fabric has signed a four-year deal, 2026 to 2030, to become St Paul's Cathedral's exclusive partner for contemporary music, opening October 29 with a seated performance by The Cinematic Orchestra.
At RAW CUTS' Toronto debut on September 19, Claude VonStroke built his headline set from nothing but his own catalog, two decades of Dirtybird productions and no one else's records.
Barn Radio, a Black-led underground venue in Portland's Old Town, has hosted over 170 events with roughly 300 international artists since setting up shop in 2024, and just raised $30,000 of a $50,000 goal to replace its blown speakers.
Swiss watchmaker Tudor has named Belgian techno DJ Charlotte de Witte its newest global brand ambassador, folding her into its long-running 'Born to Dare' campaign.
The finale of Michael Palin's three-part Channel 5 series, which aired Monday October 12, sent the travel legend into Davao City producer DJ Love's home studio, giving the Philippines' sirens-and-loops genre budots its biggest mainstream UK audience yet.
Stephen Jones, the Australian video artist who built the custom analog synthesizers behind Severed Heads' live visuals from 1982 to 1992, has died at 75, two days after being assaulted outside his Sydney studio.
A growing body of psychology research into collective effervescence suggests the bond between strangers on a dancefloor, not just the DJ or the music, is what makes a rave unforgettable.
Spiritland is opening a 100-capacity listening venue inside London's Barbican Centre on October 20, 2026, built around a custom Living Voice hi-fi system and running through July 2027.
Chicago house pioneer Green Velvet headlines the opening night of KOKO Electronic's new season on October 2, the biggest electronic booking at the London venue since a 2020 fire forced a two-year, roughly £70 million rebuild.
Berlin house collective Keinemusik will play its first-ever Kenya show on November 21, 2026, staged inside Uhuru Gardens Memorial Park, the Nairobi ground where the country's flag was first raised at independence in 1963.
MUTEK Argentina's eighth edition runs October 7 to 11, 2026, spreading live audiovisual electronic performances across seven Buenos Aires venues, including Teatro San Martin and Teatro Colon's experimental wing.
Bruno's, the Mission District nightclub at 2389 Mission Street that went dark in March 2020, is heading into its grand reopening weekend after a month of soft-open test events, revived by a California liquor license created specifically for music venues.
Making friends as an adult is hard, but the dance floor strips away the small talk and lets connection start through the music instead.
Idris Elba makes his Bangkok DJ debut as IDRIS on September 26, using the date to launch his label Sound International in Thailand, co-billed with local house DJs Wildealer and Elaheh.
Suzanne Ciani, the five-time Grammy-nominated Buchla pioneer who has been improvising on modular synthesis since the 1970s, closes Glasgow's Sonica Festival on October 4 with her first-ever Scottish performance.
After six years running house, deep house and Afro house nights in Miami's Edgewater neighborhood, Boho closed its current chapter with four farewell parties (September 16-19, 2026), handing its courtyard to two new concepts, AIRE and EDGE, built by the same operators plus Club Space founder Louis Puig.
British producer Martin Wheeler, known as Vector Lovers, has died, The Black Dog announced on Instagram on September 21, closing out a two-decade run of IDM and electro records for Glasgow's Soma Records.
Silencio, the Paris nightlife institution co-conceived with David Lynch, is taking over Berlin's shuttered Watergate for a seven-month, 15th-anniversary residency starting October 30, 2026.
Aire, a new house-focused nightclub backed by Club Space founder Louis Puig and Boho owner Jorge Moreno, opens September 24, 2026 in the Edgewater address Boho vacates after six years.
ROSA, a new HIVE-backed kink club that opened in Berlin-Pankow on September 12, shares its name and safety-first branding with a shuttered independent club in Greifswald whose founder says his outreach went unanswered.
Erol Alkan posted an Instagram teaser inviting fans to join a new mailing list for Trash, the London club night that helped launch LCD Soundsystem, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Bloc Party before closing in January 2007, without confirming any date, venue or lineup for a comeback.
