In Los Angeles, a new wave of warehouse parties is reshaping the city’s queer underground nightlife. Presenting a deliberate alternative to the mainstream gay bars and circuit parties where white, cisgender men and commercial interests have historically dominated, gatherings like Signal Underground, Por Detroit and Take It Outside are overcoming prohibitive costs and a [...]
A high-energy b2b from two stars of house music's next generation, HoneyLuv & TSHA, recorded live at Ushuaïa Ibiza's fabled Saturday soirée, ANTS. https://youtu.be/LZ2nM5yj2Q4?si=LHC2mSlMV1RJOKX3
Housed in a 19th century industrial complex in Brooklyn, Refuge is a brand new venue that wants to revive the spirit of New York nightlife's golden age, using bygone spots like Paradise Garage and The Sound Factory, as well as iconic international hubs like Space Ibiza, as reference points for its 'hi-fi dance club'. With an [...]
Launched in 1994 by Chicago’s Derrick Carter and British DJ Luke Solomon, few labels have celebrated the outsiders' take on house music like Classic Music Company. The imprint's back catalogue boasts serious pedigree, releasing classics from the likes of Gemini, Brett Johnson, Blaze, Rob Mello and Roy Davis Jr., to Isolée, Herbert, Honey [...]
Shimza is South Africa’s great showman: a deeply technical and highly engaging DJ, who’s helped pioneer Afro-tech, and cross-pollinated global house sounds in his sets and productions. As he wraps an Ibiza residency and prepares his sophomore album, Ria Hylton speaks to Shimza and others in the South African electronic community to find [...]
The new track is taken from Honey Dijon’s newly-released entry in the DJ-Kicks series. Honey Dijon has shared a new a track, ‘Finding My Way’, which features Ben Westbeech. The new track appears exclusively on the new edition of !K7’s DJ-Kicks mix series, which Honey Dijon has curated. Also featured on the tracklist [...]
The system is able to separate stereo tracks into discrete stems live, "marking a new era for club sound" L-Acoustics has announced a spatial audio interface for the DJ booth. Launching with a series of live demos at the upcoming 2025 Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE) — which takes place in the city from 22nd – 26th [...]
The space's first event, an ambient night with sets from Madison Moore and Shaun J. Wright, takes place in early October A new not-for-profit music and community space, Queer Nightlife Community Center (QNCC), is opening in New York. Pronounced 'kink', the venue and team behind it have been established to dedicated to "empower queer, trans, and [...]
Spotify Premium users will now be able to integrate the streaming giant's catalogue of over 100 million tracks with rekordbox and Serato DJ AlphaTheta and Serato have announced Spotify integration for rekordbox and Serato DJ. Spotify Premium users with either rekordbox, or Serato DJ Pro or Serato DJ Lite, will now be able to [...]
An Italian man has set the Guinness World Record for the largest collection of nightclub and rave flyers. Marco Brusadelli, from Cisano Bergamasco, broke the record with his collection of 113,012 flyers dating from between 1985 and 2015. Comprising posters from major clubs, parties and DJs around the world, his stock spans everything from [...]