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If you catch it right, you can have the best time at boutique festivals. And with this third instalment, the Shindig Weekender crew have got...

It’s glorious midday Sunday sunshine when your DJ Mag hack arrives at the festie. The site — which attendees have been informed about by email...

CLR's Rebekah is energising crowds with her uptempo techno trax...

Techno DJ/producer Rebekah was born and raised in Birmingham in the Midlands region of England, and in her mid-teens she cut her clubbing teeth at...

Reports coming in of death of electronic pioneer

Reports have been coming in on the death of Mark Bell from LFO, a true pioneer of electronic music.

Mark was initially part of the...

Alexander Shulgin, the first person to synthesize MDMA, dies

Listen to Maxim from The Prodigy's first solo single

We Are Noize are a group of artists fronted by Maxim from The Prodigy, collaborating "to make music outside the norm". It's being billed as...

From DJ Mag & Juno

We have teamed up with Juno for the third year, to give you a bunch of free music throughout December!

Each day this month we...

The clash of label heads. Which one will win your party persuasion?

We pit two rival promoters against each other.

The trap phenomenon explained

Trap is the slow-rolling, synth-heavy, snare-snappin' sound that's swept underground dancefloors and stadiums alike across the US and Europe. But what is trap? Is it a genre of its own? Where does it come from? Why's it so popular — and why's it hated in equal measure? Does it have a future? Danna Takako investigates...

Ra Ra Riot explain their sound.

Ra Ra Riot weren’t afraid to use mistakes and accidents to create their killer sound for their new album ‘Beta Love’. Wes Miles tells us more…

Legal bill preventing use of rap lyrics in court comes into effect in California

Killer Mike and Meek Mill were among the artists present for the virtual signing ceremony of the bill into law

A legal bill preventing the use of rap lyrics as evidence in court has come into effect in California. The California state legislature's Assembly Bill...

Tyler, the Creator breaks record for largest vinyl sales week for a rap album

Vinyl copies of 'Call Me If You Get Lost' were sold exclusively through the star's web store

Tyler, the Creator has broken the record for the biggest vinyl sales week for a rap album in over 30 years. His Grammy-winning sixth studio...

He shared a clip of the moment via Instagram

Run-DMC's Rev Run, AKA Joseph Simmons, has shared an amusing clip of himself rapping classic track 'It's Tricky' while pulled up next to a fan...

The clash will take place next week

Snoop Dogg and DMX will face off in a battle for the next Verzuz clash.

Launched in March, the Verzuz series is a clash concept...

Premiere: KaySoul ‘Mr Ray In Cosmic’

Johannesburg’s KaySoul debuts on Dirt Crew Recordings with an EP of crisp, classic deep house.  Hear ‘Mr Ray In Cosmic’ now

KaySoul will debut on Berlin’s Dirt Crew Recordings this month with the ‘Frequency Rays of One Cosmic’ EP. The Johannesburg-based producer draws influence from the...

A trained jazz musician, bandleader and DJ, Emma-Jean Thackray couldn’t find a home for herself and her music in more established jazz spaces, so she...

A couple of hours into a conversation that has already covered Miles Davis, John Coltrane and Parliament-Funkadelic, Emma-Jean Thackray brings up Marcelo Bielsa, the eccentric...