Piotr Orlov

Photo by Tim Soter LCD Soundsystem is indeed a real band — and a great dance-rock band at that. You can forgive this coming as a surprise to the crowd who showed up at the Echo in late October to see LCD make its Los Angeles debut, solely on the......

Photo by Katie Glicksberg By the backbiting standards of Detroit’s techno scene, it was a coronation. While introducing Underground Resistance’s DJ Rolando for his headlining set at this year’s Detroit Electronic Music Festival, event producer/ techno godfather Derrick May handed out props to the Motor City’s beat-music innovators — the......

Photo by Shane Ward BY HIS OWN ADMISSION, Canadian producer/MC Sixtoo (Vaughn Robert Squire) used to be an angry young man, and he used his anger well. A big fish in the Halifax scene, Sixtoo single-mindedly defined himself by his dark sci-fi tracks, his merciless hi-IQ battle rhymes and the......

Like hope, the Pixies were always popular — waaay more popular than the establishment gave them credit for. It’s a conspiracy theory that would have been mathematically provable had computer-regulated charts appeared a couple of years earlier. Today, it has become merely legend. But if firsthand knowledge is fact, it’s......