Ears To The House

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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…

Ears To The House Team 8 January 2024

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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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…

Ears To The House Team 26 December 2023

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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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?

Ears To The House Team 30 November 2023

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…

Ears To The House Team 26 November 2023 2 Comments

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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Just how many founding fathers DOES Detroit techno have? Ahead of their next party on Friday night, Detroit Beatdown add Eddie Fowlkes’s name to the already crowded list of originators…

Ears To The House Team 22 November 2023

How many founding fathers is too many? It depends on who you ask and how widely you define “founding fathers”. For example, historian Richard Morris says that there are seven founding fathers to what’s...

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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…

Ears To The House Team 20 November 2023

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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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…

Ears To The House Team 9 November 2023

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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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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Are they even trying anymore? Resident Advisor’s latest fail is to have a discussion on making clubbing more inclusive for the disabled – and having no disabled people on the panel…

Ears To The House Team 19 October 2023

Some people seem to think that Ears To The House doesn’t really like Resident Advisor. They fail to understand what our real gripe with them is – namely that they could use their platform...

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Is this what you got that £750k for? Bastion of underground dance music Resident Advisor published a review for up and coming Aussie artist Kylie Minogue…

Ears To The House Team 3 October 2023

Believe it or not, but there was a time when the distinction between underground and mainstream was a thing. Admittedly, it was never as clear-cut as 90s dreamers portayed it – but for example,...

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Are the bad old days well and truly behind them? Resident Advisor are on the lookout for a general manager in North America – and the potential $120,000 salary isn’t too shabby!

Ears To The House Team 10 August 2023

The following might come as something of a surprise to even our own readers, but Ears To The House wishes no harm upon Resident Advisor. Our main gripe with the organisation is that they...

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Dance Music Press News

We thought you hated the dance music press? Claude Young berated Resident Advisor after they asked him for a comment – but he was happy to speak to rival Mixmag…

Ears To The House Team 27 July 2023

Back on Monday, Ears To The House ran a report concerning a news story that developed over the weekend – Detroit’s Claude Young had announced that he was leaving DJing entirely. In his announcement...

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Business Dance Music Press News

Resident Advisor spoke with Moodymann for a puff piece, but the reactions of their own readers tells a different story – and just WHAT did they call a strip club?

Ears To The House Team 19 July 2023

A few weeks ago, Ears To The House published an article where we referenced some comments made online by Kenny Dixon Jr – otherwise known as Detroit producer Moodymann. He spoke about how a...

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Business Dance Music Press News

Do they have no shame whatsoever? As Derrick May’s “European Coming Back Tour” sees a Spanish date this weekend, Resident Advisor is happy to promote the event on their site…

Ears To The House Team 18 July 2023

The “European Coming Back Tour”, as it’s been laughably dubbed, is Derrick May’s ongoing attempt to rehabilitate himself into a dance music world which is now largely ignoring him. It’s mostly involved playing a...

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Business News Politics

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!

Ears To The House Team 5 July 2023

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...