The actor, EDM trio and a bevy of DJs will team up October 26 for a Chicago concert benefitting Cancer for College WHO COULD HAVE predicted this collaboration? In a video posted to Swedish House Mafia‘s socials, Will Ferrell announced he’ll be performing with the EDM trio in Chicago this fall. The concert, which is a benefit [...]
World-class house label Defected Records is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. Carl Loben corners CEO Wez Saunders for some insights about its inner workings, and asks a selection of associated artists what the secret is to the brand’s lasting success Almost a quarter of a century ago, DJ Mag popped over to Defected [...]
Latinos In Da House recognizes the DJs, artists, dance crews and personalities that shaped Chicago house from the start. Add another landmark event to Chicago’s long summer celebrating the city’s house music legacy. Latinos In Da House presents its inaugural conference on Saturday, September 28 2024. The conference focuses specifically on the vital contributions played by [...]
**This interview originally appeared on the Red Bull Music Academy website March 9, 2018. From the DJ History archives: The super-producer and DJ looks back on a star-studded career, from Diana Ross to Depeche Mode François Kevorkian’s is a truly New York story. Moving to the city from France in 1975, with a plan [...]
"I hope the visitors discover what liberation sounds like" Honey Dijon is curating a jukebox installation for the Stonewall National Monument Visitor Center in Manhattan. Part of a new exhibition marking the 55th anniversary of the Stonewall Rebellion, the installation recreates the original jukebox and music playing at the now-iconic Stonewall Inn gay bar [...]
Celebrating its 10th anniversary on the Red Sea, Sandbox is a forerunner in Middle Eastern electronics, bringing local and international stars to boutique crowds On a balmy night in May, the Egyptian town of El Gouna is teeming with locals. Old friends are embracing, others clinking glasses over the sound of live music, some [...]
The label will release a new three-track EP in July Legendary Chicago house artist Mike Dunn has announced he will relaunch his influential Danca Mutha imprint after three decades. Founded by Dunn back in 1988, the label released music by artists such as MD Connection, Gershon Jackson, and I-ROC-T. Dunn also co-founded seminal [...]
The Beatport charts have been peppered with club-ready reworks of old hits. "Almost all the labels are doing them," says Glasgow Underground founder Kevin McKay. Early in May, the New York house music stalwarts at Nervous Records were enjoying two hits in the top 10 on the Beatport chart: A zippy, heavily syncopated reimagining [...]
East Africa’s first music technology summit, Kilele, brought together artists and industry figures from Kenya and across Africa and Europe for a series of boundary-pushing performances, discussions and collaborations. Martin Guttridge-Hewitt reports on how the event and a bubbling local underground are ushering in a new era for Nairobi’s electronic music scene Exiting your car [...]
Located within the industrial confines of the Brooklyn Navy Yard, the 104,000-square-foot space opens on June 7th. A new warehouse venue is opening in Brooklyn, New York, next month. Located in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, a waterfront industrial complex that was once a shipyard, Brooklyn Storehouse will host electronic music acts, fashion shows, art [...]
