Make Music New York

If you're in the New York City area, feel free to come down to the free outdoor concert. On June 21st Make Music New York is sponsoring a city wide outdoor performance event. The good folks at Ironhorse Music will be at Long Island University's Brooklyn Campus. 

Come down and enjoy the show!

Aqua League presents The Repositioning

What's the goings ons?

Check out the new project The Repositioning from the production team The Aqua League. The project features a host of emcess including yours truly along with Sleepwalkas, Mojo from Dujeous, Prezzure, Niles, and Triboro just to name a few.

Download your free copy of The Repositioning

DougSimpson - Sketches

What's up a couple of weeks ago we posted the single Big City from Ironhorse member DougSimpson. Today he releases his EP Sketches. The EP features production by the Aqua League with guest vocals from the Ironhorse fam, The Sistah, and yours truly. Also lending a helping hand is Triboro's Fresh Aire. Alright so if you don't know by now, this is a recommended listen.

You don't have to believe us, check it out yourself and let us know what you think.

Download DougSimpson - Sketches

New Music Euphon feat. Sleepwalkas - Sleeper Cell

What's the goings on good people,

Check out the new track with us and the good folks known as Sleepwalkas, who we just rocked with last week at the Sapphire Lounge. We had a good turn out, with good vibes, if you missed it....you missed it. The song is called Sleeper Cell and is from the upcoming project The Repositioning produced by the Aqua League due out in May.

Check it out, and let us know what you're thinking.

Download Sleeper Cell

Doug Simpson - Big City feat. Slim

What it is? Here's a new track from our Ironhorse fam Dougsimpon with guest vocals from a familiar friend from his upcoming EP Sketches. The song's been featured on the Owen Smith's Anonymous DVD and MTV's Real World Brooklyn. That's a super good look if you don't know, ya dig.

Download - Big City

Euphon Live @ The Sapphire Lounge

What it is?

Just wanted to give you a little more details for the upcoming show on April 8th at the Sapphire Lounge. The Sapphire Lounge is located at 249 Eldridge Street off of East Houston St. The doors open at 10pm showtime is 10:30pm and 5 beans to get in.  

Come through, we have a couple of treats on deck for you. 

Nuyorican Poets Cafe wrap up

What it does?

Thanks to everyone who came out to the Nuyorican on Saturday. You got a taste of the remix project History Repeated. If you don't have it already head over to iTunes and check it out. If you didn't come through, you missed the jellyfish toss. We also want to thank Wiseguy & Gaston even though Wiseguy didn't show up. Ha ha just playing man. It was a long time coming so hopefully we'll get to rock out again. 

We're going to be performing again on 8 April at the Sapphire Lounge w/ Sleepwalkas. If everything goes right we should  have some more treats. Stayed tuned as we'll give you more details as the date gets closer.

Euphon Live @ Nuyorican Poets Cafe

What's the goings ons?

Just wanted to give the heads up that we'll be performing this Saturday 21, at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe. The show starts at 10pm, to get in it's $12 without the flier and $10 with the flier. 

Also scheduled to perform is Godhead The General, Bitten Tongue, and Rebel Diaz. 

Come through and enjoy a good night of music. 

For more info, check out the link: Nuyorican Poets Cafe

See you Saturday!

Is it the end of retail outlets in NY

Things are looking pretty bleak for music these days. If you aren’t aware Virgin is closes it’s megastores here in New York starting with the store at Times Square.

Just today I saw signs for 50% off, whereas two days ago those signs were 25% off. Understanding enough with the state of the economy, but there’s something else that people mainly in New York City may not be paying attention to. With Virgin closing their stores within the city by the summer, that will only leave J&R Music World and Best Buy as the only two major retailers to buy music from. Kind of scary being that Best Buy’s collection of music is very very thin. Personally I think J&R has a better selection, but then again that’s just my opinion.

Does that mean that it’s a prime time for Walmart to make it’s move into the city. Granted from the Walmarts I’ve been to outside of the city the music selection ain’t that great either, but at least we’d have more options.

