All you need to dance is a beat, but sometimes more will do: juicy textures, electronic nuggets, decorative splotches, maybe even a melody. These ingredients are all extraneous, of course, but excess ...

If we look to the past, we can see a trend that may suggest who will be the winners of this year’s Best Dance/Electronic ...

South African-born, Harlem, New York City raised, DJ/producer AQUTIE is unifying the dance world with her signature global African dance sound, incorporating elements of Afro house, AfroTech, gqom (a ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Fans emerged from pandemic lockdowns primed to hit the floor. Now online platforms are bringing fresh sounds and budding stars to bigger audiences worldwide. Fans emerged from ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Lisa Kocay covers electronic dance music. The nine-track body of work is Major Lazer’s first new release in three years. The LP ...

Mamdani becomes the city’s first Muslim mayor and first of South Asian descent. 2 days ago Although there are other dance music subgenres Black people are behind (Miami bass, New Orleans bounce), it's ...

Our staff's favorite dance albums from the year that was. Once again and as always, the dance albums released in 2025 served as a reminder of the genre’s vastness. But while on the surface bass might ...

Kobi Danan’s Hollywood nightclub Sound is a home base for Israeli dance music expats in Los Angeles. Danan, who is Israeli, has lived in L.A. for two decades but cherishes the close-knit circle of ...

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s 19th-century play Faust has a line that says, “I have no name for it! Feeling is all: Names are sound and smoke…” In many ways, this line speaks to the transient nature of ...

Brooklyn-based TV on the Radio has steadily evolved its blend of politics-driven-electro-rock from occasionally scattered and disjointed efforts to a great mix of pop dance tunes and brooding ballads ...