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This year's newscasts were like a horror marathon: mass killings, face-eating, the presidential election. But 2012's bizarre run is nearly over. During this last full week of the year, you may want to spend time at home wearing unnecessary holiday...

Is Alex Clare a singer or a song? In October this bearded Brit reached No. 7 on the Hot 100 with “Too Close,” a dubstep-inflected power ballad originally released on YouTube in early 2011. Co-produced by the cool-hunting hitmaker Diplo,...

Check out festivals and events in September across the state. Check out statewide events this coming weekend, or view the whole month's offerings by region below: Coming up this week Through Nov. 2 (Select Nights): Mickey's Not-So-Scary Halloween Party,...

In about a week-and-a-half I'll post yesterday's very fun interview with"Celeste and Jesse Forever"star/co-writer Rashida Jones. For now, here's a snippet from the conversation that has nothing to do with the movie (opening Aug. 10) or anything else&...

**1/2 (out of four) Contrary to what the name implies, rap outfit Travis Porter contains three dudes (and zero people named Travis Porter). This is important because Travis Porter's thing is personifying a constant, roving party, and strength in numbers...

Josh Steele, better known as the U.K.dubstep songwriter and producer Flux Pavilion who has been championed by Kanye West andJay-Z, started out as an aspiring rock star. Guitars and drums were his preferred mode of expression in a handful of U.K. bands....

Chicago kicked off music fest season over the weekend with the Spring Awakening Music Festival at Soldier Field and headliners like Skrillex, Benny Benassi, Afrojack and more. Here are a few things we noticed at the self-proclaimed first all-dance music...

On his seventh album, 'Looking 4 Myself,' Usher delivers a batch of high-flying genre-bending experiments, if not quite the revolutionary pop he's going for. The Times' Randall Roberts reviews....

Afrojack and Richie Hawtin offer distinct, and sometimes competing, visions of electronic dance music's storied past and promising future....

If you closed your eyes during the sold-out Santigold concert at Club Nokia Friday night -- especially at any point in the first half -- it’d have been easy to feel like you were at one of the Hollywood Bowl’s annual flashback concerts...

The last few years have been a bull market for young women exploring the outer orbits of synth-driven dance music. Tonight in L.A., two of the best make a case that this trend has no signs of slowing....

The Spring Awakening Music Festival scheduled for June 16-17 is expanding inside Soldier Field to meet ticket demand, promoters will announce Tuesday. The two-day event, which includes headliners Skrillex and Afrojack and dozens more DJs and electronic-...