AltWeeklies Wire
How the Internet, like George Clinton before it, has reinvigorated samplingnew

"We never mind them sampling or covering a song. You're not supposed to get sued all over the place for doing it. We'd rather be doing it together." —George Clinton
Tags: Sampling
Unlikely hitmaker Ke$ha crashes the club-pop party with purposenew

Ke$ha is a big, black fly in the pristine, pre-packaged pop ointment: She dismantles modern pop using the same tools that built it. And she is, at the moment, our strangest pop star.
Now that we're all curators, what is Diplo?new

More than a decade after Hollertronix 1, it often seems like Diplo now needs us more than we need him.
Tags: Diplo