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Bootlegging

The Underground Pipeline Is Live Music's Lifeline

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

If history is any indication, in this age of information availability, most music ever created will eventually be made available - through...

Small World

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

Brazilian music, in the form of samba, bossa nova and tropicalia, has always drawn from and interpreted global sounds. Almost forty years l...

For Sale:

Pop Culture, Includes Soundtrack

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

A friend recently remarked that he no longer received much information about pop culture from television. Rather, he gleaned most of it fro...

Taiwan Rising

PUBLISHED Jul 25, 2010

In the middle of an open field, you can hear music from everywhere, particularly the DJ stage situated in the centre. Almost 200 bands have...

State of the World

How Globalistas Are Tearing Down Cultural Barriers

PUBLISHED Feb 21, 2009

There's a steady downpour outside Toronto's Mod Club on a Tuesday in November 2007. It's a lousy night to go out, but inside, it's packed;...

Horns of Plenty

The Red Bull Music Academy’s School is in Sessions

PUBLISHED Oct 26, 2008

The October sun has sunk behind the towering brick walls of a once-abandoned textile factory in San Andreu, on the outskirts of Barcelona....

Tropicália Thunder

Forty Years Ago in Brazil, A Cultural Upheaval Foreshadowed Modern Music

PUBLISHED Sep 30, 2008

Drawing from stereotypes and oversimplifications, you might call Brazil’s Northeast region the nation’s id — the primitive unconscious unde...

Strange Brew

Vancouver's Weird Punk Scene Invents Itself

PUBLISHED Aug 25, 2008

Dreary, rainy, and occupied with a class war visible as you walk down the street, Vancouver's Downtown Eastside has an oppressive, negative...