This Sunday  July 5th, 2009, the annual Rock The Bells Tour will be making a stop at the Molson Amphitheatre in Toronto.  Special thanks to Melissa at Offshoot Communications, the Young, Fresh & New team wants you to win a pair of tickets to see the show. To enter the contest -please email your name and full mailing address to contests@theyoungfreshnew.com. The contest will end Friday July 3rd (12:00 pm EST). The winner will be contacted immediately tomorrow.

Here are all the details for Sunday:
Rock The Bells 09
Sunday July 5th @ The Molson Amphitheatre
Doors Open 1pm
Show Starts 2p
Buy Tickets at LiveNation.com

See you there & Good Luck!

This Friday June 19th – Soul Kitchen will be going down at Level Nightclub (102 Peter St  – Toronto). R&B Singer Case will be LIVE performing classic songs including “Missing You,” Touch Me Tease Me,” and “Happily Ever After”. Music will be provided by 2009 Stylus DJ Award Winners Jester & Kid Kut. Admission $20

Ian Andre Espinet & the Young, Fresh & New Blog are giving away a pair of tickets (2) to Soul Kitchen. To enter the contest – Just answer the question by submitting your answers to contests@theyoungfreshnew.com. The contest will end  on June 19th (12:00 am EST). The winner will be chosen on June 19th (Noon). Rules: This is a 19+ event.

What is the name of the single that features Mary J. Blige and Foxy Brown? [hint: It was a track on the Nutty Professor Soundtrack]

Good Luck & hope to see you there at Soul Kitchen. Peep all the event details below.

Soul Kitchen ~ A Personal Conversation featuring a LIVE PERFORMANCE by: CA$E
performing songs from his repertoire which includes… MISSING YOU • FADED PICTURES • THINK OF YOU • NOT YOUR FRIEND • TOUCH ME TEASE ME and of course HAPPILY EVER AFTER.

LEVEL NIGHTCLUB – 102 Peter Street (at Adelaide) • Downtown Toronto
Style Code: Adult R&B: No Hats, runners or sports apparel • ID Required • Adm:: $ 20

Universal Music Canada +  the Young, Fresh & New blog will be giving away Universal Music Prize Pack (Black Eyed Peas – The End, Electrik Red - How To Be a Lady: Volume 1 and a Just Dance Compliation). To enter the contest – Just answer the question by submitting your answers to contests@theyoungfreshnew.com. The contest will end  on June 11th (12:00 am EST). The winner will be chosen on June 12th.

Which members from Electrik Red are from Toronto, Canada?

Black Eyed Peas – The End is out this coming Tuesday and Electrik Red - How To Be a Lady: Volume 1 is out now! Get your copy now!

Drake performed at Sound Academy on May 13th which was the first show after the release of his mixtape So Far Gone.  Word was that around 8 P.M., the line up to get inside the venue was long. By the time the Real Mark Global Group & Young, Fresh & New team got there, it was an easy process. The venue was jam packed and I couldn’t believe how many people were there to see Drake! It was absolutely amazing. Everyone race and culture came out to support T.O own – Drake.

Special shout outs to Brown of Legacy Sound and P-Reign for holding down the crowd until Drake came on stage. Around 10:15pm Drake opened the show with “Congratulations”. I felt like I was living a Kanye West moment. Everyone was singing word to word and was showing love. I couldn’t enjoy the track because two guys wanted to wreck everyone’s fun and almost fought. (Smh) When we will ever learn? After they got removed from the scene, Drizzy got the crowd hyped with the “Unstoppable” Remix. When he started to rap the words “My name is Drizzy….”  the whole crowd went bananas and started to sing along. If you thought that sounded exciting, Drake began to perform that Houston shit “Uptown” and guess who came out…. Bun B. What?!?!?! Bun B of U.G.K. came to support a Toronto artist. Again, absolutely amazing! The New Fresh Prince spent 40 minutes performing various tracks including “Successful,” “Closer,” “Still Fly” with Page, “Best I Ever Had,” “Say You Will,” “City Is Mine” “Ignant Shit,” “November 18th,” “A Little Bit,” “Every Girl” and some others. How many rappers can you name that can sing? Drake serenaded the ladies with “Brand New.”  I was a little mad he did not sing “A Night Off” but he can save that for the next concert with Lloyd.

I LOVED every minute of the concert, but I did find that the song sequence was a little off. I felt the song line up was more for the College/University crowd. It’s his first show and I will not knock Drake down for it. He’s a humble artist and is always learning and open to suggestions. I want to reflect on this moment a year from now and see how his performances will be like then.

If you were not there to witness this show, this is something you will regret. I REPEAT – YOU WILL REGRET THIS!

One note:  TORONTO is no longer the Screwface Captial of the world because we are capable of singing along and supporting our own.

Normally I have my camera therefore I didn’t get any videos. Check out the videos I got off of YouTube. I will be posting more.  If you were at the concert – what are your thoughts??

Congratulations  & Unstoppable

Best I Ever Had

Every Girl

Chrisette Michelle released her sophomore album Epiphany yesterday (May 5th) which is available in stores and on iTunes. Universal Music Canada & the Young, Fresh & New blog wants you to WIN a copy of Christelle Michelle – Epiphany. It’s simple – Just answer the question by submitting your answers to contests@theyoungfreshnew.com no later than May 9th (12:00 am EST). Winner will be chosen on May 11th.

Which rapper plays Chrisette Michelle’s boyfriend in the “Epiphany” video?

Be sure to get a copy of Epiphany and Good luck!!!!

Win a Copy of Lloyd’s Lesson In Love. It’s very simple. The first three people to answer the question correctly, will win a copy of the Lloyd’s new album Lesson In Love.

Question: Name the three singles of the Lessons In Love album

Send the answers to contests [at] theyoungfreshnew.com

Lloyd – Lessons in Love is out in stores. Go buy it!!!

Brought to you by Universal Music Canada.