In this special preview of our new Summer 2013 print magazine, we present the cover story—an extensive interview with the divisive pop phenomenon—in full. Photo by Robert Carrithers. Lana Del Rey: I ...

From Bunker in Berlin to Ultraschall in Munich, these now-closed clubs are the places where Germany's electronic dance music scene developed. In the aftermath of the acid house and techno booms in the ...

Those of us who live in Berlin know that the city is unparalleled in terms of its nightlife offerings. But for people who are new to the clubbing capital, traveling through, or just want a change of ...

Of the many paths that led me to David Mancuso, the final and most direct one came courtesy of Stefan Prescott, the co-owner of Dance Tracks. I was a Friday night regular at the store from 1994 on, ...

Michail Todua, now 33, has been in prison for five years. A Georgian native who grew up in the capital city of Tbilisi, he spent his life as a DJ and party promoter before being randomly stopped on ...

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 ...

In 2020, our relationship to music changed. While we’ve undoubtedly missed listening to dance tracks emanating at borderline oppressive volumes from the speaker stacks of our favorite clubs, 2020 has, ...

A history of the pre-techno scene that birthed such figures as Tobias., Atom TM and Dandy Jack. If you’ve seen our video feature WE CALL IT TECHNO!, you know that Frankfurt has long been a central ...

Call it what you will, but there’s no denying that West African funk or boogie will light up a European dance floor—and no one knows that better than Nomad and Dirk Leyers. Operating as Africaine 808, ...

This is one of the band’s most incendiary live songs. There are many references hidden inside this track, but one of the most immediately obvious comes in the form of the charging disco rhythm that ...

U.S. heavyweights like Joe Claussell, Dennis Ferrer and Timmy Regisford have all passed through the venue, while Nina Kraviz made vital steps towards super stardom through her Voices residency at the ...

WIXAPOL S.A. is a wild and trollish party that's using memes, gabber and a genre called "pope core" to revitalize the Polish rave scene. It’s 4 AM, and about 500 kids in brightly colored retro Kappa ...