The Night Time Industries Association has asked the UK government to classify nightclubs as cultural institutions, the protection Germany wrote into law this year, after a run of closures from Manchester to Bristol.
Francisco Partners has exited Muse Group, the owner of Audacity and MuseScore, and instead of a new investor stepping in, the founder bought his way back to control with bank debt.
Cherry Audio released an official software version of Ensoniq's 1986 ESQ-1 on June 16, 2026, rebuilt from the original waveforms and priced at $69 to mark the synth's 40th anniversary.
LabelWorx has committed $25 million to a new funding platform called Elevate, with $10 million set aside in the first round for royalty advances to independent electronic labels.
Universal and Sony's copyright case against AI music generator Suno is heading to a July 2026 summary judgment hearing after discovery showed Suno trained on millions of copyrighted recordings, and the ruling could set the template for the entire AI music business.
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.
Germany's Stone Techno Festival, July 10 to 12 at Essen's UNESCO listed Zeche Zollverein, adds a fifth stage called the Listening Floor: a seated, amphitheater style space for ambient and experimental sets, a deliberate counterpoint to the faster, louder main floors.
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.
Ahead of the 2026 festival season Ireland's PHA and HSE issued a joint all-island warning that more than 40% of MDMA samples tested over the past year held over twice an average dose, and that pink powders sold as cocaine rarely contain any, so harm reduction and free drug-checking matter more than ever.
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.
A study at Drumsheds measured a 18.5% average rise in heart-rate variability during the calm phases of a guided electronic music session, with anxiety dropping and feelings of connection going up.
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.
Leticia van Riel, founder of LvR Management and a quietly central figure in electronic music for over fifteen years, has died following a car accident in Ibiza.
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Three years after selling Dirtybird to EMPIRE, Claude VonStroke is touring small rooms and free open-air parties behind his album Wrong Number, by choice, not necessity.
Travis Stewart has left Ninja Tune after 13 years and relaunched his independent label IAMSIAM with BL00MS, a Bandcamp-exclusive instrumental mini-LP.
GForce Software and Sequential have released the first official Prophet-5 plugin, recreating the Rev1, Rev2 and Rev3 hardware with 460+ presets, dual layers and MPE.
Elektron's free OS 1.55 brings a Euclidean sequencer, a Control All mode and loopable pattern pages to the Analog Four and Analog Keys, the first substantial update since Bonnier Capital bought the Gothenburg synth maker in April.
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.
M-VAVE previewed the FM-1, a budget desktop FM polysynth with six operators, 32 DX7 algorithms and Yamaha DX7 SYSEX import, putting the sound that built late-80s house into a portable, battery box.
Akai's MPC Sample, a battery-powered pocket sampler that runs the classic MPC60 and MPC3000 workflow for $399, is finally in stock again at Thomann and Amazon.de after months of being near impossible to find.
Bonobo announced his eighth album Distance In Static, out 11 September 2026 on Ninja Tune, led by the club-facing single Me and You, with Simon Green suggesting it could close out his traditional album-and-tour cycle.
The EUDA's 2026 wastewater study found MDMA down 16 percent across European cities while ketamine jumped 41 percent and cocaine 22 percent, a quiet shift in what the floor is actually taking.
