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Bumps, the latest addition to the Stones Throw breaks and instrumentals catalog, is a collection of raw breaks, beats, and drums — nothing different from a label that specializes in rough-hewn grooves designed largely to stoke producers' imaginations. To read more go to http://earplug.cc/111525.

At a certain point last year, it became almost impossible to visit an MP3 blog without coming across the cut-and-paste electro punk of London trio Klaxons, or the many dance-ready remixes of their effusive spazz-out singles. Music mavens loved them, it seemed. But the industry is a fickle beast, and many buzz bands — blog bands, nowadays — never grow larger than blips on the mainstream musical radar. Even with the right producer (James Ford of Simian Mobile Disco), the right remixes (Crystal Castles, Van She), and the right labels (Modular, Polydor), a new band has to work hard. Klaxons, however, had to work extra hard: they were dubbed the originators of a new genre, and a dubious one at that, before even releasing their first long player. The question was: would they drown in the media hype, or could they create more? To read more go to http://earplug.cc/111549.

Check out this preview of this upcoming electronic music festival, set to take place on June 1st & 2nd in Rome, Italy. You can find it at http://earplug.cc/104074.

Once an "apostle-like" 12-member multimedia conglomerate, Iceland's GusGus is now a self-anointed techno-soul trinity in full halo drag. Their current album, Forever, dropped in February. Earplug's Jorge Hernandez gets the grease from President Bongo, leader of the Pineapple Empire, on their "spectacular Schnitzel on the Highway show," due to burn rubber this spring. Check out the interview at http://earplug.cc/104190.

Check out this article about the unlikely pairing of techno with modern dance at http://earplug.cc/104141.

Check out the audio we recorded down in Miami with some of our favorite DJ's!

People love to say that electronic music represents a new evolutionary phase, but our Miami experience often seemed to be all about devolution: wet-nap baths, filthy clothing, pilfering wi-fi, lost and found laptops…

The list of indignities could go on. We found the soundtrack to such a primal state at Made Event's Sunday School for Degenerates party, a 14-hour marathon of regressive house music.
Read more of this entry at our Winter Music Conference Blog

5. The woman wearing the white lace (read: completely see-through) pants and thong at the Scion yacht party. Honorable mention for the girl who was stone-cold passed out in the hallway below deck.

4. The hot-dog cart guy in front of Pawn Shop, and his crazy secret weapon: French-fried shoe-string potato crisps, all mucked up with ketchup, mustard, and mayonnaise, slapped on top of the bun and frank. Sweet sodium bomb, pass the grape soda!

3. The anarchy that ensued when the police shut down Claude VonStroke in the middle of his set at the Apple in-store showcase. With the officers standing sour-pussed in front of the decks, Mr. VonStroke slammed the volume up to MAXIMUM, ripped his headphones out of the jack, and stalked off to the roar of the cheering crowd. You'll never take us alive, coppers!

2. Flavorpill Team Leader, Phil Sherburne, and his amazing collection of sparkly, fringed man-scarves.

1. The hefty stash of condoms we found hidden in the wall outside our condo. Because sometimes when you're on the move, you don't have time to stop at the store; you just gotta pull a condom out of the cracks like, whu-bam! Extra points, too, for showing us a really good place to hide our keys.