The Decibel International Electronic Music Festival in Seattle just announced its 2011 lineup, with Moby and Brazilian DJ Amon Tobin headlining the five-day event. Since Decibel is also a visual arts and new media festival - not like there isn't already enough to occupy your time - this festival is

What first made you interested in writing 140bpm music? Did it just happen naturally -- like you realized the songs you were already writing could work in that format -- or was it an active decision to try writing dubstep? At the time I was working on material that was around 133 or so. It...

Way back in 2006, I did my monthly check-in of the now-defunct Breakbeat Science message board to see what the good records were in drum and bass. Perusing through the posts, I saw one by a name I recognized from the nascent dubstep worldâ Eskmo â who was giving out his cheeky remix of...

His American breakout moment came earlier this year when he tore up the 2011 Coachella festival, in a high-intensity electronic set backed by a full live rock band and a visual show that had breathless bloggers and reviewers proclaiming it the festival’s high point. But in Europe Anders

For LA electronic mastermind Sonny Moore, a very disguised blessing came in the form of severe vocal problems in 2007. Unable to sing after corrective surgery, he left his successful alt-rock group and gigged around, becoming an emerging electronic superstar (no vocals needed!) through his debut EP

It's no wonder MTV Hive included Nicolas Jaar in their First Take series on emerging artists. The 21-year old Chilean New Yorker's moody music draws from the sound palette of minimal techno, but speaks to the soul and not just to the body. ...

As an artist who excels at divining rhythms, blips and bleeps into overwhelming, groove-workout anthems—London’s Actress is on his own plane. Head of the South London (Brixton, to be exact)-based Werk Disks label, Darren Cunningham has been building astonishing, hazy, twice-removed-from-reality

In the world of music, the word “cover” invokes thoughts of bad singing and a fuzzy webcam. Yuna, a folk popper from Malaysia, changed our minds with her smooth,...

Anoraak, France's new wave answer to Australian electro sensation Cut Copy, is still tweaking his first full-length LP, but he has granted us a sweet sneak peek at his song "Above Your Head." Anoraak has been touring the globe with a collection of remixes and his mini-album Nightdrive with You, a

“Yeah, we don’t want to do anything to scare your children. That’s the last thing we want to do. We don’t want to scare anybody.”

This week we belly-up to stages and hit the streets to catch music performed live. From Puerto Rican garage rockers to Australian disco-house throwbacks to Moroccan socially conscious rap, we try to capture lightening in a bottle -- the anything-goes magic of music unleashed upon an audience. Be

For all intents and purposes, can we all just come to the consensus that 2011 is UK house producer Maya Jane Coles' breakthrough year? This year saw the 24-year-old Londoner perform nonstop (including at big international music fests like Glastonbury) in Europe and the States, remix for the likes

Damu has only been putting out his crystalline dance music for a year-and-a-half, but Sam Schorb's glistening take on UKG, electro, and house has already been touted by Mike Skinner as the future of UK bass. His summer single "Ridin'" took liberal arpeggios, laser bleeps, and r&b vocals and

Rapper YAS is Iran's Persian hip hop laureate. A disciple of Tupac and Rumi, YAS uses uplifting poetic imagery delivered through an impassioned, at times ferocious, flow to communicate uplifting rhymes about his culture and people. The 29-year-old Tehran native broke ground in Iran by becoming the

It could be called reggae time -- a slow unfurling of temporal reality as time as a metronomic concept loses meaning and becomes something more elastic and less measurable.

Fresh from the release of their drop-dead lovely fifth album Gravity the Seducer, we got electropop heroes Ladytron to strut for us under bright neon lights in a Victorian theatre. The glamorous venue really set the mood for their somber-yet-sparkling synth sounds. After the show we got some

In our 5th episode we check out a Chilean child prodigy with a great head of hair, a British electropop group with a vampiric vibe, and a Congolese/Belgian rapper with a smooooth French flow. Check out more on this week's artists: Francisca Valenzuela, Ladytron, and Baloji....

One of Hong Kong's most refreshing new bands, All for A Vision takes the electronicore tactics of a heavily tattooed group like Asking Alexandria and retools them in the service of a more innocent perspective. Their recently released self-produced EP Reasons and Devices consists of four earnest yet

Rapper YAS is Iran's Persian hip hop laureate. A disciple of Tupac and Rumi, YAS uses uplifting poetic imagery delivered through an impassioned, at times ferocious, flow to communicate uplifting rhymes about his culture and people.

Sometime late 2008, rap duo Das Racist released "Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell" onto Youtube. The song consisted of two guys repeating "I'm at the Pizza Hut/I'm at the Taco Bell/I'm at the combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell" until you either wanted to shoot your monitor or fell off your

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