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 ...

On the pioneering electronic label's 25th anniversary, Planet Mu's founder relays his continued excitement with discovering genuine, groundbreaking work. “I just wanted to do it—I didn’t really think ...

City pop is a genre of Japanese popular music that was popular in the 1980s and featured a “cosmopolitan” image that appealed to those who benefited from the so-called post-war “economic miracle,” an ...

Ambient is more than a genre. It’s a blank canvas with no rules and no structures. Shaped by geography and generations, it’s open to experimentation with sound, texture and space. That’s why it traces ...

In this essay based around themes he’ll touch on in his upcoming book Ghosts of My Life, Mark Fisher—the noted blogger known as K-Punk and the author of Capitalist Realism: Is There No ...

In the last cover story for Electronic Beats Magazine, Karen O spoke to Lisa Blanning about crushes, songs, and more. Karen Lee Orzolek AKA Karen O first caught the public eye as the charismatic and ...

This week, in an article titled About Vatican Shadow Link With the Far-right, culture journalist Jean-Hugues Kabuiku has highlighted relationships between experimental producer Dominick Fernow—also ...

I have to admit up front: I was wary of Berghain’s new room Säule when it was first announced. I was ready to quickly dismiss it for invading the club’s chill-out area on its ground floor that was ...

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 ...

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

A selection of the DJs, producers, and innovators who gave us hope in 2021 Opening the 2020s in pandemic mode, the dance music stage progressed into a new era with a cohort of young talents and ...

Compiling a guide to all of dancehall and picking only a few songs is a hard a task for mortal men, so I decided instead to focus on dancehall rhythms. A rhythm—or “riddim”—is an instrumental track ...