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Madlabclothing.Com Visits Appleton!

May 2nd, 2012 No Comments

Victor Rios

This is one of the first shows we’ve done when our guest was not a local musician. Instead we welcomed Victor Rios from www.madlabclothing.com to come on the show and speak about his involvement helping outfit the 207 with quality t shirts and clothing. Victor came armed to promote his business and also brought local emcee/legend Dray Senior (who has been on the show before) with him. Madlab is the company that designed and printed the Appleton Radio T-Shirts that are available right now. In addition to chopping it up with Victor and Dray we, of course, brought you the as much new and exclusive local hip hop as possible during our 2 hour live broadcast. Check out the podcast below, the website, or iTunes to get caught up!

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Spose presents The Audacity!

April 17th, 2012 1 Comment

This is a big week for hip hop in the state of Maine. Pseudo Slang rocked at Rap Night Wednesday, Sandbag & Eyenine are set to open for Raekwon of Wu Tang at Port City tonight, Mike Clouds came out of hiding, and Spose released The Audacity! Monday, a day early by accident, plus he plays two shows at Empire Friday night. Even after mentioning all this we’re still leaving plenty of things out so sit back and enjoy tonight’s show- it’s a great time to be a fan!

Our regular listeners know we usually play a full hour of local flavor before jumping into an interview but we changed that up a little bit with Spose last night. In addition to bringing you some of the latest and greatest 207 tracks for a half hour Spose started out his time with us playing songs from fellow P. Dank label-mates Lady Essence & Educated Advocates. Once we get through that it’s all Spose, all the time. We cover numerous topics this podcast but the emphasis is on The Audacity! and Spose does not hold back letting us play several records from the album. All that plus Spose answers a bunch of questions that fans and listeners submitted (we’re sorry we didn’t have time for them all!). Check out the podcast below, you know the drill. One last friendly tip, if you are new to The Appleton Radio Show and here for the first time looking for SpizzySpose material, you should search for him in the upper right search box on the website. That is all, enjoy the show!

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It’s The Jumpoff!

April 11th, 2012 No Comments

Tommy Knottz & Bobby Brainstorm

Last night we were joined by The Jumpoff band members Tommy Knottz & Bobby Brainstorm to bring you your weekly dose of 207 hip hop. The Jumpoff have been making noise in the state of Maine recently covering “old school favorites and new school hits.” In addition to the covers they play some original music and Tommy brought some original tracks (some featuring Pore production) for you to hear. The guys throw down in a cypher at the end of the show with Ghost and Kyle Bryant. Check out the interview in the podcast below and check out Appleton next Wednesday when we will have Spose in the studio talking about his new project, The Audacity. Finally, we would like to send a huge congratulations to The Big Easy who Big Easily won the award for best hip hop venue in Portland at the Phooenix awards last night. Way to go everyone! RAP NIGHT!!!

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Dynamo-P presents Manic Mondays on a Wednesday

April 4th, 2012 No Comments

RAP NIGHT! Last night Dynamo-P joined us to play tracks from Manic Mondays, the latest release from JKE. This project is collaboration between Dynamo-P, Misl & Ryan Augustus but extends the name dropping further with plenty of guest appearances throughout the CD. We’ll make you tune into the podcast to get further details and hear select tracks, though. We also had FTB (that’s Frank The Barber, get with it) & Casey stop through to help Ryan & Dynamo end the show off with a cypher featuring some long lost beats from DJ Boondocks.

Here’s something new for you, twitter links for the people on the show. In case you didn’t know we are @AppletonRadio – follow us! See you next week!

Ryan Augustus = @ryanaugustus
JTB = @jtbisson
Dynamo-P = @Dynamo_P
FTB = @barberFTB
Casey = @CASEin_Point

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Illonic’s Abduction

March 28th, 2012 No Comments

Keck & Tommy Blaze

We are horrifically late posting this podcast and for that, we apologize. Last week Illonic (Inspektah Keck & DJ Tommy Blaze) came through to play tracks off their new release, Abduction. We had them both in the studio all night and got a chance to discuss not only this release but what’s been going down in the land of Backwudz Productions. As always we start the show with an hour of nothing but fresh 207 cuts. Check the podcast below and we will talk to you on Wednesday!

