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Association For Electronic Music partners with Pioneer for royalties campaign

AFEM (The Association for Electronic Music) launched a new campaign at the Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE) convention today that aims to direct the estimated £100...

Streaming has come to dominate the music industry, but when it comes to actually earning money from plays, the electronic music community has been somewhat...

Streaming is everywhere. Earlier this year, Spotify announced that it has 217 million users, more than 100 million of which are paid subscribers. They’re followed...

Our new DJ Mag Originals video series, Meet the MC, launches today (4th March). As well as telling the stories of this crucial new wave...

Paradoxically, in 2021, starting out as a rap producer is both easier and harder than ever before. Easier, because young beatmakers have more tools at...

The NBA legend made the admission in a recent interview

Shaq has shared that he doesn't get paid for festival gigs.

The NBA star, who began DJing in 1988 but stepped away from music when...

Speakers include representatives from Beatport, PRS for Music, Shogun Audio and the Association of Electronic Music

Brighton Music Conference (BMC) has finalised its Professional and Academy programmes for the 2016 event and announced the Official BMC16 after party with Seth Troxler...

Ready to talk openly about her traverses as a trans DJ, we sit down and get to know Octo Octa over Skype...

Shortly after coming out as transgender, Brooklyn’s Octo Octa released ‘Where Are We Going’ on Honey Soundsystem, an exceptionally classy piano-led house/techno album on which she embraces...

277 ticket holders should see payouts from the $2 million agreement

Fyre Festival ticket holders are expected to get $7,226 as part of a class action settlement.

Nearly five years after the first — and last...

The high-energy drum & bass sub-genre is back... and in a very big way!

Jump-up — the bouncy, bassline-led strain of drum & bass — seems bigger than ever right now. DJ Mag talks to the leading playaz in...

Danny T doesn’t care how much money you make, pal...

In a recent interview with Billboard, New York club stalwart Danny Tenaglia made it quite clear that he is unfazed by the wave of fast-rising...

Gary Richards, aka DJ Destructo, aka lynchpin for the massive party brand HARD Events and OG music cruise Holy Ship discusses life as the HARDfather...

Sometimes it’s not easy to remember that Gary Richards is not only Destructo, a DJ and producer with daily increasing popularity, but that he is...

Coinciding with the release of a major Tangerine Dream retrospective, DJ Mag catches up with Peter Baumann, one third of the band’s classic line-up, to...

One of the curiosities of psychedelia is that, until 1967, American “happenings” had been mostly sound-tracked by electronic music. Then, as soon as acid trips...

Festival crowd artwork

Most DJs love playing festivals, but what should you do when you’re asked to play one for free, and even cover certain costs yourself? Ria Hylton speaks to DJs Sheba Q, Harold Heath, Charlie Dark and others, along with festival organisers, to find out

Imagine this: you’ve been playing lowkey sets around your hometown for some years, run a small but well-loved party series and have landed a regular...

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...

Windrush ship

Some of the most important DJs in the development of the UK scene are children of the Windrush generation. DJ Mag's editor-in-chief, Carl Loben, speaks to Black and mixed-race foundation DJs about their parents, racism, culture, and being pioneers in our beloved scene

This feature was originally published in 2018, at the height of the Windrush scandal, and on the 70th anniversary of the Windrush ship's arrival in...

With an IRL event impossible this year, the team behind Belgian mega-festival Tomorrowland created a revolutionary interactive virtual world in under three months. Here’s how...

Tomorrowland has never been one for subtleties. As the Belgian festival scaled up from more humble beginnings in 2005, the Boom location became an array...