Michaelangelo Matos
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The culture of electronic dance music has long been seen as a safe space for the marginalized, but over the past decade it took a sharp turn towards the mainstream.
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On knock knock, DJ Koze is more accessible than ever, without losing his essential strangeness. Róisín Murphy, Lambchop's Kurt Wagner and José González guest.
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Czukay, who died at his home — also his former band's studio — in Germany, was a classically trained musician whose influence seeped deeply into music history.
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Two books about two crucial years in the story of rock and roll, taken together, reveal how the genre shrank to become the playground of white men with guitars.
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Van Morrison's It's Too Late To Stop Now was released at the height of his powers. A newly expanded version of the album helps make the case that it's among the rock era's best live albums.
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The great Eurodisco architect unites with Afrobeat's bedrock drummer to effortlessly funk you up.
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The three founders of the Brooklyn-based all-female DJ collective Discwoman are chipping away at club culture's bro problem.
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The AM radio station that gave the late 1970s series WKRP in Cincinnati its name was better than most real radio stations of its era. A new reissue includes most of the songs broadcast on the show.
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Danny Tenaglia and Justin Berkmann tell stories about Levan, widely fêted as the greatest DJ of all.
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Indie rock and techno music don't generally find much overlap in their audiences. But the latest release from a German techno producer who goes by the name Pantha du Prince is finding success in attracting fans accustomed to songs built around lyrics.