DJS

Your article discussing the place of female DJs in dance music history books (‘There are still battles to be had, but it’s incredible’: the female DJs finally getting their dues, 21 July) included a quote: “In terms of the pioneers, it’s all men, and we can’t escape that.” With fellow author Ian “Snowy” Snowball, I wrote Lady of the House, a book published last November which strongly rebuts that claim. Crowdfunded by our dance music community and industry, this self-published book features 150 real-life stories of…

In an appearance on The Breakfast Club, Wiz Khalifa apologized to DJs worldwide following a video of a tense confrontation between him and two club DJs."Well, first of all, I want to apologize to all the DJs and the entire DJ community for my behavior," said Wiz right at the top of the interview. "I do realize that it was a bit much and I'm a big enough man to be like, 'Yo, that shouldn't happen. That shouldn't go down. That's not how business gets handled and that's not how you get your point across.’ I apologize…

In the 1970s and 80s, dance music was born from minorities – the LGBTQ+ communities and Black and Brown people in Chicago, New York and Detroit – as a means of escapism and freedom from a world that was not built for them. The disfranchised created a microcosm to express themselves and feel safe. If you look at top-tier DJs and festival lineups in the UK in 2022, however, this doesn’t add up. Calvin Harris, Fatboy Slim, David Guetta – white men dominate the modern electronic scene, mirroring the world we live in, and…

In 1999, Bill Brewster and Frank Broughton published Last Night a DJ Saved My Life. The superstar DJ was still a recent phenomenon, and the book captured this cultural shift and told the oral history of DJing up to that point. An updated edition is out this month, with a new chapter telling the story of a whole group of DJs that even this definitive history had somewhat ignored: women.“In terms of the pioneers, it’s all men, and we can’t escape that,” Broughton says. “But with the new edition, we wanted to make sure there…

In the teeming, highly diverse cinematic habitat of music documentaries, there are surprisingly few about the phylum of electronic dance music and its many sub-classes, orders and colourful creatures. There are some: films about scenes such as the late 80s/early 90s rave movement or specific clubs such as Sub Berlin: History of Tresor. There are others about specific superstar DJs such as the slick, very commercial Leave the World Behind, a tribute to Swedish House Mafia, or Villalobos, a mesmeric, arthouse portrait of…

The Horrors of Blumhouse - Halloween Horror Nights 2022Both Universal Studios Hollywood and Universal Studios Orlando will be welcoming Horror Nights fans to the Horrors of Blumhouse, with a maze featuring the Grabber from The Black Phone and the body-swapping serial killer teen from Freaky. Horror Nights start September 2 at Universal Orlando Resort with select ticket packages available now, and September 8 at Universal Studios Hollywood with all tickets now on sale.Here’s what Halloween Horror Nights’ creative director…