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UK Music's annual report says around 69,000 people lost work amid the COVID-19 pandemic

More than a third of UK music industry workers lost their jobs last year, amid the COVID-19 pandemic forcing the shutdown of clubs and music...

"It’s difficult to see how you can have a nightclub operating with coronavirus. In any sort of enjoyable way.”

A UK government minister has said that “it is hard to see how nightclubs will open” before there is a “long-term way to deal with...

Castlemorton 1992: photographing the Illegal rave that changed UK dance music forever

2022 marks the 30th anniversary of the biggest and the most infamous illegal rave that ever took place: Castlemorton – a week-long, 20,000-person party deemed so anarchistic that it shook Middle England to its core. Here, photographer Alan Lodge tells his story of capturing a week changed UK dance music forever

It started on a particularly sunny bank holiday weekend, on the 22nd May 1992. A ramshackle convoy of vehicles, which served as the rag-tag homes...

Fatboy Slim DJs tiny venue Hot Box fundraiser: “Anything I can do to help”

Norman Cook lent his star power to support the struggling Chelmsford venue with a sold-out rare intimate gig last week

Fatboy Slim played a rare intimate gig last week as part of the effort to save Essex venue Hot Box from closure. Norman Cook headlined...

Groundbreaking report on gender disparity in UK dance music published by Jaguar Foundation

The report uses quantitative data from radio airplay and streaming as well as roundtable discussions with key figures

A groundbreaking report on gender disparity has been published by the Jaguar Foundation. Out today (3rd August), ‘Progressing Gender Representation in UK Dance Music' was...

DJ Swisha, Lexii and Reece Spooner set for next Fiasco! Party at Venue MOT

The queer party crew return this weekend

East-London queer party Fiasco! returns this week with an event at Venue MOT, featuring sets from DJ SWISHA, Lexii and founder Reece Spooner. Making their...

Liverpool club and culture space meraki calls for community action to help save venue

"Without public representation from people like you, this [neighbouring residential] development will go ahead and meraki will not survive"

Liverpool venue meraki is asking for community support to help save it from potential closure in the face of a neighbouring residential development proposal. The...

Screenshot of Sammy Virji's set from DJ Mag HQ with the Hep Musicians and DJ Mag logos attached

The 12-month accelerator programme will provide funding, opportunities and mentorship to 30 promising electronic music artists

Help Musicians and DJ Mag are launching a new programme aimed at supporting emerging UK artists in electronic music. The Electronic Music Award in Association...

The book includes images from parties and events of various genres and cultures

A new book from photographer and artist Matthew Smith, AKA Mattko, is to explore UK rave culture from the turn of the millennium until 2005. ...

One of the first legal UK mega-raves to bring dance music culture to the masses was Fantazia. With its emphasis on spending big production budgets...

By the early ’90s, dance music in the UK was already a complex beast. US house and techno cross-pollinated with synth-pop, rare groove and soundsystem...

It's good news for promoters hoping to bring international artists to the UK for shows

People who were fully vaccinated in the EU or US will no longer need to isolate when coming to England, Scotland and Wales from an...

Spain reimposed the PCR test requirement due to rising cases of COVID-19 in Britain

Tourists arriving into Ibiza from the UK will need to show a negative COVID-19 test or proof of vaccination in order to enter. The new...

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DJ Nobu, Gabber Modus Operandi, and more "producer friends" have participated in the release

¥ØU$UK€ ¥UK1MAT$U has curated a new mix album, ‘Midnight Is Comin'’, which is out on 27th May via Midnight Shift. The Japanese DJ has rounded...

The Beams by Henry Woide

Eliza Rose, Denis Sulta, Honey Dijon and Natasha Diggs are also confirmed

London venue The Beams has added a host of new names to its Autumn/Winter programme. Among the new names confirmed for five additional shows at...

The Beams

The  55,000 sq ft venue will open in October

A spacious new East London venue, The Beams, is set to open its doors on 1st October. Located in the heart of the Docklands, the...