BOOK/MAGAZINE: The Elsewhere Musician: Making Connections in a Fragmented World

Kyle Bylin, Associate Editor I was ten when I recorded "The Rockafeller Skank" by Fatboy Slim off the radio onto cassette tape. Twelve when "The Real Slim Shady" by Eminem premiered on TRL. The idea that I could reach out and connect with the artists that I liked didn't exist yet or at least wasn't familiar to me. MySpace didn't become popular where I grew up - almost no one that I knew had it. Artists were perceived as unreachable. What you knew about them was based on the lyrics in thei...

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