History is made at night

A man was convicted this week of the murder of 18 year old Dinah McNicol (pictured) in 1991. Peter Tobin is now known to have killed at leas...

Ma Jian's Beijing Coma (2008) is a fictionalised account of the events leading up to the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre in China, and ...

I was in Trafalgar Square on Friday night, where there was a fairly surreal assemblage of sights and happenings. There was the big Christmas...

In 1889, Oscar Wilde wrote an article called 'Poetical Socialists' for the Pall Mall Gazette (February 15), reviewing a book of soc...

Loud bass music ‘killed student’ , Metro 9th December, 2009 A student collapsed at a freshers’ party and died after complaining the loud bas...

Interesting article by Robert Fisk in the Independent at the weekend (5 Dec 09) on Islamism and music: 'But music and Islam have a dodgy...

From the Observer, 6 December 2009 , by Martin Chulov: Baghdad's night life falls foul of religious right - Iraqi prime minister Nouri a...

I came across this story from earlier in the year from Michigan (US), and had to read it through several times to check it wasn't a sati...

Terrible news (via BBC) of a nightclub fire in Russia last night: 'At least 101 people have died following an explosion at a nightclub ...

I noticed that on Galaxy FM (99.5) at the weekend they were broadcasting appeals for people to donate food, clothes and other stuff to peopl...

Closely related to the history of the flyer is the dance card - popular in the 19th century and beyond in Europe and the US, they set out th...

Following yesterday's World AIDS Day post , here's a few more of the HIV disco fallen remembered (thanks to Disco Delivery's t...

Today is World AIDS Day . Let's pause for a moment and remember some of the dance music greats who died from HIV/AIDS. Sylvester (194...

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...