The Future of Music
Pandora Founder: We Pay Artists Really Well, Now Let Us Stop
Pandora founder Tim Westergren just published this curious humble-brag of an article, which has predictably rippled across the music blogosphere. In it, he explains that his plucky company is super successful and can totally afford to pay the artists...
A Machine For Turning Your Junk into Dubstep Music
When you think about it, pretty much all modern electronic music is just a series of loops — sometimes overlapping with each other, sometimes evolving. So it's not surprising that the new laser-powered "Instrument for the Sonification of Everyday...
Werner Herzog Made a Weird Documentary About The Killers
Why did Werner Herzog decide to film a documentary and an "online concert event" featuring The Killers? Probably because American Express and VEVO paid him a lot of money. Also: why not?
Lower Dens' Jana Hunter Writes Cyborg Music for Techno Fear: Interview
Electronic rock has never felt so much like cyborg rock as on Lower Dens' new record, _Nootropics_. It's an aesthetic as much as a concept, a delicate and subtle mingling of synthesized or processed or programmed sounds with a rock scheme nodding...
Watch the Dirty Projectors' Post-Apocalyptic Tale of Dying in a Truck Bed
http://pitchfork.com/news/47753-watch-dirty-projectors-short-film-hi-custodian/
This New Flying Lotus Short Film Is Absolutely Crucial
Music video, new album teaser (out Oct. 1, again on Warp), short arthouse film, or whatever, ""Until the Quiet Comes"":http://flying-lotus.com/watch-until-the-quiet-comes-short-film/ also happens to be beautiful and inspiring in a totally unexpected...
Coma Niddy Is Going To Rhyme At You About String Theory
In these here days of dark matter, the Higgs boson, and the multiverse, poor string theory often gets left out of the pop science news cycle. Maybe that has something to do with string theory being incomprehensible to just about everyone beyond its...
Can We Be Done With "Electronic Music" Now?
Not done with the thing itself, of course. Just the "electronic" qualification. It has become not so much incorrect, but redundant and awkward. And has been for some time. Dan Deacon made this point yesterday afternoon "on NPR":http://www.npr.org...
Mouse on Mars Is Back with a Hypnotic and Sciencey New Video
"Mouse in Mars":http://www.mouseonmars.com/, the way-old German mutant IDM duo, has been quiet for almost six years now, finally showing up again this summer with a "new record":http://www.monkeytownrecords.com/releases/view/51/mouse-on-mars/monkeytown...
Public Access Beats: Julia Child Remixed, "Keep on Cooking"
The thing is that these PBS remixes should be way worse than they are. I'd honestly put off paying much attention to the first couple, "Mister Rogers":http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFzXaFbxDcM&feature=relmfu and "Bob Ross":http://www.youtube.com/watch...
DJ Rupture Hacked Western Music Software With Middle Eastern Sounds
In a 2008 "interview":http://www.negrophonic.com/2008/fetishism-is-so-vague/ Jace Clayton laid out a manifesto of sorts. “I don’t care what ‘Westerners’ fetishize. They’ve been fetishizing black people for centuries now, who cares? You simply exist in...