Jacksonville hip hop all-star (and Urban Jacksonville Weekly intro producer) Tough Junkie has produced the latest track for the new Black Sheep single “Birds of a Feather”.

This is HUGE. Jacksonville hip hop history! Ian Ranne said it best: That’s right folks, Q Tip, De La, Black Sheep, and The JBs on a TOUGH JUNKIE track….sorta like a big deal to my people!

Download audio file (Black%20Sheep%20-%20Birds%20of%20a%20Feather.mp3)

From Pitchfork: Black Sheep’s Native Tongues Reunion Track “Birds of a Feather”

In the late 80s and early 90s, the loosely affiliated Native Tongues crew brought a playful bohemian warmth to hip-hop, helping to expand the genre’s boundaries. And now Black Sheep leader Dres has reunited luminaries from four principal Native Tongues groups (De La Soul, A Tribe Called Quest, Jungle Brothers, and Black Sheep) for the Black Sheep single “Birds of a Feather”.

DJ Maseo from De La Soul Spinning Live at Lomax Lodge June 18th in 5 Points

And in related hip hop news, DJ Maseo from De La Soul is spining live at The Lomax Lodge in 5 Points on Friday, June 18th with DJ Therapy and $THE BIG BUCKS$.

SAY WHAT! Pretty awesome.

First Coast Connect, Friday at 9:00

I’ll be on WJCT’s First Coast Connect this morning talking about Mayor Peyton lobbying members of the City Council for about $23 million in downtown improvements to increase public access and spruce up amenities on the St. Johns River. Listen here »

Live Urban Jacksonville Weekly, Saturday January 23rd at the Burrito Gallery

To celebrate our 50th Episode of Urban Jacksonville Weekly we’ll be doing a live show at the Burrito Gallery on Saturday January 23rd at 1:30pm. There will be lunch specials, giveaways and live performances by Tough Junkie.

Our special 50th Episode guest is Ian Ranne. Shantytown owner and one of the hardest working entrepreneurs in the Urban Core. We will be taking questions from the audience and there may be a few more surprises in store so don’t miss it. More information to come.

Want to Sponsor the Show or Get Involved?

We are looking for a show sponsor and additional giveaway items. If you want to get involved contact me at joeymarchy@gmail.com

Tune in to Urban Jacksonville Weekly on Monday for Content Design Group

Photo courtesy of Metro Jacksonville and Content Design Group

Greg and Jason from Content Design Group will be in studio on Monday January 11th to talk about the Metro Jacksonville article Is Springfield Ready for a Car Wash? and the role they played in the architecture of the revised plans:

Can a car wash be a part of an urban revitalization plan? After heated opposition and misinformation dominating discussion about the 4th & Main project, owner Silas Jones has modified development plans to better integrate the project within the community. Can common ground be found that will finally lead to project approval and new life along the Main Street corridor?

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Vote for the New Urban Jacksonville Weekly Intro

Tough Junkie was awesome enough to produce these three themes for the NEW Urban Jacksonville Weekly intro and we want you to vote on your favorite. When the favorite is selected, Jonathan will edit it down into an intro and outro for the show.

Theme #1
Download audio file (theme1.mp3)
Theme #2
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Theme #3
Download audio file (theme3.mp3)

[poll=10]

Notes: Junkie on the keys.

Jon Getting married in Denver because it isn’t Jacksonville
Junkie made a selection of theme songs: Listeners’ Pick (Voting)

credit: omatix an awesome Jacksonville photographer

STITC Recap

• Joey- Great show, Expansive, Junkie’s hair on display. TSI – 247 in attendance
• Tony- Riverside Arts Market area filled up and out, BBBC/Mellow Mushroom Mini Kitchen
• Late Night Shantytown Show-Full house, Good Vibes, Being creative

Jaguars Training Camp

• Get a Jaguar Tattoo.
• Go to a game or two this year.
• We are not selling the team
• Jaguars are for the babies, yo.
• Where were you in 1995?
• Fave Player- Jennings, Jones
• Twitter Fantasy Football

~Junkie replacing Diablo? (junkie says no)~

Uptown Market Mid Septemberish Opening

• uptownmarket.tumblr.com
• City Kids Ice Cream is open
• Tony- “We got the breads!”

