'Little boy' hopes to beat top DJs

Thirteen-year-old Ashton Singh is making history in the music industry as the youngest participant in the Battle of the DJs, competing with youngsters five years older than him.

Ashton, who is popularly known as DJ Ace, said he was looking forward to the competition and was hoping to win the judges over with some good music.

The Grade 8 pupil at Just Juniors Academy in Mount Edgecombe said he started DJing at the age of 10. Three years later, he was wooing crowds at supper clubs.

Following in the footsteps of his father, Devan, a popular Durban DJ, Ashton said he picked up the skill by watching his dad.

"My dad would let me set up his music equipment. That is how I developed an interest in DJing," he said. "I watched him at work. This impressed me and gave me the inspiration to try to do the same. So one day he let me and I enjoyed it.

"DJs blend different types of music in a way that they complement each other and sound good."

His favourite type of music is rhythm and blues and he likes listening to T Pain, Akon and Snoop Doggy Dogg.

Last May, Ashton entertained patrons at a supper club in Umhlanga when he turned up as the guest DJ.

"It was a gift to my mom on Mother's Day. She was just as surprised as the rest of the people in the restaurant," said Ashton. "People were amazed to see a 'little boy' behind the turntables. But it is a lot of fun and I enjoy the hobby.

"I love music and this is an opportunity for me to turn up the volume without my parents shouting at me."

Ashton said he enjoys playing cricket and soccer almost as much as listening to music. He does not plan to make DJing a profession when he grows up, but his dad said he would like to hear his son on radio some day.

"I think he has a lot of talent, and I am certain he will do well," Devan said. "He is still very young and does get a bit nervous, but after a while he handles the music just fine. Ashton has inspired his friends and they too are now curious to learn more about DJing."

Source [Iol]

DJ Frank takes a bow at 94

I've been DJ'ing since 1982. This guy got me beat by a longshot.

DJ Frank, 94, calls it a day

A POPULAR Bridgwater DJ is hanging up his headphones at the grand age of 94 - bringing to an end his impressive 50-plus year career as the town's mobile music man.

Frank Bartlett, of Parkway, says the strain of setting up his equipment is getting too much for him but he insists music will remain a huge part of his life.

Frank has exhibited his extensive music collection at hundreds of weddings and parties throughout his distinguished DJ career, which began in the 1950s entertaining the masses at Bridgwater Town Football Club.

He said: "I've very much enjoyed my time as a DJ and I will miss it dearly, as will many of my fans.

"I have been under the weather recently and it has just become a little too much for me.

"I have thousands of records to keep myself occupied while I'm at home, so music will always be a part of my life."

Frank even admitted he turned down a chance to show off his skills on the Paul O'Grady show.

He said: "I received a phone call from ITV a few years ago. I thought about it but turned it down. It wasn't for me."

Frank's DJ sets included hits spanning four decades and he prides himself on being able to cater for all ages.

He said: "I mainly play the hits guaranteed to get everyone onto the dance floor. I have all the hits and everyone really laps it up."

Frank played his last set six weeks ago, filling in for a band at a wine circle event in Parkway, to everyone's enjoyment.

Source [Bridgwater Mercury]

Get Well

DJ Camacho

One of your Club section’s all-time favorite NYC-area spinners, DJ Camacho, has long been ill, suffering from diabetes, hypertension and their side effects. (We can hazily remember him spinning fab, Jersey-style deep house at the old Wild Pitch parties back in the ’80s.) But now, according to his friends at the Underground Network, things have gone from bad to worse veteran jock. Not only has he suffered three heart attacks in the past three months, but he’s lost his apartment, and has to relocate his belongings—studio equipment, tons of records and undoubtedly plenty of mementos chronicling the story of New York’s house scene—into storage. His pals are trying to raise funds to aid with his health- and eviction-related expenses; you can e-mail Leslie Jeudy at lesjeudy@comcast.com for more info on that. Alternately, you could just send a card, flowers or whatever to St. Barnabas Medical Center in New Jersey, where he’s currently recovering in fair condition. Here’s the info for that:

St Barnabas Medical Center
C/O David Camacho, room 2408
94 Old Short Hills Road
Livingston, NJ 07039

Source [Time Out]

For more info on DJ David Camacho:
http://www.myspace.com/djdavidcamacho

"I Need That Record" documentary trailer

"I Need That Record" documentary trailer

I Need That Record:

“I Need That Record” is a documentary feature examining why over 3000 independent record stores have closed across the U.S. in the past decade. Are they going to die off? Will they survive?

