20 · The Music Issue

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Jerry Heller

Jerry Heller is the business mastermind behind the second great paradigm shift in modern pop music. In 1967, it was the Beatles album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band that defined the rock music era. In 19...
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Warm Lobster Salad

We Are the Fury's percussionist Stephan Lublin quit touring with the band to work with a new kind of drumstick; he now attends culinary school in Paris and blogs at MySpace.com/TheFoodComa. Here's one of his fa...
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The Six-Year Itch

If he didn't have his latest album as hard evidence, the affable DJ, producer, composer, and remixer Sam Spiegel (a.k.a. Squeak E. Clean) might sound a bit delusional when he tells me how jam-packed with top ar...
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Chai Times with Sean Paul

The moment he rolls up to the joint—I mean, hotel suite—it's easy to see that 36-year-old Jamaican reggae and dancehall megastar Sean Paul has it all: brains, talent and plenty of green (backs, that is). Paul t...
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Keel Over Beethoven

As the scruffy artists file into their lab for design class at Brooklyn multi-arts space, 3rd Ward, each lets out a small, discernable gasp. For there on the room's sole couch lounges Saturday Night Live cast m...

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