Wylde Bunch have recorded the new theme song for FOX SPORTS COLLEGE FOOTBALL and the video for the blazin NEW track ‘YEAH YEAH (STOMP THE BLEACHERS)’ which airsSaturdays during the college football kick off show on FOX SPORTS NET!!!!! The single will be available on the forthcoming Wylde Bunch EP due out in November.

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Music: Silk - Always & Forever

Always And Forever is not a phrase usually associated with a fickle music business, especially in recent times when one-hit wonders and manufactured artists have been especially prevalent. But for Silk, one of the few vocal groups to breakthrough in the hip-hop era, the phrase applies not only to their own longevity--seventeen years and counting with the current line-up featuring the four original members who have been together throughout--but also to the quality of their music which features finely crafted harmony singing and lyrics that deal with timeless issues of love, romance and sex. With the release of their seventh album Always And Forever, their debut release on Shanachie Entertainment on October 17th, Silk brings their vocal artistry to a hand-picked selection of songs that have inspired them as simultaneous homage to artists who they respect and musical statement of the ultimate quality of Silk's music.

"It all comes full circle on this album," relates Gary Glenn. "A lot of these songs were ones we were already familiar with so it was easy for us to step in and emulate people we have a lot of respect for. It's a chance to show off our own artistry. If someone has the audacity to do a Michael Jackson number or a Prince tune and do it well, or to really do justice to"The Secret Garden" , then they walk away with respect from the audience. That's what we want."

The album, which features Silk's interpretations of major hits by Blue Magic, Switch, Shalamar, Prince, Michael Jackson, Quincy Jones, Heatwave and others, simply builds on something Silk had already been doing.

""We've done a re-make on almost every album anyway so it was like time to do this--a full serving of what we've been doing throughout. Like (Blue Magic's classic) "Sideshow", we've been doing that in our shows and people love it. We were doing (Switch's) "There'll Never Be" at shows and people start to "step" when we do it...and it's a beautiful thing. It even happened in Aurora, Colorado, which is the last place I thought people would be steppin'!"

Silk
Always & Forever
Shanachie Entertainment
October 17th
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TV: Lil Kim Reality Show Season 2

Yes you read right they are shooting another set of episodes for Lil Kim

Music: Lauryn Hill

Im Back

Updates are coming back....

Video: Mario Vasquez ft Baby Bash - Gallery

Mario Vazquez feat. Baby Bash
Gallery
J Records
Former American Idol contestant Mario Vasquez romances a girl from around the block, despite her overly possessive boyfriend. Most of the action takes place at a posh club and in the grimey shadow of Brooklyn's Williamsburg Bridge. watch Gallery

Tech: How Not To Send A Sidekick again...

When will people learn finding a lost sidekick and not returning it to it owner is not a good look. Especially when our sim cards store everything that the theif has done. I know how they feel I lost my cell on vacation and called it but the driver never picked my phone up when it rang. So I had the phone turned off... and used my backup phone when I returned from vacation.

Live: Jody Watley at Joes Pub

Jody Watley
The Makeover

Joe's Pub
August 12
9:30 pm
$25

TV: Master P's Americas Next Hip Hop Stars

New Orleans mogul rapper Master P. has announced his own reality show America's Next Hip-Hop Stars, which will offer the next big rapper and group a $50,000 recording dealon the New No Limit Records.

According to Master P., born Percy Miller, twelve solo artists and six groups will perform various Hip-Hop songs to be critiqued by a panel of celebrity judges, which includes Paul Wall, Free formely of 106 & Park, Snoop Dogg and Master P.'s son, Romeo.

Master P. will serve as America's Next Hip-Hop Stars' host and a guest celebrity dj will be featured each week, along with a performance by a well known artistor group.

While the show does not have a home on the small screen as of press time, Master P. said negotiations are underway to launch the show on a major network or a cable/pay per view channel.

Stage: Toni Braxton - Revealed

Six-time Grammy award-winner Toni Braxton, will bring her spectacular live show - Toni Braxton: Revealed - to Las Vegas for an extended engagement in the Flamingo Showroom. Flamingo Las Vegas proudly announces an agreement in principle to make Ms. Braxton the resident headliner at Flamingo Las Vegas beginning August 3.

