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10/13/08

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Louis Jordan is an absolute legend. He was a ground-breaking American jazz and blues musician, who released dozens of hit songs in the 1940s and who became known as "The King of the Jukebox" long

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10/07/08

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The worlds' best record store street, was to be said Udagawa-cho, Shibuya... but two thirds of the stores seem to be closed now! Ten years ago, my daily routine was to buy records every day in that

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09/24/08

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A record label is important, a decree of intent or a symbol of expectation. To turn over a record and find this certain mark of approval, like Sub Pop in 1990 or K records throughout the 1980s,

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09/18/08

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The struggle over the merits of being "retro" has been the subject of quite a few heated and sometimes violent debates amongst actively creative creators for some time now. With every aesthetic

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09/16/08

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At long last, we can hear some electro music here in Tokyo! Can you believe it, after all these years, finally some electro!? And know that I don't think I mean one of the "electro parties" in Tokyo

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09/11/08

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Your Senior Editor spent New York Fashion Week floating around in a blissful bubble that had very little to do with couture. All right, I confess: absolutely nothing whatsoever, in any way, shape, or

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09/08/08

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Alexander Wang dresses the girls who are truly and innately cool: the girls who work the tight jeans and bra-baring over-sized tank tops; the girls who pull off headdresses, and wear ridiculously

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