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Tuesday August 19, 2008

Shwayze On AOL's The DL Show

Check out Shwayze on AOL's" The DL: The Streaming Truth" show!

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Tuesday August 19, 2008

Shwayze Is #1 On ITUNES!!



Shwayze
's debut album just beat out The Jonas Brothers and Staind to become the #1 on iTUNES!  Head over to iTUNES and download the record right now!

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Monday August 18, 2008

Shwayze Album Available Now!



Shwayze's debut album featuring "Corona and Lime" and "Buzzin" is available TODAY! Head over to iTUNES to buy the record or pick it up in our Suretone Store!

 

The new album is also available at these fine retailers:

TARGET
BEST BUY
AMAZON
SMARTPUNK

 

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Monday August 18, 2008

Show Us Your Shwayze Album!


Did you buy Shwayze's new album today?  Submit a photo of yourself holding your new album to the Suretone Community and enter to win a super SUPER limited edition Shwayze 12" Vinyl!!!

The rules are simple:

1. Upload your photo to the "Show Us Your Shwayze Album" Category (click here to upload)

2. Have your friends and family vote for ...

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Monday August 18, 2008

Shwayze On TRL TOMORROW!

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To celebrate the release of their debut album Shwayze will be dropping by MTV's TRL TOMORROW! Check local listings for station and time.

Shwayze's debut album is also out TOMORROW! Be sure to pick up a copy of your own! ...

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Wednesday August 13, 2008

You Vote, Shwayze Performs!




Vote for Shwayze in Yahoo's Who's Next! If they win, Yahoo brings Shwayze into their studio for an exclusive performance. The choice is in your hands!

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Wednesday August 13, 2008

Shwayze Interview At Rap-Up.com



Head over to Rap-Up.com and check out a great interview with Shwayze!

 

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Wednesday August 13, 2008

New Episode Of Buzzin TONIGHT!



Tune in to MTV TONIGHT to catch an all new episode of Buzzin! It airs at 10:30pm/9:30c. Take a look at a scene from TONIGHT's episode at buzzin.mtv.com!


Miss an episode of Buzzin? You can buy the first three episodes of the series RIGHT NOW at iTUNES.

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Tuesday August 12, 2008

Updated Release Week Appearances For Shwayze

The release of Shwayze's album next week will be celebrated with a series of in store appearances from the East Coast to the West! Catch the guys and buy your copy of Shwayze while you do it!

Tuesday 8/19 @ 12:30 PM
Virgin Union Square
52 East 14th Street
New York, NY 10003
(212) 598-4666

 

Friday - 8/22 @ 9 PM
Hard Rock Cafe - Universal City ...

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Tuesday August 12, 2008

Truth or Dare With Shwayze



Cisco and Shwayze stopped by CosmoGirl to play a quick game of Truth or Dare! Want to see Shwayze's best break dancing move and find out the last photo Cisco took on his camera phone?  Watch the video interview right here.

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Malibu. It's where Mathew McConaughey flexes his pecs for paparazzi while shirtless on the beach. It's where Courtney Cox and husband David Arquette recently sold their home for the modest asking price of more than $30 million to Los Angeles Dodgers owner Frank McCourt. It's where Julia Roberts built her multi-million dollar, eco-friendly estate as a tribute to Green living. And it's where Cher, Jennifer Aniston and ...

Malibu. It's where Mathew McConaughey flexes his pecs for paparazzi while shirtless on the beach. It's where Courtney Cox and husband David Arquette recently sold their home for the modest asking price of more than $30 million to Los Angeles Dodgers owner Frank McCourt. It's where Julia Roberts built her multi-million dollar, eco-friendly estate as a tribute to Green living. And it's where Cher, Jennifer Aniston and Mel Gibson share the same 310 area code as the Malibu trailer park community that brought us Shwayze.

