News and Features

ISSUE: 19 Nov 2024
  • The nominees for DJ Mag's Best Of British awards 2024 have been announced. (DJMag) 
  • Outernet and Tate launch abstract art installation soundtracked by Four Tet. (Mixmag) 
  • Creative Industries Minister Sir Chris Bryant has called on the live music industry to work together to introduce a voluntary levy on all stadium and arena tickets to help support grassroots venues, festivals, artists and promoters - in agreement with the Committee’s recommendation. (RotD)
    FAC & MMF react to the Government response to the Committee report on grassroots live music. (RotD) NTIA comments (RotD)
  • The Loop has started a new year-round programme to deliver its onsite drug testing at Drumsheds and The Warehouse Project, with testing in the autumn 2024 clubbing season to monitor trends in the drug market for safety. (RotD) 
  • PRS is suing Live Nation, saying that it is not properly breaking down the way VIP ticketing works, meaning that music creators could be missing out on money due to them from live performances. (CMU) 
ISSUE: 12 Nov 2024
  • Radio 1 has named re:ni, Tash LC, and Tatyana Jane as the next wave of recipients of the Annie Nightingale Pioneers, an initiative designed to champion up-and-coming women and non-binary DJs in the Dance scene. (BBC) 
  • The Music Producers Guild is to honour DJ and producer Norman Cook with the MPG Award For Outstanding Contribution To UK Music, at its award show next April. (RotD) 
  • Calvin Harris won the award for Best Electronic at the MTV EMAs. (BBC) 
  • Disclosure ('She's Gone, Dance On'), Four Tet ('Loved'), Fred again... and Baby Keem ('Leavemealone'), Justice and Tame Impala ('Neverender') and Kaytranada ('Witchy') have been nominated for Best dance/electronic recording at the Grammys. Charli xcx ('Brat'), Four Tet ('Three'), Justice ('Hyperdrama'), and Kaytranada ('Timeless') and Zedd ('Telos') have been nomindated for Best dance/electronic music album. (Guardian)  
  • Believe pledges to ‘fight’ Universal Music copyright suit. (DMN) “Believe and TuneCore do not comment on pending litigation... We strongly refute these claims, and the statements made by Universal Music Group and will fight them." 
  • Universal Music Group’s massive $500m copyright infringement lawsuit against Believe and TuneCore over “rampant piracy” is moving forward, with a pretrial conference set for 8 January. (DMN) 
ISSUE: 05 Nov 2024
  • A new multi-genre, audio-visual compilation ‘Soli Tunes’ is raising money for a Palestine-based community studio. (Mixmag) 
  • Indie label Nice Swan has launched its new electronic imprint, Nice Swan Electronic. (MW) 
  • A new short film highlights the realities of sexual harassment in the electronic music industry. (DJMag) 
  • SOPHIE is to be awarded posthumously the Pioneer award at the Artist & Manager Awards. Barry Can’t Swim is on the shortlist for Breakthrough Artist. (RotD) 
  • Disclosure, Dixon and Imogen Heap join deadmau5 and Richie Hawtin's KOR Protocol advisory team. KOR Protocol is a cutting-edge entertainment protocol that reshapes how intellectual property is managed, distributed, and monetised. (RotD) 
  • Universal Music Group, ABKCO and Concord Music Group have filed a lawsuit against Believe and its distribution company TuneCore, accusing them of “massive ongoing infringements” of their sound recordings, including tracks by major artists. The companies are seeking “at least $500,000,000” in damages. (Billboard) 
  • The Night-Time Industries Association has criticised the UK Government, despite the Chancellor extending business rates relief for night-time economy businesses in the Autumn Budget by an additional two years at a reduced 40%, halving the relief, with the benefit negated mainly by a series of tax hikes that threaten the sector’s financial stability. (NTIA) 
  • Spinnin’ Records president Roger de Graaf is retiring. He co-founded the Dutch label in 1999, and Warner Music acquired the company in 2017. (Billboard)
ISSUE: 29 Oct 2024
  • Doors Open has revealed details for a London edition of Unlocked, a free music and careers development project, on 23 November at Canvas. (RA)  
  • The Chemical Brothers were among the big winners at the UK Music Video Awards, as they collected two awards. (RotD) 
  • Chase & Status and Sophie Kennard, co-founder of Frame Artists, are to receive joint award for Artist & Manager Team of the Year at next month's Artist & Manager Awards. (RotD) 
  • Black Lives In Music (BLiM) launched its Anti-Racism Code Of Conduct. (RotD)  
  • US industry bodies A2IM, ARA, AFM, BMAC, MAC, SAG-AFTRA, and SONA all simultaneously took TikTok to task and called on the US Congress to quickly pass legislative change to protect their members. (MusicAlly) 
  • Impala has issued an open letter to TikTok seeking a strong, cooperative partnership without strong-arm tactics. (RotD) "Let's work together to ensure that TikTok remains a powerful platform for creativity while supporting the growth and sustainability of the independent music sector for years to come." 
  • The Night Time Industries Association says Britain's final dancefloor will fall silent by 31st December 2029 if the current rate of club closures continues. (DJMag) 
  • International Music Summit has announced a second wave of names for its inaugural edition in Dubai. (RA) 
ISSUE: 22 Oct 2024
  • Doors Open, the not-for-profit jobs and opportunities platform, has rebranded and transitioned to a community interest company (CIC). (RA) 
  • Cindy Charles, Head of Music for Twitch, died in a traffic incident while in Amsterdam for ADE. (Variety)
  • Among the winners at AIM's 2024 Independent Music Awards were: Barry Can't Swim (Breakthrough); Joy Anonymous Remix - Ezra Collective, Sampa The Great - JOY (Life Goes On) (Remix); Pendulum (Live Performer) and Warp Records and Aphex Twin (Creative Campaign). (RotD) 
  • Martin Garrix has been crowned The World’s No. 1 DJ in this year’s DJ Mag’s Top 100 DJs poll. (DJMag)
    Top dance genre DJs were: Armin van Buuren (Trance); Sara Landry (Hard); Fisher (House) & Charlotte de Witte (Techno). 
    Anyma was the highest new entry with Indira Paganotto the highest climber on the poll.
    Green Velvet was named Outstanding Contribution winner and Nooriyah was the Future Star winner.
ISSUE: 15 Oct 2024
  • An exhibition exploring the history of Italo disco is opening this week at Frankfurt’s Museum of Modern Electronic Music [MOMEM]. (Mixmag) 
  • DJ Mag is shifting its print magazine from monthly to quarterly publication. (DJMag) 
  • Dolby will take over Amsterdam's TOBACCO Theater at ADE with a series of listening sessions, concerts, talks, and mixing workshops. (Mixmag) 
  • Music industry organisations pledge increased mental health support with Music Minds Matter initiative, Allies. (DJMag) 
ISSUE: 08 Oct 2024
  • The 2025 Night Time Economy Summit will be held in Birmingham, England, on 5&6 February. (RA)  
  • London's night czar Amy Lamé will stand down from her role at City Hall after eight years in the job. (Standard) It is unclear whether Ms Lamé will be replaced with a new night czar. 
  • The BPI has published its inaugural Five-Year Strategy for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, which sets out the BPI’s Vision and Strategy to actively promote DEI, both within its organisation and in support of the work taking place across its membership and the wider industry. (RotD) 
  • The Beatport Group announced the opening of applications for the third annual Diversity + Parity Fund, aimed at supporting organisations that champion diversity and equity in the dance music industry. (RotD) 
  • Impala has opposed TikTok's attempt to boycott Merlin, as it flags the importance of collective deals for diversity and consumer choice. (RotD) 
  • DJ Awards winners were: Sam Divine (House); Armin van Buuren (Trance); Sven Väth (Techno); CamelPhat (Progressive House); WhoMadeWho (Organic House); Vintage Culture (Tech House); Róisín Murphy (Live Act); Chase & Status (Drum & Bass); Miss Monique (Breakthrough Artist) & Fisher (International DJ). (Billboard) 
  • For World Health Day 2024, AlphaTheta is offering 100 Free therapy sessions for the electronic music community. Sessions are provided by accredited Blue Rhythm therapists. Spaces are limited, and sessions are allocated on a first come, first served basis. (AlphaTheta) Code: AlphaThetaWMHD24
ISSUE: 01 Oct 2024
  • Copa del Rave returns to Los Angeles 3 Oct with artist players and teams from UTA, Beatport, Red Light Management and more. (Billboard) 
  • A new study reveals the unique ability of electronic dance music to improve mental health, with fans and healthcare professionals alike recognizing its uplifting impact. (EDM) 
  • Hannah Laing, Sonny Fodera and Champion are to join Radio 1’s Residency. (BBC) 
  • 65 UK nightclubs have shut in 2024 in an “unprecedented crisis” for nightlife reports NTIA. (DJMag) 
  • The Circuit Group announces exclusive distribution partnership with LabelWorx. (RotD) 
ISSUE: 24 Sep 2024
  • A letter from the The House Judiciary Committee, a body made up of US congress members, has sent a letter to the Copyright Office requesting a review on performing rights organisations (PROs) and how they distribute royalties. (Mixmag)
  • A group of companies led by Meta and including Spotify have issued an open letter to the European Union concerning “fragmented and inconsistent” decision-making on artificial intelligence and data privacy. (DMN)
ISSUE: 17 Sep 2024
  • Over a million ecstasy pills have been seized in Ibiza, Spain, in what police are calling “the largest ecstasy drug bust in Spanish history”. (Mixmag) 
  • The recipients of Help Musicians and DJ Mag’s Electronic Music Award, a 12-month career accelerator programme designed for electronic music creators, have been announced.  (DJMag) 
  • Newcastle Contemporary Art Gallery is hosting a collection of exhibitions, documentary screenings and an event to celebrate the electronic music and nightlife scenes of North East England. (RA) 
  • Black performance artists and promoters face event licensing discrimination in London, UK organisation Black Lives In Music (BLIM)  says. (RA) 
  • New Artist Accelerator platform MXTR launches, committed to championing and funding emerging artists with a 'sustainable ecosystem that puts creative control and ownership first'. (RotD) 
  • DJ Mag’s Top 100 DJs Awards will return to AMF in Amsterdam next month for the first time in three years. (DJMag) 
  • Dance music label Armada Music announced a long-term partnership with DJ and producer Arodes, marking the next phase for his newly-founded label, Unreleased. (RotD) 
  • ATC Group announced the launch of Circa - a new transatlantic music promotions company led by Matt Black, former MD of Your Army’s American office. (RotD) The new London office will be headed by Charlie Reid, formerly of Your Army and others. Circa will operate as part of ATC Group’s Services division.
  • Backed by AFEM, the Respect The Creators campaign urges DJs, brands and promoters to include tags and track names when they post music by other artists on social media. (Billboard) 
  • International Music Summit (IMS), the 'thought-leadership platform at the heart of culture, education, industry, and wellness in electronic music', announced the inaugural edition of IMS Dubai. (RotD) 
ISSUE: 10 Sep 2024
  • Live music’s economic contribution hits a new record of £6.1 billion in the UK. (Mixmag) 
  • PPL has provided an update on its Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) strategy and published its gender and ethnicity pay gap report for 2024. (RotD) 
  • Industry bodies have urged the UK government to find a solution to post-Brexit restrictions on live music touring, after EU documents suggested Brussels was “not prepared” to change regulations. (Observer) UK Music CEO Tom Kiehl suggested a separate “cultural touring agreement” could be a potential solution that wouldn’t require changes to the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement. 
ISSUE: 03 Sep 2024
  • 1,000 people attended an illegal rave on a farm in Euston, Suffolk, last weekend. (Mixmag) 
  • ADE Adds SoundCloud, Bandcamp, Tresor Berlin Reps to 2024 Program. (Billboard) 
  • In the US, ahead of the Presidential election, a partnership between Rave The Vote and Head Count, is encouraging fans to "show up and vote for values that are synonymous with our culture; peace, love, unity and respect." As part of a new initiative, a lineup’s worth of dance artists will help provide a free bundle of music to people who check their voter registration status. (Billboard) 
  • DJ Awards to return to Ibiza on 2 October at Club Chinois. Peggy Gou, Kerri Chandler, Calvin Harris and Swedish House Mafia among are the nominations. (Mixmag) 
ISSUE: 27 Aug 2024
  • The Vinyl Record Manufacturers Association and the Vinyl Alliance have released a report highlighting the carbon footprint of the vinyl industry. (Mixmag) 
ISSUE: 20 Aug 2024
  • The team behind Hï and Ushuaïa are to open [UNVRS], an Ibiza ‘hyperclub’ — but what does that mean? (Billboard) 
    A viral UFO stunt featured Will Smith announced the club. (Prowly) 
ISSUE: 13 Aug 2024
  • Detroit-based Underground Music Academy (UMA) is launching its first series of online courses. (DJMag) 
  • Music distribution and promotion platform Collabhouse is offering a chance to win an exclusive promotional campaign worth €5000. (RotD) 
  • AIM's Independent Music Awards has revealed its first nominees for 2024. (RotD) The ceremony will take place on 17 October at London's Roundhouse.   
