The year was 1977. The disco scene was peaking, bringing with it unprecedented levels of euphoria. A specific set of sociological conditions (post-Stonewall riot, post-onset...
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New York's Electric Zoo festival
Go ape and swing into action! Electric Zoo, a two-day outdoor dance music extravaganza at New York City’s Randall’s Island Park, takes place on 5th...
Pat Mahoney is the disco deviant whose excursions into mirrorball grooves with along with DFA pal James Murphy and on a solo tip have been...
He'll be performing at the Smirnoff Electric Cabaret at the Manchester Academy on 27th November, alongside Juan Maclean, Das Pop, Devil's Gun and a host...
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We catch up with UK garage legend DJ Spoony as he tells us his top tracks that chart the history and evolution of the influential...
DJ Spoony has selected 10 iconic garage tracks that chart the history and evolution of the influential sound from Paradise Garage, New York to its...
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Featuring pictures by famed New York nightlife documentarian Bill Bernstein and music by JKRIV, Morgan Whiley, Jitwam and TEYMORI
A series of rare Studio 54 images, along with a new 8-bit video game based on the seminal New York club, have been developed into...
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Bill Bernstein dedicated three years of his life to capturing the essence of the ‘70s New York disco scene. Here, Simon Doherty talks to him about some of his most iconic photographs, including images of Studio 54, Larry Levan, Odyssey Disco Club Dancefloor — made famous by Saturday Night Fever in 1977 — and more
Best of North America Awards 2017
This longstanding Montreal, Canada afterhours outpost does its country proud with an infamous sound system that pays homage to its name...
“Music is the answer!”...
The master answers our questions
When it comes to dancefloor experience, it doesn't get more heritable than François Kevorkian (aka François K)
Tommie Sunshine writes a tribute to the Godfather of House, Frankie Knuckles
Francis Nicholls was born January 1955 in The Bronx, New York. But Frankie Knuckles, as we came to know him, was born in March 1977...
Top 100 Clubs, powered by Miller Genuine Draft
The highest ranking European clubs in this year’s Top 100 Clubs poll are based in Ibiza - demonstrating the strength of the scene on the...
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Run-DMC, Grandmaster Flash, Larry Levan, more feature in new exhibition on early ‘80s New York music
From CBGB and the last days of disco to formative era house music and hip hop
Run-DMC, Grandmaster Flash, Larry Levan and more feature in a new exhibition on early ‘80s New York music, which opened Friday 11th June.
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We go backstage at iconic London club
Ministry of Sound is one of the world's most famous clubbing brands, and one of London's iconic clubland institutions. Last week they announced the launch of a Smart TV app, which is to be hard built into all new Samsung Smart TVs. During the launch event, we snuck off for an exclusive behind the scenes tour of the club. This is what we found out.
The future sound of retro
New York in the '70s and '80s is shrouded in legend as a period of unparalleled musical and artistic revolution, spawning the dextrous beginnings of...
A guide to dance music's pre-rave past...
We've drafted in Greg Wilson, the former electro-funk pioneer, nowadays a leading figure in the global disco/re-edits movement and respected commentator on dance music and...
A guide to dance music's pre-rave past...
We've drafted in Greg Wilson, the former electro-funk pioneer, nowadays a leading figure in the global disco/re-edits movement and respected commentator on dance music and...