Budget Suggestions, What’s up with the budget

• budgetsuggestions@coj.net Send them in
• Oct 1st budget balancing
• Peyton shot for 12 mil
• It is a tricky topic, with so many
• Tony: I will eat shoes if I am wrong. Sent a letter to Folio
• Not sure if I did. And it was edited.
• “Google me, I’m Famous!” Was there any fowl play?
• Not made to be published.
• Wrong blog spot and misdirected traffic

Zines at the Main Library
Josh Talks About The Jacksonville Library's Zine Collection

• video interview With Josh Jubinski (of inertia records) on jaxscene.blogspot.com for ‘zine’ program
• Having a Zine Symposium
• Big props to Tom Pennington
• Section 8 is the Grandfather of Jacksonville Zines
• Section 8 is shooting for a Sept Release

Recommendations:
Joey – metrojacksonville/neighborhoods and The Sinclair this Friday
Junkie- Take a second or five to dance. (so you won’t go crazy)
Jon Ben- Southern Pecan Beer/ new npr.org / The green monster in the river.
Tony – August 29th International Dog Day @ Riverside Arts Market/ Art Walk on Wednesday

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Summertime In the City w/ Tough Junkie

• Summertime in the City page on Urban Jacksonville
• 4th year
• Hip Hop Festival, DIY vibe
• Tough Junkie goes on first (10pm)
• will start on time, probably
• lineup – Edan (psychedelic hip hop), Dagha, Paten Locke, Willie Evans Jr., Dillon
• Saturday – breakdancing at RAM, pizza party at BBB (1520 N. Main St.)
• Saturday night – Shantytown show: tons of folks playing
• Tough Junkie’s new CD available on toughjunkie.com, iTunes
• TJ – “goal is to get in trouble”

Uptown Market Part Deux

• skipping it!
• set to open Aug 31 (or later)

Pineapples

• film Tony’s day (cuz it’s soooo interesting)
• he works real hard and funny stuff happens
• RAM office is completely full of pineapples
• will be for sale at RAM, cheap, all proceeds go to Hubbard House
• donated by Winn Dixie
• more details to come on Urban Core
• accepting applications for interns to film Tony’s life
• @mogdoy: #ujw. I want a pineapple.

Music (Jack)

Wednesday July 15
Doozer’s Pub – Florida Punk Show
The New Threat (St. Cloud)
Big City Bombers (Orlando)
False Arrest (Valdosta, GA)
Psycho Vision (Cocoa)

Friday July 17
Doozer’s Pub – Hardcore/Punk/Thrash Show
Fortitude (Daytona Beach)
Suburban Lockdown (Orlando)
Talk Sick Earth (Jacksonville)

At Shantytown Pub
Buff Clout (Jacksonville)
Antarctic (Jacksonville)
Victor! Fix the Sun (Grand Rapids, MI)
Pisces at the Animal Fair (Elmhurst, IL)

More shows on the EU music calendar.
Follow the EU Music Twitter feed.

Tony – Summertime In the City spread in REAX
TJ – officially representing Larry Otis

Bloggers’ Summit

• folio – neighborhood interviews
• flog – stepping it up
• bloggers’ “meeting” with the mayor
• walked in, walked out (but not next week)
• Random Control (TJ’s blog)
• mostly discussed the budget
• @mogdoy: #ujw. If the republican state house had not “cut” property taxes we wouldn’t be in this situation. Peyton fought that one.
• embracing new media
• TJ might’ve stirred it up
• T – it’s not about the mayor but about the people interacting with their government

Recommendations
Joey – new Urban Facelift project from content design group
Jonathan – mayor’s chats, details on jacksonville.com
Tony – City Kidz Ice Cream on 3rd/Main
TJ – eat spinach, honey (mogdoy: #ujw. Local honey cures allergies.)
Jack – Nicole Middleton art show at Bogda (Saturday July 18)

If you think Jack Diablo produces the show and turns in for the week, oh no. He’s a true renaissance man. His Urban Jacksonville Weekly duties just kick off the week. He details the rest of his days in his post Gainfully Unemployed.

Photo compliments of JaxScene

Between playing in Chicken and Whiskey (Doozers, July 28th) and tweeting for Burro Bags, Jack writes crazy amounts of music articles for EU Jacksonville all wrapped together in one section: http://www.eujacksonville.com/jack.php.

We’re excited to have Jack on the team. He’ll be writing show notes, doing a local music segment and monitoring Twitter and Facebook for any questions you might have for our special Urban Jacksonville Weekly guest: Tough Junkie.

Tough Junkie at the Partisan the Sea art show. Photo compliments of JaxScene

Jack recently wrote an album review of TJ’s Grab What You Can:

Tough Junkie’s initial foray into hip hop may have been akin to a kid with a chemistry set, crafting beats out of tape decks to accompany his rhymes the way an aspiring young scientist might mix the contents of test tubes to get a reaction. Junkie’s been getting a reaction here in Jacksonville for years, a positive one, and now after years in the lab obsessing, perfecting, evolving, the rest of the world will be exposed to one of Jacksonville’s best kept secrets.

We’ll be talking about three topics on the show: Summertime in the City (which Jack also wrote about in EU. Hmmm suprise), Part Duex of Tony’s Uptown Market preview and whatever Jonathan comes up with. Read Jack Diablo’s blog and follow him on Twitter.

