If Warped Tour and Electric Daisy Carnival had a baby, it’d look a lot like Identity Fest. The traveling, daylong electronic music festival only started…
Midnight Magic is bringing back the foxy 1970s of New York with a bad case of Brooklyn funk. And the brigade – horns, drums, keys…
I recently wrote that electronic music had reached its pinnacle in terms of creativity, and it turns out I was slightly wrong: there is still…
Kaskade headlined his Freaks of Nature tour at a sold out Bill Graham Auditorium on Saturday night, a few days after becoming the first DJ…
Poolside began in Los Feliz pool house turned studio on a sunny afternoon a year and a half ago. Since then, this product of a…
People love Amanda Palmer. They love her so much that they gave her over $1 million dollars in donations to finish her new album. The…
With music’s current state of saturation by synths and other electronics, metal has been pushed back underground to the pits of hell. But on Sunday…
After 18 years, the Vans Warped Tour is still decidedly different from other festivals. It runs 41 dates across the United States, filling scrappy parking…
BFD was pirate themed this year, and the loot? A golden lineup. On Saturday the Shoreline Amphitheater was taken over by Live 105’s BFD, a…
Borgore may be the most infamous man in electronic music. He frequently has strippers on stage, has relations with a 19-year-old porn star named Jessie…
After a slow first start to I Love This City on Friday, the second day at Shoreline Amphitheater kept a bit of the momentum (and…
The first day of I Love This City launched on Friday to a small, but enthusiastic crowd. Expectations and potential were high, but promoters Live…
They’ve only been together three years, but Imagine Dragons has gone from being a Las Vegas cover band to a radio-phenomenon. Their latest single “It’s…
The Crystal Method has seen electronic music blossom from the soundtrack of underground warehouses to the backbone of global pop, and they’ve been deep in…
On a break between each weekend of Coachella, Justice and The Rapture lit up the Fox Theater in Oakland on Tuesday. The Rapture was up…
As one of the biggest groups of the last couple of years, Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All (Odd Future, OFWGKTA, OF) has pissed…
There are plenty of rappers claiming to be the most crafty, skilled or original. But Chilly Gonzales may be the only one who isn’t full…
Feed Me may not be one of the biggest names in the U.S. dubstep scene, but his success back home in the U.K. – and…
Porter Robinson is 19 years old and on a world tour. The electro producers’ show Friday night at the Fox Theater in Oakland was filled…
When the opening band is impressive, and each following performance adds on to that feeling, it’s a damn good show. And last night at the…
Steve Aoki and Datsik’s Dead Meat tour stop at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium on Saturday night ended up being a baby shower of sorts….
It was quite the party, and the most fun advertisement ever. “Mouth Taped Shut,” the Trent Reznor led promotion team for the upcoming Girl With…
Digitalism is wrapping up their North American tour at the Mezzanine on Wednesday. For ticket information check here. They’re still pumping music out of a…
She Wants Revenge and Peter Murphy are performing at the Fillmore on Sunday, Dec. 4. Ticket information can be found here. The seed for the…
The weekend’s biggest concert also happened to be the weekend’s biggest costume party. Deadmau5 orchestrated the Halloween bash at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium on…
Last month, The Rapture released their first record in half a decade. And their timing, with electronic music’s popularity in full swing, couldn’t have been…
While Kristine Flaherty – K.Flay as she’s known – recorded her first big release earlier this year, she was completely alone. In a basement. For…
In the world of music festivals, FYF Fest is a unique blend; part old-school punk, part blossoming indie bands, part established electronic acts. Nesting in…
Motion City Soundtrack‘s current tour is half-victory lap, and half comeback. Four albums and nine years in, the most refined of the early millenniums’ pop-punk…
See our coverage of day one here, day two here “I don’t give a fuck if it’s raining tonight, this is fun as shit,” some…
See coverage from Day One here. “I saw you guys were a little hot out there,” said the lead singer of Phantogram. “So I asked…
Twenty year’s ago, Perry Farrell never expected Lollapalooza to get this big. “Now we’ve got 90,000 freaks each day”, says the Lolla founder and head…
See it Live: Thursday, August 4: Ruby Skye will be getting crazy with Diplo this Thursday, will you? Their World Town event will feature the…
Saturday night I showered in sweat – not entirely my own – and partied with the likes of Diplo and Lil B. And so did…
See it Live: Friday, July 29: With a title like the Summer Slaughter tour, it’s farly easy to tell whether this show is for you…
See it Live: Tuesday, July 12: The tenth season of American Idol is on the road and you catch the crew at Oracle arena. The…
YACHT Utopia / Dystopia (The Earth Is On Fire) from DFA Records on Vimeo. See it Live: Wednesday, June 29: The band of Boston brothers…
See it Live: Wednesday, June 22: Second hand smoke will be aplenty at the Wiz Khalifa show this week. The Bill Graham Civic Auditorium will…
Posed in front of sweltering balls of fire and a giant drum roller coaster, Motley Crue continued their 30th birthday celebration last night. “Years gone…
See it Live: Tuesday, June 14: I raved about this show before, and I’ll do it again. Aesop Rock, Kimya Dawson, Rob Sonic and DJ…
