You don’t necessarily think of dance music as a live medium, but the two members of the British duo Simian Mobile Disco might beg to differ. For their new album Whorl, the duo decided to tap into some deep essence of what they do, recording the entire LP live in real time, using one modular [...]

With last year’s “Tong Zi Dan,” Simian Mobile Disco resumed their trend of making songs inspired by obscure dishes from around the world — which started in 2010 with Delicacies — and now they have a new one. Snake bile wine, the beverage, is exactly what it sounds like, where the gall bladder of ...

Dance duo's new track is named after a Chinese delicacy called 'Tong Zi Dan'    

Simian Mobile Disco’s 2010 album Delicacies named each of its tracks after obscure food dishes like some mash up of techno and Bizarre Foods With Andrew Zimmern. Tracks like “Hákarl” and “Thousand Year Egg” were good examples of the culinary obsessions that went alone with their brand of techno....

Arctic Monkeys have unveiled the details of their fifth full-length AM, which will be released in early September. The album was recorded in California at Sage & Sound Recording in L.A. and Rancho De La Luna in Joshua Tree with frequent collaborator James Ford (of Simian Mobile Disco) on production duty and Ross Orton (Add [...]