ISSUE: 06 Aug 2024
  • AlphaTheta announced the release of 'The Evolution of Ibiza: Can the White Isle Retain its Legendary Magic?' a feature-length documentary exploring the evolution of the island’s club scene. (RotD) 
  • BPI and AIM launch new initiatives as the UK Streaming Transparency Code comes into effect. (RotD) 
ISSUE: 30 Jul 2024
  • 'So important': UK spiking campaigners and survivors respond to introduction of specific law. (RA) 
  • Barry Can't Swim, Charli XCX and Nia Archives have been nominated for 2024 Mercury Prize list. (RotD)
ISSUE: 23 Jul 2024
  • Sacha Lord is stepping down from his roles at The Warehouse Project and Parklife Festival. (Mixmag) 
  • Ninja Tune, !K7, Beggars Group and other independent labels form a new think tank, Organization for Recorded Culture and Arts (ORCA). The think tank will conduct research to show "the significant economic, social and cultural value of music."(RA) 
  • Dreamland Margate faces a licensing review after a 17-year-old girl died and 21 teenagers were hospitalised from suspected drug overdoses at a drum & bass event held last month. (IQ) 
  • The Warehouse Project launches WHP Records in partnership with David Dollimore's Disorder Records. (RotD)   
  • DJ Awards to make a return to Ibiza this October following 4-year break. (MW)
  • The Night Time Industries Association (NTIA) is raising serious concerns about the increasing number of noise complaints against licensed venues across the UK, which pose a significant threat to the vitality and sustainability of the UK's night-time economy. (RotD) 
  • The Association of Independent Music (AIM) has responded to this week's King's Speech, calling on the government to protect independent music venues and secure a better, more diverse future for British music. (DJMag) 
  • The new Labour government has introduced a new law making spiking a specific criminal offence in King's Speech. (DJMag)  
ISSUE: 16 Jul 2024
  • Emerging DJs Boo and Shelly win the chance to perform at Radio 1’s Dance Weekend Ibiza 2024. (BBC) 
  • UK charity Music For All has launched a new three-year campaign calling for improvements in accessibility to music making. (DJMag) 
  • Anjunadeep announces the launch of its new imprint titled ‘Anjunadeep Explorations’. (Anjunabeats) 
  • Venue operator Broadwick Live has launched Broadwick Live Presents, a promoting vehicle that will see it work with external venues to present grassroots and established electronic music acts. (AAA) 
ISSUE: 09 Jul 2024
  • Vintage Culture, NIKS and A Little Sound have joined BBC Radio 1 residency line-up. (Mixmag) 
  • Members of the nightlife industry have welcomed the appointment of Lisa Nandy MP as the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport in the UK. (Mixmag) 
  • The UK music industry reacts to election results: "the real work begins now". (DJMag) 
  • Tixr, a ticketing and live event commerce marketplace, is set to open a London office, the company’s first steps into continental Europe with Stephanie Rosa serving as MD of the region. (Variety) 
  • NTIA says UK's night time economy extremely fragile - 16% surge in business administrations demands urgent intervention by new government. (RotD) 
  • Warner Music Group has sent letters to tech companies instructing them not to use the label’s music to train AI technology without permission. (DMN) 
ISSUE: 02 Jul 2024
  • MistaJam to host Capital Dance drive show six days a week. (Global) 
  • Electronic label NoCopyrightSounds, which offers free music to creators, announced a partnership with music rhythm game, Geometry Dash to integrate its catalogue of over 1,500 tracks into the game providing free-to-use music for creators. (RotD) 
  • A group of songwriters and composers are suing PRS for Music over how it handles royalties from live performances, accusing it of levying high administration costs for smaller songwriters while giving preferential treatment to already successful acts. (Guardian) 
  • beatBread has launched the Funding Network to provide 'even more choice and empowerment for artists and labels seeking funding'. It has introduced deal comparison tools to enable artists and labels to better analyze trade-offs between funding options. (RotD) 
  • AI:OK launches with the intention of identifying ethically aligned music products and services in the age of AI. (RotD) 
  • It turns out copyrighted content is actually “freeware” that artificial intelligence models can freely ingest – at least according to the Microsoft AI CEO. (MusicAlly) 
  • PPL made a payment of £103.7m – a rise of 6% year-on-year – to over 133,000 performers and recording rights holders. (RotD)
ISSUE: 25 Jun 2024
  • Dirty Hit has introduced a new electronic music imprint – dh2. (Dork) 
  • Power Up announced the music creators, industry professionals and executives who will make up Year 4 of the Black talent programme. (RotD)  
  • Bridges For Music will return to ADE with their annual 500km charity cycle this October, continuing to incite social change through the power of music. (RotD) 
  • Kneecap has secured High Court permission to take legal action against the UK Government for blocking them from receiving a £15,000 funding award. (BBC) 
  • More than 50 prominent music companies, associations, and institutions globally have added their support to the 'Principles for Music Creation with AI.' Introduced by Roland Corporation and Universal Music Group in March, the Principles are a series of clarifying statements relating to the responsible use of AI in music creation, aiming to protect the essence of music — its human spirit. (RotD) 
  • The majors are suing two AI start-ups, Suno and Udio, over alleged copyright violation in a potentially landmark case. (BBC) 
  • TikTok is forming an in-house Music Content Investment Team based in Los Angeles, New York, and San Jose, focusing on “partnership or acquisition opportunities in the music content space on a global level”. (MBW) 
ISSUE: 18 Jun 2024
  • New York’s City Council has approved new legislation to support its nightlife sector and the “freedom to dance." (Mixmag) 
  • NTIA has collaborated with KUVO Powered by DJ Monitor to enhance music insights for UK venues and increase the accuracy of royalty payments for creators. (RotD) 
  • UK independent label 2Point9 Records has slammed “arrogant” Ministry of Sound Recordings in a copyright infringement lawsuit. (RotD) 
  • Warner Music CEO Robert Kyncl says metadata issues make the industry more susceptible to AI in his NMPA meeting keynote: “It takes the teeth out of things.” (DMN) 
ISSUE: 11 Jun 2024
  • Cercle has announced the first cities and dates for their 2025 Cercle Odyssey Tour. (EDMTunes)  
  • TuneCore announced that its self-releasing artists have now earned more than $4 billion since the company was founded in 2006. (RotD) 
  • The Tim Bergling Foundation is reintroducing the charitable initiative to further raise awareness of suicide in young people. (EDM) 
ISSUE: 04 Jun 2024
  • Ahead of MoMA screening on The Loft, David Mancuso's estate accuses party members of theft and disloyalty. (RA) 
  • Live Nation has finally confirmed "unauthorised activity" on its Ticketmaster database after a group of hackers said they had stolen the personal details of 560m customers worldwide. (BBC) 
  • LyricFind reported there are now over 10 million unique songs in its fully licensed lyrics database as company starts its 20th anniversary. (RotD)
  • The Association of Independent Festivals (AIF) has endorsed the Musicians’ Union Access Rider to its membership and will be holding a session to explain why festivals should adopt them as a standard part of all contracting. (RotD)
  • Some of the most powerful ticket touts in the UK have discussed a secret plan to try to scupper a Labour crackdown on the industry via a lobbying campaign. (Guardian)
    Attendees at Coalition for Ticket Fairness dinner stump up thousands for fighting fund – because they know their time might be up. (Guardian)
  • Cercle, the Paris-based production company known for putting on livestream DJ sets in far-flung locations, will take a touring show on the road in 2025. (Billboard)
  • Popular mixes database MixesDB will close for good on 29 June. (RA)
  • UK festival drug testing to resume this summer following Home Office licence debacle. (DJ) 
  • The BBC announced six weeks of Glastonbury festival build-up and coverage over 3 June–14 July across TV, iPlayer, radio and Sounds. (RotD)
  • Glastonbury festival announced its full lineup. 
ISSUE: 28 May 2024
  • 40 UK summer festivals have now cancelled their 2024 edition, according to new figures from the Association for Independent Festivals (AIF). (DJMag) 
  • Apple is challenging a €1.8bn fine by the European Union for thwarting access to information about cheaper music streaming services, an EU court said. (Barrons) 
  • MCPS announced it paid out £204.3m of mechanical royalties in 2023, an 8.5% uplift on 2022 and a 43% increase in annual distributions over the last five years - driven by the growth of streaming, the continued popularity of vinyl and increasing international royalty collections. (RotD) 
  • In 2023, PRS for Music paid out a record £943.6 million of royalties for songwriters, composers and music publishers. Total royalty distributions increased by £107.4 million (12.8%), on the previous year and are up over £266 million since 2021. (RotD) 
ISSUE: 21 May 2024
  • Chicago announces celebration of house music’s 40th anniversary. (Billboard) 
  • Jukebox agency's influencer marketing division rolls out Live At Your Event content capture service. (MW) 
  • Independent New York City label Worst Behavior Recs is shutting down. (DJMag) 
  • Epidemic Sound partners with techno producer Richie Hawtin to support emerging talent in the music industry. (PRNewswire) 
  • The Association of Dutch Music Venues and Festivals (VNPF) is calling on the government to reconsider its plans to raise the VAT rate for concert and festival tickets by 12 percentage points. (IQ) 
  • Brighton Music Conference 2024 confirmed its full programme. (RotD) 
  • Help Musicians and DJ Mag are launching a new programme aimed at supporting emerging UK artists in electronic music. (DJMag) 
  • The UK has lost five nightclubs "every week" in 2024 so far, according to a new report by the NTIA. (Mixmag) 
ISSUE: 14 May 2024
  • Saffron to host series of online vinyl DJ workshops. (RA) 
  • Creative development agency Generator announced a partnership with the MMF, to upskill music managers and build connections. (Generator) 
  • A new platform from Chorus TM offers entertainment managers fast and secure UK and international payments, real time spend reporting, streamlined reconciliation processes and FX management strategies. (RotD) 
  • The Featured Artists Coalition and Amazon Music announced applications for 2024’s Step Up Fund are now open. (RotD) 
  • South by Southwest (SXSW) festival is launching in London in June 2025, with a particular emphasis on creative talent from across Europe. (RotD) 
    SXSW London     could disrupt a delicately balanced music ecosystem and should reconsider its date. (CMU) 
  • A new levy on arena and stadium concert tickets is the best way to support struggling local music venues, the cross-party Culture, Media and Sport committee in the UK has recommended. It also suggested a cut in VAT to help grassroots venues, and also if those in the industry do not reach an agreement for a subsidy by September, the government should intervene to make it a legal requirement. (RotD) 
  • Spain's Balearic Islands are expanding curbs on street drinking and further restricting party boats in a bid to crack down on alcohol-fuelled holidays in tourist areas. (BBC) 
    Holidaymakers caught drinking outside of authorised areas could also be fined up to €1,500, according to new rules set by the Balearic government. (DJMag) 
ISSUE: 07 May 2024
  • Beatportal is shifting its editorial strategy to "empower DJs, producers, artists, labels and other luminaries to communicate directly with the thousands of fans who regularly visit the site". (RotD) The site now will feature two more verticals – Education and Entertainment. 
  • Billboard’s 2024 International Power Players revealed. (Billboard) 
  • AI use in music must be regulated, parliamentary group tells government. (DJMag) 
  • The UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is investigating AlphaTheta's 2023 acquisition of Serato, saying the deal "could substantially reduce competition in DJ software". (RA) 
ISSUE: 30 Apr 2024
  • Hï Ibiza voted World’s No.1 Club in DJ Mag Top 100 Clubs poll 2024. (DJMag) 
  • Black Lives In Music (BLiM) has responded to the government 'falling short’ in helping to protect women in the music industry against harassment and discrimination, despite hearing strong evidence from women, experts and organisations in the sector. (RotD) 
    The Women and Equalities Committee (WEC) held a follow-up session on its Misogyny in music report. Live session replay parliamentlive.tv 
ISSUE: 23 Apr 2024
  • UK dance music industry pens open letter urging young people to vote. (DJMag) 
  • Over 39% of vinyl records sold in the UK last year were independently released, according to new analysis shared by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI). (DJMag) 
  • Martin Garrix, Timbaland, Laurent Garnier and Grace Ladoja are among the first speakers to be confirmed for this year’s Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE). (DJMag) 
  • UK-based organisation Black Lives in Music (BLiM) has launched a survey on bullying and harassment in the music industry. (MusicAlly) 
  • The BPI hosted its ‘In Tune With Tomorrow’ event, a "future-facing conference on how the recorded music industry can support talent and enable creativity for a more sustainable future". (RotD) 
  • The government-convened Creator Remuneration Working Group met for the first time.
    - Council Of Music Makers opening statement. (CMM) 
    - The Musicians’ Union and Council of Music Makers called for a better deal for musicians and music creators. (MU) 
    - The BPI said: “This first session in the CRWG was a constructive one and we look forward to an ongoing discussion that is informed by the evidence and enables UK record labels to continue their essential investment in new music and support for established and future talent.” (RotD)  
    - AIM said: "Independent music businesses respect the issues raised by creators and share in frustrations around market disparities and revenue squeeze...". (RotD) 
  • Anjuna has launched Earth Day label mixes for Anjunabeats, Anjunadeep and Reflections to raise funds for the Ocean Conservation Trust. The company has also launched its Sustainability Action Plan. (Anjuna)
  • IMS announces its closing party for this week's IMS Ibiza summit will be at Club Chinois. (IbizaSpotlight) 
  • Non-profit organisation Bridges for Music has announced its first-ever charity cycle on the island of Ibiza at IMS Ibiza, raising money for under-resourced communities. (Mixmag) 
ISSUE: 16 Apr 2024
  • Brighton Music Conference revealed its first panel topics and A&R sessions for the event next month. (RotD) 
  • The Latin Recording Academy has announced it will be introducing the Best Latin Electronic Music Performance category. (Billboard) 
  • NTIA applauded PRS Foundation's new fund supporting early career promoters and commitment to grassroots ecosystem. (RotD) 
  • Drug-safety and harm reduction initiative for UK nightlife, Safer States, launches. (DJMag) 
  • PPL generated £283.5m of revenue in 2023, a growth of 4% or £10.9m on 2022. (RotD) Income from the use of recorded music in public places increased by 11% to over £111m. International revenue was slightly down to £75.4m, while licensing of recorded music for radio, TV and online increased to £96.4m. 
