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.
South African producer DESIREE and South Sudanese-Canadian artist Emmanuel Jal have released 'Macho' on Ninja Tune, an Afro-house track built on African call-and-response traditions, with Jal singing in four languages.
Tickets.ie, Ireland's largest independent ticketing company and majority-owned by Germany's DEAG, ceased trading in early June and left three festivals roughly 600,000 euros out of pocket, reviving calls to protect ticket money the way travel-agent deposits are protected.
Deezer has launched a free web tool that scans playlists on 20 streaming services for fully AI-generated tracks, while disclosing that synthetic music now makes up 44% of the songs uploaded to its own platform every day.
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.
SACEM and more than 220 rights organisations are pushing France to pass the Darcos Bill, which would force AI companies to prove they did not train on your music, after Mistral and Meta lobbying stalled it in the National Assembly.
SACEM collected a record 1.704 billion euros in 2025, up 7.5%, with all the growth coming from international and digital rights, the exact streams that pay club-music producers.
Universal Music Group and Sony Music asked a Boston court on May 21, 2026 to expand their copyright suit against Suno from 560 works to 61,026 sound recordings, after discovery showed the AI app trained on millions of their masters.
Developer Jonas Eriksson has turned the open-source physical-modeling engine behind Mutable Instruments' Rings into Annulus, a free polyphonic resonator and effects plugin for Mac and Windows.
The Barcelona modular maker's first non-Eurorack product is a CNC-milled three-band isolator and analogue filter built to sit on a DJ setup for hands-on frequency surgery, priced at 649 euros and up for pre-order.
Teenage Engineering's new APC-2, made with Vienna's Supersense, is a professional record-cutting lathe that carves one-off playback discs in real time. There is no official price, it is made to order, and it is aimed squarely at the studio.
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.
Roger Sanchez has released 'Spectrum', his first studio album in two decades: 13 tracks, six years in the making, out digitally on 5 June 2026 with a red triple-vinyl pressing to follow on 26 June.
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.
A DrumFreak placeholder appeared on Arturia's own website and was then removed, pointing to a sample-based drum machine carrying the Freak line's hybrid DNA, with no official specs, price, or date confirmed.
The NMPA struck the first industry-wide AI licensing deals with Udio and KLAY on June 10, 2026, with the Udio pact the first to value songs and recordings equally for AI training.
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.
Out now on Ninja Tune, the Swedish producer's 12-track third album pulls nostalgic house, UK garage and 2000s trance around one idea: learning to let go.
Rumble is UVI's new bass-focused plugin that gives sub, mids and top end their own synth engines, out now at an intro price of $99 before it jumps to $199.
3-Step is the new South African evolution of Afro House, built on a three-kick-drum groove that fuses amapiano log drums, broken beat and jazzy horns, pioneered by Thakzin.
