Volunteers Develop “Clean-Up Rave” Initiative to Repair War-Torn Ukraine – EDM.com

Volunteers Develop "Clean-Up Rave" Initiative to Repair War-Torn Ukraine - EDM.com

Ukrainians are organizing under the banner of techno music to help expedite the rebuild of what was recently lost amid Russian occupation. The country’s nightlife sector has remained shuttered since Russia’s invasion on February 24th. Cleaning […]

Ethereum Developers Secretly Rave In Legendary Paris Gravesite Amid $2 Trillion Crypto Crash – EDM.com

An attendee of an illicit rave in the Catacombs of Paris walks through water in a hallway of the mass grave.

“Leave no trace.” So said the intimate gathering of roughly 100 Ethereum developers who descended upon the Catacombs of Paris for an illegal techno rave.  Amid a tumultuous macroeconomic backdrop and $2 trillion crash for […]

Channel Tres Announces New Album Real Cultural Shit, 2022 Tour Dates

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Channel Tres was ahead of the curve with house music before Drake and Beyoncé took on the genre, and now the producer and singer has announced his debut album, Real Cultural Shit. It’s out this […]

Four Tet’s Text Records Welcomes Hagop Tchaparian

Four Tet's Text Records Welcomes Hagop Tchaparian

Photo: Kieran Hebden Four Tet’s Text Records has released a new EP from Hagop Tchaparian. Tchaparian’s music mixes techno with field recordings of his travels through Armenian and Mediterranean culture. He has been gathering these […]

Audiotistic Bay Area Kicks Off The Festival Summer Season

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Audiotistic Bay Area 2022 Photo Credit: Ivan Meneses for Insomniac Events This past weekend (July 9th & 10th), the Bay Area hosted its annual EDM and hip-hop crossover 2-day festival, Audiotistic.  Since 1997, Audiotistic has […]

Cutting up the dancefloor: the glorious, dubious history of the disco edit | Disco

Larry Levan DJing at Paradise Garage, New York, 1979.

Triumphantly countering the racist, homophobic chumps who burned records during the Disco Sucks movement in the US in the late-70s, disco has continued to thrive in the past four decades. The frequently bombastic, sometimes camp […]

Puscifer Songs Remixed by A Perfect Circle’s Billy Howerdel and James Iha

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Puscifer have released remixes of “Bullet Train to Iowa” and ”The Underwhelming” by A Perfect Circle members Billy Howerdel and James Iha, respectively. Maynard James Keenan’s APC bandmates put their sonic fingerprints on the Existential Reckoning […]

MoMA PS5 on Beyoncé, House Anthems, and Rainbow Capitalism

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Photo by Sidewalkkilla. “Don’t Break My Soul,” Beyoncé’s latest track, a house music revival that features Big Freedia, the legendary queer Black icon known for popularizing New Orleans bounce, has the internet aflame. In fact, […]

The Black Women Who Shaped House Music

The Black Women Who Shaped House Music

Image Source: Getty / Monica Morgan / Larry Busacca Beyoncé’s first single from forthcoming album “Renaissance,” entitled “Break My Soul” and featuring Big Freedia, also features a sample of Robin S.’s house hit “Show Me […]

Kylie Minogue Wants to See You in Drag

Kylie Minogue Wants to See You in Drag

Everyone wants a sip of Kylie Minogue. This could be because of the recent U.S. launch of her wine company—the reason she left her native Australia to grace our shores this month—which she celebrated with […]

Boiler Room Announces Inaugural Broadcast From Pakistan – EDM.com

Poster for Boiler Room Pakistan

In a milestone for the nascent Pakistan dance music community, Boiler Room announced their first-ever show in Pakistan. Local dance music fans were swept off their feet when a striking poster popped up on Instagram […]

When I get older: Paul McCartney going strong at 80

Paul McCartney turns 80 on Saturday and is still performing

The singer-songwriter has been married three times, and has a son and four daughters, plus eight grandchildren. — © AFP Charles ONIANS Paul McCartney turns 80 on Saturday and a week later becomes the oldest […]

‘It changed lives and opened minds’: a visual record of the birth of acid house | Art and design books

1) Future @ The Soundshaft, March 1988

Late one Thursday in March 1988, Dave Swindells walked into a tiny, sweat-drenched club in central London and found himself present at the birth of a new cultural revolution. The venue, behind Charing Cross station, […]