Luck One – More (video)

Posted in Artists, Music Videos on January 22nd, 2011 by Hyphen

The Portland to Seattle transplant, Luck One, delivers the visuals for his first single off True Theory Outtakes.  We had Luck on SNSS a while back and I’m really excited to hear more from him.  He’s a very dope writer and a cool dude as well.  More northwest talent!

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Kardinal Offishall – The Anthem (video)

Posted in Artists, Music Videos on January 22nd, 2011 by Hyphen

There are only a few cities that I haven’t been to that I would love to visit and Toronto is definitely one of them.  Big up to all T-Dot massive.

Other cities that need Hyphenated visits:  Hong Kong, Tokyo, Sydney, Stockholm, and New York.  Yes, that’s right.  I’ve been in the music biz for 10 years and alive for 28, but haven’t been to NYC yet.  Shrug.

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Macklemore & Ryan Lewis – Irish Celebration (video)

Posted in Artists, Music Videos on January 22nd, 2011 by Hyphen

You don’t have to be Irish to join in on the celebration.  Straight from the Haggerty clan to you and yours.

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Saigon – The Greatest Story Never Told

Posted in Artists, Music Videos on January 22nd, 2011 by Hyphen

Derek Pike directed visuals for the title track from Saigon’s long awaited album.  This track is probably a few years old, but at least we finally get to hear all these crazy Just Blaze/Saigiddy records!

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Collie Buddz – Holiday (video)

Posted in Artists, Music Videos on January 22nd, 2011 by Hyphen

Collie Buddz’ new single, “Holiday,” hits home for any of us who work WAY too hard at the office.  My fellow overachievers unite!  But always remember to take a little time out for yourselves…

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Macklemore & Ryan Lewis – Wings

Posted in Artists, Joints on January 22nd, 2011 by MitchNW

Mitch: Much more than a song about shoes… Macklemore just let loose the first track off of his and Ryan Lewis’ upcoming album. Don’t let this one slip by ya.

Produced by Ryan Lewis
Chorus Written by Hollis Wear
Violin – Andrew Joslyn
Cello – Danah Olivetree
Piano by Noah Goldberg
Trumpet – Owuor Arunga
Bass – Zach Fleury
Vocals – Ray Dalton, Camila Recchi
Childrens Choir – Denny Middle School, West Seattle
“WINGS” photo by Jason Koenig (JKoePhoto.com)

Macklemore & Ryan Lewis – Wings

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Freeway & Jake One in Seattle – Thursday, Jan. 20th

Posted in Artists, Live Performances on January 18th, 2011 by Hyphen

Not only do you get to see Philly Freezer and Jake tear it down, but you get an opening set from my favorite group in Seattle, The Physics, plus DJ’ing by the legendary Vitamin D all night.  Gonna be a crazy show, be there at Neumo’s on Thursday!

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Sound Session #294 (1-16-11)

Posted in Episodes, Sound Session on January 18th, 2011 by Hyphen

Another week in the books and another reminder why as maddening as this industry can be, there are still so many dope people involved and so many good reasons why we can’t give it up.  On Wednesday, J. Moore and I checked out one of our favorite groups (and my fellow Swedish brethren), Little Dragon, for their third performance at Nectar in Seattle.  Since we’ve been supporting the group for a bit (peep one of our older interviews & their new music video right here), they’re the homies these days and it’s always fun to catch up with them.  The band is blowing up so in between touring with the Gorillaz and lead singer Yukimi recording for Raphael Saadiq’s upcoming album, you need to go check them out when they’re in your town.  Has Sound Session ever steered you wrong about an artist?

If you answered, “yes, remember Kevin Michael?”…you win.  But that wasn’t our fault!  He had all the tools to be a dope artist and perhaps one day we’ll see that fulfilled.  That said, I’m still struggling to see how you go from this…to this?  Ruh roh.  Even Lauryn told him to reel it in a notch.

