JOHANNSON releases ‘Work It’ on dt weapons, a sub-label of Data Transmission. Leaning into a rhythmically-driven sound, the track builds into an arrangement where tight grooves meet with catch motifs, culminating in a production geared for dancefloors: the ideal tool to encourage…

A lot of music technology focuses on adding more features. More controls. More connectivity. More customization. But musicians usually care more about whether a device fades naturally into practice. The TCL NXTPAPER 14 makes that transition from paper to tablet feel surprisingly…

‘Pot Holes’ Marco Weber delivers his new Deep Tech track, ‘Pot Holes’ on deeperdub. Expanding on a sound that prioritises groove, energy, and movement, this latest single sees the Zurich-based Producer and DJ build on his approach: maintaining clarity in his creative intentions a…

Christian EDM keeps finding new ways to bridge the dancefloor and the sanctuary, and the latest proof arrives June 5, 2026, with “Joy Is Coming,” a new single from Rave Jesus featuring Terrian and SON., out now on AXIOM Label Group. If the name Rave Jesus is new to you, the résum…

Laci Kay Somers is continuing to expand her music catalog at an impressive pace, and her latest release cycle makes it clear she has no intention of slowing down. The entrepreneur, model, and recording artist has returned with two new singles, including a dance remix for “Love Me…

Nearly four decades after stepping away from music, DJ Matrix is reentering the conversation with a perspective shaped far beyond the studio. His new single, “Feel My Bass (Reloaded)” and upcoming June 5th release “Drift Away,” reflect the evolution of his relationship with music…

Continuing the remix rollout, Sir Ivan taps Giuseppe D. for a high-impact take on ‘Love Is The Piece.’ Setting the original’s peace-driven message within a fresh, high-energy setting, the rework brings a new perspective to the track, leaning into a more mainstage-driven direction…

With “Xanadu,” released on April 24, 2026, Maggie Szabo leans fully into the kind of energy that has defined her career while sharpening it into something immediate and transportive. The track lands as a vibrant, uptempo dance-pop record that feels equally suited for late-night d…

If you've been following the intersection of electronic music and faith-based culture, Rave Jesus just made a major move. The Christian EDM project from producer and DJ Topher Jones — better known in the secular scene as King Topher — has released a new single called “Rave Reviva…

Following a very busy and highly successful 2025, which saw her touring the U.S. and co-producing the anthemic tech-house track “Baseline,” featuring a verse by rapper Snoop Dogg, aptly followed by the further success of the uplifting, groove-driven “More Than A Feeling,” with vo…

A new wave of techno is emerging—and “NO RULES” is officially here. Released via DMT Records, the track marks the first collaboration between NOT AGN and rising vocalist Jada Priscilla, signaling the start of a new direction for both artists. Built around heavy basslines, hypnoti…

There's a watch problem at every EDM festival. You've got two bad options: spend the whole night terrified your $800 Tag Heuer is getting crowd-surfed into oblivion, or strap on a $30 plastic throwaway that can't survive a mosh pit and glows like a dying firefly when the mainstag…

Christian music is having its biggest mainstream moment in a generation. For the first time in 11 years, two contemporary Christian music songs simultaneously charted in the Billboard Hot 100's all-genre Top 40. Spotify reported a 60% global growth rate in Christian/gospel stream…

The outfit is part of the performance. It always has been, but in 2025 and 2026 the relationship between EDM artists and festival fashion has deepened into something more deliberate and more influential than ever. DJs are fronting runway shows, launching clothing lines, collabora…

Electronic music and automotive culture have always spoken the same language. Both are about engineering translated into sensation. Both reward obsessive attention to mechanical detail. Both deliver a particular kind of euphoria — the kind that comes when a perfectly tuned system…

Your shoes are the only piece of gear you're wearing at 3 a.m. when the headliner finally closes the main stage. They've covered somewhere between ten and twenty thousand steps across gravel paths, grass fields, concrete plazas, and mud that turned the campsite into a hazard zone…

A musician in 2026 lives in at least four distinct audio environments. There's the studio — or the bedroom that functions as one — where every decision about EQ and balance requires a reference you can trust. There's the live stage, where in-ear monitors are the difference betwee…

Getting a demo heard by a label used to require knowing someone. An introduction, a contact, a lucky festival encounter where you slipped a USB into a DJ's hand at the right moment. The alternative was emailing into an address that may or may not have been monitored, waiting thre…

With billions of streams, viral montage hits, and chart success, the producer duo are helping push Phonk from internet subculture to the global stage. MXZI & ATLXS Quick Stats MXZI (Left) ATLXS (Right) A Partnership Driving Phonk’s Global Rise In the fast-moving world of Phonk mu…

