Everything gets fast-tracked except the consent question. That gap is the single most predictable source of reputational damage in this sector, and it is being left open in public while four states build the industry around it. If you touch this space in any capacity, the Diné objection is the thing you should be able to speak to, precisely because nobody else is.

Unchanged read, now with a closing date: the festival expands while the permanent rooms shut. Watch the post-mortems over the next week — what the reviews single out is a decent proxy for what the European season decides mattered.

Useful as a scheduling instrument rather than a taste signal. If you need to know where the European and US underground physically IS in the next four weeks, that is the list. Honcho Campout in particular is worth knowing about — queer, camping-based, and culturally distinct from the big-field circuit.

Unchanged and worth repeating: Berlin's club culture is constitutively queer, not incidentally so. The response last week is the reference point for what this scene does under attack.

Unchanged and still the most actionable thing on this board: the oral layer of Detroit techno is closing. Go get the stories from the people who were there, on the record, while they are still being told first-hand.