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Wax Tailor

30 03 2007

Wax Tailor – “Hope & Sorrow” out on April 3, 2007
Artist Bio:
Wax Tailor (JC le Saout) is a french hip-hop/trip-hop producer with similarities to RJD2 and Dj Shadow debuted with his album “Tales of the Forgotten Melodies”. The new album “Hope & Sorrow” features down tempo hip-hop, jazzy funk, and soul. Special appearances include Sharon Jones, Voice, the Others, Charlotte Savary, Ursula Rucker and Marina Quaisse.

Track Listings:
1. Once Upon A Past
2. The Way We Lived featuring Sharon Jones
3. The Game You Play feat. Voice
4. The Tune
5. The Man With No Soul featuring Charlotte Savary
6. Radio Broadcast
7. Positively Inclined feat marina quaisse asm
8. Sometimes
9. House of Wax feat. the Others
10. Beyond Words
11. To Dry Up featuring Charlotte Savary
12. We Be featuring Ursula Rucker
13. That Case
14. There Is Danger
15. Alien In My Belly featuring Charlotte Savary

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Talib Kweli @ HOB

29 03 2007

April 6, 2007
Talib Kweli @ House of Blues Sunset Strip
Tickets $25.50

Artist Bio:
talibkweli.com - Ever since emerging as a member of Black Star in the late 1990s, Talib Kweli is one of the few artists making commercially viable music that matters. The Brooklyn bred rapper’s hard-hitting music has been able to educate and entertain simultaneously. So it is no wonder that at the peak of their fame, both Jay-Z and 50 Cent named Talib Kweli as one of their favorite rappers.

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28 03 2007

B-Boy

Something for the b-boys,b-girls, and graff writers.

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Souls of Mischief & Ugly Ducklings

27 03 2007

March 30,2007
Souls of Mischief & Ugly Duckling
@ The Terrace Pasadena, CA

Tickets
All Age Event

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Crown City Rockers

26 03 2007

March 31, 2007
Crown City Rockers @ Temple Bar Santa Monica
$10 advance $12 door
also performing Audible Mainframe
Sunsmoke D1 and the family
Tickets

SF weekly-
“Oakland hip-hoppers the Crown City Rockers deliver on the promise of their energetic live show.”

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Lyrics Born

26 03 2007

March 30,2007
Lyrics Born @ Knitting Factory, Hollywood
w/ Dj Rhettmatic

Artist Bio:
wikipedia - Lyrics Born (formerly known as Asia Born, born Tom Shimura in Tokyo, Japan in 1972), is a half-Japanese-American, half-Italian-American hip hop rapper. He is one half of the group Latyrx with Lateef the Truthspeaker.
wikipedia – DJ Rhettmatic (born Nazareth Nirza) is a member of the Beat Junkies DJ crew. Rhettmatic began his DJ career in 1983 with the DJ group Double Platinum, and was one of the founding members of Beat Junkie crew.Rhettmatic is the DJ for hip-hop crew The Visionaries, which also consists of LMNO, KeyKool, Zen, Dannu and 2Mex.

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J Rawls & Declaime – Dank & Jammy

25 03 2007

J. Rawls and Declaime collaborated to create “Its the Dank & Jammy Show“. If you’re wondering how the two met up with each other, they toured together in 2001 on the Superappin’ tour. The two were reunited in Las Vegas, where the Dank & Jammy Show began, Dank = Dank Sinatra and Jammy = Jammy Davis Jr. The new RATPACK! The album has a vegas show feel, with lounging beats, singing, and rapping. So come on in and Enjoy the Show!
Album release: March 27, 2007
Track Listings:
1. “Intro”
2. “It’s the Dank and Jammy Show”
3. “Call Me (feat. Middle Child)”
4. “Love Light”
5. “Can’t Go Wrong”
6. “Club Joint”
7. “Chosen” (feat. Holmskillit)
8. “Compassion”
9. “Last Lash Out” (feat. Piakhan)
10. “One Million Ways”
11. “Revolution (feat. C Mills)”
12. “Thank You”

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Ozomatli

23 03 2007

Ozomatli is set to release their fourth album “Don’t Mess With The Dragon” due out on April 3, 2007.
Artists Bio:
Wikipedia - Ozomatli take their name from the Nahuatl word for the Aztec astrological symbol of the monkey, which is also a god of dance, fire, the new harvest, and music.
The members of the band met through their affiliation with the Peace and Justice Center of Los Angeles, and their first performance was for picketers during a strike. They began their career in the Los Angeles and San Diego/Mexico border-area club scene. Following an appearance in Vibe magazine, the group broke into the mainstream, releasing Ozomatli, their self titled debut album, in June 1998 under the Almo Sounds label.

Track Listings:
1. “Can’t Stop”
2. “City of Angels”
3. “After Party”
4. “Don’t Mess With the Dragon”
5. “La Gallina”
6. “Magnolia Soul
7. “Here We Go”
8. “La Temperatura”
9. “Violeta”
10. “Creo”
11. “When I Close My Eyes”
12. “La Segunda Mano”

Additional Info:
Ozomatli will be performing @ Amoeba Sunset
April 3, 2007 6:00pm
Free/ALL AGES

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EL-P @ Troubadour

22 03 2007

EL-P @ Troubadour
March 26, 2007
w/ Mr. Dibbs
Percee P
C-Minus

Tickets

Artists Bio:
Wikipedia-El-P aka El-Producto (born Jaime Meline) is an American rapper, producer and entrepreneur from Brooklyn, New York City. He is the co-founder, owner and CEO of the Definitive Jux record label.As a rapper, El-P’s style can be characterized by his dense, aggressive, and verbose attacks, which include notable use of metaphor, science fiction and fantasy themes and references, and associative word play. Regardless of this sophistication, he does not eschew traditional hip hop subject matter, a description which would fit equally well with several of his colleagues. His impact as a producer owes to his innovative mix of bleak futurism and low fidelity sounds.
Wiki- Mr. Dibbs, is a DJ and hip hop producer. The founder of the turntablist collective 1200 Hobos, he has also appeared on numerous underground hip hop records as producer or DJ as well as releasing a number of solo works.
Wiki - Percee P is an underground hip-hop artist from the Patterson Projects in New York City, United States. Although he has never released an official album of his own, he is known in the underground for selling his mixtapes himself at shows and for his many guest appearances on other alternative and underground hip-hop artists’ releases.

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Thes one-Lifestyle Marketing

20 03 2007

Thes One(People Under the Stairs) is releasing a instrumental album on March 27, 2007. Thes One has remixed 70′s radio commercials from albums Music That Works 1 & 2 (produced by Herb Pilhofer) to create Lifestyle Marketing. You will definitely feel the 70′s pop experience blended with Thes One’s flavor.

Ballerstatus.com: Transforming commercials into dense instrumental hip-hop, Thes fuses two strands of American musical history, creating a brand new cultural product. Fans of RJD2, Dj Shadow, and, of course, People Under the Stairs, will no doubt appreciate Thes’ efforts, and for those still unaware of the potential of instrumental albums, Lifestyle Marketing is the perfect introduction.

Listen:Thes One – Target

Don’t forget to check out the listening party @ Greyone on March 24, 2007 6-10pm
Click the right flyer above for more info.