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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

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

Flying Nun

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

Beatfest

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.
Let’s twist again
By CHRIS NELSON | September 18, 2006

Digital creatures

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

Football soundtrack

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

Brit-hop

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 ev
An interview with the Streets' Mike Skinner
By CHRIS NELSON | April 27, 2006

Edu K

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.”
Frenetiko | Man
By CHRIS NELSON | April 17, 2006

Rio representer

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

Clipping coupons

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

Ourspace

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.
A place for friends . . . to discover good bands
By CHRIS NELSON | March 07, 2006

Fruity loops

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.
Certified Bananas and Disorganised Crew at Enormous Room
By ELISABETH DONNELLY | February 21, 2006

The big diss

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.
Killa Cam takes aim at Jay-Z, plus new tracks from Jeff Merchant and Hard-Fi
By CHRIS NELSON | February 09, 2006

Bombs away - side

By | January 31, 2006

Lost on the Web

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 j
A tour of fansites
By CHRIS NELSON | January 18, 2006

Grave diggin’

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.
Biggie Smalls’s Final Chapter
By Chris Nelson | January 14, 2006

Let's get Lost

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

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