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As dance music’s top-heavy, tour-focused infrastructure crumbles, people across the industry are wondering how new revenue streams can emerge to support artists during and after...

It’s been four months since COVID-19 sent dancers into deep freeze. With no sign of a vaccine, the suspicion is that clubs will stay closed...

The Sound Of: Me Me Me

Though a clear reflection of his taste in music, Newcastle’s Me Me Me label isn’t all about its founder, Man Power. Alongside a mix from its hard-to-define and easy-to-love catalogue, the DJ and producer tells Kristan J Caryl about the imprint’s focus on bringing artists together

“There’s nothing quite like the collapse of society to make you contemplate how self-interested you may have been,” says Man Power in the first week...

Hackney-based Nervous Horizon has established itself as one of the most exciting and forward-thinking club labels in London. For this month’s The Sound Of, two...

Soon, you’ll be able to upload music directly to Spotify without a label or distributor – here’s what it means for the dance music world...

Yesterday Spotify announced a new feature that allows artists to upload music and releases directly to the streaming platform for free, without a label or...

Unorthodox Events and Queer Rave are two club-nights that are creating new spaces for LGBTQ+ people in the drum & bass/jungle scene. Jack Ramage speaks...

The UK drum & bass and jungle scene lacks queer visibility. While issues like gender diversity and whitewashing have, in recent years, become the focus...

We meet futurist techno maestro Richie Hawtin for our ADE issue...

Electronic music’s explosion owes a great deal to futurist techno maestro Richie Hawtin. Not only has he made and played some of the most forward-thinking...

Spotify CEO claims "the cost of creating content" is “close to zero”

Musicians and music fans have hit back at Daniel Ek's comments, pointing out the many challenges associated with forging a career as an artist

Spotify CEO Daniel Ek has riled some musicians and music fans around the globe after comments he shared online in which he said "the cost...

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...

Remains of former Mixmag editor Dom Phillips identified in Brazil

Brazilian police have arrested eight suspects connected to the killing of both Phillips and Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira

The remains of British journalist and former Mixmag editor Dom Phillips have been identified in Brazil, the BBC reports. Three days after a suspect, fisherman...

On Cue is our flagship mix series, celebrating the pivotal DJs and producers whose influence has shaped the world of electronic music, both in their...

“I'm still kind of squatting in my own flat, I have no furniture yet, just a mattress on the floor and two Kallax shelves for...

“You saved fabric”...

fabric nightclub is set to reopen after a deal was struck with the Metropolitan Police and Islington council at Highbury Magistrates Court this afternoon (Monday...

We speak to the outspoken 'House Gangster'

Outspoken 'House Gangster' DJ Sneak was part of the second wave of Chicago house DJs alongside Derrick Carter, Green Velvet and Paul Johnson. Now based in Toronto, Canada, he says he misses his old friends and places to go out to eat and drink, but catches up with most of them in Miami at the WMC anyway.

The Cast of fresh talent to play alongside dBridge on Thursday

Regular readers will have noticed weekly updates on the Intel PowerUp DJ competition in association with DJ Mag and bass music legend Benji B.

Well...

In October 2013 London’s best-known record shop, Phonica has turned 10.

Opening a vinyl-only store in Soho just over 10 years ago was seen as a risky move. The area was, and still is, saturated with...

An exclusive chat with the rising Scandinavian star

Mike Hawkins is not just another DJ. Genuine and gimmick-free, Mike hopes to “Revolt” (out now) against the machine.

  Early 2014 saw...