Once a year Electronic Beats invites friends and family to come together during Popkomm, which always guarantees for a great night out in Berlin. This time we wanted it to be a particularly special Soirée, so the team threw in some extra effort....
With their recent remix of Empire of the Sun's “We Are The People”, NYC duo Golden Filter has garnered heat, hype and love from the blogosphere. American record producer Stephen connected with Australian chanteuse Penelope in a buzzing New York a...
Hailing from Southeast London, new Kitsune protégés Chew Lips have already earned the praise of BBC music honcho Steve Lamacq, who bestowed them with his big tip for 2009 and even cited their demo as the best he heard in 2008. It’s a good thing t...
Marina Diamandis aka Marina and the Diamonds is a 21-year-old Greek-Welsh piano-playing solo act (the audience are the diamonds) who satisfies the appetite of many searching for something both unique and high quality in the crowded stable of fema...
Music, like civilisations, fashion and washing machines, tends to move in cycles. Generally 20-year cycles, interestingly enough. The rock-a-billy fifties made a nifty comeback in the seventies. The stoner soul and rock grooves of the sixties bac...
The noughties have been a tempestuous and adventurous decade for music. In the last ten years we’ve seen pop get creative, alt. go mainstream and the entire traditional music industry get roundhoused by the digital realm. Paul Sullivan reports…If...
To become part of French music nobility you don’t necessarily have to hide behind a mask for 15 years. You can try marrying the President, sleeping with Uffie or teaming up with white-hot label Kitsuné, as synth-pop band Phoenix just did. The gu...
As difficult to pin down as a carrier bag full of water, Danton Eeprom’s debut album Yes is More will surely pique the interest of anyone interested in electronic music. Having remixed Simian Mobile Disco and Little Boots, partnered with Radio Sl...
Little Boots has put together a kind of boot camp for disco lovers in London. In collaboration with Bugged Out, Boots Camp will take place on November 14th, synthesising the best from the current crop of disco revival artists. Little Boots has ne...
Global auction house Phillips de Pury & Company will be staging a music-inspired contemporary art sale. This is the third time the English company has organized such an event, but this time they’ve invited avant-garde electronic luminary Matt...