Michaelangelo Matos

Vivie-Ann Bakos, the producer and DJ known as BLOND:ISH, knows her way around festivals, having played Burning Man and Coachella. And she’s noticed just how much plastic goes to waste—cups, straws, water bottles are all single-use items and typically not recycled. The lockdown of 2020 prevented over 570 million pounds of them from being thrown out....

NFTs (non-fungible tokens) and dance music have become so interlinked so fast that you’re now as likely to see a news item about a DJ or producer’s freshly minted limited-edition digital art work as you are about a new mix or track. But Gareth Emery is hardly jumping on a bandwagon. He began dabbling in blockchain technology back in 2013, as a hobb...

*Every weekend brings a bounty of new DJ sets. Here are five of the best.*

Every weekend brings a bounty of new DJ sets. Here are five of the best. Red Bull Radio Future Classic Minneapolis Mixes Perhaps you’ve heard of Minneapolis. Well, in techno terms, you should hear Minneapolis. This collection of five sets is the perfect place to start. The sets—three DJ mixes and two live hardware performances—were commissioned by ...

Every weekend brings a bounty of new DJ sets. Here are three of the best. Tim Sweeney: Beats in Space Radio Show #1085 (March 9) We stan a legend: Tim Sweeney’s Beats in Space has been on the air every Thursday for 21 years on New York’s WNYU-FM, many of them occupied by a who’s-who of guest DJs, from Carl Craig to James Murphy to Josey Rebelle. Bu...

The Grammys are their own weird universe. We look at the likely winners of the dance-music nominees.

Every weekend brings a bounty of new DJ sets. Here are three of the best.