Belfast duo Bicep played their first live show in three years at Sydney's sold-out Hordern Pavilion on Halloween, days after unveiling a vocal-heavy album, SLUG, built around a studio they say changed everything.
Charlotte de Witte, the first techno DJ ever to close Tomorrowland's main stage, is Creamfields Argentina's first confirmed headliner for its 18th edition on November 14, 2026.
EXIT Festival has confirmed its return to Petrovaradin Fortress, with a special July 2027 edition and a full 2028 comeback, days after Serbia's student-led Student List party ended Aleksandar Vucic's decade of rule in the October 26 election.
Halloween Takeover Madrid, the elrow, Brunch Electronik and Industry City x Monegros crossover headlined by The Martinez Brothers, Maceo Plex and Kölsch, with a Manda Moor b2b Sirus Hood set also on the bill, has been cancelled after Spain declared three days of national mourning for the 68 people killed in a high-speed train collision in Toledo province.
Hypersonic Festival has cancelled both its Melbourne (November 20) and Sydney (November 21) 2026 shows just three weeks out, blaming a Friday scheduling change, and ticket holders now face a three-tier refund and transfer scramble.
At least four Amsterdam Dance Event venues, Gashouder, SugarFactory, RAW Factory and Kromhouthal, reported tear gas or pepper spray deployed during sets between October 21 and 25, 2026, each time linked to an attempted jewelry theft.
Rainbow Disco Club has confirmed its first wave for 2027, running April 16-18 at the Higashi-Izu Cross Country Course in Shizuoka, with Detroit techno originator Jeff Mills returning to the festival after a four-year absence.
Ritvales returns to Medellin's Parque Norte on October 31 and November 1 2026 with a 50,000-capacity bill built around the slogan "La energía se baila" (Energy is Danced), an explicit pushback against automation that still books Marcel Dettmann, Seth Troxler, I Hate Models and Octave One alongside Carl Cox and Sven Väth.
WHOLE Festival, the queer house, disco and techno festival born in Berlin, holds its first-ever edition outside Germany in São Paulo from November 6 to 8, 2026, with free entry built into the door for trans, non-binary and disabled attendees.
Pangea Festival returns to Touws River in South Africa's Karoo from October 22 to 25, 2026, running eight stages of melodic techno, progressive and deep house without ever naming a single artist in advance.
GALA Festival has confirmed its first wave of 2027 artists, pairing house and disco elders DJ Harvey, Chez Damier and Egyptian Lover with younger names Four Tet, Blawan and HAAi for an 11th edition at Peckham Rye Park, London, from May 28 to 30.
Jamie Jones brings his Paradise party, with Seth Troxler, Hot Since 82 and Manda Moor, to Amsterdam's Mediahaven on October 23, the sold-out house and tech-house centerpiece of an Amsterdam Dance Event programme otherwise built around Awakenings and Drumcode's techno bills.
DGTL has confirmed eight shows across NDSM Warehouse and Kromhouthal for Amsterdam Dance Event 2026, October 22 to 25, calling it the biggest ADE footprint in the promoter's history.
Amsterdam Dance Event marks its 30th anniversary on October 21-25 by opening the week with a sold-out Jean-Michel Jarre concert at AFAS Live, timed to the 50th anniversary of his album "Oxygene."
Bloc, the UK rave institution that vanished a decade ago, returns for a one-off 20th anniversary night at The Cause in London Docklands on Saturday March 6, 2027, with Jeff Mills, Leftfield's first-ever Bloc set and a rare Egyptian Lover live show.
Monsterland's 16th edition turns the Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari, Italy's F1 circuit in Imola, into a 55,000-capacity Halloween festival on October 31, with Loco Dice, Marco Carola and Paco Osuna anchoring the house and techno stage.
E-FEST Camp, Tunisia's underground electronic and digital-art festival, returns for a second edition to the fortified desert ksar of Ksar El Ferch in Tataouine from October 29 to November 1, 2026, running on a pay-what-you-can model whose proceeds fund the site's restoration.
Resident Advisor's 25th-anniversary world tour plays Mexico City tonight, October 17, with Pearson Sound and BADSISTA topping a bill at FÜNK running 11pm to 6am.
Awakenings has sold out five of its eight ADE 2026 shows at Sugar Factory in Halfweg, with Adam Beyer, Jeff Mills, Ben Klock, Joseph Capriati, Joris Voorn and Adriatique spread across a five-day, 47-artist techno takeover from October 21 to 25.
Fragrance house Rabanne is bankrolling Amsterdam Dance Event 2026's free opening-night party at WestWeelde on October 21, headlined by Dutch-Turkish techno producer OGUZ, as the Amsterdam leg of its global "1 Million Black Tour."
Jackies, the Barcelona house brand that grew from a 200-person rooftop party into a Fira de Barcelona headliner, opens Pavilhão Carlos Lopes on October 17 with Portugal's first festival built solely around house music.
