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Anthem pop/hip-hop darling, Santogold, has enjoyed a rapid rise to fame and success. Once a mere wannabe lyricist (she wrote for Ashlee Simpson!), San...

07/18/08 - 0 comments

Sweden's dubbed-out, epic space-disco outfit, Studio, is well known for having its own record label, Information. Until now, though, the small indie h...

07/15/08 - 0 comments

The rags-to-riches story of Erol Alkan is well documented and mythologized, but the superstar DJ/producer/musician rarely sits down for intimate and i...

07/14/08 - 0 comments

Two years ago, Stones Throw chief, PB Wolf threw together the 666 mini-tour, themed around the three satanic digits. Last year, from July 1 - 7, the e...

07/09/08 - 0 comments

Those crazy Parisians. From our distanced perspective, they just can't seem to stop dancing! While we know this not to be the case, the French do rele...

07/07/08 - 0 comments

British kraut-/prog-rock revivalists, Fujiya & Miyagi are finally back with a new single, "Knickerbocker," and word of a "sophomore" LP, Lightbulbs, o...

07/01/08 - 0 comments

The great Escalator Records of Tokyo, Japan, recently created an imprint label, Every Conversation, specifically for releasing Western music. Escalato...

06/30/08 - 0 comments

When discussing Girl Talk's 2006 LP, Night Ripper, people usually bring up one of two points: (1) before Greg Gillis, there were many DJs who created ...

06/24/08 - 0 comments

For a while there, D.F.A. Records was in limbo. What initially started as a James Murphy's vanity project of unheard of proportions became a monotonou...

06/23/08 - 0 comments

Diplo has been keeping very busy with his record label, Mad Decent, charity organization, Heaps Decent, and independent DJ gigs, so it's always exciti...

06/16/08 - 0 comments