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The Nor-Wave

Sunny Days For Norway’s Indie Scene, Even In the Dead of Winter

PUBLISHED Feb 21, 2007

Surrounded by the medieval ruins in Middelalderparken — a historic park in Gamlebyen, the oldest section of Oslo — electronic rockers 120 D...

Kill the DJ

Taking House Music Beyond the Clubs

PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2006

Last April, an article entitled "Dance Music Then and Now, from Tom Moulton to Unai” ran in The New York Times. The piece’s author, music c...

The Roots

Back to The Roots

PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2006

Ahmir "?uestlove” Thompson of the Roots doesn’t mince words about his friend Jay-Z, the former crack dealer turned rapper turned CEO of Def...

This is Torontopia

PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2006

It’s 2.30 on a humid Friday morning, Trinity Bellwoods Park in the heart of Toronto. Seventy people gather around a shadow show, listening...

Canada's Got Soul?

Why Our R&B Artists Get Left in the Cold

PUBLISHED Aug 1, 2006

There was a recent flurry of media activity surrounding the release of Jamaica To Toronto, a compilation that exposes the "lost” history of...

Straight Edge Punk

The Complicated Contradictions of Straight Edge Punk

PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2006

Just say no. That was the message from on high during the 1980s, when anti-drug campaigns led to TV commercials like the oft-parodied "This...

Groove is in the Reissue

Funk and Soul’s Journey from Obscure to Timeless

PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2006

A few months ago, I noticed a brand new James Brown compilation on the Dusty Groove America homepage, James Brown’s Funky People’s Greatest...

Whistling Past the Graveyard

The New Stars of Old Time Music

PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2006

As I rummaged through my grandmother's basement, I realised my lifelong fascination with records had finally led me here. I wasn't under an...