Polarity/1's Single "I'm So Broke" Reflects Challenges Facing So Many Americans

Website: http://polarity1.com/agitpop/index.php

Polarity/1, whose music crosses multiple genres and speaks loudly and clearly about socioeconomic, governmental and financial injustices and deceptions, announced the release of the track "I'm So Broke" from his new CD "Free Money (But You Have To Pay). The 9 track LP is a digital collection of many songs the artist has written about the free-falling American economy, and was released in May 2010.

On the rock track "I'm So Broke," Polarity/1 continues to wail about finances, forcing every listener to understand how it feels to have nothing in such a wealthy country. Commenting on the homelessness problem, he says: "What's left in my pocket goes to keep me off the docket." Screaming "I'm so broke" over and over, listeners are left to think about the current state of America, as they must try to find solutions that will balance out the distribution of wealth in the country.

The FREE MUSIC (But You Have To Pay) EP is available for download at no cost at: http://polarity1.com/agitpop/index.php .

About Polarity/1
The music of Polarity/1 is exactly what the name suggests: conjoined opposites - a mash-up of new: cutting edge electronica/hip hop/nu-jazz and old: roots music of America (blues, funk, country, early jazz), Brazil (samba, pagode, etc.) and West African groove science. "Polar succeeds in his mission of forcing you to pay attention and not lull into the sounds you 'expect' to hear," noted StarPolish.com

To listen to more of Polarity/1's music, check out his MySpace page @ http://www.myspace.com/polarity1music

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Once Again Latinos Are Banging On The Industry's Door

Website: http://latinobeatz.com

Albuquerque, New Mexico (May, 3, 2010) For over 20 years, a movement has evolved throughout the United States and taken the rest of the world by storm. Today, this Urban Latino movement, this influence can be seen in the cultural and political fabric of America.

American Latinos have had limited success in all of American industries including music, fashion, sports, and entertainment. LatinoBeatz.com will offer a chance for the thousands of American Latinos to shine in the spotlight. We will strive to provide a national voice and platform for those American Latinos who are creating and succeeding in music, fashion, sports, movies and entertainment.

Launching on Cince De Mayo, May 5, 2010, LatinoBeatz.com will help promote musical artists, producers, record labels from different genres and regions and will later expand and promote American Latinos from other industries, with the goal of no longer waiting for Mainstream America to determine who we are and who we should see as successful. We will determine this for ourselves and raise the bar of excellence not only for Latino Entertainment but for every BARRIO, Neighborhood, and City in the United States!

For the Launch LatinBeatz has Interviews with the Godfather of Latino rap, Mellow Man Ace, The "Queen of the West", Diamonique, and two brothers who started a whole new genre of Latino Hip Hop, AKWID. All three talk about new projects and the politics of the industry and how much the internet is playing in helping the them get more exposure and fans. And there will be new videos and music from all three on the website. Along with an interview with actor Jessie Borrego, who along with Benjamin and Peter Bratt, is bringing a controversial and thought provoking movie to the Barrios of Aztlan. And this is just the beginning, in the coming weeks there will be more interviews and exclusive videos from American Latinos from Texas, New Mexico, Illinois, California, New York, colorado, Florida and yes even Arizona!

LatinoBeatz.com is also a proud member of the Latino DJ Coalition, an organization of DJ's, websites, internet radio, writers, artists and producers, who are striving to bring new American Latino talent to the masses. For more information about the Latino DJ Coalition you can visit their myspace.com/latinodjcoaliton or email them @ latinodjcoalition@gmail.com.

Artists, producers, DJ's, publicists, actors, directors, and the general public can reach out to LatinoBeatz.com and submit information about American Latinos who should be given a chance to shine by following @LatinoBeatz on twitter.com and becoming a fan of Latinobeatz on Facebook.

For More information regarding submissions, advertsing or general information about LatinoBeatz.com
Please Contact
Joshua Melendez
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or
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2009 American Hits Re-Recorded With A Latin Groove

With Latin inspired music having an ever growing influence on the pop scene over the last few years, it is definitely about time for a record like this one to come along...

