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NY legend join Nicole Moudaber in Ibiza on 12th August

It’s official, the new Ushuaia is on fire! Fortunately not literally (unlike parts of London), but there’s nowhere that’s being more talked about in Ibiza...

Dance music icon looks back

Whether as Lionrock, The Prankster, Revtone or most recently The Deadstock 33s ('Underneath The Pines' out this month), Justin Robertson has been making his mark on dance music since his Manchester uni years. The man behind Most Excellent at The Haçienda during the early '90s and a Bugged Out! resident since the beginning — and still now — these days you'll catch him sporting sailor stripes, a twisted moustache and a tweed jacket at any number of trendy jaunts across the capital most weekends, either in the booth or in the thick of the dancefloor.

Dance Mania transformed Chicago house from its '80s roots to a rough, raw, x-rated version that banged harder than anyone else. Now, after 13 years...

If Live Nation, SFX and Beatport owner Robert Sillerman is hoping to monopolize the world of EDM, then he may just be copying Daft Punk...

Bank holiday business

With two bank holidays this month, there's plenty of party ammunition to load those gun fingers...

Detroit's annual Movement Festival has evolved into a mecca for unity, love and hope

words: ORESTES BENITEZ/JOE ROBERTS

Movement Electronic Music Festival in Detroit is venerated as an event for those who feed on the sound of techno, a...

Hear him free at You Are We this Sunday

Part of Detroit's latest wave of talented taster-makers, Lee Curtiss has been a firm favourite since meeting him over a cider breakfast at Bloc Weekender...

Photo of Nathan Aké helping school pupils learn the piano with his new music education initiative,

The Playing For Change initiative will provide free digital Casio pianos to disadvantaged schools across the UK

Manchester City footballer Nathan Aké has teamed up with Casio to launch a new music education initiative, Playing For Change. The first-of-its-kind initiative will see...

Visa fee increase for international touring musicians delayed by US government

Petiton fees could leap from $460 to approximately $1,655 

A proposed increase in visa petition fees for artists touring the US has been delayed amid mounting pressure to reconsider the 250% price hike. According...

UKG pioneers Tuff Jam release full back-catalogue on streaming platforms for the first time: Listen

Seminal tracks such as 'Experience' and 'Tumblin' Down' are now available to listen to online in full master quality for the first time

UK garage pioneers Tuff Jam have released their back-catalogue to streaming platforms for the first time. People can now listen to classic tracks by the...

Press shots of Skrillex, Flowdan and Fred Again.. on a black background

Flowdan has become the first UK MC to win a Grammy

Skrillex and Fred again..'s 2023 collaboration with Flowdan, 'Rumble', has won Best Electronic/Dance Recording at the 66th Grammy Awards. The trio's track was named the...

The Jelly Bean Farm boss steps up with a killer mix...

Ganesa drops chopped breaks and bouncing bass badness on the latest edition of our Fresh Kicks mix series.

Based out of a "secret creative work...

In this series, Selections, we invite DJs, producers and label heads to dig into their digital crates and share the contents of their Bandcamp collections...

In her 2020 interview with DJ Mag, Juba described the importance of dancing to her expression as a DJ. “I dance behind the decks, and...

Chicago’s Trax Records sued by over a dozen artists over unpaid royalties

Rolling Stone reports that Adonis, Marshall Jefferson and co-founder Vince Lawrence are among the claimants

Trax Records, the Chicago record label that played a key role in the development of house music, is being sued by over a dozen artists...

Boomtown bar staff report poor treatment, discrimination and neglect at 2022 festival

Workers subcontracted through Freemans Event Partners say the were threatened, neglected, overworked and suffered invasions of privacy at the Winchester festival earlier this month

This story was updated on 25th August 2022 to include statements from Boomtown concerning Freemans Event Partners and its share sales to Live Nation, SJM...

Just what is this bass-heavy funk sound?

The Ghetto Funk Allstars duo grew out of a blog and a label a few years ago, and they've been rocking festivals and parties ever...