If you read this blog, there’s a good chance I don’t have to tell you what a travesty it is that Lady Gaga holds reign as the “avant-garde” pop music queen when women like Karin Dreijer Andersson (one part The Knife and full part Fever Ray) largely go unnoticed on the American charts. To quote [...]

2009 saw the rise of many great things… “tweets,” Tiger Woods’ hard-on, and to my great horror, that god-forsaken Twilight saga. But perhaps no rise was as great as that of the mighty dubstep, with legendary producer Skream attaining gold record status and guys like Rusko and Caspa blowing up over here in the formerly [...]

I love making lists so there was obviously no way I was going to be able to resist doing one of these. A top songs of the year compilation certainly ain’t as easy to organize as originally thought. As Louis put it, making year-end lists requires a memory. Some of these songs may very well [...]

Members Only AV and UR Chicago have teamed up to bring you bi-weekly interviews with some of electronic music’s finest players. This week we talk lasers and bikinis with the voice and face of La Roux, Elly Jackson. La Roux certainly isn’t a name that is new to the internet. It was less than a [...]