Month: September 2007

Foot Locker, one of the biggest names on the high street bringing the latest and greatest in street style, has teamed up with New Era, the nation’s premier headwear manufacturer, to launch the next stage of the already successful “Are You Part of the New Era?” global advertising campaign.

The celeb-packed evening presented by Radio 1’s Chris Moyles, saw some of the world’s greatest musicians honoured for their contribution to the live music scene over the past year. Acts as diverse as Stereophonics, CSS, Enrique Iglesias, Kate Nash, The Manic Street Preachers, Calvin Harris, Athlete, Pigeon Detectives and The Enemy all played to a packed venue of fellow nominees, music industry experts and fans.

Confirming his status as music’s most heavyweight visionary, critically acclaimed Mark Ronson returns on October 15th with the stellar new single ‘Valerie’. Featuring the powerhouse vocals of eminent songstress Amy Winehouse, it’s a blazing, bold revival of the dynamic Zutons track and follows the smash-hit singles ‘Oh My God’ & ‘Stop Me’.

Confirming his status as music’s most heavyweight visionary, critically acclaimed Mark Ronson returns on October 15th with the stellar new single ‘Valerie’. Featuring the powerhouse vocals of eminent songstress Amy Winehouse, it’s a blazing, bold revival of the dynamic Zutons track and follows the smash-hit singles ‘Oh My God’ & ‘Stop Me’.

We’ve got some great new content for Urban music drama series “Dubplate Drama” - Series 2 which starts this Wednesday Night / Thursday morning at 12:40pm on Channel 4. Check out this teaser trailer. The series invites viewers to vote on how its plot unfolds via a cliffhanger multiple-choice dilemma at the end of every episode. The show will have downloadable media and special podcasts for you to keep constantly updated with the series' progress.

Dark MC is a tasty Desi MC who is not shy of ramming up a club and getting the party people dancing. Here you can check his latest track Its Getting Dark In Here - the partylicious bumper that has a bhangra-esque feel that should be popular all over. If the Dark MC can gain the support of all his bredren then he should be all set to lift off this year. In the past he has laid out a few MCs and you can tell why..

The Urban Development team return to Stratford Circus with Pyroradio.com on September 29th for an essential, party session, part of Newham’s Music and Dance Month. The team have pulled together a line up featuring the cream of British hip hop and grime for an exclusive one off event featuring over 6 hours of music and street culture, including live graffiti and b-boys, both on stage and around the circus.

Taking place between the 12th and 18th November, Enterprise Week provides the biggest annual celebration of all things enterprising across the UK. Last year over 448,000 people took part in events nationwide. As part of the celebration UK Youth is highlighting enterprise projects developed and delivered by young people in the UK Youth network.

Former Company Flow frontman / Definitive Jux label honcho El-P travels to Spain, Holland, France, Belgium, Ireland, and the UK in support of his second solo album, the critically acclaimed I'll Sleep When You're Dead. "There’s been three or four pretty good rap albums so far this year, but El-P’s I’ll Sleep When You’re Dead is the only one I’m still listening to on a regular basis months after the fact, as if it was… you know, a rock album" - XXL.com columnist Byron Crawford.

David Kim is a 12 year old Korean Boy who lives in Orange County where he and his friends until just a few short months ago would memorize and recite the lyrics of their favorite rap artist, 50 Cent, Young Jeezy, or whoever the flava of the month was. Sadly none of these rappers ever had a last name like Kim or Lee. David is one of a multitude of Korean American kids who have had until recently no representative in American Pop Culture.