The mainstream press are a weird lot when it comes to dance music. They’d have you believe that Beyoncé Knowles saved house music from an impending death last year – all by sticking a...
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Michael Gracioppo – marketing genius or annoying troll?
Over the past week or so, Ears To The House has been keeping an eye on the latest drama to unfold over on the soap opera that is Twitter. And no, we’re not talking...
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Can’t any journalist get it right when writing about house music?
If you believe certain people in the media, there was a time when journalism had a truly golden age. There was a journalist specialising in almost everything at every newspaper and magazine, they’d have...
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Did Anthony Hopkins dance to La Danza? Nope…
Somewhere in the deepest citadel of Defected’s trendy Shoreditch HQ, someone spends their days contributing to the relentless Dunmore propaganda machine by creating social media content. Any kind of content will do, so long...
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And people accuse me of publishing any old rubbish! Mixmag run an article on Nile Rodgers being a fan of a Liverpool canal – so what could they decide to print next?
So what was the most important news story of the week? Was it Nicki Minaj saying the Covid jab gave her cousin a bad case of swollen testicles? The authorities in Trinidad and Tobago...
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As breakfast TV asks whether over 40’s should be banned from nightclubs, the REAL question – should we ban stupid questions from clickbait telly?
Those of you in the UK might already know of a breakfast show called Good Morning Britain. It’s shown on ITV from Monday to Friday. Those of you who don’t know it, be thankful...
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How long until White Lines Matter becomes a thing? Millennials are demanding their cocaine is more ethically sourced – apparently…
Quite a few years ago, there was a spell of bad weather in the UK that flooded a biscuit making factory in the north east of England, putting them out of action. Soon afterwards,...
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Solomun’s got a new album to promote – but take a guess which of his recent activities the dance music press WON’T be telling their readers about?
You can usually tell when the dance music press are looking for that exclusive interview with someone about their latest project. They start being extremely supine, writing only the nicest things and leaving out...
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Does anyone at Mixmag EVER read over what they publish? Headline about nine ravers looking forward to going out again leaves followers scratching their heads
Oh, how I do enjoy mocking Mixmag, the dance music magazine that covers a 24/7 culture – but only during office hours. Yet I also admit to being baffled how their operation continues to...
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Mixmag – representing the best of dance music culture, but only during office hours on Monday to Friday!
You can tell it’s a Saturday. Not just because there’s football on later, not even just because there’s even more rubbish on TV tonight than normal. No, it’s because Mixmag are serving up the...
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Where’s that wave of mass cancellations, then? Mixmag’s talk of festivals being decimated turns into a lot of hot air
Back on April 15th, Mixmag – yes, that tomb of accuracy and balanced reporting – claimed that unless the Government introduced Covid insurance for festivals, they would start to cancel en masse “within days....
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Won’t Louie Vega and Derrick Carter think of the polar bears? Report into DJ carbon emissions released to accusations of hysteria
I never thought it would fall down to me, of all people, to defend the so-called superstar DJs in dance music. Yet I strangely feel the need to, given how the dance music press...
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Does anyone STILL believe a word that Boris Johnson says? The useful idiots at Mixmag do!
Earlier this week, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson did another one of his press conferences. It followed the usual format. Johnson waffled on for a bit about something he knew next to nothing about,...
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The demise of business techno? Why you won’t read anything about this from Mixmag
Clickbait is as much part of the online universe these days as Google and cat memes. I try to avoid doing this, as I think there’s enough of it around already. I do, at...
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Why did Daft Punk split? Don’t ask Mixmag!
Why DID Daft Punk split up? You’d think that I wouldn’t care for this subject given my previous writings on the subject, but I saw something and I fancied writing about it, simply because...
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Great DJ, crap journalist – meet Dave Clarke!
Back at the end of January, I wrote about a question that a few people have made observations on. Namely, why isn’t the self-styled Baron of Techno, Dave Clarke, isn’t making a big song...
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