Month: November 2006

TVT Records

TVT Records

America’s #1 independent record company for five consecutive years, TVT Records celebrates 20 years of discovering and breaking some of the most revolutionary recording artists and exciting trends in music. TVT Records has given the world such impact artists as Nine Inch Nails, Ja Rule, Underworld, Ying Yang Twins and Lil Jon.

Def Jux Announce New El-P Album

Def Jux Announce New El-P Album

Def Jux has announced that the long awaited follow up album from head honcho El-P, 'I'll Sleep When You're Dead', has been slated for release on March 5, 2007. The highly-anticipated platter features collaborations with Trent Reznor (NIN), the Mars Volta, Aesop Rock, Mr. Dibbs and an appearance by Catpower's Chan Marshall.

BBC Three - Coming Of Age Needs You

BBC Three – Coming Of Age Needs You

BBC Current Affairs are working on a series for BBC Three called Coming of Age (working title). The programme is a documentary looking at young people's attitutudes towards sex. The researchers are interested in tackling the subject of how changes in modern technology (for instance mobile phones and the internet) are influencing personal relationships and ideas about sex amongst teenagers.

Lil Flip and Mr Capone-e - Conected

Lil Flip and Mr Capone-e – Conected

Two of the hardest hustlas' in the rap game get Connected. A new project with a release date of November 14 features Houston's "Freestyle King" Lil' Flip and the West Coast’s "Hustle King", Mr. Capone-e. The two combine their flow to create a raw, hard-hitting 21-track reflection of their worlds entitled Connected.

Pitbull - Biography

Pitbull – Biography

Pitbull returns with his second album after his gold selling debut LP ‘M.I.A.M.I.’  (the biggest-selling bilingual hip-hop debut in more than a decade, selling more than 600,000 copies).  Not since Cypress Hill’s debut, has a Spanish-fluent rap artist achieved such sales levels.

Traum re-releases Natural Born Killas Vol. 1 CD

Natural Born Killas Vol. 1 CD

Hip hop maestro and the driving force behind the New York Masta Mix Records label, Traum, proudly announces the reissue of Natural Born Killas Vol. 1 CD. Under the leadership and production of rap sensation Traum and featuring Cormega, Traum himself, Half-A-Mill, Killa Sha, Sheistmillini and many more, this release features some of the illest sounds ever to spit out of the ghetto.

Shaanti @ The Factory

Shaanti @ The Factory

Not content with retaining the status quo, Shaanti look set to push musical boundaries further a-field. Birmingham, prepare yourself for an onslaught of sound unlike any other as Invasion including Asian Dub Foundation’s Spek, DJ/MC Vader feat. Rocky on drums, and Radio 1s Bobby Friction, unleash chaos in a unique spectacle of musical and visual mayhem at The Factory (The Medicine Bar) on Friday 24th November.

Jibbs

Jibbs – With His Chain Hangin’ Low

Age ain’t nothing but a number they say and Jibbs is certainly proving the saying right. At only sixteen the former boxer from St Louis has taken the American charts by storm. His smash debut single ‘Chain Hang Low’ structured around the ‘Ears Hang Low’ nursery rhyme is proving to be the rappers calling card and now he’s set to take over the UK!