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Recent Headlines - Music Genre: R&B/Hip-Hop

Indie Gospel Label RedeemedSoul.com Wins "Best Album" Award New gospel label RedeemedSoul.com's debut CD "The New Soul (Various Artists)" was named 2007's "Best Compilation Album" at the En Sound Music Awards. This is yet another industry honor received by the fledgling "indie" record label. - 2007-10-06

Two Songs in Top Ten, E-Dee Starts "Revolution" International Dancehall/Reggae Artist E-Dee lands two songs simultaneously in the Top Ten Charts and looks to US release. - 2007-10-05

Steve Rifkind Officially Secures Loud Name, Plans Return With The Wu - Loud Records is Back Steven Rifkind, CEO of SRC Records (Street Records Corporation) and former Loud CEO, returns with Wu-Tang for a new album. Hip-Hop pioneer talks about his success with Akon and the recent album "Konvicted." Akon had one of the most successful spans any entertainer has ever had with eleven songs in the Billboard Hot 100. - 2007-10-05

Monterey Music Festival Debut Concert on October 20-21 in Beautiful Monterey, California With 25 Acts Confirmed: The Roots, Cake, Michael Franti, G.Love, Ozomatli, and more! The Monterey Music Summit is an interactive arts festival created to serve as a forum for new thought and inspired intervention regarding the critical political and social issues of our time. The Monterey Music Summit features some of the most relevant contemporary and historically important musicians from a variety of genres all in concert, including: Michael Franti & Spearhead, The Roots, G.Love & Special Sauce, Cake, Ozomatli, Céu, Brandi Carlile, Colbie Callait and several others. Performers are invited to participate not for their talent and popularity alone, but also for their willingness to speak openly on current political matters, and for their commitment to positive social change. - 2007-10-04

SafeMedia Corporation To Install Anti-Piracy Business Solution Clouseau™ On FL. Atlantic U. Campus; One ISP & Seven Other Campuses To Start Pilot "Clouseau 500™ will be used as a research platform at Florida Atlantic University. Two computer science and engineering professors have agreed to conduct a research on the P2P traffic and its impact on the network communication bandwidth," said Pasquale Giordano, President/COO, SafeMedia Corp - 2007-10-04

Master P and Romeo Want You to Create A Clean Hip-Hop Video for 'My Life' Master P and Romeo join forces with Animoto.com to let fans create a clean hip-hop music video. Beginning October 3rd, fans can log in to Animoto.com and create a free 30-second music video to "My Life." A contest will run alongside this promotion and selected winners will copies of "Miller Boyz: Hip-Hop History," P.Miller merchandise, and Animoto video credits. - 2007-10-03

Week of Chart-Topping Music Video Premieres on SingingFool.com SingingFool.com premieres music videos by Dropkick Murphys, Omillo Sparks and High On Fire in first week of October. - 2007-10-01

Dave Mullen & Butta CD "Mahoney's Way" Jazz/Funk/Soul Releases on October 1 CD entitled "Mahoney's Way" by Boston's own Dave Mullen & Butta for re-release Oct 1st. The CD features such musical heavyweights as, Nile Rodgers, Marc Ribot, Mark Egan, and Victor Jones. - 2007-10-01

Dave Mullen & Butta CD Release 'Mahoney's Way' Street Date: Oct. 1, 2007 Roberts Music Group has launched, for special re-release, the CD entitled "Mahoney's Way" by Boston's own Dave Mullen & Butta. "Mahoney's Way" The CD features such musical heavyweights as Nile Rodgers, Marc Ribot, Mark Egan and Victor Jones. - 2007-09-28

The Label Music Group Helps Cantor Fitzgerald Relief Fund to Send Music to America's Wounded Soldiers The Label Music Group has recently joined forces with Cantor Fitzgerald by helping them to provide music, DVDs and CD players to wounded members of the armed forces at the National Naval Medical Center at Bethesda and Walter Reed Army Medical Center. The Label is proud to provide anything they can for our soldiers. - 2007-09-28

