RA’s counts down ten of the best festivals taking place around the globe this May. This month in festival land sees the Ibiza season get underway, two North American heavyweights take place on consecutive weekends and a French favourite celebrate its tenth anniversary. In other words, there’s plenty to get stuck into. 10. Villette Sonique May [...]

By Joe Schoenmann During the three-day Electric Daisy Carnival last year, officials estimate ravers poured more than $130 million into the Southern Nevada economy. The success of the music fest at Las Vegas Motor Speedway surprised many, especially those who thought the young people flocking to town would be drug-addled paupers who would buy concert tickets and little else. No [...]

NEW generations of clubbers may not realise Stoke was once a massive part of the UK club scene. In the 1990s club night Golden, based at The Void in Hanley, attracted some of the biggest DJ names from across the world. With super star DJs such as Sasha, John Digweed, Roger Sanchez and Pete Tong [...]

  Ladies and gentlemen, let’s talk about being Jaded. Have you heard the following from anyone in your circle of Burner friends? “Yeah, been there, done that. I’m just going to stay in camp.” “Oh, I saw that last year.” “Wasn’t the art better in 2005?” “Ugh, I’m so over it.” Maybe you’ve even been [...]

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  More so than perhaps any other music strain, dance music iscyclical. Declared dead with alarming frequency, only to rise from the ashes to popular prominence, the merry-go-round of internal sub-genres is forever regurgitating styles and sounds that were previously pushed out. One such genre that has experienced the highs and lows of the fickle [...]