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Listen: Jonny Blaze, “Boys and Girls”
Dubsteppin' When he isn’t telling everybody to “pray [their] pain away” on a Christian club refix of the Rod Lee classic, it seems Jonny Blaze is scouring the blogs or flipping through back issues of...
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Catch Hilton Carter’s “Moth” On HBO Zone Tomorrow
From "Moth" “Moth,” the first short film from Baltimore music video director Hilton Carter, is on Comcast On Demand all this month, and tomorrow has its television premiere on HBO’s original...
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Q & A: Adam Katzman, North Carolina’s Biggest Baltimore Club Fan
By Yuri Woodstock One of the stranger things we’ve heard about as of late is Artistika, a venue in Greensboro, North Carolina, just a few minutes from Quaker liberal arts school Guilford College,...
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On The Download: Mullyman’s Mullyman vs. the Machine Mixtape
The machine doesn't know what's comin' Mullyman’s new mixtape, Mullyman vs. the Machine, is sponsored by noted mixtape shouter DJ Whoo Kid, and in New York last night, there was a party and...
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On the Download: Sean Touré ft. Kev Brown and Ab Rock, “A Day in the Life”
Day in the Life Sean Touré doesn’t really give guest rappers Kev Brown and Ab Rock a chance on this one. He kicks off “A Day in the Life” with a verse that captures not only his struggles as a...
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On the Download: DJ Excel’s “Disco Flow” Remix
DJ Excel Don’t know too much about this Phil Adé character, other than that he’s one of those nimble, excited young rappers really repping this whole super-nebulous “DMV” movement, but Bmore...
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Listen To This DJ Pierre Remix of Rihanna’s “S & M”
DJ Pierre Norwegian production duo Stargate have put together dance-pop hits like Beyonce’s “Irreplaceable,” Ne-Yo’s “Closer” (which DJ Booman remixed), and more recently Katy Perry’s “Firework” and...
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On the Download: Kil’s Through the Wire
Through the Wire Kil, a beatmaker and a former host of Strictly Hip Hop, has put together a surprisingly non-shticky concept album based around The Wire. On his Bandcamp page—where Through the Wire...
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On the Download: Kane Mayfield’s Mobtown Studios Microshow
KaneMayfield Last Thursday’s Mobtown Studios microshow from Mania Music Group’s Kane Mayfield and a live band—guitarist Karlos Brickhouse, keyboardist Dennard Watson, drummer Brandon Segar, and...
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Alabama Rap Group G-Side Samples Beach House
The One . . . Cohesive Huntsville, Ala., rap group G-Side is known for its working-class raps and experimental but distinctively Southern beats. Along with its in-house production team the Block...
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A “Best Of” Rod Lee Mix Not Made By Rod Lee
Crossfaded Bacon? Uncle Jesse put together this Best Of Rod Lee mix for the Philly internet label Crossfaded Bacon (which also released Uncle Jesse’s Glen Tech EP). It’s a near hour of spare...
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Volcom Finally Delivers Live Saint Vitus Vinyl
"Play it loud" Last year, Volcom Entertainment’s “vinyl club” announced a 7-inch from Maryland metal god Scott “Wino” Weinrich‘s old, recently reunited band Saint Vitus. It was supposed to feature...
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We’re Not Sure About This New DJ Class Track
It's never too early? Earlier this week, DJ Class released a song called “Wacko Flacco” that’s sort of about the Ravens, sort of about weed, and seems to be somehow grabbing onto the Waka Flocka Flame...
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Sean Armstrong and E Major Pay Tribute To J. Dilla
Louder! For hip-hop nerds, the month of February is unofficially known as J. Dilla Month: The late, great, insanely influential producer was born in February, died in February, and released his...
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Here’s Some More New Weird Blaqstarr
Blaqstarr Over the past few weeks, Blaqstarr has been haphazardly tossing out new songs onto his YouTube account. First, there was “Ride,” a club remix of “Rider Girl” from January’s Divine EP. “Rider...
