Leeds native George Evelyn formed Nightmares On Wax in the late ‘80s in a scene teeming with hip-hop and b-boy culture. He got his start dancing before eventually beginning to DJ. Eventually, Evelyn ...

Since its inception in 2000, Telekom Electronic Beats has been shaping and connecting European youth culture. The program operates at the intersection of music, club culture, art, fashion and ...

Back in the ’90s, Sony’s PlayStation video game console helped to usher in a new era for sound in gaming. The PlayStation was one of the first consoles to use CDs instead of cartridges, which allowed ...

Max Dax met Jimmy Somerville in a nameless posh hotel along a nameless, not-so-posh street near Alexanderplatz in Berlin. Muzak wafted through the speakers in the hotel lobby, but the filter coffee ...

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 ...

A quarter century of Electronic Beats—now that’s a milestone worth celebrating. Over the years, we’ve championed the latest trends and spotlighted the most elusive artists. For our anniversary, we’re ...

The London-based artist shares the sonic and visual imprint that informs his dreamlike canvas.

In June, three young men—two musicians and one filmmaker—started a three-year jail sentence in Iran for distributing underground music that hadn’t been licensed by Iran’s Ministry of Culture and ...

In 1981, when I was 16, my parents let me travel by myself for the first time, so I jumped in a car with a friend and took off for West Berlin. Back then, my home town, Vienna, was ultra-conservative ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...