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FR 128: Avalon Emerson Is Saving Dance Music From Context Collapse

The perpetual emotion machinist on DJ edits, festival culture, and the anticipated return of her electro-pop project, the Charm.

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Philip Sherburne
Aug 05, 2025
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Avalon Emerson photographed by Dina Litovsky

An interview with Avalon Emerson never feels like merely a cog in the press wheel. You might start out talking about her latest project, but the conversation will swiftly morph, drift, balloon.

She’s a big-picture thinker; even the simplest question about the music she’s spinning in her DJ sets might turn into …

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