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Jon Kwest Delivers All the Charlie Sheen You Need
Wonderful From DJ Equalizer’s “Kill Barney” to Johnny Blaze’s “Spongebob Squarepants Remix” to DJ Excel’s “That’s What A Pimp Does,” club music’s always been really good at grabbing hold of some...
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Know Your Product: Ken Seeno, Invisible Surfer On An Invisible Wave (NNA Tapes)
Totall beacharific Ken Seeno's Invisible Surfer On an Invisible Wave might, at first, look like another contribution to that chillwave/glo-fi/whatever movement that’s still kicking around...
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Say Wut Takes Club Forward Again with “Alien Nation”
Say Wut at work Though it does feature his signature horns and a nod to his early days as NSW (Nigga Say Wut) in that ominous synth-choir sound, “Alien Nation” is a new kind of club track for Say Wut....
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Going for a Ride in Midas’“Velvet Limousine”
Midas Mania Music Group’s Midas (now going by the name DDM) has a hip-hop and club fusion record called American Graffiti coming out soon on Unruly Records. The project was first mentioned in City...
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King Tutt Pays Tribute To Loleatta Holloway
King Tutt King Tutt just released this tribute to disco diva Loleatta Holloway, who passed away on Monday. “Burning Up,” samples Holloway’s 1980 hit “Love Sensation” (familiar to every and anybody via...
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DJ Pierre Ups Thee Game with New Mixtape, ThEEEE MiXtApEEEE
ThEEEE MiXtApEEEE DJ Pierre just released ThEEEE MiXtApEEEE (not to be confused with Blaqstarr’s brand new The Mixtape) and unlike the multiple-artist, old classics-meet-new club hits mixed CDs he’s...
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E Major Is Still Better Than Yours
Better Than Yours E Major’s Majority Rules snuck in right before the dying days of simple, direct, soul-beat-based hip-hop. By ’08 or so, even the stalwart “underground” began to reconstruct itself...
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New DJ Class Looks to Classic House and, Unfortunately, Chris Brown
Not all that lol One step forward, one step back is the story of DJ Class these days. This time around, he’s remixing and rapping over hits from ultimate shitbag Chris Brown. First, there’s “Look At...
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Baltimore Filmmaker Hilton Carter and DJ Quik Go Out for Milk
Video still Baltimore filmmaker Hilton Carter directed the music video for DJ Quik’s “Luv of My Life,” the first single from the Los Angeles legend’s new album Book of David. The video has all the...
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King Tutt Says Hello to the Bad Guy with New Mix
King Tutt DJ King Tutt’s Say Hello to The Bad Guy mix is an hour of unabashed house and electro. No Baltimore club productions. And none of Tutt’s own electro work either. Just 19 tracks of the cheap,...
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Watch the Dan Deacon-scored Hilvarenbeek Starring Dan Deacon
Hilvarenbeek: Totally, Totally Broke and Beautiful Just in case you thought hanging out with Francis Ford Coppola had turned Dan Deacon irreparably fancy, IFC.com premiered Hilvarenbeek, an absolutely...
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Future Islands Rein It in for NPR Tiny Desk Concert
Erin Schwartz/NPR The secret is that pretty much every Future Islands song is a huge bummer. Recent acoustic shows (and the EP, Undressed) have revealed the heavy heart behind the super-fun dance...
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Uncle Jesse Drops a Proper Electro Banger with “Samson”
via MySpace Uncle Jesse, club music boundary-pusher and maker of some of the only tolerable moombahton out there (see “Boat Shoes”), just put out “Samson,” an excellent though not exactly...
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Mania Music Group Adds a New Member: Eze Jackson, of Soul Cannon
Mania Music Group A week ago at Joe Squared, Kane Mayfield announced a new member of Mania Music Group: Eze Jackson of Soul Cannon. Right after a passionate mini- set from Mania’s Ron G, Jackson did a...
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On the Download: DDm, TV Killed the Radio Star
TV Killed the Radio Star Rapper DDm, previously known as Dappa Dan Midas (though everybody called him Midas) just put out his EP, TV Killed the Radio Star. In a little over 16 and a half minutes, DDm...
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