Fatboy Slim

What the Ravers Are Wearing This Year at Ultra

By Liz Tracy For more great Ultra Music Festival coverage tune into our sister blog at Miami New Times 10. Ballerina Bassers Hometown: Pompano Most excited to see: Fat Boy Slim When you were getting dressed today, what made you put on the tutus? It actually takes weeks of preparation. We just wan ... More >>

Music Cruises Hit the High Seas, But Who Can Afford Them?

All aboard a tiny, star-packed boat

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.

10 Years Review: Channing Tatum's Back Again

'Bark Side' Super Bowl Ad, With Star Wars' Imperial March Sung by Dogs: Director Keith Schofield Explains How He Did It

Have you seen that video of the dogs barking the Darth Vader song? Chances are, if you have a pulse and an Internet connection, you have. The viral video is a teaser for a Volkswagen Super Bowl commercial, so yes, that makes it a commercial for a commercial. It's bold new territory for advertising ... More >>

Moguai - Monday Social at the Playhouse - 1/23/12

See also: Our Moguai Interview: Deadmau5's Associate Leads A Big Beat Comeback. Moguai Monday Social @ The Playhouse January 24, 2012 Better than...Remembering that the week has only just started. When I interviewed Moguai for West Coast Sound recently, he spoke about keeping an eye on the crowd. ... More >>

Moguai: Deadmau5's Associate Leads a Big Beat Comeback

Veteran DJ Moguai was born Andre Tegeler; he's been playing parties and putting out music since the mid-'90s. Jams like "U Know Why" (2002) picked up on the Big Beat sound popularized by artists like Fatboy Slim, while 2007's "Freaks" is a guitar-inflected electro track. He's even got his own label, ... More >>

Music Picks: Amanda Palmer & Jason Webley, Tinariwen, Mastodon

Also: Wadada Leo Smith's Ten Freedom Summers, Danzig and others

7 Must-See L.A. Halloween Events This Weekend

Nanette Gonzales​ No plans for Halloween? Not looking forward to trying to park in WeHo for the parade Monday night? Check out these seven other weekend events. We won't say they're spook-tacular. If we did you'd have to shoot us.

Hard Summer Festival Near Downtown Sees 31 Medical Emergencies, 10 Arrests

Gary RichardsHard Summer, like it says.​Updated at the bottom with the arrest number revised upward. See our Hard Summer slideshow here. First posted at 8:03 a.m. on Monday. The Hard Summer Music Festival on Saturday saw sixteen hospitalizations and 31 medical emergencies, according to a stat ... More >>

Dublin's All City Records makes the most of L.A. beat sound

Founder Olan O'Brien brings an outsider's perspective to defining local sound

Tonight: Boom Boom Satellites, UNKLE, JP, Chrissie & the Fairground Boys, Justin Bieber, Jessie Baylin, Aqualung, Wet & Reckless

Boom Boom Satellites​Japanese duo Boom Boom Satellites have been churning out their stadium-sized electro rock for two decades now, but except for big-beat enthusiasts who probably have some of their albums shelved with Fatboy Slim and the Prodigy and fans who discovered their music in video g ... More >>

Who Cares About Bieber, Gaga, or the VMA's? You Do! Winner Recaps Past and Present

Who Really Cares About Bieber, Gaga, or the VMA's? You Do! Winner Recaps Past and Present

MISTER MISANTHROPE

Chromeo Takes an Ocular Adventure in New Keith Schofield Video

Chromeo Takes an Ocular Adventure in New Keith Schofield Video

DJ Q&A: A Few Questions For Grum, Who Spins Tonight At Avalon

​Scot dance music sensation Grum, born Graeme Shepherd, creates unabashedly pretty, pop-infused tunes ("Can't Shake The Feeling") and has had his debut long-player, Heartbeats, picked up by U.S. club label supreme Ultra. The accessible, feel-good nature of his choonage has inspired comparisons ... More >>

David Byrne's TED Talk: How the Architecture of Venues Affects Music

Back in February, David Byrne gave a talk at the eclectic TED conference about how the architecture of a venue (be it CBGBs or a Gothic cathedral) affects the music that is played in it. TED has finally made it available today. As with all things Byrne, it is really interesting, thought-provoking a ... More >>

Flying Lotus Rising

Could spiritual electronica be the next great California sound?

Images for the Post-Video Age

Director Keith Schofield Makes Viral Video Stars

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 >>

Rock Picks: Electric Daisy Carnival, Explosion in the Sky, Rodriguez

Also, DAT Politics, Mika Miko, Etta James and others

This Weekend: M83 Gets Trounced by LA Phil in Man vs. Machine Battle at Disney Hall

View more photos in the M83 and L.A. Philharmonic slideshow. Laurie ScavoM83's Anthony Gonzales had electronic gear from many different ages at the Disney It's no small task, walking before a sold out crowd in one the most beautiful symphony halls in the world and performing alongside one of the ... More >>

Britpop Piano Man: Adam Unknown Pays Homage to Five Decades of U.K. Music

At Royal Clayton's, a British pub on the bottom level of the Toy Factory Lofts, Adam Unknown leans into a microphone as he tickles piano keys. At times, it seems as though the clang of silverware against glass wants to compete with the performer's subtle croon, but the background noise never qui ... More >>

Behind the Velvet Fence

Prince of the desert; VIP couch; and other tales from Coachella

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 >>

Survival of the Fiercest

Natural History music; art vandals; bashes worth crashing

Coachella line-up: Lots of Everything (and Danny Tenaglia and Roger Waters, too)

Questions to ponder: Will they give Tenaglia his own stage to do a ten hour set, and if that's the case why didn't they book Villalobos? How the hell did Linton Kwesi Johnson get on the bill - and holy crap, Linton Kwesi Johnson's on the bill! Will Modeselektor finally and once and for all ki ... More >>

And Justice for All

Parisian duo wins the West

The Teddybears' Picnic

Meet Sweden’s newest black-metallers-turned-pop-tarts!

Music Video Showcase

Beyond Bubbly

The Style Council’s New Year’s Eve party mixes

Burgers

West Hollywood and Vicinity

The Last Burger Stand

O Brodard, Where Art Thou?

Threads to the Social Order

Edited by Kateri Butler

The Crash of Civilizations

12 highlights from 365 days

Kid AAAA

The Nine Lives of Rave

Black to the Future

Juan Atkins on the vision thing

Motor City Breakdown

Freeways’ hot fahren in the summertime

Is the Corpse Smelly Yet?

Independent music in 2001

Wish Upon a Popstar

Soulful Spirit

Sound of the Taurus

Vintage soul to please the people

Brotherly Love

Shouting with the Isleys

The Citizens Band

Omnivorous Welsh art-poppers Super Furry Animals use guerrilla tactics

Time After Time

Dance clubs L.A.: In one era and out another

Dances With Ants

City of Angels beats the scientific method