Lily Moayeri

music journalist since 1992 | educator since 2004 | podcaster since 2020 | Iranian American since birth

Girls Names: Culture Of Gravitation

Girls Names‘ Cathal Cully interviewed for their album, Arms Around A Vision, for Under The Radar Magazine November/December 2015 Issue: Girls Names: Culture Of Gravitation Watch the video for “Reticence.”

January 20, 2016 · Leave a comment

Savages: Recording Adore Life With Johnny Hostile And Richard Woodcraft

Savages‘ producer Johnny Hostile and engineer Richard Woodcraft interviewed for the recording of their album, Adore Life, for Mix Magazine January 2016 Issue: Savages: Recording Adore Life With Johnny Hostile And Richard Woodcraft Watch a performance … Continue reading

January 11, 2016 · Leave a comment

Dave Gahan & Soulsavers: Angels & Ghosts

Soulsavers‘ Rich Machin and composer Daniele Luppi interviewed for the album, Angels & Ghosts, for Mix Magazine January 2016 Issue: Dave Gahan & Soulsavers: Angels & Ghosts Watch the entire live show in Los Angeles.

January 11, 2016 · Leave a comment

Sam Sparro: Quantum Physical Volume 2

Sam Sparro interviewed for his EP, Quantum Physical Volume 2, for Mix Magazine January 2016 Issue: Sam Sparro: Quantum Physical Volume 2 Stream the EP via Nylon Magazine.

January 11, 2016 · Leave a comment

Wuki And The Breakbeat Revival Are Out Of Control

Kris Barman aka Wuki interviewed for his exclusive 2015 mix for Insomniac.com: Wuki And The Breakbeat Revival Are Out Of Control Listen to Wuki’s sounds via his SoundCloud page.

December 17, 2015 · Leave a comment

Panic! At The Disco: Recording Death Of A Bachelor With Jake Sinclair And Suzy Shinn

Jake Sinclair and Suzy Shinn interviewed for their work on Panic! At The Disco‘s Death Of A Bachelor for Mix Magazine December 2015 Issue: Panic! At The Disco: Recording Death Of A Bachelor With Jake Sinclair … Continue reading

December 9, 2015 · 2 Comments

Duke Dumont: Deep Impact

Duke Dumont interviewed for his EP, Duke Dumont Presents Blasé Boys Club Part 1, for the cover of DJ Times Magazine‘s December 2015 Issue: Duke Dumont: Deep Impact Watch some of the Duke’s … Continue reading

December 1, 2015 · 1 Comment

Ninja Tune Celebrates 25 Years Of Leftfield Beats With Two Los Angeles Events

Ninja Tune‘s Jamie Collinson and Bonobo‘s Simon Green interviewed for the label’s 25th anniversary for the LA Weekly: Ninja Tune Celebrates 25 Years Of Leftfield Beats With Two Los Angeles Events … Continue reading

November 18, 2015 · 1 Comment

Record Store Spotlight: Record Parlour, Hollywood CA

Record Parlour‘s Chris Honetschlaeger interviewed for New Noise Magazine Issue 21: Record Store Spotlight: Record Parlour, Hollywood CA Check out the Record Parlour’s tantalizing Instagram account.

November 17, 2015 · Leave a comment

Haelos: Coming Full Circle

Haelos‘ Lotti Bernardout and Dom Goldsmith interviewed for their Earth Not Above EP for Under The Radar Magazine August/September/October 2015 Issue: Haelos: Coming Full Circle Watch the first part of the three-part … Continue reading

November 13, 2015 · Leave a comment

Making A Recording Connection: Education Model Based On Apprenticeship Tradition

Recording Radio Film Culinary Connection‘s James Petulla and Brian Kraft interviewed for Mix Magazine November 2015 Issue: Making A Recording Connection: Education Model Based on Apprenticeship Tradition Watch some videos on the … Continue reading

November 5, 2015 · Leave a comment

The Upbeats On The Drum ‘n’ Bass Noise War, Incest And History

The Upbeats‘ Jeremy Glenn and Dylan Jones interviewed while on the Bassrush Virus No Cure LP tour with Ed Rush and Optical for Insomniac.com: The Upbeats On The Drum ‘n’ Bass Noise War, … Continue reading

