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This was the commencement of an interview with singer Simone White for an article I wrote about Honest Jon's Chop-Up Revue last year , y...

You know it's been a sweet week when (finally) landing the cover story of the Voice doesn't even rank over at ye beta blog. Shit, at...

Took a few days to come down off the high of DJing both Animal Collective shows this past week. It's hard to ask for a better audience t...

Dudes and dudettes, no need to spend $100-$150 to watch me and my friends Piotr and Dave DJ tonight at Grand Ballroom and tomorrow at Bower...

Inexplicably, I have found myself with five DJ gigs through the rest of January. Tonight I will be playing records at Stanton Public with m...

Mind the gap.

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Ahmed Fakroun "Yo Son" (Prince Language edit) A continuation of part one of my interview with Prince Language... Tell me about the...

Gino Soccio: "Love is..." Edit de Prince Language Prince Language is a busy guy. His edits of folks like Gino Soccio, Roy Ayers, H...

Lee Douglas - "Fuego" Lee Douglas is a busy guy. A graphic designer by day, he not only juggles his own productions and remixes (s...

Jacques Renault - "Disco Galaxie" Jacques Renault has already received accolades from Paper Magazine and the like and he works on ...

The Real DJ Spun has been a real heavy on dance culture in NY since relocating here in early 2002 to curate PS1's crucial Summer Warm-Up...

Combining two of my great loves. Forgot to post this before splitting town, but a long-brewing feature on the revival of the disco edit fin...

In the November issue of Spin, I delve into the weird world of the Rock-a-Fire Explosion and the grown-ass men who still pretend they are a...

No amount of emails to Grace Jones' PR lackeys sprung me to a dream interview with the lady. Guess invoking things like Vibe , Spin , Pa...

In the newest issue of Yeti , my interview with Rub-n-Tug's Thom Bullock about the return of disco appears. You may remember it from whe...

Halloween night, I wound up catching the world premiere of the Norwegian black metal documentary, Until the Light Takes Us , with a friend w...

Recounting my story of that epic Halloween traffic jam to LAXers past and present elicits only a "meh" response. But when I mentio...

So I'm out in LA this week. It's my first time out here since 1991 --seventeen years ago!-- when I came out for a drama club field t...

In the October issue of SPIN (which is about to vanish off the racks right about now), I wrote four of the blurbs for their "Strange Be...