December 2020

AAll forms of music have spaces in which they are designed to work best. The London Philharmonic has a greater ability to prick the hair on the back of your neck when you are seated in the stalls of the Royal Festival Hall than if you are…

Electronic dance music or EDM describes a wide range of musical styles, which have developed and are influenced by the more "traditional" forms of music that came before it. The birthplace of this movement is the early 1990s, when rave…

Bandcamp has become a more crucial platform than ever in 2020. With countless artists left out due to a lack of concerts, the online market has intensified, updating its already viable transaction model to introduce a monthly "free of…

In Slate's Yearly Music club, Slate music critic Carl Wilson emails other critics - this year, Rolling Stone editor Brittany Spanos, New York Times contributor Lindsay Zoladz and four special guests - about the musical year.…

Breadcrumb Links local arts Publication date : December 17, 2020 • December 17, 2020 • 3 minute read • Join the conversation Pink 4Reud performs a Hotels Live show in Calgary. Leslie…

Ah, 2020, the year of dance music's great existential dilemma: what good is music made for the club at a time when the club's doors are locked indefinitely? Some of us turned to our headphones, enjoying what we used to enjoy among crowds…

Regardless of how we consumed dance music in 2020, the fact remains - while the live events just didn't happen, the music that fuels them has continued to come. And during a singular moment in history when many of us had a lot more free…

If you're interested in learning new music, or even just want to get started for the first time, make a short list of Spain's top electronic dance music artists and their usual sound signatures. The main genre of Spanish electro-dance…

The book is a collection of columns originally published in DJ Mag Chiara wilkinson…

During a David Nail concert last month at the Thrasher-Horne Center in Orange Park, a woman walked away from a bar in the lobby and lowered her face mask to take a sip.Security was on her in a second, telling her that masks had to be worn…