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Each week ZIO asks a different musician the same 11 questions via email. Visit Zoom In Music weekly for a new installment or subscribe to the RSS feed.

This blog post was submitted by Max Willens, ZIO's Music Channel Assistant.

Everybody knows that music magazines are dying. Just head to any book or record store (assuming, of course, that you can still find one) and check out the racks. The advertising is drying up, the readers have moved on, and really, it's only a matter of time.

This blog post was submitted by Max Willens, ZIO's Music Channel Assistant.

Imagine for a moment that one of your all-time favorite rap groups got back together, and held a live press conference where fans got to ask the questions.

What would you ask, given this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity?

This blog post was submitted by Max Willens, ZIO's Music Channel Assistant.

This blog post was submitted by Max Willens, ZIO's Music Channel Assistant.

This blog post was submitted by Max Willens, ZIO's Music Channel Assistant.

There is a suspicious gap in the official CMJ schedule.

This blog post was submitted by Max Willens, ZIO's Music Channel Assistant.

Each week ZIO asks a different musician the same 11 questions via email. Visit Zoom In Music weekly for a new installment or subscribe to the RSS feed.

This blog post was contributed by Max Willens, ZIO's Music Channel Assistant.

ZIO is going to be all over CMJ this year. So much so that we're covering it already! Read on for part two of our three-part preview of CMJ 2009.

Fun fact: CMJ features more than just concerts.

The newest version of the Yeah Yeah Yeah's oft-remixed dancefloor choon 'Heads Will Roll' is courtesy of our friend A-Trak. BBC Radio disc jockey Annie Mac describes it as the wunderkind DJ's 'best work to date', and we're inclined to agree.

You can download it on Discobelle. Or just listen here:

This blog post was contributed by Max Willens, ZIO's Music Channel Assistant.

No Age @ The New Museum
10/16/09

Ever since the L.A.-based duo of Dean Spunt and Randy Randall helped put Los Angeles back on the map as an indie hotbed, they've shown that they aren't afraid to try new things.

This blog post was contributed by Max Willens, ZIO's Music Channel Assistant.

This blog post was submitted by Max Willens, ZIO's Music Channel Assistant.

This blog post was submitted by Max Willens, ZIO's Music Channel Assistant.

This blog post was contributed by Max Willens, ZIO's Music Channel Assistant.

Welcome to the latest installment of ZIO's newest weekly series, Late to the Party, in which we catch you up on what everybody - from staff writers at the top outlets to the bloggers hiding in their mothers' basements - has been saying about a rising artist.