SESSION, the Shibuya club night that has run almost as long as WOMB itself, celebrates 25 years on October 17, 2026, with Drumcode's Bart Skils headlining a three-floor bill.
Insomnia Festival, running October 14 to 18, 2026 in Tromso, Norway, is a 24-year-old non-profit platform for innovative electronic music staged roughly 350km north of the Arctic Circle.
A lightning evacuation scrapped Calvin Harris's Saturday headline set at Goldenvoice's new Head Trip festival in Indio, while Seth Troxler and Ben Sterling's earlier back-to-back, which they'd billed on Instagram as just the warm-up, had already played clean.
Volumens, Valencia's experimental electronic and digital art festival, opens its tenth edition today (October 13-18) across CaixaForum, Bombas Gens and 16 Toneladas with Mouse on Mars, Loraine James and a three-hour DJ Marcelle closing set.
MUTEK Argentina's eighth edition ran October 7 to 11, 2026, spreading 28 acts across six Buenos Aires venues, from Teatro Colón to a planetarium, before closing at La Nube with a set from Barem.
Circoloco closed its 2026 season at DC-10 in Ibiza on Monday, October 12, marking 27 years of the Monday after-party that grew from an 80-capacity bar into the island's most influential underground residency.
Charlotte de Witte and Four Tet top the bill at Miami's III Points festival on October 16-17, 2026, but both are scheduled into single-hour, post-1am slots rather than the festival's marquee prime time.
Fabric London marks 27 years with a 30-hour marathon from October 16 to 19, 2026, headlined by Craig Richards and Ricardo Villalobos, a decade after Islington Council revoked its license outright.
EDC Colombia debuts October 10 and 11 in Medellin with Time Warp running its own stage and Richie Hawtin, Boris Brejcha, ARTBAT and Nico Moreno on the bill, folding techno's underground pedigree into Insomniac's first South American EDM mega-carnival.
DIAGE Festival returns to Bangkok for the first time since 2024, landing at the new Cloud 11 venue on October 31-November 1, 2026, with a lineup built around live coding, digital art and experimental electronic sets from Evian Christ, Tzusing and Slikback.
Circles festival returns to Dublin for 11 days from October 16 to 26, 2026, opening with a sold-out Moodymann set at The Bernard Shaw and closing with Tresor Berlin's 35th-anniversary showcase at Wigwam.
Carl Cox and Sven Vath will headline Ritvales 2026 at Parque Norte in Medellin on October 31 and November 1, with Cox curating the festival's main Vortex stage in a first-ever full takeover.
Five days after DJ Mag named Luciano the winner of its Top 100 DJs Outstanding Contribution award, he brings his zero-playback live project ALIVE to Loveland during Amsterdam Dance Event on Thursday, October 22, 2026, a full-circle return to the risk that once got him kicked out of clubs.
Black Coffee plays a three-hour set at Amsterdam's 17,000-capacity Ziggo Dome on October 21, 2026, during Amsterdam Dance Event, a year after selling out the same arena at ADE 2025.
Carl Cox and Guy J headline Haunted Superclub in Lurín, south of Lima, on October 30, with Drumcode founder Adam Beyer closing out the second night on October 31.
Monegros Desert Festival has confirmed its 25 July 2026 lineup, pairing hard-techno mainstays Richie Hawtin, Kobosil and Len Faki with house-rooted selectors like Manda Moor and several women-led b2b pairs, a real shift for a festival built for three decades on techno alone.
Primavera Sound's 25th-anniversary edition closes on June 6, 2027 with Primavera Bits, an unprecedented eight-hour collaborative set from Richie Hawtin, Four Tet and Dixon, the first time the three have shared a booth anywhere.
Ibiza's final closing week of 2026 runs October 6 to 11 across Hï Ibiza, UNVRS, Ushuaïa, Amnesia and Pacha, and alongside the mega lineups, three DJs, Manda Moor, Mau P and Sirus Hood, each get a full room to themselves for an all-night-long set.
Amsterdam Dance Event marks its 30th edition on October 21-25 by opening with Jean-Michel Jarre performing Oxygene in full, while the rest of the programme leans harder than ever into classical and ballet crossover alongside its usual wall of club nights.
MDLBEAST has cancelled Soundstorm 2026, its flagship Riyadh festival that had grown into one of the world's biggest dance-music gatherings, giving no reason beyond a promise to return in 2027.
Three of Ibiza's marquee season-long residencies, Carl Cox at UNVRS, Solomun at Pacha, and Amnesia's Pyramid with Nina Kraviz and Ricardo Villalobos, all end on October 4, 2026, each with an all-night set from its headliner.
Defected Records closed the fifth edition of Defected Malta today, a four-day, 50-plus-artist, 100 percent house takeover of the island that drew more than 5,000 fans from around the world.
MDLBEAST Presents returns to Jeddah's ONYX Arena for two nights on October 29-30, 2026, with Boris Brejcha, Loco Dice, BLOND:ISH, Argy and Dennis Cruz headlining alongside regional Saudi talent.
