Positive mutations.
Electronic dance music is winning. Turn on the radio, look at the Billboard charts, check YouTube views, gaze at attendance numbers for EDM festivals—you’ll see a dominant force sweeping the mainstream and making commercial rock’s once-formidable punch seem feeble. Actually, not sweeping. Swept.
Music journalist (and former Seattleite) Michaelangelo Matos has spent the last three-plus years working on his new book, The Underground Is Massive: How Electronic Dance Music Has Conquered America. To grasp the music’s trajectory from slowly percolating underground house and techno movements in Chicago and Detroit created mostly by people of color to a multibillion-dollar industry aimed mostly at suburban whites…
