Donwill, one third of critically acclaimed Tanya Morgan, is proud to release the latest single off his upcoming album, Don Cusack in High Fidelity. "Love Junkie" maintains the album's theme of love and loss with the soulful vocal styling of Peter Hadar, a verse by Harlem NY's own, Harlems Cash, and production by Aeon. "Aeon sent me the beat and I reached out to Harlems Cash because I had been playing his mixtape pretty heavy," says Donwill. "I pulled Peter Hadar in on the hook because I just enjoy working with him in general. I tend to usually only collaborate with people that I know because its usually easier to work that way for me." With animated synthesizer lines and well placed distortion, the upbeat track and its club feel are the foundation of the song's story - while a rebound girl may be fun for the night, she cannot replace a long-time love. When asked where the inspiration for the song came from Donwill responds, "This song is inspired by one night stands and the way that you use them to feel loved temporarily. Its not always just about sex sometimes, it's about just wanting a connection to a person even if its temporary."
After heartbreak with his girlfriend, Donwill goes out for a much needed night on the town, rapping, "If love is a drug, than I need a new prescription". While embracing his newfound freedom, the emcee is fighting an inner battle about the benefits of a fling versus a relationship. Donwill lightheartedly portrays this with lines like, "A well done fling is a beautiful thing," and "A girl this bad shouldn't be in my bed tonight." When Laura calls frantically about her dad passing, the story takes a turn as Donwill realizes the importance of love over physical satisfaction and rescues her.
Donwill's debut solo album Don Cusack In High Fidelity drops March 23, 2010, via Interdependent Media.
Donwill is one-third of hip-hop group Tanya Morgan, formed in 2003, who recently released their third full-length album Brooklynati in 2009. With the high praise from Rolling Stone and Time Out New York that Brooklynati garnered,Donwill is now ready to release his own album, Don Cusack in High Fidelity on March 23rd, 2010. The maxi-single of "Laura's Song," complete with the album version, radio edit, instrumental and a couple of remixes is now available for purchase on iTunes. The album will be released by Bay Area label Interdependent Media.
About Interdependent Media:
Founded in 2006 in the Bay Area by Evan Phillips, Interdependent Media has built unique strengths in the development, production, and marketing of recorded music via new methods of marketing and promotion. Armed with a comprehensive understanding of both traditional and emerging methods of marketing, iM has successfully created multi-faceted methods of raising awareness and interest in their projects. Industry veterans Ian "ID" Davis and Dominic Del Bene head operations at iM and are credited with discovering and/or developing artists such as 9th Wonder, Little Brother, Tanya Morgan, Blackalicious, Del the Funky Homosapien, the Hieroglyphics and more. In 2010, iM will be releasing multi-media projects from artists Donwill, TRUTHLiVE, Canibus, Von Pea, A-Plus, and more. For more information, please visit http://www.imculture.com .
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Paul Wall & Chamillionaire Headline SXSW "Best In Texas"
PAUL WALL AND CHAMILLIONAIRE TO HEADLINE AS THE KICK-OFF TO THEIR NATIONAL “IN LOVE WITH MY MONEY” TOUR
Austin, TX – OGPR and AllHipHop have joined together for this years SXSW festival to bring you the “Best In Texas” showcase at La Zona Rosa on Wednesday, March 17th. Headliners for the showcase are Paul Wall and Chamillionaire as they kick off their national “In Love With My Money” tour. The tour currently runs through mid-April, with more dates being added. Tour information can be found at www.Chamillionaire.com. Both artists have albums dropping this Summer.
The rest of the line-up for “Best In Texas” is comprised of acts representing various regions of the Lone Star State with performances by Houston’s Trae Tha Truth, who is currently pushing his single, “Inkredible ft. Lil Wayne & Rick Ross”, Chalie Boy, who hails from the Calvert/Hearne region and came to national attention via the hit single, “I Look Good” and Dallas artists Dorrough, who made a big splash with his single, “Ice Cream Paint Job” and Fat Pimp. Austin’s League of Extraordinary Gz, Kyle Lee and Question? for San Antonio and Big Sid repping San Angelo round out the night’s event. Swisha House’s Michael “5000” Watts will provide the hosting duties with DJ’s Grip and Hella Yella spinning between sets.
A staple in the industry, OGPR has provided public relations services to a host of Hip Hop artists over the past 10 years, representing names both regional and national including Chamillionaire, Paul Wall, DJ Whoo Kid, Pimp C, Slim Thug, Yo Gotti, Bobby Valentino, Trae Tha Truth and 3-6 Mafia. AllHipHop has been online for the past 11 years. Having worked together closely over the years, it just made sense for the two companies to collaborate for one of music’s biggest annual showcase events – SXSW, and help Paul and Chamillionaire kick off their tour with a bang.
