When you’ve been dating someone for a while, people start asking when you’re going to get engaged. And then you get engaged, and those people start asking when you’re getting married. And when you finally do get married, they start asking when the baby’s due. Not to make a review bigger than it ought to […]

In 1998, when Remix Dystemper first hit the shelves, Skinny Puppy had broken up following years of acrimony and the death of keyboardist Dwayne Goettel. Although they would reform a few years later as a duo, the remix album, featuring tracks drawn from over a decade of material, was very much a retrospective at the […]

Wait, so that’s what dubstep is? Well, this is excellent! Why did I sleep on Burial for so long? For that matter, who else should I be checking out? I’ve heard good things about this Breakage character.

I’ve been on a bit of a Rush renaissance lately. Just last night, after mentioning that I “wouldn’t really mind” if our national anthem was just Sarah Polley yelling “Neil Peart is the best drummer ever,” I went home and finally started watching Beyond the Lighted Stage, the rather excellent documentary on the band that […]

The dedicated and talented DJ Kid Tronic recently brought my attention to Beatface, a local production duo, through a post on Twitter. He’d heard their new EP at a listening party back in September, and he like it so much that he decided to share a downloadable version of it through his page on Facebook. […]

Yesterday, from out of the blue, Girl Talk released a new album called All Day as a free download. It wasn’t an easy album to grab, because the official website was quickly overloaded with traffic. I had better luck with a mirror site that was soon posted by a fellow on Twitter, and hopefully you […]

I know this is a wildly unpopular opinion, but Zooropa is my favorite U2 album. It’s certainly not their best, but it’s the one I’ve personally enjoyed the most. You know that signature U2 sound that won them millions of fans in their early days, and then won them all back and then some when […]

Emergency Broadcast Network was a performance art group founded by a trio of Rhode Island School of Design students in 1991. Their first multimedia project was a “remix” of the Gulf War, which combined beats and cable news coverage using an early and influential style of video scratching. The standout “track” from this project was […]

“I had written Brimstone and Treacle in difficult personal circumstances,” playwright Dennis Potter said in 1978. “Years of acute psoriatic arthropathy – unpleasantly affecting skin and joints – had not only taken their toll in physical damage but had also, and perhaps inevitably, mediated my view of the world and the people in it. “I […]

Nobody does interesting minimal techno concept pieces like Richie Hawtin – whose work I’ve reviewed before – and 1999′s Minus Orange is certainly no exception. Heavily featured on the Decks, EFX and 909 mix album that Hawtin released the same year, the EP is a “construction and reduction” of “Oh Yeah,” the classic Yello jam […]