Since the 1890s the record store was THE place to go for prerecorded music, but today the way we access and consume music has been redefined by technology. Ecommerce, iTunes, the iPod, P2P networks, music blogs, and social networking sites have all had a profound impact on the way we access music and on the state of the independent record store. Downloading and pirating seem to be the easy answers to the chaotic state of the music industry, but higher powers like major labels, big box stores (Wal-Mart, Target, Best Buy etc.), and corporate owned FM radio are also shaking things up.

The music industry has always been a unique marriage of art and commerce, but today commerce has proved to be the ultimate influence. Rather than develop great acts, embrace new technology, offer affordable products; the major labels are more concerned with turning the clocks back to preserve old business models- with only one thing in mind- THE BOTTOM LINE.

Keep the full paid expense accounts and 7 figure incomes. Keep suing fans. Keep shoving bland music down people’s throats that will sell x amounts. Keep producing homogenized radio programs that play the same 50 songs. Keep supporting big box businesses that could care less about music; businesses that sell music below list price. Keep screwing the consumers and retailers who love and care about good captivating music. Squash new ideas, new innovations, and new possibilities as the future of recorded music, a commodity that supports the artist, vanishes.

While it would appear that the internet is the new force for musical discovery and delivery independent record stores have been, and still are a strong force on the musical experience.

Record stores serve as important community spaces that provide foundations for new musical and artistic scenes and movements, a place where unique under the radar bands have been continuously supported, a place where the underground can thrive, a place where independent thought is encouraged and challenged, a place where people of different ages, races, and taste can mix and mingle face to face.

Unlike the internet, physical stores are a real place, with real people, where community is formed and supported. Not just record stores, but original mom and pop main street stores are all in a fight to stay alive. Independent businesses are hubs for new jobs, new innovations, and creative thought.

Over the past ten years it has become increasingly harder to compete with big chain businesses that have big money and Congress protecting them. The rich and powerful in business and government have thrown a wrench in the wheels of progress. American culture has become more isolated and atomized as a result of homogenous culture and thought. Businesses and establishments that make different parts of America distinct from one another are disappearing. In order to save community, ourselves, and our world what we need are independent creative places where new ideas and thought can be nurtured. Not more of the same…

Through found footage, expository voice over, talking head interviews with artists, musicians, retail owners, and animation “I Need That Record” will tell the story of our connection to independent record stores and the importance of independent thought and culture. What happened to the stores and what will the future bring…

Some interviews include- Ian Mackaye of Dischord Records Fugazi/Minor Threat/Teen Idles, Chris Frantz of the Talking Heads, Pat Carney of the Black Keys, Mike Watt of the Minutemen/reunited Stooges, Noam Chomsky, guitar composer Glenn Branca, punk author Legs McNeil, rock photographer Bob Gruen, Bryan Poole guitarist of Of Montreal, Numero Records, Rhino Records, Bloodshot Records, United Record Press (the largest vinyl plant in the U.S.), and many many many indie stores across the U.S. (NYC, Boston, DC, Cleveland, Detroit, Ann Arbor, Chicago, Minneapolis, Memphis, Nashville, L.A.).

Source [TDS]

10 things to know about McCain

For all the coverage this week of Senator John McCain's background, there are some important things you won't learn about him from the TV networks. His carefully crafted positive image relies on people not knowing this stuff—and you might be surprised by some of it.

Please check out the list below, and then forward it to your friends, family, and coworkers. We can't rely on the media to tell folks about the real John McCain—but if we all pass this along, we can reach as many people as CNN Headline News does on a good night.

