In recent years, especially during the post-COVID era, there has been a lot of buzz around the closure of long-standing clubs, with some wondering if club culture is dying. Simultaneously, electronic ...

If there’s one producer who stands at the convergence of trap, drill, and EDM it is most certainly AraabMuzik, who today coincidentally (!) released a compilation entitled Trap vs. Drill vs. EDM. The ...

In a recent interview with Angie Martinez, T.I. said--among other things--that he created trap music. “There was no such thing as trap music prior to [T.I.]," he said. "No such thing. It didn’t exist.

Trap is the perfect crossover between EDM and hip-hop. In fact, this genre is responsible for some of music’s hottest artists, from T.I. and Waka Flocka to, more recently, RL Grime and Flosstradamus.

What is trap music? According to T.I., on the title track of his genre-defining Trap Muzik, it ain’t no album and it ain’t no game. Indeed, the origins of trap go beyond music — beyond even the ...

The Roland-TR808 is the backbone of a lot of trap rap and EDM, and now the two genres are beginning to intersect. Credit: Joe Holmes In the mid-aughts a wave of steely-eyed southern rappers introduced ...

Washington-born DJ Carnage has a penchant for the unruly. The pioneer of EDM trap music is known for his thundering beats and his ability to crank up any party — so, naturally, his fans showed up to ...

Electronic dance music (EDM) has existed since the 1970s, despite many believing that the musical genre manifested much later. Despite its perceived newness, EDM showcases the timeless tunes that ...

For more than ten years, Chicago electronic-music project Flosstradamus was a duo comprising Curt Cameruci and Josh Young. Together the pair rose up to be one of the United States’ most popular and ...

"A Rational Conversation" is a column by writer Eric Ducker in which he gets on iChat or Gchat or the phone or whatever with a special guest to examine a music-related subject that's entered the pop ...