How Dance Mania’s raw, raucous and rare cuts defined the sound of Chicago's inner city and changed house for the ruder – as told by ghetto house pioneers DJ Deeon and Parris Mitchell
Jul 19, 2023
Former Dazed editor Emma Hope Allwood’s new exhibition dives into the hedonistic history of Milton Keynes superclub, the Sanctuary
Dec 20, 2021
Sanctuary: The Unlikely Home of British Rave brings together ephemera and artefacts from the former nightlife mecca
Oct 15, 2021
@UKRaveComments is the Twitter account putting the purest part of the internet in one place
Sep 08, 2020
Founder Jonny Banger turned the runway into an acid rave at his Tottenham studio
Feb 18, 2019
‘It’s a lot of classic acid house – swirling effects and noises and boomy basslines,’ according to the Trainspotting author
Nov 20, 2018
Women like DJ Paulette, Lucy Scher, and Ang Matthews were vital to the Haçienda and nightlife culture at large, but their story is rarely told
Sep 25, 2018
The collection marks the 30th anniversary of the acid winter
Aug 29, 2018
Director Bexy Cameron celebrates the euphoric second summer of love
Aug 15, 2018
As rave documentary The Agony and The Ecstasy airs on Sky Arts, we speak to Norman Jay MBE about the political impact of the acid house scene and share three exclusive clips
Aug 10, 2017
Local photographer Peter Walsh documented the city’s high voltage acid house movement before the police cracked down on its clubs
Jul 20, 2017
As a new documentary about the movement launches on Channel 4, legendary DJ Jesse Saunders talk us through its beginnings in the city’s LGBTQ+ black and Latino communities
May 11, 2017
Though it was born in Chicago and inspired rave culture in the UK, acid house’s influence spread all around the world – and nowhere took to it better than Japan
Dec 06, 2016
After this untimely death this week, we uncover a rare interview with the Indian artist that many credit with inventing the much-loved electronic genre
Jul 06, 2015
Police are calling for a review of its license after four drug-related deaths in three years
Dec 18, 2014
