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MUSCLECARS

42 listings in 19 named rooms, over the last three years · one ahead · 2,972 following on RA

also plays Berlin — 2 nights

Native to New York, musclecars is a DJ / Producer duo consisting of Brandon Weems and Craig Handfield. As musicians, they equally share an admiration for the art form. Their desire to blend genres and express their appreciation for music is focused around their community- the end goal is to bring people together. Through a regular stream of high quality mixes and multiple outstanding releases, they’re constantly turning heads in underground circles.

In 2018 they launched ‘Coloring Lessons’, a party that was aimed to add value to their city’s nightlife culture. While the party and sound is not genre specific, it is heavily focused around house, disco, jazz, and soul, embracing the musical elements of their black and brown ancestors. The monthly party's intention is to bring New York City's dance music scene back to what it was during the golden era of NY nightlife. They aim to spread the music that has been influential to them, and share it with a younger generation of their peers.

The rest of it — one more paragraph

In 2020 the pair launched the label Coloring Lessons Records. The label, like the party, is intended on building up artists from their city and beyond, with the sound indicative of the Coloring Lessons ethos- which is sharing music created and inspired by their ancestors of color, and teaching younger generations about the roots of this music.

Their Resident Advisor profile, in full and unedited.

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Records out on BBE and Toucan Sounds. — their own list on Resident Advisor

The nights

43 listings across 41 nights — two dates carry more than one listing, and all of them are here.

  • Sat 12 DecH0L0their 5th night · Benny Soto, Nervous, danceherenow142 going

2026

2025 — 10 nights
2024 — 16 listings
2023 — 9 nights

Their rooms

One tick a night, on the one axis this page has — Aug 2023, where the listings start, to Jan 2027, the last night anybody has announced. The shaded end has not happened yet.

Aug 2023Jan 2027

Once each: Honey's, Musica Club NYC, Dead Letter No. 9, Black Flamingo, The Abode of the Message, The Lot Radio, Sugar Hill Disco, Le Bain, Prospect Park, Laissez Faire and SILO. One of the 43 listings never named a room, and is not counted as one.

Who they play with

Counted from the bills themselves, over bills of twelve names or fewer. A pair's count includes a night that is announced and not yet played; where there is one, the row says when.

  • Love InjectionH0L0 ×5 · Sep 2023 – Dec 2026 · together again Sat 12 Dec5 nights
  • ToribioH0L0 ×5 · Sep 2023 – Dec 2026 · together again Sat 12 Dec5 nights
  • LakutiNowadays ×2, public records ×2 · Aug 2023 – Feb 20254 nights
  • Tama SumoNowadays ×2, public records ×2 · Aug 2023 – Feb 20254 nights
  • DJ SpinnaXanadu ×2, Good Room ×1 · Jan 2024 – Feb 20263 nights
  • Maurice FultonGood Room ×1, Le Bain ×1, and 1 more room · Mar 2024 – Jun 20253 nights
  • Ron Trentacross four rooms · Aug 2023 – Feb 20253 nights
  • Scott Groovespublic records ×3 · Aug 2023 – Nov 20243 nights
3 more, 2 nights each
  • Cameron Da DjMo's Bar ×2 · Jun 2025 – Jun 20262 nights
  • closeNowadays ×2 · Feb 20252 nights
  • DonisNowadays ×2 · Dec 2023 – May 20242 nights

On record

22 more, back to 2020

Every one of these resolves on Discogs; the ones that do not are not printed. What Discogs files them under is not printed either — its label column carries mix series as if they were imprints.

The nights, the rooms and the bills are the listings themselves. The biography, the labels and the photograph are Resident Advisor's. The records are Discogs'. Nothing on this page was written for it.