November 7, 2025 | Caleb Roberts & Kaylee Begay

alice.km is an electronic artist and event coordinator who got her start in Brooklyn, New York, playing venues like Elsewhere, The Rosewood Theater, and private soiree Midnight Society, which has evolved in association with Last Night’s Makeup. Since then she has released multiple EPs over the years, her most recent project being Bathed in Color, released on September 26 of this year. As she has gone on multiple West Coast tours, she has also been featured on London radio stations Netil Radio and BMC Radio. Alice.km now resides in Phoenix, Arizona and has grown to solidify her mark in the area supporting many artists, major events, and local festivals. Worth noting is that she will be joining to headline tomorrow at Tempe Jam, taking place from 6-10pm at the Tempe Sports Complex.

*This interview was conducted live on Blaze Radio during a Niche for Niche segment. Some parts of this transcript have been trimmed for clarity.

KB: Thank you for coming out here and being with us, and we wish you so much luck tomorrow in Tempe Jam!

Alice.km: Hey! Thanks for having me on the show.

On your Instagram, you stated that you have been a DJ for about 10 years, 5 of those with producing experience. As a multi-genre DJ, your disco, electronic and dance infused music has truly brought many people together and created several communities around the nation. How did you start your musical career within this music genre and what have you learned from your growth as an artist and producer?

Alice.km: Ooh, so, I started making dance music after about 4 or 5 years of DJing. I played in electronic pop bands before that. And I pivoted to DJing, essentially, because I fell in love with the art form and the genre and also because I was tired of relying on bandmates to make things happen. I was like, “I'm just gonna make things happen on my own.” I had a manager that I was working with in 2019 and 2020, so when the pandemic happened, she was like, “You have no excuse anymore. You have to learn how to produce because you need to make your own music if you want to actually succeed as an electronic artist.” So it's like, "Okay." I got into all these Twitch streams and YouTube video tutorial rabbit holes and then signed up for a couple online courses. So that's kind of how I started making dance music. I don't even know what I've learned as I've grown as an artist. I don't even know where to take that. There's so many things.

KB: And especially how you have grown from such a creative genre, where you create your own music on a type of, will you tell me what you make your music on?

Alice.km: Yeah, I use Ableton.

KB: And it's obvious that you've grown as this artist and made your own music with that. I also wanted to follow through with that and see that all of your hard work has paid off to this day. And according to your website, you've had a vast amount of recognition in places like New York, the West Coast, the Dusk Music Festival, and earned acknowledgements on 2 prominent London radio stations, like Caleb said, Natal Radio and BMC radio. And you have even appeared in additional music festivals in Arizona, California, and even at Burning Man, which is a great accomplishment. Congratulations to you.

How have these experiences helped you curate your own sound within the music you make?

Alice.km: Definitely the scenes that I get to experience, like, you know, Arizona's music scene versus LA scene, or New York scene, it exposes me to different sounds to hear what people are playing like in different cities. I feel like my sound now is this melding of a bunch of different artists that I love and, you know, taken pieces from. I love incorporating the piano, which I got inspired to do by listening to one artist. I also love trying to blend the lines of progressive house and melodic techno, which I picked up from another artist. Or, trying to blend these soaring melodies with really hard hitting bass, which I picked up from another artist. So they all just kind of form together until it just bubbles into my output basically.

KB: That makes sense. Yeah, and I also believe that's very admirable because as you grow up, you find inspiration from all of these other artists that you admire, picking different qualities from each of them and being able to create your own sound. And every artist I do think goes through that as well. It's a very creative innovation to see from you.

Since your origin of event hosting in Brooklyn, how has the transition over to Phoenix been and what were some of the challenges that came with that, and is there any way you feel it’s impacted your music?

Alice.km: In terms of the event world, it was definitely a little bit of starting over. Anytime I moved to a new city or I basically started over from square one, because you have to meet the other players in the scene, you need to build your community. That's always a bit of a challenge at first, but Arizona specifically has been incredibly welcoming.

So, my event production company is called Last Night's Makeup. I run it with my partner, DJ Night Fever. We initially started throwing events in Tucson and then now we do events in Tucson and Phoenix, but we actually started in LA before we were out here. The Phoenix scene has really welcomed us with open arms and is super supportive of what we do. That's been really great because the New York scene had so much going on that it's a little hard to really carve a space just because there was so much competition. And similarly, I think in LA, there's even more competition. There's just, there's so many promoters, there's so many people throwing events. And just because of numbers, when we started throwing events in Tucson, there were so many less promoters who were also doing something similar.

