CONTROL VOLTAGE

February 13, 2013 – On the new Netflix original series House of Cards, whenever the hotshot blogger character Zoe mentions a fictional Politico-like website called Slugline, the first thing that always pops into my mind is a conga line dancing to the music of London's Night Slugs label.

February 11, 2013 – I never thought I'd say this, but, as far as electronic dance music is concerned, last night's Grammys were actually the best possible scenario. (Okay, that's a lie.

February 8, 2013 – Autechre's latest album, Exai, unexpectedly appeared for sale on Bleep and iTunes today, nearly a month before its previously announced release date; call it the m b v effect, maximizing listeners' attention by catching them off guard. I'm exaggerating — I doubt that Booth and Brown actually decided to unleash their new LP early because of anything that Kevin Shields did.

February 6, 2013 – "Stupid is spreading."That was Pasquale Rotella's response to a recent Los Angeles Times article detailing 12 drug-related deaths of attendees, many of them previously unreported, at electronic-dance-music festivals and concerts produced by his company Insomniac Events between 2006 and 2012.

February 1, 2013 – So, apparently, a bunch of EDM industry bigwigs have founded something they're calling the Association for Electronic Music (AFEM), which they announced at MIDEM this week.We can all breathe a sigh of relief because, seriously, I'm not sure how much longer electronic music might have survived without a coordinated effort between Live Nation, William Morris Endeavor, Creative Artists Agency, Sony, Atlantic, and other such grassroots outf

January 25, 2013 – Putting together this week's roundup got a lot harder once I heard the news about DJ Koze's new album, Amygdala, a 78-minute opus featuring contributions from Caribou, Apparat, and Matthew Dear, and described as the German producer's Sgt. Pepper. Setting it aside until I finished writing this column has been difficult, to say the least, and I'm narrowly resisting the impulse to live-tweet it right here.