Trackbacks Available Choreographer Andrea Kelly -- Wife of R&B superstar R.Kelly -- Debuts in U.S. with Chicago Premiere of 'Simply Beautiful' at the DuSuable Museum September 15th, 2007 Dream tu Dance is proud to present 'Simply Beautiful'. Kicks off it's Fall Tour Season beginning with a preview on Saturday, September 15th and continuing throughout the US and selected International Dates - 2007-09-14

Allhiphop.Com's Breeding Ground Enrolls VA Artist, R.E.U.B, Into The New Freshman Class VA Artist R.E.U.B. chosen for Breeding Ground section of #1 site hip-hop website, Allhiphop.com. - 2007-09-12

BIGbreakTALENTbank.com Continues Global Talent Search Auditions, Extends `Face of BbTb' Launch Contest Deadline BIGbreakTALENTbank.com, the world's first all-inclusive entertainment site created exclusively for the seriously talented, continues its global talent search auditions for serious creatives. BIGbreakTALENTbank is a beautiful site that's easy to use and showcases its community in a way that's classy and free of mega-site debris. Auditions are free and one lucky applicant from auditions received through midnight ET Monday, December 31, will be chosen as the launch 'Face of BbTb" in early 2008. Apply. Audition. Become Bankable. - 2007-09-10

Go 'Back to School' with Music Choice - Chris Brown, Corbin Bleu, Aly & AJ, Shop Boyz and Secondhand Serenade Featured in the Month-Long Campaign on Music Choice Music Choice, the multi-platform music network that reaches millions of music fans through their televisions, online, and cell phones, announces the launch of its 'Back to School' campaign in September, featuring the artists that 'students' care about - Chris Brown, Corbin Bleu, Aly & Aj, Shop Boyz and Secondhand Serenade. - 2007-09-05

Top West Coast Indie High Powered Entertainment is Dropping Back to Back Bangers in September with New Daz Dillinger and Outlawz LPs 2Pac protégés Young Noble and Hussein Fatal of the The Outlawz reunite for the first time since the murders of Pac and Kadafi on September 11th with Thug In Thug Out. On September 25th High Powered will also drop Gangsta Party from Tha Dogg Pound member Daz Dillinger. - 2007-09-04

Sunset Records to Start New Sunset Urban Division Sunset Records Group (SRG), one of the world's largest independent music company, has created Sunset Urban to offer a full slate of distribution, promotion, marketing and digital services for the independent urban music marketplace. In this new venture and division at SRG, Sunset's Urban indie music group will offer music artists these services through SRG's independent distribution arm. - 2007-09-03

If You Have a Contaminated P2P Network Program on Your Computer You Have Violated US Copyright Laws - Landmark Case in Arizona "This landmark case means that anyone who has contaminated P2P network programs on his computer is committing copyright infringement, since the only reason to have them installed is to make copyrighted files available to all other P2P users," said Pasquale Giordano, President/COO, SafeMedia Corporation - 2007-08-29

Chris Brown, Double-Platinum Recording Superstar, September's Featured Artist of the Month on Music Choice Music Choice, the leading multi-platform music network, announces that double-platinum recording artist, Chris Brown, will be the Music Choice 'Artist of the Month' in September. Music Choice, the most popular On Demand music network in the nation with over a billion views, will feature the music superstar in four Music Choice Originals including an up-close and personal interview in Chris Brown: Exclusive Look, an exposing fan Q&A session in Chris Brown Naked, along with Chris Brown's Do's & Don'ts of Sneakers, and Chris Brown's Homeroom Hits Video Playlist. - 2007-08-28

A.M.R. Entertainment Music Group Releases 'State of Emergency' by DJ ETRAIN and Mel Gates In June 2006, DJ ETRAIN & Mel Gates joined forces to make a statement in the industry. DJ ETRAIN was chosen to be one of A.M.R.'s A&R/DJ. After creating a buzz they decided to release "The State of Emergency" mixtape. This mixtape includes 24 original tracks with the production by Kane on the track (in house producer). - 2007-08-27

Lawmaker Proposes to Strengthen Anti-Counterfeiting and Internet Piracy Efforts "Congress is making Internet service providers responsible for piracy on their networks, not just those who download or share the content," said Congressman Howard Berman at Anti-Piracy Event in LA. SafeMedia has the technology and solutions to support this legislation. - 2007-08-25

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