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First Floor #199 – Another Year in the Books

First Floor's Favorite Releases of 2023

First Floor's Favorite Tracks of 2023

First Floor #198 – The State of Things

Not a Great Year for Dance Music

First Floor #197 – Think Hard Before You Apply

A Tale of Two Job Openings

First Floor #196 – Who Is This Guy?

Meet Dance Music's Busiest Bandcamp Commenter

First Floor #195 – Only in Miami

Danny Daze Goes Big... Planetarium Big

First Floor #194 – Editorial for Sale

A Rising Tide of Branded Content

First Floor #193 – Promoting Yourself As the World Burns

The Social Media Tightrope

First Floor #192 – Creeping Corporate Influence

NTS Radio Is Now Partially Owned by Universal Music Group

First Floor #191 – What If I Don't Want to Get Famous?

What's the Point of Your DJ Career?

First Floor #190 – Waiting for the Other Shoe to Drop

Bandcamp Anxiety

One Last Stop

The West Coast Is Calling

First Floor #189 – I Made It

Off to America

First Floor #188 – An Unexpected Turn

Minor Science Wants More Joy and Less Overthinking

First Floor #187 – The Limitations of Latin Hype

Verraco Isn't Just "That Latin Guy"

First Floor #186 – The Most Interesting Artists Rarely Do Just One Thing

Laurel Halo Embraces Chaos

First Floor #185 – On the Road Again

Coming to America

First Floor #184 – What Are You Really Mad About?

The Great Edits Debate Isn't Actually About Edits

First Floor #183 – Be Careful What You Wish For

A Fresh Look at User-Centric Streaming Payments

First Floor #182 – Charting Precarity

The Price of Transparency

First Floor #181 – The Things We Will (and Won't) Pay For

I Hate Paywalls Too

First Floor #180 – Mellowing with Age

Simon Reynolds Has Thought a Lot About Nostalgia

First Floor #179 – A Lot Can Happen in Three Weeks

First Floor #178 – Playing Catch-Up

First Floor #177 – Time for a Nap

Good News and Bad News

First Floor #176 – Who Knew That Aphex Twin and Deadmau5 Had Something in Common?

Spectacle Required

First Floor #175 – Nowhere to Go

A Requiem for Techno Twitter

First Floor #174 – This Job Used to Be Cool

Being a DJ Is Embarrassing

First Floor #173 - It's Weird That Music Journalists Aren't Covering This

Katie Bain Has Spent Her Career Covering EDM; There's More to It Than You Think

First Floor #172 – This Song May Give You Nightmares

The Unusual Staying Power of 'Unsolved Mysteries'

First Floor #171 – They Have to Do Better Than That

Crypto Shame and Lazy (or Worse) Journalism

First Floor #170 – This Is What Happens When I Go on Vacation

A Quick Correction

First Floor #169 – Maybe DJs Should Be Paying for That

What If DJ Promos Stopped Being Free?

First Floor #168 – Those Numbers Look Bad

Friends with... Significantly Fewer Benefits Than Before

First Floor #167 – More! More! More!

Bad Metaphor, Good Advice

First Floor #166 – This Should Keep You Busy

A Chat About Daft Punk, EDM and a Few Other Things

First Floor #165 – Apparently People Still Like Books

A Very Special Announcement

First Floor #164 – The Shifting Tides of Dance Music

Ron Morelli Isn't Interested in the Clown Show

First Floor #163 – A Problem without an Obvious Solution

Streaming Should Pay More, But How?

First Floor #162 – Who Are These People?

The Blame Game, and Why Journalists Always Seem to Lose It

First Floor #161 – What Are You Paying For?

Is PR Evil? And What Exactly Does It Do? I Asked a Publicist.

First Floor #160 – This Is What Dance Music Is Now

Skrillex Is Green Day, and This Is Dance Music's 'American Idiot' Moment

First Floor #159 – Editorial Bias by the Numbers

Dissecting Electronic Music News

First Floor #158 – Hurry Up and Entertain Me

The Incredible Shrinking Dance Track

First Floor #157 – Let's Stop Pretending

The Crumbling Palaces of Electronic Music Media

First Floor #156 – Latin Electronic Music Isn't a Trend... or a Diversity Prop

The Latin Music Gold Rush

First Floor #155 – That Story Is Full of Holes

Matt Anniss Is Filling Gaps in UK Dance Music History

First Floor #154 – Navigating the Strange State of Techno

Matrixxman Makes Techno, But He Isn't Necessarily Feeling Inspired by It.