North America's biggest week in electronic music approaches. Here's what you need to know. Detroit Mayor Mary Sheffield has just declared this week as Detroit Techno Week. From May 20th through 26th, the Motor City will be awash with house, techno, electro and more as the international music community arrives for not just Movement [...]
A movement born from New York dance floors found its voice in Amsterdam. Elliott Matos didn’t just build parties—he built GDE, a cultural force that reconnected house music with its queer, Black, and underground roots at Amsterdam Dance Event. Introduction: The Story Behind the Spotlight There are two histories of house music. One lives [...]
Ahead of its opening in June, Pacha New York – the newly rebranded Williamsburg venue formerly known as Brooklyn Mirage – has unveiled a “comprehensive” safety plan. It follows several safety-related road bumps hit by Brooklyn Mirage during its short tenure. In 2023, two people were found dead and another was allegedly kidnapped after leaving the venue, leading [...]
In the '80s and '90s, these spaces birthed dance icons, genres and subcultures. Why do so few remain? madison moore charts their decline and lifelong impact. In the scholar E. Patrick Johnson's 2021 essay Remember the Time: Black Queer Nightlife in the South, he recalled the fading age in question with fairy-tale enchantment: "Once upon [...]
The one-off event will include conversations, workshops, listening experiences, and a gallery tour celebrating queerness Honey Dijon is set to curate a special one-off exhibition at London’s Tate Modern gallery next week as part of LGBTQIA+ History Month. The one-night event will take place on Friday, 27th February and will include conversations, workshops, listening [...]
While nightclub attendance is on the decline, interest in dance music is “not declining” — with unlicensed events growing by 34% last year Free parties now account for 15% of all electronic music programming across the UK, according to the latest annual report from the Night Time Industries Association (NTIA). The fourth Electronic Music Report was published [...]
At Brooklyn’s “hi-def dance club” Refuge, two mainstays of New York nightlife have joined forces to execute their vision of the perfect club, building on the city’s mighty legacy and carrying that inspiration forward into the future. Patrick Hinton headed out to the debut of legendary Detroit-meets-New York party No Way Back at Refuge [...]
A near-endless array of dance music documentaries have been released in recent years, but what makes one work? Is it an impressive cast of interviewees? Exclusive anecdotes? A clever use of archive footage? Top needle drops? The human story at its heart? Here, Wrongtom looks at some examples to work out what qualities can [...]
The Brooklyn Mirage spent 2025 in bankruptcy court instead of hosting raves, but Pacha plans to revive the shuttered nightlife complex starting in June 2026 with a five-month programming push. The storied nightlife brand has announced its first season at the old Avant Gardner complex, where it will absorb operational duties for the embattled [...]
The Masters At Work and Nuyorican Soul veteran takes over the 2,000-capacity venue HERE at Outernet this spring Photo Credit: Christelle de Castro Louie Vega is hosting his first "all-night-long" gig in London this spring. The Masters At Work veteran will take over the decks at 2,000-capacity Charing Cross venue HERE at Outernet from 8 PM to [...]