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The Mayhem Machine Includes the Critically Acclaimed Single, "Lo Sweatas" One of Chicago's most respected hip-hop groups, Project Mayhem, has released their sophomore album, "The Mayhem Machine" which includes their critically acclaimed single, "Lo Sweatas." The Mayhem Machine, the much-anticipated follow up to their debut, "More Than Hype," also ...

There's nothing more annoying than when hype isn't followed by substance. Annie's debut CD, Anniemal is fantastic, filled with upbeat, uptempo disco beats, breathy vocals with poppy lyrics.

Following on from the house, techno, disco, funk, hip-hop, jazz and electro collections, BBE's series will continue with drum & bass.

There are tons of karaoke applications for the iPhone, but a startup called Khu.sh is introducing a twist on the concept, "reverse karaoke," to the App Store.

True innovation is hard to come by, but Living With Hannibal & Owusu is the real thing.

The entertainment industry was once considered a career path with a limited number of opportunities; however, the recent synergy illuminating between the various entertainment and corporate entities are now presenting options for everyone to find their niche.

The Mumlers Where: Pop's Blue Moon Sounds Like: Macabre garage-soul steeped in swampy blues and scratchy 45 RPM records.

The Royal Potato Family The music of Garage A Trois is located somewhere on the map between do-it-yourself punk fusion and hip-hop jamband.

When South Jamaica, Queens, rapper Ali Vegas entered the New York hip-hop scene in the late '90s, he was labeled as the next breed of poignant and reflective rap artists to follow in the footsteps of that borough's important MCs, like Kool G Rap, Nas, and Mobb Deep.

Montague Knell~ slumped across the downstairs bar on a Sunday morning! Skippy gets on the horn with Episcopalian Mystic and Psychic Detective Richard Falcombe who's living-under-a-curse 4 blocks to the west at the Amalgamated Theological Seminary.

The pioneering Drone band Earth has existed in some form or another with Dylan Carlson at the helm since 1989.

Tireless musical innovator Matthew Herbert has never been one to simply rest on his laurels or make a simple pop record for entertainment value alone.

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What amazes me is that the same women who complain about which women are in hip-hop and R&B videos refuse to support artists who do show dark skinned women in their videos.

Organizers estimated that more than 25,000 people showed up to dance, play, eat and shop at the area's biggest annual block party, the Jerome-Gun Hill Street Festival on Saturday, Sept.

"For Believer, it was creating raw music, raw hip-hop," the Chicago MC told MTV News last week.

With Kanye West 's latest cancelled concert [ click to read ], as well as his recent no-show at the BET Hip Hop Awards [ click to read ], fans speculated on whether the Chicago producer/rapper was emotionally torn following the backlash from the MTV Video Music Awards incident [ click to read ]. Speaking to MTV , Queens emcee and label mate ...

The U.K. produces regular bloke pop stars with what seems like a monthly regularity, whereas we've got, um, Jason Mraz? Jamie T., on the other hand, has a lot in common with a raft of U.K. pop stars who borrow from street slang, old Two Tone records and journals of endless nights of drunkenness in a kind of grab-bag of contemporary anti-style. Like ...

M onica Anderson hunches over her CD collection, closes her eyes and puts extra breath into her words for dramatic emphasis, as if imparting a guarded secret: "Some of the yoga CDs are sucky ," she says.

People went crazy in the packed house as a gracious Hartnett took photos with everybody who requested one.