Liz Ohanesian

Tune in Tokyo: Where Jpop and Jrock Rule

Liz OhanesianDecember 21, 2008

Inside Second Street Jazz Club on December 18, a floor full of dancers cleared to make way for a spritely trio who took their places in a straight, horizontal line in front of the stage. As DJ Yuki mixed hyper Eurobeat-style music, similar to what one might hear during a......

Heroes of the Final Frontier: Top 5 Space Cowboys from TV and Film

Liz OhanesianDecember 17, 2008

William Shatner said it best at the beginning of every Star Trek episode, "Space, the final frontier." For decades since, life amongst the stars has unfolded on screens big and small like western epics, with bounty hunters, gunslingers and the losers of grand wars wandering through lawless lands, their simple......

Mark Lane, Resynthesized

Liz OhanesianDecember 10, 2008

Up a winding road an hour outside of Los Angeles, artist-musician Mark Lane lives and works in near solitude, creating prolifically against the foggy backdrop o...

Crushed-Velvet Conceptualists: The Legendary Pink Dots

Liz OhanesianNovember 4, 2008

There comes a time in the life of a nascent fan of the Legendary Pink Dots when a simple interest in the British-Dutch band morphs into an obsession. Maybe it’s...

The Anime Collective: Baka Deshi Productions

Liz OhanesianAugust 13, 2008

Anneke knew that she hadn’t won the competition. She said this to a group of four people — a friend, a reporter and two random college students, one wearing bl...

Gabber Gabber Hey! Subgenre Resurfaces in L.A.

Liz OhanesianJune 18, 2008

A set from the Tleilaxu Music Machine begins as many electronic performances do, with a boy and his laptop working together to create the midtempo electro danc...

Ellen Allien’s the Pitch Controller

Liz OhanesianApril 30, 2008

Every year, Berlin-based producer/DJ Ellen Allien, who plays Avaland on May 3, compiles a handful of dance tracks into a set that she will take with her on th...

Ten Years After his Death, Rozz Williams Has Returned

Liz OhanesianApril 23, 2008

On April Fools’ Day 1998, Rozz Williams was found dead of a suicide in his West Hollywood apartment. At 34, Williams had become the unofficial dark knigh...

Wallflowers of the Polo Field

Liz OhanesianApril 16, 2008

Wallflowers of the Polo Field Why you won't see L.A.'s dance underground at Coachella There is something brewing in L.A. right now, something th...

Modeselektor: Dance-Floor Saviors

Liz OhanesianApril 16, 2008

Last October, we were on the terrace of the Hollywood club Avalon waiting for Gernot Bronsert and Sebastian Szary, otherwise known as Modeselektor, to finish s...