Tiësto is going full speed on his latest single. The Dutch icon has teamed up with Berlin-based artists CLEOPARD2000 and CH4YN on ‘Hard To Be Around’, out now via Musical Freedom and Atlantic Records. Running at 143 BPM, the track draws on the vocal trance and Eurotrance sounds o…

Markus Schulz has delivered the final chapter of ‘In Search of Sunrise 22’. Titled ‘Nocturnal Voyage’, the third and closing part of this year’s trilogy is out now via Black Hole Recordings, taking the long-running series deeper and darker into the night. Since taking over the se…

Cloonee has finally released his debut album. ‘Are You Still You?’ is out now via Good Music For Bad People, powered by co:brand, and his own Hellbent Records on Beatport, marking the UK-born, LA-based producer’s first full-length project. The 16-track album is led by focus track…

Sam King, the vocalist and rapper behind some of dubstep’s most recognisable tracks, has passed away. The Las Vegas-born, Los Angeles-based artist died on Saturday, October 3. No cause of death has been made public. King became a go-to voice in heavy bass music, best known for ‘G…

The Chemical Brothers are bringing ‘Go’ back to wax. The track returns as a limited-edition pink 12-inch vinyl for Record Store Day Black Friday on November 27, celebrating its remarkable resurgence this year. ‘Go’ has found a whole new audience in 2026. Following its inclusion i…

Marlon Hoffstadt and David Guetta have joined forces on ‘Caught Up’. Out now via Capitol Records in partnership with Goodlife Management and MC3, the glistening, bittersweet track captures the lasting impact lovers have on our lives, as thoughts turn to what was and what could ha…

Seventeen years ago, on October 6, 2009, Tiësto released his fourth studio album, ‘Kaleidoscope’. It was the record that saw the Dutch icon step away from the trance sound that had defined his career up to that point, moving towards a more electro and pop-leaning direction. The s…

Michael Smith, the man behind an $8 million AI music streaming scheme, has been sentenced to 18 months in prison. It marks the end of the Justice Department’s first-ever criminal case for music streaming fraud. Smith, 54, of Cornelius, North Carolina, pleaded guilty in March to o…

Sara Landry has taken legal action against her former management. Her company, Landry IP LLC, filed a trademark infringement lawsuit in Manhattan federal court on October 6 against Night Night Ltd., which operates as The Night Department, and affiliated company Prepare to Flash.…

Calvin Harris has fans across the United States talking. This week, a huge digital billboard went live in the middle of Times Square with a simple message, “NEW YORK, I FEEL SO CLOSE TO YOU RIGHT NOW”, displayed above a link to his website. New York was not alone. Matching Calvin…

Björk has announced a new live album, ‘Björk Orkestral With The Hamrahlíð Choir’. Set for release on November 27 via One Little Independent, it will be available on vinyl, CD, DVD and Blu-ray. The album captures her performance at Reykjavík’s Harpa Concert Hall on October 24, 202…

Lane 8 has released his Fall 2026 Mixtape, and this time it arrives with a story behind it. Running just under four hours, the mix is now out on his This Never Happened label after Daniel Goldstein premiered it live in front of fans at San Francisco’s Castro Theatre on Sunday, Se…

The Prodigy are heading back to South America in 2027. The electronic icons have confirmed a run of festival dates across Argentina, Chile, Brazil and Colombia next March, adding another chapter to what has been a huge period for the band. The South American run kicks off with Lo…

Rockstar Games has revealed the radio stations for Grand Theft Auto VI, and the list of hosts reads like a festival lineup. Bad Bunny, Lana Del Rey, Robyn, Burna Boy and Slayer’s Kerry King and Tom Araya are among the artists lending their voices to the game. For dance music fans…

Armin van Buuren has announced the first-ever two-day A State of Trance festival in the United States. ASOT will make its Los Angeles festival debut at ACE*MISSION Studios on June 11 and 12, 2027. The Dutch trance icon revealed the news in style. On Thursday, he surprised a small…