Toni Braxton: Revealed will be a sexy, entertaining and intimate evening with the woman who interprets the emotional essence of a song as no other artist can. Revealed will be a full-scale musical production that draws upon Ms. Braxton's experience as an accomplished musician, singer and Broadway performer, complete with her incredible band, amazing costumes,
background singers and dancers.

"I've just come off the road doing my first tour in 10 years and I can't wait to create an exciting new show for the legendary Flamingo," says Ms. Braxton. "There is nothing like the thrill of performing nightly to a live audience with fans that have supported me throughout my career. I'm looking forward to developing the show for the Flamingo, settling into Las Vegas with my family and bringing Revealed to a whole new crowd."

Over the course of her stellar recording career, Toni has also taken Broadway by storm, with starring roles in the musicals Beauty & the Beast and Aida and made her film debut in Kingdom Come.

If you thought you knew Toni Braxton before, just wait until she's.....Revealed. The show promises an intimate look at the heart and soul of Toni Braxton, her music, her life, her loves.

Tickets for Toni Braxton: Revealed are now on sale. Showtime is 7:30 p.m., Monday-Saturday. Ticket prices are $65, $75 and $100 (including tax, plus handling fees.) To purchase tickets by phone, call 702/733.3333 or 800/221.7299.

Damn Star! Power 105 radio host Star gets fired

Radio host Star, of Power 105's The Star and Buc Wild Morning Show, was terminated Wednesday following a news conference that blasted him for broadcasting sexual remarks about a rival host's 4-year-old daughter.

In recent broadcasts, Star threatened to track down his rival's daughter, offered money to anyone who would tell him where she attended school and repeatedly described the degrading sexual acts he wanted to perform on her. He also claimed to carry a gun.

"Where does this kid go to school? I got 500 bucks for that information," Star said. "Oh, yes, I'll come for your kids."

It was the latest salvo in the ongoing feud between New York City's two biggest hip-hop stations, Power 105 (WWPR/105.1 FM) and Hot 97 (WQHT/97.1 FM). Star, whose real name is Troi Torain, once worked at Hot 97, where his rival DJ Envy, born Raashaun Casey, is employed.

Star, who calls himself The Hater, has been in trouble before. In his Hot 97 days, he enraged fans of the singer Aaliyah by spoofing the plane crash that killed her. Last year, he drew fire after calling an Indian woman as a filthy rat-eater while doing a syndicated show on several Clear Channel stations.

Star's latest comments went largely unnoticed until Wednesday, when city council member John Liu (D-Flushing) and others arranged a last-minute news conference to call for Star's dismissal from the station, which is owned by Clear Channel.

Liu played a CD recording of Star's comments, which included sexually degrading remarks and racist slurs directed at DJ Envy's wife, Gia Casey, who is of Asian descent. Casey, who stood nearby, began crying part way through the playback.

"I'm wondering what it will take for some measure to be taken," she said. "Do I have to go down to the morgue and identify my child's body before Clear Channel says, 'You know what, maybe they've gone a little too far?'"

Her husband did not attend the conference.

Shortly after the news conference Clear Channel suspended Star pending and investigation, but hours later the company released this statement: "Power 105 finds recent remarks broadcast by Troi Torain of the Star & Buc Wild Morning Show to be wholly unacceptable. As of late this afternoon, he is no longer with Power 105.1 or Clear Channel Radio. We sincerely apologize to those who may have been offended by his remarks."

Liu and his fellow councilmen have sent a letter to the Manhattan district attorney requesting an investigation into the broadcasts. They say they have also already contacted the Federal Communications Commission and police in New York and New Jersey, where the Caseys live. Liu says Casey's daughter's school has already instituted additional security measures.

"You can't broadcast threats like this," Liu says. "And these are real threats.

Music: Simply Red - Cuba! (Live)

Simply Red
Cuba! (Live)
UK Exclusive
2006
Disc 1
Disc 2

No Request No Reups
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Music: Joi - Tennesse Slim Is The Bomb

Please go out & purchase this cd!!!
It was worth the wait!!!
Spread the word!!!


Joi
Tennessee Slim Is The Bomb
Joilicious
2006

DVD: Buffie The Body - Larger Than Life

Buffie "The Body" Carruth has released her first DVD Larger Than Life.

Scenes include the legendary Infamous Thunder Ass Clap and the uncut video for Tony Yayo's So Seductive featuring Buffie.

