Electronic Music

Five Great Lesser-Known DJs To See At Coachella

For dance fans there has been little difference between Coachella and Electric Daisy Carnival in recent years, except that the former supplemented its Tiesto-Kaskade-Deadmau5 lineups with alt-rock while EDC did so with dubstep and drum 'n' bass. See also: Everything you need to know about Coachella ... More >>

Exclusive: KCRW to Relaunch Metropolis with Original Host Jason Bentley

Electronic music program Metropolis is returning to KCRW with its original host Jason Bentley, West Coast Sound can exclusively report. The dance music show, which Bentley created and hosted from 1992 to 2008, will air Saturdays from 10pm to midnight, starting this Saturday. Bentley will maintain hi ... More >>

Salva Mixes Up Dance Music and Hip-Hop, Gets Famous

You only need one song to blow up, and sometimes it doesn't even need to be originally yours. Salva learned this in June when the electronic producer collaborated with RL Grime to remix Kanye West's "Mercy." With no premeditated plan or press campaign, the pair threw it up on Salva's Soundcloud page ... More >>

What's the Difference Between the EDM Scene and the Beat Scene?

Dance music is all the rage these days. That time you thought giant robots were battling at your recent family reunion? Nope, that was just your 12-year-old niece listening to dubstep. See also: *Moon Rocks: The Best High on Earth *What the Hell Is Trap Music (and Why Is Dubstep Involved)? But no ... More >>

Obama's Got the Techno Vote

LA-based collective, The Looking Class, has taken up the challenge of reinvigorating our political disillusionment through an inspired social engineering design project now embarking on its maiden voyage.

John Tejada Is a Techno Traditionalist, Dammit

John Tejada's place does not look like the home of an internationally renowned techno producer. Tucked away on a quiet street in a Mayberry-like corner of Van Nuys, where lawn signs from the neighborhood council warn you to "Watch for Kids!", the cozy mid-century ranch house feels far removed from t ... More >>

The Best EDM Shows to See in L.A. This Month

Wednesday, September 5th Digitalism Yost Theater Only Germans would call themselves "Digitalism." On the other hand, EDM production duo Jens Moelle and Ismail Tüfekçi did title their second album I Love You Dude. That duality between clinical zeroes-and-ones and hug-it-out-bro emotionalism is ref ... More >>

Four Reasons Lollapalooza Needs EDM

By Ian Traas See Also:EDC 2012: The Underground Has Left The Building Dave Grohl: His Grammys Speech About Electronic Music Was Bullshit [Slideshow] Lollapalooza 2012: The PeopleJustice at Lollapalooza, 8/5/12Ten things your Lollapalooza outfit says about youWith every year that passes, it feels li ... More >>

Claude Vonstroke Got in the EDM Game Late and Now He's Taking It Over

You can't blame Barclay Crenshaw for feeling like an old man playing a young man's game. When he created his DJ-producer alter ego, Claude VonStroke, and launched his Dirtybird label, Crenshaw was already 32. "In the world of dance music, that's already, like, you're on the way out," he says. Instea ... More >>

Kaskade Makes History By Headlining the Staples Center

Rave Standoff in Hollywood: Cops Move in to Disperse Crowds That Came to See DJ Kaskade Facebook Censors Kaskade's Body Paint Photo of This Girl Top Ten Awkward Electric Daisy Carnival Dance Move GIFs World's Douchiest DJs: The Top Five Ten EDC Girls Who Are Out of My League Interview With a Raver W ... More >>

EDC 2012: The Underground Has Left The Building

Twenty years after rave culture first entered the American mainstream, the success of a festival like Electric Daisy Carnival begs the question: Can electronic dance music retain its authenticity, warehouse roots and peace, love, unity and respect (PLUR)? EDC, whose organizers claim they sold out t ... More >>

EDC 2012: House Music Beef With DJ Sneak Plays Out in Steve Angello's DJ Set

In early spring, a Twitter beef erupted between DJ Sneak, a Chicago house music legend, and Steve Angello, one-third of the DJ supergroup Swedish House Mafia. Sneak called SHM's music "fake shit" and said they "do not play house music" -- as in, real house music. On Friday, in front of a huge crow ... More >>

