sorry to be tardy to the party but my internet posting has been on halt, but now that I got a moment…Falside has dropped some real gems over the last year or so and now is giving back to you (again) with Dollars Make Change.

Download That ish for Free here

He also has pressed up a few limited edition copies for dirt cheap ($5 to be exact) comes with his sweaty fingerprints (for cloning and perpetrating) and 2 stickers, Cop that ish here do him a solid. artwork and tracklisting after the jump!

Dollars Make Change (The Mixtape) – Track Listing –

1. Dollars Make Change Introduction
2. Catching the Strange ft. C-Rayz Walz
3. King of the Jungle Remix ft. Blaq Poet, Jaysaun (Special Teamz), Termanology
4. Too Many Mc’s ft. El Da Sensei, Pacewon, Exposition
5. No Gentleman ft. Alex Minor
6. Al Bundy Remix ft. Intuition
7. Tape on Drugs Remix ft. Reason (Poorly Drawn People)
8. Hit That Shit Remix ft. thekeenone (Audio Hustlaz), B-Real (Cypress Hill), Reg Riddem, Ill Bill (La Coka Nostra)
9. Shallow and Hollow ft. Reef the Lost Cauze, Blak Madeen
10. Juice Barz Freestyle ft. Amadeus the Stampede
11. Hall of Game ft. C-Rayz Walz
12. Umbrella’s and Mac 10’s ft Dirty Hank
13. The Crush (Original) ft. Vast Aire (Cannibal Ox)
14. Designer Kids ft. Reason, Storm Davis (Poorly Drawn People)
15. Headlines ft. Reks
16. Say Your Prayers ft. Good Brother, Amadeus the Stampede
17. Educated Suicide ft. Rite Hook, C-Chan (Slow Suicide Stimulus)
18. What Rap Don’t Say ft. Stu Cat
19. Too Much ft. Slaine (La Coka Nostra/Special Teamz), Amadeus the Stampede

It’s not a secret that I’m a big fan of Juan Deuce. So let’s just say it was an honor and a pleasure to debut this song on my weekly show on MusicFeen.com. And now I present to you with said track again here. Play It. Love It. Download It. Share it. This track features JahPan from Fedd Hill, Block Family and The Lo Lifes. This track is produced by FourOhOne.

B. Dolan drops the new single from the upcoming album “Fallen House, Sunken City”.  Earthmovers is the post-racial, pre-apocalypse, dance floor sensation of 2010. This is the first radio single off of B. Dolan’s forthcoming album “Fallen House, Sunken City,” produced entirely by Alias.

When he isn’t making suicide threats or drinking excessivly, Dirty Hank a.k.a Adolph Oliver Bush is an MC. He recently spent 6 months working 7 songs in which he compiled into an EP titled, “Dirty Hank’s Guide to Giving Up”. This unique presentation of random acts of fuckery bleeds pain, anger, frustration, sexual angst, and disgust – all beautifully blended over production from acclaimed Providence beatsmith Falside, and up and comer Mad Plaid. Providence wordsmith, Reason of the Poorly Drawn People collective was pressured into making an appearence on “Fade to Wack” and “Overselpt”. If your not left feeling deprived and anxious after listening to “Dirty Hank’s Guide to Giving Up”, somebody didn’t do their job.

Download it here!

Mr. Lif
Broken Ground
Labelless Illtelligence
The Titans

Friday February 26th @ Jerkey’s
Doors Open @ 9:00pm | 18 +
$15 in Advance | $18 at the Door

C-Rayz Walz holds it down on this Falside produced cut.  This is the first leak off of beatsmith Falside’s upcoming mixtape, “Dollars Make Change“. The mixtape also features Reef the Lost Cauze, Pacewon, El Da Sensei, Jaysaun (Special Teamz), Ill Bill (La Coka Nostra), B-Real (Cypress Hill), Reason of Poorly Drawn People, Blaq Poet, Termanology and more.

Thats right Providence, Strange Famous Records is bringing it to you this month with a great show full of amazing talent!!

Feb 27th at Jerky’s in Providence, RI (71 Richmond St)

B. Dolan
Alias
“What Cheer?” Brigade
special guest performance by: Sage Francis
More acts TBA
$10 at the door, 18+, Doors at 9pm

click more for the flyer info and FB event page!

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The providence wunderkind producer Falside has teamed up with my favorite DJ Emoh Betta to put together this project called “Meat N Veggies” here is a little peice about it:

Dj Emoh Betta of Boston’s most celebrated turntablist crew, The Deck Demons, recently teamed up with the acclaimed, 20 year old Indy Hip Hop producer, Falside. After an afternoon of Pad Thai, caffiene, and brainstorming, they formulated “Meet’n Veggies”. This 5 track EP blends Falside’s instrumental elements with Dj Emoh’s intense technical skill on the decks. Enjoy, post and feel free to share.

