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"Reggae is the original remix culture: hip-hop has direct roots in reggae and Skrillex and dubstep come straight from Jamaican bass...

"Comedians are like cockroaches," he said, "they'll just sneak in and set up a show where ever there's some light ...

" When we talk about science, we think of it as this thing that mysterious people who are nothing like us do in white lab coats,...

"I t bursts like applause at the end of a Fellini film or a live album, celebrating the artifice of performance, the drama of a far...

"Get Lucky"'s real elegance lies in the hands of  Nile Rodgers , which is no doubt the Robots’ intent.  Pitchfork Media

Souleyman's voice is gruff and coarse, exuding a stoic strength. Yet for those who understand Arabic, his songs are plaintive, deali...

Propelled by pneumatic valves and nascent robotic technology, and programmed by early Apple computers, the band -- bassist Billy Bob Broc...

Back in the heat of the New York summer (remember when it was hot out? Me neither), I spoke via Skype with August Darnell, a/k/a Kid Creo...

Today in the Village Voice is my feature on the return of Kid Creole and the Coconuts . Such a pleasure to chat with the man (my full tra...

In a friend's water closet reading stack sits a book by William Cooper . I don't believe I have seen that name since 1991, the...

Nothing says welcome back to school like this series of photos from an Iggy and the Stooges gig at a high school, circa 1970.

The last of my New Age interviews (finally) and one of the most insightful. Douglas Mcgowan is the force behind Yoga Records and a spate of...

The peg for the New Age story stems from a Zamfir sample that Animal Collective used for their Fall Be Kind EP from 2009. Yet their love an...

Researching New Age music and its reincarnation, it became imperative to chat with Greg Davis. (As introduction, I had to come clean on wri...

This fall, the RVNG Intl. label will release another entry in their highly ambitious FRKWYS series, this one documenting a studio meeting b...

As Oneohtrix Point Never, Daniel Lopatin has staked out a previously uninhabited/ inhospitable ground between bracing electronic noise and ...

This past Sunday, I wrote a large piece for the LA Times about what I dubbed "The New Age of New Age,"  the wave of new artists ...

So good that I have to re-post and re-crank this song for the 4th of July. And some 7 1/2 minutes into this is the official video for it...

"I'm a helluva guy. I think yer a lovely lady."

I just reviewed the recent reissue of Paul McCartney's half-baked (take that in many ways) solo album, McCartney II , for Resident Advi...