Aphex Twin

I Want to Branch Out But My Fans Won't Let Me. Help!

Are you a musician? Is your group having issues? Ask Fan Landers! Critic Jessica Hopper has played in and managed bands, toured internationally, booked shows, produced records, worked as a publicist, and is the author of The Girls' Guide to Rocking, a how-to for teen ladies. She is here to help you ... More >>

The Man Behind Amon Tobin's Jaw-Dropping Live Show

When experimental electronic producer Amon Tobin takes the stage at the Greek Theatre tomorrow, his audience will barely be able to see him. He'll be ensconced inside a massive, 2.5-ton structure made up of white, interlocking cubes, stacked Tetris-like atop one another. A sci-fi kaleidoscope of 3 ... More >>

Flying Lotus' Nocturnal Visions

Once believing himself destined to fail, the DJ-producer returns triumphant on his new album

Nero's Joseph Ray On Classical Music, Being Inspired by Sci-Fi Flicks and Why People Bash American Dubstep

Nero's eclectic, electronic sound has always been a bit obsessed with sci-fi and spaceships. So it seems fitting that their profile has blasted off in the last year following the release of their 2011 debut, Welcome Reality. Their ability to build on the ferocity of dubstep for the last several year ... More >>

Ten Rap-Rock Songs That Are Actually Awesome

See also: Crazy Town's Shifty Shellshock Is Out of His Coma! Here's Everything You Need To Know About Him Rap-rock remains the coolest idea ever. You've just been scared off of it by the mountain of terrible rap-rock in existence. Here are ten songs that prove the Woodstock '99-tainted genre could ... More >>

Music Picks: X, Lucinda Williams, Jackie DeShannon, Fujiya & Miyagi

Also, Dengue Fever, Jessie Baylin, Reigning Sound, Black Bananas and others

Music Picks: Skrillex, Diplo, Wu-Tang Clan, The Health Club

Also, Art Lande, Albert "Tootie" Heath, Gilad Hekselman, The Stitches, The Villains and others

Music to Pick Up/Download

John Tejada, Los Angeles Techno Champion, Signed to Germany's Kompakt Label: Album Due in June

​L.A.'s own techno hero, John Tejada, now has the world's most renowned techno label to call home. Germany's Kompakt announced this week that it has signed the spinner and producer from Sherman Oaks, with a single, "Unstable Condition" (a label press release compares it to Aphex Twin's class ... More >>

Behind the Mash-Up: Girl Talk Talks!

The Gaslamp Killer: Greetings From Hell

This Kid's a Total Freak

Today's New Releases: Stereolab, Girl Talk, Dum Dum Girls and Tommy Santee Klaws

​ STEREOLAB, NOT MUSIC (DRAG CITY) Twenty years and 12 albums in Stereolab gives us Not Music, a record derived from the same sessions that produced 2008's Chemical Chords and released during their self-imposed hiatus. This mix of "new" songs and remixes of "old" ones is fantastic, but if you ... More >>

Video: Teaser for Hecuba's Film 'Brass Knuckles'

More Manimalian--Manimalien?--news today: L.A. band Hecuba has been laying a little low since the release a memorable EP and a very sophisticated full-length since 2008. If you've never met them, allow John Payne to introduce you to producer/singer Jon Beasley and singer/daner Isabelle Albuquerque ... More >>

Baths: the Great Escape

Valley boredom inspires electronic musician to unforeseen heights

Flying Lotus Rising

Could spiritual electronica be the next great California sound?

