Like house and drum 'n' bass before it, the subgenre of electronic music known as dubstep has turned a commercial corner in North America over the past few years. Already a phenomenon in the U.K., ...

U.K. bass label Circus Records has shared a the first posthumous release from dubstep producer Cookie Monsta, born Tony Cook, on Thursday (Sept. 29) ahead of the second anniversary of his death on Oct ...

Music producer Tony Cook, who went by the stage name Cookie Monsta, has sadly died at the age of 31. His label, Circus Records, released a statement on Twitter on October 2, informing fans that the ...

The music of London-based Shackleton is a dark, dense and altogether disconcerting affair, like paranoia rendered in sound. The famed dubstep producer and co-head of the Skull Disco label has ...

THE British DJ-producer Scuba, a.k.a. Paul Rose, has stepped behind the turntables at the Nasty Sonix club night at Echo Park’s the Echo. It’s his U.S. debut, and a mix of adventurous hip-hop heads, ...

On Sunday night, from the back of a cone-shaped DJ booth known as “the vortex,” dubstep producer Datsik turned the 9:30 Club into a vibrating cavern of thrashing limbs. The audience members, wearing ...

Gabrielle Watson, who has performed under the name A Hundred Drums since 2006, was drawn from California to Denver in September 2019 by the city’s reputation as the bass capital of the United States.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Lisa Kocay covers electronic dance music. The track marks his return to dance floor heaters as .wav departed from this sound. The ...

2002 The foundations for “dubstep” begin to be laid in South London club FWD>> (a bass-music hub that will also give grime a stage in the mid-’00s) and via Hyperdub label boss Kode9’s affiliated show ...