"When I heard that Chamillionaire and Paul Wall were reuniting again on stage at SXSW I knew this was a marquee event AllHipHop had to be a part of, this is history" said Steve Raze.
"I remember performing at my first SXSW and not really even speaking to Paul, and now in 2010 we will be touring together and sharing the same SXSW stage" remembers platinum, Grammy-winning artist, Chamillionaire. "I’m sure our collective fans would be proud to see how far we have come and excited to see us together again live."
"It feels great to have the opportunity to be back on stage with Cham" adds Paul Wall. "To start our tour together in Austin, at SXSW means a lot because that’s one of the 1st places we used to do shows coming up trying to be discovered. We started out as an opening act, now we're the headliner. Hopefully this will inspire the up and coming artists to follow in our footsteps."
DJ KHALED’S “VICTORY” DEBUTS AT #1 ON BILLBOARD INDEPENDENT CHART
(New York, NY) – Miami hip hop star DJ KHALED debuts at #1 this week on the Billboard Independent Chart with his E1 Music album VICTORY. The album sold almost 28,000 copies and was #14 on the Billboard Top 200, and was the #2 Rap Album (just behind Lil Wayne). Additionally, he has sold over 300, 000 digital transactions from Victory.
VICTORY, DJ Khaled’s fourth studio album, contains the hit singles “Fed Up” and “All I Do Is Win.” All I Do Is Win,” features T-Pain, Rick Ross, Snoop Dogg and Ludacris, and impacted at urban radio this week, with over 31 stations adding the record. The video for “All I Do Is Win” has been added to BET, MTV2 and MTV Jams.
DJ Khaled has sold over 800,000 albums via E1 Music (formerly KOCH Records).
About E1 Entertainment
E1 Entertainment (AIM: ETO) is a leading independent entertainment content enterprise that acquires and exploits world-class film, television and music properties around the globe. Its four primary businesses units (E1 Television, E1 Films, E1 Music and E1 Distribution) operate in Canada, the U.S., the UK and Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Holland and Belgium, providing extensive expertise in film distribution, television and music production and distribution, kids programming, and merchandising and licensing. E1's growing content library, which currently includes more than 4,000 feature films, 2,700 hours of original television programming and 15,000 music tracks, are distributed across all media formats in more than 190 countries.
On Saturday, March 20th, 2010, Planet Rock Records recording artists Dan-e-o & Shalli join an amazing line-up of performers for the 2nd annual "Rock The House" Charity Show at Oshawa, Ontario's Durham College (Athletic Campus Centre).
Other live performers include Choclair, The Poor Little Fools, Viva Mars, Eleven Past One, Jerusalem Groves, Mic Boogie, Amanda Morra, Tre, Recovery Child and MSG.
Admission is only $10. See the attached flyer for more details.
When you get a moment, download the new ScholarMan EP Hiroshima Fusion. ScholarMan recently found himself checking out the 1979 work of the soulful band Hiroshima and decided to create an EP that fuses their jazzy and soulful sound with his brand of hip-hop, thus the reason for the title.
This is his first free project of 2010 that features the talents of K-Mynez, Kahli Abdu, Teisha Marie and Verronica Styles. The download link follows, please share this with your friends, family, audience, readers, listeners etc.
New York, NY- March 9- Hip Hop alternative duo Kidz In The Hall (K.I.T.H) new album, Land Of Make Believe, out today, March 9th in all physical & digital retail outlets! Additionally iTunes is featuring "Jukebox" as the free single of the week and BET's 106th & Park is premiering "Jukebox" today at 7PM EST. K.I.T.H are currently on a 20 city tour called the Crowd Control Tour alongside 88-Keys, Izza Kizza and Donnis.
ESPN SportsCenter will be continuing to feature Kidz In The Hall 's latest single "Take Over The World" ft. Colin Munroe and co-produced by Just Blaze. Land of Make Believe also features MC Lyte, Marsha Ambrosius, Amanda Diva, Chip Tha Ripper, Donnis, Tim William and Russoul.
Melding Hip-hop, R&B and Pop/Rock, the album is "Extraordinary music for ordinary people" comments Double- O, DJ of K.I.T.H. A sonic department from previous albums, The Land Of Make Believe dares to push the boundary between who you are, who you think you are and the constant struggle getting to where you want to be. This album allowed K.I.T.H to reflect and analyze both strengths and weaknesses redefining their goals and aspirations. Naledge, MC of K.I.T.H comments, "the moment we have worked for has come to a crossroad. We've never taken time to look ourselves in the mirror and analyze what this industry has made us. As a lyricist, I used this album to serve as a soundtrack to my aspirations and to my downfalls, but also as a chance to evaluate who I am as a man compared to whom I envisioned myself to be."