Ask a Teen Raver: Our Teen Raver's Last Column

Kerah Rose is a 19-year-old college student from Riverside and EDM aficionado. Ask a Teen Raver appears on Tuesdays in West Coast Sound. Send your questions to teenraver@laweekly.com. Dear Teen Raver: Do you like any crusty old DJs like Sasha and Digweed and Paul Van Dyk and all them? Don't you thi ... More >>

Photek: Veteran EDM Producer Is Not Glossy, Not Flossing

Last November, Rupert Parkes was having coffee when KCRW's Jason Bentley called to congratulate him. "For what?" asked the Hollywood electronic music producer and DJ, known as Photek. Turns out his remix of a Daft Punk Tron: Legacy track called "End of Line" was nominated for a Grammy. Skrillex eve ... More >>

Psychic TV - Echoplex - 2-26-12

Psychic TV, Bestial Mouths, Dangerous Boys Club The Echoplex 2/26/12 It's hard to describe Psychic TV live without throwing around new age terms. Going to see the band live is almost like an experiment in meditation. You have to leave the outside world at the door, enter with no expectations, and l ... More >>

Dave Grohl "Clarifies" Grammy Speech After We Call Him Out For Sounding Like an Anti-EDM Geezer

Jena Ardell​Guess we hit a nerve when we called out Dave Grohl for his anti-EDM Grammy Awards acceptance speech. Besides tons of hate mail (our favorite told us to " ... go eat a bag of dicks") and some support (Moby's former manager noted we were there when that real punk rocker went electro ... More >>

Loco Dice is The Antidote to Cheesy, David Guetta House: He DJs Tomorrow at The Music Box

Loco Dice.​We're glad trance is finally over (isn't it?), but something just as cheesy has stood up to take its place. While we won't name any names (Afrojack, Swedish House Mafia, David Guetta), they call this new sound "house." Now, if you've been alive since Clinton was president you know ... More >>

Wait, Now Korn Invented Dubstep?! Here Are Five Other Nu-Metal Groups Who Could Also Make Dubstep Comebacks

​See also: *Porter Robinson: The Libertarian Dubstep Guy *In Defense Of "Fratstep:" An Open Letter To James Blake It's been a controversial week on the dubstep front. First, there's a libertarian dubstep guy, and then we had to deal with a spin-off called "fratstep." Now Korn is saying they ... More >>

Two Sides of Brian Eno

Listen: New Songs From Brian Eno (And Look: Eye-Dissolving Album Art, Too!)

Brian Eno's Drums Between the Bells​ Are people who need people really the luckiest people in the world? Brian Eno's latest winning lottery ticket, "Drums Between the Bells," out July 4 on Warp, continues his lifelong theme of communion on fifteen tracks with Rick Holland, an artist Eno met a ... More >>

Behind the Mash-Up: Girl Talk Talks!

Psychic TV Live at SXSW: The Godfather/mother of Industrial Rock Rides Again

photo by Wendy GilmartinPsychic TV​ What: Psychic TV Where: Elysium, Austin TX When: March 15, 2011 Psychic TV and their outer-planetary transport trip blasted off Tuesday night with the gloriously pandrogynous Genesis P-Orridge back at the helm after years of professed retirement and perso ... More >>

NPR Claims Electric Daisy Carnival Rave Was Bigger Than Coachella in 2010

Timothy NorrisBigger (and more rollin') than Coachella?​ NPR's blog The Record just published an interesting end-of-the-year survey of the current rise of dubstep, and it's frattier doppelganger "bro-step" (read the comments thread for that post for a kinda pointless debate about the nuanced d ... More >>

Exclusive Lorn Download From Ninja Tune XX Box Set [MP3]

Exclusive Lorn Download From Ninja Tune XX Box Set [MP3]

The DJs List: Spinners You Should See This Weekend - Mr. C, Cedric Gervais, More

Cedric the dance-music entertainer.​Things are heating up in L.A.'s electronic dance music scene on the last weekend of spring. London legend Mr. C is starting a monthly after-hours Friday night at Avalon named for his label, Superfreq. Cedric Gervais is in town. And there's even a boat party ... More >>

Day 3: Orbital Goes Back To The Future With Rave-Era Set

Dennis RomeroOrbital performs at Coachella.​Orbital, a pioneer of arena techno and progressive house music, appeared in Southern California Sunday for the first time in many years. The duo, brothers Phil and Paul Hartnoll, called it quits in 2004 after 15 years of making and performing electro ... More >>

