Which DJ and producer has recently been persuaded by his friends to avoid talking about the environment on his social media pages? The DJ started mentioning a while ago that he’d been thinking during...
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See you next Tuesday? Why Mr C’s latest plan to boost a Facebook post simply featuring his favourite four-lettered obscenity is unlikely to have the affect he (and secretly the rest of us) all hope for…
In an age of anodyne social media pages which are clearly run by social media managers who know everything about an algorithm but nothing about how to create posts which are actually interesting or...
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Are clubbers killing our fish with drugs? High amounts of MDMA and cocaine in water is (apparently) the latest challenge to the environment…
Fear not. You haven’t walked into an episode of 90s TV show Brass Eye here. There really is method to my purposefully histrionic headline. Recently, I’ve seen a few stories about large amounts of...
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Even a stopped clock is right twice a day! Annabel Ross – who venomously attacks this blog as “misogynistic” – crunched the numbers on the Electric Daisy Carnival… and they’re even more depressing than anyone first thought
When festivals and clubland went into a sort of forced hiatus last year, a lot of soul searching started to take place. This isn’t something which comes easily to the people who run the...
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The stable door is closed but the horse has long bolted! Ibiza’s nightclubs are given clearance to reopen by the courts – but with no staff and the season ending this month, will there be any parties worth going to?
Ibiza this year has been a strange place. My sources, who know the island far better than I likely ever will, say it’s been one where illicit, small raves have been dominant more than...
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Ever wondered why Felix Da Housecat was REALLY refused entry to Berghain? Here are the details that no one ever reported at the time…
Back in 2015, Felix Da Housecat paid a visit to Germany. He was in the city of Berlin – and having presumably heard of the infamous Berghain nightclub, he decided to pay a visit....
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Here’s One They Made Earlier: the time that Mood II Swing perfected the craft of creating minimalist, hypnotic house grooves, courtesy of Sarah Washington…
Sarah Washington put out a few records under that name in the middle of the 1990s. “Heaven” was probably the most well-known of those, a big singalong anthem which came out in 1996 –...
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Is this a sign of things to come? Terminal V in Edinburgh decide to postpone two-day Halloween festival due to worries Covid cases are going to spike over the winter…
So it’s been postponed. Again. The 40,000 capacity Terminal V festival in Edinburgh was originally due to take place in March 2020. Then this thing called Covid-19 – you might have heard of it...
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The Blessed Madonna makes much of her feminist credentials – but has nothing to say when coming across Nervous Records and their sexist, outdated advertising…
There’s a separation to be made between the feminist movement and certain modern day feminists. And whilst I think feminism is a good thing – who could seriously argue that women having the same...
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Blink and you’ll miss it! Black Coffee is performing at the Riviera Theatre in Chicago next weekend – but why is city native Derrick Carter’s name so incredibly small on the flyer?
This coming weekend, Black Coffee is on the bill for an event at the Riviera Theatre in Chicago. We know this because his name appears in a ridiculously large font on this flyer, alongside...
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Would they refer to their own mothers like that? Rebecca Ferguson speaks the truth once more – by reminding us the music business is filled with misogynists…
The more time I spend reading the musings and opinions of Rebecca Ferguson, the more I like what I see. Indeed, I occasionally feel like she’s reading thoughts and comments straight out of my...
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So you’re just ignoring the big elephant in the room, then? DJ Rebekah doubles down on working with Derrick May’s friend Francesco Tristano – by saying it happened before the allegations became public…
DJ Rebekah is rattled. She’s doing her utmost not to show it, but it’s there. Since news emerged last week of her collaboration with Francesco Tristano, numerous critical comments on her Instagram page have...
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We’re celebrating Black History Month – by trying to shift some more records! Juno Download joins the many businesses jumping on the bandwagon for not entirely selfless reasons…
It’s Black History Month, you know. Well, it is in the UK and Ireland, anyway. Which is eight months later than the USA and Canada – where all this started, by the way –...
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After a 20-year old died after taking drugs on the premises last weekend, why the silence from Warehouse Project – who have been in this situation before?
Why is Warehouse Project refusing to say anything at all about the death of a 20-year old who was at their venue last weekend? This is the question I asked last Sunday and today,...
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Whilst Boiler Room show their new owners around, are there implications for that £800k bailout from Arts Council England they got last year?
Since the news broke on Friday that Boiler Room has been bought by Dice for an undisclosed sum, there are a number of questions which remain unanswered. How much independence will Boiler Room have...
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Is there anyone you can trust these days? Claude VonStroke reveals there’s a fake Dirtybird label being run right now… and he reveals how to avoid being scammed
The Simpsons broadcast an episode called “Wizard of Evergreen Terrace” for the first time in September 1998. In it, Homer Simpson tries to overcome a midlife crisis by inventing new gadgets, which mostly turn...
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