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Best Dance-Floor Anthems of 2008

The year's finest tracks, both mixed and unmixed.

Top Dance Albums of 2008

Any knucklehead with DSL and a laptop can now make an electronic track. With a half hour of clicking and fiddling, you can sample enough cheesy beats and mashups to clog arteries from here to Berlin. Simple dropdown mouse maneuvers can transform electro tracks into progressive house tracks (from dr ... More >>

The Bad Shoot

Wrong place, wrong time, wrong perp, wrong sentence

Alive and Kicking the Habit

Rapper Vico C is born again with a little help from Picasso and Jesus

Scientific Method

There's nothing romantic about Robert Ashley's approach to opera

Dental Damned

In Novocaine Steve Martin sticks his fingers into all the wrong places

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The Need for Weed

It's a unique source of fiber, a natural painkiller, a valuable fuel source. So when Jack Herer talks about legalization, there's a method to his reefer madness.