Going Out Guide for Wednesday, July 14, 2010Tuesday, July 13, 2010 @ 11:00PMArthur Baker Arthur Baker is one of the most important names in the history of dance music, taking a love for the live DJ mix and trying to re-create it in the studio. His melding of hip-hop and electro on Afrika Bambaataa's groundbreaking "Planet Rock" -- with Bambaataa rapping over... Chicago - Holidays - Fourth of July - United States - Michelin Guide
Exclusives : Getting To Know: DelphicWednesday, June 16, 2010 @ 4:36PMWhen musicians retreat to a rural cottage or cabin to write an album, the results are often pastoral and mellow. Think Led Zeppelin’s third album, Bon Iver’s For Emma , Forever Ago , or The Band’s Music from Big Pink . But when Manchester band Delphic decamped to England’s Lake District to spend three weeks in a cottage without TV, Internet or central heating, they somehow emerged with a full-on ...
A primer to the music of 16 World Cup countriesMonday, June 7, 2010 @ 6:45AMCountries all have rich musical traditions
LCD Soundsystem has shown you the ropes, and now James Murphy is checking outTuesday, June 1, 2010 @ 9:39PM'I don’t even think I make electronic music,' James Murphy said, reached last week at his home in Brooklyn, New York City. The statement is as absurd as it is telling. For the better part of a decade, Murphy has been the poster-boy for quality club music
Half-dozen groups represent new school of Portland's thriving underground electronica sceneThursday, May 20, 2010 @ 11:14PMLed by Manny Reyes, Atole's lone track, "Glow Stix," has a similar dissipating-into-pixels, disco-house sound that was found on the early works of the likeminded outfit Copy.
Various - Fabric 52 - Optimo (Espacio)Friday, May 7, 2010 @ 4:18AMThis mix CD, the first by the Optimo twosome of JD Twitch and JG Wilkes for the now-venerable Fabric series, drops one week after Optimo the club night retires for, apparently, ever.
PERFORMANCE/TOUR: Orbital's Triumphant Return to the USTuesday, March 16, 2010 @ 12:21PMOrbital US dates: Saturday, March 27 - Miami Florida - Bicentennial Park - Ultra Festival - Headlining Saturday Friday, April 16 - San Francisco - Warfield Theatre - 10:15 tentative set time Sunday, April 18th - Indio, CA - Coachella Contemporaries of the Chemical Brothers and Underworld, Orbital enjoyed a dazzling 15-year stint before bowing out gracefully four years ago. Raised in suburban ...
Sound of 2010Wednesday, January 6, 2010 @ 1:07AMIndie-electro trio Delphic come third on BBC music list
Warp Records hits the big 2-0Thursday, November 12, 2009 @ 3:25PMSheffield has come on a long way over the past 20 years. England's one-time "City of Steel" was, in the dying days of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's era, a pretty grim place to be, its factories shuttered and its high streets desolate. Today, it presents a cleaner, more affluent — and, some might say, less interesting — face to the world. When Warp Records held their 20th anniversary party ...