Watch New Orleans MC, Truth Universal, drops Self Determina (Continue)
"5 ELA …will be televised" Release : Detroit Hip Hop gets another feather in its Takeover Cap
*5 ELA is back on the block, bringing that raw Detroit Hip Hop flavor with some classic Hip Hop Shop vibes and new "Michigan Avenue" sounds with their first album in [9] years, "...will be televised," featuring 9th WONDER, NICK SPEED, and BIG TONE behind the beats, and guest appearances from FINALE (warning: this guy can rip the freakin mic in half), BAATIN of Slum Village, and the rising MC MARCE (Continue)
2008 CREATIVE CITIES SUMMIT 2.0 WRAP-UP
2008 CREATIVE CITIES SUMMIT 2.0 WRAP-UP : 1/2 of Sustainability is Culture --- 10.12.08 - 10.15.08 found Fusicology Senior Editor and contributing writer, Jocelyne Ninneman, back home in her native Detroit for this 2nd annual international summit. This one's a doozy... but trust me, it's worth the read - that is, if you're into cities ;) <<< >>> October 12 (Continue)
2008 NBA ALL-STARS hit the BIG EASY 02.15 – 02.17
This past weekend in Nawlins was a trip. Mainly because we don’t usually roll baller-style, but it was actually kinda fun. Somewhat justified with Common and Swin Cash from the WNBA’s Detroit Shock, along with “Everybody Hates Chris” star, Terry Crews, representing for the “Hornets” team on Friday evening @ the 2008 All-Stars Celebrity Game. Not to mention appearances from Maze &a (Continue)
2007 URBAN ORGANIC EXPERIENCE and 1st ANNUAL SOULTRACKS AWARDS BRING NEW HOPE FOR THE FUTURE OF POPULAR MUSIC!
A meeting of souls took place this crisp November 15 - 18 in the home of Motown, of all appropriate places, where we were left will a faint glimmer of hope for the future of popular music... a long, chilly weekend filled with warm performances and parties to remind us in these worrysome times in pop culture - an era of gangsta rap, intoxicated divas, and excessive bling - that there is indeed stil (Continue)
