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Lil Keed, YSL rapper, dies, aged 24

The Atlanta-born rapper signed to Young Thug's Young Stoner Life in 2018

Lil Keed, the Atlanta-based rapper signed to Young Thug’s Young Stoner Life label, has died aged 24. "A member of our family is gone. Lil...

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But it might not be the end for the much-loved second-hand store

London record store Rat Records is set to close. Founded in 1999, the much-loved Camberwell shop has announced that it will shut its doors this...

Daft Punk launch new website with "archives loading"

What are they up to?

Daft Punk have launched a mysterious new website emblazoned with the words "archives loading". The site, which is also embedded with a loading bar, features...

Premiere: Lyric Hood 'Hard 2 B N Love’

Lyric Hood returns to M-Plant with four cuts of hard-hitting techno. Hear ‘Hard 2 B N Love’ now

Lyric Hood will release her new EP, 'Woman-Hood Chapter 1', via M-Plant this week. The Detroit producer, and one-half of Floorplan alongside her father Robert...

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Amapiano hitmaker Lady Du also features on the long-awaited full-length

Gqom trailblazer DJ Lag has unleashed his hotly anticipated debut album, ‘Meeting With The King’, via Ice Drop and Black Major. Check it out below...

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It marks the Detroit producer's fourth solo EP via her father Robert's landmark techno imprint

Lyric Hood has announced a new solo EP on M-Plant. The Detroit producer, and one-half of Floorplan alongside her father Robert Hood, will release 'Woman-Hood...

Sam Divine

Sam Divine is the Queen of Defected, and she’s helming the UK house music brand’s first season at Ushuaïa Ibiza this season as its weekly resident and key figurehead. For the the first of DJ Mag's 2024 Ibiza cover stories, Divine speaks candidly about her difficult upbringing, falling in love with house music, lifestyle changes, and her enduring passion for DJing around the world

Sam Divine’s life should be a movie. It’s had the humble beginnings, the setbacks and the dark times, and now the feel-good resolution comes against...

Photo of a TV with various photos of grime artists and the DJ Mag logo

Grime emerged from the council estates of East London over two decades ago, evolving out of pirate radio stations as jungle and UK garage fractured into new structures. It has since grown into an unstoppable cultural force, asserting its dominance on the charts and claiming headline bookings on the world’s biggest festival stages. Whilst there are a vast amount of resources covering its profound influence and evolution, these 10 documentaries aim to narrate the story of grime music, and chart the history of one of this country’s most crucial foundational genres

Since emerging from the council estates of East London over two decades ago, grime has grown into an unstoppable cultural force, asserting its dominance on...

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The California-raised producer Channel Tres is a natural born trailblazer. As the name behind Compton House, he’s found admirers for his self-coined genre within funk, hip-hop and pop audiences. In his forthcoming album ‘Head Rush’, he’s expanding upon that diverse aesthetic by tapping into his divine intuition to tell his life story and introduce the world to new depths of his musicality

Successful artists often point to intuition as their guiding force. But developing a positive relationship with an inner dialogue is something that takes practice, patience...

Every era of British dance music has its myths and over-simplified narratives — hell, even little known local scenes have urban legends. Below, Matt Anniss...

We need to think about how we document dance music culture. It may seem odd saying this when there are so many magazines, podcasts, and...

During the pandemic, music tech thrived as the wider music industry fell to its knees. Declan McGlynn explores the possibilities and implications that stemmed the...

2020’s unprecedented upheaval brought with it fundamental changes to the creative industries. Theatres, clubs, studios, venues and festivals all closed their doors and with it...

The latest and greatest DJs and producers rising to the top this month. From hammering techno to trippy deep house, here's April 2019's list of...

Recognise is DJ Mag’s monthly mix series, introducing artists we love that are bursting onto the global electronic music scene. This month, we speak to...

DJ Lag is a pioneer of one of the most exciting electronic music movements to surface this decade. Over the last few years, gqom has...

German DJ/producer tINI has been running her famed tINI & The Gang parties in Ibiza for seven years now, adopting several different island homes before settling on...

tINI is one of Ibiza’s biggest cheerleaders. She lives on the island full-time in the summer, throwing her local tINI & The Gang parties at...

Jaye Ward, Honey Dijon, JD Samson, Mandidextrous and DJ Sprinkles talk gender identity, safe spaces, privilege and the power of the internet...

Words: JOE ROBERTS // Pics: JEF McMAHAN, COMATONSE RECORDINGS

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“Trans is so hot right now,” chuckles Jaye Ward, the Hackney-based DJ whose lineage of...