(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" ...

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 ...

A crop of megastars has experimented with dubstep beats in the past two years: Britney, Bieber, and most dramatically, Taylor Swift. But with all the brouhaha around “pop EDM,” it’s easy to forget (or ...

Inside a McDonald’s, you can typically find some interesting or downright weird things occurring as people from all walks of life eat. In this video, the events that occur are no exception. Parker ...

The Year In Hipstep (Or Dubhop?) This year the invasion of dubstep beats into mainstream hip-hop became impossible to deny. That infusion of bass is helping bring dubstep out of the darkness and into ...

At the 2:17 mark of Britney Spears’ 2011 hit single “Hold It Against Me,” dubstep entered the mainstream. It had been bubbling around pop’s surface before Spears put her glossy touch on it, but this ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The title refers to the east London district of Bow where Dizzee Rascal grew up as Dylan Mills, an “E3 African” ...