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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Ambient is more than a genre. It’s a blank canvas with no rules and no structures. Shaped by geography and generations, it’s open to experimentation with sound, texture and space. That’s why it traces ...