Stimulus Bill: Beats Antique, Alex Grey & More
Music is the single most patronized art form. Think about it. Most of us listen to music all day, or at least during the majority of waking hours. Have you ever tried to sample perfumes while you’re jogging? Or appreciate paintings while you’re driving? Me too, but the officer who strip-searched me on the side...
Aural Pleasure: The Glitch Mob
The Glitch Mob ain't no one-trick pony. “Glitch hopâ€, a genre they're often credited with inventing (or at least popularizing), may have put them on the map, but they refuse to churn out cookie cutter, assembly line club bangers. Drink the Sea, their first fully original full-length, is bound to confound expectations. On...
Aural Pleasure: VibeSquad
Whoever said white men can't crunk? Eerie-based Aaron Holstein is a walking argument to the contrary. Better known as VibeSquad, Holstein has been not-so-quietly churning out crunkadelic, bass-heavy beats in his hole-in-the-wall home studio for over a decade now. The VibeSquad sound is catching on too. Ever since laptop artists like Bassnectar and...
Aural Pleasure: Kraddy
Glitch Mob, a collective of California producers he has since parted ways with, was largely responsible for the popularization of a cutting-edge hybrid of electronica and hip hop called “glitch hopâ€. Glitch refers to the producers’ propensity for intentional glitches or “stutter editsâ€.
Aural Pleasure: Eprom
Eprom, shorthand for erasable programmable read-only memory, is the moniker of Bay Area-based Sander Dennis, slated to slay Owsley's Golden Road (2151 Lawrence) this Friday, January 22. Picture Super Mario getting his freak on, a la Missy Elliot, and you'll have an inkling of what to expect from his set.
Aural Pleasure: Ana Sia
DJs that don't dance to their own music should be suspect IMO. It's the same “Do as I say, not as I do,†attitude that smoking parents often wield. Talk about setting a pathetic example. Ana will never have that problem. She was a dancer long before being a dance-floor choreographer, and has never been...
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