The xx can trace their origins to when Romy Madley-Croft and Oliver Sim, the two founding members of the band met at the Elliott School, a school best known for a number of famous alumni […]
Tag: electronica
The battery on my Macbook Pro was near it’s last gasps and it finally gave up the ghost – while working on a post. But the great folks at Tekserve were able to replace the […]
Formed in Oklahoma, Colourmusic can trace their origins to when Ryan Hendrix and the British-born Nick Turner met and bonded over their love of Aphex Twin while in college. Colin Fleishacker (bass) and NIcholas Ley […]
in interviews, the Pennsylvania-based electronic artist and producer Tobacco has mentioned that with his forthcoming effort, Ultima 2 Massage that he wanted to push his sound to the point where even at it’s most depraved you can […]
Brian Eno, the legendary producer, composer, musician, visual artist and ambient music pioneer has collaborated with a number of equally legendary artists – his two collaborative efforts with David Byrne My Life in the Bush of […]
Galantis, the duo of Christian “Bloodshy” Karlson of Miike Snow and Linus Elkow, better known as Style of Eye have quickly won the attention of the blogosphere with the release of “Help” and “The Heart That I’m Hearing” off […]
The founding members of Kraftwerk, Florian Schneider and Ralf Hutler met as students Robert Schumann Hochschule in Dusseldorf in the late 1960s and had taken part of the German experimental music art scene that has […]
Based in Stoke-on-Trent, UK in the county of Staffordshire, the teenaged producer Sunil Heera, better known by the moniker XO – and in a relatively short time, the young Heera has gained quite a bit […]
The Los Angeles-based trio of Liars have a long-held reputation for defying expectations at every single turn of their careers, and for a sound that has been at times purposely challenging. WIXIW, which landed at number 21 on this site’s Best […]
A Q&A with Sleepers Work a.k.a. William Flynn
Back in October, I was in Frankfurt am Main, Germany for the Frankfurt Book Fair. And practically as soon as i got of the plane at JFK, I was covering several showcases at CMJ and […]
Swedish electro pop trio DNKL (pronounced dunkel) have received quite a bit of attention internationally for their single “Battles,” a single which bears a resemblance to the work of Beacon – in the sense that […]
To celebrate the release of his latest solo effort, Pathfinder, Ross Tones, who writes, produces and records under the moniker of Throwing Snow, released the first four tracks of the EP to critical praise. “Summus,” the […]
Galantis, the duo of Christian “Bloodshy” Karlson of Miike Snow and Linus Elkow, better known as Style of Eye have quickly won the attention of the blogosphere with the release of “Help” and “The Heart […]
Recorded in NYC and in Germany Shit Robot’s forthcoming We Got A Love features a boatload of special guests including DFA Records labelmates Nancy Whang (famously known for her time in LCD Soundsystem),Museum of Love, the Rapture’s Luke Jenner, hip-house star Lidell […]
In their native UK, the funk collective of Jungle are a breakout act but they’re starting to make inroads Stateside – their latest single “Busy Earnin’” recently received airplay on KCRW‘s Morning Becomes Electric. Interestingly, the […]