Like, Toronto plays itself as in plays itself in a movie – which is cool. Not plays itself like “you played yourself” – which is wack.

Looks like a dope night at The Garrison! Details below:

TORONTO PLAYS ITSELF
A Music City Showcase from #The6

The Association for Music and Innovative Arts (AMIA) and the Prism Prize present Toronto Plays Itself: A Music City Showcase from #The6 on Tuesday, May 3 at The Garrison. The show will include performances by Maylee Todd, Clairmont The Second, Petra Glynt and a DJ set by Absolutely Free.

Maylee Todd is a dynamic and multi-faceted artist. Her creativity derives its inspiration from a wide range of artistic disciplines: songwriting, production, film, performance art, and design. Maylee’s music combines organic and electronic forms, including elements of boogie, bossa, space funk, psychedelia and soul. Clairmont The Second is a Toronto-based artist and producer who has collaborated with Prism Prize Top Ten nominee Harrison. He is currently working on his third album. Petra Glynt aka Alexandra Mackenzie is a multidisciplinary artist who writes and performs experimental pop music.

The AMIA wishes to thank the Toronto Arts Council for their support of Toronto Plays Itself. Prism Prism Top 20 nominees Absolutely Free will DJ throughout the evening. Their video for Vision’s, directed by Scott Cudmore and Michael LeBlanc, is eligible for this year’s Audience Award, presented by Noisey Canada. The Top 20 videos are live at prismprize.com/audience2016, where fans can watch and vote on who will take home this year’s Audience Award. 

On Sunday, May 15, 2016 the Prism Prize Screening and Awards Presentation at TIFF Bell Lightbox will include a screening of the Top Ten videos, and award presentations including the $10,000 Grand Prize for best Canadian music video of the year. Tickets are on sale now at prismprize.com/tix. 

TORONTO PLAYS ITSELF
A Music City Showcase from #The6
Tuesday, May 3, 2016
Doors at 8pm
The Garrison, 1197 Dundas Street West
Tickets are $6 in advance, $10 at the door
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Yuri over that Joey Crack.

Yuri turns the past week’s biggest moments in pop culture into punchlines, as well as gets a little personal on his remix of Fat Joe & Remy Ma’s newest hit single “All The Way Up”

Prod. by King Kong Beats
Written & Performed by Yuri Koller
Mixed & Mastered by Yuri Koller
Artwork by Yuri Koller

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Some autobiographical bars from the homie D.O.

Ahh yeah part of the soundtrack to On This Grind
Produced by Rayne Drop
www.onthisgrind.com

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A$AP FERG x TORY LANEZ – Line Up The Flex (Prod. Play Picasso)
SHOT AND CHOPPED BY ZAC FACTS
THE LEVEL UP TOUR:
A$AP FERG x TORY LANEZ
WITH SPECIAL GUEST MADEINTYO

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Two big celebrations going down tonight at The Blake Hotel. The Come Up Show’s 9th anniversary (congrats to the fam!!!) as well as Blake C performing in support of his new project “F.A.I.L.U.R.E.” (congrats to the fam!!!).

Should be a dope night!

The Come Up Show 9th Year Anniversary Feat. Blake Carrington + Mack Davis, K. Forest, Cherisha Etnel

The 9th Anniversary of blog and radio show The Come Up Show will pair up with The Hustle tonight to celebrate the new album from Toronto’s Blake Carrington who has just released his LP, photo book, and short film entitled Failure.

It’s been an emotional and challenging past 4-years for Blake Carrington, while raising a young family as a single father, Blake has continued to push forward with his music and overall creative passion. Between Toronto and Los Angeles over the past few years, Blake was able to see first hand the work ethic of US artists and business people he met while in Los Angeles, and combine that with his drive and energy as a buzzing Toronto artist, to bring together his current team to execute a tri-media project surrounding Failure.

Toronto singer/rapper Mack Davis will also appear giving a look at some new music, and Brampton based singer K. Forest will give a first look at his live music that has recently received positive coverage (NOW Magazine’s R&B One’s To Watch) and drawn comparisons to soon to be stadium filler Bryson Tiller. UK based alt-R&B singer Cherisha Etnel will kick-off the evening, as she will appear a week later during Canadian Music Week.

WHAT: The Come Up Show 9th Year Anniversary

WHO: Blake Carrington / Mack Davis / K. Forest / Cherisha Etnel / Mr. Akil D

WHEN: Thursday, April 28 | Doors 9pm

WHERE: Drake Underground | 1150 Queen St. West

COVER: $10 advance | $15 at the door

TICKETS: http://universe.com/thehustle16

Been checkin’ for this dude since “Smooth Criminals” with Raz Fresco back in 2013. Can’t reach the show tomorrow night but am looking forward to taking this one in.

ShaqIsDope’s long-awaited mixtape, Black Frames, Is finally here.The Toronto rapper delivers a hefty follow-up to his breakout mixtape Early Beginnings:The Shaquille Baptiste Story. The 12-track project focus on SID trying to maintain his moral integrity. Although he don’t consider himself above temptations, SID tries to pay close watch on his spiritual temperature. Songs such as “Innocent Youth” and “Stay Focus” proves how vulnerable we all are to temptation but we have to reminds ourselves of the damaging consequences of moral failure.

