History is made at night

From New York Times, 20th April 2008 : 'on Friday evening, at the south end of Union Square near East 14th Street. More than a thousand ...

'O Douceurs, ô monde, ô musique ! Et là, les formes, les sueurs, les chevelures et les yeux, flottant. Et les larmes blanches, bouillant...

History of Gay Bars in New York City is a remarkable blog that does just what is says. There is some great material - police raids, mafia c...

"If you went to clubs in those days before the war, you'd have been arrested and put in prison. I know personally a case where a wo...

Yoko Ono's '13 Days Do it Yourself Dance Festival’ was, I believe, first 'held' in England in September 1967 - although '...

Daniel Tilling in the New Statesman sums up my experience of last month’s Love Music Hate Racism festival in East London’s Victoria Park:...

Prompted by a post at the excellent Pop Feminist, it's time to consider one of the great fictional nightclubs - The Bronze in Sunnydal...

Congolese band Konono No 1 were supposed to be playing at Tate Modern in London tomorrow night as part of their Long Weekend event. Now co...

The following extracts are from an article by Matthew P. Brown in which he applies the ideas of James Snead - set out in his 1981 essay '...

"Don’t ask me why I obsessively look to rock ’n’ roll bands for some kind of model for a better society. I guess it’s just that I glimp...

US pop artist Robert Rauschenberg died yesterday aged 82. He was apparently raised as a Christian fundamentalist, but gave up his plans to ...

In Defence of Disco by Richard Dyer was first published in the magazine Gay Left, Issue 8, in 1979. It has been republished in academic cont...

Hella Good by No Doubt (2001) is one of the many songs which command the listener to dance. In fact the oft-repeated chorus simply affirms ...

England: Norfolk rave shut down ( Norwich Evening News , 14 April 2008) 'Three people were arrested when an illegal rave was shut down ...

Norwegian Black Metal really isn’t my thing, but luckily there are others out there surveying its murky waters. Valter at Documents has wri...

I wasn't sure about going to see Grant Gee and Jon Savage's new Joy Division documentary so soon after weeping my way through Contr...

Carrying on the discussion about gender and dance music , here's an extract from 'Women and the Early British Rave Scene' by Mar...

Is there ever a time when it's not OK to dance? Of course there have always been priests telling people not to dance on sabbaths, but wh...

Great post on house music and masculinity from a Jamaican in New York perspective at fem.men.ist (and interesting comments from a similar p...

Expect to read a lot this year about the 20 th anniversary of acid house in the UK. There’s a new Danny Rampling '20 years of house'...