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...
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Grassroots music venues are alredy £90million in debt, with attendances and ticket sales plummeting
Fresh UK Government support for music venues has been described as "woefully inadequate".
An additional £1billion of funding primarily aimed at hospitality, events, and cultural...
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Ever since the revelations in Hollywood about film producer Harvey Weinstein, and the subsequent #MeToo stories of sexual misconduct, the dance music world has been...
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“To be honest, it’s easier to come up with a time something sexist DIDN’T happen. There are so many instances I don’t know...
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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
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Working for free is rife among producers and engineers, with 77% having worked for free in the last 12 months alone. But is it just...
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See how the panel at the PBLA launch party played out…
On February 19, musicians, producers, industry experts and students all descended on Mack Sennett...
RIP The Loft founder, record pool creator and DJ culture legend...
David Mancuso, founder of legendary New York party space The Loft and a pioneer of dance culture, has died. He was 72 years old.
Mancuso...
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The building was formally The Ballroom
A new music venue will open its doors in Birmingham this year.
Housed in a building formerly home to the city's Birmingham Ballroom and Birmingham Academy...
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Freight Island will open its doors in mid-July
An outdoor music space is opening in Manchester later this month.
Escape to Freight Island, a new concept from the likes of Homoelectric founders and...
Running the musical gamut from minimal techno to abstract hip-hop, dubstep to Baile funk, via ska, electro pop, house and Balearica, Sonar truly has something...
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Can Matt Edwards, aka Radio Slave, really do no wrong? Not content with simply knocking out the funkiest techno and most mind-twisting house with...
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...
Tiga, DJ Hell, Boy George, Danny Howells and Soulwax talk about Bowie's impact...
It was Bowie’s ability to experiment, trend-spot, paint lyrical images and create new personas — chameleon-like — in the '70s that gave him such a cult following.
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We headed to Take Note for a day of panels & demos...
It’s a cold and grey Saturday morning and there's an icy gale blowing down London's famous Brick Lane. DJ Mag is making our way to...
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Dance music has a mental health problem. Sirin Kale speaks to artists such as Luciano, Courtesy and Marie Davidson, as well as some PRs and...
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The owner receives the full, previously-unknown track plus a video by 17-year-old artist, Diana Sinclair
An unreleased Whitney Houston demo has sold at auction, as an NFT, for $1million (£723,000).
The work was bought on 14th December through the OneOf...
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The new initiative will provide grants of up to £5,000 to grassroots venues across the UK