Listen to Black Frames below and be sure to catch ShaqIsDope live at the Opera House with TY Dolla Sign on April 29.

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New Clairmont!

Lames (All I Hear) by Clairmont The Second

Stream & Download here: https://soundcloud.com/clairmontthese…

Production Company: REH Visuals
Director: Ryan Enn Hughes
Producer: Ryan Enn Hughes
Cinematography: Pawel Dwulit and Ryan Enn Hughes
Steadicam: Pawel Dwulit
Wardrobe: Judith Clancy
Production Assistanst: Garcy Hughes, Grzegorz Dwulit
Title Sequence: Colanthony Humphrey

Audio © 2015 Clairmont The Second All Rights Reserved
Visuals © 2016 Ryan Enn Hughes/REH Visuals All Rights Reserved

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Shouts to Tanika throwing down last Friday on q on what was a tough day for all of us!

“Soul Run” drops May 10th.

Tanika Charles delivers the goods in Studio q with this performance of “Two Steps” from her debut record, “Soul Run”.
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q is a magazine show that’s unpredictable in the best sense – proud to be “a wild mix of culture by way of Canada” as described by the New York Times. The Globe & Mail noted the show’s “raging popularity across a variety of platforms — podcasts, television, websites, satellite radio, terrestrial radio, and occasional live remote broadcasts.”

Two legends in the game connect for what looks to be a one-of-a-kind theatrical experience. From what I can tell it’s like the one-woman-show meets hip-hop. And you know you can’t have hip-hop without the DJ. Really looking forward to this one even though I guess I don’t qualify for the youth price anymore. Gawd damnit!

The theatrical run starts this Friday so get your tickets now and peep the full breakdown below. Shouts to the queens!

Oraltorio: a Theatrical Mixtape, gives rhythm to silenced voices as part of The RISER Project 2016

Written by Motion

Directed by Mumbi Tindyebwa

Produced by MotionLive Collective

April 11, 2016, TORONTO – MotionLive Collective is pleased to present the world premiere of Oraltorio: a Theatrical Mixtape as part of The RISER Project 2016. The RISER Project, the collaborative producing model for independent theatre, returns to the Theatre Centre (1115 Queen St W) for the second time this Spring, Oraltorio: a Theatrical Mixtape runs April 29 – May 12, 2016 (opening April 30).

Oraltorio: a Theatrical Mixtape is a coming of age story that traces the personal and collective journey of Northside-born girls as they grapple with identity, migrate through their histories, and manifest their lineages through ancient, contemporary, and Afro-futuristic soundscapes; finding the multi-layered voices of the B Girl and the DJ, as the traditional storyteller and drummer are reborn in their beats and rhymes.

The piece is a multidisciplinary insight into how women’s voices – musical and otherwise – have been silenced. Oraltorio: a Theatrical Mixtape is a spoken word opera that remixes theatre, music and spoken word, bringing together a piece as insightful as it is entertaining. The piece riffs on music, race, gender, culture, memory, otherness, resistance, ritual, silence, survival and inheritance through its two characters, exploring the historical silencing of Black and women’s voices, and the intertwined revolutions and resistance signified by music and oral culture in the African Diaspora.

Oraltorio: a Theatrical Mixtape is written and performed by playwright, poet and emcee MOTION and composed/mixed by DJ, composer and beat maker L’Oqenz. It is directed by Mumbi Tindyebwa.

Oraltorio: a Theatrical Mixtape is made possible by Toronto Arts Council, Ontario Arts Council and Canada Council for the Arts.

About Oraltorio

Directed by Mumbi Tindyebwa

Motion (Writer/Performer)

DJ L’Oqenz (Music & Sound Design/Performer)

Roger C. Jeffrey (Choreographer)

Saccha Dennis (Assistant Director)

Tara Mohan (Stage Manager)

Mariuxi Zambrano (Costume Designer)

Jackie Chau (Set & Props Designer)

David Mesiha (Associate Sound Designer)

Remington North (Associate Video Designer)

Ramon Charles (Video Designer)

Andrew du Toit (Lighting Designer)

Mel Hague (Dramaturge)

MotionLive Collective (Producer)

Newface Entertainment/David Crawford (co-Producer)

IFT Theatre (co-Producer)

Catching up with that gurl Tanisha and her March Music Mondays series. Ya ya I know. It’s end of April.

Overall…a solid introduction to a new singer in the city.

Week 4 of March music with Tanisha, every Monday in March releasing new sound on a new wave.

Frozen is the forth of 4 new songs scheduled to be released every Monday in March, featuring Junior Ahh. Produced by Kaz x JDI.

The songwriter in Tanisha has allowed her to collaborate in writing and co-writing with producers, engineers and artists alike. She has been perfecting her craft day in and day out, taking from these various and diverse experiences. TANISHA’s soulful atmospheric sound rooted in r&b continues to challenge the current sound of female vocalists.