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Mercury Prize-winner or not, Dizzee Rascal will probably never find much of an audience in North America not outside hipster anglophile ci...
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FeaturesBright Future M.I.A. Makes 2005 Look Good Published Dec 01, 2004The passing of another year offers us a chance to cherish those superb acts that debuted on the scene over the past 12 months, including the...
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FeaturesThe Legacy of DJ Screw Live Slow, Die Young Published Oct 01, 2004The state of Texas has, over the last 20 years, played an integral (if largely unsung) role in the development of two crucial musical moveme...
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FeaturesMoney Where Their Mouths Are Critics Back Up Their Claims on MP3 Blogs Published Sep 01, 2004Operated by a fierce band of independent critics, weblogs have revitalised the critical discourse surrounding music, offering writers a coll...
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FeaturesIn Defence of Girl-Pop Brandy Provides Summer's Sweet Soundtrack Published Aug 01, 2004Story-time #1: A friend of mine works in a family-owned coffee shop. During a recent shift, one of her co-workers accepted a counterfeit $10...
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FeaturesRadio Is A Sound Salvation Indie 103.1 FM Sparks A Revival Published Jul 01, 2004If you are serious about rock music, you've probably given up on commercial radio - just as commercial radio once seemed to have given up on...
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FeaturesShots From The Canon Attacks Led By Resentment, Not Reassessment Published Jun 01, 2004There was a time when I avoided going to libraries and bookstores, disheartened that I would never get to read all of history's great works,...
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FeaturesInnocent Or Criminal? Asian-American Idols Represent Published May 01, 2004One is a dexterous street poet; the other, an adorable nerd. They are, respectively, New York City's Jin and Berkeley's William Hung, two me...
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FeaturesReturn of the Foot Fetish Things Are Not Looking Up For Shoegazer Revival Published Nov 01, 2003In a parallel universe, far out of range of electroclash and garage rawk, there's a vibrant renaissance going on. For the past two years, sh...
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FeaturesCrunk In the Trunk New South Simplicity Skewers Lit-Hop Published Oct 01, 2003The encroachment of white artists has led observers to argue that African-Americans will eventually leave hip-hop behind as in the case of...
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FeaturesThe Liz Phair Conundrum What Do You Call A Sell-Out Without Sales? Published Sep 01, 2003"It's nice to be liked, but it's better by far to get paid." So sang Liz Phair on 1998's "Shitloads of Money," but with her eponymous new al...
