Sonar Barcelona ran a multilingual funeral campaign, coffin video and a newspaper obituary declaring the 32-year-old festival dead, while its own site still lists Sonar 2027 dates for June 17 to 19.
Superstruct Entertainment's filed accounts show losses widening from 77.6 million euros to 111.3 million euros, and the press itself is linking the jump to the pro-Palestine artist boycott of KKR-owned festivals.
DGTL's sixth Indian edition splits for the first time into two simultaneous cities, Ballard Pier in Mumbai and The LaLiT Ashok in Bengaluru, on November 13-14, headlined by Nina Kraviz and a live Stephan Bodzin set.
KKR, the private-equity firm whose leveraged buyout loaded Toys R Us with the debt that eventually sank it, closed a roughly $1.4 billion deal for Superstruct Entertainment's portfolio of more than 80 festivals, including Sónar, Boiler Room and Wacken Open Air, in 2024.
Superstruct Entertainment, the KKR-owned promoter behind Sonar, Awakenings and Dekmantel, published an "Artistic Code" on September 10, 2026, setting two red lines for performer speech at its 80-plus festivals, but critics say it sidesteps the KKR ownership dispute that triggered 18 months of artist boycotts.
Sziget has exited KKR-backed Superstruct Entertainment's ownership and reverted to founder Károly Gerendai, nine years after selling it a 70 percent stake, days before its reduced five-day 2026 edition opens on Budapest's Óbuda Island.
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.
KKR-backed Superstruct Entertainment has dissolved Apenkooi Events, the Amsterdam promoter behind DGTL, absorbing DGTL into rival brand Awakenings while shutting down STRAF_WERK, Pleinvrees and Amsterdam Open Air outright.
Superstruct Entertainment, the KKR-owned festival conglomerate, has dissolved its Dutch subsidiary Apenkooi Events, folding DGTL's booking and production into Monumental (the operator behind its own Awakenings brand) and discontinuing STRAF_WERK, Pleinvrees and Amsterdam Open Air outright from May 1, 2026.
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.
After 32 years, Ricard Robles, Enric Palau, and Sergio Caballero are gone, and for the first time, Sónar belongs entirely to KKR-backed Superstruct Entertainment.
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