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“Pump Up the Volume: The History of House Music” is a film that “follows the evolution of house music from its birth in Chicago to the myriad of diverse music it has since spawned.” It’s absolutely fantastic and ironically impossible to purchase a legitimate copy from what I can tell! It was originally broadcast on [...]

Last month, Passion Pit announced a remix contest for the track “Little Secrets” from their recently released (5/19/2009) album Manners. The interesting — but also irritating — thing about the remix contest is that they don’t actually give you all the parts. In fact, when you sign up for the contest, you are given one [...]

Come get your dance party on this weekend at Bootie! I’m playing in the upstairs Electro-Bootie lounge and would love to see your dancing, smiling self out there on the floor.

From the sounds of the Ars Technica review, Steve Knopper’s new book, Appetite for Self-Destruction: The Spectacular Crash of the Record Industry in the Digital Age, sounds fantastic. What music lover won’t appreciate a nice simile comparing big music to a boil that needs cleaning?

“I realized that as an industry we’d kind of been smoking [...]

Bootie is one of my all-time favorite places to play and I’m always excited when I get invited back. I’ll be hitting the decks in the Electro-Bootie room this month, spinning an eclectic mix of electro boots and remixes. Won’t you join me?