The Grammy Recording Academy created the Best Dance Pop Recording category in 2024. The reason, whether the Academy articulated it this way or not, is that the border between EDM and pop had dissolved so completely by the mid-2020s that trying to adjudicate which side a given rec…

If you want to know where electronic music's audience is growing fastest, you don't check Beatport. Beatport tells you what selectors are buying. You check TikTok, where the gap between “underground” and “everywhere” collapsed a long time ago, and where a sound from a Tomorrowlan…

Genre lines have been dissolving in electronic music for decades. But what's happening in 2025–2026 isn't the polite crossover of a pop star lending their vocal to a DJ set, or a rapper agreeing to appear on a festival stage remix. The genre-blending happening now is structurally…

The remix has always been electronic music's secret weapon. Before streaming algorithms, before festival headliner bookings, before the genre had its own Grammy category — the remix was the mechanism by which electronic producers inserted themselves into popular culture. DJs took…

Every few years the electronic music ecosystem rearranges itself. Not all at once, and not in the ways the trend forecasters predict — but in hindsight the signal was always there, embedded in sample download data and DJ tracklists and Boiler Room attendance, months before anyone…

Drum and bass is having its American moment — and the world has noticed. WORSHIP's sold-out Red Rocks debut. Sub Focus headlining Rampage in front of a packed Sportpaleis Antwerp in March. Chase & Status on the Tomorrowland Mainstage. Hedex selling out OVO Arena Wembley. The Spli…

Electronic dance music in 2026 is not one thing. It hasn't been for years. But the fragmentation this year is different in character from previous cycles. In 2022 and 2023, tech house absorbed nearly everything into its gravitational field. In 2024, melodic techno expanded from a…

Three months into 2026, the picture is already clear enough to call. The year opened with the Splice and MIDiA Research Sounds of 2026 report dropping a data bomb — Afro house grew 778% year-over-year on Splice alone, jumping house music from the fifth most-downloaded genre to th…

The AI moment in music production is not coming. It's here. The producers, DJs, and engineers working at the highest level of electronic dance music in 2026 are using artificial intelligence at every stage of the creative process — from the initial idea to the streamed master. No…

2026 is the most significant year in global EDM festival history in over a decade. Not because of any one festival, but because of the convergence of milestones arriving simultaneously across every corner of the world: Tomorrowland introducing its most ambitious artistic narrativ…

Behind every great track is a label making a bet. In 2026, the most interesting conversation in electronic dance music isn't just about which artists are rising — it's about which labels are shaping what rises and why. The era of the passive imprint is over. The labels defining t…

The 2026 American festival season is not messing around. We're talking about EDC Las Vegas celebrating 30 years with a half-million people and 200+ artists across nine stages — all sold out. Ultra Music Festival just wrapped its 26th edition at Bayfront Park Miami this weekend wi…

The best music in electronic dance music has never been made alone. Collaboration is how the genre evolves — not through solo innovations, but through artists finding each other, colliding creative identities, and producing something neither could have reached independently. The…

Festival season 2026 is upon us — and the soundtrack has never hit harder. From the moment the EDMAs dropped their 2026 winners during Miami Music Week, through the Tomorrowland lineup announcement, the Ultra Music Festival main stage sets, and the first wave of EDC Las Vegas pro…

Three months in and 2026 is already delivering. The year opened with veteran legends making genuinely surprising creative moves, rising producers cementing their reputations with festival weapons, and a handful of deeply personal releases that remind you why this genre still matt…

Being underrated in 2026 means something specific. It doesn't mean unknown — it means criminally, inexplicably overlooked given how good the work is. Every year, the EDM mainstream funnels attention toward the same rotating cast of headliners, festival closers, and streaming char…

The future of electronic dance music isn't coming. It's already here — and it sounds like this. Look at the 2026 festival lineups, the EDMA winners, the Beatport charts, and the most-talked-about releases of the past year, and a pattern emerges: the artists generating the most mo…

The conversation has changed. Female artists aren't breaking into electronic dance music anymore — they're leading it. Look at any credible metric in 2026 and the picture is unmistakable. Alison Wonderland released a fourth studio album and launched a full North American tour. Sa…

Music moves culture. And nowhere does that cultural influence land more tangibly — or more expensively — than on a musician's wrist. Long before watch brands started writing massive sponsorship checks, musicians were organically making certain timepieces famous. Jay-Z wore an Aud…

The future of electronic dance music is louder, weirder, and more exciting than ever — and these 20 names are proof. Every few years, a wave of artists arrives that genuinely reshapes what EDM sounds and feels like. 2026 is one of those years. From Australian bedroom producers go…

Christian electronic dance music is no longer an oxymoron. What began as scattered independent producers uploading worship remixes to SoundCloud has evolved into a legitimate genre movement. Today's Christian EDM artists produce festival-ready progressive house, craft contemplati…