Word: djs
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...reported on Monday that KZPS, a former classic rock station in Dallas that is owned by Clear Channel, would no longer run traditional 30- or 60-second commercials. Instead, the station will pursue a strategy of “integration”—which basically means that DJs will conversationally advertise products during their breaks, thus putting more music...
Afterward, burn off the calories at one of the many high-octane after-hours spots. A brilliant conversion of a 1930s warehouse, mk-2, http://mk-2.de, is a cutting-edge lounge cum discothèque with a roster of topnotch resident DJs and a dedicated thirtysomething VIP clientele. Over at 3001, www.d-3001.de, five areas, including a massive dance floor, keep the in-crowd contented, while Harpune, www.harpune.com, features a heady mix of deep house and trance refrains for its blissed-out masses...
Some WHRB DJs got more than strikes when they went bowling last Thursday. Jeff Mangum—the lead singer of now-defunct indie pop legends Neutral Milk Hotel—decided to break his five-year hiatus from performing in public to whip out his guitar for the awestruck WHRBies, transporting them out of the neon glare of Lanes and Games into Holland, 1945…A certain Fly member decided to take his post-spring break revelry to a whole new level this weekend when he entered a room in Eliot that was not his own. Instead...
...heavily armed units hasn’t been limited to drug arrests, which are at least conceivably dangerous for officers. What are the chances that a couple of DJs will put up a fight? That didn’t stop the Fulton Country police department from deploying a SWAT team with guns drawn in a RIAA-sponsored copyright violation bust. Or take the South Carolina high school drug sweep where SWAT officers forced kids to lie prone at gunpoint as dogs searched their lockers (no drugs were found...
...began to turn back to the recorded album in an attempt to save itself. At first, it seemed, the answer to radio’s problems was music and the public’s faith in a reliable DJ. The burgeoning record industry found its own personal soapbox in DJs who championed new releases.And, for the most part, the format worked. Martin Block, Alan Freed, and John Peel rose to national fame for their good taste and innovative programming. They simultaneously served as tastemakers and barometers for the listening public. At least that was the going logic until August...