Word: djs
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...public discussion of its anniversary. "Our Band Could Be Your Life" offers a timely reminder that Cobain and company were merely a key regiment in the motley alt-rock army. With no beacon of commercial viability in sight, that far-flung herd of musicians, label heads, college radio DJs and `zine writers slowly but steadily introduced a new kind of rock `n' roll to people who, in Azerrad's words, "would seek out the little radio stations to the left of the dial that didn't have such great reception, who would track down the little photocopied fanzine, who would...
...scene from Tokyo to Toronto. To be part of it, call (86-10) 6416-5615. Too tame? Pop around another corner to Club Vogue, on Gongti Dong Lu, where the state-of-the-art sound system has channeled the dubby deckwork of some of the world's leading DJs. The club is a favorite among visiting out-of-town celebrities. Subdued souls should pick a weekday night, when Vogue offers a passable dinner menu and live jazz at a volume that permits conversation. To reserve, call...
...something a little more raw, try the bars and clubs clustered around the universities in Haidian. In the 1980s this area?40 minutes northwest of the city center?was a hotbed of student activism. Now, in the hutongs across from Peking University's West Gate, local and foreign DJs spin regularly at Solutions. For directions, call (86-10) 6255-8877. Or try First Avenue Caf? and Bar at (86-10) 6264-0702. The atmosphere at both places is plain wild...
...record stores each week. Like the shift from network radio to the rise of independent stations, Top 40 happened quickly, between 1955 and '57. It soon became so codified that by 1959 a comedy duo, Arbogast and Ross, could produce a canny satire of the format, complete with frothing DJs, helicopter traffic reports, gag commercials aimed at teens who feel excluded because they don't have zits ("Pimple-On! Adds blotches and blemishes to the clearest of skin!") and, amid all the aural clutter, an occasional song. It would last about four seconds before the DJ ramped up his rant...
...left town for a few years in the glare of the payola scandal. He returned in '62, but by then the station had both congealed and softened; the format was strangling the jock's freedom to go nuts. As Wibbage turned to cabbage, other DJs at smaller stations caught kids' attentive ears. At WCAM in Camden, across the Delaware River from Philly, Kal Rudman spun the widest playlist in the tri-state area and gave records away. (I still have a 45 that came in the mail from Kal: "Guybo" by Eddie Cochran's band, the Kelly Four...