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Sheare
After years of carefully crafted passion, my good friend Brandon Sheer will finally see his work out in the world today. As an A&R and DJ, for years I have listened to a lot of independent music. The quality of this writing and production however is far beyond anything that ever came my way, and … Read more
Mario Jose
In 2009, my junior year at Northeastern, I had the pleasure of attending the only a cappella concert of my college career. During said concert, I was introduced to Berklee college of music’s own Mario Jose, the most unlikely looking person to be singing lead on a cover of Rihanna’s “Disturbia”, but as I later … Read more
Micah Murders Another Cover
AT LONG LAST! Emerging from his cave, Micah has decided to share with the masses another one of his world class covers (spoiler alert, it’s sheryl crow). Hopefully this is a sign of things to come…
Hoodie Allen Goes Viral
I had a phone call with Hoodie Allen on thursday. The call went a little something like this…Me: “Hey dude…i think the video is blowing up. You got like 400 comments in 2 hours” Him “Yeah man…its stuck at 308 views because of youtube issues, but I feel like we might have gotten 10,000 plays … Read more
The Knocks (Click to Listen)
It’s a rare occasion that I go to check out an act I’ve never heard of and leave knowing that they will be on repeat on my ipod for the foreseeable future. It’s a far more rare occasion for this to happen, and to realize that I have met the members of the band on … Read more
Brandyn Burnette (click to listen)
This August, during one of his many studio sessions at Pilot creative in Brooklyn, Dave called to let me know he was working with a young artist named Brandyn Burnette that he thought had a ton of potential. He invited me to sit in on the session, and I was very impressed with what I saw. … Read more
Justin Baron
A couple months ago when I was filming RJF finishing up Hoodie Allen’s track “Dreams Up”, which was released today and has already breached the top 40 of the Hype Machine popular charts, I met 3 young musicians who I quickly became friends with. Their names are Nana, Dot, and Justin, and each of them … Read more
The Specialist
About a month ago, while DJing an after-party for Dennis Leary and Jim Gaffigan in Boston, I was introduced to a young DJ from Baltimore named The Specialist. I informed him of a contest I wanted to run on WTE, where I would invite DJs to submit their own minimixes. The rules for the contest: … Read more
Maroon5 vs. Dot
A couple of weeks ago when I was in the studio shooting RJF with Nana and Justin, I was introduced to a rapper named Dot. Now, after working in hip-hop for years and years, I am always skeptical when I am introduced to independent rappers, but Dot was part of a crew of very legitimate … Read more
