
"This album is exceptional" says Alright I'm Wrong about my new album "The Olw Are Not What They Seem" and also posts a mini interview with me. Read all about it here! The Owls Are Not What They Seem

I have the best sister. Awhile back I posted about this map I loved (see above). I come home today and guess what the mailman brought? The map! It was a complete surprise. Thanks Abby! I love you. - Joel

German composer back at it again, Ladies and Gentlemen.. This time it's the continuation of the beat tape entitled, "Hawaii Snow" This is Part 2 Though.. If you missed number one, you plain out missed out...So number one is thrown up aswell.. This is soulful jazzy goodness, too ill to pass up, very suitable for your eardrums to love.. So if you ready just hit play and enjoy your life to the rich sounds of "Wun Two"... BIG SHOUT OUT TO BROUS ONE FOR THE HEADS UP!! GHEA!!! WIB PUMPIN' ZIP FOR ZIP!! [...]

shoutout to one of our readers (right): Phantom Thrett #BlackCloudMusic ( twitter ) Last sunday became one of the busiest days for those attending the Beat Swap Meet . It was good running into the regulars of the event that happens quarterly out of the year. There was one small difference that I noticed quick while I was there: the mass amount of new folks that came out! It's always good to see fresh new faces at events that you attend to regularly, because it gives much more popularity to the [...]

DJ Kross - Cloudy Night California producer, DJ Kross, releases his debut Nujabes influenced album "Scenes From Nature" and DigiCrates blessed WIB with some audio fortune.. The leaker posted up is entitled "cloudy night" is very soothing and smooth...You can cop "Scenes From Nature" on the link provided, Highly recommended!....Support the composer and WIB!! BIG SHOUT OUT TO THE WHOLE FAM AT DigiCrates Records!! Purchase "Scenes From Nature" ON iTUNES CLICK HERE WIB STACKING POST CREDENTIALS!! [...]
CLICK IMAGE TO VIEW VIDEO Animal BIkes and Chess Moves Cartel present: Live from the Streets. In the third episode of Live from the Streets, we take you to Old City to meet up with Jus Allah. Jus was... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
CLICK IMAGE TO VIEW VIDEO Animal Bikes and Chess Move Cartel Present: Live from the Streets. "In the fifth episode, we headed over to the Trocadero theater in Philly to meet up with Immortal... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Rufio - Vivid Colours 2 Rufio - Kind Love (SAC) Ft. Chuuwee Rufio - Lavish Back Ladies and Gentleman the Homie "Rufio" aka "Ru" has blessed the us with another audio medicated beat tape..."Fifth"..As... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
TBC - DeLpHoNic HeLL TBC - sodA cAn rApe TBC - stop SNiTCHiN Ft. Chuuwee Here at The Word Is Bond have been following the golden revamped Sacramento evolution of sound...Well Ladies of Gentlemen if... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
CLICK IMAGE TO VIEW VIDEO Live from the Streets is a video series created by beatmaker Mr. Green and director Sam Lipman-Stern. The series is based around showcasing street musicians and turning... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Bank$y - sWEEt wATeR(Prod. TeasZe) Bank$y droppin another lyrical embrace...Detroit bound..the emcee and his partner TeasZe the composer for the beat...Have been going strong laying tracks down..but... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Hexsagon - Children Calling Hexsagon - Close to You Hexsagon - When I Left You Mixed and Remastered only by the composer, "Hexsagon" coming out of the valley of the son, Phoenix AZ ... Its another installment of the "BeatFlip Tuesdays" this time it's Volume 2, if you just now got on to listening to "Hexsagon" he has FIRE!...Don't sleep as time and hiphop ain't waiting for no one...So peep out his past material...Highly Recommend it!...A project that came together with flipping samples every [...]
Not trying to beat a dead horse here, but the image above was just too good for us not to post. As part of their ' agreement ,' it looks like Avicii is getting some well-deserved prime real estate on Leona's "Collide" album art. The actual artist cred for the track goes to "Leona Lewis/Avicii" and it's no doubt a big win for the Swedish DJ and his team. The New York Post's Page Six has a statement from Avicii's manager, Ash Pournouri that reads "The most important settlement for us was that we got recognition in the credits [...]

Spliff Hemingway - Buddha Heads prd. Duke Westlake Shoutout to Spliff Hemingway, and LA cat that just reached out via Twitter with this dopeness. " Buddha Heads " a short, chilled track, that leaves us wanting more. Produced by Duke Westlake from E.Super DOWNLOAD THE SINGLE ON BANDCAMP Spliff Hemingway: Twitter •J• Tags: buddha , buddha heads , dope track , duke , [...]

CLICK IMAGE TO VIEW VIDEO Nice and clever concept on this one. I'm so tired of rappers talking about bullshit on the radio!! It really pisses me the off. I made this video to hopefully get through to some of them.... Shouts out to De Storm, NAS's Rewind, Lost Generation, The dude who wrote Bars from Sumer, and all others who came before Shoutout to Dorian for sending this in. Prince Ea: Twitter • [...]
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CLICK PICTURE TO VIEW FULL FLYER Here's that time again.. Boombox is back with the return of House Shoes & Sucio Smash (NYC)! TiRon & Ayomari will be in the place to be guest hosts! DJs Dyer & LT Smash will be taking care of music duties in the lounge area. It's going to be an interesting event to be a part of tomorrow! Be sure to be there... ACKNOWLEDGE THE REP: Special shoutout to Inka [...]
Day One of Pitchfork Music Festival had a little bit of everything.
A few updates from the washed-out world of local label the Record Machine. "Lovebox," a track off recent Pitch subject Motorboater's latest record, was included on the Urban Outfitters music blog... Continue reading "Motorboater gets an Urban Outfitters shout-out; Record Machine summer sampler free to download" >

© Cory Thomason Fresh off his high school graduation, it looks like my brother Cory is starting his own t-shirt business. Not a bad way to make a few extra bucks. He's off to a good start, as you can see by the design above. - Joel
Ginger Ale on Ice. May 25, 2011. © Allison V. Smith Allison V. Smith . How does she make a plastic Southwest cup look so good? - Joel