Email Author Lily Moayeri
2004 Stories by Lily Moayeri
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Dirty Vegas
published December 2, 2004
Never has a commercial catapulted a band's career the way that Mitsubishi ad did for Dirty Vegas. Accompanied by the body-poppings of an... More >>
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UNKLE
published October 28, 2004
UNKLE is Mo' Wax tastemaker James Lavelle's all-star project. He and songwriter Richard File gather a noteworthy group of musicians for Never,... More >>
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Hope of the States
published October 7, 2004
Hope of the States's new album, The Lost Riots, is part of a larger trend in rock towards social consciousness. With a name derived from an... More >>
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Fatboy Slim
published October 7, 2004
The "clown" prince of the big beat, Fatboy Slim uses a gentler approach on his fourth, self-deprecatingly titled album, Palookaville.... More >>
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Roy Davis, Jr.
published September 16, 2004
On Chicago Forever, legendary producer Roy Davis, Jr. infuses various styles into a classic bumping house backdrop. Intensely soulful and... More >>
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Martina Topley-Bird
published August 12, 2004
Martina Topley-Bird is the female vocalist who was the focal point of Tricky's groundbreaking first three albums. Back then, the two switched... More >>
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Phoenix
published July 29, 2004
The French group Phoenix's second full-length, Alphabetical, is the followup to its 2000 debut, United. That album cemented its... More >>
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Dieselboy
published May 27, 2004
Roni Size and Goldie may have the celebrity market cornered, but it is Dieselboy who has the hardcore following. On his eighth mixed CD, The... More >>
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The Streets
published May 20, 2004
No British rapper has a bigger hurdle to overcome than the Streets' Mike Skinner. His second full-length, A Grand Don't Come for Free,... More >>
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The Divine Comedy
published May 13, 2004
Britain's Neil Hannon, a.k.a. Divine Comedy, who is known for his wry sense of humor and singular worldview on the most mundane of subjects, hit... More >>
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Lanterna
published April 29, 2004
Lanterna is guitarist Henry Frayne's (the Moon Seven Times, Area) solo project, with Highways being his fourth album under this guise.... More >>
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Ambulance Ltd
published April 22, 2004
Brooklyn quintet Ambulance Ltd's eponymous album demonstrates the group's resistance to being limited by the garage-rock sound that city has... More >>
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Overproof Soundsystem
published April 15, 2004
In the heart of the United Kingdom's industrial city of Birmingham, there exists an authentic and thriving dub reggae scene. At the core of this... More >>
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DJ Garth
published April 1, 2004
While New York, Chicago, and Detroit's DJ/producers were reveling in the spotlight during the early Nineties, San Francisco quietly built a scene... More >>
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Alpha
published March 25, 2004
Stargazing, the third album from Corin Dingley and Andy Jenks, a Bristol, England-based duo who initially debuted on Massive Attack's... More >>
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Cooper Temple Clause
published March 18, 2004
The Cooper Temple Clause, a six-piece touted as yet another "next big thing" from the U.K., may actually live up to the hype. Their second... More >>
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Raise the Flag
published March 4, 2004
As possibly the only genre in modern dance music that Britain can truly call its own, drum and bass is a U.K. phenomenon that has been slow to... More >>
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Star Chamber
published March 4, 2004
The cult of superstar DJ, after turning a handful of artists into the closest thing to a rock star the dance world has, seemingly has disappeared... More >>
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Vikter Duplaix
published March 4, 2004
Prior to the release of his artist album, International Affairs, and alongside his extensive production work for the likes of Erykah Badu... More >>
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Just Jack
published March 4, 2004
The biggest disservice you could do Just Jack would be to approach his debut album, The Outer Marker, thinking of him as a follower of the... More >>
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Air
published January 29, 2004
Since emerging in 1996 as Air, the prolific duo of Jean-Benoit "JB" Dunckel and Nicolas Godin has tended to veer in a slightly different direction... More >>
