Subject: Kraftwerk

• Lost Faust Album Found On Internet (MP3s)

  Via excellent WFMU and others: Faust was one of the definitive Krautrock bands (up with Kraftwerk/Can/Neu/Harmonia) even though they started a little late (early '70s instead of late '60s like much of this stuff) and if you haven't heard their actual songs at the smarter bars you frequent, then you've heard their weird after-effects. I always thought Pixies should have covered "Sad Skinhead" (from Faust IV), and if you have space between Velvet Underground and Eno to push in a few more records

  November 16, 2006

• Coachella lineup announced

  Via Coachella.com: FRIDAY, APRIL 25: Jack Johnson, The Verve, Raconteurs, The Breeders, Fatboy Slim, Tegan and Sara, Madness, The Swell Season, The National, Animal Collective, Slightly Stoopid, Mum, Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings, Stars, Battles, Aesop Rock, Midnight Juggernauts, Does it Offend you, Yeah?, Minus the Bear, Spank Rock, dan le sac Vs Scroobius Pip, Diplo, Adam Freeland, Santo Gold, Jens Lekman, John Butler Trio, Vampire Weekend, Dan Deacon, Architecture in Helsinki, Sandra Col

  January 22, 2008

• Video Savant: Kraftwerk's “Ruckzuck”

  March 25, 2008

• Prince to Headline Coachella April 26; Portishead Now Sulking Big-Time

  Prince: Sexy vegan MF, fixin' to steal Jack Johnson's thunder. Srsly. This just in: Prince will leave his lavish Minneapolis lair to headline the second night of the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival (as nobody calls it). The veteran funk-soul-R&B guitarist/vocalist agreed to participate in the massively popular fest only after torturous negotiations with Mother Nature to keep the temperature below 80º. This is understandable, as Prince's scorching guitar solos would likely set fire to

  April 9, 2008

• Coachella, Day 2

  Recovering from yesterday’s illness forced me to miss 120 Days, MGMT, Little Brother and Boys Noize. Bah. But I arrived in time to see some Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks. Their loose rock jams slash sea shanties were adorned with much proggy filigree. It was nice big-sky music for a big-sky setting. “It’s time to go fucking Jack Johnson on your ass,” Malkmus announced later, strapping on an acoustic. That was my cue to bolt. I strode over to the Sahara tent to catch Erol Alkan spinning

  April 27, 2008

• Yo Majesty & Does It Offend You, Yeah? at the Glass House Tonight

  Floridian lesbian-rap trio Yo Majesty and UK electro agitators Does It Offend You, Yeah? invade Pomona tonight to wreak havoc on the beleaguered soul who changes the marquee at the Glass House. DIOY,Y? (you have no idea how fun it is to type that) produce strident, rhythmically punchy numbers with loads of yobbish attitude (think of the blokes in Snatch). Their debut album, You Have No Idea What You're Getting Yourself Into (Almost Gold), isn't as rough and rugged as the band would like you t

  May 2, 2008

• Last Night: Coldplay, Shearwater, Jon Hopkins @ The Forum

  By Andrew Youssef Better Than: Watching the video for "Viva La Vida" on your new iphone. Download: Previously unreleased track "Death Will Never Conquer" from the Coldplay.com It's fitting that the Forum is primarily used as a church these days, with the occasional concert scheduled for variety. Coldplay descended upon the Forum preaching their own gospel as they launched the Viva La Vida tour to a sold-out crowd of faithful worshipers. Jon Hopkins warmed up the crowd with his washes of tex

  July 15, 2008

• Sandy Jams

  October 30, 2008

• Arabian Prince's Electro Legacy Gives Gangstas Something 2 Dance 2-Again

  August 14, 2008

• Shake & Pop

  June 19, 2008

• [Sprawl of Sound] Highlights, Lowlights, A'ights and Blights From Coachella '08

  May 1, 2008

• Coachella's Robot Rock: Kraftwerk, Aphex Twin and Justice's Automation for (Moving) the People

  April 17, 2008

• Coachella: It's Too Much . . . Thankfully

  April 17, 2008

• Hits!

  Vinyl Solution

  January 31, 2008

• CD Review

  Holy Fuck, LP (Young Turks/Beggars)

  November 1, 2007

• Spinnin' & Singin' Pretty

  DJ Colette Vox the House

  October 25, 2007

• Sprawl of Sound

  Heavenly Beats, Demonic Metal, Slack Clergy: Absorbing Seattle’s Decibel Festival, Assessing Disney’s HOB Flub, Heeding Lazy Preacher

  October 4, 2007

• Make a Joyful Noise

  February 7, 2002

• Hispanic! at the Disco

  The Freestyle Experience revives ’80s electro fun(k), barrio-style

  August 23, 2007

• New Kicks

  DJ Z-Trip enters the Blend Zone with his All-Pro soundtrack

  August 16, 2007

• Hannibal Selecter

  DJ Andrew Steelman will beat you sensible

  May 24, 2007

• Love in the Time of Kinky

  December 18, 2003

• Weather or Not

  Andrea Polli fights a tornado with a peach tree switch

  January 11, 2007

• Cream of the Coachella Crop

  April 26, 2007

• Get Out!

  June 1, 2006

• I Rock I Ran

  March 16, 2006

• Totally Tubular

  January 26, 2006

• BECK

  July 14, 2005

• Fingerprints

  June 23, 2005

• Spin Off

  February 24, 2005

• Debasered

  This monkeys gone to Coachella

  May 6, 2004

• The Desert Rose

  Coachellas sonic souffle

  April 29, 2004

• Stuck In Dramaramaland

  April 1, 2004

• Stuck in Thee Garage

  January 22, 2004

• Tuning in, turning on

  January 15, 2004

• SSSSSASSY!

  March 13, 2003

• DJ Soluz

  January 9, 2003

• Brandi Lyon

  November 21, 2002

• Want Sushi, Slacks and a Massage With That Mercedes?

  October 17, 2002

• Ladytron

  October 10, 2002

• All Things Germanic

  November 15, 2001

• The Return of Q

  August 9, 2001

• All Sales Vinyl!

  March 22, 2001

• Michael Rosas

  December 30, 1999

• Daniel Bremmer

  December 16, 1999

• Black Moth Super Rainbow's Tom Fec Finds Peace Through Nicknames and Vocoders

  May 28, 2009

• Dâm Funk? Damn Right

  July 30, 2009

• Release the Sounds: 'Psychic Chasms,' Neon Indian

  ​With a sound surrounded with laser zaps, 8-bit nostalgia, Kraftwerk and cheesy elevator music, it's as if 21-year-old Alan Paolma (aka Ghosthustler, aka VEGA, aka some other hip moniker not-yet-named) had actually been old enough to make music in the 80s, instead of just shitting his diapers.Like many artists in the new wave of synthpop acts (Passion Pit, MGMT), Paloma has managed to unearth the punch and glitter of the dance music of yesteryear and christen it with a new indie aesthetic. Tho

  October 13, 2009

• Dance Pick Of The Week: DJ T at Focus

  Some would credit Europe with this thing we call electronic dance music by pointing back to the pioneering work of Kraftwerk, Giorgio Moroder and Can. They would be half right: Contemporary electronic dance music, like blues, rock and jazz, is a progeny of the interplay between black and white music. (See Juan Atkins, Frankie Knuckles and Moby). And so, for many years New York was the club capital of DJ culture, and Southern California was its backyard playground.DJ T​ But Europe has, in rec

  November 5, 2009

• The New Release from 60 Watt Kid Is Positively Incandescent

  November 5, 2009