Buffie gives you a chance to win a Fantasy Rub Down with her during a photo shoot.

View the trailer

Music: Bob Marley & The Wailers - One Love - The Very Best Of 2cd LTD

Bob Marley & The Wailers
One Love (2cd Ltd ed)
Island Records
2001
Disc 1
Disc 2

No requests or reups.
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DVD: The Boondocks

Based on Aaron McGruder's award-winning and politically-charged comic strip distributed in 350 newspapers nationwide, Sony Pictures Television's The Boondocks: The Complete First Season - Uncut And Uncensored debuts on DVD and for PSP June 13 from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. Called the fall's edgiest new show by TV Guide, the three-disc DVD includes all 15 episodes as well as extensive bonus features including a behind-the-scenes featurette, commentary on select episodes, deleted scenes and animatic compilations. The set will be available for $49.95 SRP.

The Boondocks: The Complete First Season - Uncut And Uncensored tracks the adventures of two boys, Riley and Huey Freeman, who experience a culture clash when they move from Southside Chicago to the suburbs to live with their irascible grandfather. Huey, a 10-year-old left wing revolutionary, is determined not to enjoy the affluence of suburbia. This attitude is seconded by his 8-year-old brother, Riley, a proud product of contemporary rap culture. Although they torture each other and provoke the neighborhood, the two aren't any match for Granddad, who is eccentric even by "crazy-ass-old-black-man" standards.

Regina King (Miss Congeniality 2, Ray) and John Witherspoon (Friday After Next) are among the actors who voice characters on the wonderfully cynical comedy. Cedric Yarbrough (TV's "Reno 911"), Gary Anthony Williams (TV's "Malcolm in the Middle"), Gabby Soleil (Johnson Family Vacation) and Jill Talley (The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie) are also included in the cast.

The Boondocks: The Complete First Season - Uncut And Uncensored episodes include:

The Passion of Reverend Ruckus
The Block Is Hot
Wingmen
Riley Wuz Here
Let's Nab Oprah
The Itis
The Return of the King
The Real
A Huey Freeman Christmas
Gangstalicious
A Date with the Health Inspector
Granddad's Fight
Guess Hoe's Coming to Dinner
The Trial of R. Kelly
The Garden Party

DVD Special Features Include:
* Digitally Remastered Audio and Video
* Widescreen Presentations
* Audio: English (Stereo)
* Subtitles: French
* Commentaries on Select Episodes with Creator Aaron McGruder
* Audio and Video Crew Commentaries
* Audio Only Crew Commentaries
* Printable Storyboards
* Unaired TV Promos
* Animatic Compilation
* Behind-the-Scenes Featurette
* Deleted Scenes
* Bonus Previews
* Closed Captioned

Run time of approximately 330 minutes and is not rated.

Fashion: New Era: New York

New Era Cap Co., Inc., the premier, global headwear designer, developer and manufacturer, announced today that it will open a Flagship store in New York City. New Era: New York, which will be located at 9 E. 4th Street, in New York City's Greenwich Village, is slated to open in May 2006. This is the company's first flagship store.

New Era: New York will feature the broadest and most exclusive selection of New Era headwear in the world. The New Era 59FIFTY, the company's famed, signature fitted baseball cap will take center stage in this highly anticipated retail space. The store will also feature looks across New Era's many market segments, like fashion; styles in Women's and Kid's fits; and caps that satisfy the true sports enthusiast. Additionally, consumers will find New Era branded product; hats from the EK by New Era brand, and caps made for New Era's Action Sports partners including DC Shoes, Stussy and Billabong.

The look of New Era: New York, a 2,000 sq ft boutique space, was developed by Jager Di Paola Kemp Design, Burlington, VT, with final design executions by architectural firm TPG, whose portfolio includes Barney's New York, Dolce & Gabbana and the NBA Store. Housed in one of New York's historically land marked gems, the E. 4th Street building was built in the 1800s and was home to a manufacturing company for most of the 1900s. The boutique has a distinguished look, a unique departure from traditional headwear stores; it features exposed brick, maple hardwood floors, custom cabinetry and iron cast, floor inlays of the company's logo and the famed visor sticker found on the New Era 59FIFTY.

