City pop is a genre of Japanese popular music that was popular in the 1980s and featured a “cosmopolitan” image that appealed to those who benefited from the so-called post-war “economic miracle,” an ...

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: I ...

Despite its global popularity, the "cosmic" sound emerged from the records played by forward-thinking Italian DJs like Daniele Baldelli. Few DJs can claim to have had such a lasting impact as Daniele ...

Ion Dumitrescu: Paul, I wanted to start out by talking about the transitional period between so- called “proto-manele” and today’s manele. I know you’ve extensively investigated the timeframe between ...

Festival season kicks off in Romania today with the 12th annual edition of the experimental music and art festival Rokolectiv in Bucharest, which will be followed next week by the famous seaside ...

Michail Todua, now 33, has been in prison for five years. A Georgian native who grew up in the capital city of Tbilisi, he spent his life as a DJ and party promoter before being randomly stopped on ...

From Bunker in Berlin to Ultraschall in Munich, these now-closed clubs are the places where Germany's electronic dance music scene developed. In the aftermath of the acid house and techno booms in the ...

House is a continuation of disco. You can hear that easily in its arrangement and in its sound, which samples and pulls liberally from the popular club music of the ’70s and early ’80s. And, in fact, ...

Spanish music journalist Yasmina Elkak dives into the sound of the country's wildest clubbing route, from its origins in the '80s up to its end in the 90s. As a child raised during the 90s in Valencia ...

U.S. heavyweights like Joe Claussell, Dennis Ferrer and Timmy Regisford have all passed through the venue, while Nina Kraviz made vital steps towards super stardom through her Voices residency at the ...

There was a key moment during Kelela’s Take Me Apart concert at Berghain, just before the artist launched into “Better,” when the room suddenly illuminated in soft monochrome lights and subdued shades ...

Last month, we revealed part one of our in-depth feature on African-American roller skating communities, and before we unveil the second installment, we’ve decided to roll out an exclusive interview ...