Saleem & The Music Lovers and Kentavius Jones
opening for The Roots
October 8 @ Rams Head Live

Labels: flyer, Rams Head Live, Saleem

The Get Em Mamis
opening for Dan Deacon
@ Rams Head Live
Wednesday, Sept. 29th

Labels: flyer, G.E.M./Tha Plague, Rams Head Live

Labels: flyer, G.E.M./Tha Plague, Rams Head Live

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

I've had just a couple things up on the Baltimore City Paper's Noise blog lately, a review of the new Architects Recording Studio mixtape Street Radio Vol. 5, and a live review of the Sugarhill Gang @ Rams Head Live, although it's since come out that apparently it was a fake version of the Sugarhill Gang with only one real member, which explains why the show sucked so bad.

Labels: Architects, Baltimore City Paper, Noise, Rams Head Live

Labels: A-Class, flyer, Ogun, Rams Head Live, Saleem

The Baltimore Scene held the Baltimore Crown Awards at 5 Seasons on Sunday, and I decided to stay home with my son that night, but I ended winning a "golden pen" award to match my "best blog/website" award from last year. So thanks to them and the voters, and congratulations to the other winners, full list below:

Hip Hop Artist of The Year: Mully Man
Poet of the Year: Taalam Acey
Vocalist of the Year: Chyna Doll
Band of the Year: Soul Cannon
Mixtape of the Year: Comp "The Man with the Hand 2"
Photographer of the Year: Kelly Connelly
Graphic Designer of the Year: Skarr Akbar
Blog/Website of The Year: www.allbmorehiphop.com
Studio of the Year: Architect Studios
Manager of the Year: EC (Frank Lewis)
Promoter of the Year: Tay Tay of Tayland Promotions
Under the Radar Awards: Tonio from da top
Most Likely to Succeed Award: Mully Man
Best New Artist: Black Sunn
Best Live Venue: Rams Head Live
Best Poetry Venue: The 5 Seasons/Warm Wednesdays
Best Hip Hop Venue: Club Reality

Golden Awards: Awarded to artists that take it beyond being artists and use their talent and energy to contribute to the scene/community

Golden Mic: Ogun
Golden Pen: Al shipley
Golden Stage: 5th L

Special Appreciation Award: Ahk of 88.9
Special Contribution Award: Lisa Stant

Baltimore Legend Awards
Inductees to The Baltimore Hall of Fame
(Joining: Fertile Ground, Labtekwon, Taalam Acey, D Chase, and Ogun)

Mr. Wilson (RIP), K Swift (RIP), Vicious V, Sonny Brown, Lo Key, Brown Fish, Comp, and Skarr Akbar.

Labels: 5 Seasons, ALLBMOREHIPHOP.COM, announcements, Architects, Comp, Mullyman, Ogun, Rams Head Live, Skarr Akbar, Soul Cannon, Tayland Promotions, The Baltimore Scene, The Black Sunn, Tonio

Method Man, Redman and Ghostface Killah w/Duo Live, Q.G. and Only
@ Rams Head Live 7/29

Labels: flyer, Only, Rams Head Live

MySpace Records officially released Bossman's single "Break Me Off" on iTunes and Amazon MP3 this week. 92Q's been playing the song daily for months, and it's been one of the most popular downloads in Government Names history since I posted it in December, and MySpace is putting a bit promotional push behind the song all over the site, since he's signed to their label. So it should be interesting to see if all this translates to the song going national and selling enough to show up on any charts. As I understand it, Bossman's deal is basically that MySpace Records is releasing his singles and if they do well then Interscope will take over and start setting up an album release, so there's a lot riding on this, hopefully Baltimore will turn out to put up 99 cents and buy this one to get the ball rolling. There's also a series of videos he's doing for MySpace soon to kind of introduce himself and tell his story.

Bossman is also opening for Jim Jones at Rams Head Live this Sunday, April 19th, along with 100 Grandman, Smash and Young C.

Labels: Bossman, flyer, Rams Head Live, Smash

Shaka Pitts is putting together this list of top Baltimore songs, they're currently accepting submissions and I'm gonna be one of the panelists. I don't know if there are any deadlines or anything yet, but I hope there's a good turnout and we get a great list, because I'm gonna be embarrassed if we get sent a bunch of bullshit and have to pretend that's the best Baltimore has to offer. Apparently people can also nominate artists, who will be asked to submit a song, too, so if there's someone you think should be included, feel free to throw their hat in the ring yourself:

BALTIMORES TOP 50 SONGS

Here's your chance to decide Baltimore's top 50 songs!! Send a labeled mp3 to top50@spittsmcman.com

Please
send the song name/artist name/producer name, and the studio or
engineer who recorded/mixed the song. the file should look like this

song name_artist name.mp3

The submissions will be listened to by a panel of 12 people consisting of
media, artist, music professionals and music lovers. 9 of the panelist
will be from the Baltimore metro area and 3 will be from other states.
The top 50 will be uploaded to www.spittsmcman and narrowed down to the
top 10. The top 10 will be aired on a special show of Real Talk With Spitts Mcman.
The artist of the the top 10 songs will get an on air interview with
Spitts McMan and automatic consideration for participation in shows
with national acts @ Ram Head Live. All genres of music is welcome!!
..
Shaka Pitts
aka
SPitts McMan
The Voice Of Baltimore Hip Hop
www.spittsmcman.com

Labels: announcements, Internet radio, lists, Rams Head Live, Shaka Pitts

Skarr Akbar
opening for Mos Def
@ Rams Head Live
Wednesday, February 25th

Labels: flyer, Rams Head Live, Skarr Akbar