#electronic music

Summer Like The Season Makes a Timely Return with Premiere of "Root Mean Square" Video

Summer Like The Season - a.k.a Summer Krinsky, Scott Murphy and Liam McNitt - has a way of creating its own little world. Krinsky, who explains that texture and rhythm serve as the guiding forces of her songwriting, meticulously builds this world, brick by brick, using field recordings she’s...

Sara Barron

Detroit Artist Billionaire Sophia Defies Genre on Ootgoat EP

Detroit-based artist Billionaire Sophia melds pop, R and B, trap and hip hop on her new EP, Ootgoat. Written, produced and mixed entirely by herself, the project is a testament to Sophia’s growth as a producer and artist. She explains that her journey with production started about eight years ago and...

Sara Barron

INTERVIEWChicago Synth-Punks Pixel Grip on their Debut LP Heavy Handed

band photos by Alexa Viscius With “band interests” listed as “fresh cut flowers and cum” on their Facebook page, it’s no surprise that Pixel Grip’s debut LP, Heavy Handed, is about as sweet as a goth-disco record can be. Bandmates Rita Lukea, Jonathan Freund and Tyler Ommen grew up in Chicago suburb,...

Sara Barron

PLAYING DETROITTammy Lakkis Fuses Songwriter and DJ Sensibilities on Debut Single

This week, Detroit-based producer, songwriter and DJ Tammy Lakkis released her debut single, “This is How It Goes,” a mesmerizing meditation on the cyclical nature of life. Lakkis fuses her background in more traditional songwriting and her love affair with Detroit’s electronic music scene, honing...

Sara Barron

PLAYING DETROITFlint Eastwood Finds "Real Love" on Inspiring New Single

Like many people in the LGBTQ...

Sara Barron

NEWS ROUNDUPBK Steel Opens, Synth Pioneer Dies and More

RIP Ikutaro Kakehashi Ikutaro Kakehashi passed away last Saturday at age 87. He founded Roland in 1960, meaning without him, we’d be way behind in drum machine and synthesizer technology. After leading the company for decades, he founded the electronic instrument company ATV Corporation in 2014 and...

Emily Daly

#NEWMUSICMONDAYBeyond the Wizards Sleeve "Diagram Girl"

"Diagram Girl" is a cool, dreamy track that will melt into your day like a truly deep breath or a cup of lavender tea.

Sophie Saint Thomas

BAND OF THE MONTHA Place Both Wonderful And Strange

Sorry For Your Loss, the debut album of the 'occult electronic dance music' duo A Place Both Wonderful And Strange, is like an eerie journey into a dark forest; it's terrifying, yet beautiful, and you can only arrowope you'll make it out alive. This duality in Niabi Aquena and Russ Marshalek's...

Emily Daly

ALBUM REVIEWDeradoorian "The Expanding Flower Planet"

Angel Deradoorian is a former member of the Dirty Projectors. As one of the band's vocalists, she contributed to many of their trademark harmonies and long, sustained cries that used the singers' voices more like an instrument than just a way to deliver words. Some of that sound creeps into her...

Emily Daly

ALBUM REVIEWTame Impala "Currents"

“They say people never change, but that’s bullshit/ They do.” That's a line from Currents, the latest album by Tame Impala. If you've been following their music for the past seven years, you'll notice immediately that the album is quite a change for the Australian psychedelic rock band led by Kevin...

Emily Daly

TRACK REVIEWXan Young "Passion"

“We had affection, but you couldn’t handle passion,” Xan Young sings on “Passion.” While I feel for anyone stuck in the friend zone, I’m kind of glad his heartbreak inspired this track. Xan Young is new to the electronic music scene, and “Passion” is the first song ever released from the Brooklyn...

Emily Daly

ARTIST EXCLUSIVEDATALOG "Everything Is Essential"

DATALOG (moniker of Brooklyn-based digital artist Conor Heffernan), is garnering momentum and buzz on the NYC indie electronic circuit for his recent live performances, many of which have included stunningly curated videography that rivals any I’ve seen in quite some time. His body of work is...

Marianne White