With roots that reach back to the dawn of the Reagan Administration, Underworld is one of the longest surviving electronic dance bands in history, outlasted only by the likes of Kraftwerk (which, frankly, isn't really Kraftwerk without Florian Schneider, who left the act in January). You would think three decades......
Leeward Avenue is three blocks’ solid of apartment buildings, some built in the early 20th century and adorned with adobelike facades and Deco features, others ...
Twenty-six-year-old MC Amanda Blank is still trying to get past her Married With Children moment. On indie-rap crew Spank Rock’s celebrated, 2006 debut, YoYoYoY...
Miami DJ Oscar G's forthcoming, multimedia release, DJ, is so cool we wonder why more labels aren't churning out similar packages. The CD might be dead, but downloading can't yet match the breadth of this deal - a studio disc of G's remixes and productions, an audio recording of a......
Kenneth James Gibson is a living conspiracy theory, stubbornly clinging to the pop ether like a Tom Cruise rumor. Local underground dwellers have heard of him f...
At the indie-meets-dance club Echoplex in Echo Park, DJs spin, but just as often these days a floor-friendly sound will emerge in the form of a band, a laptop a...
Kids. We’re talking barely-teen children sporting braces, bleached hair and underwear their moms just bought them, wall-to-wall, and striking sassy poses in ove...
John Tejada landed in Los Angeles in the early 1980s at the age of 8. His mother, a Mexican-American opera singer, had left his Austrian father and settled in P...
“Not everyone understands house music,” goes Eddie Amador’s 1998 anthem. “It‘s a spiritual thing, a body thing, a soul thing.” The song that put West Coast house music on the map is an ode to a hybrid culture that has struggled to be accepted. For a long time, not everyone......
L.A.‘s club DJ circuit is like the local porn industry. Performers are paid to bang it hard, the business is overshadowed by Hollywood (in this case, the mainstream music industry), and it’s all about the hand-raising drum-roll crescendo, dance music‘s own money shot. Newer jocks are proficient at blowing their......