In abandoned warehouses, empty apartment lofts, and open fields, high-energy all-night dance parties were happening. It was the early 1990s and these raves — held in secret with party details often ...

Black Rave Culture is a DJ collective from Washington, D.C., consisting of James Bangura, Nativesun, and Amal. The trio are all long-established figures in their city’s underground scene, and their ...

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On the night of Oct. 13, 2000, a 23-year-old college student named Stefan Weise attended a rave called Superstitious at the Ridglea Theater in Fort Worth, Texas. Seventeen years later, he remembers ...

“It’s dumb, just come have fun!” the slogan reads on social media platforms for the national touring Shrek Rave, and it’s enough for rave-goers to almost sell out the House Of Blues in Anaheim on ...

You only had to look at the titles to see that something was up: “Atmosphere,” “Morning Factory,” “Brighter Days.” There was a new dawn in America, and the rising sun was house. Like any unearthly ...

The Mile High has a thriving dance community, with every flavor of music you could want. Whether you’re into the boots and cats of house music, the soaring synths of trance, the industrial drum beats ...