Colorado's Derek Vincent Smith has always grooved to his own cut-up, sample-based "electro hip-hop soul" style. Starting with his first release (Taking Up Your Precious Time) to growing through future ...

With the release of Pretty Lights' fourth album (and first wholly original album), A Color Map Of The Sun, one of the primary issues plaguing contemporary music criticism has come to light once again.

With a fairly expansive catalogue to draw from, Derek Vincent Smith has a plethora of singles at his disposal when preparing his sets. Last night, the Pretty Lights mastermind kept things a bit more ...

Arriving directly after an appearance at the Bonnaroo Festival in Tennessee the day before, Derek Vincent Smith of Pretty Lights joined KCRW in conversation ahead of the release of his new album A ...

If you haven’t been to an electronic show, you might wonder why people would subject themselves to one. First, the bass is turned up so loud that one well-placed bass note could blow away someone ...

In one of the most unique musical documentaries, five different DJs are facing with remixing and changing the prevalent norm of traditional genres of music. The documentary, “Re:Generation: The Remix ...