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Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five’s Kidd Creole found guilty of manslaughter

The hip-hop pioneer faces up to 25 years in prison following the murder of a homeless man in 2017

Hip-hop pioneer Kidd Creole has been found guilty of manslaughter. Born Nathaniel Glover, Kidd Creole – an original member of the pioneering New York hip-hop...

Betty Davis Dies

RIP to a trailblazing artist

Betty Davis, a pioneer of the late-1960s and 70s funk scene, has died aged 77. According to Rolling Stone, close friend and ethnomusicologist, Danielle Maggio...

Theremin

Promising "improved precision, portability, and playability"

Moog Music is rolling out a new version of its Etherwave Theremin. The new instrument is based on the original circuitry and aesthetic of Bob...

Having just dropped his debut album ‘Anxious’, the German dub-techno maestro gives us an insight into the tracks that helped him to define his sound... 

Mike Bierbach, aka Rødhåd, grew up on the outskirts of Berlin and cut his clubbing teeth at late ‘90s Berlin institutions like Ostgut and Casino...

The mother of all festivals

Mother of all festivals, Glastonbury is a fantastic place to go for dance music fiends — and indeed for fans of pretty much any style of music. The DJ Mag crew arrive on Saturday morning, having already missed a wealth of talent such as Boys Noize, Simian Mobile Disco, Julio Bashmore and Gold Panda, as well as Chic, the Arctic Monkeys and Portishead, but it doesn’t matter as there’s plenty more to be had over the next two days of frivolities.

DJ Empress and Ida Engberg recently shared their accounts on social media

Two well-known DJs, DJ Empress and Ida Engberg, have published detailed personal testimonials on social media alleging that they were sexually assaulted or had their...

Premiere: Vel ‘Inspire Me Jim’

Vel makes her solo debut on François X’s XX LAB label with six cuts of galloping techno and minimalist percussion

Vel will release a new EP, ‘Era El’, via François X’s XX LAB label this week. Listen to ‘Inspire Me Jim’ below. The Lyon-based, Morocco-born...

Our daily bulletin from the beautiful Croatian festival hotspot

DJ Mag arrives at Garden, and the sight that greets us makes you wonder why on earth this wonderful festival is calling it a day...

Disco Sucks and the birth of house music

Dance music is a hot place to be place right now. What began as an underground counter-culture has grown, over the last 25 years, into...

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Kos tells us where it's at... fashion-wise...

What are you wearing right now?


T-shirt by Maharishi, jeans by Diesel and Adidas classic trainers. I am in LA airport on a connection from...

Dub Pistols front man plays us his favourite records

The Dub Pistols are back with a new single, 'Gunshot' — featuring Rodney P and Darrison. It's the third single from their acclaimed fifth artist album 'Worshipping The Dollar', and they're gearing up to drop their sixth album in the autumn.

DJ Mag’s books and film editor Kirsty Allison meets up with the minds behind a new documentary on New York’s most famous nightclub, Studio 54...

In the great mirror ball of history, there’s always one velvet rope to be on the right side of. And once upon a time, on...

Akala's Natives: Race And Class In The Ruins Of Empire is a fiercely honest appraisal of growing up poor and mixed race in broken Britain...

MC Akala, the stone cold power-fisted slayer of Charlie Sloth’s Fire In The Booth freestyle session, can also take down any quasi-righteous, over-privileged member of...

DJ Mag talks to electronic music legend Giorgio Moroder about producing this enduring, game-changing disco classic...



One of the most prolific and pioneering electronic music composers of the '70s and '80s, Giorgio Moroder was born in Italy and started playing guitar...