Thursday night, as the free-cocktail-stained chaos of Fashion's Night Out was just starting to descend upon lower Manhattan, I clambered up the stairs into a third-floor classroom at Dubspot, the 14th Street haven for aspiring DJs and producers. The occasion was a master class by Adrian Sherwood, the British music impresario known for his work in the boomy, reverb-filled genre of dub; the class was part of the Dub Invasion Festival, a 10-day celebration of the genre's past, present, and future. (Events, including a master class taught by the UK dub producer Mad Professor, continue around the... More >>>