Click here to download it!

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B Dolan has beeninvolved in Providence longer then you have thought rap music was a good career choice.  He helped spearhead the consumer awareness website known as Knowmore.org with Sage Francis, and now gets to tell 401hiphop.com all about his upcoming album with Alias, and how the whole thing came to be.

H.W. For the few that might not know you, who are you and when did you get involved with hip hop, how long have you been in the scene.

BD – Who am I?  B. Dolan. The lost fourth Fat Boy.  I was keygrip #4 on Style Wars.  You might remember me from the craft services table.  I’m the one that showed Lil’ Fame where to find the banana cream crumble.  The one that blew up the bathroom before Buckshot went in it.  I ghost wrote KRS’ Gospel of Hip Hop and Nas’ verse on ‘Oochie Wally’.  I am before before.

H.W. -  You are signed to Strange Famous Records, how did that come about?

BD – I met Sage Francis at the Providence Poetry Slam in 2002, after moving back to Providence from New York.  Through slam we ended up being around each other for a few years after that, and eventually a kind of mutual respect  and friendship grew between us.  Sage had always maintained SFR as a kind of personal indie label to release his ‘Sick of…’ series, but in 2006 he decided to turn it into a more formal kind of record label. I was one of the people he talked to at that time about releasing an album, and things sort of followed and grew from there.

H.W. -  You are involved with a consumer resource site known as Knowmore.org, for those that dont know, what is the goal of the site?

BD – Knowmore.org was created with the aim of informing consumers about the people and practices they support when they buy.  Every time you spend your money on a product, you send a message of support to the company you bought it from.  “I approve of what you’re doing.  Whatever you did to make this item, or to get it at this price… keep doin’ it.  You’ve earned my business.”  And the fact is, a lot of us don’t realize the kind of action we’re enabling when we do that blindly.

So with Knowmore.org, you go to the website, enter the name of any brand, product, or company, and get taken to a page that shows you the history and info behind what you buy.  We rate companies from good to bad in the categories of workers’ rights, human rights, environmental concerns, business ethics, and political influence.  So Knowmore.org is just about helping people raise their own awareness about the issues their money connects them to every day.

H.W. -  How has knowmore.org grown since its inception? How are you trying to improve upon the site?

BD – The number of companies we’ve been able to cover has grown massively.  We literally started this database with one company profile, and have grown it to cover hundreds and hundreds of companies and thousands of consumer brands.

We’ve also gained a huge readership, and are read by tens of thousands of people per month.  With articles like our expose on American Apparel, we’ve earned people’s trust and some journalistic credibility, and I think that’s gone a long way too.  The main way we’re trying to improve the site this year is to get it closer to the point of sale by creating a smart phone App before the year’s out.  That way you can stand in the store with your phone and find out in the instant you have a question about a product.

H.W. -  The name of your first record on Strange Famous was “The Failure” what was your approach heading into the creation of that record and why did you name it that?

BD – My approach heading into the creation of that record was seriously this:  “If I die and only get to make one record, this has to contain my raw unfiltered self.”  So that’s what that album is about, and it’s a very unique kind of album that’s probably not for everyone.  A lot of folks have heard it and become rabid fans, and probably an equal number have been like ‘ehhh I don’t get it.’ … which is fine by me.

It’s just an album that was made with no consideration towards audience, or commercial success, or anything.  Like I said it’s just the raw brain-download.  I was and still am really proud of it, and it represents about 8 years of work, all told.   It’s my hope that as my career progresses, more people backtrack and hear that album from different perspectives.  I think some of the best and most important writing I’ve ever done is on that record.  I called it ‘The Failure’ because… it turns out I failed to die after I made it.  And now I’m stuck with this albatross avante-garde shit in my catalogue forever.  Nah.  Life is the trying.  Death is The Failure.  Both are necessary, I think.


H.W. -  Do you have any previous releases before “The Failure”?

BD – Just a whole lot of messy demos that I pray remain buried.


H.W. -  Your upcoming album is called “Fallen House, Sunken CIty” whats the story behind that title?

BD – It’s a long story, actually.  I was thinking about morbidly obese people.  The kind that you have to knock down a wall of their house to get them out.  I was thinking about morbidly obese people and Atlantis.  Lost people and lost civilizations.

H.W. -  Alias (from Anticon fame) handles all of the production on your upcoming project, how did this relationship form? And how has it grown since this project?

