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Beat Generation: A (Brief, Brief) History Of Electronic Music
posted: January 17, 2011
Welcome to Beat Generation. With this column, we’re going to try and cover as many strains of electronic music as we can, from house to techno, from ambient to glitch. We here at OurStage have…
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End of the Revolution: Has Pop Lost Its Social Conscience?
posted: January 14, 2011
“You say you want a revolution,” The Beatles taunted in 1968. Seventeen years later, the Cult declared, “There’s a revolution.” When Tracy Chapman started “talkin’ ’bout a revolution” in 1988, she left the battlefield with…
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Pop Is a Battlefield
posted: November 23, 2010
Musicians are an unruly bunch. They’re in constant competition on and off the charts, going for each others’ jugulars”talking first and thinking later. Rappers have been throwing stones back and forth since the ’80s days…
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The Good Kind: How Big Name Artists Are Giving Back
posted: October 28, 2010
It seems that lately famous names, especially those with musical talent, are all about doing good. Musically inclined individuals are readily inspiring warm fuzzies. Maybe I wear rose-colored glasses when viewing icons responsible for my longtime…
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Jamerican Girl
posted: October 25, 2010
Life as the daughter of a Pentecostal minister may be many things, but carefree usually isn’t one of them. DC pop vocalist and Jamerican Odelia Muir knows this all too well. After her father caught…
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Q&A With Jason Derülo
posted: October 19, 2010
Twenty-year-old Jason Derülo has certainly had an incredible year. It began with his first tour ever, where he found himself not only traveling across the country, but performing for thousands of fans as an opening…
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