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11 Ways to Spend the Summer Solstice and National Aboriginal Day
June 21st is National Aboriginal Day in Canada. What will you be doing to celebrate? Although we’re not totally sold on the idea of the federal government designating one day a year to celebrate...
View ArticleCity Natives Form Like Voltron, Listen to Their Rugged New Single, “Ruler”
Stream “Ruler”, the lead single from City Natives’ new album, Voltron. Voltron is not just the title of City Natives‘ latest album, it’s also an apt metaphor for the crew’s collective power. Energized...
View ArticleHere is the Full List of Nominees for the 2015 Indigenous Music Awards
Nominees for the 2015 Indigenous Music Awards were announced today. Here is the full list of this year’s IMA nominees. Formerly known as the Aboriginal People’s Choice Music Awards, the newly re-dubbed...
View ArticleDecolonize Your Playlist: Stream the New Mixtape from Sovereign Trax
Sovereign Trax is back with their June playlist of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists. Our cross-continental collab continues with the crew from Sovereign Trax, bringing you the dopest...
View ArticleAboriginal Hip-Hop Star Briggs Drops Inspiring New Single, “The Children Came...
Briggs’ new song, “The Children Came Back”, inspires a new generation of Indigenous youth to rise up and celebrate their survival. Raise up your ancestors. Raise up Indigenous heroes. That’s the first...
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Aboriginal Music Week Closing Night Concert to Feature Tall Paul, Mariame,...
RPM is proud to present an incredible night of Indigenous hip-hop, R&B, and trap music to conclude Aboriginal Music Week 2015. The closing night of Aboriginal Music Week is the very definition of...
View ArticleBriggs, Thelma Plum, Dan Sultan Lead Nominations for 2015 National Indigenous...
Nominations for Australia’s 2015 National Indigenous Music Awards have been announced. Leading the pack is acclaimed Yorta Yorta hip-hop artist Briggs who is nominated in five categories, including...
View ArticleWatch City Natives Burn Through Their Verses in New Video for “Beast Mode”
City Natives drop their new single and music video for “Beast Mode”. Over a banging Beaatz-produced beat, booming kick, stuttering snares, and jangling piano riff, the rap Voltron crew spit fire for...
View ArticleDOWNLOAD: The Aboriginal Music Week Mixtape by Boogey the Beat
RPM and Aboriginal Music Week are joining forces for an epic closing night party this year. Check our exclusive AMW Mixtape to get a taste of what’s to come. We enlisted the talent of rising...
View ArticleAngel Haze Destroys Everyone in the Rap Game on “Babe Ruthless”
Shapeshifter and ever-hype emcee Angel Haze is taking no prisoners on her new track, “Babe Ruthless”. Ruthless is the word here. Raw, rugged, renegade rap monster Angel Haze annihilates all competition...
View ArticlePREMIERE: YK The Mayor – “Fall”
Winnipeg rapper YK The Mayor returns with his new single, “Fall”. After dropping the hype single, “In My Dreams”, back in June, Winnipeg hip-hop artist YK The Mayor (fka Young Kidd), is back with his...
View ArticleDOWNLOAD: Angel Haze’s New EP, “Back to the Woods”, is Next Level Amazing
No more waiting. The new Angel Haze project, Back to the Woods, is here. Get it for free. Until midnight. Right now. This “accidental masterpiece” is already blowing our minds. Angel Haze is elevating...
View ArticleSTREAM: David Morin’s Soulful Debut Album ‘Every Colour’ is Beautiful Music...
David Morin is being called “the next big thing in music”. Listen to Every Colour and you’ll see why. If you grew up in the era of the Soulquarians, Dilla, D’Angelo, Badu and the whole neo-soul...
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DOWNLOAD: Mob Bounce’s ‘Mob Medicine’, A Powerful Debut Album of Indigenous...
Rising Indigenous hip-hop duo Mob Bounce drop their hotly-anticipated new album, Mob Medicine. Gitxsan MC The Northwest Kid and Cree/Métis MC Heebz the Earthchild have been locked in the studio working...
View ArticleDOWNLOAD: Staying Underground Mixtape – Collaborator 25: Culturite
Download a hype, collaborative mixtape between Staying Underground and RPM’s Culturite. Staying Underground and RPM connected earlier this year over a love of dope beats and good music. Host and...
View ArticleDOWNLOAD: The Last Stand Mixtape – Vol. 1
RPM is proud to bring you an exclusive premiere of The Last Stand Mixtape, Vol. 1—a groundbreaking new compilation of Indigenous music, hip-hop, and spoken word. If storytelling is the lifeblood of...
View ArticleLeonard Sumner Brings New Music to His 2016 Summer Tour
As the music and culture festival season commences, Anishinaabe hip-hop/roots artist Leonard Sumner will be making his way back and forth across the country on the first of his summer tour dates. “I...
View ArticleSaskatoon MC T-Rhyme Talks Indigenous Arts and New EP “Diary of a Mad Red Woman”
Earlier this month, Saskatoon’s Tara T-Rhyme Campbell released her new EP, Diary of a Mad Red Woman, just ahead her first performance at the Indigenous Arts Festival in Toronto. We caught up with Tara...
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Mob Bounce Reclaim Identity, Share Influence and Bring Healing in “Mob...
Last month woke hip-hop duo Mob Bounce released “Mob Medicine,” a short documentary about their journey in finding themselves and empowering native communities through their music. “We started getting...
View ArticleMC Wake Self Talks Collab with Gift of Gab, Artistic Growth, and Upcoming...
Big things are happening for Albuquerque-based MC Wake Self. Currently touring through Europe after dropping his latest single, “Change the World” featuring Gift of Gab of the legendary hip-hop duo...
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