In a city where the sound of oonsa oonsa oonsa has dominated dance floors for decades, the subterranean subwoofer frequencies of dubstep (wobble wobble boom clack clack!) stand out emphatically. For ...

Ahead of his performance at Made in America in Grand Park this Sunday, August 31, we talked to him at the Red Bull Studios in Santa Monica, where he is recording music for his new album. In contrast ...

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 ...

Local dubstep promotion team Sub.mission has seen no shortage of success over the past few years, as it has signed artists, brought international acts to Denver and helped to define the thriving ...

From underground clubs in London’s Shoreditch community and the town of Croydon in the United Kingdom to soundtracking global TV commercials and allowing groundbreaking producers to win Grammy Awards, ...

With the drum-n-bass and dubstep scenes becoming more ubiquitous by the day, the DJs who were at the forefront years ago may be tempted to sit back and soak it all in. Not Robert Matthews, also known ...

For the past 10 years, local collective Grime City has been transporting dancefloors to the bass-filled underground atmospheres of London 2-step and U.K. garage parties. Born in 2005 by a group of DJs ...

(All this week, we're spotlighting tbt*'s 2012 Ultimate Local Artists on Soundcheck. Today: SubPirate.) Jason Feder loves bass. Can't get enough of it. If you've ever been to one of his "Overdrive" ...

Dubstep is a tricky one. Like electro or deep house, it can be a descriptor for multiple types of music that are often in direct opposition to one another but confusingly called the same thing. Most ...

Canada's Troy Beetles, professionally known as Datsik, is no doubt one of the most unique players in the whole dance music game. Born and bred out in western Canada (Kelowna, BC to be exact), Datsik ...

Each Sunday, Pitchfork takes an in-depth look at a significant album from the past, and any record not in our archives is eligible. Today, we revisit an infamous 2007 DJ mix that helped transform ...