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207: In the Beginning with Alias

March 15th, 2012 No Comments

This week we had the pleasure of welcoming Anticon’s Alias to the program. This visit was overdue and with it Alias brought a wealth of knowledge and history to the show. We were prepared to get as much information as possible and asked El Shupacabra to sit in with us to help pick the brain of one of the earliest known Maine MC & producers. The Appleton Radio library goes back to about 1996 but with Alias coming on the show we are able to get a view of the days before that. We also get a good glimpse into Alias’s musical journey: Northern Exposure, 45 Below, Anticon, Deep Puddle Dynamics, Tarsier, and the list goes on and on like a Trails song. This episode is pretty much required listening in the 207 hip hop community. The picture credit goes to Jeff Harmon (stolen from facebook) because in all the fun we didn’t take a picture last night. Check out the podcast below! We are off next week but return on 3/28/12 with Illonic. Peace!

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Ill By Instinct & Shupe’s 2nd Wind

March 7th, 2012 No Comments

El Shupacabra & Ill by Instinct

Ill by Instinct and El Shupacabra are no strangers to The Appleton Radio Show or the local hip hop community. Together they have held down Rap Night every Wednesday at the Big Easy for almost 3 years ensuring there is local, regional, and even national acts coming through on a regular basis. They help keep the 207 hip hop scene thriving and it is evident the hard work they put in is paying off. They do all this in addition to putting in ridiculous amounts of work into both solo, group (Sandbag), and side projects. Search our site for either one of their names and you will find plenty of shows (and even a Shupe solo download) to catch up on if you aren’t a regular listener. The purpose of this trip was to promote their brand new release “2nd Wind”. This is Ill by Instinct’s second album and like its predecessor it features 100% production by Shupe. You can expect all the usual in this podcast: fresh new Maine hip hop, exclusive tracks from both IBI & Shupe (including select cuts from 2nd Wind), and plenty of talk about what’s going down in the 207. Check out the podcast below right now!

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Back to Class with Educated Advocates

February 29th, 2012 No Comments

Welcome to what may likely be The Appleton Radio Show’s only leap year live show EVER! Last night we were fortunate to have the Educated Advocates (Jay Caron, Mike Be & Ryan Augustus) all in the building before their CD release show at, you guessed it, The Big Easy’s Rap Night. We wanted to give Ryan a chance to be on the other side of the mic for the EA interview so we invited Spose to co-host and lead the interview process with them. Get a behind the scenes look at the making of the Back to Class album along with insight from the group on their favorite tracks and what’s coming up from them. Despite JT’s inability to come up with deep impacting questions (shocker) Spose helps lead the way and we get more insight into the origins of EA then we have talked about on past shows. Jay Caron keeps the show VERY entertaining all night- check the 42ish minute mark where he goes OFF! For as much silliness that exists in this podcast there is an equal amount of serious discussion about EA & hip hop in general. Check the links below or hit us up on iTunes and tune in next week! EA all day, P DANK!

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Two Thirds: Lady Essence & Shane Reis

February 22nd, 2012 No Comments

Shane Reis & Lady Essence

This week’s show featured P. Dank artist Lady Essence & Shane Reis stopping by to promote their Rain Delay project and catch us up on all their endeavors whether they be solo, as a duo, or with O*Zee, the third member of their group In The Attic. To give you an additional dose of what moves P. Dank are making Spose joined the show to talk about his freshly released video for the track Pop Song and his upcoming release The Audacity. J Jack was in the building again talking with us and eating up all the 207 talent PLUS we had a quick but deadly cypher to end the show out. It’s a lively show, listen or download it below or search for appletonradio on iTunes!

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Putting on The Dirty White Hat’s

February 15th, 2012 No Comments

Shupe, Leon & Nick - The Dirty White Hats

Last night we were joined by The Dirty White Hats who consist of Leon Samson, Nick Scala, and their resident DJ who wears many hats in the local hip hop scene, El Shupacabra. Catch the podcast to get a behind the scenes look at the history of DWH and hear a bunch of tracks from their Mixed Ape project. Get filled in on everything else in local hip hop with several exclusive tracks including “Solitary” from Ill By Instinct’s brand new album “2nd Wind.” Also you should know that Appleton Radio is now available on iTunes! The direct link to our podcasts is http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/appletonradio/id502325087 but you can just search for Appletonradio to subscribe and download our shows. Much respect to our listener’s and fan base! Please keep submitting your music to appletonradio@gmail.com

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