November 3, 2015 · Leave a comment

FuntCase Is Like A Crazy Comic Book Character

FuntCase interviewed while on the Bassrush Virus No Cure LP tour with Ed Rush and Optical for Insomniac.com: FuntCase Is Like A Crazy Comic Book Character Listen to some FuntCase sounds via … Continue reading

November 2, 2015 · Leave a comment

Ed Rush And Optical: An Incurable Virus

Ed Rush and Optical interviewed for their compilation, FabricLive 82, and their album, No Cure, for DJ Mag USA August 2015 issue: Ed Rush And Optical: An Incurable Virus Watch the trailer for FabricLive 82.

November 2, 2015 · 6 Comments

Dub Pistols: On Returning

Dub Pistols‘ Barry Ashworth interviewed for their album, Return Of The Pistoleros, for DJ Times Magazine November 2015 Issue: Dub Pistols: On Returning Listen to a fresh mix from Barry Ashworth via … Continue reading

November 1, 2015 · Leave a comment

Duran Duran In The Studio

Duran Duran‘s Nick Rhodes, and Mr. Hudson, and engineer Josh Blair interviewed about the recording of Paper Gods for Electronic Musician Magazine October 2015 issue: Duran Duran In The Studio In their nearly … Continue reading

October 29, 2015 · Leave a comment

Gorgon City Checks In From Tour: Part 2

Gorgon City‘s Matt Robson-Scott and Kye Gibbon check in at the end of the second week of their North American tour in support of their album, Sirens, for Insomniac.com: Gorgon City Checks In From Tour: … Continue reading

October 29, 2015 · 3 Comments

Gorgon City Checks In From Tour

Gorgon City‘s Matt Robson-Scott and Kye Gibbon check in at the end of the first week of their North American tour in support of their album, Sirens, for Insomniac.com: Gorgon City Checks In From … Continue reading

October 23, 2015 · 3 Comments

Disclosure: It’s All Relative

Disclosure‘s Guy and Howard Lawrence interviewed for their album, Caracal, for the cover of DJ Mag USA November 2015 Issue: Disclosure: It’s All Relative Watch the four-part video series directed by Ryan Hope: … Continue reading

October 23, 2015 · Leave a comment

Hear The New EP From David Holmes’ Star-Studded New Project, Unloved (Premiere)

Unloved‘s David Holmes, Keefus Ciancia, and Jade Vincent interviewed for their debut EP, Guilty Of Love for LA Weekly: Hear The New EP From David Holmes’ Star-Studded New Project, Unloved (Premiere) Watch the … Continue reading

October 12, 2015 · 2 Comments

Chinese Indie Night Is What The Culture Collide Festival Is All About

Alan Miller of Culture Collide and Michael LoJudice of Modern Sky interviewed for Culture Collide Festival‘s Chinese Indie Night for LA Weekly: Chinese Indie Night Is What The Culture Collide Festival … Continue reading

October 5, 2015 · Leave a comment

Knowledge Is Power: Why More Producers Are Sharing Their Secrets

Optical, Ed Rush, TC, and Digital Labz interviewed for my production culture piece for Bassrush: Knowledge Is Power: Why More Producers Are Sharing Their Secrets Watch a two-minute snapshot of … Continue reading

October 1, 2015 · 4 Comments

Five Questions With Martin Gore

Depeche Mode‘s Martin Gore interviewed for his solo album, MG, for Electronic Musician Magazine‘s July 2015 Issue: Five Questions With Martin Gore Martin Gore is not one to take time away from making music. … Continue reading

September 14, 2015 · Leave a comment

Marques Wyatt’s DEEP Celebrates 16 Years Of Soulful House Music

Marques Wyatt interviewed for the 16th Anniversary of his club night, DEEP, for the LA Weekly: Marques Wyatt’s DEEP Celebrates 16 Years Of Soulful House Music Listen to Marques’ set from … Continue reading

