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The AIM Awards will honour the late Nigerian drummer

Tony Allen will be posthumously honoured with Association of Independent Music (AIM)'s Outstanding Contribution to Music award.

The Nigerian afrobeat pioneer, most widely known as...

Organisers behind the California event are yet to make an official announcement

Coachella will reportedly be postponed until October 2020 due to coronavirus concerns. 

Organisers of the California festival are working to delay both weekends of the...

Overseas nationals aged between 30 and 40 will be considered for the task force

Illegal parties and gatherings in Ibiza will be infiltrated by foreign "detectives" in a bid to tackle rising cases of Covid-19. 

Spanish officials have announced...

Since the beginning of March, bars and restaurants in Ibiza, Formentera, Menorca and Mallorca have been able to open terraces and outdoor spaces to the public

Ibiza tourism could be possible from May with vaccine passports, Spain's Tourism Minister has announced.

Last month, Spanish Tourism Minister Reyes Maroto told journalists that the government...

The TV drama will be released in 2022

DJ Target’s Grime Kids book is set to be adapted as a BBC Drama series next year.

Published in 2018, BBC Radio 1/1Xtra host DJ Target's...

It equates to almost two thirds of the industry's work force

170,000 UK music industry jobs ‘will be lost by Christmas’, a study has found.

Following the near-total shutdown of the UK's music industry after the...

A memorial service for the Yonkers MC is also set to take place this weekend (24th April)

DMX will be honoured in his hometown of Yonkers, New York with a street or statue named after him.

The rapper passed away on April...

It features some of the city's best-known grime names, including Lady Leshurr, Jaykae and Mist

A new documentary on Birmingham’s grime scene is set to be released later this month.

‘Risky Roadz 0121’ was created by one of the scene's...

Creating a safe environment on the dancefloor is crucial for the mental wellbeing of all club-goers, particularly those from marginalised communities. Christine Kakaire speaks to...

In late 2015, the animated TV series South Park aired an episode called ‘Safe Space’. The phrase had been used in activist communities since the...

The award winner announcements will kick off at 3:12pm GMT

DJ Mag's Best of British 2021 award winners are set to be announced online later this week.

Following the cancellation of DJ Mag's in-person event...

Guitar designed by Gorillaz' Jamie Hewlett to be auctioned for Brian Eno’s climate charity

The Cure's Robert Smith performed on the guitar at Gorillaz' free concert for NHS workers last summer

A guitar design by Gorillaz' Jamie Hewlett and Damon Albarn will be sold at auction later this month. Currently owned by The Cure frontman and...

The new policies will implement strict curfews on all new venues in the borough...

A protest is set to take place this Friday 27th July outside Hackney Town Hall against newly implemented licensing laws which will severely restrict opening...

Little Simz wins 2022 Mercury Prize for ‘Sometimes I Might Be Introvert’

"Wow. I’m very very overwhelmed, I’m very grateful," the London rapper and actor said at last night's ceremony in London

Little Simz has won the 2022 Mercury Prize for her 2021 album 'Sometimes I Might Be Introvert'. Watch her performance of her performance of 'How...

Two boxes of legit merch from the doomed event are up for sale...

Two boxes of official merchandise from 2017's doomed Fyre festival are set to be auctioned off in a bid to help raise money for some...

How Nookie's 'Gonna Be Alright (Cloud 9 Remix)’ album artwork over grey background

Nookie’s ‘Gonna Be Alright’ dropped as hardcore was morphing into jungle at the beginning of the 1990s. It lit up the raves and set Nookie up for a production career with Reinforced, Metalheadz, Moving Shadow and other key labels as the decade unfolded. Ben Murphy learns its story and speaks to Nookie about how, as the ‘20s roar into action, he is charged up all over again
 

“Just Close Your Eyes And Dream With Me / You’ll Hear The Sound Of Music” Instantly recognisable thanks to its vocal hook, Nookie’s classic tune...