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A visual tribute to ’80s Chicago, where house music began

DIY designs — A new book celebrates the power of the DIY party flyer – homemade designs which helped transform the city’s dance scene.

  • Art
  • Miss Rosen

A photographer’s tribute to the Welsh drum and bass scene

Rave to the grave — There’s a thriving rave community in any major UK city, and photographer Aiyush Pachnanda spent three years documenting Cardiff’s from the inside.

  • Music
  • Rhys Thomas

Capturing the underground hedonism of Studio 54

Sex, drugs and disco — Inspired by its diverse and decadent spirit, photographer Meryl Meisler spent years shooting at the New York club. Now, she’s dusting off her archive.

  • Photography
  • Miss Rosen

The secret life of a 1980s house music manager

New York underground — New York music manager Michele Saunders dusts off her three-decade-old photo albums to pay tribute to the city’s club scene.

  • Music
  • Miss Rosen

Life after lockdown: will London ever be the same?

The disappearing city — The city has changed immeasurably during the coronavirus crisis, with the future more uncertain than ever. In a special edition of her Disappearing City column, writer Jessica Furseth explores both the short and long-term effects of the pandemic.

  • Reportage
  • Jessica Furseth

Inside Lagos’s underground queer clubbing scene

It’s been six years since homosexuality was effectively criminalised in Nigeria. Despite this, LGBTQ people in the country are still finding ways to meet, hook up and have fun.

  • Music
  • Vincent Desmond

Arlene Gottfried’s scenes of New York nightlife

After dark — In the new exhibition, Arlene Gottfried: After Dark, the artists takes us into the nightclubs, strip joints, dive bars, and drug dens of the ’70s.

  • Photography
  • Miss Rosen

Beats and bills: how capitalism destroyed UK club culture

A love letter to ’90s rave — In the new film Beats, director Brian Welsh travels back to 1990s Aberdeen to tell the story of rave culture – why it mattered, and how it got torn apart.

  • Film
  • Colin Crummy

In Lisbon, the dancefloor is still a site of resistance

Political parties — Despite most clubs in the city being whitewashed and shuttered with harsher licenses, a host of rebel collectives are fighting back – carving out inclusive spaces that don’t shy away from politics.

  • Music
  • Peter Yeung

A sold-out city? The fight to save Dublin’s nightlife

Take back the night — In the past year alone, 79 hotels were given the go-ahead for construction or large-scale refurbishment in Dublin – often at the expense of cultural spaces. As the threat of full-scale ‘hotelisation’ looms, we speak to the people fighting back.

  • Activism
  • Colin Gannon

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