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Review: Amanda Blank | I Love You

Downtown (2009)
Like many a party person before her, Philly-based electro-rap filly Amanda Blank wants you to know that she has a sensitive side.
By MIKAEL WOOD  |  August 11, 2009
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Smack downer

Hip-Hop Misogyny: It Ain’t What It Used To Be
I haven’t come hereto academically justify West Coast credos about assimilating hoes into housewives. Instead I’ve come to mourn the commercialization of misogynistic rap lyrics.
By CHRIS FARAONE  |  July 23, 2009
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Blank slates splattered with neon

Santigold, Amanda Blank at the House of Blues
I’m not sure what kind of set list Santigold brought, but I’m guessing that she scrapped it after the crowd remained limp three tracks in.
By CHRIS FARAONE  |  June 03, 2009
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Goodbye nasty

Amanda Blank cleans up her act
Anyone even minimally versed in Ms. Blank's œuvre would chuckle at the idea of her trying to keep things clean. Emerging from Philly dirty-rap crew Spank Rock, Blank distinguished herself among a sea of rap dudes with her dizzying spitfire attack and willingness to get nasty in a manner that was both playful and intimidating.
By DANIEL BROCKMAN  |  June 01, 2009
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Indie gets the blues

The Gossip, the Black Keys, and the Kills
White rockers generally come by the blues one of two ways.
By MATT ASHARE  |  April 23, 2008
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Vowel free

Rcrd Lbl's free and legal downloads
Rcrd Lbl pays both artists and labels like Warp and Modular in exchange for permission to post songs.
By CAITLIN E. CURRAN  |  December 17, 2007
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Carb unloading

Thanksgiving treats in clubland
After spending Thanksgiving gorging yourself on turkey, mashed potatoes, and all manner of high-calorie treats from candied yams to kaleidoscopic Jello molds, you should have energy to burn.
By SUSANNA BOLLE  |  November 19, 2007
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Digital demon

Boston’s Baltimoroder fires up his laptop
If there’s one producer or DJ who represents the new style of Basstown, it’s Baltimoroder.
By DAVID DAY  |  August 23, 2007
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Basstownians

3 new hot producers talk tracks
Here at Up All Day, I’ve done my damndest to tell you about the local history of dance sounds.
By DAVID DAY  |  August 07, 2007
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Cultural exchanges

Spank Rock’s Chris Rockswell and Brazil’s DJ Dolores
CHRIS ROCKSWELL, the official DJ for the club-rap phenom SPANK ROCK, says people are always asking him, “What does your neighborhood sound like?” DJ Dolores & Isaar "De Dar Dó (remix)" (mp3)
By DAVID DAY  |  July 03, 2007
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Gallantly Streaming

A selection of brand-spankinh new jawns
There’s been a lot of talk about “clubrap” as the new sound rockin’ indie and European dance floors alike.
By DAVID DAY  |  May 18, 2007
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Hip-hoptronic

Oxy Cottontail comes to Boston
Despite her candied look and popstastic nameplate, Oxy Cottontail remains an integral part of the club-rap scene. Oxy Cottontail, "Roxxy's Cotton Tales" mixtape (mpeg)
By DAVID DAY  |  April 09, 2007
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Linwood bounce

Beat Research goes big; 7L skates and Dudley rocks
Beat Research is going large this Friday with Bouncement, a party of extreme bass sound and huge beats with an experimental touch. Juelz Santana, "Santana's Town (Ghislain Poirier remix)" (mp3)
By DAVID DAY  |  March 27, 2007
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Guest lists

 What 30 of the Phoenix 's music critics liked this year
What small, private lists like this remind us is that big, honking institutional lists are largely fictions, mirages of a consensus that no longer exists, if it ever really did in the first place.
By PHOENIX MUSIC STAFF  |  January 02, 2007
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Tear the club up

How Baltimore and Aaron LaCrate are going to save club music
"What Samir and I bring to the table is that we were both coming from a real street hip-hop sentiment," says LaCrate, "and that’s where club in its origin came from. As much as it may have been comprised of rave breaks, there was nothing rave – I always say there was nothing white-boy about it." Lily Allen, "Smile (Aaron LaCrate Gutter Remix)" (mp3)
By MIKE MCKAY  |  August 22, 2006
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Mission Hill style

Ian Beck turns the Hill out; Uffie and Leedz
“We want people to have fun, and we want a little debauchery," says DJ Ian Beck.
By DAVID DAY  |  July 25, 2006
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Low Budget and Aaron LaCrate

B-More Gutta Music | Milkcrate
The B-more æsthetic is all about making tracks you can either fight or fuck to, and Low Budget and Lacrate stick that formula throughout Gutta Music.
By PATRICK BERNARD  |  May 23, 2006
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Party affiliates

A-Trak and Spank Rock aim to keep asses moving
DJ culture has always been about the party.
By DAVID DAY  |  April 27, 2006

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Paper trail

Harpers Ferry teen beat gets thumbs-up; DJ Makka to open hi-end bodega
Whether he’s spinning for trance heads or punk-rock kids, the DJ’s imperative is the same everywhere: “It entails making everyone shake their ass all night long, non-stop,” says Paper’s resident DJ, Eric Marcelino.
By DAVID DAY  |  April 04, 2006

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