DJ B Dukes performing amid Sahar Khoury's 2025 installation in Rave into the Future: Art in Motion at the Asian Art Museum ...

Detail from the cover of 1438: Midwest Jungle, Techno, & Rave Culture Credit: Courtesy Aria Pedraza I love absorbing as much about dance music as I possibly can, even beyond writing about it for my ...

Black Rave Culture is a DJ collective from Washington, D.C., consisting of James Bangura, Nativesun, and Amal. The trio are all long-established figures in their city’s underground scene, and their ...

Picture a tunnel covered in graffiti, packed wall to wall with sticky half-dressed bodies writhing around, the bass thumping the floor so hard that the walls shake enough to mimic an earthquake. Now ...

Raves – they’re not just about body paint and glowsticks. In some parts of the world, raves can be an important expression of social belonging and resistance, a fact that’s celebrated in a ...

The desert air had chilled to a biting six degrees Celsius at midnight, but that didn’t stop more than 110,000 people lining up at the main stage. In front of a screen that felt like the size of an ...

It was four in the afternoon. I walked into the club and actually felt a wave of euphoria wash over me, with the lasers going and the music pumping and feeling the bass going through me,” says James ...

With its historical roots digging deep into the soil of the city, it still holds ancient values at bay. The city notoriously closes at 2:00 a.m., and partygoers are usually home by 3:00 a.m. Very few ...

Cultural movements rarely disappear when they reach scale. More often, they stall. This does not happen because participants lose interest, but because the systems surrounding those movements stop ...

CHANGCHUN, China (AP) — Crouch through the small metal door and walk down the dark tunnel, and even before you step into the abandoned air raid shelter, the air reverberates with pounding techno beats ...

The story of turn-of-the-century Polish electronic music in Ronduda and Nickel’s documentary evolves into a story about the Polish transformation and the accompanying changes in mentality. ‘Rave’ was ...