At a time when a pandemic has the world teetering on uncertainty , music can be a healer and a motivator. Keeping this in mind, Wind Horse Records is thrilled to welcome veteran Mexican DJ and producer : B – LIV on to the label with an enchanting five-track EP that also consists of remixes…

It’s no secret that the fashion industry plagiarizes club aesthetics. That’s why Lee uses responsible design in his work to protect the subculture’s authenticity. Ximon Lee describes his first authentic clubbing experience as a “dark hole you enter” that led to somewhere “ambiguous between life and death.” The cavernous maw he recounts was Griessmuehle, the…

Clubbing and its culture of escapism originated in Black and Brown communities. It’s time to understand exactly what this means. About a year before George Floyd was murdered by white ex-police officer Derek Chauvin, the two were co-workers at Minneapolis latin nightclub El Nuevo Rodeo. 46-year-old Floyd, described by family and friends as “a gentle…

CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) — Another demonstration in the wake of George Floyd’s death — this time accompanied by house music and a “George Floyd slide”— took place downtown Saturday with at least 100 protesters practicing social distance and wearing masks. The 1 House, 1 City March House Music March started at 1400 S. Michigan Ave. at about 3 p.m. and proceeded up…

Have you ever attended a rave with your friends and considered that your amusement might also be a political statement? This has been the case for a growing number of young Singaporeans over the past few years. The sovereign island-city of Singapore, located at the tip of the Southeast Asian archipelago, is often associated with…

Further exploring her sonic realm, the latest installment in her growing catalogue is a captivating four-track assemble – consisting of “Sgadi Li Mi” “Return to Nowhere”, “Ensemble”,  and “What’s In The Past”. The extended play features a percussive profile reminiscent of her late 2019 Selected EP, switching out acid stabs for haunting hymns. The resulting…

Hype Festival in collaboration with the Building Culture Movement (BCM) initiative is holding the virtual dance music festival Good Vibrations. Supported by the Tourism and Creative Economy Ministry, the event is raising funds to help workers in the creative and hospitality sectors as well as informal workers affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Twenty seven Indonesian…

Nobody would have expected that we would all be staying home for the majority of the spring and summer season watching livestream DJ sets and events due to a worldwide pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic has caused non-essential businesses like clubs and restaurants to close, borders to shut and festivals to be canceled or rescheduled to…

Two of Britain’s most influential conductors, Sir Simon Rattle and Sir Mark Elder, have warned of a “devastated landscape” in classical music after the pandemic in which orchestras may not survive. Rattle and Elder said musicians in the UK felt “out in the wilderness” and called for more clarity from the government of when and…

The gains and revolutions, both political and musical, of the past sixty years can be measured in many ways, but few methods are more insightful than tracing the path of Sonny Rollins, a tenor saxophonist whose life is a portrait, which is to say a reimagining, of American freedom. When Rollins was twenty-seven, in 1958,…