Moby has a busy year ahead, with a new album and a tour celebrating the 25th anniversary of his classic 1999 album, Play. The tour is currently just a few September dates in the UK and Europe. “It’s ...

Play, the 12x platinum 1999 album that made Moby globally inescapable for a while, is largely built around samples from old spirituals collected by Alan Lomax on the 1993 compilation Sounds Of The ...

Moby was baffled by what he calls the ‘accidental' success of his fifth record, Play. It was supposed to be his last hurrah. His previous record, the largely punk rock inspired Animal Rights, was met ...

Released May 17, 1999, Play helped make electronic music mainstream via its many commercial syncs. "We said yes to almost everything, because it was the only interest we were getting." By Katie Bain ...

Two decades ago, the world’s most famous electronic musician met a doctor who changed his life. Moby – named after literature’s most famous whale, which was created by his great-great-great uncle – ...

This week Moby put out Wait for Me, a beautiful ambient record partially inspired by David Lynch (check back next week for the story behind the album). And almost exactly 10 years ago, the New ...

Moby has a confession to make about the massive success he had with his 1999 album Play. He enjoyed it. “I thought I was releasing a profoundly obscure record that would get no attention,” says the ...

Moby is used to this sort of audience fickleness. His 1995 debut, Everything Is Wrong, is one of electronic music’s cornerstones. It’s a substantial project, a quasi-conceptual piece that bridges New ...

Moby has an Olympian task looming--and we’re not talking about his scheduled performance in the Salt Lake City Winter Games’ closing ceremony next Sunday. The challenge awaiting the electronic rocker ...