The 2008 lineup is FRESH! KRS-One, 88-Keys, Buckshot, Blu & Exile, Fresh Daily, Mickey Factz, J. Period, Zaki Ibrahim and DJ Premier. The Brooklyn Hip-Hop main performance day is July 12th. Check the calendar on the Web site for the rest of the festival days programs & performers. If yer going, I’m super jealous - take me with you! I can fit in small spaces!

Bill and I went to MacWorld 2008 in San Francisco this week. Video interviews are on their way up on our Brand Channel on Youtube. Check this one out with DJ Destiny, the Sacramento Kings’ DJ, talking about the latest and illest in DJ technology from the iSkin booth… era-era-siiiiiiiiick!

In case you’re a fool, Shala from Qualo is one of the hottest rappers out of Chicago. Here’s the “The Great Chicago Winter” remixed by Zebo.

And here’s the original with acapellas and instrumentals. Enjoy, ears!

Beats and boobs: two of the best things in the world, together again. What more could you ask for?

Thursday, Sep 27th, if you live in the SF Bay Area and love either art, music, food, fashion or ta-tas, you should definitely attend Beats4boobs. The event is put together to raise breast cancer awareness in the Bay Area community, and this will be their biggest boobs yet. Sorry, biggest event yet. I’m easily distracted.

This year’s celebration will be the largest Beats for Boobs fundraiser to date, aiming to raise $15,000 to support Bay Area organizations specifically devoted to the eradication of breast cancer through research, education, screening and treatment.

Check out the Beats 4 Boobs web site for more information on the event. And if you go, be sure to watch my friend Colleen shake her stuff while fire dancing with her troupe at around 10 PM. She’ll be the hottest one spinning poi.

ROB DA BANK & CHRIS COCO
(LISTEN AGAIN�
Album Release Date – December 5, 2006
Label – Ether

BBC Radio One DJs Rob da Bank and Chris Coco are two musical evangelists who have dedicated so much time to the pursuit of new sounds that their own mothers probably struggle to recognize them. Luckily for us, Rob & Chris’ family relationships are their problem, not ours, and we can sit back and enjoy the fruits of their labors in the form of Listen Again. This double-CD compilation features a selection of celebrated and undiscovered gems from across the musical spectrum. Listen Again enchants, entertains and promises to introduce even the most jaded listener to what could well be his new favorite band. (more…)