Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Lisa Kocay covers electronic dance music. The track marks his return to dance floor heaters as .wav departed from this sound. The ...

“When I was growing up, my father made me do a report from A to Z of what I wanted to be,” says multi-hyphenate superstar Shaquille O’Neal, speaking via Zoom with Yahoo Entertainment from his new lake ...

Back in the early 1990s, the Wu Tang Clan's Ol' Dirty Bastard opened his track Shimmy Shimmy Ya with the lyric 'off on a natural charge, bon voyage'. A decade or so later, the sample found its way ...

A couple of months ago, I received a text from a 40-something-year old man named Icey Hott. Icey, a member of Houston’s near-legendary group Street Military, was a seminal figure in the development of ...

With heavy distortion and intergalactic samples, Datsik fuses the heaviest elements of rap and dubstep to create a sound that’s equivalent to standing in the middle of an epic man-versus-machine ...

This week, the veteran producer Rupert Parkes, a.k.a. Photek, releases his DJ-Kicks mix to American audiences. But listeners boning up on his “two swords technique” can put away the Seven Samurai DVD: ...

Although dozens of EDM subgenres are brain candy to me, I haven’t personally given in to the auditory assault that is dubstep (mostly… maybe). However, I’m here to say that there is actual science to ...

The absolutism of this Hollywood.com story is worth pausing to marvel at: " Unless I'm terribly mistaken and dubstep sounds like a CoverGirl commercial, I think the Los Angeles Times might have found ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you watched the Grey Cup on TSN, you may have noticed the broadcaster using a little electronic music buffer to introduce certain segments, particularly when cutting to or from a commercial. That ...

With the Skream (above) remix of La Roux's In For The Kill having become one of the anthems of this year's Glastonbury, dubstep is taking further steps towards the mainstream. Beats are crucial to the ...