Music Industry 101: BT Style: Balancing Your Way Through the Industry (Book by Barbara Tucker)

By |2025-08-06T21:10:12-04:00August 6th, 2025|Announcements, Clubs - Nightlife, Dance Music, Editorial, Entertaiment, House, House Music, House Music History, International, Music, New Release, Review, Women|

  Version 1.0.0 Review by Michele Sensale I just finished reading Music Industry 101: BT Style: Balancing Your Way Through the Industry by Ms. Barbara Tucker. This book provides an in-depth and comprehensive look at the music industry from someone who is a legend in her own right.  Ms. Tucker's book is a [...]

A History of Ballroom Anthems in Ten Tracks (Resident Advisor)

By |2025-07-21T23:07:50-04:00July 21st, 2025|Clubs - Nightlife, Dance Music, Disco, DJ, House, House Music, House Music History, LGBTQIA+, playlist, Resident Advisor, Review, Trans|

  Kevin Aviance is one of the most iconic ballroom artists of all time, still leading the movement today. From Diana Ross to Kevin JZ Prodigy, he charts the history of a genre shaped by New York's queer underground. Kevin Aviance almost never made it in the ballroom scene. In the early '90s, when the [...]

New York City Legend Tedd Patterson Releases His Second Track of 2025: “Do It Again” feat. Joi Cardwell (Magnetic Magazine)

By |2025-05-02T19:12:42-04:00May 2nd, 2025|Clubs - Nightlife, Dance Music, DJ, Entertaiment, House, House Music, Music News, New Release, New York, producer, Promotional, Review|

teddpatterson.jpg One of NYC’s finest DJs, Tedd Patterson, is back with his first artist release (and second overall) of 2025: the sublime and emotionally charged “Do It Again“, featuring powerhouse vocalist Joi Cardwell. Dropping May 2 via SoSure Music, the track is another bold declaration of Tedd’s devotion to classic vocal house, delivered with the flair [...]

RANE teases update to motorised DJ controller, ONE (DJ Mag)

By |2025-01-30T20:19:08-05:00January 30th, 2025|Announcements, Digital Dj Tips, DJ, DJ Equipment Tools Software, DJ Mag, electronic music, Review|

  The RANE ONE MKII was part of the company’s booth at NAMM   RANE has teased a new update to its motorised DJ controller, ONE, at this year’s NAMM conference in Anaheim, California.   The product hasn’t officially been announced by RANE, or its parent company InMusic, yet, but it was present at the RANE [...]

Djay for Meta Quest Review – The future of DJing? (We Are Crossfader)

By |2024-11-12T20:11:07-05:00November 12th, 2024|AI, DJ, DJ Equipment Tools Software, electronic music, Internet, meta, Music, Music News, Music Tech, New DJ Gear, Promotional, Review|

  Quite a few products come with lofty claims of being ‘the future of DJing’ and so on. But the new djay app for Meta Quest feels like it might be a taste of where things are headed in the world of DJing.    https://youtu.be/uo7oINnmtxc   There have been a handful of attempts at [...]

Honey Dijon – DJ​-​Kicks: Honey Dijon (Resident Advisor)

By |2024-10-18T17:52:33-04:00October 18th, 2024|Clubs - Nightlife, Dance Music, DJ, Honey Dijon, House, House Music, International, LGBTQIA+, Music, Music News, Resident Advisor, Review, Trans|

  The legendary house DJ crafts an expertly balanced dance floor odyssey. Honey Dijon started her career nearly 25 years ago in her hometown of Chicago. From house music's inception, she lived and breathed the genre—and took any DJ gig she could get (even going so far as saying she would DJ out of a [...]

AlphaTheta XDJ-AZ Standalone DJ System Review (Digital DJ Tips)

By |2024-10-13T11:12:33-04:00October 13th, 2024|AlphaTheta, Digital Dj Tips, DJ, DJ Equipment Tools Software, Music Tech, Phil Morse, Pioneer, Review|

  The Lowdown The AlphaTheta XDJ-AZ is the ultimate flagship, four-channel standalone DJ unit and controller for Rekordbox and Serato software. Based closely upon AlphaTheta/Pioneer DJ’s pro club gear, namely the CDJ-3000 multi players and the DJM-A9 mixer, this one nails it, fixing all the shortcomings of the XDJ-XZ and delivering everything most serious DJs [...]

AlphaTheta unveils flagship HDJ-F10 wireless DJ headphones (The DJ Revolution)

By |2024-10-09T20:32:34-04:00October 9th, 2024|AlphaTheta, DJ, DJ Equipment Tools Software, International, Music Tech, New DJ Gear, news, Pioneer, Review|

  AlphaTheta recently announced their flagship HDJ-F10 wireless over-ear DJ headphones. Thanks to the company’s proprietary SonicLink technology, the headphones provide DJs and music producers with an ultra-low-latency audio transmission, which is significantly faster than conventional Bluetooth, allowing for accurate monitoring in the DJ booth and/or studio. To take advantage of the SonicLink tech, you’ll need to [...]

Revisionist BBC documentary “Disco: The Soundtrack of a Revolution” comes to the US (5 Mag)

By |2024-05-07T21:02:26-04:00May 7th, 2024|5 Magazine, Classics, Clubs - Nightlife, Disco, Music, Music News, Review|

  The oracle that still answers to the human name “Brian Eno” has made a lot of good calls in his career, but none so prescient as his reaction when he first heard Giorgio Moroder and Donna Summer’s “I Feel Love.” “This is it!” he exclaimed to David Bowie. “Look no further!” They were in [...]

A History of Baltimore Club in Ten Tracks (Resident Advisor)

By |2024-03-05T20:41:13-05:00March 5th, 2024|Baltimore, Classics, Clubs - Nightlife, Dance Music, Resident Advisor, Review|

  Journalist Lawrence Burney guides us through the evolution of one of America's most enduring dance music sub-genres. Before Baltimore club music splintered into other regional East Coast genres, spawning Philly and Jersey club music, it was a local powerhouse all to itself. The early sound as pioneered by artists like Scottie B, Rod Lee [...]

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