As Girl Talk, Pittsburgh producer and laptop toter Gregg Gillis splices the sounds of a hundred hitship-hop, metal, indie rock, mainstream rockinto propulsive dance marathons. His show with Penguin Prison Thursday, Jan. 27, at Raleigh’s Disco Rodeo is sold-out, but his appearance still presents interesting artistic questions about copyright, interpretation and the roles and licenses of a DJ. Brandon Soderberg takes on some of those questions in a piece available here soon.

Bio: Brandon Soderberg lives in Baltimore, where he writes the No Trivia hip-hop column for Spin.Link: http://no-trivia.tumblr.comTwitter: http://twitter.com/notrivia