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Valley Fever:
Greg Stanton to Leave Phoenix City Council; Headed to AG's Office (w/update)
Rocky Mountain High: Suns Face the Surging Nuggets in Denver Tonight
Up on the Sun:
The Edge 103.9 Continues Booking 90s Has-beens For Its Third Thursdays Concerts
Concert Calendar for This W
Away From The Sea and right into your fucking skullAh, new music Tuesday. It's always exciting to note what new albums come out on any given Tuesday, especially so early into the new year. While today may be a particularly slow day in the American market, one French artist has released some of 2009's finest work to date. The man in question is Pierre-Alexandre Busson, better known as Yuksek. His album Away from the Sea is, without a doubt, one of my favorites of 2009. It is pure, perfe
The PHX's own Z-Trip is already widely considered by many to be the "Godfather of the mash-up," as well as one of the biggest turntablists ever to emerge from our fair city. But could the 30something also be the best in the whole damn U.S.?
That's entirely up to you...and the rest of the online world, for that matter.
The Tripster (who's also known by his Christian name Zach Sciacca) is in the running for the annual "America's Best DJ" contest sponsored by industry publication DJ Times. He'
Bad Boy Bill, DJ Skribble, Adam Goldstein, Scotty Boy, Steve Aoki, and Q-Bert.
What do all these cats have in common? They're some of the best DJs and turntablists that our country has to offer. And every last one of them were soundly defeated by Z-Trip to become "America's Best DJ" for 2009.
The Phoenix native, who relocated to L.A. in 2002, proved to Z King yesterday when it was announced that he'd won the online contest sponsored by EDM industry publication The DJ Times. As a resu
