Month: February 2007

Music that tugs at the emotions and raises hairs on the back of the neck. You really can?t fake what Miss.
Russell?s got! Alice Russell has gained an enviable reputation as one of the hottest singers in the UK right now. Her tracks with the Quantic and Quantic Soul Orchestra projects helped elevate her profile further. Alice's lavishly soulful voice is both timeless and up to the minute modern.
 

Crimeline has been together for the past 5 years putting a extensive song catalog together. The group also operate one of the most respected indie recording labels in the southeast region "Nex-N-Line Records". The group hails from the Newport News (Bad News) / Hampton (HPT) area of Virginia.
 

Gritty, versatile, honest, multi-syllabic, yet conscious, Ringolero’s microphone skills can be heard through-out the twenty-three tracks on ‘How To Be An Emcee’. Kicking off with a shout from Styles P, this CD also features the likes of Scamer, Synista Hustla, Sheldz, Bones, Switch, Rai Child and Corey Johnson from Defenders L.O.S.
 

Ringolero first got into music in 1989 when he was inspired by New York legends such as Big Daddy Kane as well as reggae acts such as Ninjaman. He began writing and penning lyrics before starting life out as a drum’n’bass MC back in 1997 regularly killing the airwaves of London’s top stations Rude FM, Fundamental FM and Breeze FM.
 

Apples & Snakes, England's leading organiser of performance poetry, presents a night of dynamic, accessible hip-hop poetry on Friday 16th March 2007. Californian hip hop poet Metis contemplates issues of race and identity through his passionate and fiery delivery whilst fusion artist Sean Graham weaves words with dance to create stories rich in everyday detail.
 

Metis is a UK-based spoken word Hip Hop artist, originally from California, who has performed widely throughout both London and New York. In 2006, Metis first hit the London stage - with feature performances at Poetry in Motion, Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, Tifa Tifa Fashion Show Premier, Rouge Noir, Stratford East Theatre and Camden Arts Gallery; the impact was immediate.
 

Sean Graham trained as a performing artist and dancer at The Brits and Lewisham College. Since 2004 he has been touring nationally and internationally with the Irven Lewis Dance Company. As a freelance-fusion artist he often works utilising dance and spoken word. Sean made his debut as a soloist at Breakin’ Convention ’06.
 

Joshua Idehen is co-founder of the collective known as A Poem Inbetween People, the host and organiser of the spoken word event PoeJazzi, and a spoken word artist himself, performing all over London in prestigious events such as Onetaste, Poetry N Motion, The Cellar, Shortfuse, and the John Betjeman Festival in Cornwall, to name a few.
 

As regular readers and my mates from Leeds will know, I'm a long-time fan of more or less anything associated with LowLife Records. However, I've been particularly looking out for Verb T since hearing the Braintax-produced "So Cool" on Kam's "Life Before 40" promo mix.