Love it or hate it, it’s looking inevitable: dubstep isn’t going anywhere for awhile, and a lot of ambitious metalheads are pairing their riffs up with wobble wobble sounds in a bid for commercial ...

The pressure to move things forward fuels music’s development. But which way is forward? For dubstep, the current hottest sound of the London underground, forward means down, questing to see just how ...

January 2006 is a landmark date for the six-year-old sound of dubstep. In one weekend, through the coincidence of two massive events-- DMZ and Radio 1's Dubstep Warz-- the scene has gone through ...

These are the words of ZHA. As the DJ and producer behind cult hybrid bass label Fent Plates and White Peach, a label and distribution company that specialises strictly in dubstep and grime, his words ...

Watch the video of "Katy on a Mission" by Katy B: Regular readers of theartsdesk will know that I have written extensively about the sound's cultural and artistic significance (here, here, here and ...

When music blogger and photographer Georgina Cook announced a Kickstarter campaign for a book about London's dubstep scene, she was blown away by the response. Here, she talks about Drumz Of The South ...

Dubstep might be the genre that everyone's talking about at the moment, but unless you're on the scene, you might struggle to describe how it sounds. There are two primary characteristics. Firstly, it ...