High profile artist-label disputes are a defining feature of the music industry. Kwame Safo examines arguably the cruelest aspect of many music recording contracts For many, the music has always been ...

The Association of Independent Festivals (AIF) has called for the breakup of Live Nation, accusing the multinational entertainment company of holding monopolistic domination over music events and ...

As far as electronic music duos go, Steffi & Virginia are among a small percentage who navigate the challenges of a creative relationship parallel to their personal relationship. Having such an ...

Chicago house vocalist, DJ, and producer Ron Carroll has died, fellow DJ and friend of the late artist Deonte Pennington, has confirmed. The news of Carroll’s passing was shared on Facebook yesterday, ...

It hasn’t always been this way. Club nights with a blanket “no racism, no homophobia, no sexism, no transphobia, and no violence” policy wasn’t always a standard. Major music festivals explicitly ...

New York, in whose dens of debauchery disco refused to die. The German cities manufacturing refined, steely electronica. Detroit, where fantastical imagination and ambition proved the perfect escape ...

“Men are boring. Women have a better work ethic. Men get away with doing the same thing all the time. We don’t have that luxury.” Currently setting the pace as one of the only female producers in ...

The DJs who defined 2024, spanning pioneers, cult heroes, idols, thought-leaders and more It is his graceful ability to move between light and heavy, melodic and dark, Afrotech and Afro house, that ...

1980s KU; DJ Alfredo's Balearic Beat at Amnesia; the downtempo chill-out of Café del Mar and Café Mambo; the 90s superclub explosion; DC10 and the rise of the minimal era; the deep house explosion; ...

New book Synthesizer Evolution: From Analogue to Digital (and Back) celebrates the impact of synths on music and culture by providing a comprehensive and meticulously researched directory of every ...

The recordings, which are taken from all over the world and date back to the 1920s, are divided into categories including ‘Footsteps’, ‘Machines’, ‘Crowds’ and ‘Events’ The BBC’s sound effect library ...

A recent study in the IMS Business Report found electronic music to be the third most popular music genre, with an estimated 1.5 billion listeners. A third of the 19,000 people asked said they ...