2002, Tricia Romano, "Electro Trash," Village Voice, July 16"Genres are so boring," said Scotsman Broon, one-half of the tech-house duo, as he scanned the cover of XLR8R magazine hyping "Dubstep" while shopping at Etherea record store.
2006, Mary Gaitskill, Daphne Carr, Da Capo Best Music Writing 2006...of course, a lot of grime producers and dubstep producers freely admit to FL being their primary tool, and the software is increasingly being used...
2007, Michael E Veal, Dub: Soundscapes and Shattered Songs in Jamaican Reggae‎...reflect broader class strategies within English society, and the same can be said for more recent genre mutations such as dubstep and grime.
2008, Matt Mason, The Pirate's Dilemma: How Youth Culture Is Reinventing CapitalismAcid house, hard-core, drum 'n' bass, UK garage, grime, and dubstep are just a handful of now worldwide underground movements that developed in this way.
2012, June 26, Genevieve Koski, Music: Reviews: Justin Bieber: Believe, But musical ancestry aside, the influence to which Bieber is most beholden is the current trends in pop music, which means Believe is loaded up with EDM accouterments, seeking a comfortable middle ground where Bieber’s impressively refined pop-R&B croon can rub up on techno blasts and garish dubstep drops (and occasionally grind on some AutoTune, not necessarily because it needs it, but because a certain amount of robo-voice is expected these days).