German producer and DJ Alec Empire is the acclaimed originator of “Digital Hardcore”, a highly aggressive and politicized strain of techno which he has pursued, along with more experimental side ...

Everything always departs from the body, which then channels into directing, writing or drawing. It's connected with this ...

Over time, as the influencers eventually became influenced by those they influenced, a special hermeneutics of pop music was born. Today, pioneers seem to constantly be reinterpreting themselves ...

In this special preview of our new Summer 2013 print magazine, we present the cover story—an extensive interview with the divisive pop phenomenon—in full. Photo by Robert Carrithers. Lana Del Rey’s ...

Few DJs can claim to have had such a lasting impact as Daniele Baldelli. Throughout the ’70s and into the ’80s he was an instrumental figure in the development of the curious Italian sound known as ...

Manele is a musical genre that has engulfed the entire Balkans over the past 30 years. Its linguistic origin dates back to the Ottoman Empire, and the word manea is Turkish for “song.” At its core, it ...

House is a continuation of disco. You can hear that easily in its arrangement and in its sound, which samples and pulls liberally from the popular club music of the ’70s and early ’80s. And, in fact, ...

The Moscow-based techno-punk outfit Interchain (comprised of Andrew Lee and Jenya Gorbunov, pictured above) already has an impressive discography. But their most recent release, Plenum—which just came ...

The Sound and Style of Beat-Driven Culture. Club music and lifestyle at the global intersections since 2000.

A chat with Colette Crespin, Burning Man Project's Director of Virtual and Interactive Experiences As humanity switched to pandemic mode, some of the worlds’ largest gatherings went to the metaverse ...

As in the city, the new administration of the post-communist former East that controlled these areas had yet to fully organize itself. From the void sprang forth limitless opportunities for sometimes ...

It’s always interesting for me to see a crowd dancing to music that’s ‘foreign’, especially if the lyrics are in a foreign language. Miriam Makeba, Manu Dibango, Salsa, Falco—you name it. That’s why ...