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COACHELLA 2007  Markkus Rovito By now notorious for its searing hot live music and even hotter desert sun, the annual Coachella festival sizzled for three long days this year, April...

BALANCING POINT  By Justin Kleinfeld With a few exceptions, post-'90s dance music has lacked any identity. Although top-flight DJs continued to thrive in clubs around the world, there was...

COCOROSIE  By Christine Hsieh Without a good dose of jet lag, The Adventures of Ghosthorse and Stillborn would have turned out to be quite a different album. When Bianca and Sierra...

COPPERPOT  By Max Herman More than just a victim of stage fright, Daniel Kuypers has long suffered from chronic angst while spinning hip-hop in his native Chicago. Every week,...

SAVATH & SAVALAS  By Stacey Dugan The first thing you'll notice about the new Savath & Savalas album is the absence of Eva Puyuelo, whose aching vocals floated over the modernized Catalonian...

JEAN-JACQUES PERREY  By Laura Pallanck The techniques of musique concrte where recorded sounds are used as compositional material have been around since the 1940s. It wasn't until the mid-'60s,...

Live Wire  By Bill Murphy It's good to be the king especially if you're Tim Mosley. For well over a decade now, the 36-year-old producer has spun his quirkily deconstructed beats...

CALL SECURITY  By Darius Carter No doubt you've invested a lot of dough in your home studio. In fact, it's probably worth more than the rest of your stuff put together, especially when...

STEPHEN MARLEY  By Anthony Roberts Many reggae fans can close their eyes and remember some of their favorite and freshest irie riddims of the past decade and, chances are, five-time Grammy...

TRACEY THORN  By Christine Hsieh Two years ago, Tracey Thorn emerged from half a decade of maternal bliss to record vocals for German duo-of-the-moment Tiefschwarz, then slipped away...

SKINNY PUPPY  By Justin Kleinfeld Known for its genre-bending albums, performance-art live shows and a history marred by tragedy and internal struggle, Skinny Puppy is the act people most...

!!! MAGIC NUMBER  By Kristi Kates Sacramento, Brooklyn and Nashville were the cities to be in during the recording of !!!'s latest album. Anyone wandering into the right place at the right...

FAT FREDDY'S DROP  By Dominic Umile The compositions that ended up on Based on a True Story, the debut full-length from New Zealand's Fat Freddy's Drop, will be almost four years old when...

FUTURE SOUND OF LONDON  By Ken Micallef It can rightfully be said that the Future Sound of London helped usher in the modern era of electronic music. Classic tracks such as Papua New Guinea...

BRAZILIAN GIRLS  By Stacey Dugan If guilt-free unprotected sex could be embodied in a live show, it would take the form of the Brazilian Girls. Carnivalesque costumes, punk-rock antics,...

BEAT BENDER  By Ken Micallef Everybody in the game has been doing our sound, Layzie Bone, one quarter of the current lineup of '90s rap heroes Bone Thugs-n-Harmony, boasts from his...

PORTABLE MUTATIONS  By Bill Murphy There's a movement afoot. Well, maybe not a movement per se, but certainly a nascent trend is gathering momentum under a talented crop of producers that...

LIGHTING THE WAY  By Erik Hawkins Visually speaking, good stage lighting can make or break a show. A well-designed lighting system and expertly programmed lighting cues can make your performance...

Hybrid Rhythm Vehicle  By Jim Batcho Electronic drum kits certainly progress every year, but they still sound unnatural, feel artificial and look silly. Also, sequencing with click tracks...

PEOPLE POWER  By Erik Hawkins After countless hours rehearsing and several more spent hauling and setting up your gear, you feel ready to perform for a sizable audience. This isn't...

HEADLINERS  By David Weiss Don't question that recording makes Rob Swift happy. War Games (Coup De Grace, 2005), the newest album from the ex X-ecutioner, has wrist aerobics and...

GET LOOPY  By Erik Hawkins Unless you've been hiding in a cave for the past several years, you've certainly heard of Ableton's groundbreaking live-performance loop software, Live....

CONTROL ISSUES  By Erik Hawkins With so many different types of MIDI controllers on the market, there's no compelling reason to use a keyboard controller for live performance if playing...

CUT AND BOOST  By Erik Hawkins Unlike your studio or rehearsal space, where you have complete control of how your band sounds, when you play at a club (especially a small financially...

LIVE DOUBLE LP  By Doug Eisengrein Nowadays, those all-too-geeky live electronic-music events have become a norm in clubs, complete with the ghostly, illuminated faces of nonanimated performers...

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