The Murky World of Artist Pseudonyms
news | Jan 27th, 2011 | View Comments
In the beginning there was Jack—except that probably wasn’t his real name.
Since the days of disco, aliases and pseudonyms have played an integral role in dance-music culture.
Often adopted for practical reasons—for instance, to allow artists under contract to one label to record elsewhere under a different name—they quickly became key factors in the ways that electronic-music culture makes meaning.
