Katie Bain

Sure, anyone can strap on a glow stick and call themselves an EDM enthusiast. Considering the massive increase of the music's popularity and the subsequent influx of new fans in the past few years, however, it's likely that many folks are in it for the molly poppin' rather than the......

Inside one of those anonymous high rises on Wilshire in Westwood, there is a bedroom in which all of the windows have been darkened and the walls covered in padding. The space is low lit and filled with electronics; it's been converted into a recording studio. EDM is blasting from......

The lineup for Lightning in a Bottle 2014 has been announced. This year's headliners are Moby, Little Dragon, Phantogram, Gramatik, Beats Antique and Amon Tobin.  The lineup also includes The Gaslamp Killer, Baauer, Claude VonStroke, Simian Mobile Disco, Tokimonsta, Lee Burridge and the Lucent Dossier Experience. The full lineup is......

In the span of an hour, Nick Waterhouse mentions Tolstoy, George Orwell, T.S. Elliot, modernism, film noir, Robert Mitchum, metaphysical poet John Donne, Madame Bovary, the way the internet is changing how our brains function and a manifesto he's writing on the nature of critical listening in the 21st century.  The 27-year-old......

Fact: Bruce Springsteen is an American hero. Also, a genius. Some people don't put him in the same category as Bob Dylan and Neil Young, just because he looks good in jeans. That certainly shouldn't be held against him, and admittedly we're into that part, but mainly he's the best......

Los Angeles, your votes (all 42,876 of them!) have been counted. Below are the 10 semi-finalists for our best live band in L.A. contest. Narrowed down from a list of 58, these 10 groups put on killer live performances in smaller venues around town.  This next round of voting will......

Spiritualized Ace Hotel February 14, 2014 AFriday night was the grand opening of the much buzzed about United Artists Theatre at downtown's (also recently opened) Ace Hotel. It was also a full moon. And Valentine's Day. And thus an auspicious evening for a bunch of people to get together to......

Lightning in a Bottle organizers recently announced that the 2014 incarnation of the arts and music festival will be held at a new location in Central California. More restrictive sound rules at last year's location were given as the reason. But the elephant in the room is all the arrests of attendees......

There is a kind of non-specificity to the way the guys in The Glitch Mob speak. They spend a lot of our 35 minute interview talking about things like instilling their music with emotion and being channels for a higher power to work through and the importance of connecting to......