  • The BPI responded to the CMS Select Committee Report on creator remuneration. (RotD, Report summary) "The report fails to recognise that, with the support of their labels, more UK artists are succeeding in the streaming economy than ever before and that the real challenge facing all of us is how we can enable continued growth so even more creators stand to benefit."
  • Silvia Montello has resigned for personal reasons from her position as CEO of AIM. (RotD) COO Gee Davy takes on the role of interim CEO, and has also been promoted to the newly created position of Chief Policy Officer.  
  • IMS Ibiza will recognise the outstanding achievements and contributions of the Elrow & The Arnau Family who have been announced as the recipient of the annual IMS Legends Award 2024 as part of this year’s Beatport Awards. (RotD) 
ISSUE: 09 Apr 2024
  • Ibiza locals are living in cars as party island sees rents soar. (BBC) 
  • At least 29 people have died in a fire at a nighclub in Istanbul. (BBC) 
  • Online electronic music publication Resident Advisor has appointed Gabriel Szatan as Editor and Rachel Grace Almeida as Deputy Editor. (RotD) 
  • Impala has called out 'value gap' with TikTok, and urged DSPs to address “unintended consequences” of proposed streaming reforms. (RotD) 
  • House music is the UK's “most popular club genre”, new research by A2D2 has revealed. (DJMag) 
  • Cercle have announced a new branded travel concept, Cercle Moment. Marcelo Velit said: "Cercle Moment offers a chance for those seeking extraordinary experiences to enjoy the luxury of an all-inclusive journey, tailored to create exceptional moments." (EDM) 
  • Among the winners at the 2024 Electronic Dance Music Awards were: Kaskade (Male Artist), HALIENE (Female Artist), Hayla (Vocalist), Steve Aoki (Club DJ), Vintage Culture (Producer), Mark Knight (Icon), Kx5 (Group), deadmau5 (Legend) and Armada Music (Label). (EDM) 
ISSUE: 02 Apr 2024
  • UK nightlife venues squeezed out of city centres over costs and regulation. (Guardian) 
  • Concert arenas should impose a £1 levy on gig tickets to create a fund that helps prop up grassroots live music, with industry figures telling the culture, media and sport committee that rising costs are creating a “crisis” for smaller venues. (Guardian) 
  • In its Q1 distribution of international revenue, PPL is paying £18.8m to over 22,000 performers and recording rights holders. The payment is up 7% on the Q1 payment made in March 2023. (RotD) 
  • IMS Ibiza 2024, the thought-leadership platform at the intersection of culture, education, industry, and wellness in electronic music, has announced the full line-up for its 15th annual conference. The event will feature keynote speeches from Tomorrowland co-founder Michiel Beers, Defected Records founder Simon Dunmore and new CEO Wez Saunders in conversation with IMS co-founder Pete Tong and Aloki Batra, the new CEO of Pacha Group. Plus talks with artists DJ Pierre, Madame Ghandi, Sarz, Fatboy Slim, Mochakk and Chloe Caillet. (RotD, Billboard)
ISSUE: 26 Mar 2024
  • Roland Corporation and Universal Music Group form strategic relationship to 'empower human artistry'. (RotD) It sees the publication of Principles for Music Creation with AI, a series of clarifying statements relating to the responsible use of AI in music creation, which advocates their adoption across the music industry and creative community.
  • Brighton Music Conference has added over 80 speakers and artists to its electronic music and networking event programme this May. (RotD) 
  • Ninja Tune is conducting an internal investigation into recent allegations levelled at CEO Adrian Kemp. There's no mention of the nature of the allegations. (RA) 
ISSUE: 19 Mar 2024
  • Sam Sax has been named KISS’ ‘Chosen One’, having won the station’s search for its next big up-and-coming DJ. (RotD)
  • Tourists arriving in Ibiza without proof of accommodation could be fined up to €10,000, according to a new rule set by Spanish authorities. (DJMag) 
  • The Winter Music Conference is returning to Miami in 2025, its organizers announced this week. (EDM) 
  • Berlin techno has been awarded UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) status. (DJMag) 
  • 21 UK festivals have now announced a postponement, cancellation or complete closure in 2024, with fears over 100 could disappear due to rising costs. (RotD)  
  • How rising visa fees could stifle new music discovery in the US: ‘It’s grossly unfair’. (Billboard) 
  • A broad coalition of organisations in Europe’s creative and cultural sectors have welcomed the approval of the EU AI Act by the European Parliament. (RotD) 
  • Labour will cap the resale prices of tickets and regulate resale platforms if the party wins the next general election. (BBC) 
    UK Music has welcomed the Labour Party's pledge to boost access to the creative industries. (RotD) 
    FanFair Alliance has welcomed the announcement by Keir Starmer, that a future Labour government would introduce new legislation to end the rip-off practices of controversial ticket touting websites. (RotD) 
    LIVE has welcomed Labour’s plans for the creative industries which would deliver on LIVE's Manifesto proposals on touring and ticketing. (RotD) 
  • An international group of clubs, event promoters, and festivals announced the launch of Support The Sound, an initiative that advocates for a healthy and sustainable future in electronic music. (RotD) 
ISSUE: 12 Mar 2024
  • Artist marketing platform un:hurd has raised an additional round of strategic funding to further the expansion of its suite of marketing tools. (RotD) 
  • Italian-based company Metal 2000 has launched a new record press, promising to be the "most innovative press due to its simple disc extraction, unrivalled electronic processor and competitive pricing". (RotD) 
  • JKBX, a music investment platform that allows songwriters and recording artists to sell their royalties to investors, has fully launched. (Billboard) 
  • Re-launching for 2024, Festival Republic's ReBalance initiative, providing opportunities to women and gender-expansive artists, named six up-and-coming acts to participate in the revamped programme. (RotD) 
  • US Congress members have proposed a new performer remuneration system on streaming paid for by a new levy applied to subscription fees. Monies generated by the levy would flow directly to performers via a new fund. (CMU) 
  • In the US, the National Music Publishers’ Association's TikTok license, which is used by a number of independent publishers, is set to expire 30 April. The organisation says it is not likely to renew or extend the license. (Billboard) 
ISSUE: 05 Mar 2024
  • TuneCore is suing CD Baby over allegedly stolen trade secrets by a former staff member who “repeatedly hacked into TuneCore’s secured cloud server to access and download confidential documents and information”. (DMN) 
ISSUE: 27 Feb 2024
  • Listening to electronic music alters your state of consciousness, according to a new study. (DJMag) 
  • New book 'Dream Machines' will trace the evolution of electronic music in the UK, from its avant-garde, post-WW2 beginnings to the dance music of today. (DJMag) 
  • Tomorrowland has launched a new online school and learning platform called the Tomorrowland DJ & Producing Academy. (DJMag) 
  • Defected have launched its new Afrocentric label One People. (EDMTunes) 
  • Atlantic Records UK announced a joint venture with talent and creative agency EYC LTD to launch EYC Records. (RotD) 
  • Live-video shopping platform and curated marketplace NTWRK has signed an agreement to acquire media company Complex to create a new destination for superfan culture. (RotD) Investor Universal Music Group "will offer unprecedented opportunities for both music superfans and artists while continuing to serve all major and independent artists and labels". 
ISSUE: 20 Feb 2024
  • The EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA) has entered into force for all online platforms, with major implications for online ticket resale. (RotD) 
  • Bridges for Music has partnered with International Music Summit (IMS) Ibiza, AlphaTheta and Resident Advisor for a charity cycle in Ibiza, The IMS IBiza Cycle Challenge. (RA) 
  • Electronic music generated £2.5 billion for the UK economy last year, according to a new report commissioned by the Night Time Industries Association (NTIA). This was down 6% on previous years, which the report partly attributes to the closure of 31 UK nightclubs (4%) in the 2022-2023 period. It also reported a 9% decline in visitors to nightclubs during the past year. (DJMag)
ISSUE: 13 Feb 2024
  • Reprezent Radio has launched a fundraiser due to a major funding crisis. (RA) 
  • 80% of people experience emotional and mental health benefits at electronic music events. (MusicTech) 
ISSUE: 06 Feb 2024
  • AVA London launches artist development programme, Creators Forum. (RA) 
  • FOUNDATION.FM announces International Women’s Day compilation with Ariel Zetina, Karen Nyame KG, Ikonika, and more. (DJMag) 
  • Musicians and users concerned as Universal Music Group music taken off TikTok. (Guardian) 
  • IFPI has co-signed a rightsholder letter about the EU AI Act. (RotD) 
  • The European Union’s AI Act, a risk-based plan for regulating applications of artificial intelligence, has passed what looks to be the final big hurdle standing in the way of adoption after Member State representatives voted to confirm the final text of the draft law. (TechCrunch) 
  • Women pursuing careers in music face “endemic” misogyny and discrimination in a sector dominated by self-employment and gendered power imbalances, the Women and Equalities Committee (WEC) has warned in its Misogyny in Music report. (RotD) 
    Responses to the report: UK Music; the BPI; Silvia Montello, CEO of AIM & Dr Charisse Beaumont, CEO of Black Lives in Music.
ISSUE: 30 Jan 2024
  • Free regular drug-checking service to launch in Bristol by The Loop. (DJMag) 
  • Matt Voss and John Paveley, veteran executives in the music industry, have launched Track 88 Management to provide a platform for emerging artists. (CA) 
  • Industry body LIVE has launched a survey, The Hidden Side of Freelancing 2024, to understand and identify the changes required to improve the experience of freelancers who are crucial to the success of the live music industry. (RotD) 
ISSUE: 23 Jan 2024
  • London-based contemporary music school the Institute of Contemporary Music Performance (ICMP) and AIM are partnering on three Music Business courses. (RotD) 
  • The EU has proposed a major overhaul within the music streaming industry to ensure performers are paid and promoted fairly, compared to top record labels and popular artists. (Independent) 
ISSUE: 16 Jan 2024
  • Hamburg activists launch Demorave campaign to defend local venues against gentrification. (RA) 
  • California has introduced a new law against spiking, requiring clubs and bars across the state to stock “roofie” testing kits from July 2024. (Mixmag) 
  • Radio 1 have announced Joy Anonymous, Harriet Jaxxon and Kilimanjaro as the newest members of the Radio 1 Residency line-up. (BBC) 
  • The Women of Music India has launched and opened its doors for membership. (Mixmag) 
  • The Night Time Industries Association (NTIA) announced the full lineup of panellists and speakers for the Night Time Economy Summit 2024, on 8-9 February in Manchester. (RotD) 
  • Voting is now open for the annual DJ Mag Top 100 Clubs poll. (DJMag) 
  • A new documentary exploring 30 years of the DJ Mag Top 100 DJs poll will aired on YouTube on 31 January. (DJMag) 
ISSUE: 09 Jan 2024
  • Eight people are fighting for their lives - including seven people who are in induced comas - after overdosing on illegal drugs at Hardmission Melbourne. (Mail) 
  • Self-service vinyl platform Qrates seems to have imploded with no word to artists who utilised the service — leaving thousands of customers without vinyl they paid to receive. (DMN) 
  • 1990s rave and acid house documentaries to be screened in Berlin for short film festival. (DJMag) 
  • 2023 was UK's "worst year for venue closures" with loss of 125 grassroots spaces, says MVT. (DJMag) 
  • DJ Mag and BBC Radio 1 Dance Presents announce Ones To Watch residency. (DJMag) 
  • BBC Sound of 2024: DJ Peggy Gou voted in to third place. (BBC) 
  • A BPI report show women claimed an unprecedented 31 weeks atop the Top 40 in 2023 and accounted for 48.5% of all songs that reached the Top 10 – plus seven of the year’s ten biggest songs. (BBC) Overall music consumption grew by 10% to 182.8m ‘album equivalent sales’. Streaming hit a record high with 179.6bn audio streams across 12 months – up 12.8% on the previous year.
ISSUE: 19 Dec 2023
  • London's Rinse FM celebrates 30 years in 2024 with Project 6 Festival collaboration. (RA) 
  • A study has revealed women may have to work twice as hard as men to reach the same recognition, using data from DJ Mag’s Top 100. (Mixmag) 
  • Winners of DJ magazine's Best of British awards have been announced. (DJMag) Among the winners were Chase & Status - ‘Baddadan’ (Best Track) and '2 Ruff' (Album). 