Amnesia Ibiza's 50th-anniversary closing party on October 10 sold out in under three hours after general sale opened on September 14, before any lineup was announced.
DGTL's sixth Indian edition splits for the first time into two simultaneous cities, Ballard Pier in Mumbai and The LaLiT Ashok in Bengaluru, on November 13-14, headlined by Nina Kraviz and a live Stephan Bodzin set.
Solomun headlined The Warehouse Project for the first time in five years on September 25, the sold-out centerpiece of a 20th-anniversary Manchester season that added a fourth room and booked Moodymann, Helena Hauff, DJ Bone and Overmono.
A nor'easter forced the same-day cancellation of Brooklyn's CBGB Festival, Central Park's Global Citizen Festival and Forest Hills' All Things Go on September 25, 2026, scrapping The Prodigy's first New York City show in 17 years.
MOGA Festival's 10th edition runs September 30 to October 4 in Essaouira, Morocco, pairing headliners Jamie Jones, The Martinez Brothers and ANOTR with a lineup that's nearly 70% Moroccan, plus a new MOGA PRO training arm built with the British Council.
Swedish House Mafia wrapped their biggest Ushuaïa residency since 2012 on September 13, and this week Ibiza's superclubs start closing for the season as Joseph Capriati, Gordo and ANOTR's headline residencies all end on September 29.
Roadblock, Africa's biggest Afro-Electronic Dance Music festival, returns to Lagos on December 19, 2026 with a new 36-foot illuminated 'Broken Earth' stage and a hydraulic DJ platform built to lift performers 30 feet into the air.
Global Underground, the mix series that shaped 90s and 2000s progressive house, marks 30 years with a two-day Ibiza takeover on October 1 and 2, headlined by Deep Dish and Guy J at 528 Ibiza and Café del Mar.
Camden's KOKO has built its entire 125th-anniversary season around house and techno, booking Marco Carola, Michael Bibi, Shanti Celeste and Lee Burridge through New Year's Day.
EXIT Festival (Serbia) and Egypt's P+US are launching Starlight, a two-night house-and-techno debut on the Giza Plateau October 9-10, 2026, splitting a house night (Adriatique, Pete Tong, Vintage Culture) from a techno night (Charlotte de Witte, Michael Bibi, Enrico Sangiuliano).
Brooklyn's phone-free, no-VIP club Refuge marks its first year in business with a 72-hour nonstop dance marathon from September 25 to 27, 2026, opened by a 12-hour Deep Dish set and closed by A-Trak and Dave 1.
BEONIX Festival brings Drumcode founder Adam Beyer and a 50-plus artist, four-stage bill to Limassol's former ETKO winery complex from September 25 to 27, staking Cyprus's claim as a new Eastern Mediterranean festival stop.
Unsound's 2026 edition runs Warsaw from October 2 to 6, then Kraków from October 8 to 11, under the theme SOFT POWER, with zero shared performances between the two cities and a dedicated overnight train linking them on October 7.
Seven years after announcing their split, Dutch drum & bass trio Noisia are reuniting for a show at Melkweg, Amsterdam on December 4, 2026, with new material already taking shape.
Get Out Festival's ninth Lima edition lands November 21, 2026, with a Phase 1 lineup led by Raresh, Deborah De Luca, Anfisa Letyago and Gaiser (Live), confirming Peru's biggest club-music date as a fixture on the global touring map.
Time Warp will hold its first-ever US festival on November 27-28, 2026, inside LA's Ace*Mission Studios, with a 30-plus artist bill led by Richie Hawtin, Ben Klock, Loco Dice and Rødhåd.
Sound City Festival ran seven independently run sound systems and more than 100 artists across three days at Bath & West Showground in September 2026, and its follow-up date sold out too.
Mint XL, a new 2,500-capacity club built inside the former PRYZM venue on Leeds' Woodhouse Lane, opens September 25, 2026 with Craig Richards and Enzo Siragusa headlining a Funktion-One-equipped room.
The Martinez Brothers played a marathon, open-ended set at Refuge in Brooklyn on September 12, roughly nine hours on the decks, inside a 500-capacity room that has built its name entirely without VIP sections or bottle service.
Reworks Festival returns to Thessaloniki for its 22nd edition, September 16 to 20, 2026, with a five-day lineup led by Ben Klock, Dixon, Jayda G, Maceo Plex and Paul Kalkbrenner, and the Greece premiere of an AI-driven audiovisual show built around the ancient Antikythera mechanism.
Unsound's 2026 edition becomes the festival's first-ever split between Warsaw (October 2-6) and Krakow (October 8-11), built around a theme, SOFT POWER, that interrogates AI and surveillance.
Ultra Japan's September 19-20 edition pairs mainstage EDM headliners with RESISTANCE, the festival's dedicated house and techno stage, where Peggy Gou, Sara Landry and The Martinez Brothers carry the underground flag.
