Matthew Dear’s fifth album Beams was a masterwork for the avant-inclined singer/producer, combining computerized effects and live instrumentation in a way that brought new bubble and fizz to the man’s ...

Somewhere between the Ryanair redeyes, the Class As and the promotional T-shirts from record labels, dance music and style lost each other on the way to the club. When you see Ricardo Villalobos with ...

Next week, Michigan dance-music veteran Matthew Dear will release Beams, his follow-up to 2010's excellently smoky Black City. We've already heard two darkly glamorous tracks from the album, "Her ...

Bay Area electronic music fans have a solid lock on Matthew Dear at Vessel tonight. The Brooklyn, N.Y.-based producer-artist has opened for Interpol and remixed Hot Chip. His label Ghostly ...

Matthew Dear is among the very small handful of musicians who’ve been able to successfully straddle the techno and pop worlds. Beams, his fourth full-length, finds Dear moving further to the pop side, ...