(NEW YORK) - Look for prominent hip-hop label Tommy Boy to diversify into alternative music come summer.|

So far, the label has signed Moa, an Icelandic singer who is described as a cross between Billie Holiday and Sade; JoyDrop, a four-piece alternative band from Toronto that will be produced by Ron St. Germain; Boy Genius, a punk rock band from Knoxville, Tenn.; Baby Gopal, a New York-based hardcore band; and Purity, an all-female electronica band from London that has already seen chart action in the U.K. with its first single, "Adrenalin."

Also, Everlast from House of Pain is recording an album on which he sings and plays guitar, keyboards, and bass.