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Good hip-hop music- and did I mention that it is free.

My favorite for now are the Mad Decent Worldwide Radio podcasts, and they are free.  It’s been described as NPR for the streets. (more…)

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Back when I had HBO, How to Make It in America, the story of two entrepreneurs trying to hustle in New York, was one of my favorite shows. I always wondered who sang the title song.

Come to find out it’s none other than Stones Throw Records’s Aloe Blacc.  (more…)

For some reason this really interested me.  Matt Mariano, performing and recording the score to Made In China.

Update: Just saw some additional scenes from Made in China, and producer James Choi spoke on the film.  Was shot on the HVX200, won the grand prize award at SXSW, was shot for “a little more than $10,000″ and got a distribution deal.  Just shows what you can do with a good story.

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One of the Sac Bee’s three to see this weekend:

Sacramento-raised Natasha Kmeto discovered, while at music school in Los Angeles, that composing on piano just didn’t cut it.

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