A reissue is a double-edged sword: old tracks or entire CDs are unearthed and given them new life by putting them in a contemporary context,...
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FeaturesNew Tunes, Classic Problems Both Sides of the Reissue Dilemma Published Dec 20, 2007
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FeaturesPut Your Back In It Brazil Brings the Baile Funk Published Jan 01, 2006
After years spent sermonising about the ill effects of globalization, progressive media outlets must begin to unearth those stories that tes...
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FeaturesThe Unbearable Whiteness Of Being Indie Published Jan 01, 2006
It's all there in black and white. In early October, the American record industry reached a milestone: for the first time in its history, ev...
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FeaturesThe Search for Middleground New Producers Heal the Backpack/Benz Divide Published Jan 01, 2006
When he took office in 1997, British Prime Minister Tony Blair prophesised the dawn of "third way" politics, placing himself in the middle o...
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FeaturesInto the Mystic Avant-folk Shapes A New Future Published Jan 01, 2006
When Harry Smith released his epochal Anthology Of American Folk Music in 1952, the box bore an engraving of a single-stringed instrument be...
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FeaturesSmoking Out the Locals Tobacco Funded Shows Outspend Home Grown Efforts Published Jan 01, 2006
Tobacco kills so say doctors, and so say a growing number of artists, concert promoters and club owners across Canada. What most concerns...
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FeaturesSliding Down The Surface Electro-clash: Your 15 Minutes Are Up Published Jan 01, 2006
Ed Upton is pissed off. You'd expect the producer, best known for his work as the electro-popping DMX Krew, to be delighted at this year's d...
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FeaturesReggaeton Exchange Program Island Sounds Outfox Colonials Published Jan 01, 2006
You could call it cultural opportunism or you could call it a cynical marketing manoeuvre and you'd be right on both counts but when the...
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FeaturesBuilding A Mystery The Folk Noir of Daniel Lanois Published Jun 01, 2005
I'm parked in my parents' driveway, the windows rolled down, listening. It's almost 11 o'clock on a Saturday night, and I'd rather not go in...
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FeaturesPoint of View: Drum & Bass About Face Published May 01, 2005
Remember drum & bass? Unless you're a hardcore junglist, that genre probably hasn't crossed your mind since you traded in your copy of Repra...
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FeaturesDance Music's Détente Peace Breaks Out Between Intellectual and Instinctive Published Apr 01, 2005
There's this song I can't get out of my head, a song about clubs, a song about losing yourself in the groove, a song that suggests dance mus...