Melkweg, Paradiso and the city's smaller rooms: reviews, venue guides and the shows we shot.
The 30th Amsterdam Dance Event runs 21 to 25 October, from an aquarium at nine in the morning to hundreds of club nights. Here is the shape of a day.
Photo · Kåre Eide
Field Notes
By Damien Töpfl
Four weeks after the album's fiftieth birthday, Stevie Wonder brings it to Hannover, and four days later to Amsterdam, start to finish.
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Field Notes
By Annelies
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From the Pit
By Coda
Coda Photos →AFAS Live · Amsterdam · 2025
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Coda Photos →Paradiso · Amsterdam · 2023
Coda Photos →Melkweg · Amsterdam · 2023
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Cardi B's NPR debut drew a crowd so big that people were turned away. She rewrote two lyrics, traded her records for a live band and stopped once for water.
Heard · 20 October · Photo · NPR Tiny Desk
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The Toronto stop of the Night at the Opera tour opened with masked dancers and ended in chants. In between, Emei asked the whole room to sit down and sang to her late grandmother.
Heard · 15 October · Photo · @zachaureliano
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The "Girl on the Moon" tour stopped at Modus in Berlin: a drag persona as opening act, two backup dancers and CDs rhinestoned by hand at the merch stand.
Heard · 13 October · Photo · Katie Ramsay
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