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East London’s Jeshi documents personal struggles, social contradictions and life’s day-to-day mundanities with a wry wit and relatable appeal. For this month’s Meet the MC, Rahel Aklilu speaks to him about the observational songwriting of his debut album, ‘Universal Credit’
Our quarterly update following our pledge last year, addressing how we can tackle racism and diversity issues within the electronic music industry as a publication
Get acquainted with the Stormzy-backed teenage star of Ghana’s Asakaa drill scene, Yaw Tog
Gideön is hosting a marathon shindig at Soho Radio to protest Donald Trump’s UK Visit in July...
Gideön is organising a 12-hour marathon protest party at Soho Radio on Friday 13th July, the day US president Donald Trump is visiting the UK...
Sunil Sharpe, Cormac and ELLLL will all take part in the panel
Throughout the ’90s, the DiY Sound System put on countless free events, ran a recording studio and two record labels, and took their hedonistic parties around the world. Here, Harold Heath speaks to co-founder Harry Harrison about his new book, Dreaming in Yellow: The Story of the DiY Sound System, and the collective's trailblazing legacy in the free party movement
Major cities have long been the central hubs for dance music, in part thanks to their appeal to travelling DJs and fans. With coronavirus massively...
The Marcus Intalex Music Foundation aims to be a new hub for Manchester’s electronic music scene. We head to the city for its inaugural series of...
“It’s an industry that can be quite difficult to navigate,” Nik Sinha says of the music business, when we meet in the loft of Manchester’s Gorilla, tonight’s party in...
To celebrate Avicii's birthday (Friday 8th September), DJ Mag counts down our favourite Avicii moments. From spinning at Sweden's royal wedding to that ultra-contentious interview with GQ...
When he donated a million dollars to US charity, Feeding America
Avicii donated a million dollars to US-based charity Feeding America in 2012, an...We fire some questions at the Lobster Boy boss ahead of his DJ Mag Sessions in Wolverhampton on 28th May
For those who lived through the so-called ‘post-dubstep’ years, it was an exciting time merging various forms of bass-driven music in innovative and exciting ways...
On 1996's ‘Let No-One Live Rent Free In Your Head’, Scottish singer, songwriter and producer Nicolette worked alongside 4Hero’s Dego, Plaid, Alec Empire and Felix to create an album that mixed jungle, trip-hop, industrial techno and avant-pop into a singular work full of sharp, incisive lyricism. Ben Cardew explores the legacy of the album, and its vision for the future of electronic music
1st May 1994 was the first big London protest against the looming Criminal Justice Bill, the piece of legislation that first proscribed a genre of music — rave music, “wholly or predominantly categorised by the emission of a succession of repetitive beats” — in law. Despite widespread demonstrations at what was seen as draconian power-grabs by the UK authorities, the Bill became law later in 1994. Here, Harold Heath looks back at the reaction from the dance music community at the time, and the Act’s lasting impact on the rave scene today
The last decade has yielded some extraordinary innovations in dance and DJ culture. Below, we count down some of the most significant technological tools to...
It’s 2008. Armin Van Buuren has won the DJ Mag Top 100 DJs poll for the second year running. Gordon Brown has shakily taken the...
The funding of independent radio stations is always precarious, but the current cost-of-living and energy crises threaten their survival. Following the shuttering of Worldwide FM and Bristol’s SWU FM, we look at the challenges facing these beloved cultural lifelines