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Southern California hip hop producer LDontheCut has just released his debut album Patiently Anxious via Technicali Sound. The 10 song album boasts appearances from Chali 2na & Akil of Jurassic 5, Rakaa Iriscience of Dilated Peoples, Supernatural, Craig G, Aceyalone, Prince Po, Pacewon, Philieano, Toquon, Pigeon John, Medusa, Ariano, & Garfield of Shai. Born Leigh Snyder, LD (aka LDontheCut) started playing drums and writing music in 1996 when he was in grade school. LD’s love for hip hop sparked the start of his DJ career in 2002 and in that same year he founded Technicali, a DJ crew that quickly turned into a movement of not only DJs, but producers, MCs, and singers alike. From 2005 - to present, LD has been running Technicali Sound as a record label with an impressive catalog

On November 21 at 8 p.m., The Hip-Hop Soundtrack Series goes down at (le) poisson rouge in New York City, which is located on 158 Bleeker St. The concept behind the event is to tell stories about the songs that have impacted the lives of various people in the music industry. Host Dana Rossi is actually the founder and co-creator of the Soundtrack Series. Armed with her incredibly vivacious personality and natural charisma, she concocted the idea over three years ago in spring 2009. At first, she was unsure of how it would be received. "When I first got this idea, I thought, 'what if I'm one of a really small group of people that just sort of connects points in their life to music?' I'm not saying I'd be the only one, but I was worried that only music nerds do this," Ro

Fresh off the success of 93 Still, the exclusive remix album of Souls of Mischief's 93 'Til Infinity, Gummy Soul's Wally Clark is back with his 2nd solo release, and is BandCamp's featured artist. The Nashville native, who founded Gummy Soul in 2008, combines Tennessee's rich history of Soul music, with his love of Hip-Hop, to create a feel that is both new, and from another time. On Sportin' Waves, Clark uses his smokey voice, to seduce the listener with Southern charm and effortless wit. The result is a moody, sexually charged album, full of clever tales that are funny, yet lyrically advanced, and filled with inebriated wisdom. Please visit http://gummysoul.bandcamp.com/album/sportin-waves-2?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=93+Still+creator+is+back+with+new+album+...&utm_source=

I was blessed with an advanced copy of Cas One's second full-length album The Monster And The Wishing Well. I felt like I was sitting on an incredible new drug and I couldn't wait to give you all this feeling. This record will breathe life into the forever-thirsty masses of knowledge seekers and the underground free radicals alike. It's truly refreshing without the harmful side effects of monotony because it's all natural with no record labels involved, just Cas One and his crew. Cas definitely doesn't walk alone through this 16-track composition. Two of his main production crew consists of his long time friends Eric Hunter and an electro wizard known as Figure, all three of them are straight out of Evansville, Indiana. Unusual suspects Bitter Stephens, Prolyphic & Metermaid

Class Struggle is the sophomore producer compilation from ALTERPROD's in-house producer, Alterbeats. The album expands upon the creative direction as its predecessor The French Revolution, by adhering to a social commentary on class struggle, while addressing the current global economic crisis. The album boasts guests appearances from both legendary and upcoming underground mainstay emcees Tragedy Khadafi, Neek The Exotic, Shabaam Sahdeeq, Copywrite, Rockness Monstah, Bekay, Verbal Kent, Skeezo, and Mic Handz, among others. Class Struggle is now available in both digital format through all major digital retailers, as well physical CD, where it will be sold through several record shops and online outlets. STREAM/DOWNLOAD: Class Struggle - DJBooth.net

It's a tradition in Minneapolis for it to be cold in December and for Doomtree to hold a Blowout - both of those will continue to happen this year. Blowout 9 will be held December 13th, 14th, & 15th at First Avenue Mainroom. Tickets will go on sale Friday, November 1st at noon CST. Members of Doomtree will be at The Depot this Saturday from 2:00-4:00pm selling tickets hand to hand. This year the crew has chosen four charities that the Blowout will be benefiting. They include Tubman Center, Southside Family Nurturing Center, Kicker Project, and True Food Council. When they take the stage together, they're an unstoppable storm of knuckle tattoos, fedoras, high-tops, and sensible flats - they're funny together, desperately serious together, and their loyalty to one another is pa