Things don’t seem to be going too well in the festival world this year, are they? Only yesterday, Ears To The House posted about some of the general feedback we were getting about them...
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Will Ash Lauryn stick to Belleville Three script?
Believe it or not, but there was once a time when documentaries were produced and narrated by people who had some distance from their subject. To be commissioned to make a documentary for a...
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Has Maurice Joshua been forgotten in the Beyoncé debate?
Much has been said by now on the debate over the latest Beyoncé track “Break My Soul” – not least on Ears To The House. But one particular person has a role in this...
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The Insider asks: why is dance music so boring these days?
Ever since Ears To The House made our overdue return a few weeks ago, one person who’s been a regular in the inbox is our notorious insider. His identity is, and will remain, a...
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Untold Festival reveals lineup… is the same as everyone else’s!
Why is the festival world so mind-numbingly boring and averse to risk these days? It’s a question Ears To The House has posed before – because this naturally conservative natured beast is being especially...
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Kanye West, The House Music Anthem and a $150k lawsuit
The legal troubles of Kanye West keep mounting up. Fresh from Bishop David Paul Moten suing West over allegedly unauthorised use of a speech on the song “Come To Life”, Ultra International Music Publishing...
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Larry Levan tribute nights? No, we’re not fans, either…
Back on Monday, Ears To The House published an article about a Frankie Knuckles tribute event in Italy last weekend which met with scorn by David Morales – one man who knew Knuckles more...
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Nervous Records – where it’s 1975 all day, every day…
We get the sense that this is one of those weeks where a number of people in dance music descend even further into parody than normal – and it’s only Wednesday. Yesterday, Ears To...
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Joe Smooth’s “rough idea” on Beyoncé’s track beats real thing…
There’s sometimes something to be said for getting a professional in to do a job. For example, if your electricity supply went down, it would be perfectly reasonable to get a qualified electrician to...
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As Defected get ready to release “Calabria”, one question from us – why?
Defected is one of those labels which Ears To The House looks at with a certain degree of respect combined with occasional bafflement. And this occasional sense of bafflement comes around roughly once a...
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Two years after Covid hiatus, will Mixmag EVER return to print?
Some people may currently be forgiven for thinking we wanted nothing more than to see the back of Mixmag after their recent disgraceful treatment of Annabel Ross – whose coverage over Derrick May and...
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Adele falls out of album chart top 75 – please don’t jump on the house bandwagon…
One of the almost completely unreported stories Ears To The House came across over the weekend was one about Adele’s most recent album falling out of the album chart top 75 recently – after...
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Derrick May’s latest gig? A festival in Rome – on a Tuesday night…
The campaign by the likes of Carl Craig to resuscitate the moribund career of Derrick May isn’t going terribly well. Even the involvement of Carl’s wife and manager Hagi – impudently described by one...
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After François K leads Frankie Knuckles tribute event, where was David Morales’ invite?
As much as people rightly criticise the algorithms which dictate so much of our online lives these days, it has to be said they do occasionally turn up with the goods. This was our...
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Forget Beyoncé and Drake for house – try Lizzo meets Thomas Barnett…
The past week or so has seen house music being spoken about in circles which haven’t mentioned the genre in decades, if they ever have done at all. Inevitably, the results varied from the...
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After throwing Annabel Ross under the bus, who will take Mixmag seriously again?
We at Ears To The House are absolutely gobsmacked at the story surrounding Annabel Ross and the Movement Electronic Music Festival in Detroit that’s been running now for nearly two weeks. No matter how...
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