Back in the days when Ears To The House was a one-man band – indeed, before this site was even called Ears To The House – we published an article about how Mutya Buena...
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Was Whitney Wei the last ever editor-in-chief at Resident Advisor? After she amends her Instagram profile after leaving the job, her former employers will soon be announcing the replacements…
As 2024 continues into its second week, the biggest set of changes since the last ones are taking place at Resident Advisor. Over the weekend, Whitney Wei confirmed dance music’s worst secret for weeks...
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The Defected backed Faith fanzine doesn’t confront the big issues facing dance music, nor ask any difficult questions in its puff piece interviews – so what IS the point of it?
Today is the first regular day of 2024 for most of the UK – with the exception of Scotland, who get another bank holiday to enjoy. It’s the day when many in the dance...
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What’s with the high paying jobs all of a sudden? Resident Advisor’s hiring spree hasn’t stopped over Christmas – and Whitney Wei’s replacement is to be announced soon…
It might be the day after Christmas – known to some as Boxing Day, known to some others as St Stephen’s Day and known otherwise simply as Tuesday – but the dance music world...
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Why do we get the feeling there’s a sting in the tail? Parklife reduces its entry price by £4.50 to make the event more “accessible” – but it’s still a whopping £125 to get in, for starters…
Christmas is fast approaching – with only 18 days now remaining until people open the presents left under the tree by the big-boned bearded man and eat chocolates for breakfast. In the dance music...
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Have Mixmag totally lost the plot? Evian Christ – who has Raoul Moat on his Instagram profile photo – claimed in his interview with them that “he wants to break people”…
The dance music press gets a terribly hard time from their detractors, don’t they? So say the journalists who work within it to anyone who’ll listen – although we’ve noticed that these self-appointed gatekeepers...
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No wonder they were looking for new editors! After it’s confirmed that Whitney Wei is leaving Resident Advisor at the end of the year, what’s her legacy – and who could be replacing her?
When Resident Advisor decided to appoint Whitney Wei as their new editor-in-chief back in 2021, Ears To The House wished her well. This was a person who had a pretty strong record from her...
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Well, this is awkward! As the fallout from Gambia’s Fajara Dance Festival that never happened continues, it turns out Resident Advisor plugged it in a Top 10 of festivals for November…
This weekend, Ears To The House is still looking into the fallout from Fajara Dance Festival – the Gambian event that was due to start on November 21st, but never even started. For example,...
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Aren’t you meant to know this stuff already in your job? Mixmag’s deputy editor posts on X to ask whether anyone has “noticed a reduction in dancefloor vibes” in the past year…
It’s often the case in business that the person at the top of a company has eyes and ears elsewhere – a good boss is very aware of the fact that they can’t do...
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Peggy Gou may have had to give Warehouse Project a miss for health reasons this weekend – but her PR people’s work at getting gushing reviews for “I Believe In Love Again” goes on…
If there’s one area where Peggy Gou shines above many others in the dance music world, it’s her relentless ability to promote herself and her projects – there are few higher echelon DJs better...
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Ever wondered how much Resident Advisor’s editors get paid? Current job vacancies in London and New York reveal the truth – and it’s roughly a tenth of a £750k bailout…
One of the most bizarre aspects of the dance music world is that no one seems to know how much things cost. Now, by this, we don’t mean stuff like the prices of drinks...
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Anyone would think you had an agenda! Annabel Ross didn’t hold back in lambasting DJ Khaled for silence over Israel-Gaza war – but wears kid gloves when writing puff pieces about Detroit…
If there’s one thing that journalists within the dance music press know, it’s how to write a puff piece. It’s what most dance music journalism has been since the beginning of time, to be...
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Possessing laughing gas is now illegal in the UK, with those breaking the law facing prison – and wait until you see how the government justify ignoring their own advice on the issue!
Back in September, Ears To The House reported on how the British government had just voted to criminalise the use of nitrous oxide – more commonly known as laughing gas. Rishi Sunak’s administration –...
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That £750,000 bailout was money well spent, wasn’t it? Peggy Gou and Lenny Kravitz’s “I Believe In Love Again” comes out – and Resident Advisor dutifully provides a (mostly) glowing review…
If there’s one thing that Peggy Gou is shockingly good at, it’s marketing. Be in no doubt – Ears To The House thinks she is an advertising genius. Every time she puts a new...
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EXCLUSIVE: Carl Craig did NOT threaten to pull out of Movement Festival 2022 if Annabel Ross was allowed to review it – so where on earth did the dance music press doyenne get that idea from?
Last year, dance music press doyenne Annabel Ross found herself in one of her favourite places in the whole wide world – at the centre of everyone’s attention. According to the doyenne, who doesn’t...
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Your bias is showing! As Resident Advisor run articles on “how to help Palestinians” and Annabel Ross backs NTS Radio stance, why ARE the dance music press so utterly one-sided on the conflict?
It’s about time that we faced an unescapable truth – the dance music press has never been up to scratch. Even during the supposed heydays of the 1990s, much of the output of the...
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