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In run-up to Electric Daisy, what is the future of live dance music?
Pop & HissIs the future in self-contatined, immersive festivals, or introducing dance music into existing live infrastructure?... -
Electronic Dance Music conference: How to break an artist
Pop & HissThis post has been updated, as indicated below. Andrew Dreskin, the CEO of the online-ticketing firm Ticketfly and an old-guard rave supporter, remembers a time in the sepia-toned days of the early aughts when dance acts were a tough sell...... -
Donna Summer dies at 63; diva of disco
In 1975, Donna Summer released a pop single unlike any before it. The singer, then an unknown in the U.S., was living in Germany and working with Italian producer Giorgio Moroder and lyricist Pete Bellotte. Together they came up with a breathy,...
Tags: David Guetta, Obituaries, Arts and Culture, Gospel (genre), Music Industry
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Founders of A Club Called Rhonda remember Donna Summer
Pop & HissDonna Summer's music blended the sexual and the spiritual with sonic invention that forever changed the way we party. That contribution is perhaps nowhere more evident than at A Club Called Rhonda.... -
Donna Summer: The sonic seduction lives on in today's beats
Pop & HissDonna Summer died Thursday at age 63. Times pop music critic Randall Roberts remembers the singer for her influence -- including her work on “I Feel Love,” which created a blueprint that remains central to dance music today.... -
Chuck Brown dies: King of D.C. go-go music, influential sample source
Pop & HissChuck Brown, the "king of go-go music," has died in Washington D.C. The musician, whose work with big band funk in the 1970s and '80s was influential both as a bandleader and as inspiration on early electronic dance music. Times pop music critic Randall... -
Q&A: Fatboy Slim
![Before America embraced Skrillex, Swedish House Mafia and David Guetta, there was Norman Cook, aka Fatboy Slim, the 48-year-old British DJ and producer who won over fans with quirky music videos (who could forget Christopher Walken prancing around an empty hotel in 2001's "Weapon of Choice"?) and big-beat dance music.](http://www.baltimoresun.com/media/thumbnails/story/2012-03/68956385-22075434.jpg "Before America embraced Skrillex, Swedish House Mafia and David Guetta, there was Norman Cook, aka Fatboy Slim, the 48-year-old British DJ and producer who won over fans with quirky music videos (who could forget Christopher Walken prancing around an empty hotel in 2001's "Weapon of Choice\"?) and big-beat dance music.")
Before America embraced Skrillex, Swedish House Mafia and David Guetta, there was Norman Cook, aka Fatboy Slim, the 48-year-old British DJ and producer who won over fans with quirky music videos (who could forget Christopher Walken prancing around an...Tags: David Guetta, Electronics, Arts and Culture, Skrillex (music group), Music Industry
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Dubstep's mainstream takeover
![At the 2:17 mark of Britney Spears' 2011 hit single "Hold It Against Me," dubstep entered the mainstream.](http://www.baltimoresun.com/media/thumbnails/story/2012-01/67517918-23134230.jpg "At the 2:17 mark of Britney Spears' 2011 hit single "Hold It Against Me,\" dubstep entered the mainstream.")
At the 2:17 mark of Britney Spears' 2011 hit single "Hold It Against Me," dubstep entered the mainstream.
It had been bubbling around pop's surface before Spears put her glossy touch on it, but this was Top 40's most blatant — and effective —...Tags: Electronics, Arts and Culture, Skrillex (music group), Virgin Mobile FreeFest, Music Industry
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Pop music review: KIIS-FM’s dance-heavy Jingle Ball
Pop & HissThis year, the top 40 station KIIS-FM put a satin bow on the Europhile club sound, giving dance music fans a shot at raving to the beats of Guetta, Lady Gaga, Taio Cruz and Flo Rida.... -
Pop music review: Glass Candy at Los Globos
Pop & HissThe Oregon act gives 2011 an existential send-off with its magnetic electronic music -- much to the enjoyment of the bedazzled groovers packing the new Sunset club. This post has been updated. See below for details. 2011 will be remembered...... -
Critic's Notebook: LMFAO's brand of party rock uniquely American
Pop & HissLast week LMFAO had the No. 1 song in America. Again. This time it was for the L.A. rap/dance/pop duo's ode to self-infatuation, "Sexy and I Know It" — an infectiously simple dance-floor ditty with a relentless rhythm and a video that has been... -
In rotation: Dinosaur L's '24 by 24'
Pop & HissNew York by way of Iowa composer Arthur Russell, who died in 1992, worked in an odd intersection of sounds when he started making music in the mid-1970s. A classically trained violinist who ran with Allen Ginsberg, Russell became obsessed with the nascent...
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