Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis are one of the greatest songwriting and producing duos in music history. Meeting in the same ’70s Minneapolis music scene that produced Prince, the pair formed the band Flyte ...

Barcelona boy John Talabot had an unusual entry to music. Just as he heard weird techno records before rock’s great building-block bands, it took a broken turntable to make him realise what was ...

Tony Dawsey is the guy that people like DJ Premier and Jay-Z (and many, many others) look to when they need perfect sound for their records. You could spend hours with this super-humble New York ...

Terre Thaemlitz is Comatonse’s ambassador of sound and scale. As an artist, she has been versing the masses on what “diverse” means in a 20-year career of near-continual invention and reinvention, ...

Derrick May is a true living legend. As one-third of the Belleville Three, along with his school friends Juan Atkins and Kevin Saunderson, he helped create what became Detroit techno – a movement that ...

Since 2010, RBMA’s newspaper the Daily Note has celebrated top quality music journalism in print. Produced initially for RBMA editions in London (2010) and New York (2013), the Daily Note newspapers ...

In 2014, Red Bull Music Academy came to Tokyo, Japan. To hold an Academy in this country – the birthplace of so much influential music-making technology, and so many inspiring evocations of what the ...

Indie dance don and acid house shapeshifter Andrew Weatherall has been around more blocks than there are in Brooklyn. As remixer extraordinaire, he made sure Primal Scream’s “Loaded” was the ...

Iggy Pop was punk before punk even existed. Channeling rock & roll and Chicago blues influences with his band the Stooges in the late 1960s and early 1970s, the Michigan native created some of the ...

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 ...

The name Mizell may not set bells ringing in every household, but to those of us who devour the small print on the backs of record sleeves, they’re legends, a family that has made its mark on music as ...

James Murphy almost singlehandedly brought back the cultural exchange between indie and dance music with his band LCD Soundsystem, the attached DFA label, and cult singles like “Losing My Edge” and ...