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Crossing between electronic music and the arts, Sonar is regarded as one of the best festivals on the planet. Taking place 19th – 21st June...

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1. Sonar was created by three people - Sergio Caballero, Ricard Robles and Enric Palau. Sergio and Enric were musicians in a band called...

Iceland’s Bjarki is so obsessed with making music, he’s forced himself to stop for a little while. Ahead of his new album ‘Happy Earthday’ which...

Bjarki sighs deeply. “I had to try and escape.” Years of writing 10 tracks a day has taken its toll, and he’s finally reached breaking...

Is wealth and privilege damaging British dance music, and if so, what should we do about it?

WORDS: Matt AnnissPICS: Nicola Nodland & Jillian Edelstein

Since acid house swept the UK 30 years ago and united a generation, British dance has proudly proclaimed its egalitarian credentials. Many believe that the loved up, misty-eyed utopianism...

How a couple of guys who didn’t get on and a singer they didn’t know created one of the year’s most intimate albums

For a couple of guys grinding on a hit-and-run DJ tour of the USA, Maribou State’s Chris Davids and Liam Ivory are in good spirits...

How a couple of guys who didn’t get on and a singer they didn’t know created one of the year’s most intimate albums

 

Words: JORGE HERNANDEZ Pic: WILLIAM COOPER MITCHELL 

For a couple of guys grinding on a hit-and-run DJ tour of the USA, Maribou State’s Chris...

The second Brighton Music Conference (BMC) is on the horizon...

Dance music is now a multi-million-pound industry, and like with other multi-million-pound industries it needs conferences and trade fairs in order to keep the wheels...

Way Out West's Jody Wisternoff and Nick Warren put the new Denon DNS3700 CD decks through their paces...

Bristol’s progressive house heroes Way Out West, famed for club classics like ‘The Gift’, are back with a fresh new album ‘We Love Machine’ and...

Paul Kalkbrenner and Stephan Bodzin announced for one-off Ushuaïa Ibiza live show

The two German techno favourites will perform poolside on the White Isle this September

Ushuaïa Ibiza has invited Paul Kalkbrenner and Stephan Bodzin for a live show this summer. The outdoor venue will host the German techno favourites at...

Premiere: Tom VR ‘Partner (Peach Remix)’

Tom VR invites Midland, Peach, Lone and Kareem Ali to remix his 2021 album, ‘Please Keep Shimmering’

Tom VR has invited four artists to remix tracks from his 2021 album ‘Please Keep Shimmering’. Midland, Peach, Lone and Kareem Ali have each taken...

Ewan McVicar releases new EP, 'Movin' On Over', on Optimo Music Digital Danceforce: Listen

The EP pays homage to the Glasgow electronic underground, Ron Hardy, and Chicago's Muzic Box 

Ewan McVicar has dropped a new EP, 'Movin' On Over', on Optimo Music Digital Danceforce. The winner of DJ Mag's Best of British Awards 2021...

Anz, LSDXOXO, Flume, Nia Archives, more remix PinkPantheress' 'to hell with it'

The remix package follows the artist recently being named the winner of the BBC's Sound of 2022 poll

PinkPantheress has released a remixes package to accompany her 2021 debut mixtape, 'to hell with it'. Out now, the 14-track release includes remixes of the...

Before his death in 1982, Patrick Cowley produced some of the American gay underground's most thrilling dance music, from chart-topping disco to radical club tracks...

There’s a notorious scene in 1980 thriller Cruising that might be the best fictional time capsule we have of a wanton, unfettered gay dance floor...

Photo of Vybz Kartel holding up his fists and wearing a baseball

The Dancehall star was sentenced to life in prison in 2014 for the murder of an associate

The murder conviction of Jamaican dancehall artist Vybz Kartel has been overturned this week following an appeal. On Thursday (14th March), the Privy Council in...

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...