I like being a muse to artists, Salaam Remi says. My own issue is, what do I actually sound like? It's a new chapter for Remi, the 35-year-old producer...
Proving music fans no longer need to choose sides, the second Pitchfork Music Festival (July 13-15) brought 39 seemingly incongruous acts together for...
Interviewing Northern State is like chatting with your enviably cool East Coast girlfriends. Friendly and effusive, Hesta Prynn (aka Julie Potash) and...
Judging by his latest effort, Dan Snaith presumably works in a recording studio made entirely of glass, what with the amount of sunlight that shines through...
Behind his bug-eyed wraparound shades, Prince Paul cuts an almost extraterrestrial profile, smiling mischievously as he warms to a question about the...
I'm in London, of course, cackles Maya Arulpragasam. The Sri Lankan by way of the UK rapper/chatter/singer, who records under the nom de plume M.I.A.,...
Since first bursting on the scene in the early 1990s, James Lavelle has remained one of the coolest and most important names in the electronic-music genre....
The path on which I discovered my musical identity was a little more convoluted than I would've liked. I spent a lot of years trying a little too hard,...
Read the full Q&A with New York hip-hop/rock trio Northern State and producer Chuck Brody on the band's album, Can I Keep This Pen? For the story in the...
For so long, VHS or Beta singer/guitarist Craig Pfunder says, we were about trying to re-create dance music with traditional instruments. That was a big...
When you're DJing to people who are really drunk at one in the morning, Z-Trip says, if you come with something superintelligent, it's going to fly over...
Instead of sitting in a bedroom with three keyboards and a sampler, we were sitting in a studio with 30 keyboards, says the Chemical Brothers' Tom Rowlands....
Thanks to Daft Punk, Coachella 2006 was a watershed moment for electronic music in America. Their rapturously received set proved once and for all that...
Only a small group of aficionados may realize it today, but just a few blocks from where Morton Subotnick now lives and works in New York's Greenwich...
Style: World music, electronic music, overlooked pop gems, modern-dance grooves Established: In San Francisco, Calif. by Pat Berry and Bob Duskis Artists:...
The entire rock 'n' roll aesthetic has long weighed heavy on the minds of today's electronic dance-music producers. Ever since acts like Underworld, Daft...
Just because I have a band called Cinematic Orchestra doesn't mean they have to be on every song with an ensemble sound, says frontman Jason Swinscoe...
You won't get a lot of wild stage antics at a Chromeo show, but the duo's subtlety is no less engaging. The first thing you'll notice is Pee Thug (aka...
If you took a walk in Manhattan's streets during the past two years, you most likely passed by some signs inviting you to one of Offer Nissim's parties...
Back in the not-so-distant days of pre-millennial anxiety, just about everyone with a sliver of creative marrow in their bones had cultivated their own...
Let's take a brief departure from the norm here in digital-DJ land and look at a very talented turntablist and a few of the techniques that make him great....
I did not have a strategic plan about where I wanted to go as an artist. There have been so many different opportunities that have crossed my path during...
In 2007, after years of hyperdetailed, program-heavy albums that helped define and challenge contemporary music, Björk Guttir took a minimalist turn. Now...
A few days before his set with labelmate Ryan Elliott, Matthew Dear explained the Detroit Electronic Music Festival's je ne sais quoi. The good thing...
Without a good dose of jet lag, The Adventures of Ghosthorse and Stillborn would have turned out to be quite a different album. When Bianca and Sierra...
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