For the third year running, queer party La Noche takes over Berghain's Panorama Bar on July 24, 2026, headlined by Byron Yeates' first Berlin live set, as CSD Berlin expands into a two-day event for the first time.
Sennheiser and fabric London have expanded their sponsorship deal into co-produced live events, content and fan activations, opening with a Sven Väth sunset set at The View from The Shard on August 21, 2026.
Change The Beat, the nonprofit founded by Sydney Blu, has pledged 300 label signings for women and gender-expansive electronic artists by 2028, scaling to 1,500 by 2036, backed by a new A&R platform called Demo Room.
Native Instruments has released Super*Saw, a 99 euro plugin built over two years with PC Music founder A.G. Cook that reworks the classic supersaw with dual 16-oscillator banks and an X/Y morph between four patch states.
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.
The RIAA and IFPI, backed by the Grammys and SAG-AFTRA, rolled out a voluntary AI-labeling scheme across Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, Amazon Music and Qobuz on July 15, 2026, using a black badge for fully AI-generated tracks and a white one for AI-assisted human tracks.
Korg's new NTS-4 is a $249 six-channel mixer kit with switchable attenuators and built-in effects that lets Eurorack modular gear plug straight into line-level DJ and production rigs.
Behringer has opened pre-orders for the AKS Mini, a $99/£99/€119 pocket synth reproducing the analog VCO and VCF circuitry of the EMS Synthi AKS that Pink Floyd and Brian Eno used in the 1970s.
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.
A hacker who breached Suno's source code in November 2025 has shown 404 Media the company's internal scraping logs, and eight months later Suno still had not told customers their own data was exposed in the same intrusion.
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.
A worldwide shortage of pressing capacity and raw PVC is stretching vinyl orders out to 6 to 12 months, and independent house and techno labels are absorbing the delay while major-label repress runs get priority.
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.
DJ TechTools' redesigned 2026 Chroma Drive replaces the losable USB cap with rotating metal covers built into the drive itself, across five colors and four storage sizes up to 1TB.
AlphaTheta's new CoBeat service lets clubbers scan a QR code and vote on which track a DJ plays next, reviving a decades-old fight over who should really control the set.
John Digweed's first Twilo set in 25 years, recorded live at a one-off March 2026 reunion in New York, becomes a five-hour, four-CD release on his own Bedrock Records on July 24.
Berghain dropped five places to 21st in DJ Mag's 2026 Top 100 Clubs, its lowest ranking since the list launched in 2009, and the only Berlin club left in it.
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.
Lío is relocating from Marina Ibiza to the Ibiza Hotel Corso using the hotel's guest-only "complementary activities" license, since Ibiza's planning code bans any new nightclub permit outright, and s'Illa Plana residents say that is exactly the fraud it looks like.
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.
Apple Music handed its July Isgubhu spotlight to Aniko, the Lagos DJ whose bi-monthly Group Therapy raves were built to replace the city's pay-to-perform club culture with something cheaper and more communal.
Parisian producers Jacques Bon and Pit Spector release the four-track Maree Bass EP on July 3, 2026 via Frankfurt's Live At Robert Johnson, fusing jazz-inflected phrasing with minimal and deep-tech house.
FL Studio's free 2026 update rebuilds FLEX for the first time since 2019, adds encrypted cloud project backup, and expands its Gopher AI assistant to edit projects directly while explicitly refusing to train on user data.
South African Afro house artist Credo V Daniels saw his debut album disappear from Apple Music within hours of a viral eNCA performance where viewers said his live vocals did not match his polished studio records.
