“new york city” Posts

New release: CM aka Creative's back!

I’m very happy to announce that next week, the great CM aka Creative returns to blocSonic with the latest volume in his Classic Material series! Today, we’ve got the first single from that album, Cast All Doubts… a blazer that awaits your ears, no doubt! Hip-Hop, friend. Thanks to CM… Read more

New release: The Impossebulls Get RAW AS F**K!!

The Impossebulls, as you may already know, began as a project put together by Public Enemy’s Chuck D. It wasn’t long after that that the “virtual rap squad”, as they were originally promoted, moved beyond the virtual world when key members, within driving distance of one another, began stomping onto… Read more

New release: Introducing HYMnEYE LIVE!

The month of February is going to be something special with LIVE hip-hop all month long, thanks to The Impossebulls and their family of related artists. Today we kick things off with a dope live set from a group called HYMnEYE, that’s comprised of blocSonic’s own Mported Flows along with… Read more

New release: Deadly Combo and Cable ring in the New Year with Up To You!

2013 has been another great year for fans of blocSonic and Creative Commons licensed music, in general. If you weren’t sleeping (and I know blocSonic fans weren’t), lot’s of incredible music came your way and you got to hear music that became a part of your story, your soundtrack. I… Read more

New release: Deadly Combo attains the Unattainable!

You could say that Deadly Combo’s new album “Unattainable” has been a lifetime in the making. RM aka Bigg-M and his younger brother CM aka Creative have long been rocking the mic, individually, yet rarely have they been able to do so together. Now, after many years of trying to… Read more

New release: Break Bread with Deadly Combo!

A lifetime in the making… next week we’re set to drop new music by Deadly Combo. These two EMCEES, two brothers who grew up in the Lower East Side of Manhattan… RM aka Bigg-M and CM aka Creative… who’ve been rocking the mic for years, after many delays are now… Read more

New release: "Master Don", the new single by BADLUCK!

BADLUCK returns with the second dope single, “Master Don”, from his fresh new album, “Johnny Cool”. Along with the B-Side, “NY Don’t Sleep”, we’ve got incredible new remixes by the great C-Doc and Tha Silent Partner! Thanks to C-Doc and TSP for coming through on such short notice to deliver… Read more

New release: The return of BADLUCK!

I’d like to present to you the return of BADLUCK to blocSonic. He comes to you straight outta the Bed-Stuy Do Or Die, Brooklyn, New York. A proponent of bringing together that classic BOOM-BAP and modern hip-hop, Luck and his producers do just that… delivering a sound that’s uniquely BADLUCK.… Read more

New release: The new single by Garmisch!

Today we’ve got the second and final single from the new Garmisch album, “Fishes”. For those of you who’ve already heard the album, you know that “And Now We Stand Against The Wall” is an incredible track. In addition to the fantastic album cut, we’ve got the instrumental and remixes… Read more

New release: blocSonic welcomes The Scallions on board with the release of "Agony Through Ceremony XE"!

A little over ten years ago, in 2002, I began working for SLAMjamz, the label run by Public Enemy’s Chuck D. I began by designing cover art for their digital single series. Among those digital singles were seven designed for Connecticut avante-garde power pop group, The Scallions, consisting of members… Read more