Tag Archives: Electronica

The Grey Album episode may turn out to be a watershed moment in popular culture. We shall see. Since we participated in the Grey Tuesday protest (although we didn’t host the album), we are on the organization’s mailing list. I just got this: Dear Grey Tuesday Folks, Grey Tuesday has …

Far-flung '80s icons are returning home to roost. The new Tears For Fears album is their best ever - really.

Eisbecher, a German “‘progressive electronic-trip rock” band are doing their part to preserve and promote the consumer’s right to fair use: The band has decided to make a statement for its fans and for music consumers in general and is releasing the album including a bonus DVD with 2 blank …

Check out your Valentine’s Day message from Outkast here. Outkast will win big at the Grammys tomorrow night – here’s why: Outkast’s double-CD extravaganza, Speakerboxxx/The Love Below their fifth album, the two members of Outkast (winners of three previous rap Grammys) have taken the audacious gamble of recording two completely …

Energized by the egregious RAVE Act, the electronic dance music community has become politicized. Rock the Vote is tapping into this February 5 in Los Angeles: Internationally acclaimed DJ and musician PAUL VAN DYK will headline the second annual DJs Rock the Vote show Thursday, February 5 at Avalon Hollywood …

Tom Johnson’s fine review of the new Front Line Assembly album inspired me to dig up a ’98 profile of the band that included a few quotes from Bill Leeb: Bill Leeb and ofttime partner Rhys Fulber have been remarkably consistent innovators with electronic music of every hue: from tribal …

I have been a huge fan of Jack Dangers throughout his career, especially his ongoing work as Meat Beat Manifesto, and his more recent dub-and-beats partnership with Ben Stokes as Tino Corp. Jack has a welter of interesting projects coming to fruition. The new Meat Beat Manifesto album, In Dub, …

As the father of a 19-year-old girl in college (my half of winter tuition just went out a few days ago), a 16-year-old boy running in and out of the house (usually with a small harem of girls in tow), a sweet but VERY feisty 4-year-old girl who can’t decide …

I’m a sucker for lush electronica, reveling in waves and sweeps of organically inorganic sound, sonic colors alien but not unwelcome to nature. The operatic electronica of Operatica (get it?) offers a fascinating and generally satisfying backdrop for traditional Christmas carols and hymns as sung by soprano Maureen O’Flynn. Variously …

My current favorite holiday record is Mark Mothersbaugh’s perversely beguiling Joyeux Mutato. It’s an electronic wonderland “for anyone who has ever been traumatized by the Christmas season and is intended to provide solace and shelter from the ensuing onslaught of over-heated holiday situations.” Whatever pal, but the ex-Devo major domo, …