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Nick Boyd

45 listings in 16 named rooms, over the last three years · 3 ahead · North Carolina

Between his own DJing and his work behind Sorry Records, Nick Boyd has become something of a staple of the New York’s club circuit. Behind the boards, he pairs old-school house and techno sounds with a more new-school kitchen-sink mentality. He plays with reverence but without idolatry, paying homage to his favorite scenes without tying himself to them.

A hopeless devotee and passionate fixture of the New York City rave underground, Nick is the founder of beloved Brooklyn based DIY label Sorry Records which has been putting out records from a wide variety of stand out folks from the American dance music underground for over in half a decade now. Nick is a long time resident on both The Lot Radio and 8 Ball Radio and has contributed mixes to Honcho Podcast, Rinse FM, and Spontaneous Affinity. He currently runs a monthly Sorry Records residency at Brooklyn techno institution Bossa Nova Civic Club and has played everywhere from Nowadays to North Carolina’s Slingshot Festival, Good Room to beloved Pittsburgh queer rave Jellyfish, FOURTH WORLD to long running Boston-based house music institution Social Studies, as well as made multiple appearances at The Carry Nation’s legendary residency party in NYC. Nick also occasionally writes about music and interviews artists for Love Injection, Crack Magazine, The Fader, and Bolting Bits.

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Clubs: Nowadays, Bossa Nova Civic Club, ANIMAL, Good Room, Paragon, Mansions, Jupiter Disco, House of Yes, H0L0, Good Life Bar (Boston), The Listening Club (Chicago), Glen Falls House, The Deep End, Good Bar, ...

Parties/Festivals: Jellyfish (Pittsburgh), Social Studies (Boston), Slingshot Festival (Durham, NC), Cause & Effect (NYC)

Radio: The Lot Radio, Rinse FM, Rinse France, WKCR 89.9FM NY, WNYU 89.1 FM, WKDU Philadelphia 91.7 FM, WERA 96.7FM Arlington, Foundation.fm, Lower Grand Radio, East Village Radio

Mix Series: Honcho Podcast, Spontaneous Affinity, XOXA, Good Room, Sweat Equity, Somersault Records, Rave Scout Cookies, Bossa Nova Civic Club/Bossa Radio, ghungru, Never Say Ruin, Fixed Rhythms

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“Grounded by an encyclopedic knowledge of dance music history and generous sharing of that knowledge, Nick and Sorry Records are beacons of integrity and openness in today's dance music community.” - Lychee, Spontaneous Affinity

"Loveable, Hard Working, Absolutely Rowdy Party Starters, Speaker Freaks... yea I dunno, what more can you say about Sorry Records? One of New York's hardest working crews, and a bottomless well of support for the city's scene." - Sweat Equity

“As the boss of Sorry Records – one of New York’s finest contempo dance labels – Nick Boyd has been giving multiple leg-ups to a fresh wave of producers like Tony G, C Powers, DJ Wawa and Olive T.” – Chal Ravens, The Face “Over the past five years Sorry Records has been both a bedrock and beneficiary of New York City’s fertile scene.” — Gabriel Szatan, Beatportal

"A currently indispensable NYC label" - Piotyr Orlov, Dada Strain

“Since its foundation in 2015, Sorry Records has become a critical outpost in New York’s dance-music scene. The label balances an unwavering commitment to the city’s dance music history with a dead-serious approach to having a good time. Their best material seems like it could have come out in the ‘90s, were it not for the of-the-moment production techniques and references in the liner notes.” - Michael McKinney, Passion of the Weiss

Their Resident Advisor profile, in full and unedited.

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Records out on Sorry Records. — their own list on Resident Advisor

The nights

48 listings across 47 nights — one date in July 2025 carries two listings, and both are here.

2026

2025 — 21 listings
2024 — 17 nights
2023 — 1 night

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, The Deep End, Hellphone Brooklyn, H0L0, House of Yes, Libera, Good Room, Million Goods, The Chocolate Factory, The Office, The End, Nowadays and Sleepwalk.

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.

Dick Void has stood on 1 of these bills. Dick Void is one of the names Nick Boyd records under, so they are named here rather than counted as company. — their aliases on Resident Advisor

  • MIRA MIRABossa Nova Civic Club ×2, and 3 more rooms · Jan 2024 – Aug 20255 nights
  • DoulaBossa Nova Civic Club ×3 · Sep 2024 – Nov 2026 · together again Sun 1 Nov3 nights
  • Russell E.L. ButlerBossa Nova Civic Club ×3 · Aug 2024 – Jul 20263 nights
  • SobolikJupiter Disco ×2, Bossa Nova Civic Club ×1 · Jun 2024 – Mar 20253 nights
  • Kiernan LaveauxBossa Nova Civic Club ×2 · Sep 2025 – Nov 2026 · together again Sun 1 Nov2 nights
  • Tony GBossa Nova Civic Club ×2 · Jan 2025 – May 20262 nights
  • Ali BergerBossa Nova Civic Club ×1, Nowadays ×1 · Apr 2024 – Nov 20252 nights
  • DrummyBossa Nova Civic Club ×2 · Mar 2024 – Oct 20252 nights
4 more, 2 nights each
  • Davis GalvinBossa Nova Civic Club ×1, Nowadays ×1 · Apr 2024 – Jul 20252 nights
  • L B33Bossa Nova Civic Club ×1, House of Yes ×1 · Mar 2025 – Jul 20252 nights
  • boxofboxBossa Nova Civic Club ×2 · Nov 2023 – Nov 20242 nights
  • DevoyeBossa Nova Civic Club ×1, The End ×1 · Apr 2024 – May 20242 nights

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