Ears To The House

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They’ve got you right over a barrel! Threaten Spotify with having to pay artists more money, and they’ll just leave your country – as Uruguay are about to find out…

Ears To The House Team 21 November 2023 0 Comment

History is littered with examples of people and institutions being corrupted by power. Quite simply, if you hand over all the power to someone, they’re probably going to be tempted to abuse it –...

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So what’s the nightlife like in Israel at the moment? Quiet, to no one’s surprise – and apart from Tiësto at Tel Aviv this Friday, there’s little else for the foreseeable future…

Ears To The House Team 21 November 2023

Anyone taking even the most cursory glance at the news in recent weeks couldn’t fail to have spotted that things are pretty bad in Gaza at the moment. Israel has been engaged in retaliatory...

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No wonder you kept quiet about your pals! Judge Jules admits he “can’t blame anyone” who held plague raves during the pandemic – but why didn’t he play any himself?

Ears To The House Team 20 November 2023

One issue that Ears To The House used to cover quite a bit in our early days was plague raves. For the benefit of newer readers, allow us to explain – plague raves were...

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Weren’t you once in favour of making noise? Ministry of Sound’s one-time manager Lord Bethell complains about “feeling unsafe” amidst pro-Palestine protests outside Parliament…

Ears To The House Team 19 November 2023

Life has been quite good for James Nicholas Bethell in the 56 years that he’s been on this mortal realm. The fifth Baron of Bethell – a title which he has purely due to...

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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!

Ears To The House Team 10 November 2023

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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Environment News Politics

As jet-setting DJs do their utmost to ignore concerns that they’re killing polar bears, an unearthed article reveals Danny Rampling might be the one who got us all thinking about it…

Ears To The House Team 9 November 2023

Here’s a view that you’ll never find expressed in the dance music press – we think a lot of the higher echelon DJs care only for themselves and their bank balances. Hence why they...

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“Everything he touches turns to s*** right now!”: no sign of Detroit techno being represented at the city’s Thanksgiving parade – after last year’s debacle with Derrick May put off several sponsors…

Ears To The House Team 6 November 2023

There was a time, for an all too long time, that Derrick May could apparently do no wrong. He was loved and adored by his fans, respected by the dance music press, and practically...

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And this is going to persuade Benjamin Netanyahu, is it? Detroit’s Scan 7 calls for a ceasefire in the Israeli Palestine war – by sticking his logo on a picture of Gaza just after an airstrike…

Ears To The House Team 31 October 2023

Everyone and his dog seems to have an opinion on the Israeli Palestine conflict right now – and yes, that even includes the team here at Ears To The House. However, our policy is...

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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?

Ears To The House Team 26 October 2023

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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Business

Silence just doesn’t cut the mustard! Honey Dijon’s buddies such as Beyoncé Knowles, Madonna, and Defected all love Dubai – so why DOES the normally vocal producer have nothing to say about it?

Ears To The House Team 23 October 2023

In a dance music scene where most of the higher echelon DJs are simply too timid to say anything about any of the big issues of the day, Honey Dijon is quite refreshing. The...

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Showing solidarity with Palestinians by not doing their jobs! NTS Radio shows exactly why getting involved in politics – amidst flare-up in the long-running conflict – isn’t a smart idea…

Ears To The House Team 22 October 2023

The Ears To The House policy on political matters is quite simple. We understand that music and politics will touch upon each other fron time to time – politics has a habit of encroaching...

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As twin brothers Michael and Osher Vaknin are found dead at Supernova rave attacked by Hamas last weekend, the questions that war and conflict pose for dance music…

Ears To The House Team 13 October 2023

A comedy play from 1716 called The Cobbler of Preston is believed to contain the first known iteration of the words “Tis impossible to be sure of anything but death and taxes”. The phrase...

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As human rights abusing Saudi Arabia gives death sentence to a teacher for posting on social media, Jeff Mills’s hopes of state reform after his $100k MDL Beast gig aren’t going very well…

Ears To The House Team 10 October 2023 1 Comment

It’s certainly a curious time in the world of politics. The never-ending conflict between Israel and Palestine flared up again over the weekend – resulting in the worst bout of literal blood-letting since the...

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Here’s hoping they don’t do a Daniel Khalife! Britain declares laughing gas is now a Class C drug, where possession with intent to supply carries up to 14 years in prison – against their own advice…

Ears To The House Team 15 September 2023

In life, there are only a few things that are inevitable – birth, death and taxes are the main three. But there’s one other thing which is almost universal to the human experience –...

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Business News Politics

Freedom of speech has consequences, you know! Osunlade speaks out after All Together Now pull him from lineup over his views on “the trans mafia” – but with him being paid anyway, what was the point?

Ears To The House Team 10 August 2023

There are many these days who claim we live at the mercy of cancel culture – those who believe in it speak of angry mobs with online pitchforks descending down on them if they...

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That didn’t go down too well! Peggy Gou gets slammed by her own fans for playing in Israel – and why has she cast aside a 2018 vow not to play in the state until the conflict was “resolved”?

Ears To The House Team 24 July 2023

One thing which Ears To The House quickly noticed after we started writing about dance music was that thinking isn’t a strength of many higher echelon DJs. For every Carl Cox – a man...