Milkshake Festival returns to Amsterdam's Westerpark on July 25 and 26, 2026 with nine stages, over 1,000 performers and a voguing catwalk, timed to open WorldPride week for the city's house, disco and techno crowd.
elrow's theatrical 'Dance With the Serpent' takeover sold out two nights at Pacha New York on July 17 and 18, 2026, the first global party brand to run its own production inside the venue since it emerged from Avant Gardner's bankruptcy and reopened under Pacha ownership in June.
Wearable data puts a single all-night rave at 40,000 to 50,000 steps, within reach of a marathon's roughly 50,000 to 55,000, and a peer-reviewed Glastonbury study found festival-goers average 15,661 steps a day, hitting the UK's entire weekly exercise guideline in one day alone.
BLOND:ISH closed her Abracadabra residency's second season at Pacha Ibiza on July 29, 2026, as the first woman ever to headline the club's resident lineup in more than 50 years of history.
Resident Advisor's second summer 2026 cover feature, "Ricardo Villalobos: Slipping Through Time" by Oli Warwick, lands one of the rare long-form interviews with minimal techno's most unpredictable figure.
In 1971, Air Canada fitted the upper deck of its new Boeing 747s with a mirrored dance floor for transatlantic flights between Toronto and Europe, then quietly tore it out within about a year once the numbers on an unticketed lounge stopped adding up.
Amnesia Ibiza is marking its 50th anniversary with a 50-track compilation spanning five decades of the club's history, out September 4, 2026 as 10 vinyl records or 5 CDs.
Amelie Lens confirmed on June 30 that she and her partner Farrago are expecting their second daughter this winter, and she has not dropped a single date from her summer festival run.
Chicago's Chosen Few Picnic and House Music Festival marked its 36th year on July 11, 2026, in Jackson Park, with founding DJs Wayne Williams, Jesse Saunders, Tony Hatchett and Alan King still headlining the event they started as a backyard reunion in 1990.
Defected and streetwear brand Champion have launched "House of Champions," a clothing and merch campaign that puts five grassroots house-scene community builders front and center instead of any headline DJ.
Club 77, the Darlinghurst club that went dark in April for an accessibility rebuild, has confirmed its real reopening date: July 30, 2026, with Rydeen and sovblkpssy on the decks.
Glasgow DJ Bake had his backpack stolen at London's Euston Station on 5 July, losing the harddrives holding most of his current music, the latest in a string of thefts that have targeted touring DJs' bags in London in recent years.
For its 30th anniversary, Frankfurt's Love Family Park has opened its archive with a new "Lost Tapes" series, publishing Ricardo Villalobos's previously unreleased 2016 vinyl set and Nina Kraviz's 2013 set on SoundCloud and YouTube, with more archival sets promised in the coming weeks.
UNTOLD Festival will host a mobile medical unit offering free HPV testing and breast ultrasounds to wristband holders during its August 6-9 edition in Cluj-Napoca, billed as a first for a festival of this scale in Europe.
Seth Troxler and DJ Tennis are opening a restaurant bar in Ibiza this summer called Seth and Mannis's, turning years of side-hustle cooking into a permanent room on the island.
The calm that comes over you, packed into a dark room at the ticking of a repetitive kick, is your nervous system recognizing the oldest signal it knows: the low, enveloping pulse of the womb.
Saffron has reopened applications for EMERGING, a year long programme that backs three Black women, trans and non-binary music makers with a retreat, industry training and a cash bursary.
David Katz's new book Dub Revolution argues that dub, born in early-1970s Kingston, invented the remix and the version, the idea a recording is raw material to rebuild rather than a fixed object.
Harvey Blumler of Prospa is stepping back from performing because of an ongoing ear condition, and the honesty of it says a lot about a risk DJs rarely admit out loud.
The Late Utopians follows a journalist through New York's dance underground and premieres at the Edinburgh Fringe on 5 August, the latest sign of rave culture crossing into serious theatre.
Joseph Capriati made his name as a resident in Amnesia's Main Room in 2012, playing for Marco Carola's Music On. This year, he brings his own party, Metamorfosi, back to the same club for a 14-week Tuesday residency in the year Amnesia turns 50. More than another Ibiza residency, it is a full-circle moment for an artist returning to the room that helped shape his career, now with a night built around his own musical vision. Metamorfosi carries the scale and energy of modern Ibiza while keeping the focus where it belongs: on the music, the DJ and the ravers dancing together until sunrise.
HBO's four-part series The Man Will Burn, premiering 9 July, uses years of archive footage to ask whether influencer culture and Big Tech money have hollowed out the gathering that gave dance music its most mythologised sunrise sets.
