Moby (Musician)

Kastle Creates Futuristic EDM Sounds to Benefit the Present

Some artists are just born to be visionary forward thinkers who create ideas, styles and genres long before they are the "popular" thing. Barrett Richards, the producer/DJ better known as Kastle, comes from a small town in northwest Pennsylvania where he got into playing music at the young age of 12 ... More >>

The Five Must-See Shows in OC This Weekend

Friday, May 17 Sederra House of Blues Anaheim Anytime the punk shredders of Sederra come to the House of Blues Anaheim, they have a habit of bringing the entire Fullerton punk scene with them. Last time they played the Mouse House for free, they stuffed the place to capacity to the point where they ... More >>

Holy Ghost!

The Observatory

Best of Coachella 2013: Weekend Two

The Visual Stimulations for People Who Were High Coachella's art installations -- the ones designed to impress you while you're high, aka all of them -- were particularly impressive this year. There was the tesla coil, the crane that was formerly a flower but now a praying mantis, the giant floresce ... More >>

What Did People Buy On Record Store Day at Coachella?

By: Ryan Cox While we're covering weekend two of Coachella, it's no surprise that the Zia Records' pop-up store was swarming with eager music lovers on Saturday for Record Store Day, hoping to scoop up some of those re-released and hard to-find aural gems. Hell, people were just eager to spend hard ... More >>

The Sahara Tent Kicked Ass This Year

The EDM-focused Sahara tent is twice as tall this year, and much wider and longer too. It's now roughly the size of an airplane hanger. The arched mega-tent is not just a dubstep paradise, but a behemoth of truss and LED panels. The visuals are otherworldly, with kaleidoscopic light and graphic disp ... More >>

Why Indie Music Has Taken Over Your TV

TV-music supervisor Alexandra Patsavas talks about small bands making big dollars in primetime

Top 10 Rock Star Backup Vocal Collabortions

Every now and then, rockstars align to bring us a classic we never saw coming. No matter what the genre, you have plenty of examples of two (sometimes three or more) powerhouses coming together to back each other up with a set of voices that are usually so different that they sound like they were ma ... More >>

The Biggest Music Headlines of 2011

[Mental Notes] The news that kept us talking this year

Heard Mentality's Top Posts of 2011

​Wow, 2011 sure went by fast. And while our most popular posts had all the elements that make up the Interwebz (cats, Kreayshawn and Lil Wayne all made the list) we found that our biggest hits are made up of solid news coverage. Read on to see our most popular posts of 2011!

Moby Gets to DJ at a KCRW Halloween Event Instead of Monster Massive

[Mental Notes] Avicii, another DJ, won't be coming to OC either

Moby Fans, Rejoice! He's Still Deejaying at KCRW's Halloween Party

"No Monster Massive? I know, I'll go to KCRW's party instead!"​You remember how Monster Massive got canceled a mere two weeks before the event was going to be held because it didn't have a venue? Well, Moby got over it. He's now deejaying at Masquerade: A Halloween Costume Ball & Dance Party b ... More >>

Monster Massive Cancels Two Weeks Before Event

[Mental Notes] Annual Halloween mega-rave had no venue, even as it was briskly selling tickets and advertising the event

[UPDATED: Armin van Buuren, Erick Morillo Announce Cancellation of Monster Massive Date] Where the Hell Is Monster Massive Going to Be Held?

​UPDATE: Armin van Buuren and Erick Morillo just announced the cancellation of their Oct. 29 appearances at Monster Massive 2011 on their websites. Read about it here.Oct 12, 2011, 4:12 a.m.: Go Ventures posted an update on Monster Massive's Facebook page around 3:30 a.m. Wednesday. This is not th ... More >>

Peter Hook and the Light at the El Rey Theatre Over the Weekend

Andrew Youssef/OC Weekly​Peter Hook and the LightSeptember 16th, 2011El Rey TheatreIt isn't easy being a Joy Division and New Order fan these days. New Order had supposedly broken up with founding members Bernard Sumner and Stephen Morris forming Bad Lieutenant while Peter Hook assembled his band ... More >>

Two Deaths in a Year; Is Electric Daisy Carnival Cursed?

Doug Neill/OC Weekly​Check out last year's slideshows here and hereAfter the death of a 15-year-old girl at the Electric Daisy Carnival in LA and the news that a 19-year-old man died after attending the sold-out rave party in Dallas (with another concert-goer in critical condition) we have to won ... More >>

The EMP Pop Conference Lands in LA: Jason Bentley Moderates Free Panel with Moby and TV on the Radio

KCRW.comJason Bentley​According to our Beat Blvd. columnist Ned Raggett, this is the first time Experience Music Project's Pop Conference is being held in LA. "Very handy," he notes in his blog. If you're in the area tomorrow, you might want to check out KCRW's music director Jason Bentley moderat ... More >>

Oh, Say Can You Hear: 10 Songs That Should Be Our New National Anthem

20th Century Fox​"The Star-Spangled Banner" has an image problem. That is, no one likes it.Oh sure, everyone respects and reveres what it stands for, what it evokes in us as nation and as a people. But no one really admires it on its merits as song, and singers and sports fans have long detested t ... More >>

Ten Don't-Miss Films at the Newport Beach Film Festival

Ghostland Observatory

House of Blues

Ghostland Observatory Fuses the Best of Man and Machine

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 >>

Dance Music Pick of the Week: Joris Voorn at Code

Krijin van Noordwijk​Once every few years a game-changing album will accelerate the evolution of electronic dance music. The Prodigy added punk rock aggression to the scene in 1992 (Experience), the Chemical Brothers became the Beatles of club-land in 1995 (Exit Planet Dust) and Moby introduced th ... More >>

Folk Duo Azure Ray Hold On to Their Once-Dormant Partnership

Current TV's Fix: The Future (or Present) of Music Journalism?

Fix Extended Play is a new online video music magazine hosted by Douglas Caballero for a company called Current. The premiere episode (view all 21 minutes of it here) includes feature-y segments on Portland punks the Thermals, M.I.A.-ish electro diva Santogold, UK electronic-pop chameleons Hot Chip ... More >>

CD Review

Recoil, subHuman (Mute)

Virgin Megastore Costa Mesa

The Principals of It

The Roots at the tipping point

Newport Beach Film Festival: Schedule of events

Compiled by Greg Stacy

Smoky, Boozy, a Little Insane

Sunset Room humanize electronic music

Staying Alive

The Red 7s are cancer-killers

Voz Not-So-Populi

Voz de Mano succeeds despite living in LA

Loud Into Quiet

The metamorphosis of Azure Ray

The Thin White Puke

David Bowie has never been good

Sense Field's Pain

New Music

New Music

Gathering of the Tribe$

Mobys Area: One fest is an orgy of musicand advertising

Hey, Mr. DJ

Essential tracks of the moment from DJ Daniel

Batmans Ass-Whupper

The voices in Wesley Willis head

Coachella Rumblings

Monsieur Leroc Le Slow Motion Boogie WoogieCornerstone R.A.S./skunk.com

Its Phallic-tastic!

Handicapping the Weenie Fester, Roast