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Japanese all-female group and Boredoms offshoot OOIOO's fifth album, 2006's Taiga, holds a more than respectable score of 78 on Metacritic, but it split Pitchfork listeners. The percussion heavy, o... Lees meer

Popular opinion of Chromeo is understandably divided. You'll hear every kind of appraisal of their synth-soaked music: "too hipster,""too coked-out,""too ironic," even "too fratty." On the contrary... Lees meer

The Orange Twin Conservation Community, the Athens, Ga., artists' colony which serves as the de facto Elephant Six compound, might as well be the Acropolis. Elephant Six effectively closed shop in ... Lees meer

Okay, don't laugh. I just finished David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest, a brilliant thousand-page tome of postmodern, apocalyptic indulgence that, to over-simplify, requires almost as much pretens... Lees meer

In 2008, producer Todd Osborn parlayed his historical bent into big-time currency as Osborne, gaining mass plaudits for a self-titled full-length steeped in 1990s house signifiers. He also issued "... Lees meer

Gui Boratto is as much a product of the democratization of techno as he is a preacher of it. While he started out in the early 1990s as a jingle writer in São Paulo before moving to rock productio... Lees meer