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We take a look back at the news of 2015 through the prism of the international dance music scene. It's been quite a year!

January is a notoriously slow month in clubland — a time when gym memberships take priority over all-nighters and pennies are scraped together. Many top...

While clubs have been closed during the pandemic, there has been an abundance of excellent dance music documentaries to fill the void left by their...

Whether celebrating individuals and movements that helped shaped where dance music culture is today, or commemorating everything coronavirus took from us in spring 2020, the...

Chronicling 10 years of HARD...

Gary Richards' iconic party brand HARD features in a documentary by Steve Appleford which chronicles one of North America's most forward-thinking party brands ahead of...

Greg Sawyer explores the different ways producers are weaving their love of gaming into music and runs down 10 tracks from experimental artist Patricia Taxxon

We’ve all heard the well-worn adage that “if Pac-Man had affected us as kids, we’d all be running around in dark rooms, munching pills and...

We packed our bags amid the aftermath of New Year's Eve, and made a beeline for the second instalment of South East Asia's freshest electronic...

Epizode Festival  can probably best be summarised by one single moment on a single morning of the 12-night house, techno, and electronica marathon, which returned...

Miami's Rapture Festival files a cease & desist order to Ultra...

Ultra Festival is facing legal trouble after being sent a cease & desist order by Rapture Festival, which was given permission to take place at...

Semibreve announces full music programme for 2022 festival

The Portuguese festival has newly confirmed appearances from Caterina Barbieri, Maxwell Sterling and more

Braga festival Semibreve has shared the full music programme for its 12th edition, scheduled to take place later this year. Among the final names added...

It plans to update its site with helpful information for struggling grassroots music venues

The Music Venue Trust (MVT) has put out a piece offering advice for grassroots music venues on how to sustain their businesses during the current...

Animistic Beliefs release new album, 'Merdeka', on NAAFI

The record is said to explore the trauma left behind by (post-)colonialism

Rotterdam-based duo Animistic Beliefs have released their new album, 'Merdeka', on NAAFI. Their debut on the label, the album is said to explore the trauma...

DJ Pierre interview ahead of 28th July London gig

The word 'legend' should be used sparingly, but there's no doubt that DJ Pierre's contribution to the world of electronic music places him in...

"There is something very wrong here..."

Jackmaster has blasted misogyny within the music industry in a series of angry tweets.

Speaking out last night (Sunday 5th February), the Scottish DJ said...

Could this change the music industry as we know it?

Spotify has launched a new feature today (20th September) that allows independent artists upload their own music, for free, without any need for a record...

Apple Music subscribers will be able to listen to sets from Armin van Buuren, Charlotte de Witte, and Laidback Luke

Tomorrowland has shared sets from July's digital festival on Apple Music.

Tomorrowland Around The World took place in July, with the first ever digital edition of...

The Scottish DJ answered a string of fans’ questions on Twitter...

Calvin Harris has suggested that he’s moving away from producing EDM in favour of a more house-oriented direction.

The Dumfries DJ/producer took to answering a...

Cormac posing in profile against a grey blue background. He's wearing an orange coat with a white hood and a blue baseball cap

With his new podcast, Queerly Beloved, Northern Irish DJ Cormac explores what it means to be a queer artist in dance music today. Interviewing contemporary figures about their histories of queer discovery, the Panorama Bar and fabric regular continues an intergenerational conversation surrounding the life-affirming moments, communal  experiences and enduring challenges of LGBTQ+ expression. Alongside an On Cue mix packed with HI-NRG anthems and Italo house, Marke Bieschke learns more

What is “queer music”? For some, the term recalls debauched downtown discos of yore, with unbridled backrooms, fabulous androgynes, and Liza Minnelli descending to the...