Tony Ware

For its 13th-annual edition, the Ultra Music Festival has expanded to three full days of electronic excess with a 200-plus-act lineup that's just as stacked as ever, featuring dance music legends like Underworld, Carl Cox, and Moby as well as crossover stars like Crystal Castles, Jinder, !!!, Cut Copy, Röyksopp,...

Songwriter Dan Snaith, who records as Caribou, released his first record in 2000 under the name of Manitoba (he changed it in 2004 after a lawsuit from "Handsome" Dick Manitoba of New York protopunks the Dictators). Snaith, a Canada native, found an immediate transatlantic audience for his digital psych-pop polyrhythms,...

The music of the Juan MacLean, AKA the sometimes brooding, sometimes blissed-out alter ego of onetime tone-mangling spazz rocker John Mac­Lean, has always been a venue for both euphoria and paranoia in a synth-pop sizzle, exploring relationships submerged in disenchantment and analog modulation. "I think [my music] is analogous to...

In a world where divas are bionically enhanced, the bloom of marquees and floodlights can be seen from space, and the energy crisis has been averted by harnessing the kinetic motion of dance floors, power house is the genre of choice. And those who choose choose power house DJ Boris,...

For most people, a little summer lovin' lasts two to three months, tops. Wales-born, East London-based DJ/producer Jamie Jones, however, began feeling the seasonal love last year in March, at the Winter Music Conference. It was then that his track "Summertime" (featuring Ost and Kjex) was quickly declared the deep tune of...