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Slum Peasants

Los Angeles, California, United States | INDIE

Los Angeles, California, United States | INDIE
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"AmericaFree.TV Announces Finalists For Its 2009 Music Video Awards"

Washington, D.C. - Friday, February 12, 2010 -- AmericaFree.TV, LLC (www.americafree.tv), a leading Internet streaming television broadcaster revealed today its "short list" of finalists for the best Music Video aired on the site in 2009. This opens a 1 month period of audience voting leading to the announcement of 3 winners, one each in the categories of Rock, Hip Hop and Pop / Contemporary. The finalists can be seen at http://www.musicfree.tv/2009/, and the winners will be determined by audience voting. "We were looking at the music videos submitted to the AmericaFree.TV music video channels in 2009, and we're just amazed that the quality and variety of videos available. Many of these videos have production qualities just as good as anything you will see anywhere, and yet they don't get much recognition," said Eric Connor, head of Music Content Acquisition for AmericaFree.TV. "So we thought, let's do something to fix that."

"The winners will receive recognition on AmericaFree.TV's broadcast channel, and also a small token of our appreciation" said Marshall Eubanks, AFTV Founder and CEO. "We have what I think are some truly great videos, such as Saint Motel's "Dear Dictator" in Rock, "Love Is Gone" by the Slum Peasants in HipHop and Darren Ockert's "Celebrity Du Jour" in Contemporary, just to name three. We selected 7 videos in each category for consideration by our viewers and to show the vitality of the indie music market. The music industry is changing rapidly, the importance of the major labels is declining, and none of us know how the industry will change. While one of our competitors has just seen fit to remove "Music Television" from their name, which I think clearly shows their feeling of the importance of music videos, we feel differently. At AmericaFree.TV we are convinced that Internet television will play an important role in the evolution of music in the new decade," Eubanks continued.

AmericaFree.TV's music videos can be viewed on one of their 4 music video channels at http://www.AmericaFree.TV or http://www.MusicFree.TV/. Voting on the 2009 Music Video Competition will end on March 12th and the winners will be announced March 15th, 2010.

AmericaFree.TV (AFTV) broadcasts professionally produced content on multiple live channels on the Internet. To learn more about AFTV, visit the AmericaFree.tv site at www.AmericaFree.tv, or learn about AFTV's music video competition at http://www.MusicFree.TV/2009/. - Live Journal


"Hollywood Music in Media Awards Newswire"

2009 Music Video Awards Show Vitality of Independent Music
April 14, 2010

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Washington, D.C. ? Wednesday April 14, 2010 ?? AmericaFree.TV, LLC (www.americafree.tv), a leading Internet streaming television and movie broadcaster with 10 million global viewers, officially announces ?Melancholyism" by Mostly Bears as the grand prize winner for the AmericaFree.TV 2009 Music Video Awards. First Prize winners are ?The Youth are Disillusioned? by DDJ, for the Rock music category, ?Love Is Gone,? by Slum Peasants, for the Hip-Hop music category, and ?Blue Sky? by KaiserCartel, for the Contemporary music category. All winners were chosen through audience participation and will receive a check for $ 100 from AmericaFree.TV. The winning music videos can be seen on AmericaFree.TV, or in VOD at http://www.musicfree.tv/2009/

?I think that our awards show the incredible vitality of Independent Music. Music videos are not dead, they have just gone to the Internet, and we are glad to bring them to our viewing audience,? said AmericaFree.TV CEO Marshall Eubanks. ?Many of these videos have production qualities just as good as anything you will see anywhere, and yet they don?t get much recognition,? said Eric Connor, head of Music Content Acquisition for AmericaFree.TV. ?So we thought we had to do something to fix that, and that?s why we had the 2009 Music Video Awards,? Connor continued.

The grand prize winner, for "Melancholyism,? by Mostly Bears, was directed by Chelsea Coles. Mostly Bears are an indie-rock group from Tucson, Arizona, on Funzalo Records. One of Arizona?s most accomplished new bands, Mostly Bears features fireworks, pounding drums, unusual backing vocals and sounds, perfectly rumbling bass lines, chaotic and frenzied guitars. Brian Lopez (vocals and lead guitar) said "We appreciate AmericaFree.TV for airing ?Melancholyism? and our fans for supporting us. We are currently writing and recording our 2nd studio album, which will be released sometime in the Fall -- keep checking our Myspace and Facebook pages for details. Thanks again!?

