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>>.

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 ...

It's already time to celebrate the best of 2009, and we start with a look at the top records in the worlds of dubstep, wonky, grime, and funky. No summary of the year in dubstep would be complete ...

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 ...

The resurgence of dubstep in mainstream music can been seen in more bass music artists popping up on lineups. However, the genre originally found its way into popular culture through bass music label ...

Standing in the backyard of his recently purchased Silver Lake house, U.K. dubstep producer Rusko is having an epiphany. “I'm a man!” 25-year-old Chris Mercer yells into the sky, standing in front of ...

January 2006 is a landmark date for the six-year-old sound of dubstep. In one weekend, through the coincidence of two massive events-- DMZ and Radio 1's Dubstep Warz-- the scene has gone through ...

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 ...

One of the pioneers of dub and electronic dance music, Mad Professor, was born Neil Joseph Stephen Fraser in Guyana. In the late ’60s, at the age of thirteen, he moved to London, where his father was ...

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 ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Jesse Kardon has come a long way from his days as a teenager messing around with Ableton in his bedroom. The ...