Electronic Music

Keeping It Local With Detroit Performers At Movement

The Huffington Post | Kate Abbey-Lambertz | Posted 05.25.2012

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While electronic music fans will be crowding Hart Plaza this weekend to see Movement headliners Public Enemy and Lil Louis, and a long list of DJs fro...

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Documentary Explores The Untold Story Of Electronic Music's Female DJs

HuffingtonPost.com | David Sands | Posted 05.24.2012

Last year, DJ Jenny Lafemme was gearing up for the annual "Girls Gone Vinyl" after-party at Detroit's Movement electronic music festival when she had ...

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Creativity Endures: The 'Amen Break' and Copyright Law

Network Awesome | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Electronic Music, Drum and Bass, Amen Break, Copyright Law, Copyright, Music Industry, Copyright History, Video, Culture News

What do Amy Winehouse, N.W.A., David Bowie, a Jeep 4x4 commercial, and the cartoon Futurama all have in common? Believe it or not, they all share six seconds of drum music.

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Are We Living In Kraftwerk's World?

Michael Hogan | Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: Slidewide, Electoronica, Kraftwerk, Afrika Bambaataa, Electronic Dance Music, Electronic Music, Coachella, Kraftwerk Moma, Rolf Hutter, Moma, Fatboy Slim, Edm, Entertainment News

Are we living in the future that Kraftwerk once imagined?

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Kraftwerk Takes To The Stage

The Huffington Post | Kathleen Massara | Posted 04.12.2012

Read More: Kraftwerk, Sold Out, Video, German Music, Electronic Music, Kraftwerk Moma, Slidewide, Klaus Biesenbach, Moma, New York, Performance, Arts News

This week is a hard one for Kraftwerk fans. Only 450 tickets were available to the general public for each night of the German band's concert series a...

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LISTEN: Our Favorite Colo. Bands On Spotify Playlist!

The Huffington Post | Matt Ferner | Posted 04.11.2012

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Denver, and Colorado at-large, has one of the most vibrant and rich music scenes in the country. As a way to celebrate a tiny fraction of the local mu...

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Through the Eyes of an Ultra Music Festival Newbie

Jennifer Sorin | Posted 04.06.2012

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Huge crowds of teenagers, college students and a couple of grey-haired men wearing neon bandanas (power to them) dressed in crazy apparel and took over Bayfront Park for the 2012 Ultra Music Festival.

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Rising Star: Avicii

Michael Picard | Posted 04.02.2012

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Not everyone can say they have an audience of millions, or have had the chance to collaborate with David Guetta and Tiesto, or perform in front of millions of people, and drop hit songs that can be heard worldwide. Avicii can, and at 22 years young.

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From Russia With Love: The Strange Tale of Clara Rockmore and Léon Theremin

Network Awesome | Posted 05.28.2012

Read More: Electronic Music, Clara Rockmore, Léon Theremin, Network Awesome, Theremin, Video, Arts News

There is something about the Theremin, both its sound and the manner of its playing, that is almost comedic. The Theremin was and is however the sound of the future, albeit the sound of the future as first heard in the technologically-optimistic Soviet Russia of the 1920's.

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The Goriest Lego Animation You'll Ever See!

Posted 03.20.2012

Read More: Lego Duel, Video, Stop-Motion Animation, Drum N' Bass, Lego Animation, Electronic Music, Hospital Records, The-Duel, Legos, Animation, Arts News

You've seen stop motion animation before, but we're guessing you've never seen anything that equals the epic qualities of this little video. Normally ...

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The Living Dead Tour With Zeds Dead and AraabMuzik Rocks Royal Oak

Kelly Frazier | Posted 05.05.2012

Read More: Electronic Music, Zeds Dead, Royal Oak, React Detroit, Araabmuzik, Dubstep, Xi, Concerts, Detroit Around Town, Living Dead Tour, Detroit News

Banging on the drum machine pads, AraabMuzik put the crowd into a frenzy.

