Rolling Stone

The Essential Mix at 25: Pete Tong on Creating One of Dance Music’s Most Important Mix-Shows

On October 30, 1993, Pete Tong oversaw the first episode of the Essential Mix on BBC’s Radio 1. Club music was ascendant in the U.K., and Tong devoted a late-night slot to it on national radio, ...
Mixmag

The Mix 114: Shannen SP

After making her debut on TraTraTrax with a compilation documenting the emerging dance music scenes in South Africa, Hyperdub ...
The New York Times

25 Ways to Get in on Dance Music’s Renaissance

Performances in N.Y.C. Where to club, which artists to follow, five songs you’ve got to hear and more. Where to club, which artists to follow, five songs you’ve got to hear and more. Credit...David ...
Rolling Stone

200 Greatest Dance Songs of All Time

What do we mean by “dance songs”? Good question. In a sense, any song that ever got any one person moving in any perceptible direction is a dance song. The Beatles made great dance songs — as did ...
The New York Times

Dance Music Is Booming Again. What’s Different This Time? A Lot.

Performances in N.Y.C. Fans emerged from pandemic lockdowns primed to hit the floor. Now online platforms are bringing fresh sounds and budding stars to bigger audiences worldwide. Fans emerged from ...
Vulture

A Brief History of Beyoncé Making Dance Music

Beyoncé’s sample of Donna Summer on “Summer Renaissance” won’t just call back to disco’s greatest — it’ll also call back to a time Beyoncé interpolated the “Last Dance” singer. Though “Naughty Girl” ...