Music Picks: Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars, VoicesVoices, Peter Gabriel, Jakob Dylan

Also, Ane Brun, the Melodians, Kate Miller-Heidke, Ian Whitcomb and others

iPad Music: 5 Musicians who need pro bono iPads

iPad Music: 5 Musicians who need pro bono iPads

Getty's Foundation: Dirty Projectors Play Disney Hall

Show features L.A. Philharmonic and Alarm Will Sound

Ten Techno Jams We Still Love

Whether it's IDM, minimal, electro, acid or whatever other name you want use to pinpoint a sound, we love techno. We love the way it forces us to dance, even when we're sitting in front of a computer in an office trying to finish a story. We love the way it affects our walk when we enter a party. W ... More >>

Interview with Simian Mobile Disco's James Ford, Live @ the Mayan TONIGHT

​Simian Mobile Disco plays tonight at the Mayan and last week WCS caught up with James Ford, one half of the UK DJ duo. Ford and his mate Jas Shaw hooked up as electronic music bedroom experimentalists at Manchester University, but were eventually drafted as the rhythm section for indie also- ... More >>

The Horrors: London’s Burning

Prowling cobblestone streets, telling tales of murder with bloodcurdling screams

Ten Best LA Recordings 2009 (So Far)

​Last week as we were sorting through our piles of CDs and accumulated MP3 files, we started to notice how big the stack of recent excellent LA music was. It became apparent that we're in the middle of a pretty great year for Los Angeles releases, and decided to give mid-year props to our fave ... More >>

SXSW Day 4 (Pt. 2): On Rap/Rock, The Legacy of the Beasties, and Asher Roth Vs. The Knux

Almost 25 years have elapsed since the Rick Rubin-helmed, Licensed to Ill found the Beasties staking their claim as the first major rap group to incorporate guitar-hero rawk ("Rock Box" aside). Such juxtaposition seems prosaic today, but it's almost impossible to grasp how revolutionary sampling L ... More >>

West Coast Sound: An L.A. Music Pro's Guide to South by Southwest

Ten to watch: The next Ford jingle?

Hecuba: Tranforming the Visual into the Musical

Hecuba, transforming the visual into the musical

Rock Picks: DJ Quik, Alejandro Escovedo, Ratatat

Also, the Bad Plus, Amos Lee, Built to Spill, and more

Coachella Day Two: The Triumvirate of Kraftwerk, Portishead and Prince

The Coachella mainstage on Saturday night was a glory to behold, a spirit-lifting evening celebrating joy through technology, through contemplation and through celebration. In a single four hour chunk of time, the lucky masses at Coachella witnessed two-and-a-half humongous performances, two of whic ... More >>

Coachella 08: A glimpse at Prince's soundcheck

At last night's cool Filter party at the Corona Yacht Club, I ran into sculptor Christopher Janney, whose Sonic Forest installation will once again appear as part of Coachella's art offerings. Janney has been working for the past week to install his work at the Empire Polo Field, where the 2008 Coac ... More >>

Bob the Lefsetz vs. Antony & the Johnsons. ALSO, some words about Coachella.

Why we love Antony and why we hate Coachella.

How Autechre Got Their Groove Back

The English duo mine their past for advice on how to go forward

More bands added to Coachella. But their names don't start with Radio and end in head

Ordinarily announcing a SoCal date for Aphex Twin would be pretty damn cool. In fact, I was just wondering recently if the guy was ever going to come out of his shell, or if he was going to get all Chinese Democracy on us. In fairness, Aphex Twin hasn't been exactly unproductive since his last pr ... More >>

Don't Hang the DJ!

At least not yet. New releases save the dying art of the mix CD.

Awesome Music

What might the classical music establishment learn from pop?

The Season to Be Rockin'

Tralala, Jim Noir, Annuals at Spaceland

Summer Songs, Blues Hollers and Genre Actions

To the Max

The Psychic Hipster’s Pop 10 Yindies And Crunksters And Christians, O My!

The Other Music A-Z

New Doom Rising

Word Unspoken

You and me and Richard Thompson

Crossed Wires

Bring the Noise

All Tomorrow's Parties feeds back to the future

The Year in Music

Music of the Heart and Other Organs

You can’t dance to everything

Ball Boy

Motor City Breakdown

Freeways’ hot fahren in the summertime

Spare 1 Bdrm. Fully Furnished.

My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One of us has to go.

New World Disorder

Radiohead opts in/out

Pop the Cork

Jay-Z beyond reasonable doubt

Personal Electronics

Brad Laner’s wired for sound