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Music will return to TikTok as platform reaches licensing agreement with Universal

The new deal also addresses the issue of generative AI in music

Music owned by Universal Music Group will return to TikTok following a licensing agreement reached between the label and the app. UMG (Universal Music Group)...

Crowd shot from Standon Calling festival at night with lights beaming from the stage

“Without intervention, it’s expected that the UK could see over 100 festivals disappear in 2024"

21 UK festivals have now cancelled, postponed or permanently dissolved ahead of 2024's season. The research, published by the Association of Independent Festivals (AIF) also...

Charisse Beaumont Black Lives in Music

The organisation wants mandatory annual pay gap reporting to be published alongside commitments to address disparities

The founders of Black Lives in Music (BLiM) have called on UK politicians to intervene and level out gender and ethnicity pay gaps within the...

Motion Bristol Festicket administration

Motion Bristol have issued a statement outlining outstanding payments in excess of £300,000

Clubs and promoters using the Festicket ticketing platform are predicting considerable losses after officials recommended the company enter administration. The business, which claimed to be...

SWU.FM Closure

The platform launched in 2020, and hosted Love Saves The Day, Conducta, Addison Groove, LCY, DJ Die and We Out Here, among others

Bristol's independent electronic music station, SWU.FM, has announced it will cease operations and close as a result of rising costs and soaring energy bills. The...

Travis Scott pledges almost $5million to event safety initiative following Astroworld crisis

"I will always honour the victims of the Astroworld tragedy who remain in my heart forever," he's said of the initiative

Travis Scott has announced a new initiative, Project HEAL, following last November's Astroworld crowd crush tragedy. Described as a "multi-tier, longterm series of community-focused philanthropy...

Open source spreadsheet of Ukrainian artists and labels shared as direct support avenue

The list also encourages people to continue to support national and international humanitarian aid organisations as a priority

An open source spreadsheet has been shared widely on social media, collating ways to purchase music directly from, and support, Ukrainian musicians and record labels...

We’re among more than 2,700 recipients in the latest round of awards from the UK Government’s £1.57billion Culture Recovery Fund

DJ Mag has been awarded a grant of £659,089 by Arts Council England, as part of the UK Government’s Culture Recovery Fund.In the latest round...

Depot and The Drumsheds were also unsuccessful in their applications

London venue Printworks has issued a response to the club's rejection for Cultural Recovery Fund assistance.

Printworks, a 5,000-capacity venue in south London, and a...

Despite being largely ignored by the west, Moscow has had a rich bass scene for over a decade. After reaching an impasse in 2015 as...

Moscow’s bass scene has a long and trend-setting history, although it’s not had much attention in the west. A number of the city’s promoters have...

The BDS movement have called for the boycott of three German clubs

The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) has called for the official boycott of three German clubs – ://about blank...

For our 2018 Best Of British awards, DJ Mag teamed up with the Young Urban Arts Foundation charity, which aims to make a positive change to the lives of...

“I can’t go to my other studio ’cause I’ll get shanked,” says Mike, who proves to us that he can sing Afro-swing melodies as well as he raps...

The mainstream media seems to think so – we know different.

Yesterday, following stats released about club closures over the past decade in the UK, BBC Newsbeat produced a report about the current state of clubbing...

Skream 'Let's Get Ravey Mix' Of La Roux 'In For The Kill' Killer Instinct: Hands-in-the-air anthem slays dancefloors

In 2009, nothing short of Gordon Brown appointing Simon Cowell to advise the government on financial policy could have captured the country's mood more. Only...

DJmag reports on the decision by Ibiza's seven big clubs to stop competing with one another...

Everyone from hardcore ravers to clubbing dabblers had Ibiza top of their summer 'to do' list in the late 1990s.

Now the number of visitors...