Jonny Coleman

Almost a decade ago, a young music producer named Jesse Rogg went to a house party in Silver Lake. Questlove, drummer for The Roots, was DJing for a small crowd in someone’s living room. Rogg sprinted home to grab a CD that had a song he had just produced for......

Dubstep is a tricky one. Like electro or deep house, it can be a descriptor for multiple types of music that are often in direct opposition to each other, but confusingly called the same thing. Most Americans were introduced to dubstep around 2010, around the same time EDM starting popping......

“Whale music meets ambient” might be something you’d expect to see over the CD rack next to the rain sticks at a Nature Company in 1996. But it is, in a simplistic nutshell, what a project born in L.A. called Pod Tune is all about. And this “experimental” whale music......

New Orleans bounce music has been part of the mainstream for years now, most recently making an appearance in Beyonce’s NOLA-centric “Formation” video. And its associated dance style, twerking, has become a household term, thanks to Diplo and Miley. But bounce and twerking have been a Gulf Coast cottage industry......

Almost 6,000 miles and two languages separate Berlin from Los Angeles. But in this century, they have a lot in common, besides sharing the vague, diplomatic title of Sister Cities. The past decade has seen a rise in both cities’ reputations as places to be if you are a young......

“Uncompromising” is the best adjective to describe Detroit techno and the people who laid the scene’s groundwork. If house is a feeling, techno is an idea, or perhaps a DIY ethos, made in Detroit bedrooms on whatever drum machines, sequencers or synths its young creators could get their hands on......

2015 was a banner year for DJs and dance producers making dumb statements online. It was almost as if certain DJs had just learned of social media and did not understand the rules of engagement or the consequences of public speech. Ten Walls went on a rant equating homosexuality with......

Rockists, wallflowers and squares of all stripes: You may want to stop reading now, because the adults are talking disco. Oft-derided now and throughout the decades, the disco sound is a melange of Latin, funk, soul and rock. Its sound was defined in New York and Philadelphia in the early......

The Primetime Emmys are this Sunday, but among the combined 100-plus awards of the Primetime and Creative Emmys, there is none for music supervision. Likewise, there is no Oscar, technical or otherwise, for music supervision. Nor has there ever been. In fact, this upcoming Emmy event is the first time......

There are generally two amounts of knowledge about opera: lots and zero. If you're like the majority of human beings, you're in the latter camp, where the extent of your operatic knowledge comes from Looney Tunes. There isn't a ton of casual knowledge about the history of one of the......