DJ Spooky

One of the problems with going electronic was how to perform on push-button gear in a world reared on Gibson-stroking, face-twisting, pelvis-thrusting men and women onstage. Read More

Thurston Moore may or may not be ecstatically peaceful, but he is certainly busy. Read More

Computers, software and even cell phones have radically altered our relationship to mass culture and technology, providing consumers with the tools to become producers, or "remixers," of their own media. Read More

In 2007, Michigan's Grand Valley State University New Music Ensemble recorded a stellar version of Steve Reich's Music for 18 Musicians , which they performed that year at the Bang on a Can Marathon (which ran 27 hours ). Read More

University of Massachusetts-Amherst graduate and music fanatic Kembrew McLeod has long been fascinated by the intersection of art and commerce. Read More

There are some ragged edges here to be sure, and the album would have been stronger at 55 minutes than its current 75. Read More

For Terre Thaemlitz, audio is never "innocent." Read More

The lines that previously divided Hip Hop, electronica and rock music are slowly but surely disappearing. Read More

Thurston Moore may or may not be ecstatically peaceful, but he is certainly busy. Read More

Back in 1995 New York's DJ Spooky (aka Paul D. Miller) made himself the face of the so-called illbient scene, a promising movement that styled DJs as sound sculptors just as likely to make use of the incidental noise of vinyl—pops, crackles, hisses, skips—as the actual music contained on it. Read More