MYX Music Label recording artist, Kam Moye (a.k.a. Supastition), and longtime producer DJ D.R. have been selected by Complex Magazine and Grey Goose Vodka as the NC representative for their Rising Icons campaign. This is a huge opportunity and we truly need everyone’s support to bring this home. The winner gets a live performance on BET’s Rising Icons special. Complex Magazine and Grey Goose will be organizing a showcase for Kam Moye and D.R. in Charlotte next month providing the attendees with FREE Grey Goose vodka and much more.

Whether you like the hip hop of the dirty South or your dance music spun with Latin beats, Grey Goose Entertainment offers you the hottest music from local Rising Icons in 11 different cities from across the country. Check them out, listen to their music and then vote for your favorite artist or DJ and give them the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to share the stage with the Rising Icons on the September 5th BET Networks Special.

All you have to do to support is signup for the site and vote for KAM MOYE and D.R. on the microsite. Please forward to anyone who supports good music or ReTweet the info on Twitter. Any support will be much appreciated. You may vote at Complex.com/GreyGoose.

Direct link is: http://www.complex.com/GREYGOOSE/Local-Market-Rising-Icons#Charlotte.

To vote, just go to the page and click on “VOTE FOR KAM MOYE” and “VOTE FOR D.R.”. It will ask you to enter your email address and additional info.

Twitter update:
Our homie @kammoye was selected as part of Complex Mag/Grey Goose's campaign. Plz sign up & vote for Kam & D.R. at http://bit.ly/WrnMB

Yes indeed, L-Beezies!!!

Back again, it’s the fourth installment of the hit Lyrics Born mixtape
franchise, The Lyrics Born Variety Show Season Pho (4), brought to you by Mobile Home Recordings in partnership with VTech.
Featuring exclusive tracks you won’t hear anywhere else, superstar guests, remixes, mash-ups and more, Season Pho is guaranteed to fill you up and titillate your musical tastebuds.

Including amazing guest artists such as Joyo Velarde (Quannum Projects), Trackademicks (Honor Roll), Lateef the Truthspeaker (Latyrx, The Mighty Underdogs) and Clyde Carson (The Team) this latest mixtape pulls no punches. You’ll also hear LB on tracks with J-Boogie, Kasabian, The Bamboos, Soulico, Dosmoccos, Eric Legnini Trio and The Mighty Underdogs.

Season Pho is a non-stop serving of red hot exclusives as well including LB’s first ever spoken-word track and sneak peeks from his forthcoming album, AS U WERE, dropping in early 2010! So pull up a chair and get a big ol’ helping of the most filling music of 2009, The Lyrics Born Variety Show Season Pho!

Tracklisting:
1. Season Pho Intro ft. Joey Guila
2. The Divide Is Widening* - Lyrics Born
3. Revolution - J-Boogie ft. Lyrics Born & The Mamaz
4. Stay Professional* - Lyrics Born
5. Funky Hit Records / FHR DJ Erb Remix - Lyrics Born
6. Pop Campaign* - Lyrics Born
7. Block Bots* - Lyrics Born ft. Clyde Carson & Trackademicks
8. Mama’s Got A Brand New Swag - Joyo Velarde ft. Lyrics Born
9. The Utmost Versatyle* - Lyrics Born ft. Joyo Velarde
10. The World Is Calling (Remix)* - Lyrics Born ft. Lateef the Truthspeaker
& Joyo Velarde
11. Beautiful Bowlegged Lady* - Lyrics Born
12. Turn It Up - The Bamboos ft. Lyrics Born
13. Trippin’ - Eric Legnini Trio ft. Lyrics Born
14. Take Aim (Automator Remix) - Kasabian ft. Lyrics Born, Dan The
Automator, The Gift of Gab & Lateef The Truthspeaker
15. Alien - Dosmoccos ft. Lyrics Born
16. Put ‘Em Up - Soulico ft. Lyrics Born
17. Differences (Mash Up)* - Lyrics Born
18. I’m A Phreak (Mash Up)* - Lyrics Born
19. Make It Good - Lyrics Born
20. Ill Vacation - The Mighty Underdogs ft. Lyrics Born
21. Pushed Aside Pulled Apart - Lyrics Born ft. Lateef The Truthspeaker
22. Season Pho Outro ft. Joey Guila *Red Hot Exclusives! Season

Pho is available ONLY at www.lyricsborn.com

Download your copy today for just $4.99! Listen to it and let LB know what you think at his

Official Facebook: www.facebook.com/lyricsborn and Myspace Page: www.myspace.com/lyricsborn Catch LB on tour this summer!

