Helen Marnie, one-fourth of the universally respected electro-pop group Ladytron, makes a good point when she discusses the perks of a slow-building fan base. “I think some bands are hyped far too much initially, and therefore they feel the pressure to have the same success with their next album.” While Ladytron has certainly seen their share of hype in the past few years, the hype did build slowly...

Today marks the premier of our new series Faces In The Crowd, a show in which we give unsuspecting audience members the chance to interview their favorite band. In this case, we brought 3 would-be music journalists backstage to pick the brains of Xavier & Gaspard of Justice, and they even got Gaspard to speak!

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After the overwhelming response to the Nude Remix Project, Radiohead is giving fans the opportunity to remix “Reckoner”, another track from the band’s latest album “In Rainbows” at http://www.radioheadremix.com To make remixing easy, the separate ’stems’* from the song will be available to purchase on iTunes. The ’stems’ available are bass, lead...

Grab your ultra colored nikes, an oversize neon tee, some extremely tight pants, and glasses with the lenses popped out for you my dear hipster have a new god! His name is Dan Deacon, absurdist composer and electronic musician, Deacon is based out of Baltimore, Maryland. His crazy enthusiastic performances consist of song structured material performed with Casio keyboard, computer, vocoder and whosits...

I know all the Libre boys enjoy this one...the video is pretty cool too!