Influenced by Britain’s acid house and ambient undercurrents as much as Eastern sounds, Banco de Gaia has gradually gone deeper and wider with each of his albums since 1995’s “Last Train To...
Who can help a laugh at the name Vincent van Go Go? Vincent van Go(gh)? Go? That is so silly, you say. But this name is just the entrée into the band – and they will have you chuckling and...
In a groove culture ruled by the two-step and head nod, dancers everywhere are looking for an album to make them resurrect the dances of old that required energy and stamina (read: the running-man,...
Known for their production work, as members of the France based instrumental hip-hop band Hocus Pocus and DJ crew
Mayday! came into the public eye last spring when the video of single “Groundhog Day” became one of the most-viewed videos of all time on YouTube, with a little over two million hits in two...
I don't wanna damn this record by weighing it down with highbrowisms, but I will say this: Rarely is music that's deemed "challenging" or "important" as straight-up good as Return to Cookie...
Of course, the names Laurent Garnier and Carl Craig need little introduction at this point. Words like “seminal,” “versatile,” “leaders,” and “dare-devils,” “gifted,” and...
It took now 31 year old writer / actor / director / editor Andrew Bujalski over three years for his debut feature Funny Ha Ha , shot in Boston in 2001, to open in theaters. Hailed as, "as...
Now here we have an album that’s so sheerly demented, it’s a work of unrelenting beauty. Meet StopDiscoMafia, or what happens when the bassist of a mandolin orchestra (Ronald Gonko of Kapajkos...
And the prophets sayeth: Find your eternal reward within the Rapture's sly dance-punk incantations or get left behind. Flouting the doubters who gave their white-guy-getting-down sound the...