For the uninitiated, dubstep is the most recent incarnation of that modern British desire to weld new, innovative sounds onto Jamaican soundsystem culture. Where in the 1970s the best British speaker ...
When Steve Goodman started Hyperdub — “A web magazine to focus on Jamaican influence on electronic music in London,” he says — he didn’t figure it would become his life’s work. But Goodman liked ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cookie Monsta, a popular dubstep DJ born Tony Cook, has died at age 31. His record label, Circus Records, confirmed the news on ...
A resounding “Mazel Tov” is in order for Israeli dubstep DJ/music producer Borgore. The Tel Aviv native (real name: Asaf Borger) just purchased a Hollywood Hills home for $2,275,000 earlier this month ...
The pressure to move things forward fuels music’s development. But which way is forward? For dubstep, the current hottest sound of the London underground, forward means down, questing to see just how ...
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, ...
Skream arrives at Sheffield's Plug nightclub in a manner more befitting an amateur boxer than a headline DJ. He's flanked by his tour drivers, two bulldog-faced cockneys in their 30s, bellies bulging ...
Walsh, a much-loved dubstep DJ and producer, has died aged 40. The Croydon-born musician died suddenly earlier in October, according to his younger sister, on the same day as his father’s death in ...