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The techno mainstay is the winner of our 2019 Best of North America Outstanding Contribution award...

Richie Hawtin has been confirmed as the headliner for the second of DJ Mag's Best of North America Awards tour stops, marking his Outstanding Contribution...

Only 13% of UK festival headliners in 2022 are women, study finds

BBC Newsbeat's new gender-focused study of UK festival line-ups finds that little has changed since 2017

A new study of UK festivals by BBC Newsbeat has found that only 13% of 2022's headliners are women. A gender-focused analysis of 50 UK...

With three decades as one of house’s biggest names under his belt, Roger Sanchez has seemingly lost none of his enthusiasm for the music that...

On a recent humid evening in Brooklyn, on the rooftop of the Bushwick club Elsewhere, a few hundred revelers let out a collective ‘whoop’ as...

See him live at the upcoming Best of DJ Mag North America showcase

12th Planet has enlisted the directorial talents of Johnson Diep for the visual treatment of ‘Let Me Help You ft. Taylr Renee’. The single...

After a chance meeting at Miami Winter Music Conference (WMC) in 2007, Blond:ish was born. But the seeds of their love of DJing and electronic...

What were your first experiences of Ibiza?
Vivie-Ann: “I first came here in 2006. I was living in Rome, so it was more natural to...

Sully, Nikki Nair and Fracture release 65 breakbeats sample pack in aid of homelessness charity

The release is available via Astrophonica and was made in collaboration with LABS instruments

Sully, Nikki Nair and Fracture have teamed up to release a sample pack comprising 65 breakbeats in aid of UK homelessness charity Shelter. The release...

The dance scene owes much to gay culture...

 

Earlier this year, Lithuanian producer Ten Walls was riding on a wave of global love with his big-room smasher ‘Walking With Elephants’. Then, in...

His track 'Ghost Voices' as project Virtual Self is nominated for Best Dance Recording...

Porter Robinson has been nominated for Best Dance Recording at the 2019 Grammy Awards, with track 'Ghost Voices' produced under his trance and hardstyle-focussed Virtual...

Voting for the Best of North America awards opens on 9th April...

Juan Atkins and Ciel have been confirmed for the first party to be announced as part of DJ Mag's Best of North American Awards tour...

Photo of Eamon Harkin and Justin Carter DJing sitting on a green sofa in a pink-lit warehouse

In early 2009, Eamon Harkin and Justin Carter launched Mister Saturday Night. The party formed the roots of what would eventually become the beloved nightspot Nowadays, a “by us, for us” club that’s become a community hub for NYC’s nightlifers. Following the release of a sprawling box-set to mark the party’s 15th anniversary, and alongside a mix recorded live from the club, Harkin, Carter and a few of the compilation’s featured artists fill us in on what makes Mister Saturday Night so special

It began, as many projects do, because of a nagging discontent with the way that things were. It was the late ’00s, and New York...

Three decades of Trade: celebrating 30 years of boundary breaking LGBTQ+ raving

The fierce LGBTQ+ party Trade was the UK’s first legal after-hours club event, opening at 3am and closing at 9am. It laid the groundwork for a new on-and-on party culture, while its sexual and gender diversity was a forerunner for today’s queer club scene. As it celebrates its 30th anniversary, and prepares for its 24-hour birthday party at Egg London, Joe Roberts speaks to some of its regular DJs, designers and founder Laurence Malice about Trade's boundary-breaking legacy

It’s Sunday afternoon, 16th March 2008, and the dancefloor of Turnmills is packed with dancers in varying states of undress. Watching over them, grinning maniacally...

From back-to-back travel and navigating unknown places, to the thrill of peak time raving and the low of the next day, touring DJs lead lives...

My previous DJing career took me all over the world in the early ’00s. Back then, I would always go to the after party —...

Dallas has long been a hub of razor sharp electro, but its history is lesser known than that of Chicago or Detroit. Here, Ben Murphy...

Dallas, Texas is an unlikely nerve centre of electro music. The city’s small but tight knit cabal of producers and DJs have been releasing essential...

It soundtracked a new line from Italian fashion house Prada

Richie Hawtin has shared new Plastikman material at Milan Fashion Week. 

Hawtin, who delivered a stunning A/V concept at the end of 2019, returned to...

As America celebrates 4th of July, we look at some of the homegrown heroes who are giving the US its Indepen-dance...

Sliding into July, DJ Mag USA joins the rest of the country in cracking open a cold one for American's traditional celebration month when remembering...