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Help Musicians UK have warned of a looming music industry crisis, and expect an “avalanche of applications” for support in the coming months

55% of professional musicians are earning no money due to COVID-19, according to new research from the charity Help Musicians UK. 

The organisation's study, which...

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Amsterdam Dance Event returned for its annual industry takeover earlier this month, showcasing more than 1,000 events at over 200 venues. With ADE back in full force post-pandemic, DJ Mag's Amy Fielding, Ben Hindle, Carl Loben, Ria Hylton and Rob Mccallum head out to the Dutch capital to sample the plethora of panels, parties and workshops on offer

While ADE did go ahead in a scaled-down fashion at the end of 2021, it’s widely agreed by delegates at this year’s event that 2022...

Britannia really does rule the waves when it comes to electronic dance music.

Created by a nation of forward-thinking innovators, dance music in the UK continues to evolve and mutate in ever-exciting shapes and forms.

Our Best of...

Carl Craig, DJ Shadow, Blondie and more...

Making her break as part of Shy FX's Digital Soundboy crew — the first ever Digital Soundgirl — after she relocated from Canada to London...

The club has also shared a statement regarding refunds

London club The Cause has announced that it will not reopen until further notice, as the global outbreak of coronavirus, or COVID-19, continues to spread...

The evolution of bassline in 10 records

From its '90s beginnings in Yorkshire clubs to becoming a nationwide dance music phenomenon and chart success, the bassline sound has survived and thrived against the odds. Here, to accompany his DJ Mag feature documenting the genre's history, Matt Annis charts the sonic evolution of the sound from its origins to today

In a new feature for DJ Mag, writer Matt Annis documents the history of bassline. From its origins in Yorkshire clubs in the late ‘90s...

This month's essential tunes

When you absolutely, positively must decimate the dance floor, these are the tunes you need..

The UK capital is making major strides...

Pretty much the whole of clubland was appalled when Fabric had its license revoked a few months back — after all, if Fabric could be...

Three arrests were made after West Yorkshire Police shut down the party

West Yorkshire Police shut down an illegal rave of roughly 200 people at the Kirkstall Valley Nature Reserve in Leeds on Monday night. 

Visitors reportedly...

Unorthodox Events and Queer Rave are two club-nights that are creating new spaces for LGBTQ+ people in the drum & bass/jungle scene. Jack Ramage speaks...

The UK drum & bass and jungle scene lacks queer visibility. While issues like gender diversity and whitewashing have, in recent years, become the focus...

Joy Orbison's debut, 'Hyph Mngo', is 10 years old. DJ Mag reflects on a track that signalled a seismic shift in UK dance music

“Big, big, big.” It’s June 25th 2009, and one hour into his still-pirate Rinse FM show, Blackdown is jittery. An unmastered new track is drifting...

A guide to dance music's pre-rave past...

We've drafted in Greg Wilson, the former electro-funk pioneer, nowadays a leading figure in the global disco/re-edits movement and respected commentator on dance music and...

Shadow Child’s bass-heavy house music is all over the airwaves, dancefloors and beyond.

It’s a cold, wet Wednesday night in London but pumping across airwaves at 108.6FM are the ripping basslines, house beats, jazzy keys and liquid vocals...

Following a formidable debut EP on Tobago Tracks in March this year, Object Blue continues her rapid upward trajectory with ‘Rex’ on Let’s Go Swimming...

Since the release of her debut EP 'Do you plan to end a siege?' via Tobago Tracks in March, London-based Object Blue has rapidly become...

The drum & bass institution is back, but not as you know it...

From 17th – 19th March, D&B veterans DJ Hype, Dillinja and Grooverider will grace the slopes of Andorra for the first ever edition...