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High School Filmmaker Makes Doc About Legendary Denver Art Space

The Huffington Post | Matt Ferner | Posted 05.08.2012

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If you haven't been to Rhinoceropolis, you haven't seen one of the most inspiring DIY art spaces in Denver and you also haven't experienced the cuttin...

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Wild Ride: Busdriver Plays SoCal

Tanja M. Laden | Posted 04.22.2012

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Some people have been following Busdriver since 2001, and others only get to know about him now. But it's never too late to discover new music, even if it's more than 10 years into an artist's already-successful career.

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Kraftwerk Will Perform Live In MOMA Retropective

Posted 02.16.2012

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Electronic pioneers Kraftwerk emerged on the experimental music scene in the 1970s and radically changed how we view music and technology. Founded by ...

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Is This The Best Concert Film Of All Time?

HuffingtonPost.com | Kia Makarechi | Posted 01.28.2012

Read More: Adam Smith, Dance Music, Video, Don't Think, Fuji Rock, Concerts, Adam Smith Films, Chemical Brothers, Adam Smith Movies, Electronic Music, Don't Think Movie, Concert Films, The Chemical Brothers, Edm, Arts News

It took nine songs, but by the time "Hey Boy Hey Girl" came on during an advance screening for "Don't Think" -- an Adam Smith-directed movie of the Ch...

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Grammy-Nominated DJ Commits $1 Million Tour To Fighting Hunger

HuffingtonPost.com | Eleanor Goldberg | Posted 01.24.2012

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Grammy-nominated DJ Avicii catered to a crew of fired-up fans Monday, but they weren't his typical glow-stick waving, neon T-shirt-wearing kind. To...

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10 Artsy Music Videos We Can't Stop Watching

Andrew Reilly | Posted 01.23.2012

We're going to ahead and call the disappearance of the music video a big fat myth. Thanks perhaps nearly-universally to YouTube, music videos are b...

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Are You A Fan Of Electronic Music? Listen To How It All Started

Posted 01.04.2012

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Even if you don't know who Daphne Oram is, you probably hear her influence in the music you listen to. Oram, one of the early pioneers of electron...

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Ingenue Interview -- Chloe: Chasser Croiser/The Surreal and Its Echo

Nicole Garton | Posted 12.13.2011

Chloé's style, poised between genres and aesthetics, reflects a unique eclecticism which has led her to become one of the most sought-after leaders of the contemporary electronic scene.

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Interview With David Guetta: Where Pop Music Meets Dance Music

Taryn Haight | Posted 11.23.2011

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It may be a bold statement, but I doubt there has ever been a producer to cross over from the electronic realm to the world of pop as smoothly and as successfully as David Guetta.

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The Rapture Make a Comeback, Play SPIN Headquarters

Taryn Haight | Posted 11.22.2011

Read More: Gabriel Andruzzi, Dance Music, In the Grace of Your Love, Luke Jenner, Vito Roccoforte, The Rapture, Concert Review, Dfa, Electronic Music, Spin, Live Music, Spin Magazine, Slidepollajax, Culture News

The Rapture are back and sounding exactly as I remember them -- a flawless rock/pop/dance melange, distinguished by their reliable drums, unmistakeable vocals and one hell of a steady cowbell.

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Recap: Virgin Mobile FreeFest 2011

Taryn Haight | Posted 11.15.2011

This year drew big name acts, mostly known for killer live performances, like Deadmau5, Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, Empire of the Sun and !!!.

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85,000 Happy Fans At New York's Electric Zoo Music Festival

Farryn Weiner | Posted 11.07.2011

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Standing in the middle of Bloody Beetroots during "Warped" was an adrenaline rush on par with my first skydive in South Africa.

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It's Happening: David Lynch Will Release Album Of Electronic Music

The Huffington Post | Lucas Kavner | Posted 10.15.2011

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Film director David Lynch is flexing his music muscles yet again. The surrealist auteur has been humming about another full-length album for some time...

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The Perfect Balance of Art vs. Science

Taryn Haight | Posted 10.11.2011

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I was reassured that not all was lost for live music the night I witnessed Art vs. Science rock a packed-out show earlier this year at Mercury Lounge.

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