Big Boi of Outkast has long professed his interest in dance, so it's not terribly surprising that he's collaborating with the Atlanta Ballet; the performance is, of course, titled
Big. It'll feature a whole bunch of Big Boi's ATL cronies (Sleepy Brown, Big Rube, Scar, Joi Killiam, Khujo Goodie, Janelle Monae), run April 10-13, and, according to the Billboard story, "interweave new and unreleased music from Big Boi with Giuseppe Verdi's 'La Traviata.'" It will, of course, be impossible to distinguish between Big Boi's and Verdi's contributions to the score. [
Billboard]
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Phoenix has had a dance music station broadcasting over the desert air for the last six years, one of the few American radio outlets that provided Taylor Dayne with a slightly fatter royalty check each quarter. In news that was surely a real bummer to the glowstick crowd around these parts, Energy dimmed on Halloween, and Monday brought The Beat, which has a playlist devoted to classic hip-hop. Although I'm not giving up my satellite radio subscription quite yet, it was pretty great to hear these three tracks played consecutively yesterday:
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