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Filed in Music December 29, 2009 In this edition: Wavelength project to be re-formatted after tenth anniversary celebration in February, a partial line-up for CMW 2010, Jay Malinowksi of Bedouin Soundclash readies his solo debut effort, Louwop gives away The Great Escape until December 31, the D'Urbervilles to channel Rage on new album, and year ...

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This decade has seen a group of veteran emcees continue to blaze microphones, in addition to a fair share of phenoms who have arrived to the sound waves.

Red Rooster's sound typically gets put into the alt-country category, but that just provides the foundation.

Word of a cozy happening music scene in Montara has been buzzing about for a while.

Jay-Z claims to be throwing in the hip-hop towel after the release of his final record, The Black Album.

Bottles of spray paint were spread around the stage of Cornell University's Kiplinger stage Saturday, used to scrawl names, messages and pictures in bold, bright colors across every inch of the two walls on set.

Lucy Idlout, of Iqualuit, is to write about Nunavut's Road to Nowhere. CBC Radio 2 has revealed the Canadian locations that are to be immortalized in song and the singers who are to write about them in its Great Canadian Song Quest.

As Jay-Z brings the traveling road show known as Blueprint III to Baltimore's 1st Mariner Arena Oct.

"Heart of the City " " Heart of the City " is a Jay-Z Song of Note because it's the powerful thesis of the career-revitalizing and legacy-securing " The Blueprint " album , and also the best song he ever made with Kanye West .

This post is the third in a series running up to Shawn Carter's KeyArena concert Saturday, Oct.

Click here for details and to purchase tickets. ) Although he dropped a oekillera from his moniker, Mike Bigga says his killer instincts for making good music is whata s propelling him to move on to bigger and better things.

Quick, name the band that turned 'The Lion Sleeps Tonight' into one of the planet's stickiest 'earworm' songs.

Jay-Z is a science, a well-crafted equation- the epitome of an artist who can align what he's good at doing with the world around him.

All content within this section is pure rumor and generally have no factual info outside of what the streets have whispered in our ear.

Presented by A Shelter Friend The evening will include hors da TMoeuvres, drinks and live music by the Main Event Band.

Shawn Corey Carter is the best rapper to ever grace a microphone ; and with his latest installment to his 11-album career, he is still schooling the younger cats in the rap game.

The Blueprint 3 is Jay-Z's strongest album since 2003's Black Album . Many thought Jay had lost his edge, but one listen to this new batch of tracks dismisses that notion.

Posted By: Amy Kuperinsky Last night at Madison Square Garden Jay-Z dedicated one of his songs to "those people hiding in the cave that attacked New York City." Then he started.

All content within this section is pure rumor and generally have no factual info outside of what the streets have whispered in our ear.