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Joel Davis has had one helluva packed schedule. Up until recently, the 21-year-old Phoenician was holding down two Joe jobs (slaving away behind the scenes at Stinkweeds Records and behind the front desk at the Clarendon Hotel) as well as working his regular gigs as the Thursday-night resident at Chronic...

By Benjamin Leatherman

October 15, 2009

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Joel Davis has had one helluva packed schedule. Up until recently, the 21-year-old Phoenician was holding down two Joe jobs (slaving away behind the scenes at Stinkweeds Records and behind the front desk at the Clarendon Hotel) as well as working his regular gigs as the Thursday-night resident at Chronic Tacos in Tempe and as the official DJ for Valley electro-hop group Silver Medallion. Plus, he also regularly drops by such weeklies as Solstice at Bar Smith and Homme's Party Foul! Night — all while managing to maintain a relationship. In the scant few hours he isn't sleeping or working on the cure for cancer, Davis (who also goes by the moniker Epidemic) has been crafting his recently released mixtape It's Dirty Work . . ., which is available via his MySpace page (www.myspace.com/thedjepidemic). He's marking the occasion with a special fete and spin session at Party Foul! on Friday, October 16, at Homme Lounge, which will also feature appearances by such PF! residents as Bigie and Craig Citizen.
Fri., Oct. 16, 9 p.m., 2009

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Benjamin Leatherman is a staff writer for Phoenix New Times where he focuses primarily on arts, culture, music, and nightlife. He began writing for New Times in 2003 and joined the staff full-time in 2005. Prior to that, he contributed to magazines such as Tips & Tricks and The Wrestler. Benjamin has earned multiple awards from the Arizona Press Club including an award for sports enterprise reporting in 2009 and an award for statewide arts reporting in 2014. He holds a bachelor’s of arts in journalism from Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication.

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