DVD: Karrine Steffans aka SUPAHEAD

Karrine Steffans "Hip Hop's most notorious groupie." NY Times best selling author Confessions Of A Video Vixen. "Tell-all" author does it all for the Vivid cameras. She blew the lid off the rap world by exposing her laissons with P. Diddy, Ja Rule, Jay-Z, Usher and more... but before all that, she blew Mr. Marcus and fucked him dry and we have the tape to prove it!!! They call her SuperHead... and you're about to find out why... Featuring chapter search, no regional coding, dvd-rom compatible, photo gallery, and previews.

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Music: Guru, Solar Prep Fourth Install Of Jazzmatazz Series

Guru, of the duo Gangstarr, is prepping the second release on his 7 Grand label, entitled Jazzmatazz Vol. 4.

The new album follows up the mildly successful 2006 release, Version 7.0: The Street Scriptures, which enjoyed heavy spins on New York's Hot 97 radio station with the album's second single, "Hood Dreamin'," and was hailed by such media outlets as The Source and the NY Post, among others.

Nine months after the label's first release, the duo of Guru and Solar are working hard at finalizing the fourth install of Guru's Jazzmataz series, which will be a double-disc endeavor that will be entirely produced by Solar and co-produced by Guru.

"7 Grand Records allows me not only to be creative, but to finally be in control of my creativity," explains Guru. "With us, you've got a legendary spitter that's still hungry and still relevant, teamed up with the hottest New York producer in the game, which makes for a musical vision that is powerfully important and virtually unstoppable."

"The tracks Solar and I have laid down are incredible and it's going to be the best Jazzmatazz yet," Guru adds.

Jazzmatazz Vol. 4 is expected to drop in early 2007.

Music: The Return of THE BRAND NEW HEAVIES

BRITISH SOUL/FUNK GROUP THE BRAND NEW HEAVIES REUNITE
N'Dea Davenport Rejoins Band for Summer Release

New York, NY (April 10, 2006)- Trend-setting British based soul outfit, The Brand New Heavies have re-united with their original lead singer N'Dea Davenport and their original label Delicious Vinyl, and are set for a June 27th, 2006 release of a new studio album, Get Used To It. The album skillfully blends the classic live funk and soul sound that was the signature of the group when they came out with their stunning debut album 15 years ago. Recorded and produced in New York and London, the album will be available simultaneously at Starbucks Company-operated locations in the U.S. and Canada as well as traditional retail.

After pursuing a solo career, the return of N'Dea Davenport (with whom the band created their debut self titled album and follow up Brother Sister in the early/mid 90s) is creating a major stir amongst The Brand New Heavies fans. Get Used To It is full of Davenport's stunning vocal prowess and the band's funky live jamming that intertwine into the perfect blend that Heavies fans have been craving since their premature parting.

The Brand New Heavies were born out of the rare groove scene and formed in the late eighties by drummer/keyboard player Jan Kincaid, bassist Andrew Love Levy and guitarist Simon Bartholomew. As pioneers of the London acid jazz scene, their groundbreaking alternative sound has garnered commercial and critical acclaim worldwide.

N'Dea Davenport originated out of Atlanta, then onto LA where she emerged from the downtown art and musical community. N'Dea's notoriety came swiftly by collaborating with varied artists in Hip hop, pop, rock and soul before joining TBNH-forever shaping her diversity of life, style and musical taste.

Starting out as a groundbreaking West Coast label that developed a string of rap and R&B artists, Delicious Vinyl was co-founded by Michael Ross and is responsible for some of rap's first true crossover successes including Tone Loc, Young M.C, and the Pharcyde. Ross signed The Brand New Heavies in '92 and handpicked Davenport as lead vocalist, which not only diversified the label, but also led to the creation of a great international live soul band.

"Obviously I'm very excited to be working with the band again," says Delicious Vinyl Co-Founder Michael Ross. "The Brand New Heavies with N'Dea are like a dream team. Like any great band they all play an important role, and the sum of the parts is cool music. The new record puts them right back in the pocket of where they left off."

"With their classic sound, The Brand New Heavies have always been musical trendsetters," explains Ken Lombard, President, Starbucks Entertainment. "When we heard that the band was reuniting with a national new release this summer, we were excited to have to opportunity to offer the album to our customers."

In support of the upcoming album, The Brand New Heavies are gearing up for a U.S. promo tour, performing at The Bowery Ballroom in New York and The Roxy in Los Angeles in early May; this will be followed by a 25 date nationwide tour in July and August.