New picks from the blog for February. BTW: did I forget to post my January picks?? CLICK HERE to check them out if I did. And for those of you who haven’t subscribed to RDIO yet, they are now offering a 6 month free trial in Canada, Australia and a bunch (15) of other countries besides just the US so now you kind of have no excuse to not take advantage of this offer to get free, unrestricted access on your computer to just about every record out that is still in release.
The offer is not super well-articulated on their site so here’s more details from one of my friends over there (full disclosure: I do some work with RDIO in my day hustle and they also comp me a free account) for those of you who do sign up and get confused as to how it works exactly:
“When you sign up, the RDIO interface will show a countdown for the first 7 days for an unlimited subscription. On Day 8, the account will automatically convert into free on the web for limited usage. If they want unlimited on the web, it’s 4.99 a month; unlimited on mobile it’s 9.99. But if they’re not heavy users, free on the web should suffice….”
Is there still room for meat n potatoes, trad.-style hip-hop in the (post?)-swag era? I think the success of the Brooklyn-based, Joey Bada$$-led Pro Era crew suggests, yes. Canadian MC, Bigg Ceaser connecting with NYC producer (and homie), Domingo might be more evidence to that effect. Y’all dig?
T.dot cats: I digs! Submitted via blog contact form. Yes, that’s the way to do it (or holla at me here….)
If you subscribe to the lifestyle extolled in this song, you’re probably just getting up now anyway!
[NOTE: the ticket giveaway is now over. The winner will be announced via twitter shortly. Stay tuned for more contests real soon!]
Last week I hooked up a couple Kitchen readers (and twitter subscribers) with tickets to the Baauer x Just Blaze Toronto Trapstravaganza and the week before, a lucky reader in NY got to check out Freddie Gibbs do his thing at the inaugural Noisey Rap Party at Santos Party House. This week we keep it crackin’ in the T.dot with a ticket giveaway for the Feb. 12 debut appearance in Toronto by NYC buzz blog rap crew, RATKING. Here’s the details:
Just follow me on twitter (so I can DM you in the event that you win) and then tweet: “@Stellaskid: I wanna win tickets to see @RatKing Friday Feb. 12 at @partsnlabour, presented by @EmbracePresents” [note: the quotation marks not necessary when you send your tweet]
The contest will end at 5PM EST on Feb. 11 and the winner will be announced via twitter. Thanks to Embrace for supplying the tickets for this contest. Tickets are also on sale for the low-low price of $11 at Ticketweb.
Wanna hear what you’ll likely be in store to experience? Check out this RatKing BBC Live Session: