DJ Bone is the next artist to feature in our DJ Mag Originals series, Crate Diggin’.

In the series, in which we take some of the world’s biggest DJs record shopping, we take a deep dive into the artist’s individual music tastes, through both contemporary and historical releases.

In the latest episode of Crate Diggin’, Detroit techno mainstay DJ Bone goes record shopping at SeaWolf Records in Amsterdam: a second-hand vinyl store, hidden on the outskirts of central Amsterdam, stocked mainly from private collections. 

Hardwell has teased fans that he will return to the live circuit soon with a surprise appearance at ADE in Amsterdam during his own Revealed Recordings showcase at Koepelkerk on Saturday 16th October.

A post to Instagram has since been shared, which begins with roster artist KAAZE giving the label boss an introduction: "This is not official yet, but he's coming, he's coming." 

The video then shows Hardwell enthusiastically jumping to the music, namely Ran-D's hardstyle rework of The Cranberries' 'Zombie', surrounded by friends and imprint artists.

A new electronic music museum, Our House, is opening in Amsterdam on Friday 29th October. The team responsible are touting the Amstelstraat site as the first truly modern museum dedicated to electronic music culture. 

Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE) has announced its full daytime programme for this month's event.

Following a pause last year in over two decades of annual events due to coronavirus, ADE has shared a full list of artists scheduled to perform in the Dutch capital from the 13th to the 17th October 2021.

Around 70,000 people took to the streets across six Dutch cities this past Saturday for the Unmute Us protests.

Dutch nightclubs will remain closed until at least 31st October, according to the latest government announcement. 

Last week Prime Minister Mark Rutte and Health Minister Hugo de Jonge held a press conference in which new plans for reopening were unveiled. These included removing mandatory social distancing from higher education institutions by the end of August, although classes will be limited to 75 and masks must still be worn inside buildings. 

Avalon Emerson is scheduled to headline a night Amsterdam's Paradiso venue this October.

After announcing plans to host an in-person event in October this year, Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE) has announced an all-night long party with American DJ/producer, Avalon Emerson, at Amsterdam club Paradiso.

1,300 people attended a COVID-19 study event in Amsterdam this weekend.

Following the Dutch government's announcement that festivals should be possible in the Netherlands from July, a trial event with 1,300 attendees took place on Saturday (6th) at Amsterdam's Ziggo Dome, with the aim of supporting the government in its lockdown easing decisions.

Awakenings Festival has been postponed until September 2021.

After being forced to cancel the last year's edition of the event, Dutch festival Awakenings has postponed this year's instalment, moving from its original dates in June to September 2021.

In a statement published to Facebook, Awakenings said: "Unfortunately, June 26 & 27 comes too soon, so we now aim for the second weekend of September. The COVID-19 pandemic is still not over, but things are starting to look a bit brighter.