Started From The Bottom...

I like Drake and all - but a version of "Started From The Bottom" with midwest homies Mike Posner, King Chip and Chuck Inglish, plus So Cal's T Mills, Asher Roth and the dude Erick "Jesus" Coomes on bass is SUPERGOOD too.  

Power 106 Cali Christmas Is Going In....

The hottest hip-hop station outside of New York City just proved, once again, why they've got all that POWER....106 POWER. With the announcement of their Cali Christmas line-up that features Drake, J. Cole, Big Sean as well as Love Rance, YG, Audio Push and Chi-Town Breakers dance crew.

Going down on Friday December 16th at Gibson Amphitheatre, the Universal City walk is going to be lit up by some of today's biggest and brightest stars in the hip-hop game. From Big Sean's banging "A$$" to Drake's "Headlines" - you'll get to hear current chart topping music peppered amongst the headliners classic originals.

The exclusive presale begins Thursday, November 3 from 10:00am to 10:00pm. To access the presale password, go to power106.com. Public on-sale is scheduled for Friday, November 4, 2011 at 10am.

For complete Cali Christmas information, visit power106.com.

Mashers of The Year - The Hood Internet

The Hood Internet is taking the remix and mash-up world by storm - and this is nothing new if you're from Chicago or have been up on your blogroll. After impressing the industry at SXSW just a few weeks ago - they've embarked on a brief tour alongside Black Moth Super Rainbow's Tobacco that recently took them through Los Angeles, to both Echo and Detroit Bar.

The rest of their tour takes them to the following cities before ending in at Empty Bottle their hometown of Chicago:

Saturday 3/27 - Bottom Of The Hill, San Francisco CA
Sunday 3/28 - WOW Hall, Eugene OR
Monday 3/29 - Holocene, Portland OR #
Tuesday 3/30 - Chop Suey, Seattle WA
Friday 4/2 - Triple Rock Social Club, Minneapolis MN ^
Saturday 4/3 - Empty Bottle, Chicago IL

My new favorite mash-up heroes just seem to get it right every time. From mixing Drake with Miike Snow to Dr. Dre with Class Actress, this duo knows how to take the good things from popular music and the good things from indie culture and bring it together to make something infectiously danceable, repeatable and awesome. I wish these guys would DJ every party I ever had.

You can check out a lot more about the group on their own site -http://www.thehoodinternet.com/ - as well as get free downloads to their zipped mixtapes and other songs.