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Pet Shop Boys Announce Electric, Debut “Axis,” And Discuss The State Of Dance Music

Tue, April 30 2013 2:41pm - Source: Stereogum

On July 15th the Pet Shop Boys — the most successful (and colorful) duo in the history of UK music — will release their 12th studio album, Electric.

INTERVIEW: The Besnard Lakes

Fri, April 05 2013 11:40am - Source: The Quietus

Jace Lasek, guitarist, vocalist and producer of Canadian space cadets The Besnard Lakes, is allowing his chuckle to grow into a full-blown belly laugh.

The 10 Best Strokes Songs

Fri, March 29 2013 4:36pm - Source: Stereogum

New Yorkers like to think of New York as the center of the universe, or at least the center of gravity where cool is concerned.

Xaque Gruber: 20-Year-Old Charles Eliasch Makes His Opera Debut at Carnegie Hall

Wed, March 13 2013 10:11pm - Source: The Huffington Post - Music

When Charles Eliasch was two-years-old, his mother took him to Mozart's Don Giovanni at the Vienna Opera House.

The 30th Anniversary Of MIDI: A Protocol Three Decades On

Tue, January 22 2013 3:20pm - Source: The Quietus

"Technical media don't arise out of human needs, as their current interpretation in terms of bodily prostheses has it, they follow each other in a rhythm of escalating strategic answers."

Caffeine Funk: An Interview With Cajmere

Wed, November 07 2012 11:20am - Source: The Quietus

Looking back over his career in house music, Curtis Alan Jones laughs "Regrets? No, not really!"

Interview: Rone talks inspiration (Berlin, Nietzsche and abandoned airports)

Sat, November 03 2012 5:27pm - Source: Death + Taxes

French-born artist Rone (Erwin Castex) makes his home in Berlin, crafting a beautiful and complex brand of electronic music with a lineage more in line with '90s heavy-hitters Orbital , Chemical Brothers and Underworld than the famous though tired French Touch genre of his homeland.

Mike Ragogna: Conversations with Melanie and Steve Forbert, Plus Noah Chenfeld's "Suddenly End"

Mon, September 24 2012 11:07am - Source: The Huffington Post - Entertainment

Why, it's the very lovely, very iconic, Melanie.

Five Albums I Have Been Listening To Frequently Of Late

Wed, September 05 2012 4:19am - Source: Swan Fungus

Parlor Tricks And Porch Favorites – The 2001 debut album from Patrick Gubler still makes me giddy every time I hear it.

The Chora(s)san Time-Court Mirage - Live At The Grimm Museum Vol. One

Tue, July 31 2012 1:40pm - Source: The Quietus

Instead of dwelling on how technology has transformed music - the oft-cited history of machines enabling man to perform and record more quickly and affordably - what about considering music as a technology itself, a set of controls for physical and psychological phenomena with the power to alter our perceptions in perhaps the same way drugs can?

MUSiC ALLiANCE PACT: June 2012

Fri, June 15 2012 11:27am - Source: Quick Before It Melts

It's the 15th of the month, meaning QBiM and a host of blogs from around the world share their favourite music from home with each other.

Progress Report: Simian Mobile Disco

Thu, June 14 2012 4:59pm - Source: Stereogum

James Ford and Jas Shaw talk about the making of Unpatterns and the complexities of touring as an electronic act.

June's best music from across the MAP

Wed, June 13 2012 11:13am - Source: The Guardian Music Blog

Click the play button icon to listen to individual songs, right click on the song title to download an MP3, or grab a zip file of the whole 35-track compilation through Ge.tt here.

Motion Sickness Of Time Travel - Motion Sickness Of Time Travel

Fri, May 25 2012 10:10am - Source: The Quietus

Rachel Evans' previous release, the hugely well-received Seeping Through the Veil of Unconscious tape and LP, can in retrospect be seen as the culmination - and possible high water-mark - of a strain of hypnagogic pop involving ghostly (usually female) vocals intoned dreamily over muted guitar and piano melodies, the whole thing blanketed by layers of vinyl crackles and tape hiss.

