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The organisers behind The Big Chill festival are to open a special bar-cum-club-cum-lounge in London, so they can chill all year round.

The organisers behind The Big Chill festival are set to open a spectacular bar-cum-club-cum-lounge in London's Kings Cross on Thursday 17th August.

The Big Chillers...

The South London artist has tapped up a host of guests for the streaming series

Gaika will launch a new live concept alongside GLOR1A, an artist from his The Spectacular Empire label and art collective.

South London artist and activist...

We got the the 411 on the 310, HARD Events’ CA-based Halloween 2014 festival

SoCal’s massive party HARD DAY OF THE DEAD is less than a week away, returning for its third installment, going down for the first time...

Egyptian trance duo delight local fans with historic, one-off show... 

Something magical happened at the Pyramids on Friday, Sept. 11; Egyptian trance legends Aly & Fila played the biggest show of their lives at the...

The audiophile speaks out

DJ Harvey is one of the UK originators of the dance music scene. From his beginnings in Cambridge punk band Ersatz, he discovered hip-hop and DJing on a fateful trip to New York City, and later alighted upon an eclectic mishmash DJ style inspired by the B-Boy everything-in-the-pot approach of the NYC scene's first DJs. 
Later becoming a leading light for house music in the UK, his night Moist at London's Gardening Club cemented his reputation as a true original, where his mammoth sets became the stuff of legend, and where he also invited the legendary likes of Larry Levan as guests.

"Will they, won’t they" has very much been the UK vibe for the past few months. Fear not, though, socio-political unrest notwithstanding, there are still...

His anthemic tracks for Innervisions, Life and Death and his own BOSO label dominated club sets in 2014, and even made the UK Top 10...

“I'm a straight guy,” says Ten Walls, aka Lithuanian producer Marijus Adomaitis, also known as Mario Basanov, as he fixes his gaze directly across the...

With his house-focused project Jack Back, David Guetta has returned to the sound that first got him fired up about dance music. In his DJ Mag...

On October 19th last year, David Guetta went out onto the main stage at Amsterdam Music Festival (AMF) in the Johan Cruijf f ArenA, where...

Collage of photos taken by Bill Bernstein

Bill Bernstein dedicated three years of his life to capturing the essence of the ‘70s New York disco scene. Here, Simon Doherty talks to him about some of his most iconic photographs, including images of Studio 54, Larry Levan, Odyssey Disco Club Dancefloor — made famous by Saturday Night Fever in 1977 — and more

The year was 1977. The disco scene was peaking, bringing with it unprecedented levels of euphoria. A specific set of sociological conditions (post-Stonewall riot, post-onset...

A shot from AUDRA festival in Kaunas featuring Caterina Barbieri's synth performance in a tower-like hall

From AUDRA festival in Kaunas, Lithuania, Martin Guttridge-Hewitt reports on a long-standing, tight-knit and thriving electronic music scene often overlooked by outsiders

Pergalė is a sprawling industrial complex in a forgotten corner of central Kaunas, Lithuania’s modest-sized second city. A gated entrance obscures interior yards from view...

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...

They said go big or go home... 

Secret Solstice 2018 has released a $1million ‘golden ticket’, the most expensive festival pass in the history of festivals. 

The event itself runs from 21st...

New title launches with Top 100 DJs party this weekend

DJ Mag Turkey, the latest worldwide licensee, is officially launching this weekend with a spectacular party.

Deniz Koyu (pictured above), the Turkish-German DJ/producer — who...

Afrojack's set also available to watch now...

Hardwell was on top form at Ultra Europe last weekend, as the global festival powerhouse took to the stunning Croatian city of Split, bringing together...

Akala's Natives: Race And Class In The Ruins Of Empire is a fiercely honest appraisal of growing up poor and mixed race in broken Britain...

MC Akala, the stone cold power-fisted slayer of Charlie Sloth’s Fire In The Booth freestyle session, can also take down any quasi-righteous, over-privileged member of...