The wider world knows him as host of VH1’s “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” but RuPaul has been a New York legend since the 1980s. Back then, he was a fixture in the city’s gloriously grimy club scene, performing not only in drag shows, but with his new wave band Wee Wee Pole. Now 56, the man [...]
A DJ, Producer, and mixmaster, Chewy Vega started when he was 15 years old. Within a few short years, he quickly made a name for himself by sharing the decks with internationally renowned DJs such as Tiesto, David Guetta, Bob Sinclar, John Digweed, Ferry Corsten, Chuck Love, Paul Johnson, JT Donaldson, Andy Caldwell, Marques Wyatt, Miguel Migs, [...]
12 Open Air Venues You Need to Visit This Summer February 2, 2017/in Features, News, Uncategorized /by Lee Trotter If there’s one supreme thing to look forward to during the summer it’s open air parties. Warm weather and blue skies overhead as lush house grooves emit from the speakers – it’s a hard scenario to beat. Throughout summer it’s [...]
The Paradise Garage Facebook page has unearthed a 50-minute video of its famous resident DJ playing at The Choice in New York City in 1989, a couple of years after his more famous stomping ground closed its doors. The footage is raw and pretty weird at points – for every clip of dancers getting down to Black [...]
Since we’re all about dancing here we made a list of DJs that really make us lose our $hit. In no specific order including NYC legends, locals, up n comers and international visitors/superstars…..here are some of our favorite selectors guaranteed to make you Dance! . Stay tuned….there will be a part 2! We left plenty [...]
(SBS Slammer www.sbsSLAMMER.com is a hand made Pro Audiophile sound system by SBS Designs and is a sub division of SBS Designs) The SBS Slammer A Custom Designed one of a kind Hand built night club sound system that is processed and powered by SBS Designs built around each applications. The one of a kind [...]
Photo courtesy of Channel 4 Channel 4’s ‘I Was There When House Took Over the World’ features Nile Rodgers, Marshall Jefferson, Honey Dijon, and more. British television broadcaster Channel 4, the team behind vital 2001 dance-music documentary series Pump Up the Volume: The History of House Music, have shared a new project chronicling the genre's origins, [...]
In honor of its 35th anniversary, RA's Jacob Arnold looks back at the origins and the heyday of the legendary Chicago nightspot. In the mid-'70s, Chicago was still America's second largest city. Yet after the financial collapse of a number of independent soul labels a few years earlier, its recording industry was virtually non-existent, and [...]
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The year is 1978, and a young Kerri Camar Chandler has, as usual, patiently waited for his father Joe to take off and do his hustle on the streets of East Orange, New Jersey. The front door closes; from behind the drapes Kerri furtively peeks out of the window as Joe swings a skinny leg [...]
