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An educator, scholar and critic of music, politics and media, Jayson Harsin was an indie rock and alt. country dj for seven years at WNUR radio in Chicago. He has two blogs. A music blog: "Parisite:Indie News from Paris," and a Politics, Media, and Culture blog: "Pearls Before Swine".His academic writings have been published in several books and journals. He is also a regular music contributor to Popmatters, and his writing on film has appeared in Bright Lights Film journal (online) and Bad Subjects. He is currently at work on a book, The Rumor Bomb: Vertiginous Politics in Convergence Culture.
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King Khan is a nut: boisterously funny, at times ironically in-your-face punk and soft-pornographic.
OM brings a patently entertaining kind of postmodern theater spectacle that sometimes risks making the music its soundtrack.
Critic/DJ Jayson Harsin/DJay Indie Eclectique gives you his Top 10 indie albums of 2008.'
Fa-la-la-la-la, my friends. Xmas is doomed to be musical. At your service: the best mostly indie Xmas music videos.
Eli Paperboy Reed, the hottest new Soul Revivalist, performs his first show in Paris
Gogol Bordello and the Hives's shock therapy for Paris.
Concert Review of thedø, a buzzing new franco-finnish indie folk duo at the Maroquinerie, Paris.
“We want to keep on doing music full time. We don’t want to be a flash in the pan.”
Spectacular performances by Rodeo Massacre and 54 Nude Honeys at the Maroquinerie, Paris. Bands to watch, especially.
Sarkozy wins first round of French presidential elections,amid a range of candidates who all claim, "I am France."
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