It’s official: Dubstep isn’t going anywhere. Even Taylor Swift has sampled the genre’s electronically warbled bass lines in her latest release, “I Knew You Were Trouble,” taking dubstep from the clubs ...

VAIL – Last May, Jon Gutwillig, who plays in Vail Thursday, was DJing his third ever solo M80 Dubstation show when he had an epiphany of sorts, all thanks to a girl he never actually met. The crowd at ...

THE British DJ-producer Scuba, a.k.a. Paul Rose, has stepped behind the turntables at the Nasty Sonix club night at Echo Park’s the Echo. It’s his U.S. debut, and a mix of adventurous hip-hop heads, ...

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Basketball great Shaquille O’Neal talks about his transition into DJ’ing dubstep as DJ Diesel; his new album, Gorilla Warfare; and how music helped him get out of a funk after he retired from the NBA.

Underground genres rarely make the transition to the mainstream with their original ideas intact. Punk started in back alleys and small pubs as an original form of expression, but is so often seen as ...

Electronic dance music dominates clubs more than concert halls here in Vegas. So why is Excision (DJ-producer Jeff Abel) performing at a venue like the House of Blues? Part of the reason is the sound ...

The Killabits make dubstep that sounds like a machine gun spraying you in the face with heavy bass bullets and gut-rattling sub-bass. At Beta, which houses one of the only Funktion-One sound systems ...

Two years ago the Decibel Festival in Seattle, which had until then stuck closely to its original techno mission, had a new sound du jour: dubstep. It was 2009, the style’s bumper year. The London ...

For the past two years, there's been a word, an iconic American EDM phrase, that's been largely missing from significant mention in the conversation regarding dance's mainstream American presence: ...

As warmer weather begins to rear its head, there will be a short-lived period of care-free outdoor enjoyment before, soon enough, pesky mosquitoes begin munching on any and all exposed skin. But there ...

I am a major fan of electronic music, and I have an embarrassing problem: I have no idea what dubstep is. Though I’ve heard it buzzed about from countless people and media outlets, and despite my best ...