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 ...

Lorin Ashton, the electronic-music producer and DJ who plays under the name Bassnectar, grew up throwing death-metal concerts at his hometown library. He turned toward deejaying and producing music ...

The year was 1999, and a then-budding DJ named Lorin Ashton suddenly found himself not driving toward Burning Man’s desert glow. That had been the plan, but someone he loved was in trouble, and… By ...

As Bassnectar, Lorin Ashton produces in an amorphous style with signature bass drops, rhythmic tempo ranges and a genre-bending blend of dubstep, hip-hop and metal, inspired in part by his formative ...

For Bassnectar‘s latest track, released only months after June’s Noise vs. Beauty LP, the cult DJ worked with a new artist who had reached him by e-mail. “A lot of fans send me music, either tipping ...

Bassnectar, Ween, Run the Jewels, Charles Bradley, Portugal. The Man and Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats lead an impressively varied lineup of more than 60 EDM, hip-hop, soul and jam-band ...