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?
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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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?
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…
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…
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…
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…
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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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?
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”?
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...
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How DO you solve the problem of nightclub noise in urban areas? Well, you could sound proof the buildings – and the Irish government are getting behind the idea!
Let’s face facts. Despite nightclubs having been a thing for many decades now, it remains the case that governments at all levels are almost universally clueless on how to handle them. They know nightlife...
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America is currently in the grips of a major fentanyl problem, with some 150 overdoses due to the drug each DAY – but what does it mean for the country’s nightlife?
Yesterday, Ears To The House came across some truly sobering stories that suggest a fentanyl problem is developing within the USA. One of those was a truly horrific report of a nine-month old baby...
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As Scotland’s SNP demand drugs are legalised – and Rishi Sunak inevitably says no – is the party’s own troubles behind this headline grabbing move?
Politics is something which Ears To The House accepts we have to dabble in from time to time. The whole roots of dance music are essentially political, so we can’t distance ourselves entirely from...
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Has the internet not arrived in Chicago? Chicago’s new mayor has officially proclaimed June 27th to be Ron Carroll Day – amidst allegations he took £4k from a British promoter…
Chicago is one of the cities where house music came from in the 1980s. This isn’t exactly a secret in the dance music world – but the Illinois city itself has never been quite...
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Is this their idea of raising the calibre of music journalism? Resident Advisor point out the blindingly obvious – that French riots mean events having to be cancelled!
In life, we’ve all experienced times when something happens that’s so big and unexpected that all previous plans go out of the window. The biggest example we can think of is the Covid-19 pandemic...
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As Sacha Lord threatens legal action against Britain’s Home Office, why DO politicians suddenly have a problem with drug testing after years of allowing it?
Politicians have always been a strange and mysterious bunch – but some of the current lot in charge of Britain take it to a whole new level. We can only assume it’s the effect...
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Man who complained about noise from Manchester’s Night & Day café has moved out – but the case is STILL going through the courts…
Long-time readers might recall a story we originally published in November 2021 about Manchester’s Night & Day café. A resident moved into the area during a Covid lockdown and then made a complaint to...
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