Carl Cox brings his curated "Carl Cox Invites" concept to Milan for the first time on September 19, 2026, headlining an open-air bill at Kozel Carroponte with Loco Dice, Nic Fanciulli, Chelina Manuhutu and Jon Rundell.
Joseph Capriati marks two decades of global touring with a single hometown show at Ex Base Nato in Naples on September 27, 2026, alongside Honey Dijon, Chris Stassy, Josh Baker and Quest.
Boiler Room brought its club and techno circuit back to Washington DC on September 12 and 13, 2026, with Boys Noize headlining Bambounou, COBRAH, Daria Kolosova, DJ Gigola and Mietze Conte, a year after its first DC weekender sold out.
KAJE, debuting September 25-27 in Bali's central highlands, has booked an entirely Asia-first lineup, no imported Western headliner, testing whether the region's own talent can carry a festival.
EXIT Festival and P+US will stage Starlight Festival, a four-day, multi-stage electronic music event headlined by Charlotte de Witte, Adriatique and Enrico Sangiuliano, at the Great Pyramids of Giza from October 8 to 11, 2026, on a site specially designated for the event under Egypt's protected-heritage rules.
TSHA and DJ Holographic sent 100 percent of ticket revenue from their September 11 show at Palais in Peckham to Colombia's earthquake relief effort.
Amsterdam's Dekmantel festival and label stage their first-ever Southeast Asia event on September 26, 2026, at Potato Head Bali, billing Indonesian artists Danny Satria, Dita and Kiwed alongside Avalon Emerson and Soichi Terada.
KONFLICT closes its 2026 Festa Do Sol rooftop season on September 12 back on the main terrace at Eight Members Club in Moorgate, the venue where the party brand began.
Basilar's 5th edition, running now through Sunday at a dam lake in northern Portugal, packs 60-plus hours of music onto a single stage and closes with a 30-hour non-stop marathon headlined by Marcel Dettmann.
CRSSD Festival's Fall 2026 edition (September 26-27, Waterfront Park, San Diego) has locked its full lineup, topped by a Chris Lake b2b Disclosure set and running all the way down to Helena Hauff, Ben UFO, VTSS and I Hate Models across three stages.
Damian Lazarus headlines a Crosstown Rebels takeover at fabric London on September 26, his first billed London date since a lightning-strike fire destroyed his Tuscany studio in August.
Burning Man has recorded at least ten deaths since 1990, including two this week, while extreme weather has now shut Black Rock City's gates five times since 2013, here's what's driving both trends.
GAUNG, a Yogyakarta collective network, is running a seven-day, mostly free electronic and experimental music festival across nine-plus city venues from September 7 to 13, 2026, including a night marking two decades of Indonesia's funkot genre and an outdoor bamboo-forest camp.
Amsterdam Dance Event's second lineup wave for its 30th anniversary (October 21-25, 200+ venues) puts minimal and Detroit techno figures Ben Klock and DJ Stingray 313 on the same bill as crossover names Paul Kalkbrenner and Eric Prydz, plus a Swan Lake remix and a planetarium show.
Fort X, a new house and techno festival from the promoters behind Kala and Snowboxx, held its first edition on September 5, 2026 inside Slovenia's 15th-century Mokrice Castle, capping capacity around a lineup led by Dixon, Maceo Plex, Âme and Butch.
House In The Park, the deep-house gathering DJ Ramon Rawsoul and Kai Alcé built as a gift to Atlanta in 2005, returns to Grant Park today, September 6, for a 22nd edition expected to draw over 15,000 people, still run by the same two DJs who started it.
CRSSD Festival's Fall 2026 edition returns to San Diego's Waterfront Park on September 26 and 27, headlined by a rare Chris Lake b2b Disclosure DJ set alongside Mochakk, Skepta's Más Tiempo project and Groove Armada.
London's Waterworks Festival has relocated its 2026 edition from Gunnersbury Park to East London venue The Cause, running a one-off 36-hour, seven-space format called Waterworks Extended on the original September 12-13 dates after the park's planning permission failed to arrive in time.
Overcrowding forced organizers to cancel or cut short dance sets at both Reading and Leeds festivals' new Warehouse stages over the same August bank-holiday weekend, with Prospa publicly demanding changes and a fan couple paying to flee to Creamfields.
ARC Music Festival expands to four days for the first time in 2026, running September 4-7 at Union Park with 100+ acts across four stages, its biggest format since launching in 2021.
Paris' free Techno Parade returns on Saturday, September 19, 2026 for its 26th edition after a two-year hiatus, with organizer Technopol naming Detroit, techno's birthplace, as this year's guest of honor.
As its 20th anniversary season opens at Depot Mayfield this month, Manchester's Warehouse Project is marking two decades with a documentary shot partly on some of the world's last remaining rolls of Kodak Ektachrome film, a new podcast, a print magazine and an Apple Music vault of unreleased DJ sets.