  • Warner Music has partnered with a medical tech company to trial ‘musical medicine’ to ease pain, stress, and anxiety. (DMN) 
  • PPL has paid £48.7m to over 137,000 performers and recording rightsholders in its final quarterly distribution of the year – a new high for its December payment. (RotD) 
ISSUE: 12 Dec 2023
  • One in four people under the age of 35 are exhibiting signs of hearing loss, according to a new study. (DJMag) 
  • 170 Ukrainian DJs and producers contribute to a new book and compilation 'Ukrainian Field Notes'. (Mixmag) 
  • In partnership with There Is A Light Foundation, IO Music Academy announces 20 scholarships for aspiring music producers in Los Angeles and San Francisco, fostering talent with industry-focused education and mentorship. (Magnetic)
  • International Music Summit Ibiza has revealed two new locations for its 15th edition next year. The summit will run between the newly opened hotels: Mondrian Ibiza and Hyde Ibiza. (Mixmag)
ISSUE: 05 Dec 2023
  • INFAMOUS PR celebrates their 15 year anniversary. (Flaunt) 
  • Simon Reynolds’ new book, Futuromania, documents influential electronic music from 1970s onwards. (Mixmag) 
  • The MSG Sphere development set for east London has received a lifeline after levelling-up secretary Michael Gove has intervened to block London Mayor Sadiq Khan’s rejection of the contentious project. (CityAM) 
  • Jaxsta has changed its name to Vinyl Group, incorporating the company’s three existing brands: Jaxsta, Vampr, and Vinyl.com. (TMN) It launches with a promise to become the "heartbeat of an equitable music world, providing tech solutions that connect and give credit to the global creator economy". 
  • Universal Music, Sony Music and Warner Music Group have announced the creation of the Music Industry Climate Collective (MICC). The alliance will work to address the challenges and changes in the global climate and how they relate to the music industry. (Billboard)  
  • BIMM University are launching AI_Labs – one of the first student-centred course of its kind to prepare their students for AI in creative arts - music, film, stage and more. (RotD) 
  • Both GESAC and ESCA have welcomed the CULT Committee’s adoption of the initiative report on “cultural diversity and the conditions for authors in the European music streaming market”, which highlights the significant problems faced by authors and composers in the music streaming market and calls for EU policy actions to correct the existing imbalances and ensure the market’s sustainability. 
ISSUE: 28 Nov 2023
  • Uber is set to launch in Ibiza this week. (Mixmag) 
  • UK platform Create Define Release (CDR) aims to tackle the gender imbalance in music production with a new project, Process. (DJMag) 
  • Key artist and label groups from major European music markets have come together to ask the EU to come up with a legislative solution to address the consequences of a court ruling which risks costing European artists and labels millions of euros each year. (RotD) 
ISSUE: 21 Nov 2023
  • Sadiq Khan, the Mayor of London, has rejected plans to build a massive Sphere, similar to the one seen in Las Vegas, in Stratford, east London. (Guardian) He cited an "unacceptable negative impact on local residents".
  • LIVE has unveiled a manifesto with five crucial priorities, aimed at safeguarding grassroots music venues and unlocking the economic potential of the wider live music sector. (RotD)  
    Nighttime economy businesses warn of prolonged struggle ahead says NTIA. (RotD) 
  • David Guetta topped DJ Mag's Top 100 DJs 2023 and Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike were the number 1 DJ group. The following DJs are number one's in their respective genre: Angerfist (Hard DJ), Peggy Gou (House), Armin van Buuren (Trance), and Charlotte de Witte (Techno). 
ISSUE: 14 Nov 2023
  • SoundCloud and Calm partner to support mental health for artists. (SoundCloud) 
  • Gaza humanitarian crisis: fundraising electronic music compilations, tracks and EPs to support. (DJMag) 
ISSUE: 07 Nov 2023
  • Rinse FM confirms 100-plus residents for new season. (RA) 
  • The application window for the #SaveTheNight 2023 fund has been extended by 30 days. (RA) 
  • Over half of musicians would not admit to using AI in creating a track, study finds. (DJMag) 
  • Superstruct Entertainment has cancelled the 2024 edition of the 30,000 capacity NASS Festival due to the impact of the cost-of-living crisis and the “significant increase” in operational costs. (AAA) 
  • ASCAP formally weighs in on AI, calling for enhanced Copyright Office guidance and opposing ‘any compulsory licensing requirements’. (DMN) 
  • The Women and Equalities Committee is seeking “to understand the extent to which NDAs are used specifically to silence victims in the industry. (MusicAlly) 
ISSUE: 31 Oct 2023
  • Nearly 300 electronic musicians and collectives have signed the Ravers for Palestine open letter. (Mixmag) 
  • Existential risk? Regulatory capture? AI for one and all? A look at what’s going on with AI in the UK. (TechCrunch)  
  • 35 independent nightlife businesses in the UK are vanishing each week, according to figures from CGA NeilsonIQ, released by the Night Time Industries Association (NTIA). (Mixmag) 
  • Deezer and Sacem announced a collaboration to explore the artist centric monetisation model for publishing rights in music streaming, to find new ways of rewarding the value songwriters and publishers create. (RotD) 
  • CISAC's 2023 Global Collections Report show global royalty collections for creators reached a historical high point of €12.1bn in 2022, growing by a record 26.7% in a full recovery from the pandemic. (RotD) Collections are now 19.8% higher than their pre-pandemic level, driven by continued strong growth in digital income and a recovery in live and public performance.
  • Mixmag celebrates its 40th anniversary with an exhibition showcasing the entire history of the dance music magazine's front covers. (RotD) 
ISSUE: 24 Oct 2023
  • A new book examining Berlin's club scene is on the way. (RA) 
  • The 2023 MTV Europe Music Awards in Paris have been cancelled "As we watch the devastating events in Israel and Gaza continue to unfold, this does not feel like a moment for a global celebration." (BBC)  
  • The Night Time Industries Association (NTIA) and Save Our Scene UK (SOS) have launched a campaign calling for a VAT reduction to 12.5% for cultural sectors in the November budget. (AAA) 
  • Universal Music Group, Concord Music Group and ABKCO are suing an AI platform called Anthropic for using copyrighted song lyrics to train its software. (Variety) 
  • Georgia Taglietti and Jay Ahern will be joining Finlay Johnson as a leadership triumvirate following a management restructure of The Association For Electronic Music. (RotD) 
  • Warner Music Group has unveiled its new creative hub, The Amsterdam Music Harbour, home to Warner Music Benelux, Warner Chappell Music Benelux and Spinnin’ Records. (RotD) It includes four high quality recording studios, as well as various creative spaces. 
  • Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE) welcomed a record number of 500,000 visitors throughout its Festival and Conferences. (RotD)  
ISSUE: 17 Oct 2023
  • Electronic industry charity soccer tournament Copa del Rave returns to Los Angeles next month. (Billboard) 
  • Saffron opens applications for 2023-2024 development programme. (RA) 
ISSUE: 10 Oct 2023
  • London residents are pushing back on plans for MSG Sphere. (EDMTunes) 
  • Venue security staff in the UK are attending ‘sham training courses’ and missing out on vital safety training. (BBC) 
  • Independent labels say their acts have missed out on chart positions because of Utopia’s distribution problems and now there are concerns about Sony and Universal backing the company. (Guardian) 
  • IMPF (Independent Music Publishers International Forum) have proposed a set of ethical guidelines for the development and use of generative AI as it pertains to the music industry. (RotD)
  • The MMF has released an updated version of its 2022 book the Essentials of Music Management, which now includes AI, Web3 and the art of negotiation. (RotD) 
  • The Beatport Group announced the recipients of its second annual Diversity + Parity Fund, which will distribute grants totalling $150,000 to accelerate gender parity and diversity across the music industry. (RotD) 
  • At least 260 people have died after a Hamas attack at the electronic music event Universo Paralello Festival in Re’im, Israel. (Billboard) 
    "We saw a full bombardment everywhere," says artist manager Raz Gaster, who was at the festival. (Billboard)
ISSUE: 03 Oct 2023
  • ASCAP announced its London Music Awards 2023, recognising British songwriting talent for their US success. Among the winners were Pablo Bowman Navarro with three awards including Songwriter of the Year and Hot Dance/Electronic Awards for 'The Motto' by Tiësto & Ava Max and 'Numb' by Marshmello & Khalid. (RotD) 
  • Among the winners at AIM Awards 2023 were: Shygirl (Breakthrough), Hospital Records (Label) and Stephen & David Dewaele - Soulwax/2manydjs (Outstanding Contribution to Music). (RotD) 
  • Sonopress has launched EcoRecord – a new form of vinyl with a drastically reduced environmental impact. (RotD)  
  • Authors’, performers’ and other creative workers’ organisations joint statement on artificial intelligence and the draft AI act. (ComposerAlliance) 
  • Moog Music has shared a statement confirming that the recent layoffs happened within its production team. (Mixmag) 
  • Research company CGA NIQ said its study found that 10 years ago, Britain had around 1,700 nightclubs, but in June this year the total stood at 873. (CityAM) "Research shows the late-night market isn’t disappearing – it’s just changing. Bars, pubs, competitive socialising venues and other new leisure concepts all now rival nightclubs, giving consumers a greater choice of venues than ever."
  • Live Nation has announced a new scheme titled On The Road Again, promising to “cut merch and travel costs” for touring artists. (Mixmag) 
ISSUE: 26 Sep 2023
  • 10% of grassroots music venues will close by the end of 2023, according to Music Venue Trust (MVT). (Mixmag) 
  • Tickets for Glastonbury 2024 will go on sale on 5 November. (Standard)
  • Afterparty, a platform that empowers musicians and creators to form and monetise fan connections, has secured $5m in funding for a total of $12m raised to date. (DMN) 
  • The Council Of Music Makers – representing UK songwriters, composers, artists, musicians, producers and music managers – has today published five fundamentals that should be fully embraced by technology companies and the music industry as they develop new music AI technologies. (RotD) BPI comment. (RotD) 
  • Moog parent company InMusic has reportedly laid off a large portion of employees from Moog's manufacturing factory in Asheville, North Carolina. (RA)
ISSUE: 19 Sep 2023
  • AIM has revealed Soulwax/2manydjs as winner of the Innovator at the forthcoming AIM Awards. (RotD) 
  • Brixton Academy is to be allowed to retain its licence and re-open if it can meet “robust” safety rules. (BBC) 
  • DJ Annie Macmanus has told MPs there is a "tidal wave" of revelations about sexual assault in the music industry waiting to be told. (BBC) 
ISSUE: 12 Sep 2023
  • Nitrous oxide, AKA laughing gas, will be illegal in the UK by the end of the year and controlled under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971. (RA) 
  • Defected Records has partnered with LabelRadar, the demo submission platform within The Beatport Group’s Music Services division. (RotD) 
ISSUE: 29 Aug 2023
  • Mixmag has opened its 22nd international office in Kyiv, Ukraine.  
  • Tomorrowland, Belgium has been voted DJ Mag's number one festival in their Top 100 Festivals. (DJMag) 
  • Jamz Supernova, Jaguar, Elijah, Jayda G and fabric's Jorge Nieto will choose the winners of RA, fabric and Jägermeister's #SaveTheNight2023 fund. (RA) 
  • A survey by the Independent Society of Musicians (ISM) suggest almost half of UK musicians and workers in the music industry have had less work in the EU since Brexit than before it, and more than a quarter have had no EU work at all. (Guardian)  
ISSUE: 22 Aug 2023
  • Almost 50% of tested drugs in Berlin given “warning” status in new programme. (Mixmag) 
  • Cost of living crisis causes one third of young people in UK to cut back on nights out, data reveals. (DJMag) 
  • Music industry conference Orbit Live to launch in London next month. (RA) 
  • Point Blank and Dirtybird Records announce an equal opportunity scholarship. (PointBlank)
ISSUE: 15 Aug 2023
  • Audoo has partnered with PRS For Music and PPL, with the aim to improve music royalty distribution for over 300,000 artists, recording rightsholders, music publishers, writers and composers. (RotD) Audoo’s audio meters can identify background music being played in public spaces such as bars and shops. 
  • Stem has announced the launch of Tone, a new brand and business under Stem Disintermedia ownership intended to create modern financial tools for the music industry. (Variety)  
ISSUE: 08 Aug 2023
  • DJ Mag's Best of North America awards 2023 winners announced.  