Spencer Kincy, who recorded as Gemini, cut more than 200 tracks of jazz-literate deep house in 1990s Chicago and became one of the sound's great teachers, name-checked by Daft Punk and cited from Ben UFO to Autechre. Then he vanished at the height of his career. A guide to a genius, his mystery and why his catalogue still inspires.
After twin earthquakes devastated Venezuela on 24 June, Solid Grooves is donating proceeds from its 2 July DC-10 party, with its Venezuelan residents giving up their fees, while Miami's Club Space is matching donations across the weekend. Here is who is doing what, and how to help.
House was not invented by one person. It was built in early-1980s Chicago by a small circle of mostly Black and gay DJs, from Frankie Knuckles and Ron Hardy behind the decks to Jesse Saunders, Larry Heard and Marshall Jefferson on the records.
The Virginia-born, New York-based vocalist who gave Ivy Lab, Metalheadz and a generation of producers their most human moments has died, his collaborators announced; no cause has been given.
Dr. Banana, opened in June by two veteran promoters in the Vergueiro district, is the latest sign that São Paulo's underground is reclaiming the all-night club culture the city helped build.
Rave Culture: A New Era, a feature documentary now touring cinemas, argues that Britain's breakbeat rave boom of the late 1980s and 1990s grew straight out of Thatcher-era unemployment and a generation locked out of work.
A 160-capacity room on West 26th Street borrows the name of a legendary Chelsea gay bar and a custom sound system to bet that intimate, history-minded nightlife still belongs in Manhattan.
When Brazil met Scotland in Miami, the soundtrack came from the underground: per DJ Mag, Mochakk and Barry Can't Swim walked the official match ball onto the pitch, then went back to back until morning at Club Space.
Fred again.. composed the official soundtrack for Jonathan Anderson's Dior Men's Summer 2027 show at Paris Fashion Week on 24 June, premiering unreleased music with KETTAMA, THE KTNA, Young Thug, Jamie T and Christine and the Queens, then remixing it live to close the runway.
The New York fanzine, radio show and label co-founded by Barbie Bertisch and Paul Raffaele marks a decade with its first-ever compilation, 'A Declaration of Universal Love,' out now on BBE Music.
Annie Mac, the broadcaster who spent two decades championing new dance music, used a clip this month to put the producer world's quiet fear into one line: AI has made making music frictionless, and that ease is doing something to its value.
Mickey Mann, the Aberdeen engineer who toured as the unofficial third member of The Shamen and ran Orbital's live sound for twenty years, has died at 65, and the rave generation is paying its respects.
Ibiza's wildest 90s party returns for a three-day weekend from 25 to 27 September, with cameras banned, no DJ names on the flyer, and a first ticket release that sold out in under two minutes.
Faithless are reissuing 'Insomnia' for its 30th anniversary on orange vinyl, a picture disc and a digital EP, three decades after the breakdown that turned a sleepless lyric into one of dance music's most quoted moments.
Coven took over the former G-A-Y Bar and reopened it as a five-storey queer venue, a café by day and a club by night, in a year when British nightlife keeps shutting down.
Fred again.. will play Delhi, Mumbai and Bengaluru this December, his only live dates anywhere in the world in 2026, teased not on Instagram but with full-page front-page ads in Hindi, Marathi and Kannada.
Music Room, opening 1 July on Church Street, is Belfast's first dedicated listening bar, a custom hi-fi room built for sitting down and actually hearing records, and the latest sign that the global listening-bar movement is still growing.
France's football federation has made Daft Punk's 2000 house anthem 'One More Time' the team's official goal song for the 2026 World Cup, and it already blasted through MetLife Stadium three times in the opener.
Days after the eccentric musician died in a Rio helicopter crash at 32, his family confirmed it will honour his will and launch Dr. Oliver Tree's Extremely Epic Grant For Baby Geniuses, a foundation that funnels his catalogue and estate to emerging artists, with relatives left almost nothing by his own design.
A PLOS ONE systematic review of nine studies found that instrumental music, with no lyrics and a tempo matched to the task, measurably reverses mental fatigue: faster reactions, sharper working memory, less perceived exhaustion and longer physical endurance.
Moodymann played Ibiza's historic Teatro Pereyra for the first time on Saturday 13 June 2026, launching Keep On Dancing's music-first El Baile Pop residency in a heritage theatre that runs against the island's VIP-table economy.
On 25 July, The Cause hands its Docklands site to six independent radio stations, from Berlin to Seoul to Bali, and broadcasts every set worldwide through a new platform called New Frequency.
