Tagged Electronic

courtesy of Steady Focus Productions College kids love EDM -- according to Spotify, EDM is the second most popular genre on college campuses, and UC Berkeley listeners enjoy EDM on average more than any...

Garters and CamelBaks seemed rather inappropriate for the evening, but people still wore them October 24 at The Regency Ballroom. Regardless of whether they were rave-ready or simply unwinding after work, t...

He was in the Bay Area for less than 24 hours, but after stealing 20-something minutes of his time, we've concluded that Danny Harley (otherwise known as The Kite String Tangle) could easily be a native. ...

A looping wave like something out of a dream, it’s almost impossible to appreciate “Infinite Trips,” the first track off of Cosmic Logic, without telling yourself “this is the first track off of Cos...

As a child, I spent Thanksgivings in Dan Snaith’s old backyard. Dundas, Ontario, Canada will always conjure pastoral images of rolling farmland, and apple orchards (McIntosh, Jonagold, and Northern Spy ar...

This generation of millennials has caused what some call the “death of electronic music,” as big room house and its associated ecstasy-fueled culture has come to dominate the listening tendencies of teens ...

Nika Roza Danilova (or Zola Jesus) stands at most five feet tall, but her sound is at least twice that. On Taiga (2014), we discovered boundlessness; at Bimbo’s 365 Club in San Francisco two evenings ago,...

For a group of former students, Cambridge, England’s Clean Bandit went from 0 to 100 real quick. The four-piece (plus-two live) stopped in San Francisco for about twelve hours yesterday in the midst of their...

Perhaps it takes more than a thief to be a good artist. Picasso would reply with contentious conflagration, but then again Picasso wasn't challenged with the brutality of technology. The onset of streami...

Italian producer Populous (real name Andrea Mangia) specializes in world trade: the delicate balance of supply and demand between countries. His latest venture, Night Safari, out 9/29 on Bad Panda Records i...

"Are the beach balls the only thing that make this feel like a festival?" William Benssussen (otherwise known as The Gaslamp Killer) confronted the crowd Saturday night at the third annual Summersalt Festiv...

As I approached The Warfield on Saturday night, fans with blinking necklaces and bracelets engulfing their arms in every neon colour imaginable asserted that I was in the right place. About a year ago, a ...

If free barbecue and the juiciest of beats from the likes of Claude Von Stroke and Justin Martin doesn’t make your mouth water and heart beat a little bit faster, you may want to get that checked out at you...

Funny thing about this album: I first heard it in reverse order. With a sticky-sweet, snail-paced request for “one more day” (“Spirit Communication”) to start and a more affirmative “long tone out...

Slow Magic is "not from around here," but he won't be unknown for long. The elusive, mask-donning producer / "imaginary friend" releases his debut full-length album, How to Run Away, September 9th via Downt...