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Chloé Caillet launches SMILE label with '12 Inch Acid', announces world tour

The Parisian artist's latest single is out now

Chloé Caillet has launched her own label, SMIILE Records, with the release of a new single of her own, '12 Inch Acid'. Out now, the...

Eliza Rose by BBC

It's the first time a female DJ has topped the Official UK Singles Chart in over two decades

Eliza Rose and Interplanetary Criminal’s summer dance anthem, ‘B.O.T.A (Baddest Of Them All)’, has reached No. 1 in the Official UK Singles Charts. Knocking Scottish...

House music’s Black roots highlighted in The Daily Show segment: Watch

Martha Wash joins correspondent Roy Wood, Jr. in the clip, which also shouts out house pioneers Frankie Knuckles, Larry Levan and Ron Hardy

The Daily Show paid tribute to house music and its pioneers in its CP Time segment last week. Watch the clip below In the midst...

Printworks

Additional DJs including Mala, Kode9, Jaguar and Imogen have also been added to previously announced parties

Printworks has announced a number of new artists and shows for Spring/Summer 2022. The London venue, which is celebrating five years of parties in the...

With Miller Genuine Draft

Last summer, a group of DJs from across the world had the life-changing experience of travelling to Las Vegas to take part in Miller SoundClash...

We meet Jason Kendig and Jackie House of the San Fran party starters, in a converted Leyland Roadrunner backstage of Block9 at Glastonbury this year...

Shortly after 9pm on the Thursday night at Glastonbury this year, Jason Kendig and Jackie House of Honey Soundsystem are opening the Genosys stage of...

gut_level

"For many people involved in DIY & grassroots spaces, this story will be familiar," said organisers 

Sheffield's Gut Level has announced its imminent closure. On July 1st, the queer-led DIY event space and collective shared the news on Instagram, citing ongoing...

DJ Mag: diversity & equality report Q1 2022

Our quarterly update following our pledge in 2020, addressing how we can tackle racism and diversity issues within the electronic music industry as a publication

In Q1 of 2022 DJ Mag and Sable Radio confirmed a second collaborative workshop which will take place in Q3 of 2022, focusing on long...

PXSSY PALACE announce debut festival, Overflo

"A celebration of queer culture" taking place at London's Burgess Park

PXSSY PALACE are set to launch their first festival, Overflo. The one-day gathering is "a celebration of queer culture" and will take place on Sunday...

London queer party Adonis announced as special guests at Trade’s 24-hour 30th birthday

The Sunday takeover promises "harder dance" with "no speed limits"

London queer party Adonis has been confirmed as the special guest at this weekend's 24-hour marathon event celebrating 30 years of dance institution Trade, at...

Breakthrough Berlin-based DJ/producer and GASH COLLECTIVE founder ELLLL steps up with an 80-minute mix of fiery minimalism and experimental techno. We catch up with one...

Ellen King has been at the forefront of Ireland’s ever-changing electronic music community for a couple of years now. Since 2016 – the year that...

Launched as a way of supporting artists and labels impacted through the coronavirus pandemic, DJ Mag started a weekly roundup of the most vital Bandcamp...

On Monday, 25th May, George Floyd, a 46-year-old black man who lived in Minneapolis, Minnesota, was killed by a white police officer, Derek Chauvin. Footage...

EQ50's drum & bass mentorship programme opens registration for 2022

The project was first launched in 2020 as a means of supporting women and non-binary people in the drum & bass scene

EQ50 has opened registration for a second run of its mentorship programme. Originally launched in 2020, the project was established to support women and non-binary...

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Spitfire Audio's CEO, Will Evans, has issued an apology

Spitfire Audio has issued a statement following the public backlash to a tweet from its co-founder, Christian Henson, voicing support for J.K. Rowling and Graham...

Cormac posing in profile against a grey blue background. He's wearing an orange coat with a white hood and a blue baseball cap

With his new podcast, Queerly Beloved, Northern Irish DJ Cormac explores what it means to be a queer artist in dance music today. Interviewing contemporary figures about their histories of queer discovery, the Panorama Bar and fabric regular continues an intergenerational conversation surrounding the life-affirming moments, communal  experiences and enduring challenges of LGBTQ+ expression. Alongside an On Cue mix packed with HI-NRG anthems and Italo house, Marke Bieschke learns more

What is “queer music”? For some, the term recalls debauched downtown discos of yore, with unbridled backrooms, fabulous androgynes, and Liza Minnelli descending to the...