Kaskade Makes Nice At Coachella

Dennis Romero​One of the more popular draws at Coachella Saturday was a Mormon family man who happens to be one of the world's most-popular DJs. Kaskade washed the Sahara dance tent with his ethereal, utterly feminine grooves, pulling in a throng of bouncing teenagers and twentysomethings who ... More >>

Interview: 2020Soundsystem's Ralph Lawson "Ready To Rock Huge Gigs"

Ralph Lawson is a British mainstay in the DJ world, a spinner known for his refined house music that contains a touch of electronic progressivism. In the mid-1990s he held down the Back To Basics club night in Leeds that helped inspire his 2020Vision record label and put him on the international spi ... More >>

Interview: Robbie Rivera Hates It When His Warm-Up DJs Play 'Crazy' Hard

The dance music underground might be rocking bleepy techno and dark-wave house from Europe, but the stuff that really moves the masses combines the synthetic strings of trance with the tough percussion of house. One look at the most popular DJs in the world, from Tiesto to Deadmau5 to Kaskade, point ... More >>

Brian Eno Art Exhibit

A Talk with Spooky: British Dance Innovators Hit King King This Weekend

In the early 1990s, Spooky helped launch and define the super-club sound that still resonates across the world today. The style of British duo Duncan Forbes and Charlie May was called progressive house not for its stadium-rock aspirations, but because it appeared to carry forward the post-disco spir ... More >>

West Coast Sound Interviews Underworld on Eve of Hard Summer 2009

​ With roots that reach back to the dawn of the Reagan Administration, Underworld is one of the longest surviving electronic dance bands in history, outlasted only by the likes of Kraftwerk (which, frankly, isn't really Kraftwerk without Florian Schneider, who left the act in January). You wo ... More >>

Videothing Does Coachella: Footage of the Cure, My Bloody Valentine, Throbbing Gristle, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and "Happy" Fans

Videothing does it again. After helping West Coast Sound with an ace tour of Michael Jackson's Cancelled Neverland Auction, the LA-based video site went stealth at Coachella and got some great footage. Quote of the video: "I got so fucked up last night that I fried balls until I cried."

Throbbing Gristle to Perform Along with Derek Jarman Film at Ricardo Montalban Theater on April 21

photo: Industrial Records Ltd.Throbbing Gristle, 1981. Big news for music/art fans: legendary British industrial music forefathers/foremothers Throbbing Gristle will perform in Los Angeles for the first time in over three decades when they arrive in Hollywood on Tuesday, April 21. The band, whose r ... More >>

Throbbing Gristle Announces UCLA Date, Then Quickly Cancels It

Genesis P Orridge of Throbbing Gristle This morning UCLA's Royce Hall announced that Throbbing Gristle would be performing at Royce Hall on April 21, a mere few days after the band was to perform Coachella. The announcement came as a little surprise. For obvious reasons, Coachella makes bands agree ... More >>

L.A. Weekly's Top Ten Dance Collections of 2008, Both Mixed and Unmixed

Any knucklehead with DSL and a laptop can now make an electronic track. With a half hour of clicking and fiddling, you can sample enough cheesy beats and mashups to clog arteries from here to Berlin. Simple dropdown mouse maneuvers can transform electro tracks into progressive house tracks (from dry ... More >>

LA's New Robotics: L.A. Riots, Guns N Bombs, Caxsio and Others Are Revolutionizing the City's Dance Clubs

Screw the hazy, lazy indie-rock tunes of Silver Lake; the biggest L.A. revolution is happening in the clubs

Richie Hawtin, Moonshadows Summer Sessions and Minuit

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 >>

Droid Behavior: Robot Rock

Rekindling L.A.'s love for a misunderstood genre

Buy It, Use It, Break It, Fix It

On the eve of its final American performance of 2007, Daft Punk's Thomas Bangalter discusses the duo's banner year, the future of the music industry and the current state of electronic music.

Saturday in the Park

Electric Daisy ­Carnival

Coachella 2004

The Other Music A-Z

Music of the Heart and Other Organs

You can’t dance to everything

Giant Steps

Anatomy of a dance superclub

Beat Freaks

Dance clubs L.A.: a forbidden world beckons

A Night in Orbit

Gay music? It's a body/soul thing

Dance Kontrol

Let’s have sex on the beach. Or not.

Personal Electronics

Brad Laner’s wired for sound