Author: Lily Moayeri

If you slap the “French Touch” label on Polo & Pan, they don’t seem to be upset about it.   The chart-topping Parisian duo of Paul “Polo” Armand-Delille and Alexandre “Pan” Grynszpan, who emerged just under a decade ago, is the 21st Century version of the classic and much-replicated electronic sound that permeated the late ’90s and early aughts.   “We’re ‘French Touch’ in the wide sense,” Armand-Delille offers drily, “because we’re French.” Très français.  Still, Polo & Pan are reconfirming their space in the landscape of French music with their irresistible second album, Cyclorama, the follow-up to 2017’s Caravelle. Released earlier in the year, Cyclorama began from 30 demos, ideas generated while the duo was on tour for Caravelle. They didn’t want to veer too far from the cinematic and playful sound they had already established; at…

Tay James has been in four different time zones over the course of two weeks: London, Saudi Arabia, the Maldives, back to London, and now, home in Los Angeles. For a little over a decade, James has been Justin Bieber’s DJ and is accustomed to whirlwind jetlag. Even when James is stationary in Los Angeles, he has a hectic schedule.   Today is no different. At the moment, he’s in rehearsals for Bieber’s upcoming tour for the first half of every day, and in the studio working on the next album for the second half. In-between, he finds time for an interview.  The 34-year-old Baltimore native has come a long way…

It’s a brightly lit mid-week afternoon in DTLA and Anabel Englund is waving from a couch in Soho Warehouse. The chart-topper singer/songwriter/DJ, who earlier this year was nominated for an iHeartRadio Music Award for Dance Artist of the Year, is not wearing a speck of makeup, and she is luminous.   What she does have on is layers upon layers of clothing and electric-blue cowboy boots. She is friendly and confident, listening, but not always agreeing, asserting her opinions based on her experiences, rather than keeping the status quo… which makes her all that much more appealing.   Over the last decade, Englund has become a favorite among dance-music fans with her many collaborations, most notably with Jamie Jones, MK and…