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Making Tracks - mingling of cultures in popular music - Brief Article
The world does not exist. At least not the world that radio and record stores would have you believe exists, where American music resides in one aisle ......(Continue Reading) Paris Flashback—Frederic Sanchez - record store owner comments on French music - Brief Article - Interview
HE'S GOT A GALLERY A RECORD STORE AND A POINT OF VIEW DIMITRI EHRLICH: We speak with you regularly about what's going on with European music. Now it feels like a real moment, not so much for Fren...(Continue Reading)Even our enemies deserve music: Michael Franti and other young artists are spearheading a new generation of politically engaged musicians. Jeff Chang charts
In New York's hermetic world of music and fashion, it's been the year of the throwback, a post--11 September retreat to the familiar and comfortable....(Continue Reading)Campaign targets 'white power music'—and provokes store owners
Interspersed among the 20,000 titles at Record Breakers, an independent music store in northwest suburban Hoffman Estates, are albums by bands with names like Hatemonger and Final Solution. Accor...(Continue Reading)And the salsa beat goes on: salsa is dead. Gone. Kaput. Forget about it. A comatose genre swallowed alive by other styles of Latin music: rock en espanol
(First printed in The Chicago Tribune on December 21, 2004) For the last few years, the alleged death of salsa has been morbidly discussed in publications ......(Continue Reading)
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