About
Brokeandfamous.cz is the brainchild of the Prague taste-maker, free lance journalist and musician, Craig Montana (C.Monts, Craig Monts, Sasa Flamingo). Craig has a far reaching knowledge matched with a surpassing love for many different genres, fields and topics. Design, fashion, music and events are his forte. He tirelessly attends as many parties, eavesdrops on as many conversations and trawls through as many internet pages & magazines as possible to bring you a one-stop blog full of interesting and progressive tid-bits. Sometimes the content will be site specific (Prague, Czech Republic), sometimes not. Sometimes the content will even have Czech translations..sometimes not.
The main aim of this website is to bring as many talented individuals, groups, collectives, bands, artists and designers to your attention in the hope that one day you’ll spend your hard earned money in their direction. No pressure.
Where ever possible he will quote the origin of the information posted on the website. Occasionally he’ll get exclusive material in which case he’ll tell you so. Craig loves getting information straight from the source, so don’t ever be shy..feel free to hit him up: teambrokeandfamous (at) gmail.com
Craig’s Current Jobs & Projects
Hip Hop MC
Craig is a progressive and opened minded MC. Working with a number of producers to create interesting, high quality music. (www.myspace.com/cmontsco)
Ice-Watch Sponsored Artist (C.Monts)
Monts has been working closely with the Ice-Watch (Prague, Czech Republic) team. Promoting the brand with his music. occasionally making TV appearances to support the brand.
UK Agent for Hip Hop Kemp 2010
Craig is the UK agent for the Czech based Hip Hop festival Hip Hop Kemp 2010. This role includes UK promo and pre-sale ticket distribution for the UK market. www.hiphopkemp.com
New Balance Radio show (Spin Radio, Prague-CZ) Every Sunday 18.00-20.00
Craig is the main host and the brains behind Radio Spin’s latest musical show. The New Balance show aims to provide it’s listeners with a weekly two hour show filled with the best in contemporary music. New Soul, Jazz and Hip Hop for the masses with a touch of dubstep and grime for good measure. The shows title and concept came solely from Craig.
Expats.cz contributor and content provider
Craig has been working with the ever growing expats.cz to providing interesting and thought provoking articles for the growing number of users. He has spent time reporting for expats.cz at the 2010 Rock For People Festival. Providing a day by day report from the 3 day event for the websites readers. Craig will continue to play a important content provider role for expats.cz in 2011 and beyond.
Vice Magazine & Viceland.com/cs contributor
Monts is a regular contributor to the global lifestyle publication Vice. His music based interviews and forecasts are regularly published on the Czech Viceland.com website.
Full Moon Magazine (Contributor)
Craig has recently started regular contributions in the form of music based interviews with artists for the Czech based music magazine: Full Moon: http://www.fullmoonmagazine.cz/
www.potholesinmyblog.com (Contributor)
Monts has recently joined the super eclectic Pothole team headed by David Reyneke. Potholes continues to be one of the most respected and admired blog in the online musical scene.
Bbarak Magazine Contributor
Craig is a regular contributor to the longest running Czech based Hip Hop magazine, Bbarak. Craig has a fixed column on new UK music entitled on My Bock, fashion and street wear news in the column Style Addict and at least two in-depth interviews in each printed publication.
Ocko TV
Craig works alongside David Marysko sourcing & providing music video’s for the 5 Element Hip Hop based TV show aired on the Czech music channel Ocko. Craig occasionally undertakes the presenting role in front of camera, talking in English on a range of current musical or fashion based subjects.
Tenisifku.eu
Craig has been blogging images, short articles and video’s for the Polish based fashion & lifestyle website, Tenisifku.eu. (http://tenisufki.eu/blog/Craig+Monts)
Shawn Chystopher Blog- Honour Role Student
Craig contributes short articles, video’s and images for the Honour Role student blog run by Californian based Hip Hop artists Shawn Chystopher (http://www.honourrolestudent.com/blog/)
(Updated February 2011)
Disclaimer Style
The songs posted on Brokeandfamous.cz are for promotional purposes only. Misuse of these mp3 files by making CD’s is illegal. There is no commercial gain by putting Songs on this site other than making the Songs popular and help both the artist & manufacturers increase their sales. All the rights are reserved to the audio company. Brokeandfamous.cz hold no responsibility for any illegal usage of the content.
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Craig Montana-Broke and Famous
