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 ...

From top left to bottom right: Jamie xx (courtesy of Jamie xx), Peggy Gou (courtesy of Park Jongh Ha), Olan (courtesy of Meagan Rodriguez), Isoxo (courtesy of Isoxo) and Two Shell (courtesy of Two ...

What do we mean by “dance songs”? Good question. In a sense, any song that ever got any one person moving in any perceptible direction is a dance song. The Beatles made great dance songs — as did ...

Beyoncé’s sample of Donna Summer on “Summer Renaissance” won’t just call back to disco’s greatest — it’ll also call back to a time Beyoncé interpolated the “Last Dance” singer. Though “Naughty Girl” ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Where to club, which artists to follow, five songs you’ve got to hear and more. Where to club, which artists to follow, five songs you’ve got to hear and more. Credit...David ...

After the rave explosion of the '90s, things quieted down on the dance music front in the early 2000s. With major crackdowns on both sides of the Atlantic, the scene retreated back to the clubs.

Ellen Allien is a German electronic musician and producer, and the founder of the techno label BPitch Control. Kraftwerk, “Das Model” Biggest input for my ears when I was a little girl. They changed ...

While it’s nice to see artists playing some of your favorite songs, sometimes it gets boring to watch a standard performance video. You know the ones: a band performing on stage or in an empty garage, ...

Electronic dance music took center stage in U.S. popular mainstream music in 2012. Not only did proven artists and groups such as David Guetta and Calvin Harris gain renown recognition for their work, ...

There’s a lot of hype around amapiano. The South African dance music genre has dominated dancefloors since 2019, spreading from South Africa to West Africa and now to the world. But it’s time to peer ...

We wouldn’t trade our kids for the world, but it does seem like we already traded our musical freedom for them. Our days of having total control over our playlists are over, and no matter how many ...