**GRAMMY week is in full effect! Tonight I will be attending the world premiere of RE:GENERATION Music Project presented by Hyundai Veloster in association with the 54th GRAMMYs. Expect a full report on tonight's event come morning but, in the meantime, please check out my latest feature "Will Mainstream EDM Still Be EDM?" below.** Electronic and dance music is often seen (and unjustifiably so), as an undercurrent to the mainstream: always in the background, always there in a club or a hyperactive car commercial, but never really something that millions of people will turn to for [...]
The shortlist for the Juno awards has been revealed . The fan's choice category looks more like a 'can you think of a Canadian act' round in Pointless. I'm surprised Rush aren't on there: JUNO FAN CHOICE AWARD Arcade Fire Avril Lavigne City and Colour Deadmau5 Drake Ginette Reno Hedley Justin Bieber Michael Bublé Nickelback SINGLE OF THE [...]
Filed under: News , Exclusive , RPM , Awards Josh Ostroff, AOL Another year, another Juno nominees list that reads like the actual year in music -- and not just Canadian music -- with nominations going to North America's biggest stars, from Drake and DeadMau5 to Justin Bieber and Michael Buble to Feist and F---ed Up . (And, yes, to Nickelback [...]
The Darcys recently released their interpretation of Steely Dan's 1977 album Aja , which is also the second in a trilogy of releases from the Toronto band. You can download the album for free from http://thedarcys.ca - and we suggest you do as it's very good. Dave Hurlow from the band has put together a Graphic Novel related 'Under The Influence' for us, from Scott Pilgrim to The Invisibles. Enjoy! The [...]
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Tensei - One Plug Research: 2012 They say old friends are the best kind. While I'm slightly skeptical about that, as I have a number of homies that I wouldn't intentionally befriend now but share enough history with that it's too late, the adage certainly appears to hold true for genre-hopping Chicago production duo Tensei. Tensei's members, Midas Wells and Simple X, were dorm-mates and production buddies at Southern Illinois University in the late nineties before losing touch, and you know, growing up. Apparently, they serendipitously ran into each other a [...]
Dance music all-stars Diplo, A-Trak, and Skrillex are the newest Billboard Magazine cover stars and, as much as the power of print has waned in recent years, it's gratifying to see three of EDM's finest getting such major attention from a well-respected mag. The cover story - written by Billboard 's Kerri Mason - is noteworthy in that it treats the artists and scene with the respect and seriousness they deserve. Rather than focusing on "raves" and drawing tired connections to drug use, the piece captures the personality and unique appeal of each artist, while paying homage [...]
Eric Lau - The Mission EP Kilawatt Music: 2012 Guilty Simpson chooses his producer collaborators carefully. The last time we saw the gruff-voiced Motor City MC on the solo tip was 2010's OJ Simpson , a dense full-length of murky shit talk amplified by Madlib's idiosyncratic low-end jazz and obscure vocal samples. Last year, Guilty indulged his criminal side as one-third of Random Axe whose beats were shaded with drugged-out electro by Detroit cohort Black Milk. Both projects had fairly mixed reviews, but no critic can deny [...]
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Nytehype Entertainment : Official | Facebook | Twitter What do lost keys + Orange County + Donalde Glaude have in common? Normally nothing at all, but on a fine winter evening a series of random events all culminated into me becoming fairly intoxicated and in a good samaritan situation to help out another human being, Vince Do. Due to the hospitality of one local EDM enthusiast / promoter / manager / cool dude, Jordan White, I checked out The Yost Theater out of curiosity. After experiencing Donald Glaude perform a wonderful [...]
Sasquatch!'s 2012 lineup is officially one day old and that means it's time for some post-reveal analysis. In the pages that follow, we run through the biggest highlights and surprises appearing on this year's bill, in addition to the most glaring omissions. We also highlight five names worth knowing as you prepare for Memorial Day weekend at the Gorge. Highlights Beck Stalk enough festival forums and you'll see Beck's name pop up every now and then. Shortly after these wishlist proposals there's typically a textual scoff and/or write off [...]