Sunwaves Festival's SW38 edition runs non-stop from September 3 to 7, 2026, at Las Salinas in Roquetas de Mar, Spain, the festival's second consecutive edition there since Romanian authorities pushed it out of its 18-year home in Mamaia in 2025.
Meakusma Festival returns to Eupen, East Belgium, from September 3 to 6, 2026, spreading a 140-act bill across churches, museums, empty shops and the former-slaughterhouse venue Alter Schlachthof instead of a single festival stage.
London's Waterworks festival is abandoning its usual Gunnersbury Park home for 2026 after a planning permission delay, relocating to a continuous 36-hour marathon across seven spaces at The Cause on September 12-13.
Eric Prydz will play his first Manchester show in four years on October 17 as a stripped-down, no-phones "Concourse Only" special at The Warehouse Project, the centerpiece of a fall campaign that also spans a 12-date North American run and a marquee ADE booking at Gashouder.
Audio Obscura Festival's second edition doubled capacity to 20,000 at Rotterdam's UNESCO-listed Van Nelle Factory and sold out a full month before the August 29, 2026 date.
Carl Cox and Christopher Coe's label Awesome Soundwave has launched ASW Live, a new run of small, free-entry club nights in Dublin and Belfast this week, with an Ibiza date in October, deliberately trading festival scale for underground rooms.
MUTEK Montréal's 27th edition (August 25-30) pairs a 120-artist electronic and AV lineup, including Jeff Mills' North American premiere of his sci-fi piece Stargate, with an expanded Forum on AI, ecology and digital creativity across five Quartier des Spectacles venues.
DJ Marfox, the batida pioneer behind Lisbon's Príncipe Discos, closes the Panorama stage, MEO Kalorama's dance-music-only stage, on August 30, 2026, at a festival expecting more than 100,000 people over three days.
Eric Prydz has stepped in as Creamfields' "very special guest" on the APEX stage this Friday, August 28, after John Summit withdrew to focus on his CTRL ESCAPE arena tour.
Amsterdam's ZeeZout festival marks its 10th edition on August 29, 2026, still fully independent and still enforcing a strict ban on hard drugs and laughing gas.
Cheshire Constabulary recovered large bags of MDMA, ecstasy pills and ketamine, plus 204 nitrous oxide canisters, buried at the Daresbury Estate ahead of Creamfields' 20th edition, which opens August 27 to around 80,000 fans.
Nia Archives has confirmed a 19-date "Emotional Junglist" world tour running from Japan to Australia between September 2026 and January 2027, with the UK leg opening November 22 in Glasgow and reaching London's Alexandra Palace on November 26, a month after the Mercury Prize decides the fate of her debut album.
Charlotte de Witte headlines the final Lisbon date of Brunch Electronik's tenth-anniversary run on August 30, 2026, at Lagoa Branca in Tapada da Ajuda.
Gilles Peterson's cross-genre We Out Here Festival has sold out its entire 2026 run in Dorset, with Masters at Work's Kenny Dope anchoring a house and afro-house wing inside a bill built mostly around jazz, soul and hip hop.
UMAMI Events' four-weekend SouthSide Summer series, running August 22 to September 13, 2026 across Hong Kong's Murray House, The Pulse and The Repulse Bay, books headliners from Singapore, Indonesia and Thailand in a daytime, wellness-hybrid format instead of importing a Western marquee name.
LENDAA Chapter V, the fifth consecutive edition of Brazil's Atlantic Forest electronic festival, runs August 21-22, 2026 in Morretes, Paraná, with progressive house headliners Sébastien Léger and D-Nox and a full Wellness Day built into the program.
London's queer dance festival Body Movements returns to Southwark Park on August 30th with five branded stages and festival debuts from Horse Meat Disco and House Gospel Choir.
Zamna festival returns to Khoroum Valley in Egypt's Sinai desert from November 20 to 22, 2026, expanding capacity to 20,000 for a deep house lineup led by Sasha and John Digweed.
Wibbly Woods cancelled its sixth edition on 12 August 2026, a month before doors, after discovering the co-owner of its new Loughborough site had never agreed to host the event.
Dekmantel Selectors opens its 10th edition at The Garden in Tisno, Croatia on August 20, still capped small and still booking the deepest lineup on the Adriatic.
Marco Carola's Music On brand, a Pacha Ibiza Friday fixture since 2019, sold out its first-ever Malta edition on August 1, 2026, drawing more than 6,000 people to the Malta Fairs & Conventions Centre.
Eric Prydz and Boris Brejcha played their first-ever back-to-back set on August 15 at Royal Palace Open Air in Brussels, pairing progressive house's biggest visual spectacle with high-tech minimal's most guarded architect.
Zamna In The Club, the indoor arm of the Tulum jungle-rave festival brand, held its first India dates on August 14 in Bengaluru and August 15 in Kolkata, the newest stop in a fast-expanding global club circuit.
