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Spanglish Boom-Bap Trio Grupo HNE drop debut LP and new single!

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8 months ago

August 27, 2024

After a short break, The prolific DJ Heron returns with a new episode of his web-series House Of Heron! Presented by Gridlock Production House the twelve part series invites top Miami, Florida emcees into Heron’s studio to do a blindfold record pull from his collection which he then cooks an original beat from and the emcee spits to resulting in a new single. This time around the guests are DJ Exes (emcee) and Nando (multi-instrumentalist)who are in the trio Grupo HNE with Heron.

Pulling a Billy Joel and Dr. John LP the cook-up in the episode resulted in the single “Golden Tone” a soulful and crackin’ dose of Spanglish boom-bap.

Coincidentally Grupo HNE is dropping their debut album today as well. This follows a string of singles and videos already released that appear on the album (links below).

Listen to Grupo HNE LP: https://open.spotify.com/album/4h6siox1WeaWCIHRlLAhsG?si=Z3KJGGb_RvanDhPkfZDuog

Watch official video for “Calle HNE”: https://youtu.be/zgKTL3Y_NNQ?si=JMfVeUGmvorIdbHK

Watch official video for “Black Angels / Big Pictures”: https://youtu.be/Bqlk8TeyHtw?si=y9HykR4T969I-cap

Watch official video for “The Palmetto” ft. Orion: https://youtu.be/hPReR_6-MrQ?si=PLCZG5ItVRGwPM6i

Originally from Brooklyn, DJ Heron cut his teeth in the early days of DJ Culture in Miami. Over the decades he has worked with / DJ’d for artists including De La Soul, Mobb Deep, Smoke DZA, KRS-ONE, The Lox and many more.

In addition he closed out 2023 with a full-length remix album of LoLife General Thirstin Howl The 3^rd classic material entitled Thirstin On Heron.

More Info:

https://www.grupohne.com

https://www.instagram.com/grupo_hne

https://www.instagram.com/dj_heron

https://www.instagram.com/combinandomusic

https://www.instagram.com/djexes1

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Rocky Kramer’s Rock & Roll Tuesdays Presents “Ace of Space” On Tuesday, April 22nd, 2025 7 PM PT on Twitch

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2 hours ago

April 20, 2025

Jimmy Star

Rocky Kramer will be hosting “Ace of Space” on this week’s episode of Rocky Kramer’s Rock & Roll Tuesdays on Twitch. Tune into Twitch on Tuesday, April 22^nd, 2025 at 7 PM PT for this amazing show.

Rocky Kramer is a guitar virtuoso, often being compared to the greatest guitar players in the world. Rocky has performed on shows with some of the greatest musicians on the planet including Ozzy Osbourne, John Lodge, Steve Vai, Leland Sklar, Kenny Aronoff, Tommy James, Verdeen White, Ten Years After, BuckCherry, Rick Wakeman and more.

Rocky’s first studio album, “Firestorm” is now available worldwide through Allied Artists Music Group, together with an epic music video of his #1 Global DRT Chart topper single, “Rock Star”, that also picked up a Best Rock Performance nod at the 2019 Hollywood Music In Media Awards (“HMMA”).

Rocky Kramer recently returned to the studio to record his sophomore album “Alone In The Rain” which will be released later this year.

Rocky Kramer was recently cast in The Mutt Productions/ Allied Artists rock n’ roll time travel comedy adventure “Rockin’ In Time” where he will play the film’s lead character, Lars Olsen. The film is being directed by Aaron Lee Lopez (of the “Teenage Girl” franchise) and is being produced by multi-platinum and six-time Grammy Award winning musician turned motion picture producer, Kurt Wipfli.

Watch Rocky Kramer’s “Rock Star” Music Video here: