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Dance music is the UK's second most popular genre, BPI reveals

The genre has accounted for about 25% of weekly top 10 singles this year

Dance music is now the UK's second most popular genre according to new analysis shared by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI). Data shared by the...

Album covers from electronic music film soundtracks

Exploring the history of cinema, Martin Guttridge-Hewitt compiles 11 landmark electronic music movie soundtracks, arranged in chronological order, each of which earned its place on sonic merit, and significance in the canon of music and movies

When Bebe and Louis Barron presented their music for Forbidden Planet, Fred Wilcox's 1956 adaptation of The Tempest, the sounds were so alien, even compared...

If you’re telling people to “keep politics out of music”, you’re missing the point. Here, DJ Mag’s Harold Heath explains why politics are an integral...

The unprecedented court order has been heavily criticised...

Five members of UK drill group 1011 have been banned from making drill music without police permission following a new and unprecedented court order was...

Judges including London rapper FLOHIO and star grime director Kaylum Dennis will award projects to five candidates

A new initiative has been launched to create music video direction opportunities for young filmmakers. 

Three Minutes is described as 'an essential new incubator scheme'...

UK drill music videos can now be used as evidence in court, CPS rules

The Crown Prosecution Service said drill videos can be submitted to connect suspects to gang-affiliated offenses and provide additional context in criminal cases

UK drill artists' music videos can now be submitted as evidence in court, the head of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said. i News reports...

Erika De Casier and Shygirl Ex-Girlfriend

The latest single from 'Still' comes with a video dealing with fashion, celebrity and voyeurism 

Erika De Casier has shared a music video for her recent single, 'Ex-Girlfriend', featuring Shygirl. Watch it below. Directed by Isa Castro-Cota and Tiff Pritchett...

Man dies following suspected overdose at Pitch Music & Arts Festival amid extreme heatwave cancellation

The 23-year-old man died after being airlifted to hospital in Melbourne

A man has died after a suspected drug overdose at Australia's Pitch Music & Arts Festival. The 23-year-old was airlifted to Melbourne's Alfred Hospital in...

Released in 1985, Kate Bush's iconic fifth album, 'Hounds Of Love', saw her perfecting her experiments in sampling technology, drum machines and synthesizers, and opening...

There is a tendency to view electronic music pioneers as outliers working on the edges of the musical landscape, undiscovered geniuses blazing a trail that...

Eliza Rose

The video is directed by Faboo TV founder Jeanie Crystal

Eliza Rose celebrates Hackney’s LGBTQ+ performance art community in her new music video, ‘B.O.T.A.' ('Baddest of Them All'). The magical, Lewis Caroll-inspired video "crosses sexuality...

U K, G?: the electronic music collectives opening up conversations around mental health

Sticky Tapes, eott and Don’t Keep Hush tell Jack Ramage how they’re helping to shift perceptions around wellbeing in dance music

The stigma surrounding mental health has drastically changed over the last decade, with people beginning to realise how important it is to talk about their...

As dance music’s top-heavy, tour-focused infrastructure crumbles, people across the industry are wondering how new revenue streams can emerge to support artists during and after...

It’s been four months since COVID-19 sent dancers into deep freeze. With no sign of a vaccine, the suspicion is that clubs will stay closed...

DJ Mag's new Solid Gold series revisits and examines the ongoing significance and influence of electronic albums throughout history. In our latest edition, DJ Mag regular...

The rope bridge spans a wide ravine that fades into darkness as it drops. On one side, under skies choked by smoke being belched from...

The last decade has yielded some extraordinary innovations in dance and DJ culture. Below, we count down some of the most significant technological tools to...

It’s 2008. Armin Van Buuren has won the DJ Mag Top 100 DJs poll for the second year running. Gordon Brown has shakily taken the...

Released 20 years ago, Basement Jaxx's 'Rooty' is a paean to the adaptable power of house music, a ferocious mixture of musical styles kept in...

‘Rooty’, Basement Jaxx’s second album, was the moment when the London duo conquered pop in the name of UK house music; the apex of the...