  • The City of Amsterdam pledges €2.2m to new measures to boost night culture. (DJMag) 
  • Games publisher Amanotes announced a global partnership with Reactional Music, which will allow Amanotes to "pioneer realtime music personalisation and in-game music purchase for gamers". (RotD) 
ISSUE: 01 Aug 2023
  • Ibiza and the Balearic Islands have been placed on “red alert” for wildfires following weeks of scorching temperatures. (DJMag) 
  • Berlin’s Senator for Culture has announced an €947m culture fund for 2024, which will go toward adding 500 new cultural spaces across the city. (Mixmag) 
  • Defected Records has announced a new fundraising partnership with UK housing and homelessness charity, Shelter. (DJMag) 
  • Fred again.. and Shygirl have been nominated for the Mercury prize. (RotD) 
ISSUE: 25 Jul 2023
  • The German recorded music industry grew 6.6% in the first half of 2023 to €1.06bn. (MusicAlly) 
  • A €2 million fund is set to be distributed to nightclubs in Ireland to help with noise mitigation. (Mixmag)
  • The US is delaying plans to raise visa fees for foreign touring artists and DJs. (RA) 
  • The AIM Independent Music Awards has revealed the artists nominations for this year’s ceremony. Shygirl, Kelela, Overmono, I. JORDAN, Four Tet, and more are amongst a range of singers, dance music acts, and rappers. (Mixmag) 
ISSUE: 18 Jul 2023
  • Universal Music Group has called on Congress to enact stricter artificial intelligence protections during the latest Congressional hearing on AI — 'You have an opportunity to establish legal clarity'. (DMN) 
  • RA and Body Movements to host skill-sharing workshops and discussions in Hackney Wick on 22 July. (RA) 
  • With a 15,000 capacity, London’s biggest new cultural space is to open in September in north London. Broadwick, the company behind spaces including Printworks will open Drumsheds as a venue for complete set builds, fashion shows, music events and more. (Guardian) 
  • Nightlife leaders and drug safety organisations have condemned the government's testing licenses, which can take up to four months to be approved and require a permanent building address for testing sites. (Mixmag)  
ISSUE: 11 Jul 2023
  • AI-created music is now eligible for nomination at the Grammy Awards, according to recent guideline changes. (DJMag) 
  • BBC Radio 1 Dance is attending Ushuaïa and Hï Ibiza this summer. (EDMTunes, BBC) 
  • Reactional Music, the music engine and delivery platform that connects the worlds of music and games commercially and creatively, has entered into an agreement with APM Music, the largest aggregator of production music in North America. (RotD) 
  • British music exports surpass £700 million for the first time. (Mixmag) 
  • UK dance music distributor Unearthed Sounds is shutting down at the end of the month. (DJMag) 
ISSUE: 04 Jul 2023
  • Last week's Pete Tong Essential New Tune was ‘Katania’ by TH;EN, out now on Odd Out Out. Contact: Adam Carter, Exclusive (Radio1, Beatport)
  • Visual communication platform Canva announced partnerships with Warner Music Group and Merlin, which for the first time will grant paid and education Canva customers in many countries unprecedented access to use music clips from some of the world’s biggest artists in their designs. (RotD) 
  • Major label executives were questioned at the fifth session of the Women and Equalities Committee’s inquiry, as part of its umbrella inquiry into preventing violence against women and girls. (MusicWeek) 
ISSUE: 27 Jun 2023
  • Shawn Reynaldo is releasing a new book based on his newsletter, called First Floor Volume 1. (Attack) 
  • ASM Global has pledged support to Music Venue Trust and the grassroots music industry. (RotD) The venue management and event strategy company will offer donations, training and marketing support. 
ISSUE: 20 Jun 2023
  • Lady of the House launches as new worldwide Community Interest Company (CIC) (LotH) 
  • Multiplayer music creation platform Endlesss has appointed industry veteran Rutger De Groot as Co-Founder. (RotD) 
  • French publication Trax Magazine is to close after 26 years. (RA)
  • A new scheme set up in UK helps young people who can't afford music festivals. (Mixmag)
  • Ticketmaster to show full costs and remove hidden fees as part of "all-in pricing experience". (DJMag) 
  • Three new categories have been added to the list for the 2024 Grammys, including Best Pop Dance recording. (Grammys) 
  • A consortium of companies that owns the freehold site in Southwark where Ministry of Sound club stands has put the land up for sale for £50m. (MoS) 
ISSUE: 13 Jun 2023
  • Artist development company One House has launched Platform, a management toolkit for artists, managers and teams, and Studio, a creative division for collaborations between creatives and brands. (RotD) 
ISSUE: 06 Jun 2023
  • Arcadia launches competition to DJ on its Afterburner stage at Bristol's Valley Fest. (Mixmag) 
  • Armada Music celebrated its 20-year anniversary last week. (Armada) 
  • NTIA says the night time economy & event sector is estimated to lose over £200m in revenue due to half term rail strike action in the UK. (RotD) 
  • A panel of live music professionals at Primavera Pro has publicly questioned search engines for their role in helping to facilitate unauthorised ticket resale – a major cause in leading fans to overpriced, misleading and often invalid tickets. (RotD) 
  • The Intellectual Property Office has published the UK Industry Agreement on Music Streaming Metadata. (RotD) It includes a shared ambition to progressively improve metadata in new recordings and consistent crediting on streaming services over a two-year period.
    The UK Council Of Music Makers (CMM), the umbrella body consisting of the Ivors Academy, the FAC, MMF, MPG and the MU, has welcomed the announcement (RotD), as did the BPI and AIM. (RotD)
ISSUE: 30 May 2023
  • Bridges For Music announce their 7th ADE charity cycle. (RotD) 
  • Point Blank Music School in Los Angeles (PBLA) and Focusrite Group have announced their Full-Ride Scholarship. (PBMS) 
  • Ibiza tourists could face a "villa shortage" this summer, says the Balearic president. (DJMag) 
ISSUE: 16 May 2023
  • Black Artist Database (B.A.D.) has launched a record label with a VA compilation. (XLR8R) 
  • A European Parliament vote has set the stage for final negotiations on the AI Act, which EU officials are billing as “the world’s first rules on artificial intelligence.” Meanwhile, early music industry responses to the sweeping legislation’s progress appear positive. (DMN) 
  • Over 200 industry leading professionals have been confirmed to take part in panels and workshops for Brighton Music Conference. (RotD) 
ISSUE: 09 May 2023
  • Berlin-based record label and events company Dystopian is closing. (RA) 
  • Artist marketing platform un:hurd has appointed Paul Trueman to the newly created role of COO. He was previously General Manager at AWAL. SoundCloud's VP of Music Intelligence Hazel Savage has joined the un:hurd Board of Directors. (MBW) 
ISSUE: 02 May 2023
  • Spinnin' Records has reached 30m subscribers on their YouTube channel and are launching an animated series to celebrate. (EDMTunes) 
  • Over 30 UK clubs have donated a share of their bar profits to War Child UK last weekend as part of its Right to Dance initiative. (DJMag) 
  • DJenerates offers the chance for aspiring DJs to win a set at Amnesia this summer. (DJMag)
  • HMV is to return to its former flagship store on Oxford Street later this year after a four-year absence. (Guardian)
  • IMS Ibiza 2023:
    International Music Summit (IMS)     has released the full findings of its annual IMS Business Report. (RotD, Report, Billboard, Variety, RA, Mixmag) Highlights include:
    - The global dance music industry valuation at $11.3bn, an increase of 34% and 16% higher than pre-pandemic levels. The jump is partly fuelled by the creator community and live sector.
    - Ibiza club ticketing revune generated $137m, up 55% fro $88m in 2019.
    - Electronic music artists represented 39% of all festival bookings. 
    - Only one in five 'dance music creators' earn a living from their craft
    - Tech House remains Beatport's leading genre

    Grimes Keynote Speech (IMS Twitter Livefeed) highlights include: 
    - “Dance music is about interacting with technology, creating new landscapes and realities. Dance musicians aren’t afraid of technology that’s one of the reasons I love it so much.” 
    - “I feel strongly that there’s way too much gatekeeping in music.”
    - “I think everything about copyright is problematic. There’s too much top down control. 
    - “Why shouldn’t people be able to use my voice? Something cool and beautiful might come from it.” 

    Max Lousada on Warner's dance strategy, A&R, AI and the 'Art' of what's possible with technology. (MBW) 

    IMS Ibiza delegates face the future of AI: ‘Pandora’s Box is definitely open’. (Variety)
     
ISSUE: 25 Apr 2023
  • Youth Music has announced the latest round of funding as part of its NextGen Fund. Successful applicants will be given financial support to launch projects, build on ideas or launch businesses (Mixmag)
  • London-based radio station Rinse FM has acquired beloved Bristol radio station SWU.FM six months after it ceased broadcast, citing financial issues. (Mixmag) 
  • ANTS, Ushuaïa Ibiza and Beatport are teaming up to offer an aspiring DJ the chance to play on the White Isle this summer. (DJMag) 
  • Saffron Records has said that it can “no longer rely on art funding” to deal with gender imbalance in the music industry. (Mixmag)
  • Grimes is to deliver a keynote speech on AI in music at IMS Ibiza this week. (EDM) 
ISSUE: 18 Apr 2023
  • Tech person AI outputs MIDI codes to full songs in the style of Kraftwerk - but what to do with it and how can Kraftwerk be compensated? (Twitter - Brian Roemmele) 
  • Pete Tong DJ Academy announces Adam Beyer and Sama' Abdulhadi as new tutors. (DJMag) 
  • Less than three percent of music producers credited on the Billboard Hot 100 were women, according to the Fix The Mix Report. (DJMag) 
  • Music industry economist Will Page has been ruffling some feathers with his latest report. It’s an examination of potential equitable remuneration (ER) models for streaming, which would increase the share of royalties paid to artists. (MusicAlly) 
ISSUE: 11 Apr 2023
  • Insomniac Events has filed an application to secure a federal trademark registration on the ubiquitous rave phase, “PLUR". (Billboard) 
  • Dance label Armada Music revealed the first episode of its documentary series Armada Music 20 Years Classics, covering the history of dance music and its most seminal artists and hits. (RotD) 
  • Global music on-demand audio streams are growing at a faster pace than ever, with a study showing they crossed the one trillion mark on 31 March, setting a new record for the earliest that number had ever been reached in a single year. (Variety) 
  • The Haçienda DJ, M People founder and Factory Records legend Mike Pickering to be honoured at IMS Ibiza. (DJMag) 
ISSUE: 04 Apr 2023
  • The Electronic Dance Music Awards (EDMAs) have revealed the full list of winners at this year's event. 
  • In IFPI's latest Global Music Report, Sony Music raises serious concerns about AI-Synthesised vocals. (TorrentFreak)  
  • PPL's Q1 distribution of international revenue will pay £17.4m to more than 26,000 performers and recording rightsholders in the UK and around the world. (RotD) 
  • The Music Venue Trust’s #OwnOurVenues fundraising drive raised £2.3m from 1,200 investors, with the Arts & Culture Impact Fund set to provide £500,000 of funding. (Guardian) The idea is to put ownership of some venues in the hands of fans. 
  • The Night Time Industries Association (NTIA) has accused the UK government of "intentionally closing dancefloors", as a number of financial support schemes come to an end. (Mixmag) 
ISSUE: 28 Mar 2023
  • AIM has revealed final speakers and panel topics for AIM Connected, its flagship conference and networking event, being held this week. (RotD) 
  • Night Czar Amy Lamé says London’s nightlife is facing ‘extraordinary challenges’ three years on from lockdown. (Standard) 
    The Music Venue Trust says 2023 will be the worst year for venue closures since it formed in 2014. (BBC) 
  • Maykel Piron, the CEO and co-founder of Armada Music, has been presented with an Industry Achievement award at the Electronic Dance Music Awards (EDMAs). Other winners at the event held during Miami Music Week were: Loud Luxury - These Nights feat. KIDDO (Best Dance/Electro Pop Song); Armin van Buuren - One More Time feat. Maia Wright (Music Video Of The Year); Armin van Buuren (Best Radio Show) & Vassy (Icon Award).  (RotD, EDM)
ISSUE: 21 Mar 2023
  • 50% of UK gig-goers at risk of hearing loss, hear ringing noises, research finds. (DJMag) 
  • NTS Radio reveals 53 new residents, including Skee Mask, SPFDJ, Adonis. (RA) 
  • Carl Cox, Maya Jane Coles, Mr Scruff and Laura Jones are among the 20 new Featured Artists Coalition Ambassadors. (RotD) 
  • UK Music urged the Government to seize the chance to help boost the UK music industry after the Spring Budget and highlighted where further support was needed. (RotD) 
  • A list of more than 30 organisations, including major labels, Recording Academy, RIAA, and more, issue a list of principles to promote the advancement of AI while respecting human creativity and copyright law. (MusicAlly) 
    The US Copyright Office offers new guidance on AI copyright registration: ‘Copyright can protect only material that is the product of human creativity’. (DMN)   
    Artificial intelligence in its current form is based on the wholesale appropriation of existing culture, and the notion that it is actually intelligent could be actively dangerous. (Guardian - James Bridle) 
ISSUE: 14 Mar 2023
  • Music delivery platform and personalisation engine Reactional Music has reached an agreement with Hipgnosis Song Management, which will allow gamers to choose music from the Hipgnosis catalogue and it become part of gameplay. (RotD) 
  • Saffron, the non-profit organisation dedicated to advancing gender equality within the music industry, has launched a fundraising campaign to help it continue its work. (DJMag) 
  • The new CEO of Warner Music, Robert Kyncl, has called for music streaming platforms to increase their prices, which he believes is currently undervalued. (Mixmag) 
  • Jaguar has produced a new two-part documentary podcast that examines gender disparities in UK dance music. (DJMag) 
  • Electronic music industry has a 'pervasive culture' of abuse and sexual harassment, according to a survey by the Electronic Music Inclusion Initiative (EMII).  (RA) 
ISSUE: 07 Mar 2023
  • Italian ravers plan more nationwide protests against new 'anti-rave' law. (RA) 
  • Fast Company published its annual Most Innovative Companies list. In the music category BandLab came top, followed by Subtext, Tunecore, SoundExchange, Veeps, Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, Yousician, Black Lives in Music, and Dance Cry Dance. (FastCo) 
  • UK Music, and its music industry members, are backing a proposed new organisation, Creative Industries Independent Standards Authority (CIISA), which would lead work in the creative industries to prevent and tackle workplace bullying and harassment. (RotD) 
  • Musicians including Brian Eno are to name the Earth as a co-writer of their music, in order to divert a portion of their royalties towards environmental activism. (Guardian)  
  • WMG CEO Max Lousada, TaP Music Co-Founder Ben Mawson, SHERELLE, Elijah and Fat Tony are among the first speakers announced for electronic music industry summit IMS Ibiza. (RotD)  
ISSUE: 28 Feb 2023
  • Queensland becomes the first Australian state to introduce pill testing. (ToneDeaf) 
  • Police in Sheffield, UK, are investigating two illegal raves which angry residents said had "kept half of Sheffield awake". (BBC) 
  • The Pete Tong DJ Academy has launched a new scholarships scheme, providing free access to their full program to a select number of applications. (Mixmag) 
ISSUE: 21 Feb 2023
  • LA-based music rights management and licensing platform SourceAudio has sued Utopia Music over an allegedly stalled deal via which the latter was meant to acquire the former. (CMU) 
ISSUE: 14 Feb 2023
  • AVA London returns to Printworks on 24 February with its Electronic Music & Arts Conference, featuring a host of artist and industry speakers. The programme includes talks, workshops, and interactive sessions. 