September 11, 2015 · 1 Comment

Kelis Graduated From Le Cordon Bleu–Now She’s Written Her First Cookbook

Kelis interviewed for her first cookbook, My Life On A Plate: Recipes From Around The World, for LA Weekly: Kelis Graduated From Le Cordon Bleu–Now She’s Written Her First Cookbook Check out … Continue reading

September 9, 2015 · 1 Comment

Mercury Rev’s The Light In You

Mercury Rev‘s Jonathan Donahue and engineer Scott Petito interviewed for the album, The Light In You, for Mix Magazine September 2015 Issue: Mercury Rev The Light In You Listen to album opener, “The … Continue reading

September 8, 2015 · Leave a comment

Metric’s Daily Jams Create Pagans In Vegas

Metric‘s Jimmy Shaw and engineer John O’Mahoney interviewed for their album, Pagans In Vegas, for Mix Magazine September 2015 Issue: Metric’s Daily Jams Create Pagans In Vegas Watch “Lie Lie Lie” from Pagans In Vegas.

September 8, 2015 · Leave a comment

The Orb: Moonbuilding

The Orb‘s Thomas Fehlmann interviewed for their album, Moonbuilding 2703 AD, for DJ Times September 2015 Issue: The Orb: Moonbuilding

September 1, 2015 · Leave a comment

Whitestone Is Turning Album Artwork Into an Immersive Social Networking Experience

Whitestone founder Roey Tsemah interviewed for Insomniac.com: Whitestone Is Turning Album Artwork Into an Immersive Social Networking Experience Watch Roey’s video explaining Whitestone here.

August 24, 2015 · Leave a comment

The Sonar System: Restoring Peace Through Sound System Culture

The author of The Sonar System, vocalist, MC, painter, and wordsmith Ras Mykha interviewed for Insomniac.com: The Sonar System: Restoring Peace Through Sound System Culture Watch the book trailer here.

August 20, 2015 · Leave a comment

Jamie xx: Going Solo With In Colour

Jamie xx interviewed for his debut solo album, In Colour, for Soma Magazine August 2015 Film And Music Issue: Jamie xx: Going Solo With In Colour Watch Jamie’s performance of “Loud Places” on Late Night … Continue reading

August 7, 2015 · 1 Comment

Corsica Arts Club Releases Self-Titled Debut

Corsica Arts Club‘s Arash Parsee and Brendan Thompson interviewed for their debut self-titled EP for Mix Magazine August 2015 Issue: Corsica Arts Club Releases Self-Titled Debut Listen to the whole EP via … Continue reading

August 6, 2015 · Leave a comment

This Guy Created The 5-Minute Mind-Altering, Virtual-Reality World For Squarepusher: Rob Pybus

Illustrator Rob Pybus interviewed for Insomniac.com: This Guy Created The 5-Minute Mind-Altering, Virtual-Reality World For Squarepusher: Rob Pybus Watch Rob doing his illustrated comedy for the first time and another time.

August 6, 2015 · Leave a comment

This Is The Guy That Makes Calvin Harris Look Amazing: Dave Thomas

Stylist Dave Thomas interviewed for Insomniac.com: This Is The Guy That Makes Calvin Harris Look Amazing: David Thomas Watch Dave in action on his YouTube channel.

August 5, 2015 · Leave a comment

Clubbed To Deaf: Is Music Killing Your Ears?

My write-up on how music is affecting your hearing and how to protect it for Bassrush: Clubbed To Deaf: Is Music Killing Your Ears? Check out some Musician’s Earplugs from … Continue reading

July 31, 2015 · Leave a comment

Leon Bridges: Coming Home

White Denim‘s Austin Jenkins and Joshua Block interviewed for their production work on Leon Bridges‘ debut album, Coming Home, for Mix Magazine July 2015 Issue: Leon Bridges: Coming Home Watch Leon performing “Lisa … Continue reading

July 7, 2015 · Leave a comment

Hannah Wants: To Want And To Have

Hannah Wants interviewed ahead of her first North American headlining tour for DJ Mag USA July 2015 Issue: Hannah Wants: To Want And To Have Check out some sets from Hannah … Continue reading

