As club culture continues to evolve, so does the music that drives it. Electronic dance music, or EDM, has reached new heights in recent years.
Stephen Spies was working on a student film, “Young Americans,” when the director asked him to score an electronic beat for it. Spies only had experience with classical pieces, however, so he tried ...
The rising independent artist and producer behind millions of Spotify streams and YouTube views delivers a dark, cinematic ...
Anyone chronically online has seen the “Monday Left Me Broken” meme, in which random videos are interrupted with an anthropomorphic cat lip syncing Avicii’s hit single “Waiting for Love.” Or perhaps ...
Electronic DJs and producers often conceal their identities under vague monikers, even elaborate headgear if you’re Deadmau5. But by adopting genderless aliases such as Skrillex, Kaskade, Zedd and ...
The emergence of EDM—the youth-music movement of the moment—resembles the arrivals of jazz, rock, and hip-hop in a few key ways, from its backlash to its lineage to its mass appeal. "Excuse me," said ...
With the holidays coming in the next few months, it’s never too late to plan for the big ball drop on New Year’s Eve. An ...
They’ve got an old fogey name, sure, but this Canadian-bred, New York-based production duo are turning out some of the coolest, laid-back electro this year. Since forming, members Tom Howie and Jimmy ...
For the better part of 2016, it’s been too easy to reduce EDM to a punchline — for starters, top tier act David Guetta dropped a cover of “If You’re Happy and You Know It” late last year. But for all ...
While EDM (electronic dance music) has transcended into a multi-billion dollar industry with chart-topping successes and ample radio play, veteran Paul van Dyk remembers when that simply wasn't so.
Hip-hop defined the Grammy nominations in 2017, but further down the bill, there was also a notable shift in how Recording Academy voters saw the year in electronic music. This year, two acts – the ...