Lío is relocating from Marina Ibiza to the Ibiza Hotel Corso using the hotel's guest-only "complementary activities" license, since Ibiza's planning code bans any new nightclub permit outright, and s'Illa Plana residents say that is exactly the fraud it looks like.
Superstruct Entertainment, the KKR-owned festival conglomerate, has dissolved its Dutch subsidiary Apenkooi Events, folding DGTL's booking and production into Monumental (the operator behind its own Awakenings brand) and discontinuing STRAF_WERK, Pleinvrees and Amsterdam Open Air outright from May 1, 2026.
Terminal V Croatia has confirmed its 2026 stage splits and three Barbarella's after-hours nights, and the small print, Alarico b2b Ben Klock on July 17, matters more than the 100-plus names on the main bill.
Apple Music handed its July Isgubhu spotlight to Aniko, the Lagos DJ whose bi-monthly Group Therapy raves were built to replace the city's pay-to-perform club culture with something cheaper and more communal.
Parisian producers Jacques Bon and Pit Spector release the four-track Maree Bass EP on July 3, 2026 via Frankfurt's Live At Robert Johnson, fusing jazz-inflected phrasing with minimal and deep-tech house.
FL Studio's free 2026 update rebuilds FLEX for the first time since 2019, adds encrypted cloud project backup, and expands its Gopher AI assistant to edit projects directly while explicitly refusing to train on user data.
South African Afro house artist Credo V Daniels saw his debut album disappear from Apple Music within hours of a viral eNCA performance where viewers said his live vocals did not match his polished studio records.
Solomun and Skrillex have released "Rumpta," their first-ever collaboration, on Solomun's own house label Diynamic Music, timed just ahead of their July 5 back-to-back at Pacha Ibiza's +1 residency.
Chicago's Chosen Few Picnic and House Music Festival marked its 36th year on July 11, 2026, in Jackson Park, with founding DJs Wayne Williams, Jesse Saunders, Tony Hatchett and Alan King still headlining the event they started as a backyard reunion in 1990.
Italian producer Ciauru won the second edition of Kappa FuturFestival's Reply AI Music Contest with a live audiovisual set combining his own production with AI-generated visuals, judged by a panel that included Agoria and Max Cooper.
Ibiza's Consell d'Eivissa says its PIAT tourism plan will formally ban any new nightclub license on the island, while Pacha, Amnesia, Hi Ibiza, UNVRS, Ushuaia and DC10 keep the licenses they already hold.
Protesters staging a die-in against Boiler Room's private equity owner KKR were pushed and jumped on for 18 minutes before security stepped in at the brand's Under The K Bridge show in Brooklyn on July 10.
Cocoon returns to Amnesia this Sunday, July 19, exactly 27 years after its first night at the club, with Sven Väth leading Richie Hawtin, Nina Kraviz, Len Faki, Dana Ruh and Mateo Dufour across two rooms as part of Amnesia's 50th-anniversary season.
Defected and streetwear brand Champion have launched "House of Champions," a clothing and merch campaign that puts five grassroots house-scene community builders front and center instead of any headline DJ.
Superstruct Entertainment, the KKR owned festival group behind Sonar and Field Day, has named former AEG Presents executive Jacqui Harris as its UK managing director, the sixth top leadership hire since October 2025, while KKR seeks extra debt for the group and an artist boycott keeps biting.
WHOLE, the Berlin-founded festival that draws over 15,000 people to Europe's largest queer techno gathering, has confirmed its first international edition, in Brazil, per Groove Magazin.
Police broke up an illegal party for more than 200 people at an owner-occupied rural property in Santa Gertrudis, Ibiza, on July 1, filing about 15 drug-possession reports, towing six vehicles and catching four drivers testing positive for narcotics.
DNA, the Werksviertel techno room that opened in December 2023, confirmed on July 13, 2026 that it closes at the end of September, making it the second major Munich techno club to fold this year after Blitz.
Club 77, the Darlinghurst club that went dark in April for an accessibility rebuild, has confirmed its real reopening date: July 30, 2026, with Rydeen and sovblkpssy on the decks.
A teknival in the Lanouée forest, Brittany, drew close to 2,000 people over a banned weekend during a 39°C heat emergency, and by Sunday night gendarmes had issued more than 400 fines.
