International Indigenous Hip-Hop Gathering brings artists, fans together
By Shadi Rahimi, Today correspondent
LOS ANGELES - For Happy Frejo, the International Indigenous Hip-Hop Gathering was a place to make a stand. Not just for Native artists, but also for women.

Posted on October 30th, 2008 by hunwut
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Blackfire, Red Hawk among winners
By Vincent Schilling, Today correspondent
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. - Many Native artists attended the 10th Annual Native American Music Awards show, held Oct. 4 at the Seneca Niagara Hotel & Casino in Niagara Falls, N.Y. More than 35 artists were awarded NAMMY awards, including Arizona-based Blackfire. The group was awarded the Album [...]

Posted on October 28th, 2008 by hunwut
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Released 2nd Album ‘Kumeyaay Cool Guyz’ On October 21, 2008
San Diego, CA. (Top40 Charts/ Shulaced Entertainment) - Shulaced Entertainment artists and San Diego’s hottest rap twosome, Dago Braves, announce the release their second album KUMEYAAY COOL GUYZ (Shulaced Entertainment / City Hall) bringing rhymes straight from the Sycuan Reservation to the world. Dago Braves’ songs [...]

Posted on October 22nd, 2008 by hunwut
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TENTH ANNUAL WINNERS ANNOUNCED; BLACKFIRE & NATIVE ROOTS TOP THE AWARDS WITH TWO LYNYRD SKYNYRD’S RICKEY MEDLOCKE, REDBONE AMONG THOSE HONORED
Niagara Falls, NY - On Saturday October 4, 2008 the Tenth Annual Native American Music Awards (N.A.M.A.) was held at the Seneca Niagara Hotel & Casino in Niagara Falls, New York and awarded over 35 [...]

Posted on October 8th, 2008 by hunwut
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by: Philip Burnham / Indian Country Today
John Trudell, Santee Sioux, is a radical and a traditionalist all rolled into one. He’s an outspoken political activist. He’s a poet in the old tradition: he chants, he warns, he tells, he sings. And it all has the feel of being spontaneous, of coming off effortlessly as he [...]

Posted on May 28th, 2008 by hunwut
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By George Varga, UNION-TRIBUNE POP MUSIC CRITIC
March 28, 2008
The new partnership between Alpine’s Viejas Entertainment and Los Angeles’ Nederlander Concerts is already bearing musical fruit, less than three months after the two teamed up.
The biggest coup is the April 22 concert by Mudcrutch, which features Tom Petty and two members of his band, The Heartbreakers. [...]

Posted on March 28th, 2008 by hunwut
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by: Babette Herrmann / Today correspondent
December 26, 2007
HOLLYWOOD CA - The Recording Academy announced the nominees for the 50th Annual GRAMMY Awards ceremony at the Music Box @ Fonda in Hollywood Dec. 6.
Under the category of Native American Music Album (Vocal or Instrumental), the nominees consist of Walter Ahhaitty & Friends, ”Oklahoma Style”; Black Lodge, [...]

Posted on December 26th, 2007 by hunwut
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