As DJ Joey Llanos explained to New Times yesterday: “It was a sanctuary where people of all backgrounds, races, colors, creeds or sexual orientation were accepted on the the dance floor as one. They ...

Sometimes the excitement over the contemporary dance scene resembles the confusion of Babel an explosion that has the languages of house, techno and drum & bass caught up in a race for exponential ...

Larry Levan and NYC’s seminal Paradise Garage nightclub are now the stuff of legend — a source of nostalgia for a bygone golden era of dance music culture, even among the younger generations that ...

Historically, black music has almost always been friendly to the dance floor. But after disco passed, the fertile downtown ideology that meshed black and white, straight and gay, hip-hop and new wave, ...

There were dance halls, speakeasies, jazz clubs, nightclubs, rock 'n' roll clubs, discos and more. See the history of the ...

Lady of the House is a new crowdfunded book celebrating women in dance music, featuring more than 150 DJs, producers, artists, promoters and management icons from the early days of disco and soul ...

For the 2023 edition of the “American Songbook” series, Lincoln Center is doing things differently. Dubbed “American Songbook: A Place You Belong,” this year, “four of NYC’s influential but long-lost ...

Paradise Garage was a foundational icon of New York City nightlife, and this compilation mix brings to life music it helped inspire that carries its energy into today. By Kat Bein Much of dance ...

In March 2013, followers of the Paradise Garage Bot were baffled. The Twitter account, which sends out links to singles that sainted DJ Larry Levan once spun at the hallowed New York City club, had ...