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Alinka Freedom Dance Gudu Records Dance Like Nobody's Watching

"I grew up in Chicago, so I make tracks to close your eyes and dance to like no-one's watching"

Alinka has announced a new EP, which is set to arrive courtesy of Gudu Records. You can listen to the first single, 'Freedom Dance', below...

Avicii’s death last year shocked the dance community and laid bare the serious problems surrounding mental health in the music industry. Now, his father Klas has set up...

A year after the death of Avicii, and his suicide continues to stand as a symbol for the failings of the electronic music industry to...

Dorothy Classic Hip Hop Stamp Collection

LPs from Gang Starr, Cypress Hill, BDP, Run D.M.C., Queen Latifah and Lauryn Hill all feature

A new stamp card-style print has been released paying tribute to 40 hip-hop albums, tracing the genre back to its early-1980s roots and celebrating its...

If you’re telling people to “keep politics out of music”, you’re missing the point. Here, DJ Mag’s Harold Heath explains why politics are an integral...

WORLDWIDE APPEAL: Label owner, producer, Radio One and club DJ, dance music ambassador: Gilles has done it all. And he’s still doing it...

“Representing British club culture is an important part of what I’ve always done,” says Radio One DJ Gilles Peterson. “At the moment I play almost...

IMS 2024 Business Report

Strong growth across live and recorded reflects rocketing demand, but artists are finding bookings harder to get, and gender inequality remains widespread 

The 2024 IMS Business Report was published yesterday, Wednesday 24th April, and shows the dance music industry is now valued at $11.8 billion, up 17%...

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...

Dance music is the UK's second most popular genre, BPI reveals

The genre has accounted for about 25% of weekly top 10 singles this year

Dance music is now the UK's second most popular genre according to new analysis shared by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI). Data shared by the...

The Bird’s The Word - Acid house and breaks hero Annie was the first lady to push dance music on Radio 1 — and she’s...

“Working in radio is like phoning up your mate and playing a piece of music down the phone to them,” says Annie Nightingale MBE, radio...

Larry Heard

It's the follow-up to 2018's 'Cerebral Hemispheres'

Larry Heard has unveiled the release of a new Mr. Fingers album. Out on 2nd May via the deep house icon's own Alleviated Records, 'Around...

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DJ Mag has teamed up with the Association For Electronic Music (AFEM) and its members and others to initiate a helpline for people to report sexual harassment...

Carl Loben & Charlotte Cijffers breakdown this month's female-focused mag...

Whether we like to admit it or not, sexism is an ongoing theme in dance music’s history.

Even a cursory glance at the stats reveals...

Ageism in the dance music industry is a subject that is being discussed more and more, particularly its impact on employment. But what about its...

A dark club, flashing lights, a crowd reaching for the roof as the DJ drops a huge track and a roar of jubilation as the...

The Steel Yard heads back to Liverpool this November... 

Creamfields has announced that it will be bringing its steel megastructure, The Steel Yard, to Liverpool's docks for two one-off shows this November.

On Saturday...

Arís' first release comes backed with a brand new remix by Brame & Hamo of a track from 1992

A new label has launched with a focus on reissuing classic and forgotten Irish electronic music from the '90s and early '00s.

Arís' first release...