Resident Advisor (RA)

Resident Advisor (RA) is the leading global website for electronic-music event listings, ticketing, news, reviews, and long-form journalism. It was founded in Sydney in 2001 by Paul Clement and Nick Sabine as a regional site covering the Australian dance-music scene, expanded its remit internationally by 2003, and re-incorporated in the United Kingdom in 2006 when Clement and Sabine relocated and began working on RA full-time. A Berlin office opened in 2007. The company is now headquartered in London, with additional offices in Berlin, Los Angeles, New York, and Melbourne. The site migrated from its original residentadvisor.net domain to ra.co at the start of 2021, alongside a full visual redesign. RA hosts comprehensive event databases for nearly every major electronic-music city in the world — from Berlin's Berghain and London's Fabric to New York's Brooklyn Mirage, alongside scenes in Tokyo, Mexico City, São Paulo, and roughly fifty other metropolises — letting users browse upcoming shows, buy tickets, and follow favourite artists or venues. For mid-sized events outside the festival-headliner tier, an RA listing is often the primary way the event reaches an international audience; for first-time visitors to an unfamiliar city, the RA listings page is a standard pre-trip reference. RA Tickets is the platform's in-house ticketing arm and has become a major sales channel for the events RA covers editorially. RA's editorial wing produces some of the most respected long-form writing about dance music. The output spans artist features, scene reports from cities around the world, op-eds, weekly track and album reviews, the influential "RA Recommends" event-of-the-week feature, and the RA Podcast series — a weekly two-hour mix by a different international artist, now one of the longest-running mix series in dance music. The editorial voice has historically functioned as a tastemaker for the underground end of the scene, and an RA cover feature or top-tier review can meaningfully accelerate an artist's profile internationally. The site leans more toward the techno, house, ambient, and underground side of the spectrum than the trance-mainstream end. Trance acts with one foot in the deeper progressive or melodic-techno spaces — the Anjunadeep roster, Lane 8, Yotto, Tinlicker — appear in RA coverage with some regularity; pure uplifting and psytrance get comparatively little editorial attention, though their events are still listed in the database. For anyone engaged with electronic-music culture beyond the mainstage circuit, RA is essential reading and an essential planning tool.