WeTransfer's WePresent • January 25, 2019

"I Can Play the Violin and Be Lit"

Sudan Archives' music is something new — a futuristic fusion of African sounds with soul, funk and an electronic palette that seems wholly her own, especially when combined with the hypnotic plucks and drones of her primary instrument, the violin.

DJMag.com • December 12, 2018

Nicole Moudaber is one of techno's most tireless ambassadors

Nicole Moudaber loves to keep moving. Everything about the DJ, producer and label boss evokes constant motion, from her propulsive, percussive music to her trademark mane of raven hair, which shakes as she DJs as if blown by its own wind.

Los Angeles Magazine • November 26, 2018

What to Sip on a Trip to the Antelope Valley's Wine Country

It looks like a mirage: grapevines standing in neat rows amid the Joshua trees of California’s high desert. But tucked away in the windswept town of Littlerock in the Antelope Valley, about an hour’s drive north of downtown Los Angeles, is Golden Star Vineyards—one of dozens of working wineries within L.A. County.

DownBeat Magazine • September 19, 2018

Christian McBride & Bootsy Collins: ‘All for the Funk of It’

“Greatest day of my life,” declared Christian McBride without a hint of hyperbole. Even for a six-time Grammy-winner who’s shared stages and studios with dozens of jazz, pop and r&b luminaries, few experiences can top his first meeting with one of his childhood heroes: funk legend Bootsy Collins.

Los Angeles Times • September 25, 2018

The 'Song Exploder' podcast analyzes music’s DNA, one track at a time

“I don’t think there’s [any] part of a song that I immediately think is not interesting,” says podcast host Hrishikesh Hirway. “I think that’s sort of the underlying principle of the show — all of it is potentially interesting.”

Rolling Stone • September 14, 2018

Why Paul Oakenfold Became the First-Ever Artist to Play Stonehenge

Paul Oakenfold likes to boldly DJ where no man has DJ’ed before. “No other artist has ever played there and a lot of people have tried, including the Rolling Stones.”

billboard • September 25, 2018

Not Impossible Labs, Zappos Hope to Make Concerts More Accessible for the Deaf - and Cooler for Everyone

Can Music: Not Impossible's vibro-tactile harnesses “increase audio inclusion” by allowing deaf and hearing music fans to experience the same concert in a similar way?

Los Angeles Times • August 28, 2018

For outsiders and outliers, Danny Fuentes’ gallery is a place to call home

For five years, Lethal Amounts has provided a home to what owner Danny Fuentes calls “stuff that’s weird and curious and doesn’t necessarily have to fall into a category of fine art.”

Native Instruments Blog • October 17, 2018

Follow your inner signal: A conversation with Georgia Anne Muldrow

Though still steeped in the old-school soul, funk and jazz influences that inform all her work, "Overload" features Muldrow at her most melodic and accessible: "I can still be experimental and make music like this."

Noisey - Vice • August 27, 2018

The Story of Indigo Ranch, the Improbably Beautiful Birthplace of Nu Metal

For six years, a 60-acre ranch in Malibu, surrounded by craggy rock formations overlooking the flat blue expanse of the Pacific Ocean, reverberated with some of the harshest music ever put to tape. And then it all burned to the ground.

Los Angeles Magazine • October 24, 2018

There's a Cocktail Museum in San Pedro—but It's Popping Up All Over Town

Just off the corner of Hollywood and Vine, Lost Property is an unlikely outpost in a neighborhood chock-a-block with tacky souvenir shops and tackier nightclubs. A sign near the door warns away the Ed Hardy-clothed masses: “No, we don’t sell Red Bull.”

FLOOD • August 9, 2018

A Visit to Tónandi, Sigur Rós’s Virtual World Built on Billion-Dollar Technology

As multimedia art projects go, Tónandi is pretty amazing stuff—an interactive audiovisual experience that makes you feel like you’re inside Sigur Rós’s otherworldly music. But it’s also proof of concept for a technology that has made Magic Leap one of the most well-funded startups in history.

Mixmag • September 8, 2018

The Gaslamp Killer is attempting to reboot his career and it’s splitting the scene in half

Ten months after he was accused on social media of drugging and raping two women in 2013, and nine months after filing defamation lawsuits against his accusers, The Gaslamp Killer returned to live performing last week with a series of three shows called Airplane Mode. The first show played out like a triumphant comeback. But the following night’s show in Long Beach was canceled in response to community protests.

Los Angeles Magazine • June 26, 2018

Women Are Saving the Electric Guitar

Why all the pessimism about the electric guitar? “To me that narrative—‘Is the electric guitar going away?’—is really, ‘Is my definition of what’s awesome about the electric guitar going away?’” says Anna Bulbrook, founder of the women-led L.A. music festival and community Girlschool.

Rolling Stone • April 5, 2018

Beyond 'Blurred Lines': How Forensic Musicology Is Altering Pop's Future

"Ever since this case began, people want to know what a forensic musicologist is," says Sandy Wilbur, who has worked in the field for more than 20 years and served as an expert witness for the defense on the "Blurred Lines" case. "The last two years have been my busiest years ever."

FLOOD • July 31, 2018

“Masseduction” Goes Massive: St. Vincent and Philippa Price Roll with the Punches

By constantly tweaking her sound and aesthetic, Annie Clark has continued to reinvent herself even as she’s built one of the most distinctive bodies of work of any artist of her generation.

Los Angeles Magazine • October 4, 2018

Why Stars Like Beyoncé Are Subverting the Celebrity Profile—and Why It’s a Good Thing

I attribute Kali-like powers of destruction to Beyoncé as much as the next overawed pop-culture commentator, but everyone needs to take a breath here.

Los Angeles Magazine • May 31, 2018

“Transformational” Music Festivals Are Becoming a Year-Round Lifestyle

Once relegated to the outermost edges of the live music industry, transformational festivals are now a vital part of it—especially in California, where a dozen or more such events crowd the calendar.

billboard • April 21, 2018

The Future of Vinyl: After a Decade of Growth, A Retro Biz Spins Forward

Despite vinyl’s growing market share, the industry apparatus that supports it remains, in many ways, stuck in the past. But thanks to entrepreneurs like Caren Kelleher, founder and president of Gold Rush Vinyl, a newly-launched pressing plant in Austin, Texas, that’s starting to change.

DJ Magazine • July 18, 2018

Blade Runners (The Glitch Mob Set the Bar for Live Electronic Music)

In the era of EDM, too much emphasis has been placed on live visuals that, however much they may dazzle, are divorced from the music they accompany. The Glitch Mob’s show rebukes that trend.