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The 1200-year-old Borobudur temple in central Java, Indonesia, now sparkles at night thanks to the work of lighting designer Robert Daniels, who redesigned the Buddhist...
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The acid-spiked electronic dub that closes the second half of Selecta One bodes well for the Hacky Sack-hoarding, poncho-clad hippie types, but its glitches and spacy...
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These rasslers are classics
SAT 9/10
Maybe you want your children to see the titans you revered growing up -- to teach them that the American dream is not just a nebulous...
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The story of house music's origins is sort of The Aristocrats for the seasoned DJ set -- you know how it begins (Jack, his groove, and "Let there be house!"), you know how it...
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But acting like one is
FRI 9/9
BY PATRICE ELIZABETH GRELL YURSIK
Back in 1993, Queen Latifah delivered a powerful message to the hip-hop community. "You gotta let him...
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As the singer/songwriter of the now-defunct Catherine Wheel, Rob Dickinson presided over one of the most chameleonlike bands of the Nineties -- exploring everything from...
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SAT 9/10
Frédéric François Chopin was born in Zelazowa Wola, Poland, in 1810. In 1977, Blanka Rosenstiel, a concerned Polish American, established the...
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Mac McCaughan's bandmates in Chapel Hill's influential and self-sufficient Superchunk probably didn't think twice back in 1993 when he inaugurated his side project,...
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50 Cent may be the most hated star in the game, inspiring more dis records than LL Cool J in the "Rock the Bells" era. But it's difficult to front on records such as "Outta...
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Foxy is one of the only rap cats who can big up King Selassie I with more authentic patois twang than half the Def Jam Caribbean roster. The flow kicks behind the groove all...
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Pop reggaeton spends more time translating itself than residing in itself. Not to mention announcing itself. Luckily this track skimps on translation of its request to, say,...
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I'm thinking more Hotel MTV than Scarface here. A lineage that traces back to that one cool kid in Sixteen Candles -- you remember? Yeah, him. Jay Gatsby before him. Wait a...
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One of the great misconceptions of dance music mythology is that the DJ is an anonymous conduit of groove. This idea of celebrity subversion may appeal to the dance...
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Despite the group's phenomenal success of X&Y, which has already sold in excess of two million copies in the U.S. since its early-June release, this heir apparent to the U2...
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Go ahead and choose a subject. It could be as simple as a glass of water or as delicate as a soured relationship. Whatever it might be, chances are Puerto Rican master...
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The accelerated release date of Damian Marley's third CD is owed to the tremendous response his "Welcome to Jamrock" single has received on urban radio. However, nothing about...
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Though Jorge is best known in the States for his acting roles in the breakout 2002 Brazilian movie City of God (in which he played Knockout Ned) and 2004's The Life Aquatic...
