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The newly formed organization signed an open letter

The Black Music Coalition have signed an open letter calling for industry reforms to end systemic racism.

The newly launched coalition, which includes black music...

Direct discrimination, battling assumptions, lower pay, and a lack of opportunity are just some of the problems laid out by the survey

A new study by Black Lives In Music has revealed that the majority of Black artists and music professionals have faced racism and discrimination in...

Concerns over discrimination and loss of work were major contributing factors

A new Arts Council England-funded consultation has revealed many music industry workers with non-visible disabilities are putting their health and safety at risk by not...

Black-owned music organisations, radio stations and record labels are helping to create vital platforms for Black producers and DJs who’ve been held back by systemic...

Though all genres of Black music have been subjected to exclusion, commodification and whitewashing, Black ownership in music varies. While rap and hip-hop are largely...

The Black Madonna is the real deal. Raised in Kentucky but born in the DJ booth of Chicago's Smartbar, she's unleashed the true spirit of...

It’s a Sunday in 2015 on the third day of UK festival Field Maneuvers, a back to basics ‘dirty little rave’ held in a eld just...

London producer SBTRKT’s musical equation of futuristic dubstep rhythms, broken beat funk and warping bass is getting everyone from Radiohead to Gilles Peterson excited. But...

In today’s digitally-enhanced times, the proliferation of new music means most artists are trying to shout louder, look better, or spend more money than anyone...

As part of our special edition on fighting racism and racial injustice in the dance music industry, we have collated alphabetical lists of collectives, organisations...

We will be updating this as a live directory, so welcome recommendations for additions. Please send to [email protected] Organisations working to benefit the Black and...

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Even as pandemic restrictions have lifted, and clubs and festivals have returned, the spectre of coronavirus lingers for many due to the debilitating impact of long Covid. Here, Dhruva Balram speaks to people in the dance music industry about how the effects of long Covid, and a lack of understanding around it, have impacted them, and asks whether it should be recognised as a disability

“My energy levels have never returned to what they were,” says London-based DJ and broadcaster DEBONAIR. “I don’t have the muscle strength and energy that...

"I want all black people to know that the genre of Dance is their heritage"

Aluna shares open letter to "challenge the 'dance music industry' on its long standing racial inequalities".

AlunaGeorge frontwoman, Aluna Francis, who is currently working on...

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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...

Neurodiversity in electronic music industry explored in new AFEM survey

It's the first of its kind to specifically hone in on ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorder), ADHD, dyslexia, dyscalculia, dyspraxia and Tourette Syndrome

The Association For Electronic Music (AFEM) wants to help make the electronic music industry a healthier place for people with neurodiverse conditions. The results of...

Grassroots music venues are alredy £90million in debt, with attendances and ticket sales plummeting

Fresh UK Government support for music venues has been described as "woefully inadequate". 

An additional £1billion of funding primarily aimed at hospitality, events, and cultural...

Sexual harassment is a widespread problem that remains prevalent in our supposedly progressive dance music scene. A number of new initiatives have proposed a solution...

In the year since the #MeToo movement, those who were previously unaware have, at last, been waking up to the horrifying pervasiveness of sexual harassment...

One of the UK's most accomplished DJ/producers, Tom Middleton, has conceived a new live music project.

Called Amba, the new band pools Middleton's production nous and technical wizardry and fuses it with the drums of Andy Gangadeen, Tom Szirtes' piano, Chris...

 Eats Everything and Carl Craig are among the dance music heads who suffer from the hearing condition

A new sound therapy app, T-Minus, has been launched on Apple's App Store to help people who suffer from tinnitus. 

The condition currently affects 1...