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    (visual) artists making music

    the lead singer of my chemical romance did comic books and maybe even worked at the cartoon netwrok for a while.
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    New dj shadow album

    its funny timbaland and the neptunes got mentioned (i mean i knew they'd have to be eventually) cause, you know, if you listen to it you'd realize hyphy sounds like extra bannanas grindin beats anyway. you'll all see once stelfox or somebody writes about it in the wire (or maybe they did...
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    Rave revival?

    CHARTS Fink (Ninja Tune) Brighton, UK www.finkworld.co.uk 1. Klaxons, "Atlantis to Interzone" (Merok) 2. The Lodge, "Noose" (Destructive) 3. The Futureheads, "Skip to the End (Digitalism Remix)" (679) 4. Foreign Islands, "Fine Dining with the Future" (Foreign Islands) 5. The...
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    Rave revival?

    at least popism has contradictions! i would think 'popists' and 'rockists' could unite on something like the klaxons, but there seems to be a larger, popist 'dance poseur' thing going on which doesn't necessarily have all that much to do w/rave and isn't restricted to england.
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    Will Pop Eat Itself? (Pop Music In The Soundbite Era)

    freakoholic gotta go do the dishes and make lunch so quickly: book came out in 1993 so seems like one of those written within the course of a year types. i don't know where beadle was writing at the time cause i haven't ever bothered googling him. ends on a quite a negative note w/pop eating...
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    Will Pop Eat Itself? (Pop Music In The Soundbite Era)

    if we grant your argument that electroclash was needed at the time shouldn't we eventually need to go back to "The whole cheesy bootleg craze and a million Prince Paul imitators (Avalanches, Bent, etc,)" once "lets get cold" gets old? btw i from late 80s/early ninties 'ardcore/baggy/prince...
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    Will Pop Eat Itself? (Pop Music In The Soundbite Era)

    Wondering what the dissensus crew thinks of this book. Beadle is kinda a rockist popist isn't he? Flipping through it again this caught my eye on pg. 2, "There comes a time in all artistic fields when the tradition of the past weighs so heavily that the only way forrward seems to be to 'rip it...
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    The role of 'the club' in r&b/hip hop

    if by club you mean strip club
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    Grime on MTV in the states

    Detecting OS... In order to offer a broad selection of full-length music videos on-demand and free of charge, MTV Overdrive uses Windows Digital Rights Management (DRM) to protect videos from unauthorized re-distribution. Unfortunately, Microsoft's Windows Media Player Plug-in for Macintosh...
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    Pere Ubu

    i saw "rocket from the tombs" (w/richard lloyd) about 2 years ago on thanksgiving (its a holiday we have in america) - abosolutely worth it! david thomas had to sit down a lot, but he was intense. it seemed like he thought everyone there was completely beneath him. don't know what the line up...
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    Favourite cheesy dance 'choon'-anthem

    eiffel 65 - blue
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    Definition of Rockism

    i'd like to see someone, perhaps kpunk or tim?, update the rockism page on wikipedia. right now it seems rather incomplete and possibly written by momus.
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    Arthur Russell Tidbits

    that track is really dreamy, but closer to lets active than dbs, i think. some of the middle tracks on worn copy have a a similar vibe!
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    what's yer top 10 - albums, singles, whatever

    1. sleeping late/unemplyment 2. lasagna w/lentils in it and root beer 3. spring/jungle brothers "sunshine"/seasonal affective disorder 4. cybotron - clear 5. ebayed: classic rave 2/speed limit 140 bpm 1 and 2/drum and bass selection vol 4 6. downloading frenzy following newly acquired...
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    Walkman chic

    i listen to a lot of tapes mostly in my car. dont know if this is chic. lately i've been into Pet Shop Boys Actually, Monk Chants and an accidental dub version of <i>janet.</i>
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