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.
FOUND, an 8,500-capacity complex in a former Schultheiss brewery, threw its first party this weekend, a Watergate open air, eighteen months after Watergate lost its riverside home.
The former Radio 1 tastemaker says AI and frictionless tools have made producing a track trivial, and warns the real cost is the craft, the struggle, and the value of music itself.
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.
Techno's own architect refuses to let the music live in its past. At 63 the Detroit pioneer still mixes on three decks with no sync button, treats techno as education over entertainment, and the same month he marked 30 years of his most famous live set he shipped a brand-new sci-fi concept album. He honours the past without missing it, and points everything forward.
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.
Reserved by Spotify, live in the US since 18 June through a multi-year Live Nation deal, hands early ticket access to an artist's top streamers, ranked by the listening data Spotify already holds on you.
Dreeemwave's Bassliner writes MIDI basslines from a research-based algorithm, not a model trained on other people's songs, and it is leaning hard on that distinction as the AI-music backlash peaks.
A new free app drops two tracks in your headphones and scores how close you get their tempos by ear, with a fresh global challenge every day.
After two earthquakes killed more than 900 people near Caracas, here is how the house and techno world can help: give cash to vetted relief funds that work on the ground, and keep Venezuela's electronic scene, from raptor house to its exiled producers, booked and visible.
The acts that endure in electronic music, from Daft Punk to Drexciya, never sold a personal brand; they built a world you could disappear into, and in an age of AI sameness that mythology is the only moat a DJ has left.
A growing body of peer-reviewed work shows that dancing together lifts mood, eases loneliness and floods the brain with endorphins, and house, built on a communal four-to-the-floor pulse, may be the genre best engineered to do it.
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.
Hagens Berman, the law firm behind the largest legal recovery in US history, has escalated its case against Udio, accusing the AI startup of copying millions of independent artists' recordings to train its models.
Defqon.1 was called off mid-weekend after the Dutch weather service issued the Netherlands' first-ever Code Red heat warning, with temperatures near 40C. It is the clearest sign yet that extreme heat is now a festival-season problem.
The Akai MPC One G2 and MPC Key 37 G2 land with four times the power and a new MPC 3.9 OS that finally builds a real synthesizer engine into the box, starting at $799.
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.
Kevin McKay says a track built entirely in Suno topped a Beatport genre chart with no one the wiser. Days later, Traxsource set a date to start labeling every release human-made or AI-assisted.
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.
Deezer is demonetising the vast majority of streams on AI-generated tracks as bot fraud. The catch: the distributors that wave those tracks onto streaming services collect their upload fees whether the music is real, fake, or never heard by a human at all.
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.
The majors have signed AI licensing deals and even AI acts, while 31 artist and songwriter bodies say performers are being opted into AI by default, without pay, as 75,000 AI tracks a day flood streaming.
The Atlanta producer signs to dh2, the dance label run by The 1975's George Daniel, with a four-track EP out August 7 that trades his warped club sound for old-school house.
