I have had mine for 3 months and just love it. I have spent too much money on new music to download!! Ha. Ha.

pstronga href="http://www.jay-z.com/"strongJay-Z/strong/a/strong and a href="http://www.myspace.com/santogold "strongSantogold/strong/a put on for their borough with triumphantly brassy production by a href="http://www.kanyeuniversecity.com/"strongKanye West/strong/a on a track reportedly intended for the soundtrack to upcoming Notorious B.I.G. biopic a href="http://www.foxsearchlight.com/notorious/"strongemNotorious/em/strong/a. What "Brooklyn Go Hard" boasts in bloggability, though, it mostly lacks in originality. Jay's "Hello Brooklyn" was one of the weaker songs on a href="/article/record_review/46899-american-gangster"strongemAmerican Gangster/em/strong/a, and not just because of a lazy Lil Wayne guest verse; West already has a "Go Hard" song out there with T-Pain off of DJ Khaled's a href="/node/145613"emstrongWe Global/strong/em/a; and there's kind of been a a href="/article/download/144896-new-music-ti-ft-kanye-west-jay-z-and-lil-wayne-swagger-like-us-stream"strongrash/strong/a a href="/article/download/146379-new-music-mia-ft-jay-z-and-wale-boyz-remixes-mp3s"strongof/strong/a a href="/article/download/147624-new-music-jim-jones-ft-lil-wayne-noe-and-twista-jackin-swagga-from-us-mp3"strongsongs/strong/a built around looped M.I.A.-style vocal snippets (though usually by M.I.A.) herself), as well as looped vocal snippets a href="/node/141811"strongmore/strong/a a href="/article/download/144582-new-music-jay-z-prod-by-kanye-west-jockin-jay-z-mp3-stream"stronggenerally/strong/a./p pSo there's all that, and then, despite the booming horns, none of the swaggering live-band looseness of, say, emAmerican Gangster/em's "a href="/article/download/46926-jay-z-roc-boys-and-the-winner-is"strongRoc Boys/strong/a". "This is black hoodie rap," Jay begins, not "black superhero music". Still, West has crafted a percussive, slickly cinematic backing track, and Jay sounds awesomely slippery, raising his voice to the squeaking point at times and even playing with a Caribbean accent en route to an emAnnie/em reference. Santogold mostly just does the one-note hook, but she finds time for a rap-cadenced sing-song verse repping Bed-Stuy. Where Brooklyn at? It's here if you listen, but not quite in all of its glory (such as it is). (via a href="http://2dopeboyz.com/2008/11/30/jay-z-brooklyn-go-hard/"strong2dopeboyz/strong/a)/p pstrongMP3:gt;/strong a href="http://2dopeboyz.com/2008/11/30/jay-z-brooklyn-go-hard/" target="_blank"span style="text-decoration: underline;"Jay-Z [ft. Santogold; prod. by Kanye West]: "Brooklyn Go Hard/span/abr /[apparently from the emNotorious/em OST; film due in theaters 01/16/09]/p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/QNBIOliye14GLkP4gPv0PB0JMZQ/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/QNBIOliye14GLkP4gPv0PB0JMZQ/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/pitchfork/today/~4/KfEICN5PFSI" height="1" width="1"/

pstronga href="http://www.myspace.com/deejayrupture"strongDJ/rupture/strong/a/strong included a track by a href="http://www.myspace.com/filastine"strongFilastine/strong/a, "Hungry Ghost (Instrumental)", on his excellent new ema href="/article/record_review/146769-dj-rupture-uproot"strongUproot/strong/a/em mix, and even total Philistines may have noticed something compelling in its chirpy, nomadic rumble. Speaking of ruptures, get a load of that rip in the space/time continuum: "Fitnah", from Barcelona-based Filastine's forthcoming emDirty Bomb/em for DJ/rupture's a href="http://www.sootrecords.com/"strongSOOT/strong/a label, is a beguilingly globetrotting track that manages to sound simultaneously ancient and of the moment. It opens with a collage of TV static, mournful (yes, mournful) Theremin, muffled voices, chiming bells, handclaps, and clicking percussion that seems like it could be the mechanical whir of a camera shutter or a copy machine. Meanwhile, singer Jessika Skeletalia Kenney traces the kind of melancholic modal wail you'd hear walking among Middle Eastern storefronts in Queens (or, presumably, in the Middle East), while beneath her booms a heavy dubstep bassline and stuttering low-end beat. Philistines, alert your authorities./p p object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" width="300" height="110" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0" param name="wmode" value="transparent" / param name="src" value="http://media.imeem.com/m/0z6u7DCAjA/aus=false/" /embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="300" height="110" src="http://media.imeem.com/m/0z6u7DCAjA/aus=false/" wmode="transparent"/embed /object /p pstrongMP3:gt;/strong a href="http://downloads.pitchforkmedia.com/Filistine%20-%20fitnah.mp3" target="_blank"span style="text-decoration: underline;"Filastine [ft. Jessika Skeletalia Kenney]: "Fitnah"/span/abr /[from emDirty Bomb/em; due 02/09/08 on a href="http://www.sootrecords.com/"strongSOOT/strong/a]/p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/uLES-L1VBZHaEVG_agAtVIqxao0/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/uLES-L1VBZHaEVG_agAtVIqxao0/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/pitchfork/today/~4/FH32mBWxtxQ" height="1" width="1"/

Drummer John Macaluso (ARK, YNGWIE MALMSTEEN, TNT, JAMES LABRIE, UNION RADIO, RIOT, POWERMAD, DELMAR BROWN, GEORGE LYNCH, STARBREAKER) has returned to his hometown of Commack, New York to open a new music instruction school, where he hopes to share his legacy with aspiring drummers.

Elye wrote: Hi, I've recently completed a new music video for some local rappers I know. I did all the animation in Blender, even though it's 2D (or 2.5D). Thought you might like to check it out! I certainly do :) Very nice and professional work, thanks for sharing!

Elye wrote: Hi, I#039;ve recently completed a new music video for some local rappers I know. I did all the animation in Blender, even though it#039;s 2D (or 2.5D). Thought you might like to check...br/ br/ [read the full article on blendernation.com]img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Blendernation/~4/469591051" height="1" width="1"/