I Never Went South - Isafjorour, Iceland

Thu, April 19 2012 10:06am - Source: ClashMusic.com

The name, translated as "I Never Went South", reflects the dwindling population of this small fishing town tucked away in the West Fjords of Iceland.

Carter Tutti Void: Transverse

Wed, March 28 2012 5:42am - Source: Pitchfork Media

The peaks of Transverse , of which there are many, arrive when it's barely possible to detect a human hand at work amid the fracas.

Jherek Bischoff, Wordless Orchestra, David Byrne, Mirah & more guests opened the Ecstatic Music Festival (pics, review)

Mon, February 06 2012 7:23pm - Source: Brooklyn Vegan

It wasn't the marathon that opened the inaugural Ecstatic Music Fest in 2011, but this year's opening show on Saturday (2/4) had some of that same collaborative energy, focusing on the compositions and arrangements of Jherek Bischoff , a musician known for his work primarily with The Dead Science, Parenthetical Girls and The Degenerate Art Ensemble.

Daemons In Hoods: Cloaks Interviewed

Wed, October 19 2011 11:48am - Source: The Quietus

On the YouTube video , a room full of men and women, black and white, Rasta and Gentile, shake in time with what's clearly the massive bass of a reggae system, Jah Shaka at the helm.

Steve Jobs’ Music Vision

Fri, October 07 2011 11:16pm - Source: Rolling Stone

Downloading music before iTunes wasn't hard, as long as you didn't mind breaking the law.

Exclusive: Bono on Steve Jobs' Rock and Roll Spirit

Fri, October 07 2011 10:56pm - Source: Rolling Stone

Steve Jobs came out of a Sixties rock and roll ethos, which is fascinating.

Sex & Trainers In Berlin: Xaver Von Treyer's The Torino Scale

Mon, September 26 2011 11:12am - Source: The Quietus

"Berlin. I'm a foreigner here, and yet it's all so familiar," thought Marion, the trapeze artist, as she lay across her bed under the angel's watchful gaze in Wings of Desire.

Stephanie Nilles: The TVD NOLA Spotlight Week

Mon, July 11 2011 6:47pm - Source: The Vinyl District

Her music has been described as, "Ella Fitzgerald on speed beating the shit out of Regina Spektor."

Nataly Kelly: Ray Kurzweil on Translation Technology

Mon, June 13 2011 8:06pm - Source: The Huffington Post - Music

Will advances in translation technology ever enable us to live in a society free of language barriers?

Memories of Machines - Warm Winter

Mon, May 09 2011 8:09am - Source: Drowned In Sound

If there is such as thing as a prog spectrum, then at one end would be the boundary-obliterating muscle of The Mars Volta, which rips through any musical language it encounters by dint of virtuosity and simple compulsion.

Decoder - "Decoder"

Thu, April 28 2011 1:36pm - Source: Atlas and the Anchor

Decoder is a post-hardcore super-group of sorts, made up of former members of Oceana, VersaEmerge and Of Machines.

LWE Podcast 80: Octave One

Mon, April 04 2011 5:33am - Source: LITTLE WHITE EARBUDS

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Flexi Pop - Rock and roll synth histories

Thu, February 10 2011 3:59pm - Source: homoludo

Great essay on Industrial design and synth histoy from the ever readable mute magazine .

"I Mostly Didn't Dance, But Stared At The Ceiling": An Interview With EMAK

Thu, December 23 2010 1:54pm - Source: The Quietus

Cologne had been the birthplace of electronic music, its womb, its matrix; and Stockhausen's Gesang der Jünglinge , realised at the studios of the Nord-West Deutscher Rundfunk in the mid-fifties, was its first acknowledged masterpiece.

The ATV Interview: David Wilcox

Wed, November 03 2010 2:46am - Source: Addicted to Vinyl

His engaging blend of songs and stories first drew me in when I discovered his 1991 release Home Again (his third album and second major label release), an album that found inspiration both in his own life and the experiences of others (see "Chet Baker's Unsung Swan Song" for one particularly magnificent example of this).