It’s crazy, really. Next month marks 20 years of DFA releasing records. We put out our first two singles—the Rapture’s “House of Jealous Lovers” and the Juan MacLean’s “By The Time I Get To Venus”—back in March of 2002.

Anniversaries, schmaniversaries, but given everything we’ve all collectively been through, this feels like a plausible excuse to throw a party. So that’s what we’re doing.

It’s kind of return to the bad-idea, over-ambitious DFA parties of yore, with 3 rooms full of DJs and bands, label family, friends old and new, fellow travelers, plus ones who wish they were at some other party, and all of you wonderful people who have supported us throughout the years. It’ll be a long-ish night – 8PM to 4AM – so plan accordingly. Pace yourselves. Bring a buddy. Don’t fight the current. Blow a whistle and signal to the lifeguard. Hold my hair.

“Bushwig Presents” brings us a concert with Fatboy Slim, Hercules & Love Affair (DJ Set), Brooklyn hero’s Carry Nation, and a Dollhouse Lounge with shows from local drag icons Charlene, Dev Does, Horrorchata, Inita D, La Zavaleta, Merrie Cherry, and Neon Calypso.

A “whenever we want to” affair that if judged by its inaugural edition, will continue Bushwig’s hallmark frenetic cross-disciplinary, multi-amazing attack on the usual dolldrums, but with a firmer footing in music. 

Kerri Chandler has been injecting soul into dance music since the early nineties, making him one of house music’s originators. He is a house legend, icon, inspiration, key figure, and a true house music purveyor.

Joaquin ‘Joe’ Claussell is one of New York’s highly respected dance figures for his work as a DJ, producer, remixer, and his record label “Spiritual Life Music”. Much of the global dance movement can be traced back to Claussell’s highly percussive style that incorporates Latin, African, Brazilian and other world rhythms with elements of jazz, rock, disco, and live instrumentation.

Pan-Pot are a German minimal techno duo associated with Mobilee Records who made their acclaimed album debut in 2007 with Pan-O-Rama. Based in Berlin, Germany, the duo is comprised of Tassilo Ippenberger (from Chiemsee, Bavaria) and Thomas Benedix (from Templin, Brandenburg), who met as students at the SAE Institute.

Robert Hood is often regarded as the founder of minimal techno. The Detroit native makes stripped-down tracks with an emphasis on soul and experimentation rather than flash and popularity. Hood was a founding member of the Underground Resistance label, whose influential releases throughout the first half of the ’90s helped change the face of modern Detroit techno and sparked a creative renaissance.

Volvox remains one of the most powerful and distinct of the new generation of DJs to emerge from Brooklyn’s recent explosion of club music. She made her reputation at her Bossa Nova residency Jack Dept. and as one of Discwoman’s first breakout artists. Volvox’s sets slam with a darkly intoxicating playfulness. Her dirty, acid-drenched sets notoriously steal the show.

Akumandra returns with the premiere of [VORTEX], SAINTE VIE’s live audio/visual show with SOEL (Afterlife), MATEO, ELI on February 5th.

Tickets on-sale Friday, 12.3 at 3pm EST

Presale: Thursday, December 2 (10am – 10pm EST)

General On-Sale: Friday, December 3 (10am EST)

Taking place in the unique arts space of the Knockdown Center from May 13th – May 15th, with an exclusive pre-party at Saint Vitus Bar on May 12th. Desertfest are firmly planting their feet back into New York’s underbelly with a mammoth line-up celebrating the very best of heavy music. Welcoming home-grown talent such as BARONESS, CORROSION OF CONFORMITY & TORCHE alongside acts from across the pond like Greek groovers PLANET OF ZEUS & a debut US performance for English doom maestros GREEN LUNG, Desertfest NYC are pushing their second edition to new levels.