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Q&A: Fatboy Slim
Before America embraced Skrillex, Swedish House Mafia and David Guetta, there was Norman Cook, aka Fatboy Slim, the 48-year-old British DJ and producer who won over fans with quirky music videos (who could forget Christopher Walken prancing around an...Tags: Concerts, Electronics, Fatboy Slim, Christopher Walken, David Guetta
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Dubstep's mainstream takeover
At the 2:17 mark of Britney Spears' 2011 hit single "Hold It Against Me," dubstep entered the mainstream.
It had been bubbling around pop's surface before Spears put her glossy touch on it, but this was Top 40's most blatant — and effective —...Tags: Genres, Electronics, Crizzly (music group), Entertainment Events, Jay-Z
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November 21 - 27 in nightlife: Thanksgiving parties, Ledisi, Bob Seger, Fall Massive
The Baltimore SunThe week before Thanksgiving is always light on the nightlife and entertainment fronts. And while that's true again this year, there are a bunch of Thanksgiving Eve special events planned. And, on the Saturday following the holiday, there's Fall Massive,...Tags: Baltimore Ravens, Thanksgiving, Holidays, Concerts, 1st Mariner Arena
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Review: Porter Robinson at Virgin Mobile FreeFest 2011
The Baltimore SunThe mouse ears. The neon-colored T-shirts with the mouse silhouettes. The girls in hyper-small costumes sucking lollipops. Dancers banging their heads with their arms in the air making out like it was a rave. This was all happening mid-day, during Porter...Tags: Arts, Virgin Group, Ltd., Dance, Porter Robinson, Cut Copy (music group)
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Interview: Cut Copy comes to Rams Head Live
Playing a prime 9 p.m. slot at Miami's Ultra Music Festival earlier this year, Cut Copy made for an odd stage presence.
The electronic and dance music bacchanal attended every March by thousands of ravers and wannabe ravers is dominated by brand-name DJs...Tags: Dance, Melbourne (Australia), Tiesto (music group)
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Donna Summer dies at 63; diva of disco
In 1975, Donna Summer released a pop single unlike any before it. The singer, then an unknown in the U.S., was living in Germany and working with Italian producer Giorgio Moroder and lyricist Pete Bellotte. Together they came up with a breathy,...
Tags: Rihanna, Theater, Bruce Springsteen, Bars and Clubs, Obituaries
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Founders of A Club Called Rhonda remember Donna Summer
Pop & HissDonna Summer's music blended the sexual and the spiritual with sonic invention that forever changed the way we party. That contribution is perhaps nowhere more evident than at A Club Called Rhonda.... -
Donna Summer: The sonic seduction lives on in today's beats
Pop & HissDonna Summer died Thursday at age 63. Times pop music critic Randall Roberts remembers the singer for her influence -- including her work on “I Feel Love,” which created a blueprint that remains central to dance music today.... -
Chuck Brown dies: King of D.C. go-go music, influential sample source
Pop & HissChuck Brown, the "king of go-go music," has died in Washington D.C. The musician, whose work with big band funk in the 1970s and '80s was influential both as a bandleader and as inspiration on early electronic dance music. Times pop music critic Randall... -
Appreciation: Donna Summer: The sonic seduction lives on in today's beats
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterIf you drop a needle on the original version of "Love to Love You Baby" just as you're beginning this appreciation of Donna Summer, the so-called Queen of Disco who died Thursday at age 63, you would probably be finished reading long before the song...Tags: Bars and Clubs, Madonna, Terry Lewis, New York City, Feminism
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Rollin' on the river: American Queen steamboat brings river cruising back to the mighty Mississippi
The hour is 11:30 on this Saturday night aboard the American Queen, somewhere south of Natchez, Miss. The dance floor in the Grand Saloon is deserted, and a lone man sits in the 24-hour Front Porch lounge, reading a paperback novel. The evening's...Tags: Bars and Clubs, Apollo Group Inc., Boats, Priscilla Presley, Cruises
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Jay Sean to Headline United Nations Charity Event, Debut Single Featuring Pitbull
ReutersJay May 09 (TheWrap.com) - Sean, the chart-topping London-born singer, will headline and co-host an event for disadvantaged adolescent girls in Monaco June 27, Soiree Extraordinaire De Monaco. The philanthropic event is a collaboration between Sean, ne...Tags: Faith Evans, Eric Benet, Rihanna, Genres, Pitbull (music artist)
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