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80 ’08 (and Heartbreak): Announcing Idolator’s Year-End Extravaganza

Michaelangelo Matos | December 31, 2008 12:45 pm
Michaelangelo Matos | December 31, 2008 12:45 pm

What were the 80 most important musical recordings, artists, trends, events, and performances of 2008? What were the eight things this year that broke our hearts—or, at least, our ears? We’re happy to announce 80 ’08 (and Heartbreak), Idolator’s year-end overview. The list is below the jump.

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Heartbreak No. 2: The Death Of Baltimore Club Music’s Queen, DJ K-Swift

Al Shipley | December 10, 2008 4:00 am
Al Shipley | December 10, 2008 4:00 am

On the morning of July 21, I woke up to find a text message on my phone informing me that Khia “DJ K-Swift” Edgerton, Baltimore’s most popular radio personality and a focal point of the percolating Baltimore club music scene, had been pronounced dead at a hospital after a swimming pool accident at her home. The shock of the unexpected news was magnified by the fact that I had just seen her perform her second-to-last DJ set at the Artscape festival two nights earlier. But for several years, I had religiously listened to her nightly radio show and hunted down every mix CD she released, much like the thousands of other Baltimore club fans that looked to her to break the latest hits and expose the newest club producers.

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DJ K-Swift, R.I.P.

Dan Gibson | July 22, 2008 2:30 am
Dan Gibson | July 22, 2008 2:30 am

kswift.jpgKhia Edgerton, better known as the “Club Queen K-Swift”, Baltimore DJ and radio personality, died yesterday at the age of 29 after a swimming pool accident at her home. As someone from way outside Baltimore’s city limits, it’s nearly impossible for me to try to capture the impact K-Swift’s death has had on the community there–there have been candlelight vigils at 92Q (where she worked) and front-page stories on the local papers, as well as tributes all over the Internet.

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