Tony Humphries' 1982-1994 residency at Newark's Club Zanzibar and his parallel KISS-FM 98.7 show forged the gospel-drenched "Jersey Sound," now being unearthed on new Running Back Records archival compilations.
A randomized trial at Maulana Azad Medical College and Lok Nayak Hospital in New Delhi found that patients who heard calming instrumental music under general anesthesia needed significantly less propofol and fentanyl and showed lower post-operative cortisol, but the music was patient-selected soft piano or flute, not house.
Techno pioneer Carl Cox founded and races in FIVE90, his own three-round Pro Mod drag racing series at Santa Pod Raceway, entering its September finale leading the points table in his 3,500-horsepower 'Coxy Cuda.'
The Observatory, the club that anchored Ho Chi Minh City's underground house and techno scene for almost 13 years, will close permanently at the end of October 2026.
Resident Advisor published a cover feature on Arca on September 8, tracking her direction since the July 31 release of her ninth album, XXXXX, on XL Recordings.
House and techno club Obe opened September 4-5, 2026 at 45 quai Rambaud in Lyon's Confluence district, weeks after the liquidation of barge venue La Marquise and ahead of Le Groom's announced closure.
The Netherlands' Trimbos-instituut issued a nationwide Red Alert on 28 August 2026 after its DIMS drug-checking network found a two-tone, Trump-branded ecstasy pill laced with a dangerously high concentration of PMMA, a slow-acting MDMA look-alike linked to fatal overheating.
radial, a 250-capacity venue built by Ten87 Studios with a sound system designed by Plastic People's Nick Whitaker, opened September 5 on Markfield Road in Tottenham with funding from Arts Council England.
Renate, the Berlin club built inside a former squatted apartment building, marks its 19th birthday September 11-14 with a 66-hour, seven-floor party, months after a near-closure and a renovation that rebuilt its main floor without erasing its maze of themed rooms.
Manda Moor played an almost seven-hour set at Sunwaves Festival that brought back the long, patient, drop-free journeys longtime ravers say the modern club scene has largely lost.
fabric is donating the metal sign that hung outside the club for its 20th anniversary in 2019 for permanent display in the new London Museum, which opens November 28, 2026 at West Smithfield, per the museum.
German techno veteran Monika Kruse pulled out of her September 5 set at Tanzen im Grünen in Nuremberg after revealing on Instagram that the anxiety disorder she has managed since 2022 has returned with full force.
A new biography of Laurent Garnier by philosopher Mathilde Ramadier traces his path from a bedroom-turned-discotheque and a valet job serving heads of state to the Hacienda and the founding of F Communications.
Casablanca-born DJ and producer Lilya Mandre, who records for Damian Lazarus's Crosstown Rebels, has landed a summer 2026 residency alongside him in the Club Room at Hï Ibiza.
Brenda, a Bogota producer on the TraTraTrax label who chops cumbia, baile funk and dembow into techno, has played both London's Barbican and Berlin's Panorama Bar in 2026, per DJ Mag.
The free, four-day Chicago House Music Festival & Conference returns August 27-30, 2026 to Millennium Park and the Chicago Cultural Center, with the city's own house pioneers headlining the genre's birthplace.
Notting Hill Carnival marks its 60th Diamond Jubilee across the August 29-31 bank holiday, sharing the calendar with Channel One's Carnival warm-ups, Body Movements' queer stages, RALLY festival and FOLD's 24-hour marathon.
Resident Advisor's ten-city 25th-anniversary tour opens September 25 at London's Outernet Live, pairing Mala and AliA with a Blawan live set and a Bitter Babe A/V premiere made specifically for the night.
Dutch tech house DJ Chris Stussy quietly rebranded to Chris Stassy on Instagram, swapping one letter with zero explanation days before his first single under the new name.
Bristol City Council has unanimously approved a premises licence letting promoters Luke Turner and Jack Scales turn the shuttered Union Street Odeon into a 5AM electronic music, film and theatre venue.
ORIGIN, a new independent club built specifically for house and techno with a custom KV2 Audio system, opens August 31 at 613 Imperial Street in Downtown LA's Arts District.
