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2004 Stories by Jeff Chang

• Never Been in a Riot

  published October 19, 2004

  Drive east past Vallejo through the golden Northern California hills and you descend into Fairfield, a highway town between Bay Area and... More >>

• Open Season

  published June 29, 2004

  When your radio and television have become front lines in the battle for hearts and minds, and Howard Stern and Janet Jackson pass for... More >>

• Go 'Head, Fred!

  published June 1, 2004

  The first reported death of hip-hop—and they've all been premature—came in the summer of 1979, months before "Rapper's Delight." Uptown,... More >>

• All The World

  published April 13, 2004

  Once, when grunge was still king, Steve Albini branded Tortoise more "jazz" and "prog" than punk, and insisted that was a compliment. But now that... More >>

• Future Shock

  published January 13, 2004

  Was only yesterday when London's Black dance music scene seemed to cast off history's weight and speed toward the millennium. To Black British... More >>