Black Motion says the organisers of Johannesburg's 3TWO1 Festival used the duo's name and poster art without honouring the agreed performance fee, per The Journalist DJ.
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.
Warsaw Wave has launched Revolt, a patchable modular synth shipping native VST3, Audio Units, LV2, and standalone builds for Windows, macOS, and Linux, at an introductory $59 (regular $89) through November 11, 2026.
Cevin Fisher, the producer behind 'The Freaks Come Out' and '(You Got Me) Burning Up' who learned to DJ as a teenager at Newark's Club Zanzibar, died October 29 after a brief battle with cancer, three days after turning 63.
MAP Audio's new $80 plugin MFX lets producers cable-patch 34 effects across four cells into serial, parallel and feedback-loop routings that a standard effects chain can't do.
Yucatan promoter Mérida Worldwide publicly apologized on October 31 after a scientific institute warned that its amplified-music party inside a cenote was endangering light-sensitive cave species and the aquifer that supplies the peninsula's drinking water.
Waldorf's new Crema desktop synth rebuilds the discontinued Streichfett's cult string-machine sound inside a wavetable and FM-equipped instrument priced at 345.45 euros.
Global independent publisher Peermusic has acquired Sydney's 120 Publishing, taking over roughly 5,000 works and 120,000 administered copyrights in dance and electronic music.
Universal Music Group held preliminary talks with Apollo, TPG and Blackstone about taking the company private, Bloomberg reported on October 26, as UMG's market cap has fallen roughly 45% from its 2025 peak.
StageBox Software released the free lo-fi sampler Voiks and Flame Sound released the free mix enhancer Vatrica on the same day, 31 October 2026, with no upsell funnel attached to either.
Ministry of Sound has put the six-stack Martin Audio soundsystem that powered The Box for almost 20 years up for private-enquiry auction via Wax Poetics, months after retiring it for a new KV2 rig as part of the club's 35th-anniversary refurbishment.
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.
AFEM has published a free, 12-chapter Promoter Good Practice Guide that walks independent and early-career promoters through the ticketing, insurance and booking mistakes that used to get learned only by losing money.
Push and Groove has released Micronix, a free VST3/AU plugin for Mac and Windows built directly on Mutable Instruments' MIT-licensed Plaits DSP code, putting all 24 of the cult Eurorack module's synthesis models inside any DAW at no cost.
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.
Waldorf's new Crema folds the Streichfett string-machine sound into a compact 24-type hybrid synth that sells for €339 in Europe but $499 in the US, a steeper gap than the exchange rate explains.
Pulse 22, the Prague techno club built into Gothic cellar vaults dating to 1404, is closing for good at the end of November 2026, with a farewell weekend set for November 27-28 and no public explanation for why.
Yaeltex, the Buenos Aires workshop whose hand-built MIDI controllers back Richie Hawtin and Arca's live rigs, has released V3 with up to 16 full-color displays, 64 encoders and 128 total controls.
Apple Music launches Club Live tonight with a free, no-subscription livestream of Overmono and Andy C from The Warehouse Project's 20th-anniversary season at Depot Mayfield, Manchester.
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.
ADE and VibeLab's new Nighttime Culture Index, scoring six cities on six continents, finds women and gender-diverse artists get only 27 to 32 percent of club bookings worldwide.
Behringer has announced the SP1200X, a $200 open-source clone of the 1987 E-mu SP-1200, the sampler that built the sound of golden-era hip hop and early house.
At an Amsterdam Dance Event panel, Brazilian DJs Galecta, DJ Ray and LUA detailed how shared-bill fee splits favor headliners and how women get booked for looks while facing double standards men don't.