Click here to tell us how many people you can pass it on to—and to see our progress nationally: http://pol.moveon.org/mccain10/

10 things you should know about John McCain (but probably don't):

1. John McCain voted against establishing a national holiday in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Now he says his position has "evolved," yet he's continued to oppose key civil rights laws.¹



2. According to Bloomberg News, McCain is more hawkish than Bush on Iraq, Russia and China. Conservative columnist Pat Buchanan says McCain "will make Cheney look like Gandhi."²



3. His reputation is built on his opposition to torture, but McCain voted against a bill to ban waterboarding, and then applauded President Bush for vetoing that ban.³
   


4. McCain opposes a woman's right to choose. He said, "I do not support Roe versus Wade. It should be overturned."⁴



5. The Children's Defense Fund rated McCain as the worst senator in Congress for children. He voted against the children's health care bill last year, then defended Bush's veto of the bill.⁵



6. He's one of the richest people in a Senate filled with millionaires. The Associated Press reports he and his wife own at least eight homes! Yet McCain says the solution to the housing crisis is for people facing foreclosure to get a "second job" and skip their vacations.⁶



7. Many of McCain's fellow Republican senators say he's too reckless to be commander in chief. One Republican senator said: "The thought of his being president sends a cold chill down my spine. He's erratic. He's hotheaded. He loses his temper and he worries me."⁷



8. McCain talks a lot about taking on special interests, but his campaign manager and top advisers are actually lobbyists. The government watchdog group Public Citizen says McCain has 59 lobbyists raising money for his campaign, more than any of the other presidential candidates.⁸



9. McCain has sought closer ties to the extreme religious right in recent years. The pastor McCain calls his "spiritual guide," Rod Parsley, believes America's founding mission is to destroy Islam, which he calls a "false religion." McCain sought the political support of right-wing preacher John Hagee, who believes Hurricane Katrina was God's punishment for gay rights and called the Catholic Church "the Antichrist" and a "false cult."⁹



10. He positions himself as pro-environment, but he scored a 0—yes, zero—from the League of Conservation Voters last year.¹⁰

John McCain is not who the Washington press corps make him out to be. Please help get the word out—forward this email to your personal network. And if you want us to keep you posted on MoveOn's work to get the truth out about John McCain, sign up here:

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Sources:

1. "The Complicated History of John McCain and MLK Day," ABC News, April 3, 2008
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/04/the-complicated.html

"McCain Facts," ColorOfChange.org, April 4, 2008
http://colorofchange.org/mccain_facts/

2. "McCain More Hawkish Than Bush on Russia, China, Iraq," Bloomberg News, March 12, 2008
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aF28rSCtk0ZM&refer=us

"Buchanan: John McCain 'Will Make Cheney Look Like Gandhi,'" ThinkProgress, February 6, 2008
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/02/06/buchanan-gandhi-mccain/

3. "McCain Sides With Bush On Torture Again, Supports Veto Of Anti-Waterboarding Bill," ThinkProgress, February 20, 2008
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/02/20/mccain-torture-veto/

4. "McCain says Roe v. Wade should be overturned," MSNBC, February 18, 2007
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17222147/

5. "2007 Children's Defense Fund Action Council® Nonpartisan Congressional Scorecard," February 2008
http://www.childrensdefense.org/site/PageServer?pagename=act_learn_scorecard2007

"McCain: Bush right to veto kids health insurance expansion," CNN, October 3, 2007
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/10/03/mccain.interview/

6. "Beer Executive Could Be Next First Lady," Associated Press, April 3, 2008
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5h-S1sWHm0tchtdMP5LcLywg5ZtMgD8VQ86M80

"McCain Says Bank Bailout Should End `Systemic Risk,'" Bloomberg News, March 25, 2008
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aHMiDVYaXZFM&refer=home

7. "Will McCain's Temper Be a Liability?," Associated Press, February 16, 2008
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=4301022

"Famed McCain temper is tamed," Boston Globe, January 27, 2008
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/01/27/famed_mccain_temper_is_tamed/

8. "Black Claims McCain's Campaign Is Above Lobbyist Influence: 'I Don't Know What The Criticism Is,'" ThinkProgress, April 2, 2008
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/02/mccain-black-lobbyist/

"McCain's Lobbyist Friends Rally 'Round Their Man," ABC News, January 29, 2008
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=4210251