Chicago's Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events is running the free, four-day Chicago House Music Festival & Conference from August 27 to 30, 2026, headlined by Roy Davis Jr, Chip E. and Maurice Joshua across Millennium Park, the Chicago Cultural Center and Grant Park.
Sziget Festival, long known for indie rock and pop headliners, has built a dedicated techno and house arena, the Yettel Colosseum, and an entire electronic music quarter, the Delta District, booking Peggy Gou, Dixon and Richie Hawtin for its 2026 edition.
Ushuaïa Ibiza closes its 2026 season on October 10 with an 11-hour ANTS takeover headlined by the first-ever back-to-back set between Vintage Culture and Loco Dice.
South London dubstep pioneers Skream and Benga, who spent roughly a decade apart, play a rare back-to-back set at Flow Festival's Front Yard stage in Helsinki on August 15, 2026, part of a wider comeback that already includes a joint album in the works.
Poland's Unsound festival will run October 2 to 11, 2026 across Warsaw and Kraków for the first time in its history, linked by a dedicated Unsound Train, with Arca making her first-ever Warsaw appearance to perform her album Airdoll.
A woman died during Houghton Festival's 2026 edition at Houghton Hall in Norfolk; Norfolk Constabulary is investigating but does not currently believe the death is suspicious.
Dimensions Festival 2026 has sold out its full five-day passes for the August 27-31 edition at The Garden Tisno, with resale on Resident Advisor now the only route to a full ticket.
The Mannheim-founded techno festival will hold its first Los Angeles edition November 27 and 28, 2026, at Ace Mission Studios in Boyle Heights, the latest market to open under Time Warp's 2024 expansion partnership with Insomniac.
Glitch Festival's 10th anniversary edition, running August 12 to 15 at Gianpula Village in Malta with Ben Klock b2b Rødhåd and Amelie Lens on the bill, has sold out.
Wall2Wall returns to RSO Berlin for five nights, August 13 to 17, with Monolake, Erol Alkan, Ellen Allien and Josey Rebelle topping a 50-plus lineup that hands parts of the program to local Berlin crews.
Maiden Voyage Festival returns to Burgess Park on August 8 with SHERELLE, Helena Hauff and Yaeji, its four stages each curated end to end by a different London collective, UNFOLD, Live From Earth, HOWL WORLDWIDE and Pxssy Palace, who take the main stage to mark their tenth anniversary.
Untold's 11th edition closed with more than 500,000 attendees across four days and nine stages in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, with Carl Cox, Solomun and Joseph Capriati anchoring Galaxy, the festival's dedicated house and techno stage.
Fuse, Belgium's longest-running techno night, brings XRDS Crossroads Festival back to Brussels' Parc des Étangs on August 14 and 15 with over 50 artists across three stages built beneath the E19 viaducts.
Anjunadeep Open Air on the Thames sold out the grounds of Greenwich's Old Royal Naval College for the second consecutive summer, cementing progressive house's pull outside the big-tent festival circuit.
Loveland Festival returned to Sloterpark in Amsterdam on August 8 and 9, 2026 for its 31st edition, a lakeside rave built on a techno spine of Robert Hood, Rødhåd and Ben Klock.
After 17 editions at Lee Valley Showground and a year away, Eastern Electrics returns on August 9, 2026 at a new site in Burgess Park, inner South London.
Portugal's NEOPOP festival is reverting to ANTIPOP, its original 2006 name, for a one-off 20th-anniversary edition (August 6-8, 2026) at Forte de Santiago da Barra in Viana do Castelo, headlined by Jeff Mills, Nina Kraviz, Richie Hawtin and a closing farewell set from Laurent Garnier.
Gravitate, launching August 27 to 31, 2026 at Portugal's Alqueva Lake, builds its program around movement workshops and somatic therapy alongside sets from DJ Nobu, DVS1 and DJ MARIA.
A 45-year-old American man died after falling from decorative structures around Ozora Festival's main stage on August 1, and a 39-year-old woman suffered fatal cardiac arrest during Astrix's set that same evening, prompting organizers to end the night's music at midnight.
UNTOLD, the world's highest daily-attendance festival with over 470,000 visitors in 2025, opens its 2026 edition (Aug 6-9) in Cluj-Napoca with an indoor Galaxy stage dedicated entirely to deep house and hard techno, led by Maceo Plex and Gordo, the tech-house rebrand of Carnage.
Ultra México returns to Mexico City on November 7-8, 2026 after an eight-year gap, and its RESISTANCE stage has booked ARTBAT, Boys Noize and CamelPhat, a real signal that Latin America's underground touring market is coming back.
Barcelona's Brunch Electronik runs three days for the first time, August 7-9 at Parc del Fòrum, with more than 100 artists including Kaytranada, Jeff Mills, Eric Prydz, Luciano and Floating Points.
Field Maneuvers returns to Norfolk on August 21-23, 2026 with Chicago footwork pioneer Jana Rush playing her only UK show of the summer, backed by the festival's biggest-ever Ambient Stage.
