Attention DJs and EDM artists of the Valley: If y’all are adept at pulling a Rumpelstiltskin and are able to spin up some gold, the promoters of this weekend’s Sound Wave Music Festival and have a hankering to hear your stuff. They’re currently conducting a massive statewide DJ battle and…
The Monarch in downtown Phoenix is going to be shaking and quaking with sonic booms of bass every Thump Day as long-running dubstep joint UK Thursdays has moved to the Washington Street club as of last week. Promoters behind the bass-heavy EDM night, which originally launched back in 2009 as…
If you jumped on the Sondre Lerche bandwagon after the 2004 release of Two Way Monologue, you no doubt dreaded the hype you thought he’d receive because of his collaboration with Regina Spektor on the Dan in Real Life soundtrack in 2007. But somehow Lerche avoided the level of obnoxious…
Sometimes, old dogs learn new tricks. Consider Tauheed Epps, the Atlanta MC who has taken two stage names — Tity Boi for a decade and 2 Chainz for a more successful three years. Epps got his start in the rap game when Ludacris, then a fellow underground Atlanta rapper and…
Ethereal and otherworldly, Lymbyc Systym has a knack for activating its purposely misspelled namesake, the little corner of your brain known for controlling emotions. Their instrumental waveforms also evoke Explosions in the Sky, Four Tet, or The Appleseed Cast, gaining them the attention of touring mates like The Album Leaf,…
Over the summer, an online list of the world’s richest DJs featured the multimillion-dollar net worths of 30 superstar spinsters and demonstrated once again that EDM artists and DJs are the new rock stars. British-born house legend Paul Oakenfold was ranked second on the list, as he has an estimated…
If it were 1987, Jason Aldean and Kelly Clarkson’s “Don’t You Wanna Stay” wouldn’t be a country-radio dominating hit; it would be a Bics-in-the-air hair-metal ballad, something Whitesnake or Cinderella would play near the end of the set to get all the girlies grooving. But it’s 2012, and the song,…
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See also: Top Five Must-See Shows This Weekend In the comments section on the YouTube video for Krewella’s dubstep-heavy track “Killin’ It,” one clever wiseacre describes the Chicago-born electro-pop act as “2 Girls, One Drop.” It’s an unseemly bon mot, recalling one of the Interweb’s most infamously vile viral videos,…
In 1969, when Little Feat was formed by keyboardist Bill Payne and the just-fired Mothers of Invention guitarist Lowell George, 40-year-old bands didn’t exist. Yet 43 years later, Little Feat’s still cranking out their original brand of Southern boogie, which merges funk, jazz, blues, gospel, folk, soul, rock, and New…
What happens when you cross acid jazz, disco, funk, and a performance-driven Latin dance troupe from New York by way of Venezuela? You get the sexy sounds of Latin Grammy winners Los Amigos Invisibles. The six-piece ensemble left its underground hometown scene 20 years ago to trot the globe and…
Get ready for some unleashed feminine fury: One Eyed Doll, Butcher Babies, and Otep are coming to town. It’s a match made in the netherworld: One Eyed Doll mixes punk and metal with a unique Mad Hatter bent, that is if the Mad Hatter had decided to dismember all his…
The Walkmen didn’t set out to write a “dad rock” album with their seventh album, Heaven — though that’s exactly how the press perceived it. It doesn’t help that the record’s photos feature the band surrounded by their kids and spouses, or that songs like the high-and-lonesome “Southern Heart,” the…
The mission of Chicago-based EDM trio Krewella is simple: They want you to lose your shit when listening to their shit. In order to do so, says vocalist/producer Yasmine Yousaf, they’ve injected their remixes of songs like Knife Party’s “Fire Hive” and original tracks like “Feel Me” and “Killin’ It”…
Lots of musicians use their platform and notoriety to score DJ gigs. And why not? Picking the music is fun. Chris Baio, known for manning the bass guitar in Vampire Weekend (a band whose name combines things very “in” right now: vampires and weekends), sort of did things in reverse…
Maybe I watch too much It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, but when I heard that there’s a bar in Scottsdale called Pattie’s First Avenue Lounge, I assumed it would be just like Paddy’s Pub. To my disappointment, Danny DeVito wasn’t scheming, but there were still plenty of shenanigans to be…
See also: The 10 Hottest Chicks in Metal See also: Six Desert Metal Bands You Need to Hear See also: A Closer Look at KUPD’s MILF Contest 2012Long running alt-metal combo The Deftones have announced that Tuesday, November 12, will be the release date for Koi No Yokan, their first…
Hang on guys, here’s something you won’t believe: Phil Anselmo of Pantera/Down is mad about something. But it’s not the sort of thing we’re used to him being mad about. As you’re no doubt aware, with the weather beginning to act like it might cool down, college campuses swelling with…
Nothing places your heart on your sleeve like naming your electro-pop band after the public cubbyholes where teenagers go to feel each other up. Indeed, the lyrical themes of Passion Pit, spun by vocalist and lyricist Michael Angelakos, draws on teenage angst and adolescent sexual appetites. Angelakos originally crafted the…
The good-for-nothing good ol’ boys of Natural Child must be stopped. This is a band that titled an earlier record 1971, a year these sprites clearly wished to have experienced, and are now plotting to name the rest of their output after fucking Kevin Costner movies. Their latest disc of…
Jens Moelle and Ismail Tüfekçi don’t simply juggle electronic beats. In fact, the EDM artistry unleashed by the German-born duo Digitalism is more akin to beat alchemy than anything else: They don’t just polish up a steady stream of Ableton output, but instead slice, dice, mash, blend, and twist electro…
