Firebeatz take over Nebula this Saturday, Nov. 14

The Dutch duo behind "Dear New York" return to the city they play more than any other for a late-night set in Times Square's 750-capacity club.

There is a reason a Dutch DJ duo named one of their biggest records "Dear New York." Of all the cities Firebeatz play, they come back to this one most often — and on Saturday night they are back again.

Firebeatz play Nebula on Saturday, Nov. 14, with an 11 p.m. start. Tickets are $30 through DICE. Nebula holds 750, which puts a festival-scale act in a room where you can actually see the decks.

Firebeatz are Tim Smulders and Jurre van Doeselaar, who started the project in Tilburg in 2008 and built it on peak-time dance-floor records: "Dear New York," "Here We F*cking Go" and "Helicopter" among them. Those tracks carried them into the DJ Mag Top 100 and earned them several gold records, and they remain the moments a Firebeatz crowd waits for.

They have not been coasting on the catalog. This year has brought a steady run of new music — "Pump That Bass" in May, an extended mix of "Party Favor" in June — and their first release on Axtone, "In Space," a long-teased ID that the label framed as a sign of bigger plans for 2026. Earlier, "Show the Way" landed on Oliver Heldeep's label, Heldeep Records. The through line is the same as it has always been: big-room energy, built for the drop, but with enough groove that the set never feels like a fireworks show on repeat.

That is what makes a 750-person room interesting. Firebeatz are used to main stages, where the drops are designed to read from a quarter-mile back. In a club this size, the same records hit differently: closer, louder, sweatier, and with the duo reading the room in real time rather than playing to a field. For a pair with this much history in New York, a Saturday at Nebula feels less like a tour stop and more like a homecoming.

What to know before you go. The 11 p.m. start means this is a genuine late night; plan on the set running well into Sunday morning. Nebula is in the middle of Midtown, so the subway is your friend both ways. Check the DICE listing for age policy and any entry details, and bring ID regardless.

If you have only heard "Dear New York" on a playlist, Saturday is the chance to hear it the way it was meant to land — in New York, at 1 a.m., surrounded by people who know every drop.

Sources: Firebeatz (SoundCloud) (soundcloud.com); Firebeatz - In Space (Axtone) (axtone.com); Firebeatz deliver massive banger with Show the Way on Heldeep Records (EDM House Network) (edmhousenetwork.com); Firebeatz (Apple Music) (music.apple.com); Firebeatz (festapp) (festapp.io); Firebeatz tickets, Nebula (DICE) (link.dice.fm)