Electronic News

Los Angeles police have obtained the decades-old taped conversations between a Manson family disciple and his attorney, officials confirmed Thursday.

It may have taken nearly eight years, but late last month, seminal Warp outfit Boards of Canada finally announced its follow-up to The Campfire Headphase , the forthcoming Tomorrow's Harvest LP.

"All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy." This infamous quote from the 1980 film "The Shining" used to seem like a great metaphor to describe the John Deere Gator UTV lineup.

Fresh off of working on the killer new Daft Punk album , disco legend/Chic founder Nile Rodgers revealed at the International Music Summit that they aren't the only modern electronic musicians that he's working with.

I was never a Daft Punk fan until Random Access Memories , and it had to do with a shallow perception of the band as gimmick musicians: robot masks, huge waiting periods between albums , a unified aesthetic that didn't ring genuine, but as carefully branded as a corporate logo.

Guillermo Herren Launches Yellow Year Record Label After almost 10 years in the industry, producer Guillermo Herren makes plans to launch his own record label along with photographer Angel Ceballos.

Broadly speaking, if you're an electronic music fan over 40, you probably dig Danny Tenaglia more than Skrillex.

If a first-year music festival draws 8,000 people to an NFL stadium in the sweltering heat of late May in Tampa, how on earth does it grow? At that point, is there really any room to get bigger? The organizers of Saturday's Sunset Music Festival believe so.

"We spent 15% of home energy on gadgets in 2009, and we're buying more gadgets all the time," says Peter Fischer of the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory .

Roughly $1,800 dollars of hard-earned money has been drained from the Loma Park Elementary School PTA fund and the PTA's former president, Fabian Ybarra, has been accused in the theft.

Everything is dark except for the truck-sized monolith. Two female figures emerge from the shadows, their bodies athletically twisting and spinning and stomping to the electronic beat, which sounds like someone drumming on crystal stalagmites.

First! Cue the streamers, it's Vampire Weekend! The prep-pop champs scored their biggest sale day to date with their new SPIN Essential Modern Vampires of the City , moving 134,000 units according to Nielsen SoundScan and, duh, scoring the No.

Out this week is a new full-length from The Black Dog. The Sheffield, England-based trio - Ken Downie, Martin Dust, Richard Dust - have been making smart, non-boring electronic music for ages.

The Tim Coppens Swarovski Helmet isn't one's average Ducati Formula 1 Racing Helmet.

Fueled by a legitimate mainstream hit single in "Get Lucky," Daft Punk's "Random Access Memories" is pacing for a dominant opening sales week.

An entry-level course for OTs, COTAs, PTs, PTAs, and SLPs offers an overview of the low- and high-tech aids designed to enable functional independence in children and adults living with disabilities.

TOR, LLC, designer and manufacturer of portable power generators, recently announced the release of their second-generation Pocket Socket hand crank generator, the Pocket Socket 2. This affordable human powered generator features a standard outlet interface, which provides backup energy and emergency power to a wide range of electronic devices.

Frauhofer FEP will present a novel roll-to-roll manufacturing process for high-barriers and functional films for flexible displays at the SID DisplayWeek 2013 in Vancouver - the International showcase for the Display Industry.

About 19 million words have been written about post-astral-jazz-hop producer Flying Lotus , including some by The Stranger 's Charles Mudede, in this issue's Stranger Suggests.

In spite of it's high gas prices, layered ribbons of brews and festivals, and lack of diversity, Traverse City feels Southern.