MUSIC. NIGHTLIFE. CULTURAL RIOTS. LONDON TINGS. BY KATE HUTCHINSON.
Online video/radio broadcast The Boiler Room is so hot darn exciting it makes me feel funny in my ladyparts. They take some of the best cutting edge DJs from London and beyond, stick ’em in a south London warehouse in front of a webcam to spin their heart out and let lossa dubstep fanboy tweens [...]
Miaow. I am writing this from the future, even though it will (hopefully) publish in the past. I’ve been so terrible at updating this blog with all my work over the summer, but there’s no time to start like a cold Sunday night in on the sofa, and I’m going to backlog as much as [...]
I can’t believe I haven’t updated since Febs. UGH. But, due to onset of further lazi-nests, here’s a linkstastic round-up off things I’ve liked in late February and March. And when I say liked, I mean, written about. An interview with Miss Beth Ditto “Can you give me a minute? I need to do a [...]
I’ve started a weekly international clubbing column for Red Bull, Blog on the Dancefloor. Check it. On Justice’s return… On women in dance music… On Diplo… On Dalston’s Bar A Bar…
A version of this article first appeared in Time Out’s Valentine’s Issue, 2011. It’s the weekend before Valentine’s Day and everybody is doing it. DJing, we mean. You filthy lot. Like rockland, clubland also has its Gwen Stefanis and Gavin Rossdales (minus the love children, we imagine) and many of them are playing at parties [...]
Like Hyperdub, Hotflush, Hemlock and other labels beginning with ‘H’, Hessle Audio is redefining the sound of UK dance music. It procures a futuristic blend of homegrown genres like dubstep, house, garage and jungle – a genreless smörgåsbord represented in mainstream by BBC Sound of 2011 winner James Blake, who released a single on the [...]
“I love playing on Sunday,” gibes Canadian sonic polymath Chilly Gonzales. “You’ve already taken all of your drugs, so I have you right where I want you: almost sober.” The audience titters, even though he is selling them a little short. For once, the posters dotted around a dingy venue urging gig goers to be [...]
These days, it’s quite the thing to be in a band and, like, make sweet music with your spouse. But crucially, couples are doing so without a hint of Abba-shaped novelty. Even King Hippy himself, Devendra Banhart, is in on it all: just look at him frolicking around in the nude with his girlfriend in [...]
I interviewed dubstep/D&B duo Nero about LARPing, Nero-esque tendencies and their forthcoming album, Welcome Reality. I don’t think they were quite ready for this: I read a tweet the other day about a famous band whose rider stipulated that it must include ‘a locally sourced present’. ‘We had something like that in New Zealand. I [...]
I like Red Bull. I like Red Bull a lot. And they like Innerpartysystem, who are newly signed to Red Bull Records. Did you know that they like hats, playing live gigs on their iPhones and making things out of rubbish? Neither did I. But I wrote about that and some other things I didn’t [...]