  • A study sponsored by the Association For Electronic Music has found that 58% of respondents have a neurodiverse condition. (Billboard) 
  • Metallic Inc announced the 2023 Metallic Fund. Now in its third year, it is set to award over £60,000 to young British Black creatives across the arts to help assist in realising their artistic vision. (RotD) 
  • Becky Hill has won the Best Dance Act at the BRIT Awards, while David Guetta won the award for Best Producer. (RotD)
  • The Night Time Industries Association (NTIA) has found that electronic music is worth over £2.6bn to the UK economy. (Mixmag) 
    30 percent of UK clubs have shut since the pandemic, report finds. (RA) 
    The report highlights three major challenges that have been forcing so many clubs to shut their doors - real estate issues, costs and regulatory hurdles. (Attack) 
ISSUE: 07 Feb 2023
  • Young Berliners are set to receive €50 to go out clubbing through a new cultural programme in the German capital. (DJMag) 
  • US report finds women remain underrepresented and stereotyped in music. (Guardian) 
  • Billboard’s annual Power 100 list of the music industry’s top players reflects a year of change. (Billboard) Lucian Grainge tops the list, followed by Sony Music's Rob Stringer and Live Nations's Michael Rapino. Other names include WMG's Robert Kyncl (4), Spotify's Daniel Ek (5), Apple Music's Oliver Schusser (6), YouTube's Lyor Cohen (10), WMG's Max Lousada (13) and SALXCO's Wassim "Sal" Slaiby (23). 
  • Beyonce has won Best Dance/Electronic Music Album for Renaissance and Best Dance/Electronic Recording for BREAK MY SOUL at this year's Grammys. (Independent) 
ISSUE: 31 Jan 2023
  • Rinse FM has acquired Kool Radio London and will relaunch the former pirate station under its original name, Kool FM. (RA) 
  • fabric has urged clubgoers to stay safe and be wary of a new unknown drug currently circulating UK clubs. (Mixmag)  
  • London's Night Time Economy Summit has confirmed the full lineup of speakers. (RA) 
  • The MSG Sphere, a new concert hall planned for Stratford in east London, could soon move a step closer to reality. (Guardian) 
  • Talent development company One House and sustainable living platform Aerial announced a tool for measuring, reducing, and offsetting the carbon emissions of artists and creators globally. (RotD)
ISSUE: 24 Jan 2023
  • BBC Radio 1Xtra launches a Black dance music show hosted by Jeremiah Asiamah. (Mixmag) 
  • Eats Everything, Fisher, Hannah Wants, LP Giobbi and Patrick Topping are the first acts set named to perform at Radio 1 Dance Weekend Ibiza in July. (BBC)  
  • Pete Tong DJ Academy announces Future Talent DJ Mixes series on Apple Music. (DJMag) 
  • Saffron’s digital tech event, 7 Days Of Sound, announces workshops with rRoxymore, Manuka Honey, and more. (DJMag)
  • Richie Hawtin, aka Plastikman, has unveiled details of PhD Scholarship at the University of Huddersfield. (RotD) 
  • Spotify and Deezer, along with other media firms, have urged the European Commission to take action against Apple Inc for anticompetitive and unfair practices, in a joint industry letter. (Reuters) 
ISSUE: 17 Jan 2023
  • US toy maker Mattel has launched a new American Girl doll that produces electronic music. (Mixmag) 
  • Keychange, the international initiative for gender equity in the music industry, welcomes 74 new participants to its 2023 Talent Development Programme. (RotD) 
  • The Government’s reduced energy support package for UK businesses will result in thousands of businesses closing and jobs being lost, according to the Night Time Industries Association (NTIA). (AAA) 
    Music Venue Trust issued a statement on the government's Energy Relief Bill Scheme. (RotD) 
  • The BRIT Awards 2023 have announced their nominations. Fred again.., Calvin Harris, Eliza Rose, Becky Hill and more electronic acts are among the listed. (Guardian) 
  • Universal Music Group CEO Lucian Grainge calls for streaming’s compensation model to ‘evolve’ as part of ‘the industry’s next big shift’. (Variety) 
  • A new parliamentary report has called for the UK government to streamline its policymaking in creative industries, in order to make the country’s music ecosystem more amenable to British musicians. (MusicAlly) Report summary. 
    The FAC & MMF responded to the report. (RotD)
ISSUE: 10 Jan 2023
  • EQ50 has revealed the full list of participants in the second run of its mentorship programme. (DJMag) 
  • A new overnight sleeper train between London and Berlin is launching in May. (DJMag) 
  • DJ Mag has teamed up with BBC Radio 1 Dance Presents to host a month-long residency, presenting a selection of our Ones To Watch for 2023 with weekly guest mixes. (DJMag) 
  • In the BBC Sound of 2023 poll Fred again.. came second while Nia Archives was third. (BBC) 
ISSUE: 20 Dec 2022
  • DJ Mag has announced the winners of their Best of British Awards 2022. (DJMag) 
  • A legal appeal launched by a former record scout at R&S Records, following an employment tribunal judgment, has been refused. (RotD) 
  • DjHistory.com, a website and community with the aim of preserving dance music’s history, is relaunching after 20 years. (RotD) 
  • In December 2021, Sony Music fully acquired Ultra Records from Patrick Moxey. Now, Ultra Records is suing over Moxey’s continued use of the ‘Ultra’ name for his independent publishing company, Ultra International Music Publishing. (MBW) 
ISSUE: 13 Dec 2022
  • Artist development company One House claims it is "putting equity-ownership and self-determination in the hands of a new generation of uncompromising, independently-minded, globally-successful creatives". (RotD) 
  • The winners of the annual Radio 1 Dance Awards 2022 are Chase & Status (Dance); Clementine Douglas (Dance Vocalist of the Year), Fred Again.. (Viral Moment); TAAHLIAH (BBC Introducing Dance Artist); TSHA - Capricorn Sun (Dance Album Project); Goddard & Venbee - Messy in Heaven (Bass Track); Nia Archives (Breakthrough Artist); Gardna (Mini Mix); The Jaguar Foundation (Dance Impact Award); Kx5 Ft. Hayla - Escape (Electronic Chill Track ); KH (Essential Mix) and LF System - Afraid To Feel (Dance Track). (BBC) 
ISSUE: 06 Dec 2022
  • Reprezent Radio has opened applications for its training programme Create Next!. (DJMag) 
  • Nia Archives have been shortlisted for the 2023 BRITs Rising Star award. (RotD) 
  • Nia Archives, piri & tommy and Fred again..named in the BBC Radio 1's Sound of 2023. (BBC) 
  • Among the MOBO Awards winners, Nia Archives won the Best Electronic/dance act and PinkPantheress was awarded the Best Female act. (Guardian) 
  • In its report, the Competition & Markets Authority said artists’ concerns about low returns were understandable, but intervening in the market would be unlikely to help. (MusicAlly) 
ISSUE: 29 Nov 2022
  • A new report published BMJ Global Health Journal details how over a billion young people could be at risk of hearing loss. (Mixmag) 
  • The Pete Tong Music Academy launches Future Talent Awards. (DJMag) 
  • A report by Night Time Industries Association and the Association for Electronic Music shows that the nightlife economy accounts for a huge £36.4bn a year, or 1.6% of UK GDP. It also accounts for 425,000 jobs across the UK. (Mixmag) 
ISSUE: 22 Nov 2022
  • Radiocentre is in court bringing a challenge against Ofcom over its approval of Radio 1 Dance without requiring the BBC to carry out a public interest test. (RadioToday) 
  • A new study conducted by Bristol nightclub Motion has revealed 88% of students believe clubbing helps mental wellbeing. (Mixmag) 
  • The Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee examined how the Government, music industry, and musicians have responded to the Committee’s Economics of music streaming report, one year on from its release. (Parliament) 
    AIM CEO Paul Pacifico issued a short comment. (RotD) 
  • Electronic and dance music winners from the 2022 Artist & Manager Awards in association with beatBread were Becky Hill (Artist), Callum Reece (Breakthrough Manager - Eliza Rose/Sherelle) and Carl Cox (Pioneer). (RotD) 
  • ODESZA, Diplo, RÜFÜS DU SOL, Bonobo and Beyoncé lead 2023 Dance/Electronic Grammy nominations. (Billboard) 
ISSUE: 15 Nov 2022
  • Don Lewis, engineer and Roland TR-808 developer, dies aged 81. (RA) 
  • The MOBO Awards launches Best Electronic/Dance Act category. The nominees are Anz, Eliza Rose, FKA Twigs, Jax Jones, Nia Archives and SHERELLE. (Mixmag)
  • David Guetta won awards for Best Electronic Artist and Best Collaboration (I'm Good (Blue) with Bebe Rexha) at the MTV Europe Music Awards. (Variety) 
  • BBC Radio 1 Dance Live Ibiza weekender is set to return on 28-30 July. (IbizaSpotlight) 
  • Scientists say when very low frequency (VLF) sound was introduced during a live electronic music event, gig-goers moved more even though they could not hear the frequencies. (Guardian) 
  • More than half of nighttime venues in the UK say they will go bust within three months when the Energy Bill Relief Scheme ends in April, according to the Night Time Industries Association. (SundayTimes) 
ISSUE: 08 Nov 2022
  • Doors Open and RA launch project to tackle inequalities in the music industry. (RA) 
  • Recession looms over the music industry. (David Turner) 
  • Maya Nager tragically passed away at the age of 19 after collapsing at the Terminal V festival in Edinburgh. (DailyRecord) 
  • Dance music's popularity is escalating this year with the genre claiming 26.1% of the hits that have made the UK Official Singles Chart Top 10 in 2022, according to analysis of OCC data by the BPI. (RotD) 
  • A report by Night Time Industries Association has suggested that one in three nightclubs in the UK could close before we enter the new year. (Mixmag) 
ISSUE: 01 Nov 2022
  • World Electronic Music Awards to air from Las Vegas next year. (Billboard) 
  • The Black Music Summit, a social enterprise invested in the global development and celebration of Black music talent, plans to launch a number of events in key locations around the world, leading to Ibiza in Summer 2023. (RotD)  
  • A new code of conduct to eliminate racism in the music industry will be adopted in 2023. Designed by Black Lives in Music (BLIM), the UK Music Industry Anti-Racism Code will cover issues around pay, inclusion and safety for Black, Asian and ethnically diverse members of the sector. (Guardian) 
  • BBC Radio 1 has announced the DJs named as part of the Annie Nightingale Presents Scholarship 2022, an initiative which launched last year to champion up-and-coming women and non-binary DJs in the Dance scene. (BBC) 
  • Amsterdam Dance Event 2022 had 450,000 attendees at this year's event and has announced it will return in 2023 on 18-22 October. (EDM) 
  • Laila McKenzie, co-founder of collective and record label Lady of the House (LOTH), is set to “take time away” from her role following accusations of bullying, gaslighting, and harassment. Laila McKenzie has since denied these reports, saying in a statement that she "wholly reject(s) the allegations made" and that she "was shocked and saddened by [Black Girl, White Girl's] subsequent public statement and personal attack on my character." (DJMag) 
ISSUE: 25 Oct 2022
  • DJs Raise £37k for Bridges for Music during ADE Cycle Tour 2022. (EDMTunes) 
  • On-demand vinyl platform, elasticStage, has announced the opening of its new north-west London production and R&D facility. (RotD) It claims a new manufacturing process offers drastically shorter lead times, and is "on a mission to make every title ever recorded available to purchase on vinyl". 
