But a relatively short time after its creation, the complexity and expense of maintaining the wall catalyzed the band’s first ...

A new creative space is bringing analog sound and digital innovation under one roof. Before and After Sound Lab, a private-membership vinyl lounge and recording studio, is ...

12th Knot, the rooftop bar at London’s Sea Containers hotel, has a new sound to match its chic, scenic views. Working with 1 SOUND’s U.K. distributor CUK Group, London-based integrator Tateside ...

Dexta Daps and production duo DASECA talk to Billboard about Lorde sampling their "Morning Love" track 10 years post-release.

It's been a scorching summer so far, and it's just as intense in our test rooms as we have a collection of exciting products in for review this month – many of which bring hotly anticipated ...

Gemini was the biggest sound system from Jamaica. This must have been massive to have them fly over somewhere else where sound system culture was thriving, and play. I picture everything like how it ...

The Notorious B.I.G.—the child of Jamaican immigrants whose Bed-Stuy stomping grounds weren’t far from Flatbush’s dancehall epicenter—even did a dub plate for LP International Sound System.

Over time sound clashes emerged, as the competitive nature of Jamaicans fueled the desire to prove whose soundsystem was the best. The blueprint of soundystem culture - speaker stacks, amplifiers, ...

All it took was heat, barrels of homemade hooch, a microphone and sound system, and “80 people in there, all crammed.” Parting Shot: “This is where I was forced to grow up.

However, sound system culture is expanding beyond this tradition. To use London as an example, there are queer POC and trans-led Black Obsidian Sound Systems as well as Linette Kamala’s ‘Original ...