Say what you like about Mr Jeffery Eugene Mills – and Ears To The House most certainly does – but he must be a pretty persuasive kind of character. Two years ago, Mills played...
This evening, the European Coming Back Tour for Derrick May, an occasional 60-year-old DJ from Detroit, takes another very small step forward. The man himself is currently in Europe – Ears To The House...
Oh, how simple things used to be. In the 1990s, before this pesky thing called the internet came along, dance music was typically sold on 12″ vinyl records. Back then, the overwhelming majority of...
Ears To The House has previously spoken about how the festival circuit appears to have decided to go big or go home in 2023. We saw this strategy evidently at work at Movement Detroit...
Ears To The House is sometimes asked whether we would run stories that other press outlets would not. Those people pose a daft question, mostly because that is precisely the point of why Ears...
Say what you like about Resident Advisor – and goodness knows we like to – but they certainly know how to survive. Yes, they might well have required cash from British taxpayers and German...
Elliot Eastwick is, if nothing else, a man who can continually reinvent himself with the times. Back in the day, he sometimes filled in as a DJ at Manchester’s legendary Haçienda nightclub if someone...
Here’s a story you aren’t going to see getting any coverage from the likes of Mixmag today – or any day. Because despite the fact it goes against many of their deeply held right-on...
There was a time when a higher echelon DJ could simply concentrate on being a DJ. Go to a gig with a box or two full of vinyl, play for a few hours, get...
There was a time when Nervous Records was ahead of the pack. The label had its own distinct sound when it launched in 1991 and wasn’t afraid to give new producers their first major...
The exact reasons why Beatport recently snapped up a majority stake in the International Music Summit remain cloaked in mystery right now. Ears To The House reported on the first clue a few weeks...
So it’s official. The Movement Electronic Music Festival in Detroit has announced its full lineup. In a shiny poster which went out this week – going against the grain this year by having a...
Regular readers of Ears To The House might have noticed us commenting a few times lately on how the dance music festival world’s strategy for 2023 seems to be to go big or go...
Sometimes at Ears To The House, we wonder if there really are dark clouds on the horizon in the economy. Because it seems no matter how dire any economic forecast is, or how bad...
Before you start reading this article, it’s strongly advised you go and get a coffee ready. Make it a really strong one. Blow your head off strong, ideally. And if a Wednesday morning caffeine...
Last week, Ears To The House published an article asking what was going on at International Music Summit. In short, a majority stake in the business had just been bought by Beatport – but...