Electronic Music

Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye profiles Throbbing romance

Documenting Throbbing Gristle founder's second marriage

Skream & Benga

Documenting Throbbing Gristle founder's second marriage

Bassgasm 6 ready to rattle First Avenue

Woody McBride's thunderous series returns

Gene Farris returning to play House Proud V.6 (INTERVIEW)

​House Proud is special in that it's a monthly club night that doesn't feel like one, but rather a packed party filled with a family-and-friends vibe.  Factor in DJ/producer Gene Farris as headliner on April 6 for the sixth installment, and you're definitely going to leave Honey sweaty at 2 a ... More >>

DJ Bryan Gerrard talks 'House Proud,' the vibe, and what's missing

​Bryan Gerrard has been a fixture on the dance music scene since the '90s in Minneapolis, starting out as one fourth of the Minneapolis Soul Music collective that gave the former VIP Room its reputation for raucous dance parties. Today, Bryan is best known for his Celebrity Records imprint and, mo ... More >>

Vaski on the dubstep divide

​The Twin Cities electronic music scene is having a bit of an age crisis, and Minneapolis' own dubstep boy-wonder Vaski is right smack in the middle of it. A bassy lo-end sound made up of skittery, planetary beats, dubstep has produced an entire second generation (or third, depending on your pers ... More >>

Com Truise

​The Twin Cities electronic music scene is having a bit of an age crisis, and Minneapolis' own dubstep boy-wonder Vaski is right smack in the middle of it. A bassy lo-end sound made up of skittery, planetary beats, dubstep has produced an entire second generation (or third, depending on your pers ... More >>

Gigamesh is Minneapolis's undercover dance-music hero

Disco wiz produces Mike Posner, remixes Radiohead, and drops his first EP

DJ Shortee: 'World's Premier female DJ' talks Bassgasm, promoters, dubstep (WIN TIXX!)

DJ Shortee keeping things raw​The other day we were hipped to a pretty shameless new campaign MTV and Dove created where they're exploiti--er, promoting 'fresh' new female DJ talent around the country. One look at the hilarious "Look! I'm a lady DJ!" poses by the inductees on the site and it's pai ... More >>

Front Line Assembly

DJ Shortee keeping things raw​The other day we were hipped to a pretty shameless new campaign MTV and Dove created where they're exploiti--er, promoting 'fresh' new female DJ talent around the country. One look at the hilarious "Look! I'm a lady DJ!" poses by the inductees on the site and it's pai ... More >>

James Blake

DJ Shortee keeping things raw​The other day we were hipped to a pretty shameless new campaign MTV and Dove created where they're exploiti--er, promoting 'fresh' new female DJ talent around the country. One look at the hilarious "Look! I'm a lady DJ!" poses by the inductees on the site and it's pai ... More >>

Bassgasm 3 set times announced

Headlining DJ Reid Speed from LA​ The third installment of ESP Woody McBride's rave-in-a-club circus is upon us, set to rattle downtown Minneapolis for 9 hours straight this Friday with 60 DJs of both local and national acclaim and stretching First Avenue to five stages instead of three. Sponsore ... More >>

Pendulum's Rob Swire talks DNB, dubstep, and disliking 'In Silico'

Rob Swire of Pendulum​It's kind of hard to tell what year should be written on drum and bass's headstone since its influences are still so obvious in electronic and fringe genres. Standing on its own, DNB pulled the most muscle in the late '90s, back when duo Pendulum were just beginning their jou ... More >>

Bassgasm 3 lineup announced

The time has come yet again​ Sound the airhorns. Another installment of Bassgasm is flying at us like a fervently flung supersized glowstick set to explode on February 18, completing a trifecta of DJ ESP Woody McBride's old-school club events at First Avenue. Once again a host of electronic music ... More >>

Dieselboy talks drum and bass, fashion, and food

​Drum and bass was arguably rave music's most aggressive genre back in the mid-'90s, one so championed in the UK that it pretty much became a soundtrack to its streets; you could almost imagine it slicing through every misty London alley at all hours. Back home, when promoters wanted a drum and b ... More >>

Mathstatic, Time Squid & more: Twin Cities' live visual jockeys talk shop

​Maybe you've seen them, wild-eyed and laser-focused behind a rig with a million glowing things. Somewhere in the room the image of a log floating through space gets metamorphed into a burst of geometric shapes in time with the music and you think "holy shit." We wanted to get into the heads of th ... More >>

