Space is always an issue when living in London. You particularly feel it when you are used to the wide-open spaces and clean air of Denmark. This is the...
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...
Lollapalooza dawned hot on Friday, Aug. 3 at Chicago's Grant Park and we mean the kind of hot that causes eggs to fry on the sidewalk and makes festival...
We know you love reading other people's journals it's okay, we kind of get off on it, too. But you don't have to hide your secret pleasure anymore, thanks...
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...
It's hard enough to make it once in the music industry; it's exceptionally rare for luck to strike twice. But that is exactly what happened to Joy Division....
Proving music fans no longer need to choose sides, the second Pitchfork Music Festival (July 13-15) brought 39 seemingly incongruous acts together for...
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...
Interviewing Northern State is like chatting with your enviably cool East Coast girlfriends. Friendly and effusive, Hesta Prynn (aka Julie Potash) and...
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 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...
In 2007, after years of hyperdetailed, program-heavy albums that helped define and challenge contemporary music, Björk Guttir took a minimalist turn. Now...
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...
Browsing the endless shelves of tapes, vintage vinyl, musical scores, session notes and photos archived in the basement of Teo Macero's Long Island home,...
The first thing you'll notice about the new Savath & Savalas album is the absence of Eva Puyuelo, whose aching vocals floated over the modernized Catalonian...
By now notorious for its searing hot live music and even hotter desert sun, the annual Coachella festival sizzled for three long days this year, April...
With a few exceptions, post-'90s dance music has lacked any identity. Although top-flight DJs continued to thrive in clubs around the world, there was...
After five years in the making, Dntel's Dumb Luck hesitantly took shape, evolving into several acts after a splintering, disintegrated acoustic guitar...
Many albums see only the inside of a single studio during their creation, but when it came time to record her third full-length album, Bebel Gilberto...
Two years ago, Tracey Thorn emerged from half a decade of maternal bliss to record vocals for German duo-of-the-moment Tiefschwarz, then slipped away...
So Trent Reznor's been pumping massive iron, regularly buzzing his formerly long black locks and eschewing hard drugs for smooth protein shakes. But he...
Read the Remix article on drum ’n’ bass duo Ror-Shak. Stakka and DB discuss the attention to details in producing the tracks for their debut album, Deep, including song transitions, layering, creating space and effects....
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