Victor Rudek, the CEO behind Berlin's HIVE Festival and DSTRKT club, is opening ROSA, a 1,200-capacity sex-positive and kink club, inside the Storkower Strasse 121 address that housed the legendary Mensch Meier until its 2023 closure.
Ibiza's licensed nightlife association AEON says unregulated party boats selling DJ sets, open bar and sunset views for 50 to 180 euros are undercutting clubs that pay for capacity limits, noise control and safety inspections, and only 11 of the vessels operating appear in the island's official tourism registry.
Spain's Balearic high court upheld the sacking of a Fiesta Hotels & Resorts waiter who posted a TikTok revealing his employer sold a coffee for five euros that cost the company about 20 cents, while staff earned around 1,400 euros a month, ruling that reputational harm alone is grounds for dismissal, no proof of financial loss required.
Cold plunges. Supplements. Sleep scores. Glucose monitors. The longevity industry has turned living well into a full-time job. But one of the most complete health interventions may already exist on the dancefloor. Raving combines sustained movement, fast music, emotional release, social bonding and joy. These are not superficial extras. Each is independently linked with physical or psychological health. Remove alcohol from the equation, or replace it with a carefully approached psilocybin experience for some adults, and the health argument becomes even more provocative. No study has proved that raving extends human life. But the science behind its ingredients suggests that the dancefloor deserves a serious place in the longevity conversation.
Draaimolen's 2026 edition, sold out and set for 4-5 September at Tilburg's MOB Complex, reveals over 100 acts including a new Shygirl live show, less than a year after a 26,000-signature petition kept the festival's forest site alive.
The Hoxton venue The Lion & Lamb severed all business ties with cofounder Andre King and cancelled its schedule on 5 July 2026 after abuse allegations surfaced, and at least six acts have now pledged never to play there again.
Glasgow DJ Bake had his backpack stolen at London's Euston Station on 5 July, losing the harddrives holding most of his current music, the latest in a string of thefts that have targeted touring DJs' bags in London in recent years.
Germany's cabinet approved a 20% spirits tax hike for January 2027, raising the levy on pure alcohol from €13.03 to €15.64 per liter, and club operators say it lands squarely on the one revenue line still keeping venues afloat.
Rotterdam withdrew Nous'klaer Festival's permit a day before doors after the Netherlands issued its first-ever code red heat warning, forcing the label to rebuild its lineup indoors within 24 hours.
Mixxx, the only actively maintained fully open-source DJ software, has formally incorporated as Mixxx e.V., a registered German nonprofit that now owns the project's code, collects donations directly, and shields its volunteer developers from personal legal liability.
Session Victim's five-track EP "The Disconnect", built from roughly six months of in-person studio jams with Kenneth Scott, Rossano Snel and Quarion, landed July 3, 2026 on Bradley Zero's Rhythm Section International.
Ibiza's illegal party circuit now survives by staying entirely off social media, because the raves that got busted, including Diplo's record €300,000 fine, are the ones that broadcast themselves online.
Insomniac has paid $3 million to buy Club Space Miami co-owners David Sinopoli, Davide Danese and Jose Coloma Cano out of their stake in the rooftop venue Factory Town, settling a year-long legal fight that included accusations the promoter booked CircoLoco at a 44% markup without their sign-off.
A coalition led by RIAA and IFPI, with the Grammys, SAG-AFTRA and other bodies, unveiled a two-tier AI music label on July 10, 2026, an uppercase black-box "AI" for fully synthetic tracks and a lowercase white-box "ai" for AI-assisted human work, modeled on the old Parental Advisory sticker.
France's National Assembly has finished first-reading debate on the Ripost security bill and restored the crime of organizing an undeclared free party, punishable by up to six months in prison and a 30,000-euro fine, ahead of a solemn floor vote expected Wednesday, July 15.
Three months after Dubai's FIVE Holdings relaunched the bankrupt Brooklyn Mirage as Pacha New York, the DJ its old operator never fully paid is the one filling the room, while unsecured creditors split a guaranteed minimum of $6.8 million.
Fabric London replaced the sound systems in Room 2 (unchanged since 2016) and Room 3 (since 2018) with bespoke rigs co-designed in-house with Norwegian specialists NNNN Audio, installed in five days ahead of a reopening event.
