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Adam Yauch’s Music & Lyrics Remembered: 9 Beautiful Rhymes

Adam Yauch’s Music & Lyrics Remembered: 9 Beautiful Rhymes

James Moore May 6, 2012 0

The world is reeling from the recent death of Adam Yauch, who died Friday at the age of 47 after a 3-year battle with throat cancer. Not many bands can say they’ve accomplished as

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Stanley Kubrixxx “Shape Shifter” Local Natives Remix

James Moore April 13, 2012 Comments Off

Stanley Kubrixxx has released quite the show-stopping remix video for “Shape Shifter” which appears on his new album “Instrumentals Vol 2″, available now at Bandcamp. Reminiscent of DJ Shadow- hip hop mixed with dubstep,

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New Hip Hop from Tha Sleepwalkers “Sub-Conscience”

James Moore April 3, 2012 Comments Off

For one of the most innovate and infectious hip hop tracks you’re likely to hear all year, check out “Sub-Conscience” by Tha Sleep Walkers, with it’s hypnotic Eastern samples and sparse, well-thought out rhymes.

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Drop Em City Records Brings The Hard Hitting Beats

James Moore March 16, 2012 Comments Off

Drop Em City Records focus on intense and hard hitting hip hop, dubstep, electronic and industrial music with live freestyle beat production and visual performance art. They’re one of the first collectives to mix

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Ladies and Gentlemen, this is Chris Heist, baby…

James Moore March 9, 2012 Comments Off

“Ladies and Gentlemen, this is Chris Heist, baby…” Coming to us from Chicago is well-respected producer Chris Heist, whose work ranges from the epic to the grimy, covering just about every mood and intent

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Fans of Big K.R.I.T and Big Boi will love Georgia rapping phenom A.Tone Da Priest

James Moore March 4, 2012 Comments Off

Coming to us from Marietta, Georgia, rapper Marco Antonio Restrepo, also known as A.Tone Da Priest, is building up quite an impressive catalogue, releasing new material at hyper speed. He must be well aware

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Feature with Chicago’s Wild Beats Team, Gwop, J-Lie and Waka Flocka

James Moore March 3, 2012 Comments Off

Today we’re speaking with the very popular Wild Beats Team, long time Chicago-based production company who have produced tracks for artists such as Juelz Santana, Bo Deal, The Cool Kids, Mikkey Halsted, GLC, Shiest

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Exclusive interview with nerdcore indie rapper MC Sykosis

James Moore January 27, 2012 Comments Off

Today we have an exclusive interview with MC Sykosis. Welcome to Independent Music Promotions. I liked both your delivery and the production, which seems to cover a bunch of electronic and bass/hip hop genres.

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A.L.Beatz releases “Go-Go-Girl”, hip hop and pop from Dallas, Texas

James Moore January 17, 2012 Comments Off

A.L.Beatz, also known as A.L.B, an up-and-coming hip hop/r & b/pop solo artist comes to us all the way from Dallas, Texas with one of his newly mastered club-ready creations, “Go-Go-Girl”. The man behind

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Jay-Z releases new track “Glory”, dedicates to newborn daughter

James Moore January 9, 2012 Comments Off

Superstar rapper Jay-Z released a new track today called “Glory“, and it’s dedicated to his and Beyonce’s newborn baby girl Blue Ivy Carter. An introspective and heartfelt track, Jay sounds overwhelmed and inspired in

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