A few weeks back Roscoe Umali had tweeted about performing at a bboy event held in korea. Well full event details have been released and it turns out it’s going to be a joint stage concert event on September 27th also featuring Dumbfoundead, Drunken Tiger, Epik High & Rakaa (of Dilated Peoples). What an incredible line […]
Read More Roscoe Umali x Dumbfoundead x Drunken Tiger x Epik High x Rakaa at Soulsonic 2009After posting up the recent interview of Lee Joon from Solid, I’ve been in such a Solid groove, so I thought it’d be fitting to offer their “Best of” compilation album as this Week’s Thursday Freebie! You’ll have to excuse the poor graphic, it’s hard to find decent quality images of their albums since they are […]
Read More WTF: Solid – To Be UnlimitedShadowville Productions has been holding a contest called ‘Make-A-Hit’ in recent years to showcase talent and help spread their production brand, allowing musicians to use a Shadowville beat and submit a video entry for a chance at various prizes. This year, Asian American artists Lorenzo & Massiah have made it into the finals with their submission […]
Read More Lorenzo & Massiah Are Finalists for the Make-A-Hit III ContestAccording to a tweet from EyeASage (Bambu’s wifey), The MV for Bambu’s ‘Crooks & Rooks‘ recently won best music video at Chicago’s Hip Hop Film Festival. Big ups & congrats to Bambu, Kid Heroes Productions & Xylophone Films for the win! Below you’ll find the uncensored director’s cut that isnt shown on mTVu.
Read More Bambu’s Crooks & Rooks MV Wins at Chicago Hip Hop Film FestivalMr. Dateh posted up a rendition of The Beatle’s Blackbird, featuring Ken Belcher on the guitar. It’s a great soothing cover, and the violin was a nice touch. Also of note, Paul was recently profiled in AArisings.
Read More Paul Dateh Covers The BeatlesSo this week we saw the launching of another feature on a-Tunes called “Showdown“. Since we are a youtube generation, it’s hard to ignore the power of streaming video on demand and how it connects everyone. However many artists end up covering the same style of songs or even the very same songs themselves when […]
Read More a-Tunes News: Launching “Showdown” & Thank YousThe Blue Scholars have teamed up with Sabzi Selectah to bring you a new mixtape that’s free to DL. It’s called 69 Rolls & OOF! I haven’t had the chance to check it out yet but its 26 tracks and if it’s anything like their OOF! EP, im sure it’s gonna be pretty nice. People […]
Read More Blue Scholars x Sabzi Selectah Drop a Free MixtapeHe switched up his style a little bit for this one, but I’m digging where this is going. But Lyricks wants to know what you guys think too, so hit him up on his twitter account and tell him wassup! they want a tune so here we go. let’s make it something HIGH so when […]
Read More Lyricks Releases Teaser for Upcoming Song ‘Up’Indie acoustic artist Goh Nakamura released the title track to the indie feature film ‘White on Rice‘. It’s a quirky, tongue in cheek song and the video showcases scenes from the movie. If it ever opens near me on the east coast I’m gonna try to catch it, it looks pretty interesting. PS. the female lead of […]
Read More Goh Nakamura Releases White on Rice MVOh man so this brings back memories. In the early/mid 90’s three korean americans became one of the first r&b sensations in Korea as the group SOLID. The were pretty influential in helpling break down some of the attitudes native Koreans had towards “kyopos”, Koreans raised abroad. In a sense, they helped spearhead what I […]
Read More Lookin’ Back: SOLID
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