Charlie Amter

The Dutch aren't known for much besides cheese, but Tiësto and his fellow countrymen Armin Van Buuren and Ferry Corsten are making a case for Holland as the home of the DJ as rock god. Tiësto's latest release, Just Be, is an ambitious ten-track exploration of trance mixed with traditional...

Chicago hard house DJ Bad Boy Bill knows how to keep the party moving. His wildly successful Bangin the Box series draws heavily on his hip-hop background as he cuts up raucous party tracks. "My DJ style originated with the idea to remix a song live with two copies of...

Soviet founder/ringleader/ singer Keith Ruggiero yearns wistfully for the music from the early Eighties. Never mind the fact that he was all of five years old in 1983 when idols Talk Talk and Yaz were at the peak of their popularity. While all of his peers at Syracuse University, where...

If you feel that your neighbors are in need of a wake-up call via your home stereo, California's Black Rebel Motorcycle Club has the goods you are looking for. Take Them On, On Your Own sounds like the Jesus and Mary Chain playing inside a Harrier Jet engine, and damn...

It's become increasingly easy and respectable to create electronic music. Platinum-selling artists such as Fatboy Slim and the Chemical Brothers have steadily worn down America's innate resistance to sampled dance music, and in many ways, the challenge to create engaging new sonic forms of music now falls to the future...