'Top Hits - Latin Style 2009' is a selection of the best cover songs you will hear anywhere this year, all remixed with a spicy Latino twist. On the album you will find hits originally recorded by the likes of Leona Lewis, Rihanna, Natasha Bedingfield and Jason Mraz but as you have never heard them before.

Using a 'poppier' take on the reggaeton style that has swept the world into a dancing frenzy as his main source of inspiration, producer and arranger Pete Surdoval has created a record that will get the kids of the global village shaking their stuff. This is the best in American music, but with a distinctly Latin flavor.

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The Grammy-Award winning Surdoval, who has worked with legends like Cat Stevens, Jimmy Cliff, Latoya Jackson, and Public Enemy, says he wanted to make a record full of positive pop songs that would remind him of the days watching his parents rumba around the living room.

The songs were performed by a collection of exciting musicians called 'The Latin Sun'. And the reaction to their take on these pop recordings has already made waves all over the world.

Whether it's a unique new angle of Jason Mraz's smash hit, 'I'm Yours' or the crazed Latin mash-up of Estelle's 'American Boy', there will be something here for all music lovers. The inventive re-imagining of Shontelle's summer classic, 'T-Shirt', has already seen it leap to the top of the bestseller's charts on Amazon.

But it's just the start. The sound of this Latin-pop fusion - sweeter and more playful than reggaeton, but harder edged than much of the pop music world - will no doubt be making dancefloors rock all through 2009. And beyond.

The Latin Sun have just given pop music one giant Tequila slammer. So grab your dancing shoes because they've started one hell of a party!

'Top Hits - Latin Style 2009', is available to buy now from iTunes, Amazon and all top online retailers. Do not miss out...

www.TheLatinSun.com

Polarity/1 Raps Homelessness in "Winter In America" (MP3)

Taking a turn to rap, Polarity/1's "Winter In America (Chills To The Bone)" deals with the issue of homelessness, describing the brutally cold weather that they must endure. Proving the seriousness of the situation, Polarity/1 introduces the problem of drug addiction facing poor young people, suggesting that the country is to blame, and not parents: "You tried to raise 'em right, but before you know, they'll be suckin' on a crack pipe."

Winter In America by Polarity/1 - musicdish

Download Polarity/1's "Winter In America (Chills To The Bone)" free MP3

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WINTER IN AMERICA (Chills To The Bone)

He had time. Had the world in his pocket
You never rock it chilly chilly smooth
Never tip the tip the ship the ship
If it ain't broke, don't fix it
20 years drinkin' beers slappin' backs
One vacation one heart attack
Honest work honest pay honest town

Just an American lad and his lassie
20 years poppin' rivets in a chassis
American dream died in its sleep
Kids go hungry when you get the pink sheet
Your luck is down they closed the plant
We get laid off Bob gets paid off
Whatcha gonna say when you get home
It's winter in America chills to the bone

CHORUS:
It's winter in America.
Chills to the bone
It's winter in America
You're on your own
The devil wants you on the phone

You walk the streets all day
3 months no job no pay
You believe the system works for you
But it's power lunch and you're the beef stew
Your wife out lookin' for a slave
4 kids sittin' home alone
You tried to raise em right
Before you know they'll be suckin' on a crack pipe
Feelin' weak like a gun at your back
Kids go hungry while Bob's kids have a Big Mac
Ok just chill
You know this won't last long
Word to the president
He says there's nothing wrong

CHORUS:
It's winter in America.
Chills to the bone
The devil wants you on the phone

Birth to your fifth child
Her hunger screams are wild
What's 20 years in the union for?
Congratulations you're one of the poor
Pray to the lord for a friend
Empty pockets tell you to fend for yourself
Put your self respect on a shelf
It's the last of your wealth you'll get no help
Initiation to the welfare line
Emasculation complete you're beat
Broke down cryin'

CHORUS:
It's winter in America.
Chills to the bone
It's winter in America
You're on your own
The devil wants you on the phone

Two years pass, your pride is gone
Your wife is silent, the bank took your home
Remember times when her body felt warm
Now the look in her eyes
could scare away a snow storm
Children cryin' pounds your brain
The president says, "Iraq is to blame"
You dream about politicians one night
You blast em with an Uzi
like 1,000 points of light
Wake up from the dream feelin' fine
Spend your last dollar on a nine

CHORUS:
It's winter in America.
Chills to the bone
It's winter in America
You're on your own
It's winter in America
You lose your home
The devil wants you on the phone

There ain't no time to grieve
Your kids look crazy they tug at your sleeve
Your wife's eyes stab at your heart
You're up like a bomb, smack her down - depart
It's the first time you ever hit your girl
You think about the gun the mother of pearl
Your brain's on fire your legs can't stand
Is this really you
with a gun in your hand?