Download an exclusive track from the mixtape at VTech’s site: http://music.vtechphones.com

avex’s 2nd annual talent search seeking talented 13-24 year olds interested in becoming a star in Asia

(New York, NY) After the overwhelming success of avex Star Search 2008, avex group, one of the world's largest independent entertainment companies, once again is searching for its next great star.  avex is seeking talented, U.S-based, male and female musical artists, dancers and models of all racial backgrounds, aged 13-24, interested in becoming a performer and recording artist in Asia. 

Potential applicants must first sign up online at www.avexstarsearch.com using the audition application form. All accepted applicants will be notified via e-mail about audition requirements, locations, specific requirements and times. Not all applicants will be accepted. 

Selected talent will be invited to sign a contract with avex group and embark on a career as a performer in Asia. All applicants must be able to temporarily or permanently relocate to Japan.  As skill levels and age will vary among selected talent, contract terms will be set on a case by case basis.  Selected talent may also be invited --at the expense of avex-- to attend the avex Artist Academy, where they will receive additional vocal, dance, acting, language and modeling training, refining their skills at one of two state-of–the-art avex facilities. 

avex group will be holding auditions for avex star search in Honolulu, HI this Fall, although other cities and states with significant numbers of applicants will be considered for separate auditions.

2008’s finalists are currently in Tokyo attending avex’s Artist Academy.

For more information, official rules and to register for avex star search, please visit: http://www.avexstarsearch.com


ABOUT AVEX GROUP:
The avex Group (avex) is a fully integrated entertainment business group based in Tokyo and listed on the first section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange. Its main focus is the domestic audience as well as the rapidly growing East Asian entertainment market.  avex is unique in Japan in terms of both the breadth and caliber of its business activities. The Group's major business segments include artist management, musical/visual content production, physical/digital distribution, concert production as well as IP rights development. Its unmatched, seamless in-house platform allows avex to maximize value for artist and the corporate brand as a whole, thereby enabling the avex label to achieve the No.1 market share in the Japanese music market.
Avex group Official Web Site:   http://www.avex.co.jp/e_site/index.html

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mori@takeoutMarketing.com

Show included floating orbs, aerial dancers. By Gil Kaufman

Following Michael Jackson's death on Thursday, 750,000 people who bought tickets to see him perform at the O2 in London will never get the chance to experience the stunning visual and musical spectacle the singer had in store for them. But, according to reports, AEG Live, the promoter of the "This Is It" 50-date residency, recorded enough of Jackson's rehearsal material to release at least one live CD/DVD.

Entertainment industry Web site The Wrap reports that Jackson's final rehearsal at the Staples Center on Wednesday was recorded in multi-camera, high-definition video and multi-track audio. The recording could be released as the singer's final album, according to unnamed sources close to the now scuttled tour, which was reportedly due to go around the globe following the O2 residency. The recordings were made as part of a deal cut by AEG Live with Jackson, which included plans to produce a live album and DVD of the singer performing his greatest hits. If the reports are true, the recording could help AEG Live recoup some of the estimated tens of millions of dollars it is expected to lose as a result of Jackson's untimely death. A spokesperson for AEG Live could not be reached for comment at press time.

The Wrap reported that Jackson had failed to appear at "many" of the scheduled rehearsals over the past two months, but he did appear at the full run-through on Wednesday in anticipation of the July 13 kick-off of the London shows. The final rehearsal reportedly included dancers, musicians and aerial performers, as well as Jackson suspended from a crane at one point and a 3-D view of a "Thriller"-inspired haunted mansion.


Michael Jackson: A Life In Photos    

On Monday (June 29), USA Today pulled back the curtain on the closely guarded rehearsals, describing an over-the-top Jackson extravaganza that was to feature floating orbs, a flaming bed, lots of pyrotechnics, 20-foot-tall puppets, giant spiders and Jackson breaking out all his signature dance moves.

