By Randall RobertsAny 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 dry and synthetic to wet and gushy), rhythm tracks can be tempo-tweaked with an upward toggle to change a Timbaland beat into a Chromeo one. Add some T-Pain-esque pitch-correction vocal
BruceSpringsteen.netThe BossBreak out the Sharpie and circle your calendars. The lineup for the 2009 Bonnaroo Festival has just been announced, and suffice to say Woodstock and Lollapalooza have nothing on this. Just when you thought the four-day music and arts extravaganza, held on a farm in rural Tennessee, could get no bigger, the promoters snag Bruce Springsteen--fresh off his Super Bowl halftime performance--as their headliner, earning much more "cool points" than the Coachella Festival, wh
Cathrine WestergaardPressure Cooker: Dr. IsraelDJ Sep's Dubmission might just be the longest-running club night in San Francisco. It's easy to take the Sunday night party for granted, but it's done a lot to ensure that bass, reverb, and echo have a place in the city's nightlife, as well as continually featuring national and international artists of renown within the dub world.
Case in point: May 24's show with Brooklyn's Dr. Israel. Probably best known for the dubby jungle anthem "Inna City,"
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