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Rowe International AMI Signs Tommy Boy Entertainment

Tommy Boy celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2006

GRAND RAPIDS, MI —AMI Entertainment, the music content division for Rowe International jukeboxes, recently signed with Tommy Boy Entertainment. Tommy Boy is a well-respected urban label that grew up alongside the birth of Hip Hop music in the 80's. Founder Tom Silverman started the label in 1981 from his apartment in New York City, releasing Hip Hop when it wasn't such a highly fashionable idea. Waves of cultural change started with Tommy Boy's release of 'Planet Rock' by Afrika Bambaataa and the Soul Sonic Force, and the imprint never looked back.

Tommy Boy celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2006 with the release of the first four volumes of its 'Hip Hop Essentials' collections. This collection has grown to 12 volumes since, and features the cream of the crop from the early days of Hip Hop. The songs featured in this collection stand as the foundation of today’s popular Hip Hop and Rap music, and include songs by Beastie Boys, Salt N Pepa, Doug E Fresh, Grand Master Flash, A Tribe Called Quest, Tone Loc, Big Daddy Kane, Digital Underground, and many more. In other words, these collections offer the best of a golden era.

After years in the biz, and facing some cultural shifts, Tommy Boy has reached out into other popular genres. One may be pleasantly surprised to see the Tommy Boy brand releasing Soundtracks for hit TV series' the L Word' and 'Queer as Folk'. The mixes are IPod generation friendly, featuring Indie and Pop artists such as Iron & Wine, Ladytron, Le Tigre, Broken Social Scene, TV On The Radio, Ima Robot, Scissor Sisters, and Fatboy Slim.

All these ventures into the realm of the Soundtrack doesn’t mean Tommy Boy turned on its Urban roots by any means. 2006 saw the release of ‘Hard To Kill’ by rapper Gucci Mane, which cracked the top 5 on the Billboard charts for Independent albums, and ‘Too Bad’, which marks the return for Reggae/Dancehall star Buju Banton.  

About ROWE International & AMI Entertainment

Rowe International Corporation is the number one manufacturer of commercial and home coin-op jukeboxes, and the leading maker of CD-to-digital upgrade kits. The Company manufactures the NiteStar®, Solara® (floor format) and NiteHAWK™ and StarBrite® (wall-mounted) Internet-enabled all-digital jukeboxes. The Company’s Internet-enabled devices can operate over a variety of broadband connections including wireless. AMI Entertainment, a wholly owned subsidiary of Rowe International Corp., provides digital music content and Web-based management services for the Rowe Internet-enabled jukeboxes over the AMI Entertainment Network. Rowe International and AMI Entertainment are headquartered in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Rowe also maintains a technical support and sales office in London, and has one of the industry’s most extensive sales and support systems, with distributors in more than 35 countries. Distributor and product information is available at the Company website, www.roweinternational.com, or by calling (616) 243-3633.