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 ...

Despite its global popularity, the "cosmic" sound emerged from the records played by forward-thinking Italian DJs like Daniele Baldelli. Few DJs can claim to have had such a lasting impact as Daniele ...

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 ...

John Frusciante (AKA Trickfinger) isn’t interested in performing. These days, the man who captivated massive stadium crowds with his fretwork is content slicing up samples in his LA studio with cats ...

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 ...

There’s a river near Octo Octa (real name Maya Bouldry-Morrison) and Eris Drew’s house. A tranquil waterfall flows alongside it, over a formation of rocks that Drew and Bouldry-Morrison sometimes ...

Without a gripping narrative, an appealing club scene is just another town. The story in Mexico City contends that a wave of inspired young creatives uninterested in the city’s pricey mainstream clubs ...

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, ...

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, ...

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 ...

From banging cuts for the ballroom to surprisingly tasteful early big room house, these tracks expose the genre's roots in queer American club cultures. House music is gay music. The sound emerged ...

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 ...