Tech N9ne has been nominated for the 2009 MTVu Woodie Awards for the category "Left Field Woodie". Voting is open now and the awards will be given out December 4th. Click here now to vote for Tech N9ne and help Strange prove it, again, to MTV!

That's right! ALL your favorite Strange Music artists will be on hand for a special instore signing in celebration of the release of BIG SCOOB's "Monsterifik", as well as the "STRICTLY STRANGE" concert DVD. So come check us out Wed. Sep 23, 2009 at the F.Y.E. in Independence, MO 13907 E US Highway 40, Independence, MO 64055, 816-478-0003. Come out and support new material from your favorite record label and get some autographed goods while you're at it. Signings will be for wristbanded cd/dvd purchasers only! Hope to see you there!

Please note: for presales, shipping and delivery restrictions and limitations sometimes prevent items from arriving as quickly as we’d like you to receive them. It is our intention that you receive your presale package by the release date of 10/27/09, but understand that we cannot guarantee delivery date.

Get ready for the most anticipated release of the year! Tech N9ne is taking it all the way in the year of the N9ne with the release of K.O.D., his 5th studio album, Oct 27th, 2009! It's been more than a year since Tech's last studio release, Killer, and this album is decidedly darker and coming from a deeply personal artistic place - with songs such as "Like I Died","In The Trunk" and "Blackened The Sun".

"I thought I could do this dark album and not let it swallow my euphoria...", says Tech about finishing the recording process.

Over his career, Tech has released four albums with four distinct sounds. This album comes straight from the core of Tech N9ne. All the masks are off and we're all ready to see what the Kansas City King has in store for us on this one!

CLICK HERE TO PREORDER AND GET:

•An autographed copy of the CD

•NEW Strange Music Dogtag

•K.O.D. Sticker

•Red Snake & Bat Sticker

•Free Download of an unreleased Tech song

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STRANGE MUSIC once again brings you one of the most anticipated tours of the year. Beginning October 2009, we proudly present the “K.O.D. TOUR 2009”! The “K.O.D. TOUR 2009” will bring together some of the most unique forces in independent Hip Hop. TECH N9NE pairs up for this outing with his Strange Music cohorts, Krizz Kaliko, Kutt Calhoun and Big Scoob. Joining this unique tour will be the collective known as Slaughterhouse along with Stevie Stone and Glasses Malone. The “K.O.D. TOUR 2009” will present fans of Hip Hop a great opportunity to see a diverse range of styles in a format like no other.

TECH N9NE’s presence in the industry refuses to cease its expansion. Known for his hardcore touring ethic and bar-setting stage performances, TECH N9NE continues to up the ante for other touring rap artists. Bringing his memorable hits to the masses, songs like “I’m A Playa”, “Caribou Lou”, “Riotmaker”, “Like Yeah” and “Everybody Move”, TECH N9NE proves he can deliver live as well as on CD. Having released the epic “Killer” in July of 2008, which debuted at Number One on the Billboard Top Independent Album charts and Number Twelve on the Billboard Top 200 Albums, TECH N9NE followed up the groundbreaking, genre-crossing double-album with two headlining nationwide tours, providing further evidence that he is the hardest touring artist in Hip Hop. His latest collaborations album, “Sickology 101”, which debuted at Number Two on the Billboard Top Independent Album charts, provided the basis for the 50+ city Sickology 101 Tour. Proving that his touring ethic is nothing short of serious, after completing the Sickology 101 Tour, Tech immediately hit the road to take part in the 2009 Rock The Bells Tour, which saw Tech perform alongside such luminaries as Nas, Damien Marley, House of Pain/La Coka Nostra and The Wu Tang Clan. TECH N9NE’s most recent solo album, “K.O.D.”, is scheduled to hit stores just a few weeks after this tour kicks off - on October 27th – adding fuel to an already fervent fire.

Click here for more information about the tour and artists!

IF HE HITS #1 HERE, WE HAVE A GOOD SHOT AT GETTING HIM INTO REGULAR ROTATION - NOT JUST AT MTVU, BUT AT OTHER MTV NETWORKS AS WELL!!!!

Krizz Kaliko's video for "Misunderstood" is on MTVU's the Freshmen this week! Voting begins today, Monday, August 3rd, 2009 at 11AM Eastern TIme and ends this Friday, August 8th, 2009 at 2PM Eastern Time. You can vote more than once, so please help us out - head over to http://freshmen.mtvu.com and vote for "Misunderstood" as the Freshmen of the Week! Please pass this on to any and all.

Tech N9ne Is Coming to Australia!

Tech N9ne will capping his World Tour with several dates in Australia!

Get ready to grab the CD from Strange Music’s newest artist – a CD that’s not just big, it’s MONSTERIFIK! Preorder Tech N9ne Presents Big Scoob Monsterifik and you’ll get a limited edition t-shirt, a Big Scoob sticker as well as a free downloadable bonus track! With a sound straight from the streets, Big Scoob’s songs bring a ground and pound attitude filled with truth and grit. Songs like “Bet I Don’t” and “Big Fella” will have you diving headfirst into Big Scoob’s world. Don’t miss this chance to get in with Strange Music on street level and get a limited edition t-shirt and a free downloadable bonus track in the process!

