Taking over a building a few steps away from London’s Tower Bridge, with the ground floor converted from a 19th century pub, Red Bull Music Academy 2010 did more than just chase away the winter chill.

Ian Dewhirst is best known as a compiler but he got his start in music DJing in the Northern Soul scene, where obscurity is everything. He stumbled into Northern Soul thanks to a job at a local market ...

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Larry Heard truly put the “deep” into house music. Responsible for dancefloor classics such as Mr. Fingers’ seminal “Can You Feel It” and Robert Owens’ “Bring Down The Walls,” his work sits at the ...

Mira Calix grew up in the siege economy of apartheid-era South Africa. Scarce imports drove her to leave the country, seeking musical immediacy. Once in London, her love for bands like My Bloody ...

Raised to the sounds of the East Coast underground freak-punk scene, Dre Skull perceives urban music culture as a holistic affair and follows the paths of Don Was, Rick Rubin and Heavy D in terms of ...

Emmanuel Jagari Chanda was the leader of WITCH (We Intend To Cause Havoc), which was a prime mover in Zamrock, a hard-edged amalgamation of the Rolling Stones, funk and African rhythms. Today, he is ...

For many young indie music fans making their way through the “alternative” section of their local record store in the mid-’90s, it was the music of Stereolab, and in particular the voice of chanteuse ...

Since the Academy likes to spread the musical landscape as far and wide as we possibly can, it felt right to have one of the most fascinating outfits in Italian musical history sit down with us as ...

If Detroit techno had a Mount Rushmore, Kevin Saunderson’s face would be carved in granite alongside the other members of the “Belleville Three,” Juan Atkins and Derrick May. While Atkins and May are ...

In the very early ’90s Mark Pritchard stepped into the music business, teaming up with Tom Middleton to form Global Communication and record many different styles of music under various project names.

New York native Veronica Vasicka has unearthed countless analog synth wave gems and single-handedly revived a forgotten musical subgenre with Minimal Wave Records, the label she founded in 2005. And, ...