Santanna Maria Ally, the Ibiza-based DJ and promoter known as Santanna Oush who built OuShe into one of the island's key platforms for women in electronic music, has died at 38 after being found unresponsive at the UK's Houghton festival on August 9, Resident Advisor reports.
LICK, the Boliqueime nightclub that began life as Kadoc in 1990, closes for good tonight with a sold-out farewell headlined by Paco Osuna, Ilario Alicante and Rafa Barrios.
Sharon White talked her way into New York's disco DJ booths in the mid-1970s, became the only woman ever to DJ Larry Levan's Paradise Garage, and forced her way onto the decks at The Saint after its owner tried to ban women outright.
Cut off from venues, festivals and international distribution, Cuba's experimental electronic producers, including lahelvetica, cubalibre.exe and Buffalo Attack, have built their entire scene inside Telegram chats since mobile internet reached the island in 2018.
Manumission, the club night that defined scandal-and-euphoria Ibiza in the 1990s, returns September 25 to 27, 2026 with "Le Weekend Manumission," a theatrical recreation of its golden era at 528 Ibiza, tickets from €103.
A 2022 neurophysiology paper found that DJing activates the brain's memory, planning and motor-coordination systems much like playing an instrument, but the research behind it is a fraction of the size.
Nicole Kidman has revealed she puts on a dark wig and sunglasses to go unrecognized at Ibiza clubs, telling British Vogue dinner is at 10:30pm and the club by 1am.
Time Out London has spotlighted three new venues, Coven in Soho, Palais in Peckham and Club Cheek in Brixton, that are pulling crowds on concept and serious sound engineering rather than marquee DJ names.
After a magnitude 7.4 earthquake killed more than 240 people in Colombia, three Bogota clubs are donating door money and DJ fees while Medellin label Mammboh Rhythms channels a 32-track charity compilation into relief for Choco and displaced producers.
Manchester producer Bou sampled British Airways flight attendant Sophie Turner's on-air warning to an unruly passenger and had a finished drum & bass track, "STAY SEATED," ready to debut live in Las Vegas the same evening.
Three Bogota nightclubs, Video Club, Odem and Radio Estrella, are donating this weekend's proceeds and DJ fees to earthquake relief after a magnitude 7.4 quake killed more than 160 people in Colombia.
Chicago house vocalist Peven Everett rang the bell at Northwestern Hospital on August 11, marking a major milestone in his treatment for stage four lung cancer.
White Claw and Defected Records are flying ten UK strangers matched on the app Cliq to Ibiza for a 24-hour villa takeover, betting that a house music weekend can settle their "friendship recession" campaign once and for all, with applications closing August 13.
Peggy Gou will appear alongside Stephen Curry, Trevor Noah and PinkPantheress at Google's Made by Google Pixel 11 launch in New York on August 12, 2026, the clearest sign yet that a house DJ's name now carries real weight in mainstream marketing.
Boiler Room, Chicago's Chosen Few Picnic and Amsterdam's Jyoty all became international names because someone in their own local scene backed them first, long before any label noticed.
The Lot Radio has launched a $16,000 GoFundMe for Lola Evans, the kiosk staffer of five years who was recently diagnosed with cancer and is stepping away from work for treatment.
William Orbit, the British producer who ran the acid-house label Guerilla Records before shaping Madonna's Ray of Light, died on July 23 at 69; his family confirmed it on August 7, without disclosing a cause.
France's electronic music runs on one unbroken lineage: Pierre Schaeffer spliced train recordings into music on state radio in 1948, the studio he built trained Jean-Michel Jarre, and by the 1990s the same country was exporting Laurent Garnier's techno and Daft Punk's French Touch to the rest of the world.
After a lightning-strike fire destroyed his studio, Damian Lazarus is facing one of the hardest moments of his life, and the question of what will rise from the ashes.
A lightning strike set fire to Damian Lazarus's Monastic Studios in Tuscany on August 9, 2026, destroying the room where he made a decade of music, though the building's frame survived because his own soundproofing starved the blaze of oxygen.
