On Halloween 2007, Tallahassee PD received a noise complaint for a house nestled in the woods. When the police arrived, they discovered what Sebastian Solano calls “probably the biggest Halloween party Tallahassee has ever seen.” Solano puts the attendance around 5,000. “There were crowds of people walking in the street,”…

After an aspiring DJ named Danny Krivit met James Brown, the young Krivit’s vinyl hobby evolved into a full-blown profession. Raised in 1960s Greenwich Village by a jazz singer mother and a father whose music experience stretched from managing Chet Baker to owning the Ninth Circle disco club, Krivit was…

The British have some funky ways. They call cookies “biscuits” and eat meat pies. They still sing “God Save the Queen” in 2015, when most people find themselves losing faith in both God and the queen. When a Brit gets “pissed,” he gets drunk, not angry, and he might ask…

Gavin Lynch – the electronic musician otherwise known as Matador – started young and started standard. After frequenting a number of local teen discos in his native Dundalk, Ireland, Lynch turned to his own turntables, began constructing a record collection, and commuting long distances (like over an hour to Dublin)…

Oh, Cleveland. You may sometimes be derided as a desolate wasteland of snow and pale people, but you’ve given us some great things. You gave us LeBron (though you did eventually take him back). And you also helped grow Nine Inch Nails. But maybe best of all you birthed Bone…

“Ultra Music Festival” is a name you either love to hear or hate. Our music editor spent the better half of a weekend coming to terms with the event that all but overruns Miami every March. Others eagerly blow $300 on tickets plus a few bucks here and there for…

Straight from his dorm room to the depths of the internet, Saint Pepsi quickly became one of the biggest names of the internet-inspired, politically charged genre vaporwave. As his peers sampled Muzak and smooth jazz, Pepsi — real name Ryan DeRobertis — appropriated house hooks and disco melodies, which left…

One day you come home and your dog is barking and snarling at you like you’re some kind of threat. You say, “Chill, Dog. It’s me. You licked pizza grease off my fingers last week.” But she won’t listen. She keeps barking and running around the couch, chest out, teeth…

The attentive listener can sense Luca Bacchetti’s zeal, love for life, and utter worldliness through his songs. They’re always epic in length and progression. Rarely shorter than seven minutes and regularly longer than ten, each track takes listeners on a calculated but often unpredictable musical journey that tends to manifest…

“Todo para la familia,” says Steve, quoting The Brothers García. “That’s it exactly!” says Chris, who has just compared his brother and himself to the siblings from the early-’00s Nickelodeon show. “That even ties in with the other Nick shows.” New Times’ interview with the Martinez Brothers has been dominated…

Sometimes we look to our parents’ lives to find guides for our own future. Some of these guides trace our path directly; others are more circuitous. Mexican-American singer Lila Downs followed her parents’ paths in that second sense, from traditional Mexican singing to academia and back again. Downs is the…

Most people’s first listen to Alt-J was like their first taste of alcohol: unpleasant, then interesting, and eventually intoxicating. The band’s lyrics and unusual sound resemble a William Blake print with its stark arches and angles and its often-grim depictions of rapture. Though Blake’s genius can be credited to madness,…

In the world of electronica, Bonobo is a mellow monkey among men. We mean that in the best sense. As other artists float around in airy imbalance, Simon Green samples sounds – both industrial and organic – with layered structures as secure as they are ethereal. The 39-year-old English musician,…

Nicole Moudaber has a complicated relationship with the media. On one hand, they’re responsible for her big break. On the other hand, they got her arrested. Since entering the music scene in the Middle East in the ’90s, Moudaber has been on an upward trajectory — a product of passion…

Bosco’s introduction to music began pretty conventionally. Raised in Savannah, Georgia, the Fool’s Gold prodigy started off singing and acting in church choirs and plays. From there she joined middle- and high-school choruses, eventually competed in local talent shows, and then attended the Savannah College of Art and Design while…

For all intents and purposes, the Orb created ambient house. The group’s atmospheric tracks were a welcome addition to the relentless intensity of the ’80s electronic scene. Though manifested in its own right, the movement met a market demand for “come-down” music among ravers who had sweated out the various…