Aion Clarke - New Mixtape: "The Leaks"

Aion Clarke is a really talented R&B singer. Drake fans, you might know him as "Voyce Alexander", the soulful, charming singer who sang a lot of the hooks on Drake's first mixtape, "Room for Improvement." Since then, he put out a single called "Do You Right" which is available on iTunes.

His brand new mixtape, "The Leaks", is getting a really positive response with a lot of downloads already. Listeners are happy to hear "true R&B again".

If you want to hear Aion Clarke's voice on some older songs, listen Drake's "Special", "All This Love", and "Smile". It's good, simple, R&B music. :)

P.S.- Guess who produced some of the tracks for this mixtape? October's Very Own member Noah "40" Shebib. Check the production credits in the picture above :)

ABC 2 Teen Perspective Commercial

This is the latest commercial for the ABC News show I work for in Maryland called "Teen Perspective News". I work with a really great group of people and we learn so much each week as we work to produce our news show. We write, report on, and produce our own half-hour news show, covering real news for a smaller demographic, TEENS.

In this video, Daiyaan Colbert, a member of our news team, gives you an inside look at Teen Perspective News and what the teens involved have learned.

"Go beyond Journalism 101. TV professionals teach teens the tricks of the trade. The Scripps Foundation's Teen Media Project gives hands on experience in all aspects of News Gathering and Production."

*The Teen Media Project is now excepting applications for the 2010-2011 season. Please fulfill all application requirments and mail them to the enclosed address by October 1, 2010.*

If you are interested in applying to the program click here: http://media2.abc2news.com/teen-app2.doc

Ground Up Show at The Fire

Ground Up will perform this saturday at "The Fire" in Philadelphia.

They will be performing tracks from the new mixtape "Higher Ground".

Who: Ground Up

When: Saturday July 24th, 2010

7:00p.m. - 10:00p.m.

Where: The Fire

4th and Girard

Philadelphia, PA 19121

*All ages are welcome, 21 to drink.*

Knife Show features Ground Up music

Ground Up teams up with Knife Show in this video.

Find out what Knife Show is here: knifeshowinc.com

For more info: groundupsounds.com

A 'Bria's Interlude' Discovery

This is Bria's Interlude, the nice slow jam off of Drake's So Far Gone mixtape. The song sampled in Bria's Interlude is called Friendly Skies. It's a song by Missy Elliott featuring Ginuwine, from her Supa Dupa Fly album. I think that's really cool, so here's what Friendly Skies sounds like. Enjoy.

Friendly Skies - Missy Elliot ft. Ginuwine

Ground Up - New Mixtape 'Higher Ground'

Yep, it's Friday July 2nd and Ground Up has released their latest mixtape 'Higher Ground'.

Ground Up has made this mixtape available for free download.

Go to myspace.com/groundupsounds to download it.

You can also check out some of their other mixtapes there. Ground Up has put in a lot of hard work so give this a good listen. I'm going to Florida tonight and I plan on just letting this music play all the way through :)

BTW: If you're looking to see Ground Up LIVE, you can see them at the

'M Room' at 5:30p.m. on July 11th, 2010 in Philadelphia, PA.