[CONTEST] Win FREE Tickets to See GOAPELE Live at The Hoxton in Toronto, Dec. 9

Goapele – Strong As Glass

Goapele – Hey Boy Featuring Snoop Dogg

TOMORROW night underground R&B/Soul chanteuse, Goapele returns to Toronto for her first show here in apparently 8 years so y’all better recognize, ack right and be in the building, aight??! Wanna win one of 2 pair of tickets Embrace has generously offered up to this show? Do the following:

1. Follow me on twitter at @Stellaskid (this is not just a naked ploy to gin up my follower numbers. I need to be able to private message you in the event you win. Can’t message you? I’m on to the next person with the ticket offer)

2. Tweet to @Stellaskid: “Hey @StellasKid: I wanna win tickets to see @Goapele live at @The_Hoxton in Toronto on Dec. 9” (quotes not needed in actual tweet) and I will select two winners at random shortly after the contest ends at 4PM EST on Tuesday (Dec. 9) to be announced via twitter who will each win a pair of tickets to the show.

Don’t want to take a chance on not being able to go of tickets sell out? You can BUY TICKETS HERE.

Get more details on the show HERE. Goapele‘s latest album Strong As Glass is out now. Check out a couple tracks from it above including a single with the Doggfather, Snoop D.O.-double G!

[MP3 + Music Video] Listen to Tracks from Tuku’s Moonday Sessions: The Black Mixtape

I’m sightly biased here as Tuku is an old friend of mine, but this is pretty good stuff, well worth your time. Soulful, jazzy vocals over bangin’, classic hip hop production from Dr. Dre, Dilla, Madlib, 9th Wonder, Flying Lotus, Kev Brown etc. reinterpolated by the very underrated T.dot beatsmith, Gigz The Unknown Producer. Toronto heads will get this reference point, think a slightly more mature, spiritually-centered version of Shi Wisdom for a very rough sense of what the entire Moonday album sounds like from a vocal point of view.

Dig what you’re hearing/seeing? Listen to the entire Tuku‘s Moonday Sessions: The Black Mixtape HERE: Bandcamp | Facebook | Twitter

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[CONTEST] Win FREE Tickets to See Diamond & Lord Finesse DJ at Still Diggin’ in Toronto, Dec. 5

Yes, TOMORROW night the DITC legends, Diamond & Lord Finesse will be doing live DJ sets at Tattoo for the people and the homeboy Arcee‘s birthday. Expect tons of rare breaks, DJing excellence and all kinds of music nerdery. Hopefully they’ll keep the party poppin’ too! Wanna chance to go for FREE??! Do the following:

Tweet to @Stellaskid: “Hey @StellasKid: I wanna win tickets to see @diamondditc & @LordFinesseDITC at #StillDiggin at @TattooToronto on Dec. 4” (quotes not needed in actual tweet) and I will select a winner at random shortly after the contest ends at 12noon EST on Friday (Dec. 5) to be announced via twitter.

Don’t want to take a chance on not being able to go of tickets sell out? You can BUY TICKETS HERE.

Thanks to the good people at INK Ent. for providing these tickets. Get more details on the STILL DIGGIN’ party HERE.

[MP3] Ian Kamau x Big Sproxx – America

Toronto’s Ian Kamau & Big Sproxx release this commentary on recent events (that would be #Ferguson for those of you not catching on!) Where are other artists on this issue though??

Related:

– Grand Jury Won’t Indict Officers In Ohio Wal-Mart Shooting of John Crawford (NPR News)

– No Charges for Police Officer in Eric Garner Chokehold Case (NY Times)

– Cartoonist Matt Bors on the Tamir Rice Murder

– Cartoonist Tom Tomorrow on the Right’s hypocrisy on all these Police murders of Black men & boys.

And check out the most recent post on The Kitchen featuring Kamau with Georgia Anne Muldrow: “Heading Home (remix)”