Mau P has launched his own record label. In a video posted to Instagram, the Dutch house star confirmed that Baddest Behavior Records is officially happening. “I just wanted to let all of you know that Baddest Behavior Records is happening. The word is out,” he said. The label is…

Tresor.West in Dortmund will close its doors at the end of 2026. The club, founded in 2019 as a sister venue to the legendary Tresor in Berlin, announced the news in a statement shared with fans, and is now seeking new operators to take over its space at Phönixplatz. “For almost…

Tomorrowland is heading back to De Rode Hoed for Amsterdam Dance Event 2026. From October 21 to 24, the historic venue on the Keizersgracht will host the Tomorrowland Expo, an immersive exhibition with live radio and a program that looks back at what the festival has built while…

Beats for Love has wrapped its 2026 edition, and the organisers are calling it the festival’s biggest and most ambitious chapter to date. Held from July 1 to 4 in the industrial surroundings of Dolní Vítkovice in Ostrava, Czech Republic, the event once again confirmed its place a…

Drum and bass pioneer Roni Size is heading deep underground, quite literally. On October 15, he will perform 1,375 feet beneath the Welsh mountains inside the abandoned Cwmorthin slate mine in Eryri, North Wales, for a one-off G-SHOCK Sessions that aims to set the world record fo…

Bose is bringing wired earbuds back. The audio giant has unveiled its first wired earbuds in 11 years, the Bose Noise Cancelling Wired Earbuds, which go on sale on October 15. The new model connects via USB-C and has no internal battery. Instead, it draws power directly from the…

David Guetta has sold out his Monolith show at The O2 in London, and it took just minutes. The French superstar shared the news on Instagram, confirming that his Saturday, June 5, 2027, date at the iconic arena is officially gone. “LONDON!!! You sold out the O2 in minutes!!! Than…

Nero are returning to London for a very special night. The trio, made up of Dan Stephens, Joe Ray and Alana Watson, will celebrate 15 years of their debut album ‘Welcome Reality’ with a one-off performance at Outernet on Sunday, December 6, marking their first London show as a tr…

Eleven years ago, on October 2, 2015, Avicii released his second studio album, ‘Stories’. Arriving after two years of work, it was the last album Tim Bergling released during his lifetime. Avicii had promised a more “song-oriented” record, and ‘Stories’ delivered exactly that. It…

From sun-soaked afternoons to packed dance floors and late-night techno, CRSSD Festival Fall 2026 once again showed why its familiar formula keeps bringing house and techno fans back to San Diego. CRSSD Festival Fall 2026 returned to San Diego’s Waterfront Park on September 26 an…

Dallas experimental electronic duo Starleen have released their debut album ‘Evolution // Rebirth’, out now. The record is a bold, conceptual take on alt electro pop, IDM and dance music, built around a sense of unease that feels very much of its time. Across the album, glitch-la…

Miami's KASH LOH unleashes tech-house and bass-house crossover 'Grind That' on WH Records — already Beatport #13 Bass House. KASH LOH crosses tech house and bass house on new club weapon ‘Grind That’: Listen

Ely Oaks and sirinens have teamed up on ‘F_ck it (I don’t want you back)’, a high-energy remake of Eamon’s 2004 breakup anthem, out now on JINX Music. Fast and bright, it is built to work as well on the radio as it does at peak time in a club or on a festival main … Continued Ely…

UK producer Scarper, real name Steve Young, is one of those artists who has quietly built a loyal following on his own terms. Releasing almost exclusively through his own label, Plexus Records, he moves freely between beautiful melodic pieces and underground club weapons, refusin…

Armin van Buuren and Argy have released their full F2F set from A State of Trance at [UNVRS] Ibiza, giving fans who missed the night the chance to relive it in full. The performance was part of Armin’s F2F series at the island’s newest superclub, celebrating 25 years of A State o…