Don’t forget to watch Urban Jacksonville Weekly Tonight at 5:30

Video compliments of JaxScene

GET LOOSE presents: “The Official Album Droppage Party”, Friday, June 19th @ Club TSI (http://clubtsi.com/) located in downtown Jax @ 333 East Bay Street.

The Album Droppage Party is from 9pm-1:30am and the talent will include emcees Arsun F!st, Paten Locke (aka Therapy of The Smile Rays, Asamov, Black Gestapos, The Perceptionists, The Alias Brothers) and featured DJs ZaneIII, SpaceMikeSpace and NickFRESH.

This will be an evening like no other so Junkie will be expecting all of you to clear your calendars. There will be music, dance contests with prizes, free snacks, great prices on beer and wine, surprise guests, giveaways and plenty of copies of the album for sale. This isn’t a concert or your average show, this is a party, so don’t show up 3 hours after it starts or you’ll miss out. Members of the facebook group have/will recieve an invitation to the party that will include a map with directions to the club if you’re not already a patron to TSI.

Google Reader helped me get a grasp on all my news sources. I’ve found a great new workflow with Google Reader that allows me to fly through 60-70 Jacksonville related posts per day. I enjoy using the share functionality for items I don’t have time to post on Urban Jacksonville. You can view my shared items page or subscribe to the RSS feed.

Jazz Festival to Offer Two Bike Valets Stations
Bike valet is growing in popularity, it seems the city really sees the value. Listen to Matt Uhrig talk about bike valet on Urban Jacksonville Weekly #14. This week’s show features guest co-host Tiffany Valla from the Office of Special Events. We’ll be talking about the Jazz Festival.

The The Jacksonville Observer launched this weekend. It’s a cool idea but there’s is too much syndicated content for me. I’d love to see more Jacksonville related stories. Tom Patton, who writes for The Jacksonville Observer, talks about the new site.

a business model is emerging up that has local people covering local stories and leaving the big national stories alone. With so many outlets devoted to the big national stories, local coverage sometimes seems to get short shrift. In hyper-local journalism, the marketplace may again be giving us insight as to what people want to read and understand. One might think that’s counter-intuitive on the “worldwide web”, and yet it speaks to a readership that is interested in their communities, and have found the web to be a perfect delivery vehicle for that content.

It’s revolutionary for Jacksonville and I commend Austin Cassidy for pulling it together. I have a plan like this too, but I’m laying back for a second to work on some other projects.

JaxScene posts some traffic numbers and reminds everyone they forgot to tell JaxScene happy birthday. Happy birthday on 1-year JaxScene. It’s a feat of dedication and love for the community, we’re lucky to have you.

Tough Junkie album out soon. Help Junkie reach 300 presales, via JaxScene

Shantytown Robbed via The Out Box.

Riverside Arts Market from Michael Walter on Vimeo.

Ok ok, it’s hard to get me out to the beach but I’m definately heading out to see Flosstradamus at the Ocean Club. I saw them do a set last year at SXSW and it was awesome, fun, mind-blowing, shake yr ass, all that.

So this is my official endorsement of the show. Not sure when they will start and does anyone know if this place has a dress code? Maybe not for Friday night.

ALSO! Hip Hop Hell Showcase before Flosstradamus with Tough Junkie, The N Word, Heavy Flow, Dr. Sam Beckett, Mr. Al Pete. Get there by 10pm to see Tough Junkie set it off! Ian says “I cannot stress the importance of arriving early to this show.” He’s right, it should blow up.

Some Flosstradamus from my personal collection or listen to more Flosstradamus tracks on Hype Machine

Damn Girl (Flosstradamus Remix) – Kid Sister
Yea Yeah (Flosstradamus Remix) – Matt and Kim

Let’s keep the spookiness going this week with a gang of Halloween events for this Friday October 31st. It’s been 6 years since Halloween was on a Friday so I expect this one to be pretty wild. Also, with Florida-Georgia the same weekend, Halloween in the City is turning out to be a pretty scary prospect. If I were you, I would stay on the fringes of Downtown and whatever you do, don’t go to The Landing!

Keep an eye out for the new Urban Jacksonville Halloween Mixtape dropping this Friday.

JaxScene is slowly emerging to be on of the best new blogs in the city, their Halloween Breakdown list is a must to check out. Here are some more:

JaxScene Halloween Breakdown list
Halloween Bash @ Are Friends Electric (via JaxScene)
Halloween Freak Out @ Shantytown Pub October 30th (via JaxScene)
All Things Halloween (via Jacksonville Confidential)
Star Wars Art Show at Bogda (via OuterBox)
Halloween Events for Children and the Family (Via JaxScene)

Halloween Party At Shantytown with Tough Junkie and DJ Buttercup. Dress Up!

P.S. If you voted early, good for you. If not you can still vote early! Governor Charlie Crist declared a State of Emergency and extended early voting hours from 7am to 7pm.

Tough Junkie @ The Partisan The Sea Show.

The N Word @ The Partisan The Sea Show