Carl Cox and Louie Vega will share a DJ booth for the first time in their careers, at Movida Beach Club in Sicily on Ferragosto night, August 14, 2026.
Marco Carola's Ibiza institution Music On stages its first branded night outside its home island on August 1, 2026, at Malta's Fairs & Conventions Centre, betting that a residency built on one club's DNA can travel.
UNTOLD Festival in Cluj-Napoca, Romania has rebranded as 'UNTOLD ONE' for its 2026 edition (August 6-9), revealing a gold, wing-shaped main stage and a 200-plus-artist lineup that spans Carl Cox, Solomun and Jamie Jones alongside pop-crossover names like Marshmello.
Experts Only Festival has added Max Styler b2b Adam Ten, Will Clarke and five more acts to its September 19-20 Randall's Island bill, alongside a new Pwemium Lounge stage named after a viral tech house meme.
Local mayors banned all fireworks and stage pyrotechnics for Tomorrowland 2026's opening weekend over a drought-driven 'code orange' wildfire alert, then only partly lifted the ban for weekend two, letting the Mainstage run limited, close-range pyrotechnics under daily safety checks.
Fort X Festival debuts September 5, 2026 at Mokrice Castle near Ljubljana, threading stages through medieval courtyards and woodland with a deep house lineup led by Dixon, Maceo Plex and Ame.
Carl Cox and David Guetta played their first-ever back-to-back set on Sunday, July 26, 2026, at UNVRS Ibiza, closing out a night that doubled as Cox's birthday celebration three days before he turns 64.
Dekmantel's 12th edition, opening July 29 in Amsterdam, adds a dawn forest program and a first ever city takeover, while putting EDM crossover star Skrillex on a bill built around Underground Resistance and Ricardo Villalobos.
LISB-ON 2026 runs July 3 to 5 in the Keil do Amaral garden inside Lisbon's Parque Eduardo VII, with Sven Väth, Kölsch, CamelPhat, Kerri Chandler and ANNA among the confirmed acts for an entirely daylight bill.
Shapes Festival's week-long return to Zakynthos, Greece, running July 26 to August 2, 2026, trades a single festival site for boats, beaches, gardens and hilltops across the island, with Carl Craig, Motor City Drum Ensemble and Marcellus Pittman confirmed, per Resident Advisor.
RÜFÜS DU SOL's Jon George and James Hunt are ending their four-Tuesday DJ-only residency at Pacha Ibiza on July 28 with Disclosure behind the decks, after guest sets from Romy, ANOTR and Jimi Jules.
Monegros Desert Festival sold out its 33rd edition at 60,000 tickets, the biggest crowd in its 32-year history, and did it without swapping a single underground name for a mainstream headliner.
Over Tomorrowland's first 2026 weekend (17-19 July, Boom, Belgium), police made 38 arrests, including 13 alleged drug dealers, and fined 192 festival-goers a combined 48,150 euros for drug possession.
Jamie Jones and Lee Foss's Hot Creations label is bringing its tech house parties back to a newly renovated Bora Bora at Playa Soleil in Playa d'en Bossa, with Friday dates on August 7, September 4 and September 25.
RESISTANCE Ibiza's Season 5 residency opens at Amnesia tonight, July 22, running every Wednesday through September 16, with Adam Beyer as season resident and Eric Prydz returning to the club as a co-headliner for the first time in over ten years.
fabric London and Sennheiser have expanded their partnership into a five-date 2026 series atop The Shard, opening August 21 with Sven Väth before the night moves down to fabric's Farringdon club.
Terminal V Croatia has expanded to five stages at The Garden Resort in Tisno for its July 16-20, 2026 edition, folding in Barbarella's Discotheque for sunrise afterhours sets, with organizers confirming fewer than 10% of tickets remain.
Joseph Capriati's Metamorfosi concept has returned to Amnesia Ibiza for a 14-date Tuesday residency running through September 29, timed to the club's 50th-anniversary season and pulling in more than 80 confirmed artists across both rooms.
Defected Records' Croatian festival plays its 10th and final edition, "One Last Dance," at The Garden Resort in Tisno from July 29 to August 2, 2026, headlined by Moodymann, Black Coffee, TSHA, Jayda G, Floating Points, Perc and Mall Grab.
For its 10th anniversary in 2026, London techno festival Junction 2 abandons its single-weekend format for the first time, spreading across three dates at Boston Manor Park, including a one-off collaboration night with fabric.
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.
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.
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 Chosen Few Picnic & Music Festival returns to Chicago's Jackson Park on July 11 for its 36th consecutive year, still run by the same DJs who started it as a backyard gathering in 1990, with no private-equity owner, no EDM headliner and no dynamic pricing scheme.
Josh Baker opened his first Ibiza residency, You&Me, at Amnesia on Thursday July 2, 2026, a weekly Terrace night running through October 1.