NoCopyrightSounds has scored an important win in its legal battle with former distributor AEI Music. The High Court in London has ordered AEI to make an interim payment of £1.4 million, plus interest, to the label ahead of a full trial due in January 2028. The court also ordered…

Sasha and John Digweed are opening their archives. To mark 30 years of ‘Northern Exposure’, the duo has teamed up with Amplifyd for an auction of the exact records they used to build the landmark mix series. Bidding opens on September 30, 30 years to the day after the original re…

Dom Dolla made a surprise appearance at the AFL Grand Final, joining Kylie Minogue for her pre-match show at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Saturday, September 26. And he did not just stand behind the decks. During the performance, Kylie debuted Dom Dolla’s unreleased remix of h…

Sia has sold a 50% stake in her music catalog to Pophouse Entertainment. The deal covers both her publishing and master rights and is reportedly worth $180 million, making it one of the biggest catalog deals of the year. Pophouse, the Sweden-based investment firm co-founded by AB…

Röyksopp are heading to one of London’s most atmospheric venues. The Norwegian duo will take over Hackney Church on Friday, December 4, for an open to close DJ set, giving fans an entire night with the pair behind the decks. Rather than a live show built around their albums, this…

Before Spotify playlists, millions of us had LimeWire. This week, the brand sent fans down memory lane again with a new post on X, a reminder of just how big a part it played in the early days of digital music. Launched in 2000, LimeWire became one of the defining file-sharing pr…

MRAK has been removed as managing director of Karmat Music GmbH, the Berlin-registered company behind the Afterlife label and event series. The change marks a major moment for the brand he built with Anyma as Tale Of Us. According to publicly accessible documents from the Berlin…

Martin Garrix has released his new single ‘This Dream Of You’, out now via Darkroom Records, and it might be the most personal record of his career so far. The track first served as the intro to his headline set at Tomorrowland, and he has been teasing it ever since through strip…

Actor Andrew Garfield has stepped into one of dance music’s oldest debates, and the DJ community has plenty to say about it. Appearing on Kareem Rahma’s online series Subway Takes, the actor declared: “You can’t legitimately call yourself a DJ unless you use physical records.” Ga…

A new study from distributor Ditto Music paints a stark picture of life as an independent artist in 2026. Surveying more than 5,000 independent musicians across 112 countries, the research reveals just how difficult it has become to build a sustainable career. The headline number…

Native Instruments turns 30 this year and has marked it with a free Maschine update and three new Expansions. Everything landed today. Maschine 3.7 is free for anyone on Maschine 3. Support on Maschine+ is coming later, so hardware owners are waiting. What’s new in Maschine 3.7 A…

A State of Trance Rotterdam has revealed its first wave of artists for February 26 and 27, 2027 at Rotterdam Ahoy. As always, Armin van Buuren leads the weekend, this time with a five-hour set, a solo set and an exclusive vinyl set across the two nights. We first reported the dat…

Madonna and Charli xcx’s ‘Danceteria Afterhours’ is out now via Warner Records. The track channels the spirit of ‘Danceteria’, the latest single from Madonna’s No.1 album ‘Confessions II’. It celebrates the fearless beginnings and influences that shaped both artists. We first rep…

Swedish House Mafia have unveiled the music video for ‘Happiness Is So Sad’, and it is streaming first on Spotify for 48 hours. The Happiness Is So Sad music video arrives two months after the song, their collaboration with Lykke Li, landed at the end of July. The video follows a…

Sven Väth has sparked controversy after taking aim at Argy on Instagram. Under a clip of the Greek DJ performing, the Cocoon founder called him “the worst and biggest clown wannabe DJ”, adding a vomiting emoji. The comment was later deleted, but not before screenshots spread acro…

