It’s official: Dubstep isn’t going anywhere. Even Taylor Swift has sampled the genre’s electronically warbled bass lines in her latest release, “I Knew You Were Trouble,” taking dubstep from the clubs ...

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Basketball great Shaquille O’Neal talks about his transition into DJ’ing dubstep as DJ Diesel; his new album, Gorilla Warfare; and how music helped him get out of a funk after he retired from the NBA.

Underground genres rarely make the transition to the mainstream with their original ideas intact. Punk started in back alleys and small pubs as an original form of expression, but is so often seen as ...

The Killabits make dubstep that sounds like a machine gun spraying you in the face with heavy bass bullets and gut-rattling sub-bass. At Beta, which houses one of the only Funktion-One sound systems ...

Electronic dance music dominates clubs more than concert halls here in Vegas. So why is Excision (DJ-producer Jeff Abel) performing at a venue like the House of Blues? Part of the reason is the sound ...

I am a major fan of electronic music, and I have an embarrassing problem: I have no idea what dubstep is. Though I’ve heard it buzzed about from countless people and media outlets, and despite my best ...

The dubstep community is as passionate as it’s ever been in 2025, but some would argue that the genre’s grown “stale” over the last decade. Enter Twinboys: a pair of 23-year-old identical twins from ...

Dubstep is to 2012 as chillwave was to 2011, i.e. a widely mocked musical genre that’s staggeringly popular. But unlike chillwave or aquacrunk or crunkcore, dubstep is going nowhere, and may even be ...

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 ...