A little-known German band going by the intimidating moniker of Scorpions took their embryonic career to the next level on Sept. 17, 1975 with the release of their third studio long-player, In Trance.

The most hypnotically bizarre music video I’ve seen in ages begins with a young man peeling the bandages off his surgically enhanced jaws and chin, which jut out of his face like the haunches of a ...

Trance is not cool. Trance doesn’t dabble in irony or metaphor. Trance is extremely cheesy, therefore easily dismissable. Trance asks you to believe that the glass is half-full; that this melody is ...

Over the past 20 years, trance has maintained one of the most loyal fanbases in dance music. Trance mainstay Ferry Corsten, new-school producer Ciel and more talk about the sound’s enduring appeal.

Her ombre-dyed hair in a sleek bob, Nazriya Nazim looks different. Gone is Kerala’s sweetheart: Ohm Shanti Oshana’s Pooja Mathew, Bangalore Days’ Divya and Koode’s Jenny. Enter the hard-drinking, ...

The key takeaway is that the paintings do not simply show people moving; they encode recognizable ritual elements - like clapping women, dancers in circles, and altered postures associated with trance ...

As the yearly festival circuit grows bigger and bigger, A-list DJs like Nina Kraviz, Ellen Allien and Gerd Janson have started to reach for ’90s anthems, which have been, for better or worse, frowned ...