Ibiza's town hall barred new discotheques from the port area and cut building capacity to enforce it, while approving a new mega-club at Hotel Ibiza Corso nearby through a leftover pandemic-era exemption, and the port's concession operator says the double standard could get the whole plan thrown out under EU rules.
Sant Josep town hall sealed 24 venue sound systems and opened 43 infraction files after 143 noise complaints in the 2025 season, per La Voz de Ibiza, with fines reaching €300,000 for the worst repeat offenders.
The Consell d'Eivissa is drafting an island-wide freeze on new nightclub licenses inside its Tourism Areas Intervention Plan (PIAT), protecting every currently licensed club while locking the door on new competitors.
Police shut down the same illegal after-party at Ibiza's Casa Paola villa twice within 24 hours on July 28-29, but neither the six-figure fines already on the books nor a standing court demolition order have stopped the villa's underground party economy.
Days after police shut down an illegal 250-to-300-person party at an Ibiza villa, the island's licensed-club trade association AEON is demanding the state airport operator Aena prove any nightclub inside Ibiza airport meets the same rules independent venues must follow.
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.
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.
A month after the Consell d'Eivissa demanded clubs blacklist DJs who play illegal villa parties, the concierge company Luxury Dimensions Ibiza ran two five-star villa raves simultaneously, drawing roughly 1,000 guests combined.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Josh Baker opened his first Ibiza residency, You&Me, at Amnesia on Thursday July 2, 2026, a weekly Terrace night running through October 1.
Pacha and Solomun's Diynamic label have scrapped their 11 July open air at Cantera Can Coix near Sant Antoni, refunding every ticket, after residents pushed back against the event.
Alexa, who runs Sunwaves' marketing, strategy and, since last year, its bookings, on taking the Romanian rominimal festival to Ibiza, choosing authenticity over hype, and keeping the dance floor the main character.
Sant Antoni de Portmany can fine you up to 750 euros for walking its streets in swimwear or shirtless, while every club on the island already runs its own dress code. Here is the fine, who it really targets, and exactly what to wear at Hï, Pacha, UNVRS, DC10, Ushuaïa, Amnesia and beyond.
Ibiza is escalating its crackdown on illegal villa raves: police broke up a 1,000-guest party near Sant Antoni, and the island's Consell wants fines of up to 300,000 euros and multi-year licence bans for the organisers.
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.
Solomun and Skrillex released Rumpta on Diynamic on 1 July, a 128 BPM house cut two years in the making, and it reopened the oldest argument in dance music: who gets to belong in the underground.
Ibiza's tourism plan will ban new nightclub licences across the island, the Consell d'Eivissa said on 27 June, while insisting the existing legal nightlife stays protected.
The French house veteran behind 'Love Generation' says the island has become a phone-lit show built around bottle service, and that the clubbers who made Ibiza have been priced out and forgotten.
The Ibiza institution opened Pacha New York in June, taking over the East Williamsburg complex that was the Brooklyn Mirage, dark for nearly two years after its spectacular collapse.
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.
Hugo Bianco played clubs in Ibiza and Miami. Spanish and US investigators say he also ran the network moving drugs between them, and the Balearic High Court has now confirmed his prison term.
In 1997, two unknown French promoters spent their last money on boombox beach promo to land Daft Punk's first Ibiza gig. It worked, around 10,000 people came, and it rewired who the island would book.
Three thousand years of arrivals, the mystery of Es Vedrà off the southwest coast, and a club scene raising its prices: why the island's pull runs deeper than any lineup.
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.
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.
The Consell d'Eivissa is demanding that Ocio de Ibiza and every club write a clause into DJ contracts: play a clandestine villa rave and you are dropped on the spot and never booked again.
The environmental group GEN-GOB has filed a formal complaint asking Ibiza's authorities to inspect UNVRS, claiming the self-styled hyperclub ran far over the 4,000-person limit historically licensed at the site.
Roger Sanchez has released 'Spectrum', his first studio album in two decades: 13 tracks, six years in the making, out digitally on 5 June 2026 with a red triple-vinyl pressing to follow on 26 June.
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