All posts by Doug Rule
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Soundwaves
DIGITAL MUSIC POPS… Pop artists are having a particularly good year. Green Day, for starters, is at the high point of its career, the band...
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Punk'd by Nostalgia
New Order just might have more influence on today's electronica scene than it's ever had in the 25 years the ever-influential band has been together...
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Soundwaves
DEPECHE REFRESHED... Talk about a change of heart. A year and a half ago, Dave Gahan told Rolling Stone he had no interest in continuing...
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Latin Heat
Hector Zarate's first job as a teenager new to the U.S. from Peru was painting houses. Half a lifetime later, he spends his days importing...
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Soundwaves
P. DIDDY CRASHES THE PARTY... Two weeks ago, Miami hosted the annual Winter Music Conference, the dance music equivalent to the film industry's Sundance. The...
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Folk Rockers
To look at Eric Himan, you expect his music to be hard-charging punk-rock, maybe even heavy metal. After all, he's got ''inked arms that out-sleeve...
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Rock Steady
Named after a song from post-punk pioneers Public Image Ltd. -- and not after the British radio station -- Radio 4 is far from the...
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Mass Moby
Moby is as much a marketer as a musician. Six years ago his songs were ubiquitous as the soundtrack to television commercials -- he helped...
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Soundwaves
MISS JACKSON, IF YOU DANCE... They may still generate headlines, but neither Michael Jackson nor Janet Jackson have gotten much ink for their music in...
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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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Sam's Song
Sam Harris took a few small steps toward activism last year, and lost some fans in the process. Still, he says the activism song he...
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Soundwaves
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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Suede's Sway
Her rich contralto hooks the audience the moment she hits her first note. But it is Suede's playful, charismatic stage presence that keeps them engaged...
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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. ''...
