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 ...

Philadelphia dubstep producer Subtronics reaches a career milestone this weekend, performing at Coachella's Sahara Tent after ...

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 ...

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 a genre where a large part of its growth and fanbase are directly attributed to how massive the scene is online, it's amazing to think about the l March 5, 2013 ...

After repeated attempts to describe the sound of dubstep, an electronic bass-heavy genre of music, most people give up and say, “You just have to listen to it.” Dubstep has invaded the bars and clubs ...

Mainstream music has a history of taking musical genres, smoothing out the rough edges and turning them into something easily digestible to the masses. Punk rock went from being the music of rebellion ...

It's 11 p.m. on a Wednesday, and walking up the metallic staircase into First Avenue's Record Room, you can feel the bass reverberating beneath your feet. Inside, you can feel it rippling through your ...

Watch the video of "Katy on a Mission" by Katy B: Regular readers of theartsdesk will know that I have written extensively about the sound's cultural and artistic significance (here, here, here and ...