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Souls of Mischief have released their dates for the UK leg of their European tour. All dates will be supported by local artists to the specific area which is a good look from S.O.M showing their support for upcoming UK artists.

Also look out for inshore signings at Carhartt stores in Manchester, London & Ireland. Tickets are available via each specific venue:

11th March Manchester @ Mint Lounge (Also In-store appearance at Carhartt)

12th March Leeds @ The Well

13th March Dublin @ The Good Bits (Also In-store appearance at Cru Colthing)

14th March London @ The Jazz Cafe with DJ Sarah Love

15th March London Carhartt In-store signing

16th March Kingston @ Surrey Peel (In-store signing session at Banquet Records)

17th March Plymouth @ White Rabbit

18th March Norwich @ Po Na Na

19th March Birmingham @ Rainbow

20th March Penzance @ Club 2K

• As you’ll probably all know by now Guru of Gangstarr suffered a cardiac arrest yesterday and is currently in a coma awaiting surgery in a New York area hospital - MissInfo
• Also peep Combat Jack‘s account on how he came to know Guru – iHipHop
• Kanye’s new blog is now up and live, having a more fashion & design theme but still providing us with pics of his muse which is well worth the daily visit – Kanye West Blog
• Whilst on the Kanye theme, peep this old skool (Pre-Accident) video interview with Whoo Kid, where Mr West talks about not getting any money for publishing off his work on ‘The Blueprint’ and also the story behind his canary diamond Rocafella chain – RadioPlanet
• Snoop Vs Jermaine Dupri, unfortunately it’s only on NBA 2010 - 2DopeBoyz
• Future (of Mesh Culture) gets the chance to sit down with the UK’s own Master Shortie where he discusses signing to the majors and his latest track with Polluted Mindz – Mesh
• XXL Magazine have upped their Freshman ’10 feature including quick freestyles from each inductee, what do you reckon to the line up??? – XXL

Episode 4 of the Tinchy Stryder x Luke Monaghan series this time around the sold out ‘Catch 22′ tour takes us to a sold out Camden Roundhouse (Tinchy’s home town London UK).. Featuring the full tour crew and Amelle of the Sugababes.. Look out for Ep5 Bristol & Edinburgh..

Via Luke Monaghan

After taking the number one chart spot over here Mr Cruz has added a certain Mr. Bridges to ‘Break Your Heart’ to try take the same spot across the pond.

It’s finally here… No delays unlike The Royal Mail…

Sway’s latest offering ‘The Delivery’ comes through with a whole heap of features, including the likes of Mr Hudson, Akon, Giggs, Kaiser Chiefs, Tinchy Stryder, Styles P, Kardinal Offishall & More…

Hit the jump for the tracklist & download link:

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R.I.O – Narrow Roads

Manchester’s (UK) own R.I.O comes through with the visuals to his debut single ‘Narrow Roads’ to be released on Rare Breed Music at the end of March.

I must add, that this video has set the standard for any upcoming artist coming out of our city right now. Without undermining anyone on the come up in the city; but take note on what R.I.O & Rare Breed have done here, the whole process of breaking a new record is not about just throwing any old track up onto youtube and hoping it ‘Blows’ – it’s a entire project that needs to be planned & executed correctly at each and every stage  - Hopefully R.I.O will be rewarded for the hard graft he’s put in over the last few months.

Major props to all that was involved in the ‘Narrow Roads’ project.

R.I.O – Myspace – Twitter

Produced by Mos Wanted & Bless Beats

Video directed by Graphics State Of Mind

Video Stylist – Sussana Clapcott

Tinchy hits Manchester  & Liverpool in Luke’s third episode featuring the likes of JME, Example and ‘Flee Gang’…

Shouts to Luke Monaghan (Who at present seems not to have paid for his hosting = fail)

Jay Electronica dropping a few dimes on the peeps at the Jazz Cafe in London.

Exhibit ‘A’  - Nuff Said.

Via Semtex

As for these last few days, ‘slow’ is an understatement, not much worth posting about over the last few days – nah I’m lying i’ve had other distractions… (nuff said) anyway back to regular posting from here on out.

• It’s official the Big Homie will be headlining this years Wireless Festival (Sunday 4th July Hyde Park London UK) along side a whole heap of other artists with the list growing by the day. - Wireless Festival 2010
• Rodney P gets some things off his chest regarding the ‘crooked’ UK music scene, in this no holds barred interview with Mr Montana. – Conspiracy Blog.
• Marcus Troy gets the opportunity to explore the Rob Dyrdek Fantasy Factory (of Fantasy Factory MTV fame) giving us an insiders view into the skaters Aladdin’s Cave (Literally). Marcus Troy
• Whilst on the skaters tip, DC have recently unveiled it’s latest skate boarders online project, after the huge success of skateboarding.tv comes DC 7Zine check it out – DC7ZINE
• If you don’t already know John Mayer is officially an Ediot (even more so after this) video blog genius Jay Smooth gives us his reaction to the whole saga. – Illdoctrine
• Goggle continues in its quest to take over the world; it’s latest invention makes stalkers life even easier wether you live on land or under the sea. Their latest Google Maps on steroids named Google Liquid Galaxy must infringe on some form of invasion of privacy. Lets just hope our crazed Ex’s don’t get their hands on this – Mashable
• The Times sit down with Britains most successful female artist Sade, to talk about her tomboy tree climbing activities and also her new album, which is apparently close to moving half a million copies in it’s first week – The Times Online
• Ski Beatz has released the tracklist for the  highly anticipated ’24 Hour Karate School’ mixtape, also some snippets and an eleven minute ‘visual mixtape’ including some karate film footage.. BUT the bad news is the mixtape has been pushed back to March 30th – Nah Right

Following on from the first episode, Luke Monaghan continues to shadow Tinchy Stryder on his sold out UK tour ‘Catch 22′. This episode shows some behind the scenes and concert footage from the Sheffield gig. Next week Luke will provide us with EP3 where Tinchy & Co hit Manchester & Liverpool.

Via Luke Monaghan