CHORUS: It's winter in America
Chills to the bone
It's winter in America
You're on your own
It's winter in America You lose your home
The devil wants you on the phone

Seven winds blow through the town
Seven shots and the flesh is torn
Seven people dead in the Detroit dawn
Somewhere out there's seven new people born

CHORUS:
It's winter in America.
Chills to the bone
It's winter in America.
Chills to the bone
It's winter in America.
Chills to the bone
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The music of New York City-based Polarity/1 is exactly what the name suggests: conjoined opposites -- a mash up of new: cutting edge electronica/hip hop/nu-jazz and old; roots music of America (blues, funk, country, early jazz), Brazil (samba, pagoda, etc.) and West African groove science. Polarity also describes the dual streams of Polarity/1's musical output: songs and instrumentals.

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Why America Was Ready For Obama

The Little Old Racist Lady And Her Black Friends Next Door

by Polar Levine for Yankin' The Food Chain, Polarity1.com

In the run-up to the primaries I enjoyed weekly debates with one of my close pals. He was positive that Guiliani would be the next Pres. I responded that our ex-mayor was too socially liberal for the Republican base and too ugly for everyone else. My guess was that Obama would be the guy. During the '04 Dem convention when I watched Obama cruise up to the podium like a young Smokey Robinson and croon like a superstar, I said, "That's the next president." Actually I thought it would be another four years down the road. My friend was dead sure that America would never vote for an African-American; we were too racist and too stupid. But I disputed that argument over the course of the entire election drama. My rationale was based on one little old lady from New Jersey.

Betty is 83, a daughter of immigrants and raised in a blue-collar suburb of Boston. She was programmed with all the racial stereotypes and resentments that were unmitigated by the social stigmatization of racists that prevailed half a century later. Her son, a long-time friend of mine, told me how his mom freaked when he brought home an African-American friend in first grade. "Never bring him around here again. Never!" He experienced the same tirade over his black girlfriends in high school and much later well into adulthood.

Pretty shocking, huh? Actually to me it was really shocking because I always loved Betty. When I was in high school she was funny and generous -- the favorite of the moms and the favorite aunt of my friend's cousins. How could such poison inhabit a sweetheart like Betty who let her freak-flag waving son's freshly painted and scrubbed bedroom walls become a canvas for his friends' obscene radical graffiti? Those walls were left untouched when he left for college, and the room was not re-painted until the family moved to a house a few blocks away. It's easy to imagine decent, smart people harboring some latent form of relatively benign racism -- i.e. never expressed in a punitive way. But Betty made it clear that any person of a minority background whose skin was darker than Betty's could be subjected to humiliation. Betty was never struck by the ironic fact of her own minority status. She was a typical product of a pre-Freudian, pre-irony generation and culture.

That was before a black family moved in next door some time in the Eighties. I laughed till I almost suffocated when I was told.

A decade later she told me about how she offered to house that same family, by then her favorite neighbors, when their home was destroyed by a fire and how depressed she was when they moved. Turns out Betty had never actually interacted with blacks or Latinos before; had never known that middle class versions of "them" existed. And I watched her yuk it up with the African-American guests at my friend's wedding. Sixty years of programming was erased virtually overnight. And last month when she told me she was voting for Barack Obama, her tone was as matter-of-fact as if she's said she was going to the dentist on November four.

While all the infoheads were spouting on the Bradley Effect, I knew that over the course of a full generation millions of people like Betty saw the darker skinned "others" on TV, in the movies, in the neighborhoods, in the doctors' offices, in the supermarkets, at their children's and grandchildren's birthday parties and school plays. They've also been getting used to gays and probably will be voting against bans on gay marriage when Obama is running for his second term.

