House Music
John Summit Breathes New Life Into Parachute Youth’s “Better Than This”
In 2012, Australian indie house duo Parachute Youth released their single “Can’t Get Better Than This,” watching the track become a massive international success as it topped numerous charts and garnered critical acclaim. Parachute Youth have now teamed up with breakout Chicago house music artist John Summit for “Better Than This” to breathe new life into their hit Sweat It Out tune. The 2021″ rework captures the same blissful and summery feeling of the original with a more energetic flourish. The pulsating house beat brings power to the song with a booming bassline and brisk percussion patterns in a masterstroke of drum programming. Meanwhile, the intoxicating vocals and catchy electric guitar riffs keep the nostalgic feeling of the original alive. &#...
Insomniac’s Day Trip Festival Unveils Stellar Lineup, Adds Second Day
In the thick of the global pandemic, Insomniac Events‘ Day Trip Festival gave West Coast dance music fans hope when organizers announced plans for a brand new LA Waterfront festival. Tickets sold out within just over an hour. After months of anxiously awaiting more news, house-heads were thrilled when Day Trip dropped a huge announcement on May 26th. In addition to unveiling a stellar lineup, the festival also added a second day. Insomniac recruited a wide range of artists for the house music event, such as Chromeo, Diplo, AC Slater, SIDEPIECE, SOFI TUKKER, Tchami, Dombresky, Nora En Pure, and many more. Check the full lineup out below. Flyer for Insomniac’s 2021 Day Trip Festival. Insomniac Events Day Trip LA is set to take place on Saturday, July 3rd and Sunday, Jul...
Photos: The Sponges Bring Funky-House Disco Party to Denver
Funk-house duo The Sponges made their Colorado debut over the weekend at Denver, Colorado’s Your Mom’s House. In compliance with state regulations, the intimate downtown venue lit up over the weekend with a four-show series from the Miami-based duo. After setting off the two-night run with Butl3r and Deezy on Friday, and a Saturday early show with VC, The Sponges ensured Saturday’s sold-out late-night show would go out with a bang. Denver-based duo Forrest Pump kicked off the night at 10:30PM heating up the tripped-out, infinity-mirrored dancefloor with their midtempo house beats. The duo worked off each other’s energy as remixes of nearly every genre saw its turn throughout the hour and a half set. Daily Bread’s “Moreland Ave Blues” saw a more bass-heavy rendition, while Daft P...
Pioneering Women of House Music Celebrated in New Coffee Table Book
Music promoter Laila McKenzie and writer Ian “Snowy” Snowball have joined forces for a new hardcover coffee table book titled “Lady Of The House,” the first of its kind to celebrate women in house music. The authors have been hard at work over the last year to bring the project to life and have launched a Kickstarter campaign to release it to the public. The book contains over 100 inspirational stories, interviews, and images of the pioneering women who helped to shape house music and those who continue to contribute to the scene to this day. Among the DJs, producers, vocalists, promoters, and managers set to be featured are Candi Staton, Barbara Tucker, Sam Divine, DJ Maxinne, Lynn Cosgrave, and Kym Mazelle, among others. The au...
Lady Gaga’s Chromatica Dances Through the Pain and Trauma: Review
The Lowdown: It feels strange listening to dance music at a time when dance clubs themselves, nights out with friends, and, for many, friends in general are impossible to access in person. Like so many of the joys people have managed to find in quarantine, kitchen-floor dance parties and celebrations shared via Zoom and FaceTime — while necessary reliefs and real, genuine joys — can also sometimes feel tinged with a hint of delirium. But Chromatica feels like an appropriate answer to the vacancy created by this dissonance — as a lot of Lady Gaga’s work has done in the past, it offers up some honest-to-God bangers side by side with some honest-to-oneself reckonings with trauma, pain, addiction, and the very idea of what it means to be flawed and how this idea shifts depending on who’s defin...