Josh Baker, KETTAMA and Prospa will go back-to-back-to-back at Finsbury Park on Saturday, July 3, 2027. The B3B is the first headline booking for Embrace LDN, a brand-new festival in North London. It will also be the trio’s biggest headline show to date. The three have been build…

Morgin Madison has announced ‘Another Eden’, his third studio album, out Friday, November 6 on Enhanced Recordings. Following four singles that opened a new chapter in his sound, the American producer calls it a concept album about hope, change and starting again. Madison created…

UK artist Scarper drops 'Off-Cuts (2014-2021)', an eight-track compilation of previously unreleased material, out 25 September via Plexus Records. Scarper unveils ‘Off-Cuts (2014-2021)’ compilation on Plexus Records: Listen

JVNA has released ‘Gravity’, a self-sung melodic bass single and the first taste of her forthcoming EP ‘Violet Genesis’, which lands next month. As always, the American-Taiwanese multi-instrumentalist handled every stage herself, from writing and production through to release. Th…

Timmy Trumpet has revealed the full tracklist and release date for his new album ‘REVELATIONS’. The 15-track vocal album lands on October 23 via Spinnin’ Records, six years after his debut body of work ‘Mad World’. He has also shared new single ‘Chase The Feeling’ with German hit…

Fatboy Slim has celebrated 30 years of his debut album with one of the most unusual gigs of his career. On Wednesday, September 23, the UK DJ and producer played a one-off show at the Royal Society of Chemistry in London to mark three decades of ‘Better Living Through Chemistry’.…

System Of A Down are celebrating 25 years of ‘Toxicity’ with a week-long exhibition at Beyond The Streets in Los Angeles. The free show runs from Tuesday, October 13 to Sunday, October 18 at the gallery on 434 N La Brea Ave, and no ticket is required. Released on September 4, 200…

Above & Beyond have shared their full ABGT700 set from The Gorge Amphitheatre and announced a special follow-up show in London. ABGT700.2 takes place on Thursday, October 29 at 26 Leake Street, with ilan Bluestone, J Ribbon and Oliver Smith. The weekend from September 11 to 13 br…

Charlotte de Witte’s ‘The Resistance’ EP is out now on KNTXT. The record features Theo Nasa and XSALT, and all proceeds go to The Nighttime Foundation, a global nonprofit working to protect nightlife and the grassroots communities behind it. De Witte confirmed the release earlier…

Amy Winehouse's 'Back To Black' 20th anniversary reissue arrives October 23 via Republic/UMe with unreleased demos and a Paradiso 2007 live disc. Amy Winehouse ‘Back To Black’ 20th anniversary reissue lands October 23 with unreleased demos and Paradiso live disc

VocAlign 7 is here. Synchro Arts has released the latest version of the award-winning vocal alignment plugin, with a range of new features and updates. They’ve improved the UI, updated the alignment system and added a host of new controls for fine-tuning your vocal stacks. The id…

Boys Noize has announced ‘7LLVSION’, his first solo album in five years, out November 6 via ONES and ZEROS. The Boys Noize album also features Brutalismus 3000, TAICHU, Maya Alkhatari and ABRA. First single ‘1+1+1’ with Dutch artist ZEP is out today. ‘1+1+1’ drives an intimidatin…

The Prodigy are marking 30 years of ‘Breathe’ with a special edition 12” vinyl via XL Recordings. The record lands on Friday, November 13, two days after the track’s 30th anniversary on November 11. Pre-orders for The Prodigy’s ‘Breathe’ vinyl are open now. The release pairs the…

Calvin Harris has sold out his entire 2027 Australian tour. The Scottish superstar has shifted 330,000 tickets across 10 shows in Perth, Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne. Now the tour is being billed as the largest electronic headline tour in Australian history. When Calvin Harris…

Mau P has hit back at claims that his latest single was made by someone else. After fans online suggested a Mau P ghost producer was behind ‘Just A Little Bit More’, the Dutch star sat down in his kitchen and walked through exactly how he built the track. “Y’all be talking about…