Musician and lawyer Mark M. Kratter filed suit in Connecticut on 3 June 2026, arguing that Spotify's stream filtering and its 1,000-stream payout threshold are unfair and deceptive practices that strip royalties from independent artists.
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.
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.
Behringer opened pre-orders on 8 June 2026 for the D Mini, a 99 euro three-voice paraphonic synth built on the Minimoog Model D circuit, with a 16-step sequencer and 27 touch keys. Stock is expected around mid-August.
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.
Carl Cox, 63, has been made an OBE for services to music in the 2026 King's Birthday Honours, with Judge Jules awarded an MBE in the same list.
The Russian techno headliner played a rooftop party at Visão Vidigal, high up in Rio's Vidigal favela, on 24 May 2026, the latest sign of how deep her Brazil obsession now runs.
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.
The environmental group GEN-GOB has filed a formal complaint asking Ibiza's authorities to inspect UNVRS, claiming the self-styled hyperclub ran far over the 4,000-person limit historically licensed at the site.
Across Europe, beloved underground clubs are closing because the maths stopped working: turnout is down and irregular, costs keep rising, and Prague's Ankali is the human face of a structural squeeze the UK and Berlin numbers spell out in full.
Battalion, one of the most powerful experimental software drum machines around, has landed in VCV Rack as five modules at $10 each or $30 for the bundle, which also means its drum engines now run on the 4ms Meta Module in hardware Eurorack.
Catalyst Audio and Electroserf have launched MIG, a full range of vacuum-tube Eurorack modules built around obsolete Cold War-era Soviet subminiature tubes that once flew in MiG fighter avionics, with only about 1,500 tubes in stock.
Daley Padley breaks a six-year album silence with 'Obsessions', a nine-track record out 4 September 2026 on Knee Deep In Sound, fronted by 'Shaded', which reworks Shades of Rhythm's 1991 rave classic 'The Sound of Eden'.
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.
Germany's federal cabinet has approved a planning-law change that would reclassify nightclubs as cultural institutions instead of grouping them with casinos and brothels, giving venues stronger protection against developers, rent hikes and noise complaints. It still needs the Bundestag and Bundesrat.
Beatport's Track ID is a music-recognition tool inside its mobile app built specifically to name electronic tracks in noisy clubs and through pitch-shifted, time-stretched DJ blends, and the company says it could eventually feed accurate setlist data to recover unpaid performance royalties.
Sonar 2026 runs 18 to 20 June at Fira Gran Via, with OFFSonar to 21 June. Dates, prices, headliners, and the Keinemusik, Adriatique and elrow showcases worth planning around.
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.
Australian maker Edgehog has opened a Kickstarter for the EH-01, a compact eight-voice sampler-synth with no screen, hands-on controls and 3D-printable parts, priced from $179.
AudioKit Pro has released PRO-A5, a Prophet-5-inspired analog synth for iPhone, iPad and AUv3 hosts, with ten voices, twin filters and a $4.99 launch price.
Sonny Fodera has released 'Can We Do It All Again?', his sixth studio album: 18 tracks on his own Solotoko label, built over five years and stacked with the vocal-house collaborations that made him a chart fixture.
TraTraTrax, the Bogotá label, has launched a new compilation series called Sampler with 'Mzansi Bass', eight tracks curated by London's Shannen SP that move between gqom, amapiano, 3-step and Pitori rap from across South Africa.
Washington DC's Echostage, the highest-ranked club in North America, has installed an L-Acoustics L2 system, the kind of line array built for arenas, in one of the first permanent US installs of the box.
Manchester producer salute has announced 'infinite passion', a mixtape named after his hidden-booth, no-phones club series, and shared the first single 'check check', a stripped-back club tool he has been playing out for a year.
