History is made at night

Global Raver is a new blog promising 'social commentary on global dance music' by Anthony D'Andrea. D'Andrea is the author ...

Away this week from my usual London habitat, I have instead been (re)visiting the ‘ancestral homeland’ of the Isle of Islay in the Hebrides....

Native moments - when you come upon me - ah you are here now, Give me now libidinous joys only, Give me the drench of my passions, give me l...

Glamourbrain alerted me to the death last month of New York club face Arthur Weinstein . Weinstein opened HURRAH, a club at Broadway and 6...

I was incredulous when I heard that Wiltshire Police had banned indie-wastrels Babyshambles from headlining the Moonfest festival scheduled ...

This track is Township Funk by DJ Mugava (pointed to by Lower End Spasm ). Sheffield's Warp Records are releasing this in the UK. I don...

Ronnie Drew, founder of The Dubliners , died yesterday at the age of 74. When I was growing up my parents only had a handful of records,...

Despite my earlier scepticism about the so-called malaise in dance music, some interesting points are being made in the related discussions...

Au Petit Rocher (also known as Chez Dinocheau after its owner) was a popular tavern/restaurant frequented by Parisian 'bohemians...

Matthew Collin, who has been reporting for the BBC during the recent terrible events in Georgia, is also the author of 'Altered State: ...

'Bangalore's socialites and pub-hoppers were out dancing on MG Road in broad day-light in protest against the city police's stri...

An account of the Powwow ceremony- also known as the Dream Dance or Drum Dance - which spread amongst Native Americans from the 1870s. It ap...

Is dance music over, yet again? There certainly seems to be a lot of online discussion to this effect. Like many interesting music blogging ...

"Mexico's government is under new pressure to tackle rampant police incompetence after a damning report by human rights investigato...

London's decline as a port city in the second half of the twentieth century also saw the end of a transnational nightlife near to the do...

The following extracts are taken from an article ‘Dance and Social Fantasy’ by the sociologist Angela McRobbie, published in the collection ...

One of the things I like about 'blogging' (like earlier fanzine production) is the possibility of direct communication with unmediat...

In the mid-1990s there seemed to be a cottage industry at Warwick University churning out techno-theory and Deleuzian drum & bass thoug...

On the radio at the weekend I heard something I thought I would never hear - a song with my name in it. 'Oh! Neil' (1960) by Carole ...

'There's something in this valley... it's owls and flowers, and it's dangerous' (Alan Garner, The Owl Service) 'ther...