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May 1, 2008
It takes a man firm in his musical convictions to make a record that not only embraces the days of peak disco but also beds them in a fury and leaves...
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May 1, 2008
Some things change, some stay the same. In Jamie Lidell's case, it's this simple but effective balance that has put new energy into his latest project,...
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Apr 1, 2008
The phrase If it ain't broke, don't fix it is usually sound advice for any musician who has achieved a modicum of success in today's tumultuous music...
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Apr 1, 2008
As part of the innovative '90s Warp Records crew that included such mad boffins as Aphex Twin, Squarepusher, LFO, the Black Dog and Nightmares on Wax,...
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Mar 1, 2008
Calling from New York while lounging in bed with her two dogs, Lick Lick Science and Pantera Marvelous, Sia Furler speaks like the same soulful, slightly...
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Mar 1, 2008
Alexis Taylor is rummaging around his flat, looking for the lap-size Yamaha keyboard he bought at a car boot sale a few years back for three quid. I know...
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Feb 1, 2008
I've always enjoyed being exposed to new things, says a young lady standing nearby. On a damp November night on New York City's Upper East Side, she wouldn't...
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Feb 1, 2008
For the sake of all that's right in world, Kenna Zemedkun should be huge. But as author Malcolm Gladwell wrote in his best-selling book, Blink, he's just...
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Feb 1, 2008
With Seventh Tree, Goldfrapp’s Will Gregory and Alison Goldfrapp change the landscape for a more expansive yet introspective sound ...
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Feb 1, 2008
Having braved curses, floods, mysterious injuries, mental breakdowns and desertions, Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and the Mars Volta leap headlong into the signal-processed unknown...
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Jan 1, 2008
It’s been a long road fraught with record label indecision and shelved solo joints, but Q-Tip insists that his new album, The Renaissance, is for real—in more ways than one...
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Jan 1, 2008
Get insight into the music business from the perspective of a pro vocal coach...
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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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Dec 1, 2007
West Indian Girl’s head count multiplies while band leader Robert James maintains a love affair with a certain synth and endangers the homeless people outside the band’s studio window...
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Dec 1, 2007
Hitting Manhattan for a nearly sold-out performance at Central Park's SummerStage this past September, Underworld brought not only music but live digicams,...
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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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