9. "McCain's Spiritual Guide: Destroy Islam," Mother Jones Magazine, March 12, 2008
http://www.motherjones.com/washington_dispatch/2008/03/john-mccain-rod-parsley-spiritual-guide.html

"Will McCain Specifically 'Repudiate' Hagee's Anti-Gay Comments?," ThinkProgress, March 12, 2008
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/03/12/mccain-hagee-anti-gay/

"McCain 'Very Honored' By Support Of Pastor Preaching 'End-Time Confrontation With Iran,'" ThinkProgress, February 28, 2008
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/02/28/hagee-mccain-endorsement/

10. "John McCain Gets a Zero Rating for His Environmental Record," Sierra Club, February 28, 2008
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/environment/77913/

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Portishead - Machine Gun (Live on Jools Holland)

I am loving this track and will be grabbing their new CD.

Remember, Record Store Day is this Saturday. Get out there and support your local mom and pop record store.

Happy Passover

Passover is coming up this weekend and we wanted to send a little greeting to all our Jewish friends.

Video of The Day Award goes to ...

Shawn Fanning in a VW commercial



I am friggin LOVIN this video !!!

Did Record Store Day Website get Hacked ??

is now ....

This morning the official Record Store Day website was down and now it is some sorta web hosting site. Perhaps the hosting company for the Record Store Day site took their site down intentionally or accidentally.

For those of you not already in tune with the big event, check it out here

UPDATE: RSD site is back online. They were doing maintenance.

http://www.recordstoreday.com/

DJ Spyder's latest mixtape

Well folks, due to popular demand and the fact that it's been a VERY long time since I presented you with a new mixtape ... alas, that day has now come. And yes, I said mix "tape", since CD's are dead.

Here's the legendary DJ Spyder cuttin it up with some of the hottest progressive, electro and tribal house choons. Tracklisting is intentionally not being posted.

Hope you enjoy. Please leave comments below.

Now get naked and crank those speakers up and hit the play button on my new mixtape.

Pascal Kleiman: DJ who works with feet only

Known by many as “The Amazing Pascal, or the DJ who spins with his feet,” 39 year old Pascal Kleiman, from Toulouse France, has proven himself as a true artist in all musical aspects vibrating the dance floor and creating an inspiring musical performance.

Pascal Kleiman’s sound is characterized by a unique groove of diverse underground music. His record bag is full of ambient, dub, progressive and psychedelic electronic music from European, South African, American and Asian artists. Pascal Kleiman doesn't stop short of progressive and psy-trance. Owning his own record shop gives him access in the latest electronic dance music. His production skills have allowed him to produce several vinyl releases and recently he has worked on some new tracks coming out on his forthcoming CD release with Psycho Abstract.

Frenchman Pascal Kleiman is a phenomenon of electronic music stage. He was born without hands, but this fact hasn't killed his dream to become a DJ.

Now he's a usual guy, the only difference is that.. he's DJing with his legs.

He is a victim of a medicine, called "softenon" ..which was used in sixties for treatment of a toxicosis by pregnant women. It was found out later, that the basic component of this medicine caused a serious mutation.

However, a tragedy hadn't become an absolute obstacle in his way, and now he's famous in Spain and all over the world.

"I suffer only in people imagination. I don't think that i have a tragedy in my destiny. I am who I am. Believe, I never dreamed of hands", he admits.

http://www.myspace.com/pascalkleiman
http://www.pascalkleiman.com/
http://www.youtube.com/pascalkleiman
http://pascalkleiman.imeem.com/
http://www.last.fm/music/Pascal+Kleiman
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal_Kleiman

Jyoti Amge - World's Smallest Girl

Standing at 23 inches tall — and weighing in at just 11 pounds — Jyoti Amge is no ordinary teenager. In fact, the 14-year-old is the world's smallest girl, according to the Indian Book of Records.

Amge has a form of dwarfism called achondroplasia, which affects an estimated one out of every 25,000 births and occurs in all races.

But, her tiny size hasn't hampered her spirit one bit.

The teenager told Britain's Sunday Mirror that she enjoys the celebrity status her height has brought her.

