The one-liner on Isaac Terpstra (aka DJ Pandemonium) is that he's the local scene's premier goth and industrial record-spinner. The longer story is that he's been a nightclub fixture since 1995, and that he's played just about every club in the city, from dearly departed venues like the Palladium and the original Celebrities to newer spots like the Lotus and, well, the new Celebrities. When someone gets around to writing a history of Vancouver's electronic-music scene, Pandemonium will figure prominently.

When Roberts took over a year ago, it had become something of a frat-boy magnet, packed on the weekends with well-liquored loogans. Today, the room is known as the Bourbon, and is gaining a reputation as one of the most promising live-music venues in the city.

What set Danyluck apart from the gloomy goths was that she resembled a 1940s Hollywood starlet gone bad. Plus she was cool. And charming. And wearing a colour.

Usually we ask DJs around town to name their hot track of the moment, but in honour of all things ghoulish, we persuaded five of the city's best selectors to name their all-time Halloween anthem.

With Halloween falling on Wednesday this year, that means there's almost a full week's worth of club nights to celebrate.

Seventy years ago the Railway Club opened as a members-only pub for railway workers from the nearby Canadian Pacific station—the current home of the SeaBus. But the venue hasn’t always looked as it does today, nor did it begin as a place where beer-swilling brakemen could grab a pint or three before they staggered back to work down Seymour Street.

With the rain falling in black sheets just like every other November, getting off the couch isn’t easy these days. If you’re going to make the effort, however, you owe it to yourself to try something other than a beer. The next time you’re out at the club, ask for one of the following drinks, recommended by the people who lovingly pour them.

DJ Lowdown - DJ LeanneOnetime Georgia Straight cover subject DJ Leanne might just be the defining face of house music in Vancouver, repping the sound through thick and thin, outlasting fly-by-night counterparts by the hundredfold. These days, the scene’s golden girl holds down three residencies while operating the Rhythm Institute (www.tridj.com/), the city’s premier instructional school for aspiring turntable wizards.

School sucks, work is worse, and fall is falling in buckets, but these five tracks (chosen by five of the city’s best DJs) give us reason to believe that the sun will come out again, someday.

It’s that time of the year again when we pay respect to the soldiers who have fallen (and continue to fall). So raise a glass. 0ur brothers and sisters in arms would approve.

As subgenre names go, liquid funk is just about the coolest-sounding term in recent memory, one that captures the contrasting senses of fluidity and syncopation at the heart of drum 'n' bass. As one of the style's avowed pioneers, Manchester's Marcus Intalex can usually be counted on to incite riots on the dance floor, unleashing the kind of squirmy bass lines and hands-in-the-air synth runs that connect drum 'n' bass to its roots in house music.

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