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 ...

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 ...

Back in the early 1990s, the Wu Tang Clan's Ol' Dirty Bastard opened his track Shimmy Shimmy Ya with the lyric 'off on a natural charge, bon voyage'. A decade or so later, the sample found its way ...

Set to the music of man-of-the-moment Skrillex, Deadmau5, and other dubstep fiends, “DubWars” (slightly graphic clip above) jump-cuts through a parade of screeching, sword-fighting chainsaw-wielding ...

Of all genres with complex legacies, dubstep ranks as one of the strangest. It’s less than 20 years old, yet already feels like it’s been through more ups and downs than a low-frequency oscillator. A ...

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 ...