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N.J. celebrities who died in 2020, from Adam Schlesinger to Tommy DeVito Updated Dec 30, 2020; Posted Dec 30, 2020 Tommy DeVito was a founding member of the Four Seasons. He died of COVID-19. Jerry McCrea | The Star-Ledger Facebook Share As we wind down a tough year, here’s a look back at some famous figures we lost in 2020. They come from various arenas — entertainment, media, sports and politics — but they all have some connection to New Jersey. Some were Jersey-born, while others made their home here or spent their final hours in the state. Several died from complications of COVID-...

Plague Raves, #MeToo, And Doing The Work: A Look Back At Dance Music’s Tumultuous Year By a lot of measures, 2020 was one of the roughest years in dance music history - but there were some silver linings. We missed you too. Sign up to our newsletter, and follow us on Instagram and Twitter, so you always know where to find us. In November, British-Canadian techno lifer Richie Hawtin released an EP called Time Warps. On Bandcamp, the two-track release is described as Hawtin’s first dancefloor-focussed EP since Minus Orange in 1999. The accompanying video for title track ‘Time Warps’ ...

Four months ago, I had a rude awakening about the magnitude and virulence of misogyny in electronic music. I knew that women, trans people and non-binary people had always been undervalued in the scene, but I had no idea of just how insidious and widespread the problem was until I witnessed the online response to the death of chronic sexual predator Erick Morillo. Recently charged with rape, he was publicly mourned and celebrated following his passing — even after many victims shared their stories of his abuse, supported by witnesses. Daniel Wang’s Facebook post this week — des...

Image: Wayne Taylor/Fairfax Media Electronic music is finally having its #metoo moment. But we need a binding code of conduct to make the scene a safer place Last year, the death of Erick Morillo triggered what felt like electronic music’s #metoo moment. The stories of sexual assault and sexual harassment that emerged in the wake of Morillo’s death, joining the sexual battery charge that he had been due to face court for, revealed that Morillo had been attacking women for as long as he’d been spinning records — and getting away with it. For many survivors, Morillo’s s...

Emerging DJs and one of his accusers discuss the sexual abuse claims surrounding Morillo's death.