7 Years of Basement

An interview with PAPER. Newly installed lockers by SJEF. A cult-favorite Substack podcast featuring Clinton’s best tips on how to do the door. Two Wire festivals culminating in the third and current iteration – a monumental 50-hour marathon stretching from Friday evening into Monday morning. As Basement turns 7 in 2025, we reflect on the things New York once had – from Output to Chernobyl – while properly giving respect for some of New York's most recent losses (Paragon and TBA, rest in peace). All that remains now is music that echoes through Basement on Sunday morning, carried on the backs of some of the most dutiful apostles of New York's nightlife.

Data up to Dec 2021 extracted from Basement's RA page. Data from Dec 2021 onwards extracted from Basement's website. Data for STUDIO goes as far back as September 2022, the month it opened. Quality of data has been checked but is not assured. This project is by Anders Zhou and is a close replication of the efforts by Artiom Dashinsky for Berghain.