The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Wedding DJ
These are the unsung heroes who our nation’s small functions depend on. These are the quiet men of dance music. These are our mobile DJs.
View ArticleWho Says DJing Is A Young Man's Game?
It's unsurprising that for many DJs, the encroachment of middle age and beyond is rarely a deterrent. Sure, the hangovers take days to evaporate rather than hours, and the back ache gets worse but the...
View ArticleThe 'Eat Sleep Rape Repeat' T-Shirt At Coachella And Sexual Harrassment At...
This guy's stupid shirt opens the floor for us to confront a pervasive issue — one that is often overshadowed by "bigger stories" that come out offestival season, like drug overdoses or who Madonna is...
View ArticleElectronic Music Industry Now Worth Close To $7 Billion
If you have bought a festival ticket, paid for a drink at a club, or even coughed up $1.29 for a track download, you can take some credit for elevating the estimated value of the global electronic...
View ArticleTechno Producer Ten Walls' Homophobic Facebook Rant Just Cost Him His Career
On June 3, Ten Walls (AKA Marijus Adomaitis) launched a vitriolic tirade comparing homosexuals to pedophiles, as well as describing them as "people of a different breed" who need to be "fixed."
View ArticleCriminal Attorney By Day, Festival Lawyer By Night
Meet the lawyer who is traveling the country educating festival-goers about their rights, and creating a new hobby for attorneys everywhere.
View ArticleThe Great SoundCloud Purge Of 2015 Has Begun
DJs, producers, and content outlets around the world felt the strain as strikes, takedowns, and account suspensions crippled their catalogues in one fell swoop.
View ArticleThe Story Of Jockey Slut, The Greatest Dance Magazine You Probably Never Read
Jockey Slut seemed almost otherworldly in its implied illicitness. It was a magazine I spied from afar, too fearful, almost, to pick it up.
View ArticleThe Musicians Behind One Of The Most Sampled Songs In History Finally Got Paid
This past February, a UK-based music fan named Martyn Webster created "The Winstons Amen Breakbeat Gesture," a GoFundMe campaign established to repay the group for their lasting contribution to music.
View ArticleWhy Are We So Obsessed With Reissuing Old Records?
As the world crumbles around us, it becomes more important than ever, apparently, seemingly, to find comfort in culture.
View ArticleBigger Than Michael Jackson: The Secret Touring Life Of The Vengaboys
Think about the Vengaboys and try not to sing one of their smash hits in your head. Can you do it? Unless you're a cyborg bereft of what us humans quaintly consider emotions, then the answer's a big...
View ArticleThe Synth That Changed Pop Forever
John Foxx had one. As did a-ha, Billy Idol, Berlin, Eurythmics and A Flock of Seagulls. No, we're not talking about hairstyles held up with so much hairspray that they damage several o-zone layers, but...
View ArticleA Brief History Of The Red Solo Cup
The red cup is a tailgate mainstay, a cookout staple, a fixture of dinner parties and keggers; it's synonymous with flip cup, with beer pong, with debauchery and merriment and revelry. How did it...
View ArticleRemembering DJ Sammy's 'Heaven' The Soundtrack to Every Forgotten Holiday...
Whether you're a fan of Eurotrance or not, there's no denying how much fun this music is, and as the product of the ultimate holiday romance, the chemistry between Sammy and Carisma both as lovers and...
View ArticleWhy Are People Brushing Their Teeth At Noise Shows?
Toothpaste foams at the edges of his mouth. As static swells, another audience member starts screaming: "You're going to fuck up your gums...your gums are going to recede!"
View ArticleThe Secret Underground Havens Threatened By Donald Trump
How the rave scene responds to crisis is what really matters.
View ArticleInside The Wild World Of Justice
With their third album, 'Woman,' the Parisian hellraisers return to the church of their imagination.
View ArticleHow I'm Raving My Way Out Of Depression
A trip to Berlin sparked a revival from an exhausting disease of contradictions.
View ArticleWe Asked Coachella's Alt Bros About Being Alt Bros
Conversations with a newly enlightened strain of festival-goer.
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