Just as electronic music feels like it’s dying, a new artist always seems to come in and breathe life into what is sometimes seen as a tired format. Clean Bandit have done just that, bringing a ...

Dvorak meets dance: What do you get when you combine strings, samples and synths? An ingenious U.K. quartet known as Clean Bandit, whose marriage of electronic and classical music has become a global ...

LCD Soundsystem killed Wednesday night at Emo's. The Brooklyn-hailing outfit packed out the second of three sold out nights in Austin for their 2025 tour. Fans went into the show blind as the band has ...

Discovering a signature sound is the holy grail of pop music. There’s no Pink Floyd without David Gilmour’s sweeping guitar lines. Remove Dr Dre's incendiary production, and NWA's lyrics lose some of ...

A couple years ago, an unofficial video for LCD Soundsystem‘s “New York, I Love You But You’re Bringing Me Down” had Kermit the Frog lip-synching frontman James Murphy’s words. It was brilliant, and ...

The dancefloor's 100 most essential tracks. The term “dance music” may conjure visions of heaving clubs, packed festival tents and partying with abandon, and certainly these concepts are a substantial ...

On this edition of All Songs Considered, host Bob Boilen talks with NPR Music's Frannie Kelley, Amy Schriefer and Sami Yenigun about their favorite songs for getting your "groove" on and shaking your ...

It had been officially closed for more than a decade when a July 3 fire destroyed the ancient skeleton of Fred's Dance Barn on the outskirts of Carterville. The huge oak dance floor was a place local ...

Few periods in music history have been as vibrant as the 2000s. During this uproar of musical excitement, a collection of memorable dance moves emerged and became synonymous with the era. Despite some ...