British-born Imogen Heap landed in living rooms across America courtesy of The OC. When the sparse single Hide and Seek scored a climactic shooting in...
Sometimes the soulless, corrupt, evil music industry doesn't seem so bad. Sure, record labels care more about unit sales than brilliant music, pay off...
On Roxy Music's debut album, Bryan Ferry sang of revenge enacted upon an unsuspecting object of affection in a song called Keyboardist Brian Eno layered...
Outer-space beings are my brothers, the enigmatic Sun Ra told writer Michael Shore back in 1979. They sent me here. They already know my music. Amazingly,...
SOUND SAGE The Juan Maclean builds anew from experience and pieces of his past New Hampshire might not be a hotbed of the electronic-music scene, but...
FREE MARKET The pop-culture multimedia hustle of Negativland knows no bounds Rock band, experimental-art group, media pranksters and ersatz archivists...
Although those lovely neighbors to the north have had no problem releasing the vocal histrionics of Celine Dion and Bryan Adams on the unsuspecting denizens...
Few artists covet the role of the obscure innovator. Spawning a movement and receiving fawning accolades from your musical progeny holds little attraction...
The Bravery has been called many things: the next big thing; the band to watch; another purveyor of this giant post-punk, '80s revival that defies the...
The expert staff of Antiques Roadshow would be greatly improved by the addition of Chris Adams to its roster. The vocalist and co-programmer of the Leeds,...
If you give me ingredients, I can find a few ways to cook them, says Yuka Honda, co-founder of Cibo Matto, the electronic indie band famously named for...
WORKING GIRLS I'm so wet! announces Kate Holmes, picking up the phone. A quick glance back at the number scrawled on a piece of paper confirms that Remix...
One might assume that postwar Germany had better things to worry about than the quality of its radio. Still, when it came to German pop music, the radio...
When the winters are as long and dark as they are in Umea, Sweden, people have to entertain themselves somehow. For the guitar-synth pop band Komeda,...
Before the clamor of industrial music or the culture of found-sound records, Berlin's Einstrzende Neubauten (which means collapsing new buildings in German)...
I don't know what genre we are in, Laika's Margaret Fiedler says. Sometimes, we are called electronic, but we have vocals, and we aren't as coffee-table...
Sean O'Hagan fends off many brief interruptions from his son in his home studio, but it's fair play to young master O'Hagan because it is, after all,...
There's a lot of love and shame mixed together in this project, says the Soft Pink Truth's Drew Daniel. One-half of electronic duo Matmos and a member...
During the late '70s, America reveled in the corny adult pop of James Taylor, Carly Simon and Elton John. Into this soft-rock stranglehold came Gary Numan's...
These days, you don't always know if the music you buy is live or Memorex. Is it a complete performance recorded in real time, or did the producer-engineer-musician...
By the time Donna Summer lets fly her last orgasmic moan on the 1975 classic, 17-minute version of Love to Love You Baby, you're convinced of two things:...
Not every band's first release is a Radiohead remix, and not every band's debut album is so acclaimed: It's nominated for England's Mercury Music Prize...
Herbie was the step after Bud Powell and Thelonious Monk, and I haven't heard anybody yet who has come after him. Miles Davis, Miles: The Autobiography...
Although virtually everyone recognizes Kraftwerk as the godfathers of electronic dance music, few people are familiar with Neu, another influential '70s...
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