A bit odd that in a major city of shopping, you may not be able to get music any longer. Hmm……

More after the jump: Virgin Megastore closings

Euphon Live @ The Annex

What it is, what it is?

Just wanted to give everyone a heads up that we'll be performing on the 2 March at The Annex located at 152 Orchard St on the Lower East Side.

The doors open at 8pm and the show starts at 9pm, it's 10 beans (not literally!) to get .

Other's scheduled to perform are Triboro and Rugged n Raw.
We're scheduled to go on at 9m.

See you there!

For all the playas, all the hustlas...

Okay no not really, but the Aqua League collective has let out a track from the up coming Velvet Gentleman soundtrack. It's some chill vibed out business, the complete project should be out soon. In the meantime check out the track after the jump.

Aqua League - Velvet Gentleman

Digital Presence

What's up good peoples?

Every now and then I randomly Google the name Euphon to see what the results are to measure how our online digital promotions and online presence is doing. Kind of a checks and balances type of thing. 

Upon doing so I found a link to our very very very first 12" single on Ebay! Wow!!

Naturally my first thought was how did someone in Missouri get a copy of our single, then I remembered the couple of record pools that were serviced. Hopefully that's how they got it. Then after a good laugh out of the shock of it being on Ebay, I began to question...is this a good thing or a bad thing?

I don't quite have an answer for that one just yet, but thought I'd share and see what your thoughts were. 

Euphon Trade Secrets/ Duck Down 12" Sealed!!

Black History month

What it is, what it is?

Alright being that this is black history month, and yes I understand it's the shortest month of the year but let's keep it positive.....If you are a parent or were a parent besides yourselves who would you encourage your child to strive to be like? 

Now you don't only have to be black to answer or suggest a person, so please feel free to comment.

Oh no say it ain't so.....

Alright I'm not one to gossip but or anything like that but I had to share this and see what everyone was thinking about this one. 

Supposedly Chris Brown was charged for assaulting his arm piece Rihanna. It shocked the heck out of me when I read a couple of articles about it. Whoa man this does not look good for ol' dude there. 

What's your feeling on the issue?

There's a quick story after jump:

Brown v. Rihanna 

True Hip-Hop Stories

Damn I can't believe I didn't share this one with y'all earlier.
A friend of mine actually put me on to it (thanks Jo!) and I've been checking in regularly.

D-Nice (yeah the dude from back in the days that used to run with KRS and BDP) has a blog. Most of it is basically photo journalism which is pretty good...actually very good by the way, has started doing these shorts called True Hip-Hop Stories. The most interesting one to me so far has been how Masta Ace got to be on the classic track The Symphony.

Check out the blog and the rest of the shorts after the jump.
The D-Nice Journal and True Hip-Hop Stories

Hip-Hop & Movies

Alright, it's well known that hip-hop and movies go hand to hand. Most gangster thuggy-type artists make comparisons and sometimes sample actual sound bites from Scarface and the Wu who notably used many kung-fu flicks within their material, it's not hard to see the effects movies have on culture and in turn the music influenced by it. 

Hell even most artists are characters to make themselves marketable, but hey we're not going to really get into all that. 

I just wanted to give heads a quick update on some upcoming flicks with hip-hop artists in them. 

First up is Terminator Salvation. 

I'm not sure why they're digging back into the barrel on this one, but it is what it is. Common has a role in the latest installment of the terminator series. How much of a role I don't know but he's got a little face time in the trailer that's out now. I wonder if they got Arnold to make a cameo. He recently pulled out the Conan sword to signify how he would cut state taxes.

The next one is Next Day Air.

From the trailer, it looks to be a pretty funny comedy with Mos Def playing a decent sized role along side Mike Epps and a host of others. 

Also on a side note a biopic of The Juice Crew that was in production was cancelled because of funding. Kind of stale when one of the most important hip-hop crews can't get the ends to create a film to tell their story. 

Check out the trailers and stories after the jump:

Terminator Salvation

Next Day Air

The Juice Crew story on hold