Jimmy Bruno Guitar Institute Shatters Enrollment Projections, Introduces Proprietary Technology

The Internet-based Jimmy Bruno Guitar Institute (JBGI) announces that it has quadrupled in size, in just the last six months, to over 1350 paying students. Originally designed for 350 students, the JBGI has shattered all enrollment projections since opening in May 2007. "The growth has been phenomenal and gratifying", says Affiliated Artists CEO and JBGI co-founder David Butler. "Now that guitarists know Jimmy Bruno's unique and effective guitar method is available online, it has spread like wildfire."

Jimmy Bruno's New Worldwide Reach

Although never his intent, Jimmy Bruno may now be the most influential jazz guitar teacher in history, with students from 40 countries around the world under his direct supervision. Additionally, the JBGI student-body includes a large number of guitar teachers, who with Mr. Bruno's permission and encouragement are in turn teaching Jimmy's method to their students. Also, g

More and more mixtape DJs are looking to legitimize their business, which has been under a particularly large amount of scrutiny as of late, by releasing official studio albums based on their street tapes. The current face of the mixtape movement, Philadelphia native Drama, the 'DJ' was dropped for legal reasons, is following suit with the compilation-styled Gangsta Grillz (The Album).For the rest of the review please check out: http://www.planeturban.com.au/album_reviews/album_drama_gangsta_grillz_the_album

It's a shame when artists become more famous for their real-life drama than their recorded material. This is a situation that promising young spitter Cassidy experienced after several run-ins with the law. The Philadelphia resident was savvy enough to capitalize on this newfound infamy however, keeping his name hot on the streets with several mixtape appearances. Being signed to super-producer Swizz Beatz's Full Surface label sure doesn't hurt either.For the rest of this review please see: www.PlanetUrban.com.au

For a relatively new artist it has been a long road for the uniquely bearded Philadelphia native. Freeway was one of the many casualties in the aftermath of the well publicised Roc-A-Fella Records split, with a four year gap between his overlooked debut Philadelphia Freeway in 2003 and his second solo album Free At Last; that short amount of time feels like an eternity in the increasingly fickle music business. Now part of the revamped Roc-A-Fella roster and with 50 Cent cosigning him, he truly is Free At Last. For the rest of this review please visit: www.PlanetUrban.com.au

The Bocuse d'Or contestants were announced about a month ago, and we've still got about a month to go until the big U.S. semifinal in Orlando in September. Fortunately, seeing as how it's Olympics season, the Bocuse team has sent along an amuse bouche to whet our appetites: the names of the 12 top judges who will be joining head officials Daniel Boulud, Thomas Keller, and Jerome and Paul Bocuse to decide who moves on to rep America. The list of judges (post-jump) is decidedly tilted toward the New York big guns—Daniel Humm Laurent Tourondel and Jean-Georges Vongerichten are all there—but San Francisco gets a sole representative: the one and only Ms. Traci des Jardins. They've also announced that the competition, which takes place on Sept 26th and 27th at Disney World, will be followed by a Grand Tasting and Awards Gala with "opportunities to meet and mingle with some the world's top chefs." You'll be able to buy the (presumably pricey) tickets on August 25. One final bonus: they have a surprise g

It been almost a month since the Bocuse d'Or contestants were announced, and we've got about a month to go until the big U.S. semi-final in Orlando this September. However, to whet our appetites (especially during real Olympics season), the Bocuse team has released the names of the 12 top judges who will be joining officials Boulud, Keller, and Jerome and Paul Bocuse to decide who moves on to rep America. We've got more than our fair share of big guns from New York: Daniel Humm, Gavin Kaysen, Laurent Tourondel, Jean-Georges Vongerichten, and the deans of the French Culinary Institute, Andre Soltner and Alain Sailhac. Hopefully it gives our NYC cheftestants an edge.

They've also announced that the competition, which takes place on Sept 26th & 27th at Disney World, will be followed, natch, with a Grand Tasting and Awards Gala with "opportunities to meet and mingle with some the world's top chefs." You'll be able to buy the (presumably pricey) tickets on August 25. And another bonus: they have a surprise guest

GAIAN MIND PHILADELPHIA - Saturday, August 23rd, 2008, Philadelphia

Philadelphia's Premier Psy-Trance Party!

Special Guest:

ARAHAT (PsyCircle Records, San Diego) Live/DJ Set

Co-founder of PsyCircle Records and owner of PsyCircle Studios, Tom has been scrambling brains for 12 years with masterful mixes of twisted, groovy, powerful night time psytrance under the moniker dj Hidro-ponik. He recently began channeling his own frequencies as Arahat and in collaborations like Arabali (with Mubali), Monks of Madness (with Bodhisattva 13:20), Brains (with Bodhi and Mubali) and coming soon with Limbertimbre, and Glyph. His live/dj emanations will send you on a trip through unreal dimensions of aural psychedelia. Get ready for a wild mesh of psycho-fried nighttime desert dreams.

FRACTAL PHONO (Gaian Mind/Goa Home, Philadelphia)

LAURYN & EG~BOT (Peak Records/Gaian Mind/28th Day/PSI, Philadelphia)

Downtempo Lounge with:

OPENSOURCECODE (Independant, New York) Live/DJ Set

ROAN (The Soma