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New release: "Breathe Easy" with DJ Def Chad!

Today we’ve got the 3rd single from DJ Def Chad’s excellent debut album The Black Holocaust and as you’ve come to expect from blocSonic, it has some previously unreleased gems for your enjoyment. This is hip-hop… this is what’d be missing from the mainstream, if you continued to give a… Read more

New release: Go "Up and Away" with DJ Def Chad

Today we’ve got the second single from DJ Def Chad’s The Black Holocaust and you know how we do… it’s packed with bonus cuts for heads to get their fix with. Album versions? Nah… none of that with this one… only new to you versions and songs… including a previously… Read more

New release: "The Black Holocaust", the debut album by DJ Def Chad arrives!

Ladies and gentlemen, I’d like to present to you The Black Holocaust, the incredible debut album by Pittsburgh artist, DJ Def Chad. This may be DJ Def Chad’s debut album, however he’s not new to this hip-hop thing. He began his musical journey back in Homewood, PA and released music… Read more

New release: DJ Def Chad has got The Remedy!

One of the core members of The Impossebulls, DJ Def Chad is set to drop his incredible C-Doc produced debut blocSonic album, “The Black Holocaust”, next week. Chances are, the album will be the new standard by which all C-Doc production is measured against. Today we’ve got your first taste… Read more

New release: Our INTRO series returns with Mr. and Mrs. Smith!

Back in June of 2012 we launched a series of releases called “INTROs”, designed to introduce or re-introduce blocSonic listeners to artists with extensive catalogs of great music that absolutely deserves to be heard by more ears. The series began by spotlighting the band, The Womb (which has since been… Read more

New release: LOWdown is PHUCHINLIVE!

To close out this month of LIVE HIP-HOP, LOWdown brings it with the action packed LIVE EP called “HAUPHUCHINLIVEIYAM”. Recorded at Hkan in Pittsburgh, PA back in August of 2005, this live set is a fun piece of LOWdown history that’s sure to hold an honored spot in your LOWdown/Impossebulls… Read more

New release: Our Xtended Edition series returns with Mr. Bitterness and The Guilty Pleasures!

Today, our fine Xtended Edition series continues with the release of the extended version of Mr. Bitterness and The Guilty Pleasure’s latest album “The Good Fight”. An album that would surely have its place in the mainstream, if that mainstream gave a damn about quality music again. Surely his official… Read more

New release: Deadly Combo remixxed by C-Doc!

Back in December we closed out 2013 with the INCREDIBLE debut album, “Unattainable”, by Maryland based Deadly Combo — a group comprised of brothers CM aka Creative and RM aka Bigg-M. That album’s sound harkens back to the classic early to mid 1990s era of hip-hop with it’s big thumping… 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