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Ruff Sqwad return with first new music since 2015 hiatus, 'Flee FM': Listen

The seven-track release is available to stream

Legendary grime collective Ruff Sqwad have returned with a new record, 'Flee FM'. The seven-track release, which is now available on all streaming platforms, marks...

Photo of three people sitting next to wall of sound systems at Notting Hill carnival

Opening this spring, the Beyond The Bassline exhibition will explore the people, spaces and genres that have defined the landscape of Black British music

A new major exhibition documenting 500 years of Black music in Britain is opening at the British Library. Running from 26th April to 26th August...

Castlemorton 1992: photographing the Illegal rave that changed UK dance music forever

2022 marks the 30th anniversary of the biggest and the most infamous illegal rave that ever took place: Castlemorton – a week-long, 20,000-person party deemed so anarchistic that it shook Middle England to its core. Here, photographer Alan Lodge tells his story of capturing a week changed UK dance music forever

It started on a particularly sunny bank holiday weekend, on the 22nd May 1992. A ramshackle convoy of vehicles, which served as the rag-tag homes...

The NBA legend made the admission in a recent interview

Shaq has shared that he doesn't get paid for festival gigs.

The NBA star, who began DJing in 1988 but stepped away from music when...

Village Underground new venue is taking shape...

Hackney Council has given its approval for the owners of Village Underground to renovate a derelict art deco cinema into a multi purpose arts and...

AC55ID

AC55ID is a new Bandcamp-style website that works via subscription

A new music marketplace called AC55ID has launched that allows artists to sell their music, merch, physical releases and more, all for free, with no...

NASA transforms space images into music for new documentary, Listen To The Universe

You can hear what spiral galaxy M74 sounds like now that imagery of the "Phantom Galaxy" has been translated into sound

NASA has revealed three new space "sonifications" and a new documentary, Listen To The Universe. Watch the trailer below. The new sonifications — "the process...

Erika De Casier and Shygirl Ex-Girlfriend

The latest single from 'Still' comes with a video dealing with fashion, celebrity and voyeurism 

Erika De Casier has shared a music video for her recent single, 'Ex-Girlfriend', featuring Shygirl. Watch it below. Directed by Isa Castro-Cota and Tiff Pritchett...

A guide to dance music's pre-rave past...

We've drafted in Greg Wilson, the former electro-funk pioneer, nowadays a leading figure in the global disco/re-edits movement and respected commentator on dance music and...

The group’s co-founder and keyboard player achieved success with hits such as 1984’s ‘Smalltown Boy’

Steve Bronski, founding member and keyboard player of synth-pop group Bronski Beat, has died, aged 61.

The musician (pictured right), born Steve Forrest in Glasgow...

DJ Mag's weekly Solid Gold series examines the ongoing significance and influence of electronic albums throughout history. In our latest edition, Ben Cardew revisits Daft Punk's...

It is not too much of an exaggeration to say that dance music entered a brave new world on February 26, 2001, when Daft Punk...

Liverpool FC’s new away kit is dedicated to the city’s ‘90s dance music scene

Local producer and promoter Yousef soundtracks music the ravey Nike campaign

Liverpool FC's new away kit is a nod to the city's dance music scene and history. The ​​wavy, iridescent design pulls from rave aesthetics with...

A shot from AUDRA festival in Kaunas featuring Caterina Barbieri's synth performance in a tower-like hall

From AUDRA festival in Kaunas, Lithuania, Martin Guttridge-Hewitt reports on a long-standing, tight-knit and thriving electronic music scene often overlooked by outsiders

Pergalė is a sprawling industrial complex in a forgotten corner of central Kaunas, Lithuania’s modest-sized second city. A gated entrance obscures interior yards from view...

Book exploring field recordings in electronic music, Ears To The Ground, set for release

Velocity Press will publish Ben Murphy's examination of the way field recordings fold the natural world into electronic music this May

A new book exploring the interaction of electronic music and the earth through the use of field recordings will be published later this year. Ears...

Charli XCX Brat Club Record

You can watch the video the first single, 'Von Dutch', now

Charli XCX has announced the release of her new album, 'BRAT'. Described by the artist as her "club record", it will land this summer, with...