  • Funding platform for independent musicians and labels beatBread has announced an exclusive investor network that adds funding from music companies and professionals, distributors and high net worth individuals to its existing pool of institutional capital. (RotD) 
  • The Face-value European Alliance for Ticketing (FEAT) has agreed to continue campaigning for a Europe-wide ban on ticket resale above face-value and unveiled plans for an international consumer awareness initiative geared at educating fans on the risks of buying tickets from uncapped secondary ticketing sites. (RotD) 
ISSUE: 18 Oct 2022
  • Lady Of The House has revealed the winners of its competition aimed at women and non-binary producers. The winners were 'Bill's Groove' by Angel Lee feat. LKP (Jaguar), 'Swayin' by Esther Turner (Sam Divine), 'Vivid' by EVALINA (Becky Hill) and 'Meditation' by Jamurai (Charlie Tee). (DJMag) 
  • 18 months on from IMPALA adopting its far-reaching ten-point plan to reform streaming, it has called for renewed collaboration across the whole music sector to grow revenues, address fairness across the digital market, and develop a clear strategy on risk-taking. (RotD) 
  • Virgin Music UK has announced the launch of Parachute, a new distribution and artist services arm for dance and electronic artists with crossover appeal. (RotD) 
ISSUE: 11 Oct 2022
  • Glasgow arts venue SWG3 has switched on a system that creates renewable energy from the body heat on its dancefloor. (BBC) 
  • Manchester event Homobloc is releasing a collection of charity T-shirts with help from Róisín Murphy, Honey Dijon and the promoter's local partner Feel Good Club. (DJMag) 
  • Mary Anne Hobbs announces Kelly Lee Owens, Taahliah, HAAi and Nia Archives for All Queens Radio 6 residency. (DJMag) 
  • Radio 1 will partner with eleven radio stations from across ten countries for a marathon broadcast on 14 October showcasing the best of each nation’s dance scene. (BBC) 
  • Amsterdam Dance Event has completed the line-up for this year's event, adding Hardwell, Martin Garrix, Joseph Capriati, Peggy Gou and Richie Hawtin to its conference program.  (DJMag) 
  • Late night venues in the UK have been attacked by an exponential increase in noise complaints, especially in London hubs, the Night Time Industries Association (NTIA) has claimed. (CityAM) 
ISSUE: 04 Oct 2022
  • Berlin-based online radio station HÖR is launching a new website, as well as a subscription service. (DJMag) 
  • Nia Archives (One To Watch) and Local Action (Boutique Label) won awards at the AIM Awards in the UK. (RotD)
  • "Women in Music Tech" summit to offer free masterclasses, workshops, and networking events on 15-16 October. (EDM) 
ISSUE: 27 Sep 2022
  • DJ Stu Allan has died aged 60 after an almost year-long battle with cancer. He was a fan favourite among the 1990s rave scene and worked at Piccadilly Radio and Key 103 in Manchester throughout the 1980s and 1990s. (Mail)
  • UK charity Help Musicians has relaunched its subsidiary organisation, Music Minds Matter, as a single-focus charity devoted to the issue of mental health. (DJMag) 
  • Energy bills for UK businesses will be cut by around half their expected level this winter under a huge government support package. (BBC) NITA issued a statement on the package. (AAA)
  • Tributes have been paid to Scottish DJ and producer Jamie Roy, who has died aged 33. (BBC) No cause of death has been given.
ISSUE: 20 Sep 2022
  • Gordo, pka Carnage, headlined Ministry of Sound this past Saturday. After his headline set, or rather, after he was scheduled to end, he apparently continued playing, cutting the closing sets of Waze and Essel who were scheduled to play after him. (YourEDM)
  • Festicket collapse will lead to "detrimental losses" for clubs and promoters. (Mixmag)
  • Trax Records responds to royalties scandals, lawsuits: ‘We had no real control of the company’. (RA)
ISSUE: 06 Sep 2022
  • BBC Radio 1 has announced Uncle Waffles, Ahadadream, Helena Hauff, Eliza Rose, Joseph Capriati and Skream as the latest DJs to join BBC Radio 1’s Residency. (BBC) 
  • A new report from inclusion campaigners Why Not Her? has found a huge disparity in racial and gender balances across the 26 top British radio stations. (Mixmag) 
  • UK Music and the Music Venue Trust has called on ministers to cut VAT from its current 20% and extend business rate to help music hubs across the country as they face permanent closure without swift action due to rising energy bills. Around 30% of UK music venues were now facing the threat of permanent closure. (RotD) 
ISSUE: 30 Aug 2022
  • Former Beatport employees allege a toxic workplace where fear ruled. (Vice) 
    A statement in response to Vice’s allegations, courtesy of Beatport’s CEO. (Beatportal) 
ISSUE: 16 Aug 2022
  • Hospitality, entertainment, music venue and night-time associations in the UK write an open letter to the Government calling for urgent action on rising energy costs. (RotD) 
  • UK record labels invested £494.8m supporting artists' careers and development in 2021 through A&R, marketing and promotion – more than double their investment in 2016, according to new figures released by the BPI. (RotD) 
  • One person was killed and several injured after a stage collapsed at Medusa Festival in Spain. (Mixmag) 
ISSUE: 09 Aug 2022
  • Music charity Bridges For Music is staging the sixth edition of its annual charity Amsterdam Dance Event cycle this October. (DJMag) 
ISSUE: 02 Aug 2022
  • Tresor and Kraftwerk co-founder Regina Baer has passed away. (Mixmag) 
  • Diplo, TSHA, Swedish House Mafia and more announced for Radio 1’s Dance Weekend 2022, joining the station’s mammoth 70 hour celebration of dance music during 5-7 August. (BBC)
  • Britain has 20% fewer nightclubs than it had when the country first went into lockdown in March 2020. (BBC)
  • Boudica, an organisation focused on giving visibility to women, trans+ and non-binary artists, has shared the full programme for the second edition of its Boudica Music Conference. (DJMag) 
ISSUE: 26 Jul 2022
  • Recognise The Music in the UK has launched in partnership with Music Venue Trust, Audoo, FAC and the MMF to improve the accuracy of royalty payments for artists and songwriters from public performance. (MW) 
  • The CMA in the UK has decided not to conduct a full market investigation into streaming music and the music industry. It will continue its market study as planned for the next six months. (MusicAlly) 
ISSUE: 19 Jul 2022
  • Prolific Songs and Tileyard Education have launched The Hit Academy Asia, an international songwriting and music production programme for aspiring and established songwriters, producers, and artists. (RotD) Sister Bliss from Faithless is to mentor. 
  • 'World's first' bioplastic, plant-based vinyl features Bicep, Angel Olsen (RA)
  • 'The creative hub of Ibiza': New multimedia facility Vitalik Studios opens to the public. (RA)
  • Bridges For Music relaunches charity cycle to ADE in October. (RA)
  • Sister Bliss together with Tileyard London and Prolific Songs launch The Hit Academy Asia Singapore. (DT)
  • As it continues to revolutionise the event ticketing industry, SeatlabNFT announced its £1m SeatlabNFT Event Creator Fund to help artists and event organisers with the cost of running live events. (DT)
ISSUE: 12 Jul 2022
  • Tomorrowland has announced a 21-day streaming schedule for the 16th edition of Tomorrowland Worldwide. (DJMag) 
ISSUE: 05 Jul 2022
  • A recent report in the journal Scientific Reports, which details the findings of a study of young adults, suggests that dance music containing a "groove" is good for cognitive wellbeing. (Mixmag) 
  • In the US, the Copyright Royalty Board has set a new rate, raising mechanical royalties for publishers and songwriters. The new 15.1% royalty rate applies from 2018 through 2022. Not every concession was granted, and Spotify, Google, Amazon, and Pandora are fighting to delay retroactive payments. (Variety) 
ISSUE: 28 Jun 2022
  • Ukraine's parliament voted this week to ban some music by Russian artists in order to restrict Russia's cultural influence. (RA) 
  • Journalist and Resident Advisor contributor Annabel Ross says she was banned from reviewing the most recent edition of the Detroit festival Movement at Carl Craig's request. (RA) 
  • Four Tet, aka Kieran Hebden, has announced that he has settled his dispute with Domino Records over royalty rates. (Guardian) 
ISSUE: 21 Jun 2022
  • Trap Nation has launched a royalty-free label imprint, broke. (EDMTunes) 
  • The cost of shipping vinyl from Germany to the rest of the world is set to significantly increase as a result of pricing amendments to 'vinyl-sized' parcels by DHL. (DJMag) 
  • New ad platform Into-it launches with record labels, artists, venues and media partners. (RotD) 
  • The winners of DJ Mag Best of North America awards have been announced. They include: Green Velvet (DJ), John Summit (Breakthrough DJ), ZHU (Live Act) and Lane 8 (Producer). (DJMag) 
  • A suspect has confessed to the murder of former Mixmag editor Dom Phillips and Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira. (Mixmag) Brazilian police have confirmed one of the two bodies discovered in the Amazon rainforest in Brazil is Dom Phillips. (Mixmag) 
ISSUE: 14 Jun 2022
  • Bestival founder Rob Da Bank has won his four-year-long court case against him — having been sued for £650,000 for an alleged unpaid loan. (CountyPress) 
  • A rise in fake MDMA in the UK is being caused by supply chain issues fuelled by Brexit, the COVID-19 pandemic and ongoing police crackdowns. (DJMag) 
  • The wife and mother-in-law of former Mixmag editor Dom Phillips have said their hopes of finding him alive had gone. (Guardian)  Police deny bodies have been found. (BBC)
ISSUE: 07 Jun 2022
  • The Night Time Industries Association has appointed Sacha Lord, Night Time Economy Advisor for Greater Manchester and co-founder of Parklife festival and The Warehouse Project, as chair of its Board of Directors. (AAA) 
  • Spinnin’ Records is restructuring its marketing department and highlighting Web3 and NFTs as key spaces for the company’s future. Susanne Hazendonk has been named Spinnin’ Records’ new VP of Marketing. (RotD) 
  • Moodymann injured in 'severe' car accident in the US. (RA) Mahogani Music posted an update "Everyone involved in the collision is on the road to recovery. Unfortunately we must cancel some upcoming tour dates."
  • The World Health Organisation (WHO) has suggested that the spread of monkeypox could be amplified this summer over festival season. (Mixmag)
  • The cost inflation has caused half the night industry to feel “unsure” on whether it will be able to last the next 12 months. (Mixmag)
  • Former Mixmag editor Dom Phillips is missing in the Brazilian Amazon. (RA)
  • Dave Smith, maker of Prophet synths and MIDI co-inventor, dies at 72. (RA)
ISSUE: 31 May 2022
  • The Music Managers Forum in the UK has published a Digital Burnout report that explores some of the challenges facing artists/managers, how they might be addressed, and a number of recommendations. Download the report here. (Anneliese Harmon - General Manager of Music Managers Forum)
ISSUE: 17 May 2022
  • A new directory, In The Key of She, has been created for women, trans, and non-binary musicians in electronic music. (Mixmag)  
  • PPL in the UK has delivered a 12% increase in revenues in 2021 to £252.8m. All three revenue streams – International, Broadcast and online, and Public performance and dubbing - grew year-on-year, with International and Broadcast and online licensing revenues delivering record annual amounts. It's the company’s second highest annual revenue total, after 2019’s £271.8m. (RotD)
  • The UK's first regular drug checking service is launching in Bristol this month, delivered by non-profit harm reduction specialists The Loop in a new partnership with the local authority. (DJMag) 
  • Among the many winners at the Billboard Music Awards were Lady Gaga who won the Dance/Electronic Artist award and Elton John & Dua Lipa for “Cold Heart – PNAU Remix” won the Best Dance/Electronic Song. (Variety) 
  • 103 UK festivals have committed to The Association of Independent Festivals' (AIF) Safer Spaces At Festivals campaign, which is aimed at tackling sexual violence at festivals and has been relaunched to address the issue in 2022 and beyond. (RotD) 
  • Agents and tour managers are having to cancel British performances because visas for performers that used to be turned around within a fortnight are now taking up to two months. (Guardian) 
  • IMS Ibiza Summit 2022:
    Visionary producer and artist Brian Eno outlined how musicians – and fans – can play their part in creating another green world. (Face) 
    MDLBEAST showcases cultural progress in Saudi and the region. (DeepHouseAmsterdam) 
ISSUE: 10 May 2022
  • Electronic music platform and magazine Resident Advisor has set up a new governance board with community representation at its core. (RA) 
  • Techno Worlds is a new book set to examine the impact of techno music on numerous aspects of popular culture. (Mixmag) 
  • UK organisation Youth Music has launched the third round of its NextGen Fund. (DJMag) 
  • New rules for specialist hauliers will ensure British talent can tour more freely between the UK and abroad. (RA)
  • Non-profit organisation DanceSafe has just released updated guidance on how to safely check drugs. (Mixmag) 
  • Copyright Royalty Board asked by the major label members of RIAA, as well as members of the National Music Publishers Association (NMPA) and the Nashville Songwriters Association International (NSAI), to approve 32% increase on mechanical royalties for physical product, downloads, ringtones and music bundles. (Variety) 
  • Ibiza has imposed strict new laws governing alcohol consumption. Tourists found to break the new rules could be fined between €1000 to €6000. (Mixmag) 
  • The head of dance label R&S Records, Renaat Vandepapeliere, has had a claim accusing him of racial discrimination dismissed by an employment tribunal. (BBC)
  • IMS Ibiza Summit 2022:
    Dance music looks to find its footing — and some respect — at IMS Ibiza. (Billboard)
    Director of the UN’s SDG Action Campaign, Marina Ponti outlines how Dance Music can help end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure peace. (Decoded)
    Beatport announced its intention to invest $100,000 into an idea that would accelerate gender parity across the greater DJ music industry. (RotD)
    IMS Ibiza WEB3 and Metaverse day (XLR8R)
    The main takeaways from IMS part 2. (Attack)
ISSUE: 03 May 2022
  • AWAL has launched the AWAL Academy, a series of filmed interviews with experts in music promotion and marketing, that together create a programme of learning for independent artists. It is available exclusively to AWAL artists. (RotD) 
  • Pete Tong and Carl Cox, in partnership with Rome's MAT Academy, are launching an e-learning platform for aspiring DJs. (RA)  
  • IMS Ibiza Summit 2022:
    The annual IMS Business Report 2022 showed the total Dance and Electronic Music industry valuation at $6bn, returning to strong growth but still not reaching its pre-pandemic levels. (RotD, Billboard, MW, EDM, RA) Tech-house overtook techno as most popular genre of electronic music. (DJMag) Download the report here. 
