[Event] Canadian Blast Showcase at the A3C festival featuring D.O., Shaun Boothe, Rich Kidd & JD Era

6-7PM at the Jakprints Stage.

CLICK HERE for more details.

[CONTEST] Win Tickets to See DJ Shadow DJ Live in Toronto on October 6

Gonna keep it simple(-ish). Just tweet:

“@Stellaskid: I wanna win tickets to see @DJShadow’s Live DJ Set at @TheDanforthMH on Oct. 6 in Toronto”

and I will select a winner at random at noon on Friday (Oct. 5). Good Luck!

Wanna see what else Embrace has got poppin’ over the next couple months? Then CLICK HERE to read their October newsletter.

[Music Video] Fresh Kils – The Price is Right Routine

Was in Pizza Pizza the other day (checking out their actually pretty good gourmet personal-size pizzas) when I saw the homie, Fresh Kils on their in-house PPTV channel. Wow! Dig that? Then hit the jump to see Kils’ “Double Dragon” routine.

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[Music Stream] Introducing Metz: Listen to their Self-Titled Debut ALbum in FULL

As long-standing readers know, The Kitchen ain’t just about hip-hop and right now, this is what I’m f-cking with . Dirty, heavy guitar sh-t from Toronto signed to Sub Pop. Some have said it’s all noise, no melodies but I beg to differ. There’s plenty of melody and hooks on this record buried (not so) deep within the glorious wall of noise that is the METZ sound. FIYA!!!! Metz, the album drops next Tuesday (Oct. 9) – PRE-ORDER it on iTunes HERE.

FOLLOW METZ ONLINE – twitter | website

[via Exclaim!]

[MP3] Kendrick Lamar – Compton feat. Dr. Dre (Prod. by Just Blaze)

This track, from the forthcoming major label debut album, good Kid, m.A.A.d City by Kendrick, dropped yesterday. Produced by Just Blaze, mixed by Dr. Dre , how could it be anything other than pure heat-rock status?!

[via HipHopWired]