As the world continues to muddle through the strangest Monday since, well, the last one, there is at least one person out there who continues to see the positive side of things. Indeed, the...
These days, it’s incredibly rare to see footage of Derrick May doing anything at all – mostly because no one usually wants to film it. It’s a pointless endeavour documenting Detroit’s most occasional DJ...
Toxic positivity is one of those things that’s always been in ample supply in the dance music world – and this is why so much of what has happened over the years has gone...
Since the beginning of the year, Defected has done something rather unusual – it’s gone quiet. Regular Ears To The House readers might have noticed that the label appears to have deleted everything on...
Many lofty minded types in the music industry would have you believe that you should separate the artist’s output from everything else they did. A perfect example of this is Chris Brown – a...
If there’s one thing that Ears To The House believes in more than anything else, it’s a sense of fair play. We don’t really care if one person or twenty were involved in the...
Ah, the beauty of Instagram Stories. To the average user of the social media site, it’s an excellent way to get pictures out as quickly as possible – if you don’t have time to...
It might surprise some of you, but Ears To The House has a little respect for Carlos Sosa – the real name of DJ Sneak. Aside from his surprisingly shrewd recent business ventures, as...
One regrettable truth about the dance music world is how many within it possess almost no sense of self-awareness whatsoever. It’s not hard to explain – this is what happens to people and businesses...
Back in the early days of Ears To The House, we used to run an occasional column called Things That Dance People Think About. Long-winded name aside, these articles were mostly about the complaints...
Let’s start this article by posing an important question – well, important by the standards of disc jockeys everywhere, anyway. What is the most important thing for a DJ working in 2023 who wants...
Back when house music was starting to become a thing, there was no such thing as a career in it. You did what you did, and you might have some successes – or you...
Yesterday, Ears To The House took a little time to try and figure out what happened in Detroit between producers Omar S and Supercoolwicked at the Paramita Sound record shop and bar over the...
In the year 2023, what’s the best way to make sure someone actually reads what you send them? Certainly not social media – whether they see it or not depends entirely on a mysterious,...
If you head over to the PBS profile page on X, formerly Twitter, they make a declaration as proud as it is pomopus. They say that “PBS’s editorial independence is central to our work...
Social media is one of those things that’s been around for longer than people think. Contrary to popular belief, it did not just suddenly sprout up when Mark Zuckerberg decided to open FaceMash in...