Last year, Resident Advisor finally discovered they had no God-given right to exist. The pandemic took away huge swathes of their income almost overnight. Indeed, for a time, it looked like the company was...
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Are you ganja believe this? Resident Advisor’s editor Whitney Wei attends a party with cannabis cakes on sale… and stone me, she posted it on her Insta-gram too!
The last editor of Resident Advisor was given the boot sometime last year. The site has never explained fully why, but I can only assume they were making a hash of it. When they...
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Well it’s nice of you to say hello at long last, Whitney! Resident Advisor’s new editor finally gets a mention on her own website – but what took them so long?
If you’re a regular reader of Resident Advisor, you probably wouldn’t have been aware that they had a new editor in charge. Because for some reason, they’ve only just announced the news today. And...
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The links between Dominick Fernow of Vatican Shadow and the far-right the dance music press aren’t telling you about – but what will Resident Advisor’s new editor Whitney Wei do?
Update – this article was amended on 17th July to remove an erroneous claim saying Fernow appeared at a benefit concert in 2016. It was actually a collaborator who attended, not Fernow himself. This...
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Is geography not your strength, Whitney? Resident Advisor’s (based in London, by the way) new editor seems unaware who Italy were playing against last night…
I was wondering when we’d start seeing an improvement in the output at Resident Advisor now that they’ve got a new editor in charge – and if rumours emanating from the RA camp are...
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Is Resident Advisor linked to the Save Our Scene UK movement? This blog did what the journalists didn’t – and the answer came back as a no!
I was hoping to blog about this one before now, but Resident Advisor took a while to respond to my query. A number of people contacted me around the time of the Save Our...
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So who will you be outing first, Miss Wei? As Resident Advisor’s new editor makes a poor start in her new job, does her Twitter history give away clues about what’s next?
I only wrote about her the other day, but I’m already back on the subject of Whitney Wei, the new editor in chief at Resident Advisor. You see, a piece appeared on Monday morning...
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Was this a little too close to the bone for them? Music publication Clubbing Spain to shut after 21 years – but notice how understated Resident Advisor’s report about it is…
One of the faults of the dance music press – and my goodness, do they have plenty – is that they frequently try and pretend they’re seperate from the culture and scene that they...
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Bailed out with £750k of British taxpayer cash, but is Resident Advisor in even deeper trouble than first thought? Now HSBC has taken out a debenture on the company…
Things are not good for Resident Advisor these days. Last year, they had to be bailed out by the British taxpayer to the tune of £750,000. Then they sheepishly admitted they’d been making money...
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Is money too tight to mention? What Resident Advisor and Mixmag aren’t telling you in their lockdown coverage…
I’m hearing some very interesting whispers coming from two of the big operators in dance music. They’re getting increasingly worried about the prospect of England delaying further lockdown rule changes. Resident Advisor are said,...
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That’s gratitude for you! Resident Advisor – bailed out by British taxpayers last year – now complaining about PM Boris Johnson having no plan for EU touring
Resident Advisor – they who claimed to be a “cultural institution” in order to get a £750k bailout from Arts Council England – are complaining that Boris Johnson has no plan for British artists...
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You kept that quiet! Resident Advisor publishes list of grants available to creatives – but make no mention of THEIR £750k bailout from 6 months ago
The British taxpayer funded Resident Advisor was in a charitable mood yesterday. It’s at times like this that the internet comes into its own – for it allows you to be charitable without actually...
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Are Resident Advisor STILL making money from plague raves? Questions remain as listing appears for Covid hotspot Tulum
Resident Advisor recently admitted in an article that they’d been making money out of plague raves in Tulum. The destination in Mexico, which has seen over 205,000 deaths from Covid-19, is a current favourite...
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Should Resident Advisor hand back their £750k bailout?
This is the question that I ask of Resident Advisor, the British taxpayer funded and plague rave profiteering outfit. I do not ask such a question lightly, so allow me to explain. Last October,...
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Would you believe the hypocrisy? Resident Advisor chastise DJs doing plague raves in Covid stricken Mexico – then admit they’ve been making money out of it!
Many years ago, I was not having a good day. Frankly, it was one of those days where you wished you hadn’t bothered to get out of bed. Everything that could go wrong did...
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Resident Advisor – saving jobs one at a… oh wait
Heaps of criticism – much of it from your favourite house music producer’s page here – was aimed at Resident Advisor a few weeks ago. They’d received a £750k bailout from Arts Council England...
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