History is made at night

Electronic Farm celebrates the 20th anniversary of DIY Sound System, free party pioneers originally based in Nottingham. Nice interview, re...

Next up is Pete, a one man link connecting jazz, mod and techno rave scenes. He is currently involved in the Young Unknowns gallery project...

'It was a fine September evening, just before sunset, when yellow lights struggle with blue shades in hairlike lines, and the atmosphere...

It started in Los Angeles last summer and is now being touted as the new breakdancing. From Hip Hop's new steps , New York Times, 20 Nov...

Next up with a Dancing Questionnaire it's Georgina/infinite, artist , photographer and the South London bassnik responsible for Drumz o...

The Hyperdub night at Corsica Studios (Elephant & Castle) was excellent on Saturday, with two awesome live appearances. Kode 9 and Sp...

The Dancing Questionnaire series has been slightly dormant of late, so I've invited a few people to have a go - though anybody is welco...

'No arrests made as police shut down rave at rural site' ( Northampton Chronicle & Echo 13 October 2009 ) 'An illegal rave w...

London Sound Survey is an ambitious and 'growing collection of Creative Commons-licensed sound recordings of places, events and wildlif...

A feminist critique of rock written in the immediate post-punk period. It was published in London-based radical magazine The Leveller in Oct...

'But that music is a language by whose means messages are elaborated, that such messages can be understood by the many but sent out onl...

Georges Bataille, The Sacred Conspiracy , 1936 'It is time to abandon the world of the civilized and its light. It is too late to want t...

'the Flapper awoke from her lethargy of sub-deb-ism, bobbed her hair, put on her choicest pair of earrings and a great deal of audac...

The International Working Men's Association (later know as the First International) was established in 1864, with its famous statement ...

In the late nineteenth century a mandolin craze swept America and Europe, leading to the formation of numerous mandolin orchestras with mai...

War dances are well-known, but what of peace dances? The above photo, taken in 1905, show a peace dance in the Andaman islands . An account...

Nancy Spero, Artist of Feminism, Is Dead at 83 (NY Times, 19 October 2009) 'Ms. Spero was active in the Art Workers Coalition, and in 1...

San Francisco Chronicle reports the death of Lenore Kandel, belly dancer, beat poet , Digger and radical: 'Lenore Kandel hung out with...

40 years ago this summer police raided the Stonewall Inn in New York, prompting a gay riot and a new phase in the gay liberation movement. O...

I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand, Half sunk...