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Massive Attack and Thievery Corporation Blow Up Bayfront

By Bernard Hacker
Oct 21, 2010

Massive Attack is one of the first "trip-hop" acts and so much more than that tag implies. Coming from a diverse background in the working-class city of Bristol, England, Robert "3D" Del Naja, Grant "Daddy G" Marshall, and former member Andy "Mushroom" Vowles grew up listening to reggae, dub, ska,...
Turntable Wizard Cut Chemist Lands at the Vagabond

By Bernard Hacker
Aug 5, 2010

Cut Chemist isn't just a turntablist or producer who makes beats. Born Lucas MacFadden in early-'70s Los Angeles, Cut came up at a time when DJs were starting to push the envelope creatively with production and live shows. As a founding member of the rap crew Jurassic 5 he, alongside...
Resident DJ Contra

By Bernard Hacker
May 20, 2010

DJ Contra began life in Munich, Germany, on the left side of the Berlin Wall. He spent his teen years around Washington, D.C., and as an adult, he finally wound up in Miami. Since then, he has traveled around the world, racking up passport stamps as the tour DJ for...
Miami's Ketchy Shuby Brings the Downtown Soul

By Bernard Hacker
Oct 22, 2009

These days, soul music is a genre often stuck in the side aisle of the record store or passed off into smoky cafés and '70s reunion shows. The originators of American soul music — Ray Charles, Otis Redding, and early James Brown — commandeered ears when they blasted on the...
Bringing Back the Funk

With local band Fusik, veteran b-boys revive old-school rhythms.

By Bernard Hacker
Sep 17, 2009

Until recently, the words Florida and funk have been associated more with a Dan Marino Right Guard commercial than with music. But a group of five South Florida b-boys is doing its part to change that. As Fusik, the quintet has been rocking local stages for four years now, from...

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