Boo Lean
"This is a person who's done so much for the American and global grassroots dance movement ... thing is it doesn't stop in this curatorial generosity, because Boo Lean is also the sickest of DJs, naturally vibing between sonic schools to a mesmerizing result." -- Naive
Boo Lean (Lauren Goshinski) is a DJ and curator who’s crafted some of the most forward-thinking dancefloors and AV shows over the past decade. A trusted ear in more ways than one, she’s known behind the scenes as a founder and curator of festivals and spaces like VIA Festival, New Forms Festival, Hot Mass and her current residencies at Public Records and The Lot Radio. She’s also a board member of Resident Advisor, holding it down for independent scenes in a big way.
In the booth she’s eclectic and elastic — playing with genre, tempo, pressure and pace to a mesmerizing result. Carving out murky chambers of hyperbaric dub, rollicking mountains of freaky drum play, crystalline pools of vocal hooks and euphoric melody, to all-out bass caverns for your booty, it’s all about riding an edge without falling off for Boo.
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She helped pioneer a new generation of audio-visual festivals in the US, co-founding the VIA Festival in 2010 in Pittsburgh, PA, and has utilized every opportunity to make viable space for womxn & non-binary promoters and artists across all her projects.
As a curator she's facilitated unique collaborations between Oneohtrix Point Never/Nate Boyce, House of Kenzo/Team Rolfes, Pussykrew/Kelela, and supported breakout talent both in their early days and now: Yaeji, Juliana Huxtable, Aurora Halal, and Lotic to Giant Swan, Laurel Halo, NAAFI, Mike Q, Cakes da Killa, Junglepussy, Empress Of, Light Asylum, Nene H, Lafawndah, Jimmy Edgar, Jessy Lanza, Abdu Ali, Purple Tape Pedigree… the list is 1,000+ deep and keeps growing. Like any good rave mom, she curates programs that can thoughtfully link new voices with their predecessors like ESG, Tommy Wright III, Betty Davis, MC Lyte, Rakim, Richard Devine, Moodymann, Underground Resistance, Teklife DJs and more … encourage us to create new worlds together.
Their Resident Advisor profile, in full and unedited.
The nights
2026
- Sun 31 MayMAD Radio NYCfirst time · DUBLAB
2025 — 4 nights
- Fri 20 Jun 2025Jupiter Discotheir 2nd night · Jupiter Disco Version 2.0
- Sun 2 Mar 2025Mansionsfirst time · Mansions Bar
- Sat 15 Feb 2025TBA - Brooklyn WarehouseBook Club Radio
- Tue 4 Feb 2025TBA - 651 Arts at L10 Space, 10 Lafayette Ave, BrooklynB2B2Bworldwide
2024 — 11 nights
- Fri 6 Dec 2024Good Roomtheir 4th night
- Thu 14 Nov 2024Million Goodsfirst time
- Wed 18 Sep 2024Earthly Delightsfirst time
- Fri 2 Aug 2024The Chocolate Factoryfirst time · Facility, Jupiter Disco Version 2.0
- Fri 17 May 2024Good Roomtheir 3rd night · Twist NYC
- Fri 10 May 2024public recordsfirst time
- Wed 20 Mar 2024Bossa Nova Civic Clubtheir 2nd night · Recreational DJ
- Sun 3 Mar 2024Bossa Nova Civic Clubfirst time · Sorry Records
- Sun 11 Feb 2024Telephonefirst time · Bree Olsson, Finlay Mangan
- Sat 20 Jan 2024Jupiter Discofirst time
- Thu 18 Jan 2024Elsewherefirst time
2023 — 6 nights
- Tue 12 Dec 2023Nowadaystheir 2nd night
- Sat 2 Dec 2023Good Roomtheir 2nd night
- Fri 17 Nov 2023Nowadaysfirst time
- Sat 7 Oct 2023TBA - Secret LocationVoragine
- Sat 30 Sep 2023The Sultan Roomfirst time · Loft Sounds
- Fri 4 Aug 2023Good Roomfirst time
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.
- Good RoomAug 2023 – Dec 20244 nights
- Jupiter DiscoJan 2024 – Jun 20252 nights
- Bossa Nova Civic ClubMar 20242 nights
- NowadaysNov 2023 – Dec 20232 nights
Once each: MAD Radio NYC, Mansions, Million Goods, Earthly Delights, The Chocolate Factory, public records, Telephone, Elsewhere and The Sultan Room. Three of the 22 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.
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.