"I am proud of being small. I love the attention I get," she told the paper.

"I'm just the same as other people. I eat like you, dream like you. I don't feel any different."


According to the Mayo Clinic, about 70 percent of all people with dwarfism have achondroplasia, which causes disproportionately short stature.

This disorder usually results in:

— An adult height of approximately 4 feet

— An average-size trunk

— Short arms and legs, with particularly short upper arms and legs

— Short fingers, often with a wide separation between the middle and ring fingers

— Limited mobility at the elbows

— A disproportionately large head, with a prominent forehead and flattened bridge of the nose

Despite all this, Amge is just like any other teenager.

She loves listening to music, watching DVDs and attends the local high school in her town of Nagpur, India, where she sits side-by-side with classmates of her own age.

"When Jyoti was born, she seemed quite normal," her mother, Ranjana, 45, told the Sunday Mirror.

"We came to know about her disorder when she was five. We consulted a specialist and he said she will be this size all of her life. Jyoti is small, yet cute, and we love her very much."

As for the future — it’s wide open.

For the most part, people with this form of dwarfism have normal intelligence and lifespan – and this very ambitious teenager intends to take full advantage of all her talents.

"I would like to work in a big city like Mumbai, act in films and travel to London and America," she said.

She has even recently recorded an album with her favorite Indian pop star, Mike Singh, according to the report.

David Naughton busted on Domestic Battery

The guy who became famous with a Dr Pepper commercial -- as in "I'm a Pepper, You're a Pepper...." -- has pleaded no contest to domestic battery.

The incident occurred right outside Vegas shortly before midnight on January 28, when David Naughton -- who was so famous from the 1978 commercials he went on to star in "An American Werewolf in London" -- got into it with Seann Naughton, his wife of five months. According to the police report obtained by TMZ, the 57-year-old actor was arguing with his wife on the phone, which escalated when he came home, allegedly "grabbing her arms and throwing her around."

According to the police report, Naughton was arrested for "Domestic Battery, 1st offense ... due to the fact that he used willful and unlawful force against Seann by placing his hands upon her, grabbing her in a forceful manner and throwing her around."

The bad Doc, who scored the disco hit "Makin' It" in 1979, was sentenced to 30 days in jail. Of that, 28 days were suspended. He served one day when he was popped, and served his second day in the clink on Monday.

Source [TMZ]

CBGB's today ...

This is kinda cool since I was turned onto John Varvatos about 18 months ago and have both their men's original cologne and their "vintage" cologne.

CBGB's Reincarnation: Take A Tour Of The Boutique In The Once-Great Punk Club's


'We wanted to marry history, rock and roll and fashion,' designer John Varvatos says of his shop.

NEW YORK — From the outside, 315 Bowery — the former address of New York's CBGB — looks nothing like its former self.

There's no Sharpie-inflicted graffiti praising the likes of the Dictators or Black Flag adorning the entrance. Instead, a security guard wearing a black tailored suit is manning the space's humongous glass door, across which the words "John Varvatos" are stenciled in black. Through the glass, one notices an array of church candles flickering wildly and a 6-foot-tall replica of the Statue of Liberty.

Inside, the smell of fine Italian leather and $190 blue jeans has replaced the tang of a million stale cigarettes, rat poop, spilled beer and all manner of bodily fluids. Instead of aged gutter punks with protruding gray nose hairs, there are rail-thin models — including Daisy Lowe, daughter of Bush's Gavin Rossdale — and other types of beautiful people here, splayed across antique chaise lounges, all as the final preparations for the store's impending opening are being made.

This isn't CBGB — the once-great punk club that helped launch the careers of the Ramones, Blondie, Talking Heads, Bad Brains and Sonic Youth. It's now a John Varvatos boutique. Since the club's sole owner, the late Hilly Kristal, had a moving company pack up all of CBGB's contents — including the pee-stained, vomit-lined urinals — before the venue shut its doors for the last time, there isn't much in the way of "artifacts" here. But there are a few relics left.

