For hip-hop, this was expressed through the turntable manipulation pioneered by DJ Kool Herc in 1973, when he extended and looped breakbeats to energize crowds. House music’s innovators turned to the ...

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At its core, hip-hop is a voice for the voiceless seeking to address systemic inequities through storytelling.

And while in much of electronic music history, the album form is secondary – 12-inch singles, Soundcloud rips and ... recognisable house tracks of all time. That track was heavily associated ...

That rhythm, foreshadowed by Eddy Grant’s 1977 production of “Time Warp” by The Coachouse Rhythm ... Platforms like SoundCloud have democratized music production, allowing emerging artists ...

Here, six house and techno artists provide a look into what it’s like being a tastemaker spinning at Time Warp. They discuss their favorite memories, why the event is special to them and more.

Jan. 20—"Now and Then" by Sean Grennan explores youth coming face-to-face with their older selves in a mind-bending way. The production, which runs Friday, Jan. 24, through Feb. 9, at The Adobe ...

I have a hard time sounding in any way intelligent expressing this, so maybe it’s just a mushy way to think. But it keeps rattling around in my head, and ...

Like stretch marks left on skin that expanded too quickly or cracks embedded in freezing ice, cosmic strings are artifacts of what the universe looked like in the moments before it rapidly changed ...

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Late last year US Mobile quietly revealed plans to expand its Warp (Verizon) network roaming options to make them better align with its Dark Star (AT&T) and Light Speed (T-Mobile) network options.