There are millions of other Bettys out there who will do America proud. It may take an imminent cataclysm or one of "them" moving in next door, but I have this faith-based trust in Betty. She's the change I can believe in.

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The Myth Of America Becomes America

POP CULTURE IS US: It Makes Us As Smart As It Makes Us Stupid And It Gave Us Election 2008. (At Least) Three Thoughts About The Election Of Barack Obama.

by Polar Levine for Yankin' The Food Chain, Polarity1.com

I feel pretty. I feel so cute. Cuddly-wuddly. Pristine. A baby's butt. I feel patriotic and it feels good to feel patriotic. Not a flag in the house and I don't care if we're USA-Number-One or USA-Number-Ten-With-a-Bullet. I'm just proud to be an American and that's realer than stuff.

What's more solidly amazing than the fact that Americans voted in record numbers to elect an African-American president is that, in the end, it made no difference what his ethnic or racial background was. It was almost a mundaneity. The man was perceived as the best for the job and so he was given the job. Common sense. What's all the fuss about?

A few years ago on a trip to São Paulo I spoke to a group of people, employing my very sloppy Portuguese, about 9/11 and how I co-founded a kids samba school in the neighborhood where the towers fell. During that trip I felt very self-conscious about being an American, realizing how rightly offensive this country had become to the rest of the world. I felt compelled to open my remarks with the disclaimer, "Não gosto de Bush" ("I don't like Bush.") and felt relieved by the ovation that followed. It's odd now to feel clean because I'm an American.

The entire human race appeared to be counting on us to elect Barack Obama. The enormity of that global hunger for a singular event made the idea of a McCain victory seem like a cosmic offense against the gravitational force of human history, the result of which might plunge humanity into a psychic black hole. They wanted an Obama victory in Europe, in the Muslim world, in Africa, Latin America, Indonesia and Japan. The reign of George W. Bush created a toxic human ecology so ubiquitous, palpable and identifiable that the antidote an Obama presidency could generate was irresistible.

I don't believe in magic but I believe the election of Barack Obama has created a rare historical moment for people to imagine the world moving toward the light and the USA will be able to lead the way. Symbolism aside (but not underestimated), more than any other American president Obama has the character, the intelligence and the bio to earn the respect and good will of the international community; an American president who has lived his life among "others" and has much of the world's blood flowing in his own veins. That makes him far more likely to instinctively understand the needs and the cultural dynamics that give a nation its form; and that understanding will allow us to interact without the arrogance and willful ignorance that has driven our foreign policy for so long. But our renewed international power will derive from a force more powerful than the abilities of Obama, the man. America, for the first time, will lead because of the undeniable and irresistible fact that the USA is a united collective of people representing every ethnicity and nationality on earth; we live together peacefully and we are exactly what we say we are. Have a look at our brochure. Looks pretty good? And you know it's the truth.

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Rockwood Products & SPEC RECORDS Present "Truckers Tracks Vol 1" (Saddle Up And Ride)

Trucker Tracks Volume 1 CD Combines the Grit of Southern Rock and the Power of Outlaw Country Delivered to all Truckers far and wide.

Spec Records announces its release of the new trucker’s compilation. Saddle up and Ride", it contains 13 fresh new songs honoring the American Trucker and feature hard working artists and musician who wrote and performed songs that truly relate to being a trucker on the road and the story is told in each song.

"This is an absolutely wonderful collection for truckers, families of truckers, country music lovers and Southern Rockers,” raved Michael Smith of Swampland Reviews, "it is a collection of some of Nashville's best artists and songs paying tribute to some of the hardest working men and women in America."

Artists on the compilation include Johnny Neel, formerly of the Allman Brothers, Joe Durham, Greg Crowe, Bob Rea, Mike Cullison and Rodger Mason . The collection is a solid assortment of Outlaw country, Southern rock and has a blues edge. The compilation has widespread appeal to truckers, country music fans and rock fans alike. The CD is dedicated to "all the men and women who move the heavy loads down the highway and the families that they leave behind…"

The closing track "Folded Flag" featuring Johnny Neel former Allman Brothers is a tribute to the service men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice.....

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