It’s almost impossible to try to define the music of Lumerians, so we’ll just run with their self-appointed description as a Space Rock quintet from Oakland, California. If you want to get a good idea of their influences, just press play on the streamed mix below that highlights an hour worth of their influences — […]

As the always adorable French ingenue Yelle prepares for her new album Safari Disco Club (March 29th; V2/Cooperative Music USA/Downtown Records), she drops a mini-film made up of two of her upcoming songs, the title track “Safari Disco Club” and “Que veux-tu”. Besides her producers Grand Marnier (Jean-Francois Perrier) and Tepr (Tanguy Destable) in the […]

To promote his upcoming American tour, the Dutch electro DJ/producer Bart B More is dropping this aptly titled USA Tour mixtape. Joining the never-ending assault of Dutch DJs invading American shores and record bins, the Utrecht-based artist otherwise known as Bart van der Meer produced one of the bigger tracks of the past summer with “Brap!”, […]

It’s been a minute since drum & bass ruled the electronic landscape with a mighty bass fist, and American DJ/producer Dieselboy was Lord Supreme of the American shores. But the once and future king of Pittsburgh dancefloor mayhem (do he and Girl Talk share Superbowl nacho recipes?) still lights it up, and he’s just delivered […]

While it’s clear we have a soft spot for all things indie, from experimental haze to dream pop to garage doo-wop, some of us here at LIAS have also been suckers for breakbeats since they used to call it hardcore (Google it, kids). Throughout its evolution, the boom bap always delivers to our hearts a […]

A former half of Aeroplane (along with remaining member Vito DeLuca), The Magician — aka Stephen Fasano — has taken the sounds of the 80s and teleported them to the future. But not the 80s of robotic rhythms and beats, more so the 80s of Talk Talk, Culture Club and Human League — a timeframe […]

Madman Mundt and the Elf were guests at last week’s AFI Fest and attended the Los Angeles premier of Black Swan. This is their collaborative review. Black Swan is out in the US on December 1st. The Elf: I’m a sucker for a dance movie. Ballet specifically. Whether it’s Fame, Flashdance, Center Stage (starring a […]

Um… this is a little freaky. A dancing HRP-4c cybernetic robot dances around with a quartet of human backup dancers, looking incredibly lifelike alongside them and giving me the heebie jeebies. The performance is taking place at the Digital Content Expo in Tokyo, and while it’s evident the Japanese are particularly fond of creating artificial […]