Detail from the cover of 1438: Midwest Jungle, Techno, & Rave Culture Credit: Courtesy Aria Pedraza I love absorbing as much about dance music as I possibly can, even beyond writing about it for my ...

Why does it seem like dance music has got so hard and fast recently? Isaac Muk investigates, exploring the impact of a new generation of "play harder" clubbers and artists, social media and economic ...

In the TikTok era, people were filming rather than dancing. “I’d rather live in the moment and feel the joy,” one reveler said.

It placed Sadler’s Wells in the company of many other cultural institutions recently trying to bridge the gap between the museum and the dance floor. As both a longtime raver and a culture writer, ...

It’s common knowledge that Silicon Valley has been the epicenter of the digital revolution as we know it since the late 1980s. A lesser known fact is how intertwined the tech world and the then ...

From Detroit to Budapest, each major city has its own distinct style of techno but no country embraces the genre quite like Germany. It’s an affinity rooted in history, particularly around the fall of ...

“When I use the term ‘EDM,’ I’m not referring to the entirety of the history of dance music,” Michaelangelo Matos explains to Sven Von Thülen. “I mean the stuff that has risen to prominence, ...

Social media lit up last week with claims that Pope Leo XIV “threw a rave” outside St. Elisabeth Cathedral in Košice, ...

The music was cranked so loud the building vibrated. Lights flashed and spun across hundreds of faces. Smoke enveloped everyone and everything in the darkened room until the only thing left was the ...

Towards the end of last year, a mild frisson developed on dance blogs and forums regarding the diminishing merits of minimal techno. Why the fuss over a genre big in Germany but with a profile as low ...