Thursday is one of those curious days of the week, isn’t it? The weekend is finally in sight, but you still know you’ve got two days to get through first. For our part at...
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The Insider explains: why is there no diversity in dance music?
DJ Paulette spoke to Sky News for a report they published this morning – and what she says in it makes grim reading. She reveals she no longer wears dresses or skirts to gigs...
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How’d Danny Rampling get on at Freedom Fest, then?
Apologies for the delay in getting round to writing about this one – we hoped to have something up on Sunday on the subject, but a nightmare of a weekend took us briefly off...
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So why did “human Diazepam” Solomun not play Tomorrowland?
We’re not particularly fans of Solomun here at Ears To The House, and we don’t really mind who knows it. Our opinion is that like many of those in the higher echelons of dance...
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Manchester Caribbean Carnival and some suspect police letters…
In a few weeks time, the Caribbean Carnival of Manchester will take place over the weekend of August 13th and 14th. Happening in the city’s Alexandra Park, this year’s event is the first full...
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Blowing smoke in people’s faces… literally: 2022 in clubland
We cannot surely be the only ones at Ears To The House to have noticed the pattern at an awful lot of festivals and events this year. This might require a little explaining on...
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Have Generation Z just realised they’re being sold a dud?
The millennials are refusing to go out to nightclubs! Generation Z types aren’t interested in getting off their heads on drugs! Oh, the scandal – or at least, that’s what the very narrow minded...
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Would you pay $100k for a helicopter ride? Rollin’ Loud reckon so…
As much as the likes of Defected would like to tell you that everyone is equal in the world of house music, some people are more equal than others. The idyllic early days of...
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With such a big lineup, how does Tomorrowland make a profit?
A few weeks ago, Ears To The House published an article pointing out how the Tomorrowland lineup for this year “worships at the altar of business techno”. It’s a criticism we stand by –...
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Reviewing Futur Festival – simply because we can…
Last Thursday, we ran an article on Ears To The House about how festivals try to control the media narrative about their event by limiting the numbers of those journalists who can be graced...
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How festivals try to control media coverage
Anyone reading coverage in the dance music press of festivals usually finds the same thing. The review is normally very positive – the music was great, the atmosphere was friendly and so on. You...
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$199 for one day ticket – why was Day N Vegas shelved?
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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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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So who got Derrick May cancelled at Futur?
A few weeks ago, Ears To The House wrote all about the various goings-on between Carl Craig and Annabel Ross. We broke the initial story about the disgusting meme that Craig and his friend...
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Derrick May banned “passport” girlfriend from Rome event
Things all seem to be kicking off in the world of Derrick May this week – and not in a good way. A number of sources in Detroit have got in touch to report...
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Danny Rampling’s appearing at the Freedom Music Festival – yes, really…
Some stories that we write about here at Ears To The House are so ridiculous that you’d be half forgiven for thinking we’d made them up. The story we’re about to report on can...
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