First prize in the Rock music video category goes to DDJ for ?The Youth are Disillusioned,? filmed around the Great Salt Lake in Utah by Jordan Media Entertainment. DDJ. Hailing from Salt Lake City, Utah, DDJ has been a consistent musical presence since 2006, playing the 2009 Warped Tour on the Kevin Says Stage. DDJ is currently working on their 3rd album "The Battle for Hearts and Minds," and their new single is called 'Light it Up!'

Straight from the streets of Skid Row of Los Angeles are Slum Peasants -- Mercy Diamonds, Barabas, and Detox -- First Place winners in the Hip Hop Category for ?Love is Gone.? The video was directed by Brian Smith and produced by Braddon Mendelson of Noisivision. The Peasants music is "straight from the soul," according their website (www.slumpeasants.com), "music that uplifts and leads the soul into its intended destiny."

KaiserCartel, Courtney Kaiser and Benjamin Cartel from Brooklyn, New York, won First Prize for Contemporary for ?Blue Sky? KaiserCartel construct gorgeous songs about living and loving, something they know about, as their musical and romantic lives are so entangled, it's difficult to say where one starts and the other begins. ?We're very excited and honored to have won Best Contemporary Music Video for ?Blue Sky?. Thanks so much to AmericaFree.TV, to Kevin Schaefer, our DP, and to all of you who watched our video and voted for us!?

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AmericaFree.TV (AFTV) broadcasts professionally produced content on multiple live channels on the Internet. To learn more about AFTV, visit the AmericaFree.tv site at www.AmericaFree.tv, or learn more about AFTV?s music video competition at http://www.MusicFree.TV/2009/.
- Hollywood Music in Media


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Straight from the streets of Los Angeles's notorious Skid Row (America’s homeless capital) where they have been working with the homeless for the past 4 years: Mercy Diamonds, a producer outta West Palm Beach, Florida, aka (West Nam); Barabbas a former Virgin Records artist outta of the West Indies by way of Baytown, Texas, aka little Beirut; and Detox a Puerto Rican outta the Slumz of Hawaii, comprise the group known as the Slum Peasants. The Slum Peasants’ mission includes building and protecting our communities, giving youth and young adults positive alternatives to all the negative aspects of street life. With this in mind, the peasants bring you street tales straight out of their respective slumz.

Growing up, their environment has continually reminded them of their peasants status. The Slum Peasants did not grow up with stability; most peasants have to move regularly when times get hard and they can’t afford to pay the bills: from ghetto to ghetto, slum to slum, moving laterally but rarely vertically. Most peasants have dreams of getting out of the ghetto. These peasants dream of bringing the ghetto out of its poor state, but in order to get oneself out of the condition they are in, one has to recognize and be truthful about their condition. Therefore, the Slum Peasants have decided to use their experiences as a springboard to propel themselves and others out of their hopeless state. Most are called “peasants” or “ghetto bastards” because of poverty, absentee fathers, and the lack of positive male role models, just to name a few stereotypes. Yes, the Peasants have accepted who they are, and have also recognized through various avenues that “there are peasants on every continent of the world; therefore, our family is world wide.”

The Peasants say, “It would be a beautiful day if we could see the end of poverty around the world, when no one would have to go to sleep hungry, or live with the fear of dying from Violence or Hunger.” It is with this in mind that the Peasants give you Hip Hop Soul: a brand of Hip Hop straight out the slumz. It’s out of the slumz, so it’s dirty, gritty, hard, and angry. Yet love prevails in the Peasants’ music, The Peasants’ music is straight from the soul, music that uplifts and leads the soul into its intended destiny. The Slum Peasants seek to help free all peasants in America and around the world from personal, systemic, and individual oppression. Through their music, the Peasants believe this is attainable. Don’t sleep. The Peasants are on the move. EXODUS: “moving the poor conditions out of the people; then, out of the slumz. A fatherless and widowed state is the curse of the slumz, yet the widows are the heroes of the slumz. Now children are becoming the heroes of the slumz, as they struggle to take care of each other”.
Slum Pez!