So how do you promote music in this day and age? No one seems to know the right answers to this question anymore – and Ears To The House certainly can’t profess any specific...
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Is it only hypocrisy when others do it? Dance music doyenne Annabel Ross objectifies David Guetta in a new article for Mixmag…
Imagine you had previously been booked by Mixmag to go and cover Detroit’s Movement Festival. Then shortly before the event, you find out you’ve been cancelled because Carl Craig found out you were going...
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Sympathising with predators? Not just a dance music thing…
Absolutely no one who reads Ears To The House with any kind of regularity will be surprised to discover we don’t think the dance music world does anywhere near enough to address problems such...
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Well done on climbing to Mount Everest’s base camp, Rebekah – now is there any chance you could do some work on your struggling #ForTheMusic movement when you return?
Firstly, many congratulations must go to Rebekah Teasdale after successfully completing her expedition all the way up the 5,364 metres it takes to get to Mount Everest’s base camp. Like her, I have a...
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There’s always time for sleaze, especially at Christmas! Nervous Records unveil their latest advert to sell things for the festive season – and it’s just as sordid and grotty as you’d expect…
Well, it might be Christmas time – the season for goodwill to all men, the season for buying ridiculous quantities of chocolate and the season for eating unfathomable amounts of turkey – but some...
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Rebekah is due to speak at an Most Wanted: Music event in Berlin about the Me Too movement in dance music today – so can the founder of #ForTheMusic get the beleaguered movement going again?
Rebekah isn’t much of a fan of this blog. On September 30th, I published an article asking just what she was doing working with Francesco Tristano – a known friend of Derrick May. Seeing...
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As Nervous Records resort to yet another sleazy advert for their merchandise, the question of who’s REALLY behind their sales strategy? And it’s not who you might think…
Nervous are getting a lot of publicity at the moment. The various interviews – and given this is the dance music press we’re talking about, I use the term in the loosest possible sense...
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Have things REALLY changed since the days of Yvonne Turner? Now even Jameela Jamil is getting stick from people who claim she couldn’t possibly have worked on her boyfriend’s album…
Back in the 1980s, there was a female producer and remixer called Yvonne Turner. You might not have heard of her – I only discovered her existence around three years ago – but she...
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Even a stopped clock is right twice a day! Annabel Ross – who venomously attacks this blog as “misogynistic” – crunched the numbers on the Electric Daisy Carnival… and they’re even more depressing than anyone first thought
When festivals and clubland went into a sort of forced hiatus last year, a lot of soul searching started to take place. This isn’t something which comes easily to the people who run the...
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As a Scottish singer reveals she was offered a gig in exchange for sex, some bizarre stories from one anonymous female DJ – prepare to be astonished!
After five months of running Amateur’s House, I like to think that I have some idea of what I’m doing. There have been a couple of hiccups in that time, but I remain of...
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If cartoon breasts were the answer, what the hell was the question? Eyebrows raised at the latest plugin from WX Audio…
Things really should have advanced further in the plugin world than the likes of Perky Percussion Percolator by now. Released in 2005, this was a VST that showed a picture of cartoon breasts –...
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