On Friday 13th November 2009, we made our way to the Rosemount for a hip hop gig, Able was launching his new 5-Track EP. A great night was had, some great tunes were played and an EP was released.

Able’s new EP Ice Cream Won’t Save You is a must hear release, if you haven’t heard this yet I suggest you get out and have a listen as this is not your normal Australian Hip Hop sound.  There’s a very interesting sound for Hip Hop brewing over here on the west coast of Australia and Able is one of the guys stirring the brew alongside other members of The Community. Read the rest of this entry…

On Thursday May 7th the West Australian Music Industry held it’s annual awards night for 2009, with west australian hip-hop’s finest Downsyde & Drapht being nominated for a few awards.  WA hip-hop artists Downsyde were nominated for 2 categories in in Most Popular Music Video, which they won and Best Urban/Hip Hop Act where they were beaten by SBX bedfellow Drapht.  Drapht was also nominated for Most Popular Single/EP with his single Jimmy Recard in which he was beaten by Tame Impala (who “make psychedelic hypno-groove melodic rock music” and also won some other awards).

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