Avens released his debut album “Surrounding Reality” in the fall of 2011 via Japanese record label Introducing! Productions and the video of its title track was unexpectedly created Polish website U Call That Love (along with a few friends). Check the video and links to those involved after the jump.

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Also known as Random, Mega Ran recently dropped his Mega Man 10 inspired album aptly titled…Mega Ran 10. Born Raheem Jarbo, the Philly native and Phoenix transplant states that he never wants anyone to be able to predict his next move, hence the moniker Random. After teaching himself to make beats on MTV Music Generator (throw back!), the Penn State graduate landed a job at a local radio station, where in his down time he would create his first demo. His first political and spiritually charged album “The Call” (2006) went on to achieve critical acclaim, the video for its first single “Push” earning an Australian Independent Short Film Award nomination as well as the album in full being utilized in university coursework in several colleges across the US. His second release “Mega Ran” (2007) was comprise completely of 8-bit beats sampled from Mega Man, and it along with its follow up “Mega Ran 9″ resulted in CAPCOM offering Random special licensing and opportunities to perform at Comic-Con and other related events. After signing with Japanese label River City Records and releasing RANDOMONIUM in 2009, he teamed up with producer K-Murdock to release FOREVER FAMICOM, a conceptual album which paid homage to the 8-bit NES & 16-bit Super NES game consoles. Keeping with the video-game theme he released “Black Materia”–a nod to Final Fantasy VII, which ranked in the top 10 of its respective categories on iTunes and Amazon. Now with Mega Ran 10,  he continues on the 8-bit path. Let’s give it a go, shall we?

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Eleven Presents: M-Theory is the debut mixtape from MC Eleven of (11:00AM). The mixtape was mainly produced by AM Breakups (the other half of 11:00AM….get it?) and Boston’s turntablist  Shortrock as well as features production by Arcsin, Willie Green, Asonic Garcia, Dyllemma and Ormo.

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The first part of her third album title “KILL THE CLOWNS”, Edith Backlund’s mini album “Kill The Clowns (Act One)” was released on November 18th. Since her last album released back in 2008, “a lot has happened”: Edith found herself uninspired and in a year-long “emotional vacuum” that almost consumed her. Finally after having enough of her creative slump in early 2010, Edith began anew, and worked with some of Sweden’s most renowned artists (like Andreas Dahlbäck, Peter Kvint, Erik Jonsson and Daniel Bengtssonto) to create her new upcoming album.

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“With friends like you, who needs enemies?” Saigon gets real and speaks on a few fake friends, who were standing behind enemy territory all along. He contemplates how different his life would’ve been if these “enemies” never crossed his path. The song is from his album “The Greatest Story Never Told“, relased on Suburban Noize Records earlier this year. Watch the video below, which also leads into the following track on the album, “Friends”.
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I get excited each time these ladies make a new video for one of their songs. The Suzan are fantastic, didn’t you know?! Watch them rock out to “Devils” in evil red outfits… horns, black make-up, fangs, and pitchforks included. The song is from their 2010 release “Golden Week for the Poco Poco Beat“, released through Fool’s Gold.
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Hiero, ya’ll! In Casual‘s music video for “Rapgod”, he shows you why he’s the rap god, with the visuals all over the internet, on blogs and what-not (Hieroglyphics website, Facebook, All Hip Hop, Thizzler, Hiphopdx, 2DopeBoyz, Twitter avatars, etc), as well as on screens and billboards. The song features Tajai and Pep Love, and was produced by Gully Duckets. His album, “He Think He #RapGod“, is now available.
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In this “Hurting” music video, by Friendly Fires, there’s a beautiful girl strutting down the street with a crazy, extra-long stretching neck that moves to the beat, as a love-struck Ed follows her with a dance in his step and a digital cubed head. But it’s just Ed’s head on someone else’s body, doing Ed’s quirky dance moves. Make sense? Just watch… it’s fun!
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