Alright, alright, so Malibu trailer parks aren't exactly the things Detroit's Eight Mile urban legends are made of, but they're still not cued for a "Lifestyle of the Rich and Famous" special. Either way, Shwayze has no complaints.

"To me, it was the nicest trailer of all time," boasts the 22-year-old protege of Hollywood socialite and Whitestarr frontman Cisco Adler. Adler may rock onstage, but he also made a name for himself as the producer of Mickey Avalon's hip-hop singles "Jane Fonda" and "Mr. Right." Couple those credits with a particular nugget on the resume of Cisco's dad, A-list impresario Lou Adler (that would be the stoner movie "Up In Smoke" we're talking about), and the smoky haze that is Shwayze comes into clearer focus.

A melting-pot of laid-back melodies, hip-hop rhythms and acoustic guitars, Shwayze's self-titled debut [Suretone/Geffen Records] pays homage to an all-day-and-into-the-night party lifestyle colored by the rolling tides of his hometown beaches, and the rolling papers that flavor the proceedings. Collaborating with Shwayze, Adler co-wrote all of the songs on the album, producing and providing backing vocals along the way.

"Buzzin'" splashes Cisco's roots-rock acoustic-guitar and vocal tapestry with Shwayze's cooler-than-a-sea-breeze hip-hop delivery. Says the rapper, "It's a new West Coast sound, it's California chill, West Coast stoner music." Case in point? "Don't Be Shy." "It's about Malibu being like an endless summer. Cisco came up with the hook and the 'da-don-don, da-don-don-don't be shy' part. I came up with the verses about a couple of chicks I was into. It's about wanting summer to come back, waiting for the sun and kicking it on the beach."

"I have a studio in my house, and that made it easy for us," explains Adler. "I'd usually have a beat made, or we'd just make one right on the spot, or even a whole track, and we'd just go to work. There was no particular process. It was party the night before to get something to talk about, then wake up in the morning and make a song about it... We weren't signed to Suretone/Geffen yet, and we weren't paying attention to that. We were just creating a sound and an artist, just for the sheer fun of it."

"That was the summer, man," attests Shwayze, whose moniker pays more than just a coincidental resemblance to movie star Patrick Swayze. "I was single, Cisco was single, and we partied in the pool, partied at the beach, chillin', hangin' out with chicks. That's what we were writing about."

The self-professed "only black kid in Malibu," Shwayze (born Aaron Smith) grew up with his grandparents, and despite an endless array of local jobs ("even Starbucks"), found that his most regular income came via his handyman grandfather. "Everyone else pretty-much got sick of me, and the only choice I really had was working for my grandfather, a handyman, as his assistant installing doors and windows, and fixing light bulbs for old ladies..."

But everything changed on a fateful night in 2005, when Shwayze commandeered the stage at Malibu Inn, a coastal hang and live-music haunt that Whitestarr were headlining. With the opening band onstage, the then-teenager jumped up and started freestyling. "They tried to kick me off the stage,' he says, "but I knew Whitestarr's drummer, Alex Orbison. Orbie got on the drums and did a beat. I was like, "I'm the only black kid in Malibu...' And the crowd went crazy. I looked over to the right and there was Cisco on the side of the stage. That was the first connection we had."

"I knew he had talent and charisma, so we started hanging out," recalls Adler. "It takes me a while to get in the studio with someone. Shwayze begged, begged and begged me. Finally, I said, 'Alright.' He showed up one day and that was it. We started working together and it was easy."

"I wasn't the priority at the time," says Shwayze. "I'd sit on the couch and just wait for him to have an opening. I'd sit there and chill, play some piano, pick up the guitar, whatever. Then he'd be like, 'Wanna make a track?' I'd say, ''Hell yeah!' I was that kid. At first I thought maybe I'm being a little brat, but he's really down with that. I think he just liked my persistence."

As Shwayze acknowledges on "Don't Be Shy," that persistence paid off: "I'm just a kid livin' the dream..."

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