Michaelangelo Matos
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The culture of electronic dance music has long been seen as a safe space for the marginalized, but over the past decade it took a sharp turn towards the mainstream. -
On knock knock, DJ Koze is more accessible than ever, without losing his essential strangeness. Róisín Murphy, Lambchop's Kurt Wagner and José González guest. -
Czukay, who died at his home — also his former band's studio — in Germany, was a classically trained musician whose influence seeped deeply into music history. -
Through the '80s, Minneapolis three-piece Hüsker Dü helped broaden the ambitions and parameters of punk rock. Now, after years of work, its early recordings have been rebuilt from the ground up. -
It's fitting that this house-music collection comes out so soon after Daft Punk cleaned up at the Grammy Awards; it's a bedrock part of that band's roots. -
The compiler of a boxset that resurrects early Chicago house music traces the scene's prehistory to the relationship between a father and son who were ahead of the curve. -
"Inspector Norse" starts with a cosmic whoosh before settling into a hopping little disco groove. -
"Tamidit In Aicha" is raw and scrawny-sounding, but it also pulses with life and good cheer. -
Danny Tenaglia and Justin Berkmann tell stories about Levan, widely fêted as the greatest DJ of all. -
Kid Creole and his band The Coconuts are an unlikely source for one of the year's kindest songs: "Stony and Cory."
