When the footwork craze first erupted out of Chicago, few were able to put names to the music behind the wild dancing. Gradually, though, DJ Rashad and DJ Spinn emerged as prime movers, South Side ...

Over the years, RBMA has brought together artists for joint lectures on the couch. For our New York Festival in 2016, it was the turn of three beatmakers from hip-hop’s biggest hit-making city of ...

The Red Bull Music Academy Festival Paris returned to the French capital for the third straight year, following 2016’s inaugural edition of the festival and RBMA Paris 2015 before that. From September ...

Bob Moog changed the face of popular music by producing the first ever commercially available synthesizers. The first Moog Modular was knocked up for fun as a project for his musician friend Herbert ...

A singer, songwriter, producer and actress, Janelle Monáe has been electrifying audiences with her hybrid brand of Afrofuturist funk, soul and R&B since her 2010 debut LP The ArchAndroid. Most ...

Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis are one of the greatest songwriting and producing duos in music history. Meeting in the same ’70s Minneapolis music scene that produced Prince, the pair formed the band Flyte ...

Tony Dawsey is the guy that people like DJ Premier and Jay-Z (and many, many others) look to when they need perfect sound for their records. You could spend hours with this super-humble New York ...

Derrick May is a true living legend. As one-third of the Belleville Three, along with his school friends Juan Atkins and Kevin Saunderson, he helped create what became Detroit techno – a movement that ...

Since 2010, RBMA’s newspaper the Daily Note has celebrated top quality music journalism in print. Produced initially for RBMA editions in London (2010) and New York (2013), the Daily Note newspapers ...

Edwin “Win” Butler III is the lead vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter for Canadian band Arcade Fire. Known for their symphonic pop-dance-rock-noise arrangements, surrealist music arena ...

Indie dance don and acid house shapeshifter Andrew Weatherall has been around more blocks than there are in Brooklyn. As remixer extraordinaire, he made sure Primal Scream’s “Loaded” was the ...

Joe Goddard is more than just the man behind Hot Chip’s electro-pop sound. He’s also London’s premier producer for hire, ace DJ and one half of the Greco-Roman club night and label, as well as US ...