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Dec 1, 2007
Louis XIV’s rockfest marches on with tin cans and high-end string arrangements...
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Dec 1, 2007
If anyone's guessing that CMJ Music Marathon is slowing down after 27 years running, the 1,000-plus bands and packed audiences stated otherwise. The diverse...
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Nov 1, 2007
Stars move from a DIY bedroom studio to a sweet space at a haunted Warehouse...
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Nov 1, 2007
British producers score early with hip-hop and then expand the brand...
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Nov 1, 2007
With analog tape as their guiding medium—and with everyone from Al Green to Amy Winehouse riding shotgun—Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings have orchestrated a whole new R&B revival...
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Nov 1, 2007
Experience the life of Mocean Worker’s Cinco de Mowo tracks, from sampling and songwriting to stage...
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Oct 1, 2007
Lollapalooza dawned hot on Friday, Aug. 3 at Chicago's Grant Park and we mean the kind of hot that causes eggs to fry on the sidewalk and makes festival...
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Oct 1, 2007
He meaning Ian Parton is the sampling mastermind who began his early musical ventures with naught more than a 4-track tape recorder and an old Akai S1000....
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Oct 1, 2007
Space is always an issue when living in London. You particularly feel it when you are used to the wide-open spaces and clean air of Denmark. This is the...
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Sep 1, 2007
Proving music fans no longer need to choose sides, the second Pitchfork Music Festival (July 13-15) brought 39 seemingly incongruous acts together for...
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Sep 1, 2007
For so long, VHS or Beta singer/guitarist Craig Pfunder says, we were about trying to re-create dance music with traditional instruments. That was a big...
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Sep 1, 2007
Since first bursting on the scene in the early 1990s, James Lavelle has remained one of the coolest and most important names in the electronic-music genre....
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Jul 1, 2007
Back in the not-so-distant days of pre-millennial anxiety, just about everyone with a sliver of creative marrow in their bones had cultivated their own...
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Jul 1, 2007
The entire rock 'n' roll aesthetic has long weighed heavy on the minds of today's electronic dance-music producers. Ever since acts like Underworld, Daft...
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Jul 1, 2007
You won't get a lot of wild stage antics at a Chromeo show, but the duo's subtlety is no less engaging. The first thing you'll notice is Pee Thug (aka...
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Jul 1, 2007
In 2007, after years of hyperdetailed, program-heavy albums that helped define and challenge contemporary music, Björk Guttir took a minimalist turn. Now...
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Jun 1, 2007
With a few exceptions, post-'90s dance music has lacked any identity. Although top-flight DJs continued to thrive in clubs around the world, there was...
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Jun 1, 2007
Without a good dose of jet lag, The Adventures of Ghosthorse and Stillborn would have turned out to be quite a different album. When Bianca and Sierra...
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Jun 1, 2007
More than just a victim of stage fright, Daniel Kuypers has long suffered from chronic angst while spinning hip-hop in his native Chicago. Every week,...
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Jun 1, 2007
The first thing you'll notice about the new Savath & Savalas album is the absence of Eva Puyuelo, whose aching vocals floated over the modernized Catalonian...
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Jun 1, 2007
By now notorious for its searing hot live music and even hotter desert sun, the annual Coachella festival sizzled for three long days this year, April...
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May 1, 2007
No doubt you've invested a lot of dough in your home studio. In fact, it's probably worth more than the rest of your stuff put together, especially when...
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May 1, 2007
It's good to be the king especially if you're Tim Mosley. For well over a decade now, the 36-year-old producer has spun his quirkily deconstructed beats...
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May 1, 2007
Many reggae fans can close their eyes and remember some of their favorite and freshest irie riddims of the past decade and, chances are, five-time Grammy...
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May 1, 2007
Two years ago, Tracey Thorn emerged from half a decade of maternal bliss to record vocals for German duo-of-the-moment Tiefschwarz, then slipped away...
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