Anyway, we followed up Little Dragon by chopping it up with close friend of the show, Lupe Fiasco, on Friday.  We ran a contest allowing 20 listeners to win a meet and greet by submitting their favorite Lupe verse and, quite simply, the responses floored me.  We had about 200 entrants in less than 2 days and almost every verse was different.  It was amazing to see how many people Lu has inspired with his music and also to such degrees.  There were stanzas in his verses that literally changed peoples’ lives.  Pretty cool.

After the meet and greet, we broadcast a live interview with Lu over the net and followed that up with a web chat firing listener questions at him.  You can see both archived as one video right here and while we may produce some snazzier looking video in the coming week(s) for the blogs, there’s a TON of great Lupe info in there for you right now.  We discussed everything from his upcoming album…to food…to his surprisingly balleriffic car collection.  And on that note, Lu wanted to make sure everyone saw his endorsement of the Corvette ZHZ he rented from Hertz while in town, so we grabbed some footage on the iPhone just cause.  Laughs here.

So yeah…after yet another week filled with #inboxmadness, sometimes you need these little reminders as to why we do what we do.  Above all, it’s just the music…but it’s vital to interact with other music lovers, not listeners, every now and then.  We’re a dying breed…

Show #294 (1-16-11)

  1. J. Cole – “Too Deep For The Intro”
  2. Outasight – “Losing My Mind”
  3. Thee Tom Hardy ft. GQ – “So Outrageous”
  4. Slaughterhouse ft. The Lox – “Put Some Money On It (Remix)”
  5. Roc Marciano ft. Sean Price – “Snow (Remix)”
  6. Saigon ft. Faith Evans – “Clap”
  7. Killer Mike – “Burn”
  8. Ghostface Killah ft. Killah Priest & GZA – “Purified Thoughts”
  9. ChillxWill – “Systems” (Local Music)
  10. Kanye West & Jay-Z – “H.A.M.”
  11. Kanye West – “Hell Of A Life”
  12. U-N-I – “Donkey Kong”
  13. TiRon & Ayomari – “Good Food”
  14. Brothers From Another ft. Sol & JusMoni – “New Easy Lift” (Local Music)
  15. Asher Roth & Nottz ft. Colin Munroe – “Dontcha Wanna Be (My Neighbor)”
  16. Talib Kweli – “I’m On One”
  17. Fortilive ft. Skyzoo – “Jim Kelly”
  18. John Crown – “Be’s That Way” (Local Music)
  19. Big Sean – “Final Hour”
  20. Lupe Fiasco – “The Show Goes On”
  21. Black Star – “Brown Skin Lady” (Throwback of the Week)
  22. JR & PH7 ft. Shawn Jackson – “She Loves Me”

Link to download the mp3 of the show – http://www.mediafire.com/?5p6t9y1laqc9f8z
(back up / streaming link – http://www.zshare.net/audio/853878561c5d77c7/)
(2nd back up – http://usershare.net/zn3tx071hb1x)

If there are any problems with the links or if you’d like to be added to our weekly email list to receive the playlist and download links after every show, just shoot me an email, DJHyphen@gmail.com.

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Little Dragon – My Step (video)

Posted in Artists, Music Videos on January 16th, 2011 by Hyphen

Our friends from Sweden just killed it at Nectar last week…again…and I stumbled across their new video for “My Step,” one of my favorite records off 2009’s Machine Dreams.  Be on the lookout for the new album soon!

If you missed it, peep our last interview with the band here:

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Million $ Mano speaks on Kanye’s “Lost In The World”

Posted in Artists, Other Peoples' Interviews, Videos on January 16th, 2011 by Hyphen

Interesting story from Million $ Mano about how his work ended up forming the backbone for Kanye’s “Lost In The World.”  Apparently he wasn’t credited on initial copies of the album but he’ll get his due in newer pressings.  Either way, it’s always cool to hear stories about how Kanye is down to work with lesser known, but always dope, artists and keep the cycle going.  It’s rather refreshing to see cats just excited about making dope music…

That said, producers: make sure you get your publishing in order.  Otherwise, when they ask “who will survive in America?”  It won’t be you.

Full interview over at Ruby Hornet.

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