‘Let’s Dance’: Reflecting on David Bowie’s legendary impact on dance music
David Bowie's death sent a hush across the world, catalyzing a collective moment of silence with greater unanimity than perhaps any public figure since John Lennon. From the resulting outpouring of elegies and tributes from musicians, writers, world leaders, and the rest of us, it is abundantly clear that the performer was a sum greater than the whole of his staggeringly impressive body of work.
Essential Mix Review: The Juan MacLean mixes live, represents the carefree ethos of DFA Records
The Juan MacLean is a punk rock guitarist turns life-long DFA Records devotee. In the introduction to his Essential Mix from last week, he explains how he linked up with friend and DFA label head and former LCD Soundsystem frontman James Murphy -- he was still in live music, in a band named 6 Finger Satellite and Murphy was their sound engineer.