"I want anybody to be able to walk in off the street and really sense the history that was here." — Designer John Varvatos

According to Varvatos, who took MTV News on a tour of his latest store, the club's original walls — punched-in holes, cracked paint and all — went untouched, as did the antiquated ventilation system that runs throughout the space. It remains, along with the graffiti and band stickers, some of them hanging by a strand of glue. The staircase leading to what once were the club's restrooms, which have now been converted into storage space, is still covered in marker and stickers.

"I really wanted this space to be a very cultural space, and by that I mean I want anybody to be able to walk in off the street and really sense the history that was here," said Varvatos, who added that the entire basement was flooded with raw sewage when he moved in. "I wanted you to walk into the space and think it's not a commercial space and feel like it's about music, that it's about art, that it's about rock and roll. We wanted to marry history, rock and roll and fashion. What we've created is a unique environment and a unique cultural space."

At the front of the store, there's one of the first posters to be glued to the club's walls — one familiar to anyone who'd ever been to CBGB during its heyday — dating back to 1979 and encased in glass. On the other side of the club, there's a portion of one of CBGB's original walls, completely drenched in fliers and promotional stickers.

The remainder of the dimly lit space is pretty much brand-spankin' new. The floors and ceiling and the electrical wiring of the space had to be replaced, having been deemed structurally unsound. And now, CBGB has something it never had before: central air.

There's a large, sweeping chandelier that swathes the ceiling above and a stage, where Varvatos plans to put on small-scale concerts. Gone is the storied CBGB "green room" — which, essentially, was the size of a phone booth and constructed of shoddy plywood. In its place is a tailor booth, where customers can have alterations done.

And covering the walls on either side are concert posters for bands like the Dillinger Escape Plan, the Ramones, Guns N' Roses, Iron Maiden, Kiss and Social Distortion. There are rare and imported vinyl records and autographed Stratocasters, all from Varvatos' personal collection. There's also Ramones memorabilia on loan from Arturo Vega, who created the band's logo.

CBGB's dubious bar is gone too, packed up and lying in wait somewhere inside a storage truck in Connecticut. But as part of his vision to restore the space as much to its original design and layout, Varvatos had an old wooden bar shipped in from Pennsylvania that looks very similar to the original and is just as long. The bar serves as the store's checkout area. Flanking the wall behind the bar is a set of four stained-glass windows, which were extracted from an old church.

The designer, who considers himself a rocker at heart and actually caught a Ramones gig here back in '79, said he tried to do what he could to keep the CBGB aesthetic and ambiance intact.

"I came here one evening, not looking to rent a space at all. I was just in the neighborhood, and the landlord was here, so I asked to look at the space out of curiosity," Varvatos explained. "Within 30 seconds of being here, I thought, 'It's going to be a bank or something else. I can't let that happen.' I knew I had to do something with it. It was in bad shape. The place was gutted, the floors were rotted, and everything was pretty much gone. They took any of the history with them, so the history that we had was in the soul of the space and the walls, and that's what we tried to keep intact."

The biggest challenge, Varvatos said, is "respecting what was here and being true to what was here and still try to do business." As part of his takeover of CBGB, Varvatos said he'd like to put together an artist-development fund and host monthly concerts.

"I love the aura of this space," he said. "I wanted to save elements of the walls and this space. It was less about, 'What do we have to do about painting and millwork?' We didn't do any of that stuff, because if we did, it would feel like we weren't true to what was here. We wanted to save it, so it wouldn't become a Starbucks. I'm not sure Hilly would be happy with it, but a lot of the people who'd played here are already happy. They just kind of walked in and felt like it was cool, like it was right, and to me that meant everything. It means much more to me than the ringing of the registers that we did the right thing in here."

Source [MTV]

BEFORE .....

AFTER ....
The famous urinals were carefully removed and moved into storage as artifacts. Expect them to be put up on Ebay and sell for $100,000 in a couple of years.

the best Mariah flyer ever ....

I just got this email from a promoter in Brazil that I work with ...

:: B.I.T.C.H.* É Mais... Mariah Carey - 12 de Abril - Centro Cultural Ação da Cidadania ::

Apenas uma passada rápida para informar que já está no ar o hotsite da B.I.T.C.H.* do próximo sábado, dia 12, evento este que marca oficialmente o início das comemorações do aniversário de 15 anos da label.

