Blog
- 01 //[editorial] // 10.08.26
The Independent Labels Are Winning: Inside the 44% Market-Share Shift
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.
- 02 //[editorial] // 04.08.26
Munich Loses BLITZ: Inside the Closure of One of Germany's Most-Respected Techno Rooms
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.
- 03 //[editorial] // 28.07.26
Hard Techno's American Boom: Tempos Past 180 BPM and a Scene Going Mainstream
SoundCloud and Luminate data confirm hard techno's US surge, but the real 75%/180 BPM figures are narrower than aggregator headlines suggest.
- 04 //[editorial] // 23.07.26
Electronic Music Is Now the Fastest-Growing Genre in the US, Here's the Data
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.
- 05 //[editorial] // 22.07.26
Deezer Says Over Half of Daily Uploads Are Now AI, Inside Streaming's Flood Problem
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.
- 06 //[editorial] // 14.07.26
Bandcamp's AI Ban, Six Months On: What It Means for Labels Like Us
Six months after Bandcamp's AI music ban, human review has caught real cases but also pulled human artists' catalogs on unproven suspicion.
- 07 //[editorial] // 27.05.26
Detroit Turns 20 (Again): Movement Festival, Techno Week, and the City That Started It All
Movement's 20th anniversary and Detroit's first official Techno Week proclamation trace straight back to the Belleville Three and Underground Resistance.
- 08 //[editorial] // 25.05.26
Why the UK Keeps Losing Its Nightclubs, and What the New Licensing Reforms Actually Propose
UK nightclubs are closing at three a week; here's what's actually driving it, and how Berlin and Amsterdam's policies compare.
- 09 //[editorial] // 24.05.26
Remembering Harvey McKay: A Life in Drumcode, Soma, and the Glasgow Scene
Glasgow techno producer and longtime Drumcode artist Harvey McKay has died; the scene remembers his catalog and craft.
- 10 //[editorial] // 15.04.26
Berghain Falls to 21st as a Brand-New Ibiza Hyperclub Takes DJ Mag's No. 1 Spot
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.