Krizz Kaliko "Misunderstood" Official Music Video

That's right! The Kansas City King is taking the Strange Music express to Europe later this summer. Two special dates have already been announced - The Royal Arena Festival in Orpund, Switzerland and a one off date in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Check out our tour schedules for more details and surely more dates to follow!

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The lights dim in a movie theater.  You’re there to experience the film you’ve been waiting to see for months, yet there’s a delay.  “You watch the previews, but the feature presentation is the main thing that you’re there to see,” says Kutt Calhoun.  “I wanted this album to be like that, that everything else you’ve been hearing was a preview.  My album is the main thing, the Feature Presentation.”
 
Yet Feature Presentation, the Kansas City rapper’s second album, packs more entertainment than your typical movie.  It contains the action of a summer blockbuster, the storytelling of an Oscar-winner for Best Picture and the type of humor you call your friends about.  That’s because with Feature Presentation Kutt Calhoun has emerged into one of rap’s most captivating storytellers, regardless of topic.

On the muscular “Speed,” Kutt imagines himself being chased by police while driving with a lady friend, while the rock-fueled “Bunk Rock Bitch” talks about his wild encounters with women on the road.  The piano-accented “Run Away (The Breakup)” details the rocky road men traverse when dealing with a women who cannot be satisfied.  Then, on the dark “Good Friend,” Kutt plays the role of a man who has to counsel a woman who suffers at the hands of her abusive beau. 
 
“He mistreats her because he has some insecurities because he’s narcissistic,” Kutt explains.  “The girl ends up calling a guy like me to be the Calvary, to come swoop her up and give her what he can’t, whether that’s some good loving, some nice conversation.  That’s what a ‘Good Friend’ is.”
 
Elsewhere, Kutt Calhoun takes it to streets with his update of Ice T’s classic gang expose “Colors,” details the rugged Kansas City streets on “Killa City” and slams haters on “Stop Jeffin’.”

Kutt then reflects on his rise to fame on the guitar-backed “The Green Mile.”  Here, Kutt digs deep into his reality by exploring the relationships he develops while visiting cities time and time again while on tour. 

“It’s about being on the road and the tour is the green mile,” reveals Kutt, who originally toyed with the idea of having each song title on his album come from the name of a movie.  “It’s the money road, where we get our bread and butter.  When you start touring, you start messing with different chicks and different cities and that can lead up to you knowing them for a couple of years.  It’s like she’s your girl for that town.  But in the end, you’ve got a girl at home, so it can never be what the girl on the road wants it to be.  The song is about me having love for the girls on the road, but it can never be as serious as they might want it to be.”

Making a living while touring the country has an equally potent pull on more serious relationships.  For instance, while touring the world with labelmate Tech N9ne, Kutt spends a tremendous amount of time away from his children.  Kutt wrote the soulful, gentle “Letter To My Kids” in order to let his children know that he loves them, despite being away from them months at a time. 

“I’ve been waiting to do a song like that,” Kutt reveals.  “I needed something personal, some heartfelt stuff on my album and I hadn’t received that type of beat yet.  I got that beat at the last minute and I wrote it right there in the studio.  I needed to let my kids know how I feel about them since I’m out on the road all the time.  I miss birthdays and miss their calls.  I wanted to let them know how I felt.  It’s something they can listen to years down the line.  Everyone that has heard it has cried.  That lets me know I did my job.”
 
Kutt Calhoun is able to pour such emotion into his music because of his own tumultuous childhood, one filled with struggle, pain and uncertainty.  Growing up in Kansas City, he split time between his mother’s and sister’s houses and was a talented writer, applying himself to writing raps.  But by the time he was 16, Kutt was running the streets and supporting himself. 

Nonetheless, Kutt’s passion for rhyming was going unfulfilled.  Fortunately, he met Tech N9ne in the late 1990s and impressed Tech N9ne with his ability to rap nonstop for hours at a time.  Wowed by Kutt’s skills, Tech made Kutt one of his hype men.  Nearly a decade later, Kutt Calhoun has performed thousands of shows in front of hundreds of thousands of fans on three continents with Tech N9ne.

In 2004, Kutt Calhoun released his first album, B.L.E.V.E.  Short for Boiling Liquid Expanding Vicious Explosion (a term for the hottest temperature possible), the collection established Kutt as one of the Midwest’s most promising acts. 

As B.L.E.V.E. made an impressive splash on the independent rap scene thanks to red-hot selections like “Bring Da Flames” and “To Whom It May Concern,” Kutt spent his time touring the world with Tech N9ne and appearing on albums from Tech N9ne, Krizz Kaliko, Skatterman & Snug Brim, and others.

And now it’s time to refocus on Kutt Calhoun.  That’s why he’s returned with Feature Presentation, a marked progression from his first album.
 
“I’ve matured a lot since B.L.E.V.E. as far as content, subject matter,” Kutt says.  “I’ve improved as a writer and a performer.  This is the thing that everybody needs to listen to.”