2012 has been an important year in the development of EDM exiting the raves and entering the mainstream conversation. While some diehards might see this as a bad thing, the most important part is that ...

Before the storm of best of lists start hitting the blogs, I wanted to take a second to put aside the artistic merit aspect of the year in review, and take a look at what happened in the cultural ...

I enjoyed “Non Stop” as a curiosity, but I didn’t think much of it until the next year, when someone pointed me to a track called “Aye” by Dio (not Ronnie James; they have their own Dio). This one, in ...

Fifty years into hip-hop’s constant evolution, many of today’s rappers don’t write down their lyrics at all. Here’s how they make songs now. By Joe Coscarelli and Noah Throop Joe Coscarelli and Noah ...