It's already time to celebrate the best of 2009, and we start with a look at the top records in the worlds of dubstep, wonky, grime, and funky. No summary of the year in dubstep would be complete ...

If you were looking for something to believe in this last decade, you couldn't have done much better than that zone of music some of us have taken to calling the hardcore continuum. In the noughties, ...

It's been a month of big events for grime. First, last week's Rinse FM station party. Open to station DJs and their guests only, it featured sets from Karnage, Target, Hatcha, Geeneus, and Essentials ...

Preditah has enjoyed a whirlwind five years since debuting at Fabric back in 2012, but remains one of grime’s most sought-after producers. Having broken through as a grime beat-making protege, he’s ...

With too many special effects, and not enough that's really special, the days of dubstep are numbered. At the risk of making myself unpopular with a growing number of people, I'm going to be a bit ...

Elijah: For the heads and novices alike, grime has always been a difficult scene to keep track of. In the early years it produced many talented MCs – Dizzee Rascal, Wiley, Kano, JME, Skepta to name a ...

For the past 10 years, local collective Grime City has been transporting dancefloors to the bass-filled underground atmospheres of London 2-step and U.K. garage parties. Born in 2005 by a group of DJs ...

Dupstep/pop artist Katy B performs at this summer's V Festival Dubstep and grime have been listed as new words in the latest edition of the Chambers dictionary. Dubstep is defined as a "type of ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The title refers to the east London district of Bow where Dizzee Rascal grew up as Dylan Mills, an “E3 African” ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Distance’s third LP (and his first for Tectonic) is arguably the best of his career so far. Inspired by a move away from his favoured 140bpm template, ‘Dynamis’ feels in tune with the work pioneered ...