Messenger Boy

He combines afrobeat and freestyle like no other, and, calling electro music his “heartbeat,” Chico gives it all he’s got in his new album Analog Drift.

As a child, he grew up in a very musical Cuban family (is there anything BUT that in the Caribbean?). In the ’70s and ’80s in New York City, while [...]

“It’s not rocket science,” says aerospace engineer and DJ Mark Branch about being drawn to deejaying, chuckling to himself. By day, he supervises electromagnetic tests for the Hubble Telescope at NASA; by night, he pumps out rhythms to the dancing masses, from local school children to Bill Gates and 3,000 of his closest Microsoft friends.
Mark’s [...]

CalArts graduate Miwa Matreyek is not just an “experimental artist,” nor is she defined by whatever head-scratching, hives-inducing reactions that term usually sparks in art purists. She’s stepped forward from behind the screen, using multi-projection art, set to melodic blips and beeps, to draw sweeping cityscapes, watery scenes, domestic tinkerings and the clashing of them [...]