Salford's most uncompromising club confirmed it will shut in January 2027, beaten by flooding and a council redevelopment plan, and it is going out with a stacked closing run and a brand-new Blackpool festival.
From Aespa to Le Sserafim, K-pop's biggest girl groups are building hits on house music's four on the floor beat, turning a dancefloor sound into chart topping pop across Asia and beyond.
HE.SHE.THEY, the London-born inclusive party series, is bringing Bimini and a full queer house lineup to Nepal, Thailand, Singapore and Hong Kong this June.
We're proud to launch Time To House Magazine, your new home for the culture, the music, and the movement. Made by people who live for it.
The travelling sound system that helped trigger Britain’s anti-rave law will show its archive at REinsTate in Silvertown from 16 to 19 September 2026, closing with an SP23 rave.
Vladimir Kuzmin, who designed the Soviet Polivoks synthesizer in 1980 and gave the underground one of its most aggressive filters, died on 12 June 2026.
On Saturday 13 June the Tekno Anti Rep collective rolled sound systems through about 30 French cities against the Ripost bill, which would jail rave organisers for up to two years and fine them 30,000 euros.
Oliver Tree, the American singer and producer born Oliver Tree Nickell, died on 14 June 2026 at 32, killed when two helicopters collided in mid-air southwest of Rio de Janeiro; his biggest dance moment remained 'Miss You' with Robin Schulz. Weeks before his death, he had told an interviewer he wanted his fortune to go to other artists through a foundation he had already set up.
A peer-reviewed study tracked 85 adults with childhood-trauma histories before and after a psychedelic experience, and found large drops in PTSD and shame two months later, with the dancefloor matching the ritual circle.
Daft Punk is off the table, and Bangalter has spent 2026 scoring a 16-dancer ballet, reworking himself for CHANEL, and pairing with Keinemusik's Rampa for an Art Basel installation that becomes a rave on June 20.
On Saturday 23 May, Diplo set up and played a real DJ set for his son Pace and a yard full of six-year-olds after their kindergarten graduation, captioning the clip "most exclusive party of the year."
The Cologne club, ranked 11th in the world, is setting aside discounted 'Culture Tickets' for people who cannot afford regular entry, claimed by email.
Madonna's 14-minute 'Confessions II - The Film', now on YouTube, threads six songs from her July album and stacks the cast with club-world faces, Honey Dijon, Arca and Shygirl among them, as she returns to the house-and-disco sound of 2005's 'Confessions on a Dance Floor'.
Daft Punk's Thomas Bangalter played a surprise 75 minute set on Brooklyn's The Lot Radio on June 8, threading Burial, Aphex Twin and Plastikman through unreleased music from his new solo album and closing on Daft Punk's 'Contact'.
Forza Horizon 6, the year's biggest racing game, hands house a global stage: Chicago originator Marshall Jefferson sits beside FISHER and Anna Lunoe on the Horizon Bass Arena station, putting the genre in front of tens of millions of players.
Philipp Jung, the Berlin label founder and one half of [[artist:mandy|M.A.N.D.Y]], died in May 2026 aged 55, and the scene gathered on 6 June to honour the catalogue he built.
Joel Zimmerman, the Milton-area producer known as deadmau5, covered roughly $30,000 in medical care for 36 cats taken in by his local humane society, after reaching out on Instagram.
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.
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.
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.
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.
5 Magazine marks two decades with 'With Love,' its first ever vinyl pressing, commissioning fresh tracks from Chicago house elders Mike Dunn, Jamie 3:26 and Roy Davis Jr., the same season the city formally honored Dunn.
Manchester's most uncompromising club, a 300-capacity former car garage in Salford, is shutting in January 2027 as flooding and a 7,000-home regeneration plan close in, and its founders are taking the energy to a new Blackpool festival.
A wave of sober, daytime parties built on breathwork, coffee and 6am dancefloors is the fastest-growing format in clubbing, with Eventbrite logging a 478% jump in coffee-rave events year on year.
Camilo Rocha and Gaia Passarelli take Sao Paulo's clubbing history to the city's Book Fair on 2 June, reframing the scene through a center-versus-periphery lens rather than a nightlife nostalgia trip.
On 6 and 7 March 2026 the original Twilo room on West 27th Street reopened for two sold-out nights with John Digweed and Danny Tenaglia, twenty-five years after the club shut, and it forced the question house keeps dodging: is the deep-house revival renewal, or a nostalgia loop it cannot mix out of.
US vinyl revenue passed one billion dollars in 2025 for the first time since 1983, its 19th consecutive year of growth, yet an estimated 40 percent of buyers do not own a record player and virtually every working DJ plays off USB, which exposes the format war as a fight nobody actually won.
