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Kraftwerk

  • Blogs

    March 27, 2012

    Five Things at Ultra Music Fest I Wish Were in OC

    ​Unless you've been living under a rock and where not aware, this past ten days marked the 27th consecutive year of Winter Music Conference in Miami Beach Florida. This one of kind gathering unites 10,000s of attendees including artists, DJs, record labels, producers, A&R, press, event/concert ... More >>

  • Music

    January 5, 2012

    The Juan Maclean Plays Our House

    If it gets you and I excited, John Maclean wants to make it

  • Calendar

    March 31, 2011

    the Pinker Tones

    Detroit Bar

  • Blogs

    March 21, 2011

    Local Record Review: The Wingard Manor from Long Beach

    ​The Wingard Manor If You Could See Yourselves Primitive Electro Long Beach's David Wingard works with electronic arrangements on his self-released debut album under the name the Wingard Manor, but in delivery and approach one can hear the started-with-a-guitar roots of his music--it's the kind ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 16, 2011

    Footage of Thom Yorke's Live DJ Set at Low End Theory

    Andrew Youssef/OC Weekly​ Yes, much like you, we were all kicking ourselves for not being at Thom Yorke's surprise DJ set at Low End Theory at Lincoln Heights last week, spinning Kraftwerk and Modeselektor during his set. Today, the Brainfeeder site (run by Flying Lotus) posted a great-looking cli ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 10, 2011

    Hall of Shame: 10 Artists Who Absolutely Need to Be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

    ​Each year, the old bastards at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame invite some other old bastards to join the club. Usually, they're either obvious (this year, Tom Waits, who really should have been in about 15 years ago) or questionable (Alice Cooper is cool, but he has maybe ten truly great songs in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 31, 2011

    The Get Up Kids at the Glass House Last Night

    Andrew Youssef/OC Weekly​The Get Up KidsJan. 28, 2011The Glass HouseThe percolating synthesizers of Kraftwerk's "Autobahn" served as a fitting musical introduction as The Get Up Kids took the stage. With their new release, There Are Rules, the Get Up Kids constructed an excellent album with s ... More >>

  • Music

    June 10, 2010

    An Interview With a Rare Breed: OC Blogger Indie Peddler

    [Mental Notes] Plus Weenie Roast highs and lows

  • Calendar

    November 19, 2009

    Ghostland Observatory

    House of Blues

  • Blogs

    November 5, 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 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 13, 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 ... More >>

  • Music

    July 30, 2009

    Dâm Funk? Damn Right

    ​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 ... More >>

  • Music

    May 28, 2009

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

    ​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 ... More >>

  • Calendar

    October 30, 2008

    Sandy Jams

    Arabian Prince

  • Music

    August 14, 2008

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

    Arabian Prince

  • Blogs

    July 15, 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. ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 19, 2008

    Shake & Pop

    Green Velvet

  • Blogs

    May 2, 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 ... More >>

  • Music

    May 1, 2008

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

    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 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 27, 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 ... More >>

  • Features

    April 17, 2008

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

    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 ... More >>

  • Features

    April 17, 2008

    Coachella: It's Too Much . . . Thankfully

    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 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 9, 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 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 25, 2008

    Video Savant: Kraftwerk's “Ruckzuck”

    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 ... More >>

  • Music

    January 31, 2008

    Hits!

    Vinyl Solution

  • Blogs

    January 22, 2008

    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 yo ... More >>

  • Music

    November 1, 2007

    CD Review

    Holy Fuck, LP (Young Turks/Beggars)

  • Music

    October 25, 2007

    Spinnin' & Singin' Pretty

    DJ Colette Vox the House

  • Music

    October 4, 2007

    Sprawl of Sound

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

  • Music

    August 23, 2007

    Hispanic! at the Disco

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

  • Music

    May 24, 2007

    Hannibal Selecter

    DJ Andrew Steelman will beat you sensible

  • Culture

    January 11, 2007

    Weather or Not

    Andrea Polli fights a tornado with a peach tree switch

  • Blogs

    November 16, 2006

    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 yo ... More >>

  • Music

    March 16, 2006

    I Rock I Ran

    A Flock of Seagulls

  • Music

    January 26, 2006

    Totally Tubular

    Numbers from the early part of the century

  • Music

    July 14, 2005

    BECK

    Guero (Interscope)

  • Music

    June 23, 2005

    Fingerprints

    Guero (Interscope)

  • Features

    May 6, 2004

    Debasered

    This monkeys gone to Coachella

  • Music

    January 22, 2004

    Stuck in Thee Garage

    Nobody Listens to TechnoExcept Mick Collins

  • Music

    January 15, 2004

    Tuning in, turning on

    Nobody Listens to TechnoExcept Mick Collins

  • Music

    March 13, 2003

    SSSSSASSY!

    Nobody Listens to TechnoExcept Mick Collins

  • Music

    November 21, 2002

    Brandi Lyon

    Nobody Listens to TechnoExcept Mick Collins

  • News

    October 17, 2002

    Want Sushi, Slacks and a Massage With That Mercedes?

    How the rich buy cars

  • Music

    October 10, 2002

    Ladytron

    How the rich buy cars

  • Music

    February 7, 2002

    Make a Joyful Noise

    10 bands to watch in 2002

  • Music

    November 15, 2001

    All Things Germanic

    Gentleman of Leisure send an expertly crafted valentine to the 80s

  • Music

    August 9, 2001

    The Return of Q

    The techno artist has a new label, a new album and the same old subatomic attention to detail in every measure

  • Music

    March 22, 2001

    All Sales Vinyl!

    The techno artist has a new label, a new album and the same old subatomic attention to detail in every measure

  • Music

    December 30, 1999

    Michael Rosas

    Member of Costa Mesas Smile (www.smilemusic.com)

  • Music

    December 16, 1999

    Daniel Bremmer

    a Huntington Beach-based DJ, designer, event curator and fish-taco connoisseur who recommends shopping for his favorite music at Noise Noise Noise or Dr. Freeclouds Mixing Lab, both in Costa Mesa

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