Michael Serazio

DJ Harry had already scored points for cleverness when he touched up String Cheese Incident in a 2001 full-length remix. Mating jam bands and electronic dance music has always had a kind of "Damn, why didn't I think of that?" quality to it. That fusion, "organica" -- dig the term,...

To the naked eye, San Francisco and Houston don't have very much in common. One smells of salty Pacific air; the other, barbecue. One has been immortalized romantically in countless film shots. The other has been mocked widely by Super Bowl reporter-snots. Yet lack what we may when it comes...

By now, the old DJ cliché is so shopworn that it probably belongs in a museum. It's the one where the music writer asks the DJ to describe his or her style, and the DJ trots out the familiar but unhelpful line about how it's "hard to pin it down...

A 15-track hodgepodge of mellow groove and downbeat lounge, The Sweet Spot was presumably concocted to showcase the vocal talent of several breathy local divas. It's not so much that the ladies succeed -- although in most cases, they do -- they anchor. They're the glue that holds together the...

Like it or not, in today's politics, personality trumps policy. As our attention spans have withered, so too have our appetites -- and aptitudes -- for absorbing any information that doesn't come in bite-size kernels. Who wants to watch a debate about Medicare reform? Who the hell even knows what...