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Coachella sunset with the festival's ferris wheel in the background

The new stage will showcase extended three-hour DJ sets from a range of acts

The organisers of Coachella have announced a new dance music stage for this year's festival called Quasar. Revealed on social media earlier this week, the...

The dance world reacts to the trance legend's passing...

Robert Miles, the Swiss-born Italian musician born Robert Concina, has died aged 47.

The trance legend, best known for producing iconic '90s track 'Children'...

Eats Everything, Seth Troxler, more speak out...

Donald Trump will be sworn in as America's 45th President today, and the dance music world has taken to Twitter to share their thoughts about...

With Miller Genuine Draft

It has been another incredible year in electronic music. New genres have sprung up, new parties born, and we have had to say some sad...

RIP “an architect of Chicago house music”...

Colonel Abrams, the R&B singer who lent his voice to countless house hits, died aged 67 over the weekend. 

The singer's longtime friend Tony...

#SavedFabric...

fabric nightclub announced that it set to reopen after a deal was struck with the Metropolitan Police and Islington council at Highbury Magistrates Court yesterday...

Standing strong with all affected by the shootings at Club Pulse...

Over the weekend the deadliest mass shooting in America’s history left 50 dead and more than 50 injured at Club Pulse in Orlando, Florida. A...

The Belleville Three

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...

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...

Moroder, Kraftwerk & the Synthesizer

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...

Disclosure, Rudimental, Calvin Harris and Daft Punk up for awards

Dance music has seldom fared very well at the Brits, the UK music industry's annual awards show. Indeed, the Brits did away with the Best...

Danny Boyle and Underworld roll out a spectacular show

 

Dance music featured heavily in the Olympics opening ceremony on Friday night in a show organised by renowned film director Danny Boyle (Trainspotting, 28...

Ireland's Planet Love festival is go!

On Saturday 8th September, Ireland will shake to the sounds of the biggest dance event ever to grace both Northern and Southern Ireland. Two festivals...

Cormac posing in profile against a grey blue background. He's wearing an orange coat with a white hood and a blue baseball cap

With his new podcast, Queerly Beloved, Northern Irish DJ Cormac explores what it means to be a queer artist in dance music today. Interviewing contemporary figures about their histories of queer discovery, the Panorama Bar and fabric regular continues an intergenerational conversation surrounding the life-affirming moments, communal  experiences and enduring challenges of LGBTQ+ expression. Alongside an On Cue mix packed with HI-NRG anthems and Italo house, Marke Bieschke learns more

What is “queer music”? For some, the term recalls debauched downtown discos of yore, with unbridled backrooms, fabulous androgynes, and Liza Minnelli descending to the...

Neurodiversity in dance music lead feature image

Neurodiversity refers to a wide range of neurological conditions including ADHD, autism, dyslexia and Tourette syndrome. After being diagnosed with ADHD and suspected autism earlier this year, DJ Mag writer Harold Heath began to wonder: is there a particularly high number of neurodivergent people in the scene? Here, he embarks on a personal journey to try and understand the relationship between neurodiversity and dance music, and its wider relevance within the scene

I’m Harold Heath: music writer, former small-time DJ/producer, and life-long club culture fanatic. Earlier this year I was diagnosed with ADHD and suspected autism. Why...