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Global Dance Special
The DJ's Who Rule the Earth
It’s a rave new world! Meet the 35 party-starters, headliners and underground kings rocking the dance fl oor from Miami and Ibiza to Jo’burg and the Mother City
#1 TIËSTO - Based in Breda, Netherlands
Before DJs were superstars in the U.S., the Dutch trance legend (born Tijs Michiel Verwest – try pronouncing that with a pacifi er in your mouth!)
was a U2-size draw in Europe – dropping more-epic-than-Avatar synth bombs everywhere from Ibiza to the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. Now he rules just as large in the U.S. – rocking festival main stages with a sound that’s evolved from shiver-inducing trance spirals toward chunkier electro-based grooves. And even though he makes a reported $20 million a year, he’s not settling for the bajillion fans he already has.
Rodriguez
This is Not a Song, It's an Outburst
The early ’70s saw the birth of a curious connection between apartheid South Africa and a dead man. What follows is a journey through Rodriguez’s lyrics to find out why
By Craig Bartholomew Strydom
At around the time when i wrote my first article,
my namesake, a white supremacist by the name
of Barend Strydom, took a walk through Strijdom
Square in Pretoria and picked out black people with a 9mm for summary execution. By the time the selfproclaimed Wit Wolf (literally, “white wolf”), was through, eight men and women lay dead, scores were seriously injured, and I could no
longer – not with that kind of shame – write under my own last name.
Kanye West
West world
How Kanye West went from being a nerdy midwestern kid with braces to become one of the world's most provocative pop stars
By Lola Ogunnake
Photograph by Albert Watson
It’s just weeks before the 48th annual Grammy Awards, and Kanye West is lounging in a well-appointed suite in Manhattan’s swanky Mercer Hotel, now commonly referred to as the site where Russell Crowe, in a fit of rage, hurled a
telephone at an unsuspecting employee. Far away from the fabulous chaos that is the downstairs lobby – Lindsay Lohan, Ben Kingsley and the designer Marc Jacobs are but a few of the boldfacers swirling about – West tucks into a dinner of roast chicken and squash soup.
Rolling Stone Issue 15
Red Hot Chili Peppers
June 25, 1992
Formed in 1983 by childhood friends Anthony Kiedis, Michael Peter Balzary aka “Flea” and Hillel Slovak, the Red Hot Chili Peppers have embodied all the trials and tribulations of the great rock ’n’ roll circus. Overcoming death, personnel changes and commercial indifference, the band has lived through it all and come out stonger than ever.
By David Fricke
Anthony Kiedis will not disclose the exact location of the bridge. "It's downtown," he says warily, gesturing vaguely at a distant spot on the glittering Los Angeles nightscape outside a high-rise hollywood hotel room. "But it's unimportant," he adds sharply. "I don't want people looking for it."