Kappa FuturFestival's 13th edition sold out its July 3 to 5, 2026 run at Parco Dora in Turin, moving roughly 90,000 tickets on curation trust rather than one marquee name.
Fifty years into a touring career built on monument-scale spectacles, Jean-Michel Jarre played his first-ever Ibiza show on July 5 on Amnesia's Terrace, the same year the club and his breakthrough album Oxygene each turn fifty.
FOURTH WORLD returned for its 12th edition at New York's Knockdown Center on 3 July, booking more than 30 acts entirely from the city's own scene across five stages.
Defected Croatia will hold its tenth and final edition at The Garden Resort in Tisno from July 29 to August 3, 2026, ending a decade that turned the Adriatic site into a summer home for house music.
ADE unveiled the first wave for its 30th edition, running 21 to 25 October 2026: more than 250 artists, Jean-Michel Jarre as guest of honour, and the Gashouder back, on the way to 3,000-plus acts across 200-plus venues.
The Warehouse Project is marking 20 years with its biggest season yet at Depot Mayfield, a brand new room called Vault and a run of fresh shows, an expansion that lands while clubs across Europe keep closing.
Mint XL, a 2,500-capacity club, opens on 25 September inside the shuttered PRYZM on Woodhouse Lane, with Craig Richards, Enzo Siragusa, Fumiya Tanaka and Sonja Moonear christening a corporate chain venue reborn for the underground.
Carl Cox opens his second season at Ibiza's hyperclub this Sunday with an all-night set and first-time B2Bs, but luxury pricing and a David Guetta date are driving as much debate as the music.
The Norfolk festival announces its most expansive lineup to date, headlined by Underground Resistance's first-ever UK festival appearance alongside Ricardo Villalobos, Helena Hauff, Ben UFO and close to 200 artists.
After 32 years, Ricard Robles, Enric Palau, and Sergio Caballero are gone, and for the first time, Sónar belongs entirely to KKR-backed Superstruct Entertainment.
London's fabric club makes its New York debut on September 5, 2026, staging a purpose-built AV show at Under the K Bridge in Greenpoint with Jeff Mills, Helena Hauff and visual direction from dreamrec.
Solstice Festival runs June 18 to 20 at Rukatunturi in northern Finland, where roughly 75 mostly underground artists play under near 24 hour daylight at the edge of the Arctic Circle.
Tomorrowland will run a 144 square metre immersive Avicii installation across both 2026 weekends, with a large LED film, personal artefacts on loan from Stockholm, three remastered Tomorrowland sets on Apple Music, and a clothing line funding the Tim Bergling Foundation.
Insomniac and Colombian promoter Páramo Presenta will stage the first EDC Colombia at Medellín's Atanasio Girardot sports complex on October 10 and 11, 2026, pairing stadium-scale headliners with Factory 93, Time Warp and a real house and tech house cast.
Anjunadeep's Explorations runs 11 to 16 June in Dhermi on the Albanian Riviera, a sold-out, six-night festival-meets-beach-holiday built almost entirely on the label's deep and melodic house roster, with first appearances from George FitzGerald and Orbit.
Solomun opens Pacha New York on June 19, 2026 with no fee and a free dancefloor reserved for the fans who stood through hours of cold rain at his recent Bronx show, with access decided by one fair raffle.
Carl Cox headlines Cave Romane, a 2,000-year-old former Roman limestone quarry near Pula, on 7 August 2026, with lasers mapped onto the rock and tickets from 49 euros.
Belgian teenager ELFIGO became the youngest artist ever to play Tomorrowland Winter, taking the Frozen Lotus stage in Alpe d'Huez at 14, six years after he started DJing at eight.
Uganda's Nyege Nyege will hold its first European festival, MIRROR WORLD, in Brussels on September 25 and 26, 2026, with 40-plus artists and two-day tickets at 30 euros.
On 28 May 2026, Haitian-American DJ Francis Mercier headlined a Recovery Sessions show at Little Petra in Jordan, turning one of the New7Wonders into an open-air afro house party.
On June 20, 2026, Gärten brings Carl Cox and special guest Mau P to the gardens of one of France's most famous estates, with more than 15,000 people expected.
Dozens of mid-size festivals were cancelled across 2025 as infrastructure costs jumped 30 to 50 percent since 2019, hollowing out the exact rung of the touring ladder where most working house DJs build their fees, even as Tomorrowland and EDC sell out.
UNVRS was voted the No.1 club on the planet in its debut year by spending a reported 40 to 70 million euros to turn the old Privilege site into an arena-scale room, resetting what a superclub now costs to build.
After eight years building Sundays at Hï since its 2017 opening, Glitterbox jumps to Amnesia's Friday terrace for the club's 50th, while Defected itself drops down to the 1,000-capacity Chinois, redrawing Ibiza's brand map.
Pacha Group booked EUR 118.8m of revenue and EUR 40.5m EBITDA in the nine months to September 2025, and its Dubai owner FIVE has lined up a $460m facility to clone the brand from New York to Asia.
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