We were able to really grab a little bit more attention because we weren't competing with 20 other people doing the exact same thing. There's tons of people doing cool things in Tucson, we were just doing things a little differently, because we really blend cabaret and theater with nightlife and dance music and try to make a whole immersive party. There's elements of all of those happening around at different things. But again, I think what we do is so specific that we've been able to really hit the ground running, which has been great.

We were led to believe that you also host your own immersive occult themed soiree called The Midnight Society. Can you tell us what inspired you to create the community that hosts hundreds of people?

Alice.km: Yeah, so, funny story. Midnight Society was an accident. I was trying to get booked at a venue in Brooklyn that doesn't exist anymore, but I was trying to get booked as a DJ there. And when I approached them, the response was, “Well, what's your party?” And this was in a live meeting, so I just had to spitball really fast and be like, “I can do this.” And they were like, “Okay, here's your date, make it happen.”

At the time, I was playing a lot more techno and I was really into the darker side of deep and melodic progressive house so I thought I'd build a night around that. I tend to like more esoteric occult type things. I think they're interesting. I took the name from the show Are You Afraid of the Dark? Because I think that that's what they called the gathering of the kids who told all the stories each episode, They were the Midnight Society. So I was like, “Here we go.” Midnight Society lives under the Last Night's Makeup umbrella. It's one party that we do, and we haven't done one in a while. It's about time to bring it back, though.

Are there any collaborators you worked on doing the Midnight Society with? Any, like you said, that helped express your individuality as well as provide the ability to make your own music with others?

Alice.km: Specifically with Midnight Society, when it first started, I had two DJ friends who were helping me run it in New York, but they stepped back and it was just me for a while and now, whenever I do events, it's with collaborations. Last Night's Makeup is run by myself and DJ Night Fever. The two of us collaborate on every event that we do, and we have a couple different event series. We have a micro festival that we produce in southern Arizona every year at Ruin Wines as well. So we have a whole array of events now at this point.

Do you want to tell our listeners if you have any upcoming shows that they would like to attend besides Tempe Jam or anything in the works as well?

Alice.km: So in terms of shows, my next 2 gigs in November after Tempe Jam are in Los Angeles, and then on November 16th, Last Night's Makeup is doing a double diamond disco party at Club Contact. I won't be at that event, but Night Fever will be running it. And then, in December, we have 2 events that haven't been announced yet, but if you're in Phoenix, save the date, December 19th, and if you're in Tucson, save the date December 20th.

We noticed that you recently released an EP this past September called Bathed in Color. Can you tell us in our listeners about what inspired you to create the songs "Paint Me Green" and "Champagne" and what they mean to you?

Alice.km: So, I only really started listening to breakbeat within the last two or three years, I'd say. And I really became more and more interested in these sounds in the way that the drums were structured and how I like to throw a breakbeat track into a house set to switch up the vibe for a minute. And so I just opened Ableton one day and "Paint Me Green" just spilled out. Like, honestly, I wrote that song very quickly, and when I was done, I was like, “I need a drum and bass track to pair this with. I don't know why. This has to happen.” And so that's when I started making "Champagne," I intentionally was making it as a companion to "Paint Me Green." It's like a duel in the kind of way that one has to have each other instead of one not having the other. That's what I love so much about this EP.

KB: I was listening to it this past week and today again with Caleb, and that's how we noticed how your growth and development within your career has led you to create this EP.

What are some peers you have or any other DJs you've noticed in current times that have helped motivate you to build on your progress in music?

Alice.km: So many. I mean, at an inspirational level, I really look up to LPGOB, who I got the chance to open for a few weeks ago. And then Azeka, Jackie Hollander, those are three of my big inspirations. I also love artists like Nala and Vanessa. These are all women DJs who are incredible at their craft and I aspire to be in the list of names among them, you know?

I have so many friends also who produce and inspire me on a daily basis, like my friend Staria, who's based out of LA. We met through Femhouse, which is a nonprofit that looks to uplift women and non-binary voices in dance music. Staria is in the studio every single day, constantly creating, just giving her all to her craft, and that's really inspiring to see.

Another Phoenix artist who is just killing it is my friend Peachy Keane. Like, she is playing all over the place. She's played Decadence and some of these other big Relentless Beats festivals. We're working on a collab together right now, and at our first session I was asking about her production history and how long she's been doing it, and she's only been producing for two years, and she's so good. It's awesome. Yeah, there's so many incredible artists that really keep me going.

KB: Your journey is very admirable, and we'd like to thank you for coming in and wish you so much luck in Tempe Jam. Thank you. And I look forward to finding out more about your music and with your future projects as well.

Learn more about alice.km here!