For decades, house music has shaped pop worldwide—but many of the spaces that birthed it here disappeared so quickly they barely left a trace. By Leor Galil @imLeor “It was a time when people didn’t put as much emphasis on the DJs or the performer per se, and really danced and enjoyed themselves.” —DJ and producer [...]
KWAZULU-NATAL / 2 APRIL 2019, 11:25AM / MPHATHI NXUMALO Holly Wasserfall aka Holly Rey a South African house musician graduated from the University of KwaZulu-Natal on Monday with an Honours degree in Media studies. Picture: Abhi Indrarajan/UKZN House Musician, Ms Holly Wasserfall, aka Holly Rey graduated with an Honours degree in Media and Communication Cum Laude, from [...]
The company’s slide into music deepens this summer! 04/02/19 First Kanye West was awarded a premium membership for life before he was asked to be the creative director for the Pornhub Awards. Then banned UK drill videos were being uploaded to the porn site before the titan of adult movies announced a Valentine's Day album featuring a host of rap [...]
Ultra Fest Colonel Sanders .@KFC bought Colonel Sanders a slot on the @Ultra main stage, and this happened. 🐔🥚😂 | 📹: @1001TLtv pic.twitter.com/8qZfUZ7G4K — Festive Owl (@TheFestiveOwl) March 29, 2019 This weekend Ultra Music Festival descended on Miami for the 21st annual edition of the flagship electronic music event. Much like previous years, the [...]
Ultra Music Festival Virginia Keys Beach, Miami Florida. The judge in favor of Ultra Music Festival, Dismisses Rapture Lawsuit Earlier today, February 4th, Miami Judge has ruled in favor of Ultra Music Festival by dismissing the lawsuit pending against them by the team behind the Rapture Music Festival. The lawsuit was due to [...]
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House music is gay music. The sound emerged from the queer black and latinx club cultures of New York and Chicago in the ’80s. Strangely, these roots of the culture are not very well represented on the global touring club circuit today. There seem to be fewer big name openly queer touring DJs than their straight cis-gendered peers. [...]
Moodymann displayed his unique take on the Detroit sound during his closing set in the Blue Room during Detroit Love at TV Lounge in Detroit on Saturday, March 7, 2015. (Photo: John Froelich, Special to the Detroit Free Pres) Highland Park police officers pulled their guns on Detroit DJ Moodymann during a confrontation outside his [...]
Over a career spanning four decades, the pioneering DJ Paul ‘Trouble’ Anderson, who has passed away after a long fight with cancer, could claim to have been at the forefront of most of the significant shifts in UK club culture. From the youth clubs and soul scene of the seventies right through to the global [...]
Posted by sofia | Nov 16, 2018 | News The International Nightlife Association has published the list of The World's 100 Best Clubs. Up to 37 different countries have been integrated, Spain is the leader with 22 different institutions. Barely followed by the United States, which has 16 clubs. The UK also has nine mega clubs in store. Germany is represented only with two [...]