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How can clubs become more accessible for those with disabilities?

How can we make clubbing better for disabled people? When events return in 2021, clubs need to be more accessible for disabled guests and performers...

Dance music has never appeared to be more accessible. Despite clubs being closed for over a year, new crews and initiatives are constantly popping up...

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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...

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Promoters in northern England are pushing for a more inclusive return to clubbing

Slowly but surely, dance music in northern England is rebuilding, and the past year has encouraged some promoters to rethink how they can make clubs...

“The clubs are coming back, pass it on!”Like a whisper rippling through a crowd, excitement is mounting as venues prepare to reopen their doors. But...

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Spotify officially demonetises all tracks with under 1,000 streams

Customers could soon be paying for more services, according to reports

Spotify has officially demonetised all tracks with under 1,000 streams. The new policy came into effect for all artists in 1st April 2024. The revised...

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UK musicians to be offered protections and “transparency” around streaming royalties under new code

The Association of Independent Music (AIM) have called the voluntary code “a milestone”

Musicians in the UK are to be offered protections and “transparency” around streaming royalties under a new code published today (31st January). Created by the...

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Printworks London will shut for a “number of years” due to planned development

Broadwick Live has confirmed they are in talks to relaunch once development at its Surrey Quays location is complete

Printworks London will shut for a “number of years” due to planned development at its Surrey Quays location, the venue’s team and Broadwick Live Group...

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Help Musicians launches new mental health-focused charity, Music Minds Matter

The single-focus charity aims to help people across the music industry as they continue to navigate the post-pandemic landscape

UK charity Help Musicians has relaunched its subsidiary organisation, Music Minds Matter, as a single-focus charity devoted to the issue of mental health. Its aim...

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Music industry organisations call on new prime minister Liz Truss to tackle energy crisis

Music Venue Trust, the Night Time Industries Association (NTIA), UK Music, and LIVE are among the bodies lobbying for more action from government to support the sector

Music industry organisations are calling on the UK's new Prime Minister, Liz Truss, to take steps to help businesses with the mounting energy crisis. Music...

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Knucks, Little Simz, Dave, Bru-C, more nominated for GRM Daily Rated Awards 2022

The annual ceremony for UK rap and grime spans ten categories

The nominees have been announced for this year's GRM Daily Rated Awards. Returning for its seventh year in October, the UK's leading award ceremony for...

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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...

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Album of the Month: Boddhi Satva ‘Manifestation’

Boddhi Satva’s latest album is a 31-track, three-hour tour de force that continues his career-long endeavour to connect the African continent through club music

There are few like Boddhi Satva. An ambassador of the most soulful side of African electronic music, the producer, DJ and music mogul has made...

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Daniel Avery announces new album, ‘Ultra Truth’, shares single: Listen

The record includes collabs with Kelly Lee Owens, HAAi, SHERELLE and more

Daniel Avery has announced a new album, 'Ultra Truth', and shared the first single, 'Chaos Energy'. The track is out now, and comes complete with...

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Jamal Edwards to be honoured with posthumous award for outstanding contribution to music industry

The SBTV founder will become its youngest-ever and only posthumously-awarded recipient

SBTV founder Jamal Edwards is set to be honoured with a posthumous award. The Luton-born and Acton-raised entrepreneur, director, DJ, author and designer, who died...

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Album of the Month: Rema ‘Rave & Roses’

Bangers are the order of the day on young Nigerian pop star Rema’s debut album, ‘Rave & Roses’

Rema has won the race for the perfect audio signature. Forget “Cardo got wings”, forget “I love Chris Rich”, forget “Mustard on the beat, hoe”...

GGI 끼 East and Southeast Asian queer club night returns to London’s Yard club next month

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GGI 끼 East and Southeast Asian queer club night returns to London's The Yard club next month

Founder June Lam "want[s] to create a space where we can come together as a community and celebrate our culture, music and art and dance freely, without fear of being fetishised or erased."

GGI 끼, the east London club night centering queer, trans and non-binary East and South East Asian (ESEA) folks, is coming back to Hackney Wick...