The Underground, a new 200-capacity venue in Boscombe, Bournemouth, opened August 7 with a DJ booth that runs vinyl only, no CDJs, USB decks or laptops allowed.
Derek Marin, the New York producer known as Modest D who founded the minimal and tech house label Faucet Music in 2001, has died at 52, no cause disclosed.
A rave is made by the dancefloor as much as the DJ: from David Mancuso's stageless Loft in 1970 to UCL research showing crowds' brainwaves synchronise during live shows, the room is not watching the music, it is making it.
The scrunched nose, squinted eyes and clenched jaw ravers pull on a heavy groove isn't disgust: researchers trace it to a dopamine surge in the brain's reward circuit and to sub-bass frequencies hijacking the body's own balance system.
BBC Radio 6 Music launches "Rave Forever", a month-long Friday series tracing Black British rave and dance culture decade by decade, starting August 7 with the 1980s roots of soundsystem culture and acid house.
Resident Advisor is marking its 25th anniversary with RA25: a ten-city world tour across five continents, a Velocity Press anthology of its own journalism called Front Left, and an archival editorial project, launching September 25, 2026 in London.
Audio Obscura's second edition takes over the UNESCO World Heritage Van Nelle Factory in Rotterdam on August 29, 2026, with Chris Stussy, Honey Dijon and Folamour on the lineup, and a portion of ticket revenue funding the building's preservation.
Kingston's working-class speaker stacks helped invent DJ culture, sound clashes, dub, dancehall, hip-hop, and the bass-heavy logic that still runs through house music today.
Egypt's Halim El-Dabh, Cameroon's Francis Bebey and Nigeria's William Onyeabor were building electronic music from tape, synths and drum machines as early as the 1940s, work that placed Africa at the root of house music's own electronic lineage.
Techno headliners Charlotte de Witte and Enrico Sangiuliano have ended their six-year relationship and 2022 marriage, calling the split mutual in a joint Instagram statement on July 25, 2026.
For a decade, Larry Levan turned a converted King Street parking garage into dance music's first true listening room, and the sound and selection philosophy he built there still runs through house and garage music today.
ORIGIN, a new indoor/outdoor venue opening late summer or early fall 2026 at 613 Imperial Street in LA's Arts District, is fitting a custom analog KV2 Audio rig designed by Marc Dizon, the engineer behind Brooklyn Mirage and Output New York.
In 1955, composer Toshiro Mayuzumi built Japan's first electronic compositions from pure sine, square and sawtooth waves at the state broadcaster NHK's new Tokyo studio, a lineage that runs straight through Yellow Magic Orchestra and the Roland drum machines that built house and techno.
Confessions II, Madonna's July 3 sequel to Confessions on a Dance Floor, runs on Detroit techno and Chicago house structures instead of disco-house, and it just opened at number one in the UK, reopening a fight over who gets credit for the sound.
Kwia, the Neukölln listening bar that helped spread jazz-kissa-style ambient culture across Berlin's nightlife, will close for good on July 25, 2026, priced out by rising rent.
The rush of unity that turns a room of strangers into your people has a name, collective effervescence, and it rests on a measurable mechanism: moving in time to a beat floods the body with endorphins that bond people to each other.
Twenty years after decommissioned Jubilee Line carriages were installed on its roof, Shoreditch's Village Underground has opened them to the public for the first time, as part of a new rooftop terrace launched on July 3 for the venue's 20th anniversary.
A new ARD documentary follows Loveparade founder Dr. Motte from the parade's 1989 roots to its fatal 2010 collapse and the campaign that has already put Berlin techno on Germany's national heritage register.
On August 12, 2026, Ibiza gets its first total solar eclipse since 1999, and Pikes, Cova Santa and Beachouse are timing full parties to the minute of darkness, with DJ Harvey playing Pikes and Sven Väth headlining Cova Santa's Woomoon anniversary.
Vincent Belorgey, the French producer known as Kavinsky who wrote 'Nightcall' for the film Drive, was found dead at his Paris home on 28 July 2026, aged 50, as the Paris prosecutor opens an inquiry into the cause of death.
