Techno (genre)

If this summer's party season was any indication, Labor Day weekend is going to be a scorcher. The annual end of the pool party season will see the return of the Wet party to the Roosevelt Hotel pool (which is free, to boot), the annual White Party at the...

In the troubled aftermath of last week's mega electronic music festival at the L.A. Memorial Coliseum, artists and local promoters are confronting a dauntingly familiar question: what to do about the "R" word and the "E" word. "R" stands for "rave," as...

Danny Preston of Rainbow Arabia has the rare day job that might actually inspire his songwriting. By night, he mans the production duties for the global-noise electronica duo with his wife, Tiffany. But on weekdays, he charters private planes for the...

This Memorial Day weekend, visitors to South Dakota state parks will have the chance to take part in special free family activities: · Kids' Fishing Derby from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday at Lake Poinsett Recreation Area near Arlington. Details:...

This summer was supposed to be the Summer of Rave in L.A. But the death of a young dance music fan after attending the Electric Daisy Carnival in June threw a bevy of high-profile events into a tailspin, leading to......

There are many potential hazards any time A Club Called Rhonda takes over Silver Lake's El Cid dinner club, and most of them are of the typical sex-drugs-and-disco variety. But co-founder, host and visual designer Gregory Alexander never anticipated...

German techo trio Brandt Brauer Frick performs at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, California on Friday, April 15....

For two decades, John Tejada quietly ascended the experimental fringes of techno, building tracks with a care for sonic detail that could either be picked apart conceptually or totally surrendered to on a packed floor. Deeply respected in the brainier.......

Times staff writer Chris Lee, who landed a rare interview with Daft Punk, writes about the French electronic music duo who scored "Tron: Legacy." Today, Pop & Hiss presents Part 1 of Lee's story, which delves into how the duo......

In the 70s, the Poconos was supposedly the ultimate destination for romance. Heart-shaped beds, champagne glass-shaped tubs, mirrors on the ceiling, this place had it all. And don't forget the indoor ice skating rinks, water skiing and something that...

Even if the name Pure Filth doesn't ring a bell, chances are that your bell's been rung by their obliterating sound systems over the last several years. Indeed, the booming sonic centrifuges provided by Sam Robson (a.k.a. Sam XL) have......

"A Visit from the Goon Squad" By Jennifer Egan Alfred A. Knopf, 277 pages, $24.95 Consider the vinyl record. Round and round it goes. Or went. Like a lot of the vintage culture encoded in Jennifer Egan's punk-rock familial saga 'A Visit from the Goon...