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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 Top Five EDM Artists at Coachella

Don't be fooled by the slew of hipsters and bros traipsing around the polo fields of Coachella - the festival itself has long been a pioneer of bringing electronic dance music to the states even dedicating it's own stage for EDM lovers for years. The Sahara tent has seen the likes of everyone from S ... More >>

Kaskade Explains His Rise to Fame, Shares New Track at Grammy Museum

See Also: *The American Music Awards Celebrates New EDM Category *Kaskade at Staples Center and Exchange LA--Which Show Was Better? *Kaskade Talks EDC, Freaks of Nature Tour and Partying at Focus Tuesdays in OC On Tuesday night, the Grammy Museum hosted a Grammy nominee spotlight on Kaskade,  ... More >>

Five EDM Artists We'd Like to See at Coachella This Year

As the new year commences EDM fans have one thing to look forward to and that's the start of festival season which kicks-off with WMC and Ultra Music Festival in Miami this spring. Though most people think EDM is in it's revival stage, the truth is the plethora of dance music at festivals has always ... More >>

Com Truise's Sound Combines Lo-fi and Sci-fi

The beatsmith's latest album 'Galactic Melt' gives a Blade Runner edge to EDM

DJ Scotty Boy Takes Us on a Tour of His Favorite OC Spots

L.A. native DJ Scott "Scotty Boy" Schroer started working in music back in the '90s as our local KROQ DJ. The alternative music radio station helped introduce him to Daft Punk, The Chemical Brothers and Underworld. After trying to open a nightclub that completely failed, Schroer moved to Las Vegas t ... More >>

Local Record Review: 'La Machine Magique' by Magic Machines

​Magic MachinesLa Machine MagiqueElectricolorIrvine has had a number of one-person electronic acts emerge quietly over time--Phthalocyanine remains a favorite from the late '90s-- so Magic Machines follows in a tradition to an extent. His focus is very much more on the populist front, though, so l ... More >>

Teenage Mutant Ninja

Virtuoso filmmaking, retro politics a crisp thriller 'Hanna'

Alcantara Piano Trio

St. Edward's Church

Ten for 2011

The year 2010 is old news. Here are 10 to watch out for in 2011

Caifanes Reunite to Play Coachella?

[Mental Notes] Also, the Fling get signed (woo-hoo!), Kottonmouth Kings get high (duh!)

Caifanes Reunite to Play Coachella?

​ The Spanish-language music press is abuzz with news of a confirmed Caifanes reunion in 2011. The legendary rock en español band from Mexico City has made amends after fifteen years apart as they set to perform at the huge outdoor Vive Latino music festival in the D.F. Tensions between singer Sa ... More >>

The Crystal Method Reboot Their Sound

www.thecrystalmethod.com​Vegas-born, LA-based the Crystal Method always got pegged as a Stateside answer to the Chemical Brothers.  If that's the case, it took the duo more than a decade to duplicate the formula: booming 4/4 dance-worthy drug epiphanies with loads of Very Special Guests. ... More >>

Dance Music Pick of the Week: Thee-O at the Light Gallery

​Since the dawn of the 1990s, American dance music culture has seen waves of club-goers, artists and DJs come and go. The survivors are rare: It's hard to stick with a dancing-till-dawn culture as your 40s approach, but that's what one DJ has done. Thee-O continues to be a pillar of Southern Calif ... 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 >>

The Prodigy Are Still Changing Their Pitches Up, Probably Not Smacking Bitches Up

[Sound Guy] The Disorienting Power of Coachella Can Make Strange Bedfellows (and Beds)

Friends: Lend Us Your Coachella Stories!

Exactly one month from now we'll be in the midst of Coachella, that annual sweaty, magical musical festival in the brutal yet glorious desert of Indio. It's also the 10th anniversary of the thing (well, kind of--the 1999 one took place in October).In the spirit of getting ready for this glorious eve ... More >>

Nothing's Shocking: Amy Winehouse Removed From Coachella Lineup

(Yes, that's a picture of Amy Winehouse. Weird, right? It's from her MySpace. It's been up there since 2006.)Everyone--even us!--made the same joke when Amy Winehouse was announced back in January as performing at this year's Coachella. "No way she'll actually make it there!" Well, we were right, of ... More >>

Daily Coachella Update: Still No Lineup, but There is a Fake One

It's getting to the point where the idea of the Coachella lineup is actually more appealing than whatever the eventual Coachella lineup will be, even if the actual lineup is really impressive. It's like Spock said, "having is not such a pleasing thing as wanting."So yeah, still no official Coachella ... More >>

The Pharcyde at Detroit Bar Sat. May 17

Get Yer Hands Dirty, B! Productions and Mute97 bring the Pharcyde to Costa Mesa's Detroit Bar Saturday. The Pharcyde (Imani, Bootie Brown, Fatlip and Tre Hardson) brought weirdness, off-kilter humor and smarts to mainstream hip-hop with two excellent LPs: 1992's Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde and 1995 ... More >>

[Sprawl of Sound] Black Ghosts In the Booth, Gaslamp Killer On Disc, and the Crosby (Finally) Opens

What You Missed Over The Weekend Part XV

On Friday night, Dave Segal watched London duo, Black Ghosts, put on one of the better hipster-dance live shows he's seen in a while. Saying, "It was kind of like a combination of Daft Punk and Chemical Brothers, full of aggressive beats, filthy synth textures and sing-along tunes." Saturday found ... More >>

Holy Fuck: Now Even Better Than Their Name

Thursday afternoon belonged to Holy Fuck. Yeah, yeah, indie-rock royalty were busy kissing Lou Reed's ring over at 4th and Brazos and that's all lovely and stuff, but I'm more interested in championing the second best band in the world right this second. (Best? Boredoms. Thanks for asking.) Holy Fu ... More >>

The Grammys: Drunk on Winehouse

Every year the Grammy Awards ceremony proves—among other things—how far out of step my tastes are with mainstream music, a state of affairs with which I came to terms, oh, in the early '80s. It also reveals the dearth of imagination/adventurousness of the nominating committee. Most of the music ... More >>

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Stinkstock!

Coachella is part festival, part endurance test

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

Coachella Rumblings

SuperDJ!

The mild-mannered world of Simply Jeff

All About the Groove

Punk Jesus Wayne Kramer explains it all for you

Vacation, Baby

Aural Reports

Whats humming through Orange County?