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 [...]
In case you don’t know — and chances are pretty good that if you aren’t from Chicago or a house music-head, you may not — the picture above is that of Frankie Knuckles. Knuckles, who passed away in 2014, is commonly known as the “Godfather of House Music,” but he may as well be [...]
Back in Millennium Park for the 4th year running. November 6th,2018 The amazing people at the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events have announced their 2019 calendar, and there are a lot of reasons to get excited about: house music and electronic music are once again well-represented. To [...]
The DJ was found to have 0.3 grams of MDMA on him earlier this month Jamie Macwhirter | 26 OCTOBER 2018 David Morales has been released without charge following his arrest for drug possession in Japan earlier this month. Morales was detained at Fukuoka airport in southern Japan on October 7 when customs officials found [...]
Miami Beach Winter Music Conference Newly refreshed under the Ultra Worldwide umbrella VALERIE LEE 30 OCTOBER 2018 Winter Music Conference, which was purchased by Ultra Worldwide in March of this year, has announced its plan for a relaunch and return in 2019. Returning to Miami Beach from March 25 through 28, 2019's WMC will [...]
Moody Man By Kish Lal There’s a profound difference between the music of hip-house pioneers and the modern-day hip-hop crossovers of Drake and Moodymann. It began back in the late '80s with Tyree Cooper claiming Turn Up The Bass to be the "first hip-house record on vinyl.” It was a vainglorious declaration opposed by [...]
Rhian DalyOct 28, 2018 7:05 pm Daft Punk Follow Daft Punk and never miss new tour announcements Follow Powered by The song featured on a film soundtrack in 2017 A 14-minute techno track by Daft Punk‘s Thomas Bangalter has been shared online in full. The song was originally composed for the soundtrack of Latvian film Riga [...]