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Curtis Roads was barely out of high school in 1970, playing music in the metro area surrounding the University of Illinois, a pioneering center of computer music. He wasn’t a student, but through a ...

An unassuming warehouse off Route 63 in Harleysville contains one of the world’s largest collections of vintage electronic music gear, crammed with amps, synthesizers, guitar pedals, mixing boards, ...

Whether you prefer buying beats on Bandcamp or raving in the woods—or you’re equally down with both—this was a great year for electronic music. House music continued to evolve, the UK workhorse genre ...

In the recently released documentary Sisters with Transistors, beloved avant-garde artist Laurie Anderson poses a provocative question: “How do you exorcise the canon of classical music of misogyny?” ...