A wave of kava lounges is turning the alcohol-free rave from a wellness gimmick into a real hospitality business, and the people opening them are coming straight for nightlife's spend.
Engine DJ 5.0 makes the Rane System One the first standalone DJ hardware that splits a track into four stems on the unit itself, with no computer in the chain.
The Warehouse Project marks two decades with a Leigh Powis short film and an expanded WHP26 at Depot Mayfield, anchored by an Overmono all-nighter on 30 October, Solomun on 25 September and Tiësto on 11 December.
As psychedelic therapy scales into hundreds of clinics, electronic producers are licensing music into the treatment room, a quiet new revenue stream with a catch buried in the contract.
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.
Travis Stewart pulled his new six-track mini-LP BL00MS off the major-independent circuit and put it out himself on a relaunched IAMSIAM, his first instrumental club record in years and a clean break from his Ninja Tune era.
Sonic Liberation Devices unveiled its first production instrument on 4 June 2026, a $1,600 sampler and drum machine whose voices are tuned to non-Western intonations sourced with ethnomusicologists, with all schematics, code and research promised open-source.
The American Federation of Musicians sued Universal and Warner in New York federal court, arguing their settlements with AI generators Suno and Udio triggered a contract clause that requires paying the musicians whose recordings trained the models.
All Day I Dream, the daytime party Lee Burridge and Matthew Dekay started on a 2011 Brooklyn rooftop, hits 15 with a global 2026 run, and the template it built is now the default playbook for organic-house promoters everywhere.
Black Coffee publicly disowned a viral 'xenophobic nation' quote on 6 June 2026 as a coordinated online campaign and street attacks pressure foreign nationals to leave South Africa, the country whose migrant labour built the dancefloors Afro house now sells worldwide.
Three years after the fact, Barclay Crenshaw has finally explained why he sold Dirtybird: it got too big and too commercial to stay weird. “The worst business decision, but the best life decision for me.”
Poland’s Polyend unveiled Drums, a $2,699 eight-track hybrid drum machine with four analog SSI voices, squaring up to Roland’s TR-1000, and the scene is already split on whether it can match Roland’s reliability.
Pacha New York won a temporary liquor licence on 30 May, surrendered Avant Gardner’s permit, and pledged $27m over a decade to safety and community as it targets a 13 June opening at the former Brooklyn Mirage.
MEDI’s expanded data portal, now mapping all 55 African countries, estimates nearly $286m in recorded-music revenue goes uncollected in Nigeria and Kenya alone, and flags 46 countries worldwide with no functioning copyright system.
Grace Jones will play live at Glitterbox on 24 July as the disco-house party settles into Friday nights at Amnesia for 2026, with Jorja Smith joining the 9 October closing.
Juno Download, the digital store that served DJs and collectors since 2006, is closing, its COO blaming streaming’s dominance and the rise of direct-to-fan platforms.
Leeds duo Prospa release their debut album ‘Free Your Mind’ on 5 June, the first full-length in CircoLoco Records’ history, led by a title track with Cloonee.
AI music startup Suno has raised over $400m at a $5.4bn valuation, more than doubling its worth in seven months, even as Universal and Sony move to add 61,000+ recordings to their copyright suit.
The Berlin livestream platform HÖR has been fully acquired by music-services company 99Solutions, which says it will keep the brand independent while adding label, publishing and booking arms.
Teenage Engineering’s EUR 189 EP-136 K.O. Sidekick is a battery-powered, expandable two-channel mixer, FX box and interface that turns a pair of EP-133s into a pocket DJ rig, and the reviews are landing high.
South African artists banked R504 million ($30.69m) on Spotify in 2025, but 74% of it came from listeners outside the country, which makes amapiano a foreign-demand export the people who built it largely don't control.
Om Records reached 30 years and more than 800 releases by refusing the big-room EDM turn that Kaskade and Claude VonStroke rode out of its own roster, and founder Chris Smith is candid about what that choice cost.
Music On's 20,000-capacity Amsterdam edition was scrapped at 9:25am on the day of the festival because the city could not safety-clear a tent the promoter swapped in back in March, and a Dutch court has now backed the mayor's call.
Arturia's Memory V is a 149 dollar software take on Moog's 1982 Memorymoog that doubles the polyphony to twelve voices, adds MPE and ships with over 300 presets.
