Friday Five

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…

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…

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…

After a few weeks of loosely themed columns, this week's Friday Five goes back to the grab-bag approach. Out of the untold hours of promos,…

I still remember the day I first heard Jesus and Mary Chain's Psychocandy, in a record store in Portland, Oregon. It was 1985, I was 14…

Now that Skrillex has gone and given us his best Burial impersonation, all bets are off for electronic music in 2013. For the record, I…

Woe be to the artist who releases an album in late November or, worse, December. With critics and retailers hell-bent on year-end recaps those end-of-year…

It's been a sad week in electronic music. On Monday, London's Martin Dawson died, 10 days after suffering an aneurysm in his studio. And yesterday,…

There was no shortage of highlights at last month's Unsound festival in Krakow; across eight days and nights of performances from nearly 100 artists, though,…

Scott Wilson has a new column on Juno Plus devoted to "outsider dance," in which he suggests that the margins of dance music are moving…

I rarely have explicit themes in mind for the Friday Five when I begin putting together each column, but they still have a way of…

My partner is out of town, it's grey and rainy here in Berlin, and I spent two hours trekking to and from an interview on…

There's nothing like four days of crappy hotel internet to drive home the fact that the music industry churns out way too much product these…

After a short break, the Control Voltage Friday Five is back! Appropriately, today's selection is all about letting off pent-up energy, from Blawan's sly sadism…

Recent mainstream coverage and exploitation of so-called "EDM" — like Forbes' list of the top-earning DJs; an accompanying featurette where the writer allegedly proves the…