The first ever Dance Music Archive party is aimed at a generation of revellers partying the night away between 1992 and 2002. The event is taking place at Project House in Armley on Saturday, April 20, and hosted by Dance Music Archive founder Andi Durrant, who has been on the radio in the UK doing specialist dance music shows every weekend since 1998, He said: ““Since we started the radio show and doing our little social videos every week, the one thing we keep getting asked, is “when are...
Broadway producer Kenneth Harper wrote “The Wiz” directly based on the
Exclusive: Speaking to The Independent’s Nadine White, Simeon Green and Precious warns that a lethal combination of ineffective medical care, distrust in healthcare systems and inadequacies in clinical trials give rise to racial disparities in cancer outcomes.
Terminal V Festival continued for the second and final day of its milestone tenth edition on Sunday, as thousands of music lovers from around the world returned to Edinburgh and brought the weekend to an incredible close. Terminal V has grown from a single room warehouse event with only 2500 people in attendance in 2017, to now bring over 15,000 music fans to Terminal V Halloween and 40,000 at the ever expanding Terminal V Festival, which took place at the weekend at The Royal Highland Centre....
Armada Music’s dance investment fund has acquired Amsterdam-based publisher Cloud 9 Music, significantly bolstering Armada’s headcount. Armada Music’s dance investment fund, BEAT Music Fund, has announced the acquisition of Amsterdam-based music publisher Cloud 9 Music, effectively tripling Armada’s publishing division headcount. As part of the deal, the teams at Armada’s existing publishing company will merge […]
Jennifer Lewis, 67, called Trump Hitler in a recent interview on SiriusXM. The Black-ish star declared that Trump would scrap the constitution if re-elected. The actress said that Trump would put black people ' in camps' if he wins in 2024
Beyonce’s latest album, “Act ll: Cowboy Carter,” hit No. 1 on the Billboard country albums chart this week, making her the first Black woman to ever top that chart. Alice Randall, novelist and songwriter, most recently author of My Black Country: A Journey Through Country Music's Black Past, Present, and Future (Atria/Black Privilege Publishing, 2024), discusses the legacy of Black country music and traces its roots to today's historic achievement.
More than one-third of Australian music festivals are losing money as operational costs skyrocket, red tape becomes harder to wade through and people in their late teens and early 20s ditch events. That’s the finding from Creative Australia’s first Soundcheck report, which revealed it cost an average $3.9 million to run a music festival. Among […]
Jazz Appreciation Month was created in 2001 at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. April was selected because a lot of jazz greats were born this month, including Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Carmen McRae, Charles Mingus, and Herbie Hancock. This year, JAM is a celebration of Ellington, because 2024 marks his 125th birthday. Also in April, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization—often referred as UNESCO—celebrates...
New Orleans is a multinational city that’s a gumbo of cultures - drawing newcomers, and their traditions, from all over the world. Get ready to celebrate Hispanic, French, and even Croatian customs: here are Where Y’at’s weekend picks.
Donald Bogle’s “Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks” is considered the standard text on Black characters in American movies. But when the book was first published, in 1973, it was just about the only text on the subject. This might be hard to imagine today, when books about the intersection of race and cinema flow forth on a regular basis (among the strongest in recent years are Will Haygood’s “Colorization: One Hundred Years of Black Films in a White World” and Robin R. Means Coleman’s...
The musicians brought a blend of cross-cultural compositions to Bing last Saturday. It was musical expression in its purest form and an explosion of life and joy, Wang writes.