Tommy Emmanuel

I don't know how many of you are fans of fantastic guitar-work.... but I always appreciate someone who "can play the guitar like a mutha fuckin' riot" (to quote Sublime)...And thanks to the best site of all time (YouTube), I came across this guy a while back, and he is probably the most talented person I have ever seen with an acoustic guitar in his hand. The sounds he gets out of an acoustic is ridiculous. So check him our and be amazed...

House of the Rising Sun cover...


Beatles Medley

Listen to em': Three Legged Fox

As you know, I try not to write about exclusively hip hop stuff because honestly I'm not really interested in what is going on with most of the rap game. A lot of it is just childish bullshit now a days, and so yea i branch out. Here is a group that really preforms live good. Check any of their videos on Youtube and you won't be disappointed. Three Legged Fox classifies their sound as organic roots rock, and by listening to them i'd say they are basically a little bit of soul mixed with reggae. Their guitar work reminds me a little bit of the Spin Doctors (Two Princes, Little Miss Can't be Wrong) but their singer has a pretty unique soothing voice. Def a talented band, and pretty young too. I actually discovered them by looking up covers of Everlast's What it's Like, and I can't stop listening to that cover! Check em' out!


recommended tracks: Soul Thief, I Am, Maybe I'm Sorry

Official site

Soul Thief Live

Rapper for president!?

Nah im not talking about my song Dumb Politics. I'm talking about Charles Hamilton and what he suggests happens with rappers in the music business. check it out and if you are a fan of him and Asher Roth, they are both coming out with a mixtape soon so look out!

Anno Domini Beats

I've worked a decent amount with Anno over the last few years doing tracks over his beats and what not, and recently he announced a contest to win all types of prizes and free beats. check it out and download his free mixtape SoundClick Invasion!!

Beats/contest : Anno Domini Beats

Soundclick Invasion mixtape

Video of the week

This is a video by up and coming hip hop artist B.O.B. (no not bombs over baghdad). Shit is a funny ass video just making fun of little wayne, rick ross and t pain in particular because of how they ruin rap. Enjoy

I Suck

Okay so lately I've reallllyyy sucked at posting but I have a few legitimate reasons. First off I didn't have internet in my apartment for two weeks...Also I been busy as hell with school semester coming to a close. But on a good note, the album is now complete! I got all the art work completely done and am now waiting on the final mixing and mastering to be done by my producer. Speaking of that, for those who don't know my producer NellyProtoolz was nominated for Boston Hip Hop Producer of the year! It's good to see cuz he been grindin' harder then ever and he definitely deserves the nomination. It should be tough going up against Statik Selektah who has also had one hell of a year. But yea the album should be out the end of this month so look out for that shit! Also Now under construction is RUMORZMUSIC.COM. That is just one of the many things I've been working on to get shit poppin' with all things Rumorz.

Updates....

Heres a few updates on what is going on lately. I know I havnt been doing as much with the blog but i've been busy as hell with school and doing a shitload of shit to promote Rumorz and get my next cd out there. It has taken longer than I expected just because I have been waiting on getting another collaboration going on, and I'm not very good at getting those going on just because I dunno maybe I work better alone. But anyways heres whats been going on with me...

-I'm working on the cover of the album. I've been in talks with a certain agency and gotten a quote on what it will cost and am going to probably have the cover done within the next two weeks.

- I'm creating shirts. I've already made the design and had it printed and sent to me. Now i'm looking for a cheap place to make plenty of copies.

-I've bought the domain name Rumorzmusic.com and am looking for a well priced web designer to get the site up and running. Let me know if u know anyone!!!

-I have finished writing the final song, and will be recording it come thanksgiving break.


All of these are efforts to build the world of Rumorz and help you the fans keep in touch



stay up

Rumors .... (with a Z)

YouTube Clip of the Week

Here is an old (but good as hell) clip of Joe Budden dropping a freestyle on Green Lanterns show. I decided to throw this clip out here because Joey's newest shit the Halfway House is crack and u need to check it out. Also it is pretty funny at the beginning when Budden gets loud with Green Lantern about beating around the bush with dumb interviews when he knew he was only there to rap. Budden is ill. lol. check it out..

Listen to em': Demun Jones

Demun Jones has been on tour with the recently popularized Rehab and making quite a name for himself down south. His style is a mix of southern rock and hip hop, and he tours with a band and often has collaborations with Rehabs lead singer. When I first came across him a few weeks ago I was mad excited to hear his music, because rapping-with-guitars style is similar to what I want to establish.


dude makes hot music, so check em!

listen to: Tinman, I cant remember

If Music was a sport

Here is an article i came across on the site www.musicthinktank.com headed by Andrew Dubber.
It is definitely worth look and check out some of the other articles as well...

If music was sport

AUTHOR: Andrew Dubber | October 22, 2008 | 19 Comments

Just for fun, here's a thought experiment. It illustrates that things in the world of music (and the business of music) need not necessarily be configured the way they are...

