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Lovie

88 listings in 26 named rooms, over the last three years · 2 ahead · Washington DC · 351 following on RA

also plays Berlin — 1 night

Lovie's musical discovery began in the digital music age: a young lover of local radio and after-school MTV marathons, her early mixes took shape in the form of burned CDs she made for her friends. After relocating from her hometown of Washington, D.C. to New York in 2020, Lovie's unique selection of soulful, spiritual music swiftly ushered her into New York's local music scene.

At the taste-making Brooklyn radio station, Lot Radio, she gave birth to her homey platform, summer school radio. For five years Lovie's radio mixes—now being offered as one of the station's few weekly residencies—have thumbed through the intimate corners of her music collection. She saunters through slow-groove disco, dusty '70s funk and groovy '80s jazz at a studied pace that makes it easy to marvel at every timeless chime, trill, and drum beat. She's as tempted by the bedroom pop of Clairo as much as the cosmic funk of Lonnie Liston Smith.

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Outside the Lot, Lovie presents summer school radio as soothing listening sessions around Brooklyn, providing warm balms for city fatigue with artists like alt-jazz harpist muva of Earth and New Age legend Laraaji. As co-founder of Soul Connection with long-time friend and collaborator, Honey Bun, she imbues the power of friendship and Black femme empowerment into sumptuous house music and '90s R&B spun with the patience and musicality associated with the East Coast house tradition. Connecting the mind, to the body, to the soul, her club sets inspire the warmest, most community-minded dance floors you'll find in the city.

Her diligence to the craft, musical curiosity, and deep focus on the listening experience earned her a spot on Mixmag's Top 25 Breakthrough DJs of 2024. She now holds a coveted residency at Brooklyn club public records, and has played at art centers like MoMA, Brooklyn Academy of Music and The Beacon Theater, where she opened for Kamasi Washington. Her work has also brought her to international gigs at Paris's Djoon, London's Spiritland, and more. Whether playing on her stomping grounds or rocking dance floors overseas, Lovie creates honey-sweet dance floor memories you'll want to replay again and again.

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The nights

90 listings across 88 nights — two dates carry more than one listing, and all of them are here.

2026

2025 — 26 nights
2024 — 28 nights
2023 — 16 listings

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
3 more rooms they have played twice or more

Once each: Chatroom at Elsewhere, Refuge, Silence Please, Industry City, Camp Kennybrook, Make Believe, Million Goods, Bossa Nova Civic Club, H0L0, The Lot Radio, 99 Scott Ave, Gabriela, 100 Sutton Studios, Cafe Erzulie and Le Bain. Two of the 90 listings never named a room, and are 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.

  • Honey Bunacross eight rooms · Sep 2023 – Oct 2026 · together again Sat 31 Oct21 nights
  • JADALAREIGNNowadays ×2, and 3 more rooms · Sep 2023 – Jul 20265 nights
  • Jenifa Mayanjapublic records ×3, Nowadays ×1 · Feb 2024 – Sep 20264 nights
  • Analog Soulacross four rooms · Sep 2024 – Jul 20264 nights
  • Timmy Regisfordpublic records ×3 · Jun 2024 – Jul 20263 nights
  • LADYMONIXH0L0 ×1, Refuge ×1, and 1 more room · Sep 2024 – May 20263 nights
  • Soul ClapGood Room ×1, H0L0 ×1, and 1 more room · Dec 2023 – May 20263 nights
  • Justin Strausspublic records ×2, Good Room ×1 · Dec 2023 – Feb 20263 nights
21 more, 2 to 3 nights each
  • Benji Bpublic records ×3 · Jul 2024 – Nov 20253 nights
  • beewackGabriela ×1, Good Room ×1, and 1 more room · Nov 2023 – Oct 20253 nights
  • Ella HussleMood Ring ×1, Nowadays ×1, and 1 more room · Oct 2023 – Oct 20253 nights
  • BLKshinepublic records ×2 · Jun 2026 – Sep 20262 nights
  • Yvonne TurnerGood Room ×1, Signal ×1 · Jan 2024 – Aug 20262 nights
  • Niyah WestGood Room ×1, public records ×1 · Nov 2023 – Jul 20262 nights
  • Shawn Dubpublic records ×1, The Lot Radio ×1 · Jun 2024 – Jul 20262 nights
  • Soul Summit Musicpublic records ×2 · Jul 2025 – Jul 20262 nights
  • Gilles PetersonElsewhere ×1, Xanadu ×1 · Jan 2025 – Jan 20262 nights
  • Ron TrentElsewhere ×1, The Lot Radio ×1 · Jun 2024 – Jan 20262 nights
  • Colored CraigNowadays ×1, public records ×1 · Jun 2024 – Nov 20252 nights
  • k.teaMake Believe ×1, Nowadays ×1 · Aug 2024 – Aug 20252 nights
  • CTRLZORANowadays ×1, public records ×1 · Aug 2024 – Jul 20252 nights
  • Mo YasinNowadays ×1, The Lot Radio ×1 · Jun 2024 – Jun 20252 nights
  • Stonie BlueJupiter Disco ×1, Nowadays ×1 · Nov 2023 – Jun 20252 nights
  • Sinéadpublic records ×2 · Mar 2024 – Dec 20242 nights
  • Ayanna HeavenGood Room ×1, Jupiter Disco ×1 · Dec 2023 – Nov 20242 nights
  • Kilopatrah Jonespublic records ×1, The Lot Radio ×1 · Jun 20242 nights
  • Omer Mil100 Sutton Studios ×1, an unnamed room ×1 · Oct 2023 – Jun 20242 nights
  • KfeelzGood Room ×1, Nowadays ×1 · Jan 2024 – Feb 20242 nights
  • lovetempoGood Room ×2 · Oct 2023 – Dec 20232 nights

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