It's Wednesday morning,. It's Miami Music Week. I'm at 11th Street Diner and I'm surrounded by house music excellence. How lucky am I? VERY!! 11th St Diner transformed from a casual breakfast spot into a productive salon for the future of house music with a brunch hosted by industry legends Barbara Tucker and [...]
Nuits Montréal builds off previous pilot projects to establish a formal framework for venue certification. The city of Montréal has announced its new Nuits Montréal ("Montréal Nights") framework along with a list of establishments approved for extended opening hours. Nuits Montréal solidifies a series of pilot projects launched in 2024 in conjunction with [...]
Brooklyn club Paragon will host the free event on April 11th. A new nightlife conference, Beyond the Dancefloor, is coming to New York City. Taking over Brooklyn club Paragon on Saturday, April 11th, it consists of three panel discussions. The free event is described as a "public convening on sustainability, power and accountability" [...]
UK Music's Ammo Talwar has praised the “phenomenal cultural force” of Black music, which equates to a huge £24.5 billion in revenue *This story was amended on 26/03 to highlight that music genres of Black origin make up the 80% figure included in this report. Music genres of Black origin contributed 80% to the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
tripmagazine.jpg A new book reproduces every issue of the seminal Florida rave magazine, Trip Magazine, spotlighting an overlooked chapter in dance music history. The kids down in Florida had a massively outsized role in the evolution of the American rave scene. While everyone had heard of and many were catalyzed by the Storm [...]
Thirty years into this thing we do, and I’m still hearing the same tired argument: electronic music isn’t political; it’s just escapism, just hedonism, just 4/4 music and ravers preaching PLUR in dark rooms. If I had a quid for every time someone’s tried to tell me (or I see it as a comment [...]