It's not music that makes much sense on a laptop. Or an iPod, even. The "Ah-ha!" moment only really comes when you hear it live. "You have to feel it," says Robert Scott, a Vegas-based DJ and show ...

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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 ...

Tracing how the genre's signature deep bass and sparse rhythms have permeated every corner of electronic music since the '00s. Coined by French philosopher Jacques Derrida in his 1993 book Spectres of ...

Five years ago, dubstep was just another fresh but obscure strain of dance music, limited almost exclusively to a handful of nightclubs in south London. Today it is taking over dance floors worldwide.

The dubstep community is as passionate as it’s ever been in 2025, but some would argue that the genre’s grown “stale” over the last decade. Enter Twinboys: a pair of 23-year-old identical twins from ...

Born out of a merging of garage production and grime rudiments in the early 2000s, dubstep emerged with a small but devoted following centred largely around the seminal London dubstep night FWD>>.

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 ...

Dubstep might be the genre that everyone's talking about at the moment, but unless you're on the scene, you might struggle to describe how it sounds. There are two primary characteristics. Firstly, it ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Like many in electronic music, dubstep is a genre that's constantly evolving. So although there ...