Anything Chaka Khan is a part of, is worth listening to, and Incognito front-man Jean Paul ‘Bluey’ Maunick, after 30 years in the music game, knows this too well as he ropes her in to lead off the LP on “Lowdown” which incorporates Boz Scaggs’ classic of the same title, and also features Italian singer Mario Biondi, who adds his deep, baritone vocals alongside Chaka’s. Thank God for groups like Incognito and Bluey leading the way, reviving a genre – that being Acid Jazz – that is beyond me on how it just sort of fell out of the limelight.

The brainchild and success of its two founders Peter Kruder and Richard Dorfmeister (of Kruder & Dorfmeister, Peace Orchestra, Tosca fame), G-Stone Recordings from Vienna, Austria over the last 16 years throughout the European electronic music scene and armed with some of these memorable, ‘cuss-free’ classics here, has been quite a remarkable and consistent story. Since 1995, when the term and concept of ‘electronica’ seemed hard to grasp, through new artists such as Marsmobil on her lounge-like “Patience,” or Makossa & Megablast on their chill-out grooves on “Coming Home” featuring the extra-soulful Hubert Tubbs, fans were starting to abandon traditional mainstream radio programs and tap into what a lot of fed-up DJs, underground/alternative stations and the birth of public internet had to offer.

The scene is New York City, and the classic punk rock movie from the year 1980, stars Billy (Richard Hell), who Nada (Carole Bouquet) – a gorgeous French journalist on assignment in NYC – falls in love with. The move is tricky, since she herself, is already in a relationship with a fellow journalist, who makes this movie even more exciting based on his assignment – tracking down the elusive Andy Warhol, who plays himself here. With the Ramones and the Voidoids performing live, lost but never forgotten crucial scenes of landmarks such as CBGB define this era of punk rock’s vibrant yet sleazy, grimy past

It’s really difficult to compare the sounds of Chico Mann in its entirety to any one particular group you’ve ever been familiar with. Maybe Senor Coconut’s cover of Kraftwerk’s “Trans Europe Express (Cumbia)” comes to mind? But that was one song, while Chico Mann’s entire vibe is blessed with such an authentic diversity. So to attempt at any comparison you’ll have no choice but to gather a couple artists such as Afrika Bambaattaa & The Soul Sonic Force, Fela Kuti & Africa 70 and Buena Vista Social Club – combine all their distinctive elements and envision all those sounds working incredibly together.

On March 4th 2010, LOUISVUITTON.COM will pre-launch limited edition Anniversary Collection Monogram Shawls in three different styles: the Monogram Rock Shawl in Bleu Nuit, Monogram Pois Shawl in Cassis, and the gorgeous Monogram Denim Bleached Shawl in Rose and Bleu

I wake up before the sun ready to go. I love what i do and it never bores me. The first day I had the element of excitement and that really has not waned. I always want to know what the next hot thing is, i want it for me and i want it for the store, I want it for my Disney Vintage Line, and I want it for my consulting. I love doing a lot at once! When i have a lot on my plate, they all go great.!

Just a listen to “Game Over” and you’d want to see V.V. Brown perform this live! Her energy and power in delivering this uplifting and defiant track, moves you (as everything else around you shifts too)! Entirely produced and written by V.V. herself, this young Brit now embarking on breaking through to the States, comes equipped with the lead single, “Shark In The Water” and you can’t help but feel her determined type of soulful expressiveness, fashion direction and blessed talent destined to be compared or mentioned in the same circles of other diva dames like Shingai Shoniwa (of Noisettes), Alicia Keys, Amy Winehouse and others.

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Toronto, Canada’s K-Os shouldn’t be a stranger to you if you follow good, thought-provoking hip-hop, though to a lot of his peers, he’s stranger than your average lyricist. Exactly. After all, he’s not average by any means. On the opener, like the many of his signature tracks of past LPs that define him, K-Os sings and spits rhymes over “Zambony,” an 808 kick drum-driven, illusive beat glided and guided by angelic melodies from voices that seem to be live-spirits looking down upon his soul. His tracks always seem to have a very high level of orchestration, enhanced with some classic

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