What are the makings of a legend? Throughout the history of contemporary recorded music, precious few bands and artists have faced the seemingly insurmountable...
In a quiet residential neighborhood in San Leandro, Calif., in a cottage at the back of Josh Gabriel's house, which he shares with his wife and two smiley...
THANKS TO ARTISTS SUCH AS THIEVERY CORPORATION AND DJ SHADOW, as well as labels like James Lavelle's Mo' Wax, the commercial door was opened in the late...
Everything we do really stems from being record collectors rather than musicians, says Saint Etienne's Bob Stanley, speaking from a London flat that's...
Somewhere in southeast London, Matt Black is reflecting on the glory of his and fellow Coldcut member Jonathan More's brilliant career. They can rightly...
She's only 20 years old, but she's ready to rule. She has taken meetings with Jay-Z, Antonio Reid and Usher and deemed them One of England's first female...
Cult status rarely shadows any work that comes out of a major movie studio unless, of course, you consider MGM's sci-fi classic Forbidden Planet, which...
The members of influential Bristol trip-hop group Massive Attack have dwindled in numbers throughout the years, with core members Andrew Vowles and Grant...
From the classic Happy Mondays album Pills 'n' Thrills and Bellyaches (Elektra, 1989) to his own tracks such as Starry-Eyed Surprise (as heard in that...
Since touring all over in support of his jazzy-house debut album, Music Fiction (Om, 2003), DJ and multi-instrumentalist Rithma (aka Etienne Stehelin)...
Returning with their first major release since 2002's Finisterre (Mantra), Saint Etienne's Bob Stanley, Pete Wiggs and Sarah Cracknell are speaking up...
It's safe to say that the first half of the '00s has been good to German producer Ulrich Schnauss so much so that he's retreated from Berlin to Kiel,...
Florida's Bass Queen and D.C.'s Princess of Darkness sparkle as they chat animatedly, flipping through record bins at DJ Hut on a brisk October evening...
In the world of electronic and dance music, there is little that William Orbit hasn't accomplished. He founded the influential acid-house label Guerilla...
It's been three years since singer-songwriter-guitarist Beth Orton has released a proper studio album a fact that, combined with her unexpected cancellation...
Carl Cox is one of the most respected names in dance music and one of the major reasons that the genre took off in the '90s. Cox is not only one of the...
Inspired by the paranoid rants of Hempstead, N.Y.'s Francis E. Dec, the innovative DJ duo Coldcut produced Everything Is Under Control, the first single...
In the four-plus years that Josh Gabriel and Dave Dresden have known each other, they have managed to rack up 13 No. 1 remixes on the Billboard Hot Dance...
Alison Goldfrapp is back, peeking out of the import racks on the cover of Goldfrapp's third full-length album, Supernature (Mute, 2006). Goldfrapp has...
Aside from working on DJ Shadow's upcoming album, producer and drummer Count is part of the up-and-coming band Halou. The group also including married...
British-born Imogen Heap landed in living rooms across America courtesy of The OC. When the sparse single Hide and Seek scored a climactic shooting in...
Every album has one or two tracks that seem cursed for some reason, says Tom Holkenborg, aka Junkie XL, referring with unusual candor (and no small amount...
On Roxy Music's debut album, Bryan Ferry sang of revenge enacted upon an unsuspecting object of affection in a song called Keyboardist Brian Eno layered...
Throughout the years, the clubbing industry has seen its share of superstar DJs. Some have become popular for playing the hottest trance tunes (Paul van...
Watching 23-year-old DJ Kentaro on the turntables is like watching a bullet train blast off from Tokyo at the speed of light, making a quick stop on Mars...
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