RESISTANCE Ibiza's Season 5 residency opens at Amnesia tonight, July 22, running every Wednesday through September 16, with Adam Beyer as season resident and Eric Prydz returning to the club as a co-headliner for the first time in over ten years.
fabric London and Sennheiser have expanded their partnership into a five-date 2026 series atop The Shard, opening August 21 with Sven Väth before the night moves down to fabric's Farringdon club.
Terminal V Croatia has expanded to five stages at The Garden Resort in Tisno for its July 16-20, 2026 edition, folding in Barbarella's Discotheque for sunrise afterhours sets, with organizers confirming fewer than 10% of tickets remain.
Joseph Capriati's Metamorfosi concept has returned to Amnesia Ibiza for a 14-date Tuesday residency running through September 29, timed to the club's 50th-anniversary season and pulling in more than 80 confirmed artists across both rooms.
Defected Records' Croatian festival plays its 10th and final edition, "One Last Dance," at The Garden Resort in Tisno from July 29 to August 2, 2026, headlined by Moodymann, Black Coffee, TSHA, Jayda G, Floating Points, Perc and Mall Grab.
For its 10th anniversary in 2026, London techno festival Junction 2 abandons its single-weekend format for the first time, spreading across three dates at Boston Manor Park, including a one-off collaboration night with fabric.
Terminal V Croatia has confirmed its 2026 stage splits and three Barbarella's after-hours nights, and the small print, Alarico b2b Ben Klock on July 17, matters more than the 100-plus names on the main bill.
WHOLE, the Berlin-founded festival that draws over 15,000 people to Europe's largest queer techno gathering, has confirmed its first international edition, in Brazil, per Groove Magazin.
Draaimolen's 2026 edition, sold out and set for 4-5 September at Tilburg's MOB Complex, reveals over 100 acts including a new Shygirl live show, less than a year after a 26,000-signature petition kept the festival's forest site alive.
The Chosen Few Picnic & Music Festival returns to Chicago's Jackson Park on July 11 for its 36th consecutive year, still run by the same DJs who started it as a backyard gathering in 1990, with no private-equity owner, no EDM headliner and no dynamic pricing scheme.
Josh Baker opened his first Ibiza residency, You&Me, at Amnesia on Thursday July 2, 2026, a weekly Terrace night running through October 1.
Kappa FuturFestival's 13th edition sold out its July 3 to 5, 2026 run at Parco Dora in Turin, moving roughly 90,000 tickets on curation trust rather than one marquee name.
Fifty years into a touring career built on monument-scale spectacles, Jean-Michel Jarre played his first-ever Ibiza show on July 5 on Amnesia's Terrace, the same year the club and his breakthrough album Oxygene each turn fifty.
FOURTH WORLD returned for its 12th edition at New York's Knockdown Center on 3 July, booking more than 30 acts entirely from the city's own scene across five stages.
Defected Croatia will hold its tenth and final edition at The Garden Resort in Tisno from July 29 to August 3, 2026, ending a decade that turned the Adriatic site into a summer home for house music.
ADE unveiled the first wave for its 30th edition, running 21 to 25 October 2026: more than 250 artists, Jean-Michel Jarre as guest of honour, and the Gashouder back, on the way to 3,000-plus acts across 200-plus venues.
The Warehouse Project is marking 20 years with its biggest season yet at Depot Mayfield, a brand new room called Vault and a run of fresh shows, an expansion that lands while clubs across Europe keep closing.
Mint XL, a 2,500-capacity club, opens on 25 September inside the shuttered PRYZM on Woodhouse Lane, with Craig Richards, Enzo Siragusa, Fumiya Tanaka and Sonja Moonear christening a corporate chain venue reborn for the underground.
Carl Cox opens his second season at Ibiza's hyperclub this Sunday with an all-night set and first-time B2Bs, but luxury pricing and a David Guetta date are driving as much debate as the music.
The Norfolk festival announces its most expansive lineup to date, headlined by Underground Resistance's first-ever UK festival appearance alongside Ricardo Villalobos, Helena Hauff, Ben UFO and close to 200 artists.
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.
London's fabric club makes its New York debut on September 5, 2026, staging a purpose-built AV show at Under the K Bridge in Greenpoint with Jeff Mills, Helena Hauff and visual direction from dreamrec.
Solstice Festival runs June 18 to 20 at Rukatunturi in northern Finland, where roughly 75 mostly underground artists play under near 24 hour daylight at the edge of the Arctic Circle.
Tomorrowland will run a 144 square metre immersive Avicii installation across both 2026 weekends, with a large LED film, personal artefacts on loan from Stockholm, three remastered Tomorrowland sets on Apple Music, and a clothing line funding the Tim Bergling Foundation.
Insomniac and Colombian promoter Páramo Presenta will stage the first EDC Colombia at Medellín's Atanasio Girardot sports complex on October 10 and 11, 2026, pairing stadium-scale headliners with Factory 93, Time Warp and a real house and tech house cast.
Anjunadeep's Explorations runs 11 to 16 June in Dhermi on the Albanian Riviera, a sold-out, six-night festival-meets-beach-holiday built almost entirely on the label's deep and melodic house roster, with first appearances from George FitzGerald and Orbit.
Solomun opens Pacha New York on June 19, 2026 with no fee and a free dancefloor reserved for the fans who stood through hours of cold rain at his recent Bronx show, with access decided by one fair raffle.
Carl Cox headlines Cave Romane, a 2,000-year-old former Roman limestone quarry near Pula, on 7 August 2026, with lasers mapped onto the rock and tickets from 49 euros.
Belgian teenager ELFIGO became the youngest artist ever to play Tomorrowland Winter, taking the Frozen Lotus stage in Alpe d'Huez at 14, six years after he started DJing at eight.
Uganda's Nyege Nyege will hold its first European festival, MIRROR WORLD, in Brussels on September 25 and 26, 2026, with 40-plus artists and two-day tickets at 30 euros.
On 28 May 2026, Haitian-American DJ Francis Mercier headlined a Recovery Sessions show at Little Petra in Jordan, turning one of the New7Wonders into an open-air afro house party.
On June 20, 2026, Gärten brings Carl Cox and special guest Mau P to the gardens of one of France's most famous estates, with more than 15,000 people expected.
Dozens of mid-size festivals were cancelled across 2025 as infrastructure costs jumped 30 to 50 percent since 2019, hollowing out the exact rung of the touring ladder where most working house DJs build their fees, even as Tomorrowland and EDC sell out.
UNVRS was voted the No.1 club on the planet in its debut year by spending a reported 40 to 70 million euros to turn the old Privilege site into an arena-scale room, resetting what a superclub now costs to build.
After eight years building Sundays at Hï since its 2017 opening, Glitterbox jumps to Amnesia's Friday terrace for the club's 50th, while Defected itself drops down to the 1,000-capacity Chinois, redrawing Ibiza's brand map.
Pacha Group booked EUR 118.8m of revenue and EUR 40.5m EBITDA in the nine months to September 2025, and its Dubai owner FIVE has lined up a $460m facility to clone the brand from New York to Asia.
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