Labels: 5 Seasons, Ab Rock, flyer, Jade Fox, Only, The Unstoppable Nuklehidz

Labels: Ab Rock, Al Great, Club Reality, flyer, Golden Seal, Greenspan, Jade Fox, Labtekwon, Sean Toure, Smash, Soul Cannon

Jade Fox - JFK MIxtape Vol. 1: Eternal Flame

Recently I was going through some old magazines I’d had stuff published in, and found the late 2006 issue of Mic Life Magazine in which I had an article on Jade Fox. That was the first time I met her and heard an advance version of her album, Ashes Of Another Life, which was eventually released in 2007. And it just kinda blew my mind to realize that was 4 years ago, because Jade Fox has stayed pretty active since then, playing a lot of shows and keeping up her presence online and occasionally leaking new tracks, but this new record she just released is her first new full-length project in all that time. It's got mostly original production, but it definitely has a mixtape feel in the sense that it's longer and has a lot of guests, including Kane Mayfield, the Unstoppable Nuklehidz and Chyna Doll. I do miss the cohesive feel of Ashes, which had no guest rappers and pretty much the same production team for the whole album, but hopefully it won't take another 4 years for her to drop another proper album. Jade Fox's release party for the mixtape is this Friday at Sonar.

Jade Fox f/ Naomi - “Vision” (mp3)
This track features a sample of Jeff Buckley’s “Dream Brother” and is produced by Tytanium, who produced another track on the album that samples Bjork, so I’m guessing Tytanium was an angsty teenager in the ‘90s (as was I, which is why I recognize the samples).

Labels: Jade Fox, Kane, mixtape/album review, mp3, The Unstoppable Nuklehidz

Labels: Dirt Platoon, flyer, Jade Fox, Minlus McCracken, Sonar, Tayland Promotions

Labels: flyer, Jade Fox, Minlus McCracken

Labels: flyer, Jade Fox, Minlus McCracken

Labels: Bourbon St, Club Reality, flyer, Jade Fox, Minlus McCracken, The Unstoppable Nuklehidz

Over on my other blog, Narrowcast, I recently posted a list of the 20 best shows I saw in 2009, and the Baltimore hip hop artists on the list included Height, Mickey Free, AK Slaughter, Rapdragons, P.T. Burnem, Kane and Midas and Ron G. of Mania Music Group, Minlus McCracken, Jade Fox, Wordsmith, Soul Cannon, Si-Notes, Shy Lady Heroin, the Get Em Mamis and E Major.

Labels: AK Slaughter, E Major, G.E.M./Tha Plague, Height, Jade Fox, Kane, lists, Mania Music Group, Midas, Minlus McCracken, P.T. Burnem, Rapdragons, Ron G., Soul Cannon, Wordsmith

Labels: flyer, Jade Fox, Minlus McCracken

Kane Mayfield of Mania Music Group, Wordsmith and Jade Fox
opening for Bilal @ Ram's Head Live
Wednesday, December 16th

Labels: flyer, Jade Fox, Kane, Mania Music Group, Rams Head Live, Wordsmith

Labels: flyer, For The People Entertainment, Jade Fox, Minlus McCracken

Labels: flyer, Jade Fox, Ottobar, Wordsmith

Labels: Club Reality, flyer, Jade Fox, Minlus McCracken, Sean Toure

Labels: A-Class, Brakefast Records, Dirt Platoon, flyer, Jade Fox, Minlus McCracken, Ogun, Sonar

Labels: Club Reality, flyer, Jade Fox

There's a lot of 2008 in this batch, I guess just coincidentally. There was a lot of good music last year, though!

71. Jade Fox f/ Eva Castillo - "Got 'Em Like" (mp3) - January 19, 2008
72. K.W. Griff - "Taking Over" (mp3) - January 19, 2008
73. Unstoppable Nuklehidz - "Pass It On" (mp3) - December 1, 2007
74. E Major - "How You Wanna Carry It?" (mp3) - March 29, 2008
75. Ogun, Tim Trees, Little Clayway, Comp, Mullyman and ShellBe RAW - "Bmore Shit" (mp3) - June 6, 2006
76. DJ Rod Lee - "Birthday" (mp3) - July 8, 2005
77. DJ Excel f/ Emmy - "All Nite Long" (mp3) - August 4, 2008
78. Articulate - "Capital Punishment (Homage to Big Pun)" (mp3) - August 21, 2008
79. Wax Musicians - "Here We Go" (mp3) - September 21, 2008
80. Greenspan - "Mt. Rockmore" (mp3) - December 29, 2008

Labels: Articulate, Baltimore club, DJ Excel, E Major, Greenspan, Jade Fox, KW Griff, lists, Little Clayway, mp3, Ogun, The Unstoppable Nuklehidz, Tim Trees

Labels: flyer, Jade Fox

My latest live reviews on the City Paper's Noise blog have been: Tha Profitt/Skarr Akbar/Ogun/Comp/Shy/Hots @ Black Hole Rock Club, 1st Family/Bossman/Huli Shallone @ Black Hole Rock Club, Mania Music Group/Jade Fox/Wordsmith/Minlus & McCracken @ the Quarter, Impossible Hair/The Caribbean @ the Black Cat, and Asobi Seksu/Thrushes @ the Ottobar.

Labels: 1st Family, Baltimore City Paper, Black Hole Rock Club, Bossman, Comp, Hots, Huli Shallone, Jade Fox, Mania Music Group, Minlus McCracken, Noise, Ogun, Skarr Akbar, Tha Profitt, Wordsmith

Jade Fox
Lost Art
Wordsmith
Fresh Competition and the NETwork
Mania Music Group
Minlus & Mccracken

@ The Quarter at Bourbon Street
316 Guilford Ave
Saturday, April 4th
9pm
$8 admission

Labels: flyer, Jade Fox, Mania Music Group, Minlus McCracken, Wordsmith

Jade Fox
For The People Entertainment
opening for Black Sheep
@ the Ottobar
Sunday, March 1st

Labels: flyer, For The People Entertainment, Jade Fox, Ottobar