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Police May Have Lead In Jam Master Jay Murder Investigation

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Apr 172007
 

VH1.com published yesterday that the Boston Herald did report that the police may have a lead in the unsolved murder of JMJ.

From VH1.com:
“According to a report in the Boston Herald, an unnamed witness has told police that Ronald “Tinard” Washington, 43, was an accessory to the murder of Jay (born Jason Mizell), who was shot to death in his Queens, New York, studio on October 30, 2002 [...]. Last week, Washington was convicted of six armed robberies for holdups he committed in November 2002.”

Washington told the Boston Herald that he expects to be charged soon as an accessory in Jay murder, but denied being involved.

Read the whole article at VH1.com

 Posted by at 23:46

DVD “Run DMC Live at Montreux 2001″ Released

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Apr 032007
 

On 03.04.2007 the new DVD “Run DMC Live at Montreux 2001″ was released.

Run-DMC DVD 'Live at Montreux 2001' front cover
Run-DMC DVD 'Live at Montreux 2001' cover

The DVD screens a live show Run-DMC did perform in the Stravinski Auditorium at the 35th Montreux Jazz Festival on July 20th, 2001.

The DVD comes with a nice made menu and 16 tracks in chrystal clear pictures and superb sound, but no further specials. The tracklist:
01 Intro
02 It’s Like That
03 It’s Tricky
04 Medley: – Rock Box – Sucker MC’s – Freestyle – Here We Go – Beats To The Rhyme
05 King of Rock
06 Mary Mary
07 Walk This Way
08 School Of Old
09 “Who Wants My Hat?”
10 It’s Over
11 Run’s Freestyle
12 Peter Piper
13 Down With The King
14 “Who Wants My Shirt”
15 “Who Wants My Hat” Part 2
16 Got to Be Real

 Posted by at 04:21

The Knack Sues Run-DMC Over Sample Used on “It’s Tricky”

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Oct 312006
 

Yesterday, VH1.com reported that 20 years after the release of “It’s Tricky” (the song was released 1986) Doug Fieger and Berton Averre, songwriters of The Knacks “My Sharona”, sued Run-DMC for not having had permission to sample “My Sharona” core riff for “It’s Tricky”.

Read whole article at VH1.com

 Posted by at 00:03

DMC Solo Album finally in Stores

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Feb 262006
 

DMCs first solo album “CHECKS, THUGS and ROCK ‘N ROLL” is in stores March 14th, 2006!
The 13 track album features Sarah McLachlan, Kid Rock, Doug E. Fresh, DJ Lethal, Jam Master Jay, and Gary Dourdan of CBS’ CSI.
Check www.me-dmc.com for the “Just Like Me” and “Machine Gun” videos. Or visit www.myspace.com/dmc to listen to the songs “Watchtower” and “Machine Gun”.
VH1 has a couple of new videos you might be interested as well.

 Posted by at 01:16

The Run-DMC Day at BBC 6 Radio

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Jan 072006
 

On Thursday 6th July 2006 BBC 6 Music will be celebrating 20 years since Run DMC brought Rap Music into the mainstream with the release of “Raising Hell” which became the first Rap album to go platinum.

Beginning with Breakfast with Phill (07.00-10.00) through to Steve Lamacq (16.00-19.00) they will be playing selected tracks from “Raising Hell” as their featured Album Of The Day featuring some archive clips of the band discussing how they made it.

BBC 6 Music Plays It Again (Thursday 6th July, 21.30-22.00) will be playing out the acclaimed documentary “Its Like That: The Run DMC Story”.

They will also be offering listeners the chance to win their exclusive DJ Starter Kit including decks, a mixer, needles and headphones and some exclusive DJ bags and accessories and some custom made BBC 6 Music Run DMC Day slipmats.

For more information see www.bbc.co.uk/6music/events/raisinghell/.
For those who can not listen BBC 6 via radio/TV, BBC 6 offers internet live streams for Real Player and Windows Media Player – see upper right corner of the webpage accessible from the link above.

 Posted by at 16:48
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