Tuesday - 3/9/10 - Cleveland, OH - Peabody's Wednesday - 3/10/10 - Grand Rapids, MI - Intersection Live Thursday - 3/11/10 - Pontiac MI - Cro Foot/Pike Room Monday - 3/15/10 - Enid, OK - The Underground Thursday -3/18/10 - Austin- TX - SXSW Friday - 3/19/10 - Austin - TX - SXSW Sat - 3/20/10 - Austin - TX - SXSW Wednesday - 3/24/10 - Denver, CO - Cervantes Thursday - 3/25/10 - Murray, UT - Murray Theater Saturday - 3/27/10 - Los Angeles, CA - Key Club Thursday - 4/1/10 - Seattle, WA - Studio 7 Friday - 4/2/10 - Portland. OR - Berbati's Pan
Founded on the grounds of Ivy league school University of Pennsylvania, 2008 was a big year for hip-hop alternative duo Kidz In The Hall. After the release of their critically acclaimed album, The In Crowd, it propelled them into MTV's TRL & BET'S 106 & Park limelight with key tracks like "Drivin Down The Block," and "Love Hangover" featuring Estelle. Later success landed them a global Reebok campaign around the brand's Classics campaign remixing & shooting a video for Special Ed's "I Got It Made" which featured in over 500 footwear locations nationwide. From there fans saw them on every stage with Gym Class Heroes, MURS, N.E.R.D., The Clipse and heard them on numerous video games including EA Sports Madden 09, NBA LIVE 2010, Rockstar Game's Midnight Club LA and Activision's Pimp My Ride 2.
Co-Headliners Black Milk and Black Sheep Are Joined by Diamond District, One Be Lo, Donwill, Finale, Crown Royale, Bisco Smith, and More for March 20 Showcase
(March 9, 2010 - Brooklyn, NY) Premier lifestyle and entertainment marketing firm, Audible Treats, is pleased to announce their first Official SXSW 2010 Showcase. The showcase, which will take place at The Independent on Saturday, March 20th, will feature a unique mix of legendary, established, and rising hip-hop acts, including co-headliners Black Milk and Black Sheep, along with Donwill and Von Pea of Tanya Morgan, One Be Lo, Diamond District, Finale, Crown Royale, Bisco Smith, League510, iLL-Literacy, and TRUTHLiVE. Amp Live of Zion I will serve as the official DJ for the evening.
Following the overwhelming success of Audible Treats' 2009 CMJ showcase, an event featuring a number of outstanding performances including Souls Of Mischief's lone east coast appearance for the year, this first official SXSW showcase continues to build on Audible Treats foundation as a leader in digital marketing and online and print publicity, while displaying the immense talents of the artists represented by the company. "We re looking forward to bursting onto the SX scene with a stellar line-up for our first official showcase," says Audible Treats President and Co-Founder, Michelle McDevitt. Co-Founder and Director of Marketing, Gavin Rhodes, adds, "We've worked hard with our media and lifestyle partners to produce an impressive show filled with amazing giveaways and prizes. Fans are going to be in for a real treat."
Audible Treats has partnered with elite lifestyle and music tech companies to give away free goodies throughout the evening. Joining forces once again with Asics/Onitsuka Tiger. Audible Treats will distribute special freebies and they will also be awarding one lucky attendee with a free Maschine midi controller courtesy of a special collaboration with leading music software and instrument company, Native Instruments. Joining in the festivities as official media partners for the showcase are Beyond Race Magazine, BrooklynVegan.com, CokeMachineGlow.com, and The Smoking Section. As an official SXSW-sponsored showcase all badge and wristband holders will be allowed in for free, while a limited number of tickets will be available for purchase at the door.
Audible Treats is a Brooklyn-based entertainment marketing and publicity firm specializing in print and online media coverage. Working closely with the best record labels and lifestyle companies since 2004, Audible Treats creates customized, effective marketing and publicity campaigns for countless clients, ranging the spectrum from legacy artists to Grammy-winners to rising stars including T-Pain, Too $hort, Anthony Hamilton, Black Milk, The Pharcyde, J*DaVeY and many more. By combining out-of-the-box creative strategies with industry know-how, Audible Treats plays a vital role in assisting clients to meet their goals.
When: Saturday, March 20, 2010, 7:30PM - 2:00AM What: Audible Treats SXSW 2010 Showcase featuring Black Milk, Black Sheep, Donwill and Von Pea of Tanya Morgan, One Be Lo, Diamond District, Finale, Crown Royale, Bisco Smith, League510, iLL-Literacy, TRUTHLiVE Showcase DJ: Amp Live Where: The Independent @ 501 Brushy Street Austin, Texas 78702
In commemoration of the Notorious B.I.G.'s untimely death on March 9, 1997, RH Bless and Duss Smittoooo of Block Exchange Ent. bring you "Missing You," a video tribute to the Notorious B.I.G.
Bless rhymes about the first time he met Biggie during a Howard University homecoming, while Smitty talks about Biggie's significance to Hip Hop.
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Sam Hanna Strikes Back.