This week’s “GET PSYCHED!” is for that large percentage of my Coachella crew who attend the festival each year primarily to bask in the beats at the Sahara tent. Oh sure, they’ll make the occasional foray to the main stage to catch a major artist — but the real allure of the festival is the [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Electronic Music’
Coachella 2012: GET PSYCHED (Part 4)
Posted: March 4, 2012 by Sean Flinn in MusicTags: coachella, Electronic Music, Justice
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Scaling Felt Mountain: An Interview with Will Gregory of Goldfrapp
Posted: January 25, 2002 by Sean Flinn in Interviews, MusicTags: Downtempo, Electronic Music, Goldfrapp, Mute Records
If Marlene Dietrich were alive today, she’d be the world’s sexiest 100-year-old. She might also have something to croak about Alison Goldfrapp, the namesake of the British duo whose 2000 album, Felt Mountain, conjures up all of the mystique, class and modernist boudoir beckoning of Dietrich’s cabaret classics. There’s a good bit more in there [...]
The Groop Played … Well, Whatever The Hell It Wanted: An Interview with Stereolab’s Tim Gane
Posted: January 4, 2002 by Sean Flinn in Interviews, MusicTags: duophonic, Electronic Music, indie rock, stereolab
I’m sitting backstage at the Belly Up Tavern in Solana Beach, Calif. with Tim Gane, Stereolab’s founding songwriter, guitar player and main ideologue, and we’re lying to one another. Gane is pretending to give me direct, concrete answers to my questions about his band’s work methods, its history, its fondness for certain producers, and I’m [...]
Orbiting the Altogether: An Interview with Orbital
Posted: November 5, 2001 by Sean Flinn in Interviews, MusicTags: Electronic Music, Orbital
Despite its multi-national impact, electronic dance music has proffered only a few widely recognizable faces from out of the great bumping masses of DJs, producers and performers – and a pair of those faces belong to the brothers Hartnoll — Paul and Phil. Actually, “faces” is probably a poor word choice there; with the exception [...]
