Email Author Darren Keast

2004 Stories by Darren Keast

• System of a Sound

  published December 22, 2004

  It's a little past noon, and the peculiar, somewhat mysterious workings of the reggae business are already in full swing at Wisdom Records in the... More >>

• Dance, Dance Revolution

  published December 15, 2004

  For hipsters, the coolest things are to be found twenty years ago, the most dreadful things ten years ago. So starting a few years back, we were... More >>

• BeatBox

  published August 11, 2004

  !!!, Goldfrapp, Erase Errata, Donna Summer, the Faint, and the Minogue sisters are just a smattering of the brand names you've come to know and... More >>

• Turning the Tables

  published July 21, 2004

  Hating British trance DJ Paul Oakenfold is like hating Wal-Mart -- it's not that much fun. Like the ubiquitous superstore, Oakenfold is... More >>

• Get Your Freak On

  published July 7, 2004

  When beat-maker Tom Cleary signed on to work with underground Bay Area rapper Dopestyle, he didn't plan on the penis jokes. But after a show last... More >>

• Fiddle About

  published June 2, 2004

  Amp Fiddler disagrees with the name of the genre he's been squeezed into, which in his case is neo-soul. His point is that after two decades of... More >>

• Return of the Jedi

  published May 19, 2004

  Now that everybody can (and does) have his 15 minutes of fame, it's about time we completely overhauled Mr. Warhol's prediction, especially when... More >>

• Sowing the Seeds of Jah

  published April 14, 2004

  Looking around at "Club Dread"'s 10-year anniversary party at Studio Z last month, it was easy to tell why Jamaican dancehall has taken so long to... More >>

• It's Alive!

  published March 17, 2004

  Over the last year or so, there's been a rumbling in clubland, and it ain't the whir of a subwoofer. More than just cyclical scenester malaise,... More >>