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Italian vinyl selector SHKEDUL plays four hours at RNDM, Moscow, on 24 October, backed by Boevik and Cobra on Funktion-One. Details and tickets.

Barwick and Lattimore's Tragic Magic tops our ranking of the ten best ambient and ambient-adjacent albums of 2026 so far, plus five honourable mentions.

Todd Edwards says he samples Suno Studio output and calls the AI backlash hypocritical. We check the 2026 legal picture and what it means for producers.

Roni Size plays Cwmorthin slate mine, 1,375 feet down, on October 15, 2026. What G-SHOCK confirms, what it leaves out, and how the depth claim stacks up.

Jarre's Oxygène turns 50 with a 20 November reissue on BMG and an ADE 2026 opening concert. What's in the box, and why it still matters.

Despacio, Sunflower and ::444:: are billed like headliners. Why promoters sell sound as the attraction, and what that means for dancefloors.

A UK minister says fans are losing music from across Europe. What the 2026 touring talks mean for DJs, labels, vinyl and festivals.

Live turns 25 on October 30, 2026. What Gerhard Behles says about independence, why Ableton builds hardware, and how it differs from Teenage Engineering.

A dated guide to the Berlin clubs verified as operating in October 2026, from Berghain and Tresor to Sisyphos, about blank and Renate.

Teenage Engineering's CEO says the OP-1 maker plans to stop making synthesizers. Here's what was said, what wasn't, and how the company got here.

Bloc returns for one night at The Cause on March 6, 2027. Lineup, venue, and the story of the festival that went from Norfolk to disaster to cult legend.

The man behind the first US criminal AI streaming fraud case got 18 months, below the 46 prosecutors sought. Here is the case and the pro-rata math.

Väth's one-word Instagram jab at Anyma wasn't random. It's a techno pioneer drawing a hard line against CGI-driven, camera-ready DJ sets.

Just 1.6% of Resident Advisor's 134,000 DJ profiles have five or more upcoming gigs. Here's what the actual data says about DJ economics.

We ran our own 3,865-video YouTube archive through the numbers. Sets recorded in 2009 out-view anything from the last five years by 4 to 12 times.

43,989 tracks say techno's median tempo climbed from 128 to 138 BPM since 1991. Hard techno's own numbers tell a messier story.

From R&S in 1983 to Ninja Tune's sale to Concord this year, we tracked 16 labels to see how many independents actually stay independent.

Only 61% of Berlin clubs broke even in 2025, down from 79% in 2017. We pulled the real closure numbers from five cities into one tracker.

Mysteryland skipped a year, Ground Zero ended for good, and Music On lost its permit. Here's what's actually driving the wave of festival cancellations.

Amsterdam Dance Event's 30th edition runs October 21-25 with 3,000-plus artists, the same week Resident Advisor's own anniversary tour stops in town.

US vinyl revenue hit $1.04 billion and UK sales grew 19.9% in 2025, the numbers behind why small labels still wait months for a pressing slot.

Spotify's new AI Persona badge and IFPI's 27-company fraud pact arrive months after a $8 million bot-streaming scheme ended in a guilty plea.

RA marks 25 years with a new anthology, Front Left, and a 10-date world tour from London to Sydney, where the site was founded in 2001.

Seven years to the day after splitting, Noisia are back with a Melkweg show on December 4, testing new material live before it ever reaches streaming.

From Hi Ibiza's Black Coffee finale to Circoloco's traditional last word at DC-10, here's the full schedule for the island's season-ending run.

Over 100 young Ibicencos turned a beach picnic into a protest on September 6, arguing the island's nightlife economy no longer has room for them.

From a Cologne record shop in 1993 to 500 releases and counting, here is the real history of Kompakt, the label that built minimal techno's sound.

Wilde Renate turns 19 this month with a 66-hour party, a year after its landlord tried to shut it down. Here's the full story of Berlin's maze club.

Rawax turns 15 in 2026. Here's how a Frankfurt distributor became a reissue-driven house and techno dynasty spanning eight sublabels.

From a Tresor resident's debut to a Dutch veteran's orchestral pivot, eight full-lengths defined techno's summer 2026, verified track by track.

New YouGov data breaks down exactly who's listening to more music in Britain, by age, gender and discovery method, and Gen Z dominates every column.

A year by year timeline of Cocoon Recordings, tracing catalog numbers, signings and turning points from its first 2000 release to today.

From a new label to an Amnesia Ibiza residency and a world tour, here's everything Nina Kraviz has done in 2026 so far.

