With dubstep’s surging (and some might say waning) popularity, it’s not surprising to hear explosive dubstep breakdowns bleeding into pop. Turn on Top 40 radio today, and there’s a great chance you’ll ...

A character called Kosta Elcher, described in today's Arts & Books as an "LA music marketeer" (whatever that is), thinks there is a "fundamental need" to fuse British dubstep and American hiphop. I ...

Queasy Games will add new sounds this week to Sound Shapes, its well-received musical platformer, with sound packs for '80s and dubstep music, publisher Sony Computer Entertainment announced today.

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 ...

Of all genres with complex legacies, dubstep ranks as one of the strangest. It’s less than 20 years old, yet already feels like it’s been through more ups and downs than a low-frequency oscillator. A ...

London duo Sicaria Sound are on a mission. The pair are keen to explore the possibilities of futuristic bass music while nodding to the essence of classic cuts past. Merging dark, old-skool-inspired ...

The atmosphere of Belvedere’s, a dive bar on Butler Street in Pittsburgh’s Lawrenceville neighborhood — with its stage and pool tables and little in the way of ambiance — was completely transformed by ...

These are the words of ZHA. As the DJ and producer behind cult hybrid bass label Fent Plates and White Peach, a label and distribution company that specialises strictly in dubstep and grime, his words ...

Experimentation in the heavy metal world can sometimes be a dicey or even thorny proposition. Unlike the realms of pop or hip-hop, where fans want their artists to expand and try new things, rock and ...

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>>.