Music
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Hit or Miss America
More than 20 years into her career, the voice of Vanessa Williams remains the same marvelous honey-glazed icing that made her shift from defrocked beauty...
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AWARDS! AWARDS! AWARDS!... Despite what you might otherwise think, awards season is still upon us. Later this month the leading dance music awards will be...
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Cosmic Connections
If you listen to just one randomly chosen song by the Thievery Corporation, you might think the musical duo is from, among other places, Jamaica,...
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Hipster Hits
One's first instinct is to dismiss James Murphy, who comes off as the world's snottiest and most insecure indie-music geek on ''Losing My Edge. ''...
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LYDIA'S FRESH CIRCUIT SOUND... Lydia Prim makes a good point in the liner notes to her latest circuit party compilation, Party Groove: Blue Ball Vol....
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DANCE SPOTLIGHT ON D.C.… Could 2005 be the year D.C.'s dance community gains greater recognition? Well, let's do our part to push it. The community's...
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Pop Pleasures
Erasure created a classic pop song almost the minute the duo launched. ''Oh L'Amour '' was the third single from the pioneering synth-pop duo's 1985...
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2004'S TOP DANCE ACT.... Billboard's bestselling album in 2004 from a dance/electronic artist was not brought to us by a lesbian sex act. Despite half...
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Solo Style
Pop on top: Stefani Is Gwen Stefani the new Madonna or the new Cyndi Lauper? The question arises on the occasion of Stefani's marvelous debut...
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DIVAS TO DANCE IN 2005... The coming year looks to be shaping up -- if you can believe it, and dare we jinx it --...
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The Best and Worst Music of 2004
Even with all the talk of love and marriage, 2004 proved that pop music and politics don't go together like a horse and carriage. No...
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JUNIOR'S JUNIOR, ED BAILEY... Did you know our own Ed Bailey, the promoter of (and sometime DJ at) VelvetNation, will open New Year's Eve for...
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THE GRAMMY DANCE… In a typical year, we'd be crowing about Green Day's six Grammy nominations, Gwen Stefani's sole one-year-early nod, and Basement Jaxx's sweep...
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Underwhelmed
After Mitsubishi tapped Dirty Vegas to promote its Eclipse model two years ago with the song ''Days Gone By,'' the band became the most popular...
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MCLACHLAN'S CALLING… Some videos are worth celebrating because they're so good. Gwen Stefani's “What You Waiting For?” for example. And some videos are worth celebrating...
