Though it’s often been suggested that the fundamentals of dubstep descend from a lyrical prophesy in Morris Day and the Time’s 1984 hit “The Bird,” in which Day intimates that “you don’t need no ...

Recently I was having a conversation with a friend of mine, the guitarist for local metal band Rebuild, and he was complaining about the wave of dubstep that has infiltrated metal. As a genre, metal ...

The atmosphere of Belvedere’s, a dive bar on Butler Street in Pittsburgh’s Lawrenceville neighborhood — with its stage and pool tables and little in the way of ambiance — was completely transformed by ...

Love it or hate it, it’s looking inevitable: dubstep isn’t going anywhere for awhile, and a lot of ambitious metalheads are pairing their riffs up with wobble wobble sounds in a bid for commercial ...

With dubstep’s surging (and some might say waning) popularity, it’s not surprising to hear explosive dubstep breakdowns bleeding into pop. Turn on Top 40 radio today, and there’s a great chance you’ll ...

January 2006 is a landmark date for the six-year-old sound of dubstep. In one weekend, through the coincidence of two massive events-- DMZ and Radio 1's Dubstep Warz-- the scene has gone through ...

Lately it would be easy to assume that dubstep = halfstep. Indeed lots of recent dubstep sets are dominated by this style, which uses one snare per bar and is designed to give a slower, skanked out ...