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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
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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.
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When I was a teenager, I filled notebooks with annotations for the lyrics to Operation: Mindcrime, the third album by Queensrÿche. I lined up four hours before doors opened (and three hours before anyone else showed up) to see them play at a theatre in Kentucky...
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Monumentour: My Rock, My Salvationnew
How this summer's Monumentour testifies to the resilient role of rock 'n' roll.
Tags: Fallout Boy, Monumentour
The strangely similar career paths of Vampire Weekend and Blur's Damon Albarnnew
During a concert last fall at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, Vampire Weekend diverged from their own material exactly once, covering Blur's Dadaist jock jam "Song 2." The choice was a surprisingly big, crunchy move for a band whose sound typically veers toward the airy and nuanced...
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Future Islands' Roots Run Back to North Carolinanew
Since an appearance on David Letterman, the band’s rise has been meteoric.
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