Michaelangelo Matos
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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. -
Two books about two crucial years in the story of rock and roll, taken together, reveal how the genre shrank to become the playground of white men with guitars. -
Van Morrison's It's Too Late To Stop Nowwas released at the height of his powers. A newly expanded version of the album helps make the case that it's among the rock era's best live albums. -
Apple's agreement with Dubset could ease legal posting of DJ sets that contain copyrighted material. SoundCloud is unveiling a paid service. It's hard to say for sure who is going to benefit. -
The three founders of the Brooklyn-based all-female DJ collective Discwoman are chipping away at club culture's bro problem. -
As a producer of original songs, DJ Koze owns minimal techno's wildest imagination, but his remixes and curveball-laden DJ mixes, like the recent DJ-Kicks mix, reveal just as much about his style. -
A flood of music — official and semi-secret, after years of silence — puts the career of the electronic musician Richard D. James, best known as Aphex Twin, into new and revealing perspective. -
The AM radio station that gave the late 1970s series WKRP in Cincinnatiits name was better than most real radio stations of its era. A new reissue includes most of the songs broadcast on the show. -
Prince has re-signed with Warner Bros. Records 18 years after an acrimonious split, and will release an expanded edition of Purple Rain in time for its 30th anniversary. -
The super-sized leading light of the new dance mainstream thrives at throwing the kind of one-off party that even a well-dressed, friendly audience in a regular-sized club can enjoy.