A festa será realizada no Centro Cultural da Ação da Cidadania, um armazém de 14.000 m² recém-reformado e que vem se tornando sinônimo de badalados eventos, como por exemplo a festa da Colcci para Gisele Bündchen, e a Abertura Oficial do Festival do Rio 2007.

Vocês podem conhecer um pouquinho mais sobre este incrível espaço no link:
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Os ingressos antecipados estão custando R$ 25,00 (Lote Extra - Últimas Unidades) e R$ 30,00 (Terceiro Lote), e podem ser adquiridos nas lojas:

Armagedon - Av. Graça Aranha, 416 / Lj. 317 - Centro
Tel.: 21 2532-5152

Rio G - Rua Teixeira de Melo, 25 - Ipanema
Tel.: 21 3813-0003

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R.I.P. Frosty Freeze of Rock Steady Crew

Breakdance Pioneer Dies in NYC

In this 1981 photo provided by Martha Cooper, breakdance pioneer Wayne "Frosty Freeze" Frost executes his "dead man" move outside of New York's Lincoln Center. Frost died in a New York hospital Thursday, April 3, 2008 after a long illness. He was 44. (AP Photo/Martha Cooper)

NEW YORK (AP) — Wayne "Frosty Freeze" Frost, a hip-hop pioneer whose acrobatic performance with the legendary Rock Steady Crew in the 1983 movie "Flashdance" helped set off a worldwide breakdancing craze, has died. He was 44.

Frost died Thursday at Mount Sinai Medical Center after a long illness, said Jorge "Fabel" Pabon, a senior vice president of the crew where Frost and other so-called b-boys (for beat or break boys) made their name performing complicated and daring dance routines.

"He was one of most charismatic b-boys that ever lived," said Benson Lee, director of the new documentary film "Planet B-Boy."

Breakdancing emerged from the Bronx and Harlem in the early 1970s, part of the hip-hop culture that also included graffiti, MCing or rapping, and disc jockeys scratching and mixing vinyl records on turntables.

During extended pauses, or breaks, in the music, b-boys would mimic James Brown's showmanship and footwork and Bruce Lee's martial arts, adding their own signature moves.

Frost was known for his energetic style, intricate choreography and fearless moves including back flips and head spins. One was even dubbed the "Suicide."

Frost got his start in 1978 with the Bronx-based Rock City Crew. In 1981, he became part of the Rock Steady Crew, joining such acclaimed breakdancers as Ken Swift and Lil Crazy Legs.

In this undated photo provided by Martha Cooper, breakdance pioneer Wayne "Frosty Freeze" Frost demonstrates some of his moves. Frost died Thursday, April 3, 2008 in a New York hospital after a long illness. He was 44. (AP Photo/Martha Cooper)

Frost toured the world with the Rock Steady Crew and other hip-hop artists, including Fab 5 Freddy, Futura 2000 and Kool Lady Blue.

Frost's appearance with Rock Steady Crew in "Flashdance" spread the breakdance phenomenon globally, said Joseph Schloss, a visiting scholar in the music department at New York University. "He was one of the first B-boys that most people ever saw," Schloss said.

Graffiti artist and close friend Zulu King Slone, who knew Frost for 15 years, said he was "like a walking hip-hop culture encyclopedia."

As a member of the Rock Steady Crew, Frost also appeared in several movies on hip-hop culture, including "Wild Style," "Beat Street" and "Style Wars." He also appeared on the cover of the Village Voice in 1981.

Funeral arrangements were incomplete.

Source [AP]

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DJ's Scratching with CASSETTE TAPES !!

DJ Ramsey rocking the TAPE DECKS here ...

And here's Japanese artist, Tucker...

Source [Music Thing]

Congrats to the B-52's

Our beloved 80's new wave band outta Georgia, the B-52's, just released their first new record in 16 years called "Funplex" and it landed them with their highest ever chart debut at #11 on Billboard.

The new album hit #2 on Amazon and #7 on iTunes.

This song and this video is friggin FUN AND AMAZING !!

Check out fellow Georgia native, Mz. RuPaul at the very end of the video on the cellphone. Love it.