"He was trying, and succeeding, in structuring the biggest, most spectacular live production ever seen," said Johnny Caswell, co-owner of CenterStaging in Burbank, California, where Jackson worked on the show from late March to early June before shifting rehearsals to larger venues, according to the paper.

"By the time he left my facility, he had graduated through several studios and was on a soundstage taking up 10,000 square feet," Caswell said. "They moved to The Forum, outgrew that and needed the height at Staples. The show was getting so damn big, they couldn't finish it in time. That's why they had to delay." Caswell said reports that Jackson had delayed the start of the engagement due to health problems were "nonsense," explaining that the ballooning size of the production caused the push back.

While it has been reported that Jackson had been taking a number of powerful prescription medications prior to his death and that he died following cardiac arrest, the Los Angeles County Coroner's Office has deferred determining his cause of death pending further toxicology tests.

Despite some suggestions that the frail singer with a history of medical problems might not have been strong enough to complete his first full-fledged tour in 12 years, according to USA Today, he was very engaged during Wednesday's final rehearsal at the Staples Center, where he worked with a crew of more than 80 dancers, choreographers, band members and crew to polish the show.

Jackson began what would be his final rehearsal by putting on a headset and walking to an elevated platform to sing the song "Dangerous," at first a cappella, then joined by his band.

"Misfits of Magic" founder Ed Alonzo, who worked on illusions for Britney Spears' Circus tour, joined the Jackson show six weeks ago. He said he designed a number of stunning effects for the King of Pop, including a glowing glass sphere that would float around Jackson and then into the crowd during the opening song, 1982's "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'." A version of "Dirty Diana" was to feature a flaming bed with a pole-dancing aerialist "playing the part of the fire," Alonzo said. After the fire woman pursued Jackson around the bed, she would tie him to the bed posts with gold rope, and a sheet of red fabric would spring up in front of him as he struggled in silhouette. When the sheet fell, it would be revealed that it was the woman struggling, not Jackson, and he would then materialize on a stage in the middle of the arena.

"It was an amazing show," Alonzo said. "The thing was just days away from being perfected. It was incredible. Even though it was just a walk-through with the dancers, his moves were dead-on — the same Michael Jackson we (saw) through the years in music videos." Alonzo said that while Jackson seemed underweight, he appeared to be in good health and was energetic during the rehearsal. Jackson's manager, Frank DiLeo, told the Hollywood Reporter that after finishing the final run-through around midnight on Wednesday, Jackson was feeling good about the show. "He found me and said, 'Frank, I am so happy. ... This is really our time.' He put his arm around me," DiLeo said.

Toronto Police have charged Liborio "Polo" Molina, the manager of the Black Eyed Peas, with assault after an early Monday morning (June 22) confrontation with celebrity blogger Perez Hilton.

A spokesperson for the Toronto Police Service told MTV News that Molina, 36, turned himself in to the service's 52 Division branch Monday afternoon, just hours after the alleged assault took place outside Toronto's Cobra nightclub. Per department policy, the name of the victim in the case will not be released, though Hilton himself said Molina hit him "two or three" times in the head.

Molina is due back in Toronto's Old City Hall courthouse on August 5 to answer to the assault charge. According to the Canadian Criminal Code, he could face a maximum of five years in prison if prosecutors chose to charge him with an "indictable offense" or up to 18 months if he is charged with a "summary offense."

In his last statement about the incident, Will.I.Am denied that he had anything to do with Hilton's assault (saying, "Dude, apparently you were bleeding outside the club. I was, like, next to you by a tree. I was waiting for my car. ... I didn't hit you"), but he also didn't address Hilton's charges that he was punched by Molina.

Footage of the altercation — showing Hilton shouting at Will and Molina while fans and security guards looked on — appeared on TMZ.com, and then Tuesday (June 23), Canadian gossip site DrinkTheGlitter.com posted a photo purportedly showing the exact moment when Molina's fist struck Hilton.

A spokesperson for the Black Eyed Peas' label, Interscope Records, has not responded to MTV News' requests for comment on the incident.