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She is Malaysian Australian, 22 years old and has already signed a six-album deal with the major music label, Virgin Records. How was Che'nelle discovered? On Myspace.com! Check out the whole story of this talented young performer, as she chats with Nuz and Nak on iaList, 9pm-11pm ET this Sunday on www.imaginasianradio.com.

Kaila Yu has her own show on Octane TV! Make sure to check out Octane TV at OCTANETV.com, she is hosting 10 episodes of "Drift Scene". Five episodes are up right now!

In order to update listeners with day-to-day stuff you normally wouldn't see, AT LAST decided to start their own video blog entitled, "AT LAST - The Webcast". Every week or two, they will be posting new episodes of random AT LAST happenings. Feel free to send them ideas for future episodes! Check out their first episode on www.myspace.com/atlast.

Ken Oak Band’s new album called Vienna to Venice will be available September 25 at www.cellorock.com and at Ken Oak Band live shows. Be sure to check it out!

Pre-order The Visionaries' new album now and get the album up to 1 week early! Order at upabove.com and use the coupon code MS6WATO and get the album for only $9.95 plus shipping. Also, get the ringtone for Visionaries new single “in the good” for free at their new ringtone store visionaries.mstore.xingtone.com.

Don’t forget to check out the Tokyo Music Festival Saturday, September 30, 2006. Central Park, NYC. It's a free, all-day, open-air music festival that will showcase the most inspired artistic talent from the East and the West. This year’s festival focuses on artists that are currently breaking new ground in emerging musical subgenres, ranging from Turntablism to Dancehall, Hip-hop to Progressive Jazz. It will establish a cultural and creative bridge between the U.S. and Japan, centered around the universal language of music provided by HIFANA (Break Beats – 21st century Japan’s most anticipated artist), PE’Z (Samurai Jazz – Japan’s No. 1 Instrumentalists), and MIGHTY CROWN (Dancehall Reggae – 4-time world champion) from Japan, as well as DJ A-TRAK (Turntablism –Kanye West’s live DJ) and TALIB KWELI (Hip-hop – Brooklyn-bred prodigy) from the United States. Door opens 2pm.

RECLAIM vol 2, set for Saturday, Sept 23, will be a dynamic and unique event that will combine hiphop, spoken word, rock music, song, street theatre, visual art, culture and politics. The event will raise awareness in the community about human rights violations in the Philippines while commorating the declaration of Martial Law, a historic time in Philippine history. Though the event will feature and draw predominantly Filipino youth, the event is expected to draw a diverse crowd of 250-300 people. RECLAIM is a fundraising event organized by Ugnayan ng mga Anak ng Bayan, a grassroots Filipino youth organization.

Kabir needs your help... He has been nominated for two Boston Music Awards this year, Best Hip Hop/Rap Act and Best Funk/Jam Band, so please get online and throw two votes his way! The voting process goes on for a week until next Friday, 9/22/06. To vote, go here.

Here is some new music to check out on www.imaginasianradio.com:

Matt Sia (Insomnia)
It's his brand new debut and we've been waiting for a long time for this album! Check it out online!

Happy Analogues (EP)
Two fresh tracks from these Jersey guys! It's Brit pop and very cool!

The first hour of iaList will feature an episode of The Hip Hop Hour with NUZ ‘n’ NAK and it features the newly-signed Virgin artist, Che’Nelle. Tune in to iaList this Sunday night from 9-11pm (ET) to listen to the interview ONLY on ImaginAsian Radio, www.imaginasianradio.com. NUZ attended the Red Doors movie premiere at The ImaginAsian Theater in NYC and will be in LA when the film opens there September 20th, 2006. If you are in the area, please go and support this Asian American film. NUZ was also at New York Fashion Week and on the set for W32nd Street. You can tune in to ImaginAsian Radio, www.imaginasianradio.com, from 3-4pm (ET) everyday to hear about these events.

iaList: Sun, Online, and on 96.1 FM KSQQ (SF), 9-11pm ET This week features a special with leading Bollywood directors, Karan Johar, Kunal Kohli, and Vidhu Vinod Chopra and some hot new tracks from Bollywood!

Roli Rho Hour: Fri, 9-10pm ET, Online Some hot clubbing music coming your way!

Karate Rice Hour: Mon, 8-10pm ET, Online only Karate Rice Hour brings you unexplored, unexpected Asian music to your ears. Tune in and be delighted or be surprised!

Hip Hop with Nuz and Nak: Mon-Fri, 3-4pm ET, Online only Che’Nelle, newly signed Virgin artist (6 albums), visited the duo at the ImaginAsian Radio studio to talk about her moves and her discovery through MySpace. Also, the boys are in sunny Los Angeles, California this week, you can visit Nuz and Nak this week at the ImaginAsian TV booth in LA at the Seoul International Park for the Chusok Festival talking place Thursday, September 21st through Sunday, September 24th, 2006. Come through and get your autographs and your pictures taken with your favorite Internet radio personality. Also, please tune in everyday from 3-4pm (ET) to ImaginAsian Radio, www.imaginasianradio.com to hear about Nuz’s visit to New York Fashion Week and his visit to the set of W32nd, a new movie directed by Michael Kang and starring John Cho and Grace Park.

NiteLife Radio: Wed, 8-10pm ET, Online only This week, noted comedian Russel Peters is in the studio, chatting it up live with NiteLife Radio! Tune in or someone's gonna get a hurt real bad!

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IBU
September 23, 2006 at Saint Thomas Parish Gym
1500 Brookdale Road, Naperville, IL
Benefit Concert for Leyte Landslide
Free

Ken Oak Band
September 25, 2006 at University of California, San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA
Free

Wayne Hsu
September 22, 2006 at Drexel University
33rd and Market, Philadelphia, PA
FREE

New Student Carnival!
September 21, 2006 at CRASH MANSION
199 Bowery, New York, NY

Lee Wilson
Saturday September 23rd
St Marks Church Parish Hall
131 e 10th street, New York, NY
Doors open at 7pm
www.myspace.com/ugnayannynj

Kiyoshi Graves
September 23, 2006 at Cold Tofu, Maryknoll Japanese Catholic Center
222 S. Hewitt St., Los Angeles, CA
Cost: Pay what you can
Warm-up act for Cold Tofu improv comedy troupe Cold Tofu is dedicated to promoting diverse images of Asian Pacific Americans through comedy and to developing multiethnic talent through education and performance.

Dengue Fever
September 22, 2006
Joe's Pub
New York, NY 10001

Misnomer(s)
September 21, 2006, 8PM.
Je' Bon, 15 St. Marks Place btw 2nd & 3rd Ave, NYC
$8
30-minute set for the East Side Show, hosted by Albert Lim. Last show in NYC for the month of September, so please come out!

Intense Comedy's BLAME CANADA
Sept 22, 2006
3rd Anniversary Show @ The New York Improv
Check out the awesome video at www.IntenseOnline.com