BD – I met Alias in 2006 on Sage’s Human the Death Dance Tour, and we immediately hit it off.  I had to drive him somewhere in my car and I was listening to a song called “The Four Horsemen” by the group Aphrodite’s Child.  Alias’ eyes lit up when he heard the song and the rest was history.

I felt significantly intimidated when we started making this album, and like i’d have to grow as an emcee to fill the shoes of Alias’ production.  Which is what attracted me to the project in the first place.  So, there was growth there.  There was friendship growth with one of my favorite people.  There were cancerous growths in my stomach and throat.  There was growth and growth and growth.

H.W. -  This project is more of a rap album then your previous album, is there anything you are trying to accomplish with this album that you didnt with “The Failure”?

BD – I’m trying to get PAID, motherfucker!  No one ever bought a swimming pool off their clown paint protest poems!  I’m getting old.  Too many Evel Knievel jumps off stages.  Now I want a hot tub to soak my bones in.  I heard there was money in rap.  I’m just trying to invent a dance or sumn.

H.W. -  How did the Bombzo character come to exist?

BD – Speak of him and he appears.  I’d been working as an activist, and performing political poems and raps, since 1999.  Writing them since way before that.  I was watching the start of the Iraq war on TV, as the first bombs were falling on Baghdad, and thinking two thoughts to myself simultaneously.

1.) I should never get onstage again unless I’m wearing clown makeup.  The shit I’ve been doing is a joke, and doesn’t effect anything.

2.) “Bombs away”

That’s how ‘Bombzo Way’ was born.

H.W. -  What do you feel is your biggest accomplishment to date?

BD – I dunno man.  I don’t spend much time thinking about accomplishments.  I keep undertaking ambitious things, then feeling a brief sense of accomplishment when they’re finished, then getting antsy and moving on.  I guess I try not to rate them or cherish or celebrate them for too long, because who gives a shit.  I feel like I’m as good as what I’m working on today, generally.

H.W. -  Best show you have ever performed at? Funniest moment at a show?

BD – Well, there’s been a lot of great shows, and a lot of really wild moments…

The most recent was the Strange Famous Showcase at Jerky’s this past November.  That show was really incredible start to finish, and the crowd was wild and unpredictable and weird all night long.  That was the only show I think I’ve ever been to where the crowd did not move from the time the first opener went on until the headliner got off.

We just went straight through our sets with no breaks in between, and nobody moved the whole time.  That was pretty incredible.  In the middle of that show, an old friend of Sage’s showed up for a fairly hilarious incident.  Details are on the youtubes. (ed note: Peep the youtube video right below):

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H.W. -  Ok now for something else: if not for music, what would you be doing?

BD – Landscaping.  I liked that job.  I’d be in better physical condition.  Spend time in the sun.  Work with my hands.

H.W. -  Now for something rediculous: Penguins or Pandas?

BD – Penguins depress the shit out of me.  And Pandas are kinda depressing too because they’re almost extinct.  I don’t wanna see either of those animals because they’re a drag.

Jellyfish baby.  All day.

H.W. – Thank you for your time, any closing comments?

BD -  www.FallenHouse.com is the place to get all updates on upcoming shows and the new album, which drops on March 2nd.  I’m currently working out details for a record release party at Jerky’s for Feb. 27th, with some real crazy surprises lined up.  Hopefully the RI hip hop community will be in effect that night, because we plan to make it one for the books.

Shoutout to Mr. Mortal, Chachi, and the whole Elevation massive.  four oh won, fuh eva.

check out the promo video for Fallen House, Sunken City right below:

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Friday February 12th
@ The FireHouse XIII
41 Central Street Providence, RI 02907
Doors Open @ 9pm | $7 Cover | All Ages

Featuring:
PDP (Poorly Drawn People)
J-Strest & Infomite as Ready Ink featuring DJ Al Bums among others

Music by DJ Sterby Rock
Hosted by Rock Solid

Open Mic.
Show up early to Sign Up! Each Emcee (or group) gets one beat (max 4 mins).
You can bring your original beats on CD. First Come First Serve Basis.

Live Podcast Recording.
We record the whole show (audio) and turn it into the Official Elevation Podcast
It is featured on 401hiphop.com, iTunes, and the Zune Marketplace.

Late Night Cypher. (Midnight till 1am)
Come for the Open Mic. Stay for the Cypher. It’s a more free flowing emcee session.
Freestyling in encouraged but not mandatory. The Cypher happens over all origin beats from the …

Producer Showcase.
Come check out the hottest producers in the area rocking out live on the MPC.

B-Boy Friendly. Graffiti Art Gallery.

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