Benjamin Ricci

It’s the seventh year since the rebirth of Perry Farrell’s brainchild Lollapalooza as a three-day festival in the heart of downtown Chicago (it was formerly a festival that traveled from city to...

After EOTO's set on Saturday night, a friend and I were discussing the headliners. He talked about the difficulty he had getting into Big Gigantic. For him, the duo was too...

Timbre Coup takes their time getting to the point, but there's no real rush. They're more about the journey. Timbre Coup's path winds from cool and laid back to funky, stomping...

Technicolor Lenses was an unexpected breath of fresh air at The Big Up. Their emcee straddles manifestations of Atmosphere and Mr. Lif and their dubbed out, electro-pop beats...

Where: Atlanta, GA When: August 1, 2011 (photos by James Hester except where noted) Atlanta's Warped Tour 2011 might have had a rocky start for...

Oh dance-rock, with your dub bass lines, weird synth grooves, and fat beats. We can't seem to get enough of you this summer. As part of the electronic wave sweeping over jam...

Jimkata is a solid electro-rock act. Persistent, steady dance grooves line drum machines, synths, and electric guitar. The band's powerful drumming and guitar work ride the...

The crowd was a little meager at the start of their set, but The Big Sway sounded at home on the Woods Stage at 2011's TBU. Their resonance is mighty - heavy drumming, stomping bass lines,...

I'll be honest with you, although Papadosio is perhaps the most talked about band this year, it took a while for me to let go of some of my preconceived notions on electronic...

Dirty Paris deserves props. They're a young band, especially in the sense that they're fresh to the scene and have come a long way in a relatively short time. They've been on a...