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EDM is taking over the world, one festival at a time

While electronic dance music has been a part of our lives for decades here in the UK, mainstream America took a little while to get...

DJ Mag present Hardwell at Green Valley, Brazil

The voting for Top 100 Clubs, powered by Miller Genuine Draft closes at midnight (GMT) tomorrow, Friday 28th of February. Before this year's results are announced...

Seattle fest gears up for the big 10!

As the 'EDM' tidal wave continues to crash over The States, the club scenes of America's major cities are rightfully reaping the benefits. Seattle is no exception. Increasingly, cool after-parties playing house and techno are capturing the imagination of the city's young adults and large-scale dance events are cropping up left, right and centre. 
One festival, however, has been bringing eclectic dance sounds to the largest city in the Pacific Northwest since 2004.

This issue's hottest four names in dance music


Mikix The Cat
Parisian electro riot starter…

A self-declared “bass bandit puttin’ suckas in fear,” Paris’ Mikix The Cat has been busy putting France’s club...

Position: 6
Movement:   3
New documentary on Don Letts, legendary punk and reggae filmmaker and DJ, to be released next month

Rebel Dread sets the pioneering artist's story against a backdrop of systemic racism in UK politics

A new documentary about British punk and reggae filmmaker, DJ and musician Don Letts is set to be released next month. Watch the trailer for...

Windrush ship

Some of the most important DJs in the development of the UK scene are children of the Windrush generation. DJ Mag's editor-in-chief, Carl Loben, speaks to Black and mixed-race foundation DJs about their parents, racism, culture, and being pioneers in our beloved scene

This feature was originally published in 2018, at the height of the Windrush scandal, and on the 70th anniversary of the Windrush ship's arrival in...

SOPHIE

The video teases something taking place on Monday 24th June

A new YouTube video has been shared to SOPHIE's YouTube channel, sparking rumours of an incoming posthumous project from the late experimental pop visionary. Shared...

Chase & Status announce full line-up for Ushuaïa Ibiza one-night-only show

They will be joined by Flowdan, Skream & Benga, and more for the event at the end of the month

Chase & Status have shared the full line-up for their one-night-only takeover of Ushuaïa Ibiza later this month, which will be the only chance to...

Mike Dunn relaunches influential Dance Mutha label after three decades

The label will release a new three-track EP in July

Legendary Chicago house artist Mike Dunn has announced he will relaunch his influential Danca Mutha imprint after three decades. Founded by Dunn back in 1988...

eric_prydz

The Swedish electronic titan said: "I think this could be one of the best things we have ever done!”

Eric Prydz has unveiled a preview of his eagerly anticipated audio-visual live show [CELL] at Hï Ibiza. Check it out below. Announced in March, Prydz...

DJ Food's plans for his first album in nine years

If you were a lover of bad puns you might say that DJ Food, AKA Strictly Kev, has a lot on his plate. Part...

Position: 33
Movement:   3

A handwritten note in the lot read "f*** this painting”

Ja Rule has sold his Fyre Festival oil painting as an NFT for $122,000.

Following the rise in popularity of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) — a token...

The festival that keeps on giving, errr, failing...

Fyre Festival — the well-documented music festival disaster from 2017 that left paying festivalgoers stranded on a private island in the Bahamas — is now...