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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Party affiliates - side

By | April 25, 2006

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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