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Slideshow: Breakonomics 2009 at MIT

Dancers battle it out for cash prizes during Breakonomics 2009 at MIT's La Sala de Puerto Rico, April 25, 2009

By ALEXANDER HSU | April 29, 2009

Breakers, poppers, and housers battle it out for cash prizes at Breakonomics 2009
MIT La Sala de Puerto Rico, April 25, 2009
Photos by Alex Hsu

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Lows and highs
Although he lives in suburban DC — a few thousand miles and an ocean away from dubstep ground zero in London — producer Martijn Deykers (a/k/a MARTYN) was one of the genre's pivotal figures of 2008.
Review: The Roots of Hip-Hop
Everybody wants to claim hip-hop.
This old house
You wouldn't know it, but throbbing away in the upper two floors of that tiny wedge of a building splitting Stuart Street and Columbus Avenue is Rise: Boston's only after-hours nightclub.
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Lows and highs
Although he lives in suburban DC — a few thousand miles and an ocean away from dubstep ground zero in London — producer Martijn Deykers (a/k/a MARTYN) was one of the genre's pivotal figures of 2008.
Review: The Roots of Hip-Hop
Everybody wants to claim hip-hop.
This old house
You wouldn't know it, but throbbing away in the upper two floors of that tiny wedge of a building splitting Stuart Street and Columbus Avenue is Rise: Boston's only after-hours nightclub.
Review: Humcrush | Rest at World's End
Replete with bands who weave jazz, modern composition, and electronic music, the Rune Grammofon label captures a thriving scene of Norwegian improvisers and composers.
Review: Dance on Camera at Lincoln Center
Gotham was awash in dance during early January as the annual Dance on Camera Festival coincided with the conference of the Association of Performing Arts Presenters (better known as APAP, the national bookers' convention).
Strangeways, here we come
Everysmithever, who put out a self-titled full-length this fall and then promptly stopped playing shows, is more than a Cambiata side project.
Various Artists | Money Will Ruin Everything
Asked to describe his label Rune Grammofon's output, Rune Kristoffersen uncomfortably offers, "It's typically somewhere between improvised, electronic, contemporary . . . ," before fading off.
Dance, dance, evolution
They've been working together for a long time, since the late 1990s in Florida and the nascent Slowing Room, which came to Maine to become early innovators of the Portland electronic music scene.
P.O.S. | Never Better
P.O.S. must have known he had a near-classic on his claws with Never Better .
Hope for the Nation
Pick up the latest issue of XXL magazine and flip to the "Show and Prove" section and you'll spot Providence hip-hop artist Jon Hope — and rightly so.
Dance, Monkey!: Ardal O'Hanlon
Every week we put a comic in the hot seat. This week's victim: Ardal O'Hanlon.
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