A producer/DJ with an overarching concept and vision is hard to come by these days, and so it makes someone like Lorin Ashton a true rarity. Known professionally as Bassnectar, the California bred and ...

Electronic artist Bassnectar (Lorin Ashton) is back on the road for his Fall Tour 2012 in support of his recentthe album Vava Voom. Influenced equally by metal, ambient, psychedelic, and hip-hop, his ...

When does “VJ sampling” cross over into outright copyright infringement? Like a DJ or rapper or other music artist who samples the works of other music artists to create something new, VJs (video ...

When I first got going,” recalls Lorin Ashton, “I was into fuckin’ brutal, satanic death metal.” Even with all of his hair, it’s hard to imagine that Ashton, better known in dance circles as ...

Three years after sexual misconduct allegations surfaced and amid an ongoing lawsuit, the producer appears to be taking a page from Louis C.K.'s playbook. By Reid BG After three years of silence and ...

If you didn't know better, you'd probably attribute the runaway success of Bassnectar's annual New Year's Eve appearance at Bridgestone Arena to a groundswell of local support for electronic music.

Bassnectar (Lorin Ashton) clearly remembers his first rave. It took place in what he describes as a “random warehouse” in San Francisco in 1995. He went with the guys in his band and they all wore ...

The night before Bassnectar talks to Rolling Stone, he’s played for 10,000 fans at the Ultra Music Festival in Miami, delivering, by all accounts, one of the highlight sets of the weekend. “Every time ...

Nobody likes being labeled, and two weeks ago, Bassnectar addressed this issue in a conversation with Star Tribune. Feeling that the term “electronic music” is an inaccurate description for his music, ...