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  The Queen of Disco, Gloria Gaynor, Performed My Nightlife Baptism

  January 30 at 9:35 a.m.

  December 31, 1996, was a typically cold New Year's Eve in Times Square. My friends and I were trapped in that glittery and dismal landscape while waiting for the ball to drop. As a teenager from Miami, I was dressed incredibly inappropriately in thin pants, slip-ons, and a borrowed coat...

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  A Look Back at Diplo's Indie Dance Cred

  January 11 at 8 a.m.

  In 2003, a 24-year-old Wesley Pentz, along with DJ Low Budget, started a series of parties and mixtapes dubbed Hollertronix. Based out of Philadelphia, Pentz quickly began getting the underground American dance scene buzzing with a mishmash of styles and genres that on paper seemed disjointed, but somehow the duo made it work...

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  Cher's Greatest Talent: Turning Her Questionable Decisions Into Trends

  January 10 at 8 a.m.

  Sonny & Cher's 1965 song "I Got You Babe" blares each morning from the clock radio of Bill Murray's character in the 1993 comedy classic "Groundhog Day." Asked why he chose that song, writer Danny Rubin said that after several replays, “it would drive you crazy!” But wasn't there always something also charming about the song?...

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  My Tumultuous Love Affair With Marilyn Manson

  Friday, October 19, 2018 at 9 a.m.

  Marilyn Manson. The name is as much a dichotomy as the character. It's half sweet and sexy Marilyn Monroe, half crazed, bloodthirsty Charles Manson. Marilyn Manson is edgy, groundbreaking, talented, and, some might even say, sensitive. He can also be threatening, violent, and unpredictable. Fans revere him; the religious right reviles him.

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  Revisiting Ms. Lauryn Hill's Miseducation in the #MeToo Era

  Friday, October 5, 2018 at 8 a.m.

  Can you believe it's the 20th anniversary of the release of The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, Ms. Lauryn Hill's seminal Grammy-winning solo album? Two decades after Hill sang to a generation of young women about ruling their own destiny, the lessons and messages contained in her masterpiece land just as hard, inspiring thousands of fans to buy tickets to her anniversary tour, which is set to stop in Miami Monday, October 15. And if you've been paying attention to the news, it's not hard to see why.

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  How David Byrne Influenced a Generation of Indie Rockers

  Friday, September 21, 2018 at 8 a.m.

  Musical influences are cyclical. There have been stages in rock history when everyone was trying to sing like Bob Dylan and other eras when everyone channeled their inner Lou Reed. But among the indie rockers who've pushed boundaries and topped the charts since the turn of the century, one has...