July 6, 2015 · Leave a comment

The Martinez Brothers: A Sound View

The Martinez Brothers interviewed for their Masters At Dutch project, Dutch Masters Vol. 1, for DJ Mag USA July 2015 Issue: The Martinez Brothers: A Sound View You can stream or download Dutch Masters … Continue reading

June 25, 2015 · Leave a comment

Talk In Tongues: Lightspeed

Talk In Tongues‘ Garrett Zeile interviewed for their debut album, Alone With A Friend, for Under The Radar Magazine April/May 2015 Issue: Talk In Tongues: Lightspeed Watch the official video for “Still Don’t … Continue reading

June 17, 2015 · Leave a comment

Giorgio Moroder: Back In Business

Giorgio Moroder interviewed for his album, Deja Vu, for Soma Magazine June 2015 Issue: Giorgio Moroder: Back In Business Listen to the wealth of Giorgio’s music via his SoundCloud.

June 8, 2015 · Leave a comment

Jaga Jazzist Records Starfire

Jaga Jazzist‘s Lars Horntveth interviewed for the recording of their album Starfire for Mix Magazine‘s June 2015 Issue: Jaga Jazzist Records Starfire Check out Jaga Jazzist via their SoundCloud.

June 7, 2015 · Leave a comment

Maya Jane Coles: A Star Comes Out At Night

My interview with Maya Jane Coles for her Nocturnal Sunshine project and self-titled album for DJ Mag USA June 2015 Issue: Maya Jane Coles: A Star Comes Out At Night Watch the official video for … Continue reading

June 4, 2015 · Leave a comment

Nickodemus: A Diverse Decade

Nickodemus interviewed for his compilation, Wonderworld: 10 Years Of Painting Outside The Lines, for DJ Times Magazine June 2015 Issue: Nickodemus: A Diverse Decade Stream The Wonderworld mix via Thump.

June 2, 2015 · Leave a comment

Anna Wall Takes A Big Step In The Right Direction

Anna Wall interviewed for her compilation, TRAXX, Vol. 2: My House Is Your House, for DJ Mag USA: Anna Wall Takes A Big Step In The Right Direction Listen to Anna’s mix for … Continue reading

May 19, 2015 · Leave a comment

In The Studio With Benasis and Steve Aoki

Julian Benasis and Steve Aoki interviewed for Benasis’ contest-winning remix of Aoki’s “Delirious” for Electronic Musician Magazine May 2015 Issue: In The Studio With Benasis and Steve Aoki Check out some of … Continue reading

May 18, 2015 · Leave a comment

The Vaccines: Recording English Graffiti With Dave Fridmann And Cole Marsden Grief-Neill

Dave Fridmann and Cole Marsden Grief-Neill interviewed for their work on the Vaccines’ English Graffiti for Mix Magazine May 2015 issue: The Vaccines: Recording English Graffiti With Dave Fridmann And Cole Marsden Grief-Neill Watch … Continue reading

May 6, 2015 · Leave a comment

New Skirball Exhibit Looks Back At The Rock ‘n’ Roll Life Of Bill Graham

My write-up of Bill Graham And The Rock ‘n’ Roll Revolution at Skirball Cultural Center for LA Weekly: New Skirball Exhibit Looks Back At The Rock ‘n’ Roll Life Of Bill Graham Take a … Continue reading

May 5, 2015 · Leave a comment

Dynamite & Deadly: The Magic Of Johnny Marr + The Healers

Write-up for Johnny Marr fanzine Dynamic: Dynamite & Deadly: The Magic Of Johnny Marr + The Healers Watch a performance of “Down On The Corner” on the defunct The Late Late Show … Continue reading

April 17, 2015 · Leave a comment

The Music Of Better Call Saul: Creating Tension Through Pace And Rhythm

Better Call Saul‘s composer, Dave Porter, interviewed for Mix Magazine: The Music Of Better Call Saul: Creating Tension Through Pace And Rhythm Take a look at a photo gallery of Dave’s studio.

April 8, 2015 · Leave a comment

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