The festival season is just around the corner. Those who prefer to focus on a specific music genre will find what they're looking for at German festivals. These music events primarily spotlight one ...

Even at eight albums in, Avenged Sevenfold are continuing to evolve. A case in point comes when you look at some of the influences for their upcoming album, Life Is But a Dream..., with M. Shadows ...

The rise of electronic dance music (EDM) has been nothing short of meteoric over the past decade. What started as a niche movement in underground clubs has now evolved into a global cultural ...

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Aigel are the dark electronic hip-hop duo of Tatarstan poet and vocalist Aigel Gaisina and Russian musician and producer Ilya Baramiya. The two came together in 2016 when Gaisina asked Baramiya to ...

Today Electronic Arts and Criterion Games announced the artists and songs that will be included in the soundtrack of Need for Speed Unbound. Of course, A$AP Rocky and ...

Too hip-hop for Warp, not gangsta enough for Def Jam, Apsci have a name that stands for Applied Science, and they earn it. Hailing respectively from Jersey and Australia, husband and wife Raphael La ...

What starts as an exploration of the Beatles’ infamous “Revolution 9” quickly becomes a journey through one of the most radical artistic movements in music history. Long before hip-hop sampling, ...

Musical chameleon Beck Hansen, a 36-year-old Los Angeles native, has an unusual definition of "hip-hop." With little resemblance to the recently developed conventions pioneered by the genre's modern ...

Afrika Bambaataa, the pioneering rapper, producer and DJ who created arguably the first fusion of rap and electronic music with 1982’s “Planet Rock” and others hits but whose legacy was later ...