OnSmash Saturday Pt. 2

Sup folks,

Hope everyone is enjoying their weekend. I was able to find a hot little song by a pianist named Marco Benevento. Let us know what you think.

Marco Benevento - Greenpoint

(New York, New York) -- Brooklyn-based pianist/"sound sculptor" Marco Benevento continues to break ground with his third studio album, Between The Needles & Nightfall. The album's opening track "Greenpoint" is being released today as a free mp3 accompanied by Benevento's homemade video for the song (shown above).

Marco Benevento, who was recently profiled on NPR's All Things Considered, will also take part in this summer's Celebrate Brooklyn concert series where he'll re-score 'The Fall Of The House Of Usher," the '60s film starring Vincent Price and based on the Edgar Allan Poe short story. The performance, scheduled for Friday, August 6, will feature Benevento playing his newly composed score along with the movie for a live audience. A full list of summer tour dates are below.

MARCO BENEVENTO Upcoming Tour Dates:
June 15 | Nightcat | Easton, MD
June 16 | Sellersville Theater | Sellersville, PA
June 17 | River Street Jazz Cafe | Wilkes Barre, PA
June 18 | Bearsville Theater | Woodstock, NY
June 24 | Tractor Tavern | Seattle, WA
June 25 | Doug Fir | Portland, OR
June 26 | Axe & Fiddle | Cottage Grove, OR
June 27 | Winnipeg Jazz Festival | Winnipeg, Canada
June 28 | Montreal Jazz Festival | Montreal, Canada (solo)
June 29 | Toronto Jazz Festival | Toronto, Canada
July 4 | High Sierra Music Festival | Quincy, CA
Aug 6 | Celebrate Brooklyn | Brooklyn, NY ***re-scoring 'The Fall Of The House Of Usher'
August 9 - 10 | Fly Me To The Moon | Telluride, CO (SOLD OUT)
August 11 | Telluride Mountain Village Sunset Series | Telluride, CO
August 12 & 13 | Dazzle | Denver, CO

Between The Needles & Nightfall is out now on Royal Potato Family Records. Click here for iTunes.

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AB

R&N - 08/11/07 - Late Night Edition

Wow... Hey folks, been on a "lil" break and look what happens?!

I actually been listening to Nivea's "Complicated" album (classic teen album, by the way) and my favorite song on it was "I Can't Mess With You" ft. The Dream... Tonight, i find out that Nivea and that dude have been married for 3 years! And the guy just got signed to Def Jam as an artist! Oh yea, did I mention he wrote "Umbrella"?! More on that later...

New Biggie Movie - They are looking for someone to play Biggie in a personal story of his life... which I hope will be dope. Tupac ain't the only great rapper. (Biggie and 'Pac were BOTH born in Brooklyn, by the way).

They are considering:

Sean Kingston(?)
Guerrilla Black(?)
the boy who played Big from "Sky's the Limit"(?)
Keenan Thompson(?), lol.

I'm kiddin' on most these, but not really... I'd say Forest Whitaker, but homie's kinda old...

Amy Winehouse is in "Rehab" (No, No, No). :-p... Oh, I'm sorry. She is in the hospital for "exhaustion"... (wink, wink).

50 Cent says if Kanye sells more records than him, he'll stop puttin' out solo albums... Who's up to help Kanye win that bet? :-p Need more encouragement? Go check out Future on his thoughts on "Ayo Technology" or whatever they want to call that song.

Also, Common came number 1 on the charts this week with his new album, Finding Forever!

I'll be back sometime tomorrow with more news.

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AB