House music's core 120-to-130 BPM tempo sits in the same range neurologic music therapists use to help Parkinson's patients regain a steady, functional walking pace.
The lineage that leads to house and techno runs through a West German radio studio in 1951, a composer named Karlheinz Stockhausen, and the Düsseldorf band Kraftwerk two decades later.
Frankie Knuckles' five years behind the decks at Chicago's Warehouse gave an entire genre its name; by his death in 2014, the DJ known as the Godfather of House had a Grammy, a Chicago street, and a landmarked club to his credit.
Long before house or techno had a name, Clara Rockmore, Bebe Barron, Daphne Oram, Delia Derbyshire, Wendy Carlos, Suzanne Ciani, Éliane Radigue and Laurie Spiegel built the instruments, the studios and the language electronic music still runs on, and two of the biggest, Forbidden Planet's score and the Doctor Who theme, were denied a proper credit at the time.
Ron Hardy, resident DJ at Chicago's Music Box from 1982 to 1987, spliced reel-to-reel edits and pitched turntables up as far as +8 to forge a rawer, faster house sound alongside Frankie Knuckles, then died of an AIDS-related illness in 1992 without seeing it go global.
In 1985, on Chicago's South Side, Larry Heard recorded "Can You Feel It," "Mystery of Love" and "Washing Machine" within days of buying his first synthesizer, and deep house existed before anyone had a name for it.
DJ Deeon, the Chicago producer who helped invent ghetto house on Dance Mania Records in the 1990s, built the raw, drum-machine sound that Chicago's juke and footwork scenes grew out of, before his death in July 2023.
BBC Radio 1's Dance X strand has expanded its annual Ibiza trip from one party to four, adding recorded nights at Hï Ibiza, Ushuaïa and UNVRS, none of which will broadcast live.
FITZ Mallorca, a new 1,300-capacity club from Grupo Sounds, opened July 16, 2026 in the Palma waterfront building that hosted Frank Sinatra as Tito's before a failed 2023 cabaret relaunch as Lío Mallorca.
The Warehouse Project turns 20 in 2026 with a free outdoor photography exhibition in Manchester's Spinningfields, running alongside a WHP26 season of new shows at Depot Mayfield.
Milkshake Festival returns to Amsterdam's Westerpark on July 25 and 26, 2026 with nine stages, over 1,000 performers and a voguing catwalk, timed to open WorldPride week for the city's house, disco and techno crowd.
elrow's theatrical 'Dance With the Serpent' takeover sold out two nights at Pacha New York on July 17 and 18, 2026, the first global party brand to run its own production inside the venue since it emerged from Avant Gardner's bankruptcy and reopened under Pacha ownership in June.
Wearable data puts a single all-night rave at 40,000 to 50,000 steps, within reach of a marathon's roughly 50,000 to 55,000, and a peer-reviewed Glastonbury study found festival-goers average 15,661 steps a day, hitting the UK's entire weekly exercise guideline in one day alone.
BLOND:ISH closed her Abracadabra residency's second season at Pacha Ibiza on July 29, 2026, as the first woman ever to headline the club's resident lineup in more than 50 years of history.
Resident Advisor's second summer 2026 cover feature, "Ricardo Villalobos: Slipping Through Time" by Oli Warwick, lands one of the rare long-form interviews with minimal techno's most unpredictable figure.
In 1971, Air Canada fitted the upper deck of its new Boeing 747s with a mirrored dance floor for transatlantic flights between Toronto and Europe, then quietly tore it out within about a year once the numbers on an unticketed lounge stopped adding up.
Amnesia Ibiza is marking its 50th anniversary with a 50-track compilation spanning five decades of the club's history, out September 4, 2026 as 10 vinyl records or 5 CDs.
Amelie Lens confirmed on June 30 that she and her partner Farrago are expecting their second daughter this winter, and she has not dropped a single date from her summer festival run.
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.
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.
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.
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.
For its 30th anniversary, Frankfurt's Love Family Park has opened its archive with a new "Lost Tapes" series, publishing Ricardo Villalobos's previously unreleased 2016 vinyl set and Nina Kraviz's 2013 set on SoundCloud and YouTube, with more archival sets promised in the coming weeks.
