The Library of Congress added Jamie Principle's 'Your Love' to its National Recording Registry, filing a Chicago house anthem next to Martin Luther King and the moon landing. Here is why it belongs there.
Announced on 19 June, the LiveTrak L6 is a portable, battery-powered mixer and multitrack recorder that captures a whole hardware jam in 32-bit float with no laptop. Price: 299 dollars.
For thirteen years it was a read-only shrine. This week it became a tool: a Directory to the Underground that links 40,000 rave flyers to living profiles of artists, promoters and clubs.
China's highest-ranked club used its third birthday to open three new Shanghai venues and confirm a model the West is fighting: the club as a brand-funded, refresh-every-45-days entertainment ecosystem.
Sasha Shulgin, known as “the godfather of ecstasy”, revived MDMA, created 2C-B and mapped hundreds of psychedelic compounds from a homemade laboratory in California. The rave industry built a global economy around states of consciousness he helped unlock, while most dancefloors never learned his name.
Peaktime launched June 18 with a transparent, signal-weighted ranking of 300-plus house and techno DJs. It is the most credible attempt yet to replace the void left when Resident Advisor shut its poll nine years ago.
Three thousand years of arrivals, the mystery of Es Vedrà off the southwest coast, and a club scene raising its prices: why the island's pull runs deeper than any lineup.
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.
In the space of six months, the Belgian techno artist disclosed two miscarriages on tour and called out the scene's collective failure to protect women from sexual violence, naming the dynamics no one else was naming.
The Kaoss Pad V arrives with dual-touch XY control, a new Voice FX engine, and a Hi-Z instrument input, but USB-B and RCA connectors in 2026 remind you Korg still has some old habits.
Now in its 16th year, Tec-Troit sets up at the abandoned Herman Kiefer Hospital for a free, all-ages weekend of Detroit techno, with Mike Banks, Juan Atkins, Blake Baxter and 30+ more on the bill.
A Musicians' Union dataset tabled at Resident Advisor's UNLOCKED event puts the structural fragility of the electronic music economy in hard numbers, and a new 4-month mentorship programme backed by Arts Council England offers five producers a way out.
Manchester's cornerstone club night marks two decades with a documentary shot on Kodak Ektachrome, a 20-year archive of unreleased DJ sets via Apple Music, a photography exhibition in Spinningfields, and a Season 20 that kicks off on 18 September.
On 22 May 2026, Nkosinathi Maphumulo, the Durban-born DJ who once lost the use of his right arm, sold out the O2 Arena for the first time by an African artist, with Alicia Keys appearing live to perform their decade-old collaboration.
FIFA's new 2026 rule lets each nation pick its own goal song. France chose the most universally recognized electronic music track ever made.
After 48 years anchoring Berlin's LGBTQ+ underground, SchwuZ filed for insolvency in August 2025 and closed its Rollbergstraße doors in November. The economics were simple and brutal: tripled energy costs, collapsing post-COVID footfall, and a rent curve the community model couldn't outrun.
Watergate, which closed its doors permanently on New Year's Eve 2024 after 22 years, continues in 2026 as a six-date open-air series at SAGE Berlin, with Sven Väth, Chris Liebing, Kölsch, Chez Damier, Cassy and more.
Corsica Studios closed in March 2026 after bar takings halved. Across the UK, 36% of nightclubs have shut since 2020. The economics of underground music venues were always brutal; the sober generation is finishing the job.
From Émile Durkheim and Victor Turner to Oxford social-bonding researcher Robin Dunbar, scientists and thinkers have long described the dancefloor as a kind of spiritual technology: repetitive bass, darkness, physical exhaustion and a synchronized crowd can produce awe, ego-loss and the intense collective feeling humans have always called sacred.
Forty years before the AI music debate, Britain's Musicians' Union voted to outlaw the exact machines that were already building house music in Chicago.
Built by the co-founder of social music app Cymbal, Corus strips out recommendations and hands curation back to people, at five posts a day free or $2.99 a month unlimited.
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.
After Avant Gardner's bankruptcy and a chain of corporate transactions that crossed three continents, Pacha opens this weekend at 140 Stewart Avenue with Michael Bibi and Black Coffee. The underground will be watching.
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