Posted Fri Nov 30, 2007 2:04pm PST
Did Radiohead innovate mad dashing electronic sounds or simply expose them to the word at large? All the placeholders were there long before Thom Yorke fixed his demented left eye on a sampler.
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Posted Thu Nov 29, 2007 3:04pm PST
Whatever happened to drum and bass? The heady UK based electronic style drew on music as disparate as Miles Davis's Bitches Brew, James Brown's "Funky Drummer" and the Winstons' "Amen, Brother" as well as Neu! and Kraftwerk--it was all the rage for a
Posted Mon Nov 26, 2007 4:54pm PST
First as a vibraphonist for hire with Buddy Rich and Wes Montgomery, than as leader of his own jazz supergroup, Steps Ahead (including the late great Michael Brecker), Mike Mainieri pioneered synth-vibes and continues to write glowing, groove heavy j
Posted Fri Nov 23, 2007 4:00pm PST
Whether you're chilling poolside, cruising on Saturday night or simply blasting your iPod on a transcontinental journey, nothing will get you there quicker than a mixtape.
Posted Mon Nov 19, 2007 3:56pm PST
There is a perpetual need for boho scenesters stuck in urban confinement to imagine that they are really living in the outback - roughin' it. Must be the constant grayness of city life, or perhaps the internal need for all human beings to occasionall
Posted Thu Nov 15, 2007 2:29pm PST
In their mid-'90s heyday, Sacramento's alt. beatnik kings Cake presented a brilliant sense of irony. In concert, looking like a band of low rent bartenders ready to sling shots, the scruffy quintet matched mariachi trumpet and Duane Eddy guitar riffs
Posted Mon Nov 12, 2007 4:12pm PST
Minipop exudes lushly layered, unemotionally seamless vocal harmonies, skyscraping guitars and tightly controlled beats. Dab in drops of echo and refracting reverb and you have music for sun showered drives along a deserted coastal highway.
Posted Thu Nov 8, 2007 4:58pm PST
Natalie Portman has joined forces with IODA (Independent Online Distribution Alliance) and iTunes to produce the charity compilation album Big Change: Songs for FINCA. Here is your chance to grab a free MP3, but to also do more than that.
Posted Wed Nov 7, 2007 3:38pm PST
A freewheeling quartet of saxophones, piano, bass, drums and the occasional gleeful children's choir, Scruggs's Fellowship plays jazz, but it's more like square dance entertainment.
Posted Fri Nov 2, 2007 5:01pm PDT
Rumor has it that a reunited My Bloody Valentine will perform at Coachella 2008; MBV leader Kevin Shields is similarly rumored to be hard at work on a solo album. Meantime we have bands like Film School, and now, Holler, Wild Rose! to keep the MBV fl
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