Simian Mobile Disco (music group)

For Brit-pop fans, Thursday night's Coachella announcement was like a birthday, Christmas, Hannukah and an unexpected inheritance check all arriving at once. Devotees of the dance-leaning Sahara Tent, however, might be taken aback by the light bill of...

Now in its ninth year, the independent-focused FYF Fest is returning to the Los Angeles State Historic Park and for the first time since moving downtown will expand from one to two days. Top-billed artists this year include the reunited Swedish punk...

Sometimes the toughest challenge for a singer like Florence Welch is to learn how to wield the kind of pulmonary power that can make the heavens quake. On Florence + the Machine's 2009 debut, the fittingly named “Lungs,” the flame-haired...

The daylong event shows a thriving punk spirit This post has been updated. See below for details. They were peppered throughout the 20,000-strong crowd at the exuberant FYF Festival in downtown Los Angeles on Saturday: first-generation punk band T-...

Less than 24 hours after the conclusion of 2010's FYF Fest, promoter Sean Carlson issued an apology. The Labor Day weekend event, a celebration of underground and adventurous music, was soured by a lack of water, interminable lines and an......

When the Klaxons first arrived on the scene with their debut, “Myths of the Near Future,” in 2007, they were saddled with the cumbersome micro-genre nu-rave. Part of a larger emergent dance-punk trend whose biggest members now are probably M.I.A.........

When you hear electro and dub step on KISS FM, it's clear L.A. has embraced electronic dance music. From massive raves to weekly club nights, there's more opportunities around the city to hear banging beats than ever before. But even in this now-crowded...

While you might have gotten burnt out on their massive single "It's the Beat" a few years back (KCRW, we're looking at you), Simian Mobile Disco can certainly keep things fresh during their live sets. The indie-electro duo that incinerated dance floors...

Friday night at Avalon, British dance-music duo Simian Mobile Disco arrives to celebrate the launch of their new record label, Delicatessen, with a DJ set that should carry through to the wee small hours. The team, comprised of James Ford......

Just in time for the June gloom to lift and the weather to turn hot, the country's biggest dance party returns to steam up the night life scene. The 13th annual Electric Daisy Carnival is back at the L.A. Coliseum, this time with an expanded lineup...

Peaches is shaping up to be the Woody Allen of naughty electroclash. In the midst of her prodigious output, there are some explicit diamonds and some half-baked duds. Both are obsessed with sex and gender relations -- except Merrill Nisker, 40, will never...