[To celebrate the release of his 11th studio album, Innocents, we invited Moby to take control of eMusic's editorial for a week. Below is our exclusive interview with him, and he also picked his 10 favorite albums on eMusic. Moby asked us to interview Cold Specks as part of his takeover — you can read that here — and we also resurrected our interview with the Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne, who sings on Innocents. —… more »
[To celebrate the release of his 11th studio album, Innocents, we invited Moby to take control of eMusic's editorial for a week. You can read our exclusive interview with him here. Moby asked us to interview Cold Specks as part of his takeover — you can read that here — and we also resurrected Ryan Reed's interview with the Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne, who sings on Innocents. And below, he reveals his 10 favorite albums… more »
The most alluring dance music of the 21st century sounds a hell of a lot like the early part of the last decade of the 20th. There are many reasons for this, but maybe the biggest is Matt Cutler, the Nottingham-bred producer who calls himself Lone. He emerged in the late '00s as one of a long line of laptop-IDM producers with a J Dilla fixation. But 2008's Lemurian, his first release of note, is… more »
While Virgo is often considered to be the one sign driven by an almost insane desire for perfection and purity, a fair number of the artists that fall under its arc - from August 23rd to September 22nd - can hardly be called Puritanical. A quick check finds Charlie Parker, the archetypal bebop mainliner, shooting junk while deconstructing the songbook of his day in blistering triple-times. Then there's Gene Simmons. While Simmons has eschewed alcohol… more »