UNTOLD Festival will host a mobile medical unit offering free HPV testing and breast ultrasounds to wristband holders during its August 6-9 edition in Cluj-Napoca, billed as a first for a festival of this scale in Europe.
Seth Troxler and DJ Tennis are opening a restaurant bar in Ibiza this summer called Seth and Mannis's, turning years of side-hustle cooking into a permanent room on the island.
The calm that comes over you, packed into a dark room at the ticking of a repetitive kick, is your nervous system recognizing the oldest signal it knows: the low, enveloping pulse of the womb.
Saffron has reopened applications for EMERGING, a year long programme that backs three Black women, trans and non-binary music makers with a retreat, industry training and a cash bursary.
David Katz's new book Dub Revolution argues that dub, born in early-1970s Kingston, invented the remix and the version, the idea a recording is raw material to rebuild rather than a fixed object.
Harvey Blumler of Prospa is stepping back from performing because of an ongoing ear condition, and the honesty of it says a lot about a risk DJs rarely admit out loud.
The Late Utopians follows a journalist through New York's dance underground and premieres at the Edinburgh Fringe on 5 August, the latest sign of rave culture crossing into serious theatre.
Joseph Capriati made his name as a resident in Amnesia's Main Room in 2012, playing for Marco Carola's Music On. This year, he brings his own party, Metamorfosi, back to the same club for a 14-week Tuesday residency in the year Amnesia turns 50. More than another Ibiza residency, it is a full-circle moment for an artist returning to the room that helped shape his career, now with a night built around his own musical vision. Metamorfosi carries the scale and energy of modern Ibiza while keeping the focus where it belongs: on the music, the DJ and the ravers dancing together until sunrise.
HBO's four-part series The Man Will Burn, premiering 9 July, uses years of archive footage to ask whether influencer culture and Big Tech money have hollowed out the gathering that gave dance music its most mythologised sunrise sets.
Spencer Kincy, who recorded as Gemini, cut more than 200 tracks of jazz-literate deep house in 1990s Chicago and became one of the sound's great teachers, name-checked by Daft Punk and cited from Ben UFO to Autechre. Then he vanished at the height of his career. A guide to a genius, his mystery and why his catalogue still inspires.
After twin earthquakes devastated Venezuela on 24 June, Solid Grooves is donating proceeds from its 2 July DC-10 party, with its Venezuelan residents giving up their fees, while Miami's Club Space is matching donations across the weekend. Here is who is doing what, and how to help.
House was not invented by one person. It was built in early-1980s Chicago by a small circle of mostly Black and gay DJs, from Frankie Knuckles and Ron Hardy behind the decks to Jesse Saunders, Larry Heard and Marshall Jefferson on the records.
The Virginia-born, New York-based vocalist who gave Ivy Lab, Metalheadz and a generation of producers their most human moments has died, his collaborators announced; no cause has been given.
Dr. Banana, opened in June by two veteran promoters in the Vergueiro district, is the latest sign that São Paulo's underground is reclaiming the all-night club culture the city helped build.
Rave Culture: A New Era, a feature documentary now touring cinemas, argues that Britain's breakbeat rave boom of the late 1980s and 1990s grew straight out of Thatcher-era unemployment and a generation locked out of work.
A 160-capacity room on West 26th Street borrows the name of a legendary Chelsea gay bar and a custom sound system to bet that intimate, history-minded nightlife still belongs in Manhattan.
When Brazil met Scotland in Miami, the soundtrack came from the underground: per DJ Mag, Mochakk and Barry Can't Swim walked the official match ball onto the pitch, then went back to back until morning at Club Space.
Fred again.. composed the official soundtrack for Jonathan Anderson's Dior Men's Summer 2027 show at Paris Fashion Week on 24 June, premiering unreleased music with KETTAMA, THE KTNA, Young Thug, Jamie T and Christine and the Queens, then remixing it live to close the runway.