John Riddell "Cash" Remixes by Electric Soulside and DJ Puma. Cat. no.: MLN0041 Release date(s): Beatport, 3rd of February 2012 Everywhere, 17th of February 2012 Tracks: 01 John Riddell "Cash (Original Mix)" 02 John Riddell "Cash (Electric Soulside Remix)" 03 John Riddell "Cash (DJ Puma Remix)" MELONSOUND brings you a new release called "Cash" from the young and very talented John Riddell who was born in Denmark in 1995 into a musical family. His father is a professional conductor and his mother an opera singer. [...]
Illustration: Abi Heyneke I've been reading a lot about Lana Del Rey lately. You have too. You've heard about her past as Lizzy Grant, her "image change" and "lip enhancement," and of course her notorious Saturday Night Live performance . You've watched as she suddenly went from being put on a pedestal as a media darling to being tied to the whipping post. How did it happen? Why did we all of a sudden decide to collectively stop liking Lana Del Rey? Is it because she isn't talented? Is [...]
When we started our New Artists, Old Songs series back in 2008, the goal was to feature otherwise-unknown artists who were just starting to hit the proverbial radar. And though we still try to balance ourselves between the new and the longstanding - knowing that introduction of the new and reframing of the familiar better serve us all if grounded in the depths of history, concerned that the temptation to tip into the world of mere promo passalong could trap us yet - since then, we've returned to the premise numerous times, cautiously optimistic about that [...]
All apologies to the Don Mega and Cartagena, but there was only one Don. The late Cornelius, who put himself to sleep at the age of 75. I spoke with him once for the LA Times, in late September of 2010, right around the time the Best of Soul Train was being released. The conversation was brief, maybe 20 minutes or so, but he still had that honey- smoked, ripple-free baritone. Perhaps the most soothing and reassuring voice ever ingrained in my memory. The aural equivalent of a paternal hand on the shoulder - one that conveyed eternal [...]
Peter Kersten first tried his hand at producing in 2000, releasing his first ever effort on Dial, the label he had just set up with friends Carsten Jost and Paul Kominek (Turner). His melancholic, measured brand of house and techno has been consistent in its quality for more than ten years, thirty singles, five full length albums and around fifty remixes. In the realm of electronic music, maintaining such a consistency of quality is rare; having your first releases sound remarkably undated over this length of time is almost unheard of, yet this rings true for Kersten's music. With Lawrence [...]
[The Lookahead is a monthly segment where we get to be all newsy and point out cool stuff going down in the next 30 days or so. We'll have cool Pittsburgh music shows and events, local album releases, and some national releases of interest. This is the good stuff we've heard about. Come back on the 1st of each month for more!] This is our first entry in The Lookahead series. We have some Pittsburgh concerts and album releases to feature in this post. [...]
This month marks the 10th anniversary of Fluxblog. I will be doing a few things to celebrate the occasion over the course of the year, but the main thing is that I will be putting together survey mixes for each year the site has existed. The mixes will be released on the first weekday of each month this year, culminating in revised/expanded versions of the 2010 and 2011 mixes and this year's survey at the start of December. 2002 was an interesting year, with a lot of major stuff bubbling up as the identity of the decade [...]
Benny Hill in his sixties heyday. "The notion that Benny was a lonely man is so depressing and wrong. He just liked his own company. He was very happy walking alone, living alone, eating alone, taking holidays alone and going to see shows alone. I often wonder whether he needed anybody else in his life at all…except perhaps a cameraman". - Bob Monkhouse On Easter Sunday morning in 1992, and just two hours after he had been speaking to a television producer [...]
Even as the term indie rock has lost much of its meaning in the 21st century, some of its ethos remain. Number one is be real. Number two, if you want to gain admission to our exclusive club, you better be real and wear our clothes, speak our lingo, and work our shitty jobs. Number three, if you're not going to be real, you better be really fucking good, like Animal Collective meats Radiohead produced by Outkast with cameos from Kanye and Kelly Clarkson good. The problem with Lana Del Rey, is not that she is a [...]
Sean Born - Behind The Scale Mello Music Group: 2012 I have a confession: I don't like so-called "trap" music. While I understand its place in hip-hop, I can't listen to rappers whose sole artistic purpose is to tell you how much weed they smoke, and how their mans-and-'em fell victim to the cold streets. You can blame the era in which I grew up, but I prefer insightful social commentary over hallow chatter any day of the week. Therefore, I initially didn't know what to think of Maryland MC Sean [...]
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