Techno is Black music. So is house. And footwork. And dubstep. Pretty much all dance music as we know it is rooted in funk, soul, and disco, which is to say that it is rooted in fundamentally Black ...

The Electronic Music Festival in Santa Cruz is paying tribute this week to the art of making music with electronic devices. It's only the 2nd such festival ever to be conducted in the country, and ...

EAST LANSING, Mich.(WLNS)—In honor of Black History Month, the MSU Museum is hosting a unique exhibit celebrating Detroit, and its connection to music. “Techno, The Rise of Detroit’s Machine Music” ...

A new exhibit at the Michigan State University Museum celebrates Detroit as the birthplace of techno music in the 1980s and '90s and how the genre has progressed to today. "Techno: The Rise of Detroit ...

Techno often is thought of as the most European form of pop music, a style of electronic beeps and blips engineered in a lab outside Berlin. But the machine-like beats of techno are also rooted in the ...

From Detroit to Budapest, each major city has its own distinct style of techno but no country embraces the genre quite like Germany. It’s an affinity rooted in history, particularly around the fall of ...

What is a night out? In my limited world-view as a white kid from western Michigan, I would think it means pregaming with some friends and then ending up in a room that’s way too small and way too hot ...

A new genre of music originating from Boston’s indie scene and conservatory institutions is taking root throughout nightclubs in the United States and abroad. These sounds are spearheaded by DJ Chaia, ...

Techno: A universal language. No matter your native tongue, the myriad beats that define the genre can be understood by all. By cultivating emotions, causing movement, forming sounds and generating ...

Carla Vecchiola is affiliated with Exhibit 3000. For over two decades, Detroit has celebrated its status as the birthplace of techno with an electronic music festival held over Memorial Day weekend.