Mastodon's new album Emperor of Sand was inspired by friends and family of the band who received cancer diagnoses, but we caught them in a predictably more lighthearted…

Brooklyn-via-San Francisco trio Lemonade possess a sound that's truly unclassifiable. Comprised of vocalist Callan Clendenin, drummer Alex Pasternak, and bassist Ben Steidel, the synth-pop group…

The rise of the U.K. duo Royal Blood has been so fast and furious it's practically unclassifiable. Formed in 2013, they played their first show…

While she got her big break singing on Skrillex's "All I Ask of You," Los Angeles-based Pennybirdrabbit isn't your typical EDM vocalist (except perhaps for her…

You'd think that having your sophomore album produced by the Black Keys' Dan Auerbach would mean you could quit the hustle of your day job,…

Could there possibly be such a thing as post-EDM? It appears so: The moneymaking genre's erstwhile rookie-of-the-year, Porter Robinson — the one-time Skrillex protégé, a…

Over the course of their serpentine, three-decade career, proud Oklahomans the Flaming Lips have been an upstart punk rock act, one-hit-wonders (with their lone radio…

Electronic music festivals come and go (in light of the recent spate of drug-related fatalities, they may soon be doing more of the latter), which…

The reason you gotta love Deadmau5 is that he makes it so easy to hate him. To thumb through the yearbook of 2014 EDM stars…

You can see it driving south on Interstate 17, a cluster of buildings sticking up like a mirage out of the crags and canyons of…

Broken Twin is the nom de plume of Danish singer-songwriter Majke Voss Romme, whose stunning debut album, May, was released April 29 on Anti. Dark…

There's sad music and then there's sad music; music that's just plain devastating. Death Cab for Cutie made sad music, whereas Elliott Smith's was devastating.

As most folks know, SXSW is more about brands than bands; it has been for over a decade. To wit: For 10-plus years now, there's…

Look, I hate to do it, I don't want to do it, but I have to do it. Reader, it's my job: I have to…

Sushi (すし, 寿司, 鮨, 鮓, 寿斗, 寿し, 壽司?) is a…