The New York fanzine, radio show and label co-founded by Barbie Bertisch and Paul Raffaele marks a decade with its first-ever compilation, 'A Declaration of Universal Love,' out now on BBE Music.
Annie Mac, the broadcaster who spent two decades championing new dance music, used a clip this month to put the producer world's quiet fear into one line: AI has made making music frictionless, and that ease is doing something to its value.
Mickey Mann, the Aberdeen engineer who toured as the unofficial third member of The Shamen and ran Orbital's live sound for twenty years, has died at 65, and the rave generation is paying its respects.
Ibiza's wildest 90s party returns for a three-day weekend from 25 to 27 September, with cameras banned, no DJ names on the flyer, and a first ticket release that sold out in under two minutes.
Faithless are reissuing 'Insomnia' for its 30th anniversary on orange vinyl, a picture disc and a digital EP, three decades after the breakdown that turned a sleepless lyric into one of dance music's most quoted moments.
Coven took over the former G-A-Y Bar and reopened it as a five-storey queer venue, a café by day and a club by night, in a year when British nightlife keeps shutting down.
Fred again.. will play Delhi, Mumbai and Bengaluru this December, his only live dates anywhere in the world in 2026, teased not on Instagram but with full-page front-page ads in Hindi, Marathi and Kannada.
Music Room, opening 1 July on Church Street, is Belfast's first dedicated listening bar, a custom hi-fi room built for sitting down and actually hearing records, and the latest sign that the global listening-bar movement is still growing.
France's football federation has made Daft Punk's 2000 house anthem 'One More Time' the team's official goal song for the 2026 World Cup, and it already blasted through MetLife Stadium three times in the opener.
Days after the eccentric musician died in a Rio helicopter crash at 32, his family confirmed it will honour his will and launch Dr. Oliver Tree's Extremely Epic Grant For Baby Geniuses, a foundation that funnels his catalogue and estate to emerging artists, with relatives left almost nothing by his own design.
A PLOS ONE systematic review of nine studies found that instrumental music, with no lyrics and a tempo matched to the task, measurably reverses mental fatigue: faster reactions, sharper working memory, less perceived exhaustion and longer physical endurance.
Moodymann played Ibiza's historic Teatro Pereyra for the first time on Saturday 13 June 2026, launching Keep On Dancing's music-first El Baile Pop residency in a heritage theatre that runs against the island's VIP-table economy.
On 25 July, The Cause hands its Docklands site to six independent radio stations, from Berlin to Seoul to Bali, and broadcasts every set worldwide through a new platform called New Frequency.
Salford's most uncompromising club confirmed it will shut in January 2027, beaten by flooding and a council redevelopment plan, and it is going out with a stacked closing run and a brand-new Blackpool festival.
From Aespa to Le Sserafim, K-pop's biggest girl groups are building hits on house music's four on the floor beat, turning a dancefloor sound into chart topping pop across Asia and beyond.
HE.SHE.THEY, the London-born inclusive party series, is bringing Bimini and a full queer house lineup to Nepal, Thailand, Singapore and Hong Kong this June.
We're proud to launch Time To House Magazine, your new home for the culture, the music, and the movement. Made by people who live for it.
The travelling sound system that helped trigger Britain’s anti-rave law will show its archive at REinsTate in Silvertown from 16 to 19 September 2026, closing with an SP23 rave.
Vladimir Kuzmin, who designed the Soviet Polivoks synthesizer in 1980 and gave the underground one of its most aggressive filters, died on 12 June 2026.
On Saturday 13 June the Tekno Anti Rep collective rolled sound systems through about 30 French cities against the Ripost bill, which would jail rave organisers for up to two years and fine them 30,000 euros.
Oliver Tree, the American singer and producer born Oliver Tree Nickell, died on 14 June 2026 at 32, killed when two helicopters collided in mid-air southwest of Rio de Janeiro; his biggest dance moment remained 'Miss You' with Robin Schulz. Weeks before his death, he had told an interviewer he wanted his fortune to go to other artists through a foundation he had already set up.
