Spotlights Archives
2012 in Review: Reinventing t…
“I don’t want to sound cocky,” 20 year-old British goth… more »
2012′s Weirdest New Gen…
Remember when music could be neatly divided into genre bins? Those days a… more »
Label Profile: Mute Records
File under: One of the richest (and most diverse) catalogs in independent… more »
Label Profile: Spectrum Spool…
File under: Pulsating synthesizer fugues; rumbling electro-acoustic abstr… more »
New This Week: Sharon Van Ett…
OK! Are you guys ready to get bummed out? Because it’s the week bef… more »
New This Week: Lana Del Rey, …
Hey, have you guys heard anything about this Lana Del Rey person? I feel … more »
New This Week: Kathleen Edwar…
Hello! Welcome! It starts with a trickle, but always ends in a deluge: th… more »
New This Week: Keepaway, The …
HELLO! Welcome back! 2012! Here we are! Doing it in the 0-1-2! This will … more »
2011: The Year in Electronic …
No question about it, U.K. electronic music had a spectacular year. But i… more »
Why Dance Music is Bigger tha…
In 2010, the unthinkable occurred. I was 35, and I had never been so exci… more »
DJ /rupture: A Post-Digital G…
No disc jockey transports me back more reliably to the free-form radio tr… more »
Amon Tobin on Sampling, DJing…
Amon Tobin is not a man to sit still. Brazilian born, he’s been hig… more »
Adventures with the Vocoder
There is a primordial glee that comes with donning a mask and pretending … more »
The Melancholy Sound of the S…
Pretend you're on a train in the summer of 2008. You're going wes… more »
Discover: Chinatronica
Back in the ’90s, it seemed as though every producer was slapping e… more »
The Noise of Neu!
No history of electronic music would be complete without a chapter dedica… more »
Year in Electronic 2008
Every year, it’s the same. November rolls around, and so do the req… more »
Disco’s Secret Master: …
Disco has precious few celebrated heroes. That once-reviled dilution of f… more »
Heavy Tunes: Burial
If I’m writing about dubstep, then it’s officially over as a … more »
Music Out Of Place: Staubgold…
“Music out of place” is the motto of the Staubgold label, and… more »
Comfort Music for Restless Ea…
If the Kranky label lived up to its name, it almost certainly wouldn… more »
Rediscover: Mouse on Mars
In 1997, I launched my career as a music journalist by interviewing Mouse… more »
Playhouse Records: Songs for …
There aren’t many labels whose name fits them better than Playhouse… more »
Between the Notes: Undergroun…
For music junkies, one of the worst — and sometimes best — de… more »


