Lords of Acid

​Maybe you've seen them, wild-eyed and laser-focused behind a rig with a million glowing things. Somewhere in the room the image of a log floating through space gets metamorphed into a burst of geometric shapes in time with the music and you think "holy shit." We wanted to get into the heads of th ... More >>

Bassnectar blows up the Varsity

​There's no doubt heads are still throbbing from last night's show at the Varsity Theater, when Bassnectar and DJ Vadim took over the place and bombed it with their bass-heavy sets of dubstep, DNB and grimy hip-hop.  Upon entrance to the sold-out venue lined with smiling fans down the block i ... More >>

Eye of the Great Protector

​There's no doubt heads are still throbbing from last night's show at the Varsity Theater, when Bassnectar and DJ Vadim took over the place and bombed it with their bass-heavy sets of dubstep, DNB and grimy hip-hop.  Upon entrance to the sold-out venue lined with smiling fans down the block i ... More >>

Daft Punk to appear in Tron Legacy

Video games? Jeff Bridges? Daft Punk scoring and appearing? Be still, our beating hearts.

Daft Punk to tour behind Tron soundtrack?

Oh, let it be true!

Chicago's Justin Long DJs Familywerks party tonight

The former rave promoters bring back a DJ from their most epic party in '99.

Julius The Mad Thinker brings Chicago house to 'Black'

Chicago scholar of deep house offers a soulful night on the dance floor this Saturday night.

Q&A: Detroit techno star Eric Cloutier

Estate + Nobot = Double Fantasy

Local electro bands Estate and Nobot join forces to present an evening of multimedia mayhem

Too Much Love

Local electro bands Estate and Nobot join forces to present an evening of multimedia mayhem

Bad Boy Bill

Local electro bands Estate and Nobot join forces to present an evening of multimedia mayhem

What's $elling

Top Ten Movers This Week at Vital

What'$ $elling

Top Ten Movers This Week at Vital

Justice: †

Top Ten Movers This Week at Vital

Two By Two

Spiritual musicians lead their followers to the boat

Various Artists: Can You Jack? Chicago Acid and Experimental House 1985-1995

Spiritual musicians lead their followers to the boat

Acid House Flashbacks

Spiritual musicians lead their followers to the boat

Caro: The Return of Caro

Spiritual musicians lead their followers to the boat

Everything merges with the night

Brian Eno's ambient reissues turn on, tune in, fade out

Something In The Basement

Andrew Broder's subterranean squall reaches up to shake street-level fans

Basement Jaxx: Kish Kash

Andrew Broder's subterranean squall reaches up to shake street-level fans

Electroclash of the Titans

Über-girl group W.I.T. sexes up New York's nu-wave boys club

Akufen: My Way

Über-girl group W.I.T. sexes up New York's nu-wave boys club

Various Artists: 10 Years of Strictly Rhythm

Über-girl group W.I.T. sexes up New York's nu-wave boys club

A New Lease on House

British sensations Basement Jaxx bring the mojo back to disco

Wink Wink, Nudge Nudge

British sensations Basement Jaxx bring the mojo back to disco

OK Computer

A musical boy and his laptop give new meaning to the term Mac Daddy

DeeJay Punk-Roc: ChickenEye

A musical boy and his laptop give new meaning to the term Mac Daddy

Lighter than Life

Lunar Landing: Jean-Benoît Dunckel and Nicolas Godin of Air take their ambient sound on a Moon Safari.

Aphex Twin: Come To Daddy

Lunar Landing: Jean-Benoît Dunckel and Nicolas Godin of Air take their ambient sound on a Moon Safari.

Headz 2a by various artists

Lunar Landing: Jean-Benoît Dunckel and Nicolas Godin of Air take their ambient sound on a Moon Safari.

Woody McBride

Lunar Landing: Jean-Benoît Dunckel and Nicolas Godin of Air take their ambient sound on a Moon Safari.

Notes on '96

Lunar Landing: Jean-Benoît Dunckel and Nicolas Godin of Air take their ambient sound on a Moon Safari.

The Year in Music 1995

Lunar Landing: Jean-Benoît Dunckel and Nicolas Godin of Air take their ambient sound on a Moon Safari.