Voting for DJ Mag's Top 100 DJs 2026 closes September 16. Here's how the poll actually works, and what it has and hasn't said about Nina Kraviz.

Searches for a Burning Man live stream spike every time the playa floods. Here's what the BRC Dashboard, GARS, and BMIR actually are.

Search interest in Diplo and Burning Man exploded again during 2026's rain crisis, three years after the actual mud story, and this time he's on the bill.

A participant in his mid-50s died at Black Rock City on September 3, 2026. Here is what Burning Man officials actually said, and what remains unconfirmed.

Wind, dust, then rain shut Black Rock City's gates twice in three days. Here's the geology and logistics behind 'wet playa protocol.'

A running guide to Nina Kraviz's 2026 tour, from Phuket to Ibiza to Bengaluru, with dates, venues, and where to check for updates.

Nina Kraviz built her 2026 Ibiza summer around one Sunday night, Pyramid at Amnesia, rather than the festival circuit. Here's why that choice matters.

Bethenny Frankel's heavily vlogged first trip to Black Rock City reignited a decades-old argument about what Burning Man's 10 Principles actually protect.

Nina Kraviz's трип has a new sister label, treats, and its debut single pairs the techno DJ with a Rio de Janeiro baile funk MC recorded on a beach.

At Burning Man, even the porta-potties get a theme, a scent, and a soundtrack. Meet the DIY ethos hiding behind the door marked 'occupied.'

On July 25, 2026, Nina Kraviz and Jeff Mills shared a Junction 2 x fabric bill in London, a rare pairing of techno's generations.

Burning Man 2026's electronic music scene runs entirely on camp-booked flyers, not festival lineups. Here's who's actually playing Black Rock City.

AI stem separation went from novelty to studio-grade in 2026. Here's how working DJs actually use Moises, Serato, djay Pro, VirtualDJ, and LALAL.AI.

A clear-eyed guide to what Burning Man really is: the desert, the Man, the gifting economy, the 10 Principles, and how first-timers actually prepare.

Jayda G, Elderbrook and Bob Moses are confirmed in GTA VI's soundtrack, a real shot at mainstream reach for house music ahead of its Nov 19, 2026 launch.

Searchlight is developing a Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers comedy about failing to get into Berghain. Here's the real story, and the real door, behind it.

Boiler Room's 2025 sale to KKR-backed Superstruct sparked a boycott that escalated into 2026 die-ins, a departed founder, and a pulled Dublin show.

Indies now own 44% of the US market, more than any major, but the number hides who really owns the pipes indie labels run on.

Munich's BLITZ, an Ilian Tape home base since 2017, closes for good after an 80+ artist farewell run, amid Germany's wider club-closure wave.

SoundCloud and Luminate data confirm hard techno's US surge, but the real 75%/180 BPM figures are narrower than aggregator headlines suggest.

Luminate's H1 2026 report shows Dance/Electronic gained the most US streaming share of any genre, and most of it is coming from new music, not nostalgia.

Deezer says AI tracks now top 50% of daily uploads, mostly bot-driven royalty fraud, and it's now selling its detection tech to rival platforms.

Global vinyl capacity has grown sharply since 2021, but independent labels still wait 6 to 9 months for pressing while majors get priority slots.

Six months after Bandcamp's AI music ban, human review has caught real cases but also pulled human artists' catalogs on unproven suspicion.

Southwark Council approved the redevelopment that keeps Printworks' Press Halls alive as a venue, setting up a 2026 return for London's most-mourned club.

NSW ran drug checking at twelve festivals and logged fewer hospital admissions. Here's what the data actually shows, and how it works on the ground.

Cocoon Recordings marks 25 years with a two-part anniversary compilation. Here's how Sven Väth's Frankfurt label shaped techno, and why it still matters.

Amelie Lens and Charlotte de Witte finally recorded together on One Mind, timed to sold-out back-to-back sets in Ghent that drew 69,000 fans.

Movement's 20th anniversary and Detroit's first official Techno Week proclamation trace straight back to the Belleville Three and Underground Resistance.

UK nightclubs are closing at three a week; here's what's actually driving it, and how Berlin and Amsterdam's policies compare.

Glasgow techno producer and longtime Drumcode artist Harvey McKay has died; the scene remembers his catalog and craft.

A jury found Live Nation and Ticketmaster ran an illegal monopoly, but the win does little to help small, independent venues.

UNVRS became the first debut club to top DJ Mag's poll as Berghain fell to 21st, exposing dance music's underground vs. hyperclub divide.