If music was treated like sport:

• Schools would have plenty of equipment and kids would have places to play and practice
• People who didn't do any music at all would be considered a bit lazy by their peers
• Professional musicians wouldn't get asked by their parents when they were going to get a real job
• Most people would play music and almost none of them would expect money for it
• Every weekend, you'd get a televised battle of the bands
• Players in top acts would change bands for millions of dollars
• Every four years, the best amateur acts would come together for the largest music festival on earth
• There'd be significant funding for community music programmes
• Most bands would have coaches as well as managers (and a physiotherapist?)
• Schools, pubs, churches, villages, and even workplaces would have their own bands
• If you went to a gig with a videocamera, you wouldn't be considered a thief
• Big acts would sell season tickets at their own venues
• Government-funded television campaigns would encourage non-musicians to take up an instrument and practice for just 30 minutes a day...
• Children from the age of 6 would know all the stats on their favourite bands
• There'd be movies where people escaped from POW camps by playing the guitar
• TV channels would get into bidding wars for the rights to show concerts
• All the top bands would regularly hold auditions for new members
• You'd join your first band at the age of five
• The more musically inclined would routinely play in different bands in different genres
• Audiences would bet on the outcome of concerts
• University scholarships would be awarded on musical aptitude
• Kids would dream of one day representing their country in Hip Hop
• You'd play another genre of music in Summer - jazz is a Winter music
• Band members would switch instruments from time to time (she's been on drums all season - let's give her a turn on vocals)
• Bands would have reserves
• You could swap out every member of a group and it'd still be the same band
• In American teen films, trombonists would beat up the kid who got picked last for the orchestra

And so on... Of course music is not sport. It's not even like sport. But it's interesting to think through the things that we do in a different field of human endeavour, and realise that the way that we approach music and the business of music is not a logical necessity - it's just how we've chosen to put it together.

And since that's true, we can choose to do it a different way.

Personally, I like the idea of some of these outcomes. Especially the first one. I'm sure you can add some of your own too.

Joint of the Week: Change by Trick Daddy featuring Barack Obama

In honor of the event going on today, and most likely what will be the election of our first black president, I decided Tick Daddy's new song Change would be fitting. Now despite the connection it is a pretty good song regardless, I don't know if I would exactly bump it but it has a good message so check it out...

check it here

YouTube Clip of the week

Sorry I'm a few days behind but Halloween got me all backwards so today I'm posting the YouTube clip of the week.

Don't worry it's a great one. If you have never seen this video, it will bring you back to the 80's instantly. This is the hilarious video by Ray Parker Jr. performing the Ghostbusters Theme Song. Besides a bunch of really bad cameos, the video has two funny defining moments. One is at about 2:56 when Ray admits that "Busting makes him feel good" and the second being a few seconds later when he rips his front shirt off to reveal a Ghostbusters shirt underneath. Ah, the 80's....


enjoy:

Joint of the Week: Takin' Back my Love

Takin Back my Love by Enrique Iglesias featuring Ciara

If you have not heard Enrique is no longer dating Anna Kournikova. That is good in two ways; 1 being that Anna Kournikova is now single again and 2 is that Enrique is back to making music. Normally I wouldn't be that excited for number 2, but this time it's different because his new shit is HOT. Takin Back my Love is the second single off Enrique's greatest hits album following another pretty hot song entitled Away. Of course it's still pretty pop-ish but you can't deny a good song and a good feature by the chick/dude Ciara.

Listen to it here

Listen to em': The Crest

I first came across The Crest back when their song "Heart Shaped Box" was featured on nba2k7, but these guys have been on the underground scene since 1997. Since then they have dropped 13 cds, including 2005's Skeptik as their first official release. If you enjoy that raw underground sound of alternative rap, then these dudes got everything you are looking for and more. With nothing but hott underground beats, these fairly fast spitting MC's rip pretty much everything they are on, and many of their tracks what rap lacks now a days, a message. Tracks such as Kill Em' talk about the war and it's impact on the American people. Hailing from the ever-so-popular hip hop haven of Wisconsin (lol), these dudes bring a whole different feel to the rap game.


Songs you NEED to hear: Heart Shaped Box, Rich Girl, Kill Em', No More Lady

Myspace: here

Live Performance: Here

New Weekly Updates Schedule!!!

Over the last week or so I've been brainstorming different ways to keep people coming back to the blog by improving it and positing not only info on whats going on with "Rumorz" but different opinions and news on other artists and the music industry in general... So after some thought I decided on a schedule of weekly updates, where on certain days of each week I post about a certain topic week to week. I will now have four posts a week...

The four topics will be:

Listen to em':
I've posted a few of these before (Justin Nozuka, Optimus Rhyme..etc..) and will continue to by posting a short brief of the band/artist along with links to their music every Sunday. The goal is to get people listening to some of these very talented/unique bands that may not be getting the exposure they should. Hopefully this will give you some new music to listen to and artists to look out for.

Joint of the Week:
Joint of the Week will highlight a single song or cover song that I feel is one of the best songs at the moment. Usually, but not always, a new song, the track will range in genre from blues to rap and all in between, some by well known artists and others by complete no names. This will be posted every Tuesday.

YouTube Clip of the Week:
Some of these clips will be live performances, freestyles and interviews and others will be random funny videos I find on YouTube. These will be posted every Thursday.

The Top Ten:
The Top Ten will be a countdown of the top ten of whatever topic I choose each week. These will be similar to the Best voices in music posts I have done in the past and be posted every Saturday.

So again the schedule goes like this:


Sunday: Listen to em'
Monday: -
Tuesday: Joint of the Week
Wednesday: -
Thursday: YouTube Clip of the Week
Friday: -
Saturday: The Top Ten...

Hopefully this will help bring people back and some conversation....


Check back later tonight for the first volume of Listen to em'.