Orlando Hip-Hop Group Smash City Gauntlet Keeps Bad Music From Entering The Ozone This Earth Day

Smash City Gauntlet’s new EP, There Goes The Neighborhood, keeps the carbon footprint off the globe with environmentally friendly hip-hop. This Earth Day, Smash City Gauntlet wants you to think about hip-hop and the environment.

There Goes The Neighborhood, features 5 pollution free hip-hop cuts produced by Optiks (Blitz the Ambassador), Abbott and Sneaka Freak.

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“With so much noise pollution in hip-hop we wanted to put something out that gave back to the environment and made people excited to listen to hip-hop as loud as they can in their headphones,”

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Selling Out: How Much Money Do Musicians Make Online?

Here’s a wake up call to musicians – you’re not going to make a lot off selling just your music online – you gotta have a real business model. Thanks to Information is Beautiful for putting together the research.

Ottawa Band Cherry Suede Hopes Loyal Fans Will Put Them on Stage with Rock Icons Bon Jovi

Cherry Suede operates differently than most bands. They distribute their music for free. They play shows at fans’ houses. They mentor other artists. So it shouldn’t come as a surprise that when they entered a contest that could get them an opening slot at a Bon Jovi show, they would find an innovative method to help them win.

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Bon Jovi’s SuperBAND Tonight contest gives local bands a chance to open a Bon Jovi show for their hometown crowd. The contest is set up as a series of battles pitting four songs at a time against each other. Fans rank the four songs from best to worst, and then move on to another battle. The band with the most popular song wins the opening slot for the show in their city.

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Rock, Funk, And Hip Hop Converge WIth Koom the Ripper’s New Album “American Muscle”

Multi-faceted hip-hop artist, rapper, at times a singer depending on the hook, all-around descriptive, well-spoken, and delivers the heat in unique style with vocal clarity. Having overcome many obstacles and striving for self-betterment each year, Koom the Ripper brings substance and style to hip hop.

He is concerned with doing justice to the song; not concerned with feeding a starving ego. Diverse subject matter is the foundation for each focused song, featuring head-nodding instrumentals, and fresh delivery on the “American Muscle” record.

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Quiet Entertainer Wants You to Rethink the Word “DJ”

Quiet Entertainer is a one-man project from Greg Freeman. He's an producer & DJ who creates ambient electronica music while blending it with hip-hop. His music has been explained by his fans as a combination of DJ Shadow, Boards of Canada, & Blue Man Group. Q.E.'s signature release is his Machismo EP, featuring both his sonic, ethereal production and Nashville area rappers to complement the tracks.

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Q.E. makes you dance & trip out

Quiet Entertainer has steadily been doing shows and building a reputation for giving an amazing live performance every time. For booking, you can email greg@quietentertainer.com

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