Check out these tracks from the newest album from Broad Street Studio, featuring 19 different hip hop, reggaeton, R&B, and pop hits. It has 27 of Providence's hottest young artists and producers. These song were created in our beat making and mc writing workshops at Broad Street Studio and in Rhode Island's juvenile detention facility. The tracks were recorded in the Delgado Recording Studio and they are straight banging! Check out a sample track from the album and while your at it venture over to our online store and pick up a copy.

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Check this track list:

1) Blah Blah Blah (Ivy, Plan B, Ceddy)

2) Una Loca (E. Nasty, Plan B)

3) Connections (Nabby Zoo, Peot, Plan B)

4) Angels and Demons (Jamie)

5) Fact or Fiction (KIT featuring Plan B)

6) Gutter Fly (Jelly, Amber)

7) Step Ya Game Up (Ivy)

8) Gimme What Ya Got (Poet, AJ)

9) Str8t 16 (Y.V. and Greg P)

10) Look at Me Now (Ivy)

11) Hip Hop (Chris da Great)

12) I Found Love (Cinderella)

13) Hustle Some Knowledge (Jamie)

14) I Never Sleep (Chris da Great)

15) When We Could Fly (Chris, Poet, and V-Eye)

16) Teach (Chris, Ariel, and Nabby Zoo)

17) Legend of da Hearda (LAdy Phoenix)

18) Ms. Lady (Nabby Zoo, Procab)

19) Put Ya Hands Up (KIP Boys)

Let us know what you think... hit us up on our myspace page or talk to AS220's Performance Coordinator.

Broad Street Studio is hosting it year end showcase on December 17th at 6:00. We will be featuring some of Rhode Island's most creative up and comers in hip hop, photography, visual arts, fashion, design, and dance. One featured artist is Simcha Davis. Simcha has been working hard in AS220's Fab Lab designing clothing, jewelry, and other merchandise. Come check out her work and that of over forty other young artist!

Another highlight will be the debut performance of an original tune written by BSS instructor, Susan Sakash, and featuring drum breaks by Norland, Brittney and Dan. Take a sneak listen to a recent rehearsal. Shout out to guest horn - lydia Stein on the baritone. This songs so new it doesn't even have a title...enjoy!

All the mystery to be unveiled at next week's BSS Showcase - Thursday December 17th from 6-8pm in the as220 performance space. Show up and show your support!

Check out some of the work that Kafumba Bility and other young people in Providence, Rhode Island are doing in the AS220 Labs, the public technology studio and hacker space at AS220, a community arts organization in Providence.

Kafumba is a member of AS220's Broad Street Studio youth program, which offers arts and technology workshops to at-risk and under-served youth at AS220's building in downtown Providence and inside Rhode Island's juvenile prison.

This holiday season, Kafumba and about 30 other youth are taking a product design class at AS220 Labs, taught by AS220 Labs staff and a designer from Providence-based medical device product development firm Ximedica. The young people have been making and selling handcrafted merchandise in AS220's Fab Lab - a suite of personal fabrication equipment and software created at MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms that includes a laser cutter, milling machine and vinyl cutter.

AS220's Fab Lab was launched last year with support from the Greater Providence Chamber of Commerce, the City of Providence and numerous individual donors.

"I get a simple drawing of theirs and try to get them on the laser cutter within five minutes," says Jeremy Radtke, the arts, media & technology coordinator in AS220's youth program. "I really quickly show them the process of scanning their images, bringing it into GIMP and tweaking the contrast. The idea is, once they understand the process we can begin making all kinds of great things."

The photo below is Kafumba's first, five-minute work - a simple drawing from his sketchbook. He and others have designed and laser cut jewelry, birch plywood holiday cards and other products that are being sold at Craftland, a retail store in Providence for local artists and artisans.

Kafumba, a freshman at Community College of Rhode Island, is picking up his ESL credits there and plans to transfer to a four-year art school next year. He is working in AS220's Fab Lab to improve his college portfolio.

This work is being done on a shoestring budget - the young people at AS220 Labs have accomplished all this in the Fab Lab with a $500 supply budget that is quickly dwindling. AS220 is currently in the middle of its 25th Anniversary Annual Fund Drive. Any size donation will help us meet our annual budget. Donations can be earmarked specifically to support the work of our youth in the lab. Please help us! Donate today at www.as220.org.

Thank you!

Check out a new video created by Harken Productions of some of the work we did!

The Beat Library is the newest project taken on by AS220's Delgado Studios and the summer employment team. We have been collecting a range copyright free beats made by both the young producers at BSS and producers from in and around Rhode Island. All of these beats are original and ASCAP, BMI, and SESAC free! Check out our Soundclick page to listen to or download selections from our library. While your there you can listen to Carlos' newest work "Beat Star". The Beat is constructed off horns with a old school rap melody that has people reminiscing for the golden days.

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In the Youth Gallery is Quiet Riot: New Work by Sarah Samways. Sarah is the fab Youth Gallery Coordinator & this her last hurrah at AS220 before heading off to college in September! Come on down & celebrate Sarah's fine art work & hard work organizing the Youth Gallery!

Sarah Samways, "Malakai's Grand Adeventure", mixed media on canvas

For the past year, I have inflicted pain onto others. As your resident 'gallery girl', I set forth deadlines with evil precision, I demanded the dreaded artist statement and bashed people over the head the '60-inch-rule' until bits of brain spilled out onto the gallery's floor. But once all our T's were crossed and our I's dotted, the fun began...our Sunday openings. For those of you who exhibited work in the space, may I remind you of diligent gallery visitor, The Penguin? Come rain or shine, our suited friend stopped by to support youth art...and his zealous appetite. We did have fun, didn't we? Like all good things, however, we are coming to a closing. My job here is done and come near the end of August, I'll be on a train to Chicago for school. The gallery will go on with someone else behind the reins and I bid them good luck and farewell. My last hurrah at AS220 is an opening showcasing my own work, (which is intimidating following all of you - the gallery saw a lot of fantastic action this year). I'd designate myself under the 'mixed media' category (which seems like a cop-out but my interests vary and often collapse on top of each other, so it's my best attempt at explaining what it is I do). I like pretty things and am detail-oriented. I get bored easily so I often switch materials mid-stroke. I like fighting with myself about things deemed important only to me (i.e. stupid stuff). I'm a mixed kid in blood, body, soul and mind and I heart The Youth Gallery.

The Broad Street Beats - a hot new street band born out of as220's Broad Street Studios - will take to the streets and stage at this year's Foo Fest, August 15th. Combining hip hop, samba, and reggaeton, the BSB is all about original beats to make people dance, spit, and bob heads.

To get your band on, contact Susan at susan.sakash@gmail.com with your phone number, instrument, and interest.