A peer-reviewed study tracked 85 adults with childhood-trauma histories before and after a psychedelic experience, and found large drops in PTSD and shame two months later, with the dancefloor matching the ritual circle.
Daft Punk is off the table, and Bangalter has spent 2026 scoring a 16-dancer ballet, reworking himself for CHANEL, and pairing with Keinemusik's Rampa for an Art Basel installation that becomes a rave on June 20.
On Saturday 23 May, Diplo set up and played a real DJ set for his son Pace and a yard full of six-year-olds after their kindergarten graduation, captioning the clip "most exclusive party of the year."
The Cologne club, ranked 11th in the world, is setting aside discounted 'Culture Tickets' for people who cannot afford regular entry, claimed by email.
Madonna's 14-minute 'Confessions II - The Film', now on YouTube, threads six songs from her July album and stacks the cast with club-world faces, Honey Dijon, Arca and Shygirl among them, as she returns to the house-and-disco sound of 2005's 'Confessions on a Dance Floor'.
Daft Punk's Thomas Bangalter played a surprise 75 minute set on Brooklyn's The Lot Radio on June 8, threading Burial, Aphex Twin and Plastikman through unreleased music from his new solo album and closing on Daft Punk's 'Contact'.
Forza Horizon 6, the year's biggest racing game, hands house a global stage: Chicago originator Marshall Jefferson sits beside FISHER and Anna Lunoe on the Horizon Bass Arena station, putting the genre in front of tens of millions of players.
Philipp Jung, the Berlin label founder and one half of [[artist:mandy|M.A.N.D.Y]], died in May 2026 aged 55, and the scene gathered on 6 June to honour the catalogue he built.
Joel Zimmerman, the Milton-area producer known as deadmau5, covered roughly $30,000 in medical care for 36 cats taken in by his local humane society, after reaching out on Instagram.
A wave of kava lounges is turning the alcohol-free rave from a wellness gimmick into a real hospitality business, and the people opening them are coming straight for nightlife's spend.
The Warehouse Project marks two decades with a Leigh Powis short film and an expanded WHP26 at Depot Mayfield, anchored by an Overmono all-nighter on 30 October, Solomun on 25 September and Tiësto on 11 December.
As psychedelic therapy scales into hundreds of clinics, electronic producers are licensing music into the treatment room, a quiet new revenue stream with a catch buried in the contract.
All Day I Dream, the daytime party Lee Burridge and Matthew Dekay started on a 2011 Brooklyn rooftop, hits 15 with a global 2026 run, and the template it built is now the default playbook for organic-house promoters everywhere.
Om Records reached 30 years and more than 800 releases by refusing the big-room EDM turn that Kaskade and Claude VonStroke rode out of its own roster, and founder Chris Smith is candid about what that choice cost.
5 Magazine marks two decades with 'With Love,' its first ever vinyl pressing, commissioning fresh tracks from Chicago house elders Mike Dunn, Jamie 3:26 and Roy Davis Jr., the same season the city formally honored Dunn.
Manchester's most uncompromising club, a 300-capacity former car garage in Salford, is shutting in January 2027 as flooding and a 7,000-home regeneration plan close in, and its founders are taking the energy to a new Blackpool festival.
A wave of sober, daytime parties built on breathwork, coffee and 6am dancefloors is the fastest-growing format in clubbing, with Eventbrite logging a 478% jump in coffee-rave events year on year.
Camilo Rocha and Gaia Passarelli take Sao Paulo's clubbing history to the city's Book Fair on 2 June, reframing the scene through a center-versus-periphery lens rather than a nightlife nostalgia trip.
On 6 and 7 March 2026 the original Twilo room on West 27th Street reopened for two sold-out nights with John Digweed and Danny Tenaglia, twenty-five years after the club shut, and it forced the question house keeps dodging: is the deep-house revival renewal, or a nostalgia loop it cannot mix out of.
US vinyl revenue passed one billion dollars in 2025 for the first time since 1983, its 19th consecutive year of growth, yet an estimated 40 percent of buyers do not own a record player and virtually every working DJ plays off USB, which exposes the format war as a fight nobody actually won.
