Catalyst and Ty-vicious are The Nice Guise album release party. Friday July 10th at the 529 in East Atlanta. Performances from The Nice Guise w/ DJ Grizzly, The Nice Guise w/ Newberry Jam, DJ Slim Chance, DJ J-Rucku, and a special early DJ set from the birthday dude Ty-vicious. Doors open at 9PM. Admission is $7 and includes a copy of the album. 21+

The A3C Hip Hop Festival organizers announced their first round of partners today for the 5th installment of the annual A3C Hip Hop Festival taking place across multiple venues in the East Atlanta Village October 1-3, 2009.
MySpace, Red Bull, URB Magazine, Frank 151, Stones Throw Records, Okayplayer, Fusicology, Wax Poetics, Definitive Jux, Duck Down Records, Fatbeats, Babygrande, Tres Records, The Hydrilla and The Bench top the list of partners announced today by The A3C Hip Hop Festival.

You read that right, this is number NINE! Get your holiday weekend started right with those Hydrilla boys on Friday, July 3rd @ Lenny’s. Artists include Pill, Donnis, Yelawolf, Priceless and A3C Alums Collective Efforts. Hosted by Dres tha Beatnik with sounds by The Audubon Society.

For all my aerosol enthusiasts, we present a downloadable stencil.

I’m not usually one for leaning heavily on Wikipedia, but I think they got the Devin the Dude description just right:
Devin Copeland, better known by his stage name, Devin the Dude, is a Houston hip hop artist. He is best known for his unique rapping style and his long career signed to Rap-A-Lot Records as well as his 2002 song Lacville ‘79. The New York Times has called him “A brilliant oddball with a spaced-out flow.”