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Resident aliens

Foreign favorites Graeme Sinden, DJ Mehdi, and Cansi de Ser Sexy
Foreign favorites Graeme Sinden, DJ Mehdi, and Cansi de Ser Sexy
By CHRIS NELSON  |  October 27, 2008
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Chairmen of the boards

Our critics pick the 14 producers with the fattest, meanest beats
Not unlike Swedish, Tagalog, and Esperanto, music is a language, with its own conjugations and (lewdly) dangling participles.
By PHOENIX MUSIC STAFF  |  October 18, 2007
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Flying Nun

Still in vogue Down Under
Australia and New Zealand have been indie-rock hotbeds going all the way back to the early ’80s.
By CHRIS NELSON  |  October 15, 2007
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Beatfest

Let’s twist again
If them old changing-weather blues got you longing to twist again like you did last summer, just download some of these dance-floor alternatives (suitable for headphone listening) and let your toes do the tapping.
By CHRIS NELSON  |  September 18, 2006
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Digital creatures

Some hairy tracks
You gotta be careful out there, downloaders.
By CHRIS NELSON  |  September 05, 2006
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Football soundtrack

Music to sub in for American World Cup commentary
What do a pair of jazzy Germans, a duo of metalhead Mexicans, and one really tall DJ from Brooklyn have in common?
By CHRIS NELSON  |  June 27, 2006
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Brit-hop

An interview with the Streets' Mike Skinner
For all the ink that’s been spilled over him around the world, you’d think Mike Skinner would be a little better known in the US, a country where TomKat’s new bundle of joy trumps suicide bombings on the news and new American idols are minted each and every season, only to be cut down the next.
By CHRIS NELSON  |  April 27, 2006
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Edu K

Frenetiko | Man
Edu K may be among the first of a wave of Brazilian artists to bring the recently popularized style of bass music to the States via domestic release, but don’t call it “baile funk.”
By CHRIS NELSON  |  April 17, 2006
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Rio representer

Diplo brings baile funk to the US
It was 2002 when the then unknown DJ Diplo first started throwing his Hollertronix parties in Philadelphia.
By LEON NEYFAKH  |  April 11, 2006
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Clipping coupons

Collect and save: Editors, Mylo, and Skeletons and the Girl-Faced Boys
Sometimes labels mess up and give away the best song on a band’s album as a free download.
By CHRIS NELSON  |  March 28, 2006
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Ourspace

A place for friends . . . to discover good bands
Navigating MySpace can be a bit dangerous if, say, you’re on deadline. But with a little push in the right direction, there are treasures to be found from Brooklyn to Baltimore to the Bay Area.
By CHRIS NELSON  |  March 07, 2006

Fruity loops

Certified Bananas and Disorganised Crew at Enormous Room
It used to be, come the first week of the month, you could count on a new Certified Bananas MP3 mixtape showing up on-line, clocking hits of the day (reggaeton, rap, dancehall) alongside the Providence DJ duo’s inimitable blends and remixes.
By ELISABETH DONNELLY  |  February 21, 2006
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The big diss

Killa Cam takes aim at Jay-Z, plus new tracks from Jeff Merchant and Hard-Fi
Even if most artists are all about getting their paper, there are always a few out there — Hard-Fi, Cam’ron, and Jeff Merchant, to name three — willing to toss us a morsel or two for free.
By CHRIS NELSON  |  February 09, 2006

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By  |  January 31, 2006

Lost on the Web

A tour of fansites
When, somewhere between the first and second seasons of Lost , a couple of writer friends and I decided to start a Web page called 815 , we envisioned it as a place where we could spout our in(s)ane theories and have something to justify the obscene number of hours we already spent thinking about the show.
By CHRIS NELSON  |  January 18, 2006
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Grave diggin’

Biggie Smalls’s Final Chapter
By the time most rappers drop their fourth album, either everybody’s paying attention or nobody is. In Biggie's case, the truth may lie somewhere in between.
By Chris Nelson  |  January 14, 2006
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Let's get Lost

  The cult hit spawns a wanna-be
Every season there’s a left-field hit that’s then ripped off by rival networks and even by the network of origin,
By  |  January 13, 2006

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