

For burgeoning Jersey-based singer, songwriter and producer KDrew, I

Last week, he earned a spot as MTV's Buzzworthy artist of the week, a major coup for an independent artist. Check out his fantastic New York-based apocalypse-themed video for "One" below; explore KDrew's music here (recommended: "Body and Soul (She Got Control)," "One" and "Yesterday") and website here. And now, read all about your new pop/rock/dance hero and remember... you heard him here first! *
Anyone who thinks the premise behind HBO’s long-running “Entourage” is too fantastic to believe


The cable TV series followed the acting career of Vincent Chase and his posse of pals from Queens as they navigated the movie business in Los Angeles. In the real-life scenario of KDrew, a.k.a. Kevin Drew, the New Jersey born-and-bred artist is surrounded by a team of six fulltime staffers working for the Indie Music Group, taking on the industry by way of New York.
Incredibly, since October 2010, all seven—KDrew and manager John Levy, alongside operations, social media and marketing officials, a videographer and fellow musician—have lived under

KDrew’s could-be reality show squad is obviously onto something. In mid-January 2012, his single “One” launched


“The time we live in makes it possible to build a career through word of mouth,” KDrew says. “Music has become a new kind of democracy. You really



In hand, the independent route forged by IMG allows KDrew to proffer his musical versatility instead of being pigeonholed into a dumbed-down one-dimensional stylist. For a kid that grew up with a professional musician dad and started experimenting with his eight-track analog gear at age 14—while soaking in favorites Michael Jackson, Chris Cornell of Soundgarden, Coldplay, Madonna, Bruce Springsteen and Celine

“My sound in two words: classic pop,” he says. “So many acts influenced me and I want to explore all of those sounds, from rock and pop to hip-hop, dance and dubstep.”
Levy adds, “People are still asking, is he pop or urban or rock? Our goal is to get away from those labels—to deliver songs that are meaningful to an artist without having to choose the genre first.”
IMG is doing just that via a series of KDrew EPs, “Free,” Volumes 1 through 7, with one released each month to familiarize his burgeoning fan base with the singer’s diverse musical palette. Each EP


Among highlights of the first three volumes is “Body & Soul (She Got Control),” an eight-cylinder dance track about an overprotective dude who spies on his girlfriend, only to discover her dissing a guy in a club and being true to her man. Midtempo “One In A Million” conjures a chug-along harmonic call to self-empowerment; atmospheric “Yesterday” soars as a Beatles-esque hook-packed power ballad, urging that we leave regrets behind and focus on the here and now; and rock-stoked “Dirty Dancer” is a slinky sexual salvo to that girl everyone eyes on the dancefloor.


“Today, the seven of us eat, sleep and breathe for the same cause, and we do a good job as a family,” KDrew says, and with a grin: “In time, I’d like to be sitting in our pool-house studio with a couple Grammys, hopefully with enough success that the seven of us own the whole block: the ‘House of Indie’ compound.”
KDrew adds, “We believe in changing the way the music industry works. We hope to not only open doors for the artists we eventually work with, but open a lot of eyes, too.”
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