Boiler Room brought its club and techno circuit back to Washington DC on September 12 and 13, 2026, with Boys Noize headlining Bambounou, COBRAH, Daria Kolosova, DJ Gigola and Mietze Conte, a year after its first DC weekender sold out.
A string of recent DJ booth incidents, from DJ Nobu halting his own set in Geneva to spilled drinks on Kelvin Momo's CDJs, spells out the basic etiquette clubgoers keep breaking: give the DJ space, keep drinks off the decks and never touch the equipment.
Boiler Room, Chicago's Chosen Few Picnic and Amsterdam's Jyoty all became international names because someone in their own local scene backed them first, long before any label noticed.
Two weeks after Boiler Room's NYC protest made headlines, the anti-KKR boycott has turned into a real business problem: DJs are publicly withdrawing from bookings and boycott-linked cancellations have spread to at least eight cities.
Protesters staging a die-in against Boiler Room's private equity owner KKR were pushed and jumped on for 18 minutes before security stepped in at the brand's Under The K Bridge show in Brooklyn on July 10.
DICE flipped Boiler Room to KKR-owned Superstruct for £25m in January 2025; by late 2025 it was cutting staff amid boycotts, and on 20 January 2026 founder Blaise Bellville's exit was confirmed, leaving the platform that defined online-underground credibility owning no music rights.
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