    Ukrainian artist Nastia delivered a keynote speech about the devasting impact of the war in Ukraine. She told the audience that she has pledged to donate 50% of her fees to various charities in Ukraine. (DJMag)
    The main takeaways from IMS 2022 Part 1 (Attack) 
    IMS Ibiza 2022 review (IbizaSpotlight: Day One, Two/Skiddle: Day One, Two, Three)
ISSUE: 26 Apr 2022
  • Neurodiversity in electronic music industry explored in new AFEM survey. (DJMag) 
  • Dorothy Carvello has announced the launch of a new foundation helping survivors of sexual abuse in the music industry, Face The Music Now. (Mixmag) 
  • The Mental Health Coalition, in association with Universal Music Group and the Universal Music All Together Now Foundation, have collaborated on the release of a new public road map to help individuals navigate the very real mental health issues surrounding climate change, eco anxiety, climate trauma, PTSD and climate justice. (RotD) 
  • IMS Ibiza Summit 2022 starts tomorrow (27 April) for its three-day event. 
    Key highlights include:
    In Conversation discussions with Lyor Cohen, Global Head of Music, YouTube and Trevor McFedries, CEO/Founder, Friends With Benefits;
    Keynote Speeches - Road to Recovery by Robb McDaniels, Ten Years of AFEM by Silvia Montello, and Surviving 20 Years in the Event Industry with Wilf Gregory;
    Artist interviews - BLOND:ISH, Deadmau5, Richie Hawtin, Jamie Jones, Nastia & more;
    Pixelynx presents Metaverse & Web3. (RotD) 
ISSUE: 19 Apr 2022
  • Former Bassnectar collaborator Mimi Page launches initiative promoting consent culture in dance music. (Billboard) 
  • Nia Archives has criticised the MOBO Awards in an open letter about the show's lack of electronic and dance music representation. (RA) 
  • The FAC announced a partnership with Soundcloud, to include educational workshops, networking events, roundtable discussions, amplification across FAC editorial properties, and more. (RotD) 
ISSUE: 12 Apr 2022
  • Ingrooves Music Group has been issued a second patent for artificial-intelligence identification of high-value audiences. (Hits) 
  • female:pressure, a global network of women, non-binary and transgender artists, has written an open letter slamming Frankfurt's Museum of Modern Electronic Music (MOMEM) for a lack diversity and a failure to sufficiently acknowledge techno's Black roots. (RA) 
ISSUE: 05 Apr 2022
  • Silvia Montello has been appointed CEO of Association for Electronic Music (AFEM). She will replace Greg Marshall who said, "The time is right for me to adjust my balance of focus between AFEM and consulting on other projects within electronic music." (MW) 
  • Miami police report a "record low" number of arrests from Ultra Music Festival 2022. (EDM) 
  • Annie Mac announced she is creating a club night for older clubbers that opens at 7pm and ends at midnight. (Guardian) The first night is at Islington Assembly Hall, London on 20 May. 
  • Rüfüs du Sol won Best Dance/Electronic Recording at the Grammys for 'Alive'. Black Coffee won Best Dance/Electronic Music Album for Subconsciously. (Independent) 
ISSUE: 29 Mar 2022
  • The UK's commercial radio body Radiocentre and the All-Party Parliamentary Group believe BBC Radio 1 Dance stream doesn't pass the BBC's Public Value Test. (RA) 
  • UK Music has launched a survey for creators that it hopes will give them a better understanding of the economic landscape of the music industry. 
  • Russia:
    Spotify will discontinue access to its streaming services in Russia in light of the country’s dramatic new restrictions on free speech. (TechCrunch) 
  • Ukraine:
    Kyiv's 20ft Radio launches new charity project, Grains Of Peace. (RA) 
  • IMS Ibiza (International Music Summit) announced the first details of its summit agenda for its 27-29 April event.
    Key highlights include: In Conversation discussions with Lyor Cohen, Global Head of Music, YouTube and Trevor McFedries, CEO/Founder, Friends With Benefits; Keynote Speeches - Road to Recovery by Robb McDaniels, Ten Years of AFEM by Silvia Montello, and Surviving 20 Years in the Event Industry with Wilf Gregory; Artist interviews - BLOND:ISH, Deadmau5, Richie Hawtin, Jamie Jones, Nastia & more; and Pixelynx presents Metaverse & Web3. (RotD) 
ISSUE: 22 Mar 2022
  • Metalheadz starts techno-inspired label, Headzstate. (DJMag) 
  • The London Assembly has suggested installing drug testing facilities at nightclubs. (Mixmag) 
  • The IMS Legends Award 2022 is to honour Simon Dunmore, founder and head of Defected Records. (RotD) 
  • The BPI reported UK recorded music revenue rose by 12.8% in 2021 to reach £1.262bn. Streaming revenue was up 13.7% to £837.2m, with physical formats on CD and vinyl growing by 14.6% to £241m. (RotD) 
  • Russia:
    CISAC issued a statement regarding Russia's invasion of Ukraine, writing "After careful consideration, the CISAC Board has decided that each individual society should decide on whether to maintain their business relationships with Russian societies, and what the terms of any relationship should be". (Variety) 
    Believe has pledged to keep its operations open in Russia and is advising partners how to work around sanctions imposed over the invasion of Ukraine. (Guardian) 
  • Ukraine: 
    Massive Attack’s Robert Del Naja is offering fans another chance to purchase limited-edition prints, which will help raise funds for victims of the Ukraine conflict. (Independent)  
    Ukrainian label Muscut has released a fundraising compilation to support those affected by Russia's current invasion of the country. (DJMag)
    Amelie Lens’ Exhale Records has released a 14-track fundraising compilation for Ukrainian aid, 'Together for Ukraine!'. (DJMag) 
ISSUE: 15 Mar 2022
  • The first Night Time Economy Summit is taking place on 7 & 8 April in Bristol. (RA)  
  • Fix the Mix launches to elevate women and equalise the recording industry. (RotD) 
  • Safer Spaces, set up to tackle issues around sexual violence, harassment and abuse at music festivals and events, has launched in the UK. (RotD) 
  • Russia:
    Sony Music has suspended all of its operations in Russia. (Variety) 
    Warner Music Group has suspended all of its operations in Russia. (RotD) 
    Universal Music Group has ceased operating in Russia. (DMN)
    Kobalt and Downtown are suspending business activity in Russia. (Variety) 
    FUGA halts new music delivery to Russian-owned DSPs and content platforms. (RotD) 
    CISAC launched a new support fund dedicated to helping the victims of the war in Ukraine, although it stopped short of suspending operations with Russia. (Variety) 
  • Ukraine:
    Underground4Ukraine, a new fundraising initiative to support Ukraine in the wake of the Russian invasion, has launched to 'unite the underground against war'. (DJMag) 
    ​Tash LC, Manuka Honey and more head up Ukraine fundraiser at Pickle Factory. (Mixmag) 
    Kyiv club ∄ has set up a new initiative aiming to build a community fund for Ukrainian creatives that have been affected by Russia's invasion of the country. (DJMag) 
    Ukraine fundraisers happening around the world. (RA) 
ISSUE: 08 Mar 2022
  • The Night Time Industries Association have spoken out about concerns that elements of a previously outlawed form of discriminatory licensing policy is once again rearing its head. (RotD) 
  • Saffron launches zine and announce 40 free “Music Tech Kits” will be made available to Black women, non-binary, trans and gender non-conforming people in the UK. (DJMag) 
  • Ukraine:
    'Fight against Russian aggression': Ukrainian electronic music scene urges boycott in open letter. (RA) 
    Ukrainian labels Standard Deviation and Mystictrax have curated a 65-track fundraiser compilation to support humanitarian organisations in Ukraine. (DJMag) 
    DJMag and Night Tales have teamed up to raise money for the Disasters Emergency Committee Ukraine appeal. 
    This weekend, London-based promoters and fundraisers Save Our Scene are hosting an event in support of Ukraine. (Mixmag) 
    Fundraising parties across the globe. (RA) 
ISSUE: 01 Mar 2022
  • MC Skibadee, best known as one of the pioneers of drum’n’bass, has died aged 47. (Guardian) 
    RIP MC Skibadee: The iconic voice of drum ‘n’ bass who inspired successive generations. (Mixmag)
  • Brighton Music Conference announced the first wave of speakers for its May event. (RotD) 
  • Defected announces its triumphant return to Ibiza with a weekend of activity to kick off the summer in partnership with IMS this April. Hosting parties at Eden, Dalt Vila, Octan and Amnesia during the three days, the London-based music company will deliver its distinctive brand of events and house’s hottest acts to those attending the anticipated reopening of the White Isle. (Defected) 
  • Ukraine: How to help, resources, messages of solidarity (RA) 
    DJs are speaking out against Russian invasion of Ukraine. (EDMTunes) 
    A number of electronic music platforms will host DJ livestreams raising funds for Ukrainian aid organisations this week following Russia’s invasion of the country. (DJMag) 
ISSUE: 22 Feb 2022
  • Mina has launched a new platform aimed at helping artists with funding applications. (DJMag) 
  • The UK's Home Office is trailling a new digital nightlife ID through 1account app. (Mixmag)  
  • The UK's Association of Independent Festivals CEO Paul Reed highlights a live entertainment supply chain crisis, workforce shortages, and the effects of Brexit could create a ‘perfect storm’ as the 2022 festival season approaches. (RotD) 
  • Industry organisations welcome the Covid-19 restrictions being lifted but call on UK Government to continue support. (FAC, NTIA, LIVE/AIF/AFEM)
ISSUE: 15 Feb 2022
  • Moog Music's new documentary series, GIANTS, highlights synth icons. (RA) 
  • Ten million jobs in creative industries worldwide were lost in 2020 as a result of the Covid pandemic, and the increasing digitisation of cultural output means it is harder than ever for artists to make a living, a Unesco report has said. (Guardian) 
  • In the US, Warner Chappell chiefs draw battle lines in upcoming streaming royalty decision against Spotify, Google, Amazon and Pandora. (Variety)  
  • The NTIA said its latest survey of 198 nightlife operators found there has been a 26% jump in costs of running their businesses last year. Industry leaders have warned there "is little else" firms can do than pass increases onto customers. (RotD)  
  • Becky Hill won the award for Best Dance Act at the BRIT Awards 2022. (RotD) 
ISSUE: 08 Feb 2022
  • Warner Music Group announced a "legacy unrecouped advances program where, for our artists and songwriters who signed to us before 2000 and didn't receive an advance during or after 2000, we won't apply their unrecouped advances to royalty statements for any period beginning July 1, 2022 or after. The program will also benefit other artist royalty participants such as producers, engineers, mixers and remixers." (Variety) 
ISSUE: 01 Feb 2022
  • The Competition and Markets Authority in the UK has officially launched its music streaming market study. (Gov) It will assess whether there is a need for a full competition investigation and if the government should legislate to improve the UK music market, take enforcement action against firms, encourage industry self-regulation or allow it to continue as it does now.
ISSUE: 25 Jan 2022
  • Electronic music exhibition, Electro. From Kraftwerk to Techno, opens at Museum Kunstpalast in Düsseldorf. (RA) 
  • Keychange announce a new 2022 cohort of 76 artist and innovator participants from 12 countries to lead global movement for gender equality in music. (RotD) 
  • AVA London has announced the conference programme for its 2022 edition at Printworks on 18 March 2022. (RA) 
  • The UK could soon be left with just 5,000 nightclubs in operation across the country, according to a new study. (NME) According to the ONS, there were 10,040 registered clubs in the UK in 2010. 
  • The requirement for mandatory face coverings in public places and Covid passports in the UK will both be dropped from Thursday, meaning live venues and nightclubs should feel more confident. (BBC) 
    NTIA responds to Prime Minister's announcement on relaxing Plan B restrictions. (RotD) 
ISSUE: 18 Jan 2022
  • Lady Of The House is hosting an exhibition celebrating women in dance music from 8-12 March. (DJMag) 
  • A study has predicted that Ibiza’s beaches are likely to be destroyed by climate change.  (DJMag) 
  • Night Time Industries Association CEO Michael Kill argues that restrictions will “see a ramping up of house parties and illegal events”, while there are many people who “don’t agree with COVID passes”.(Mixmag) 
  • New vinyl pressing plant Press On Vinyl is hoping to press 50,000 records a month for independent artists and labels, at a new base in Middlesbrough. (RollingStone) Separately, Mobineko in Taiwan is offering a service to press 25 to 100 records per title. 
ISSUE: 11 Jan 2022
  • Google launches a free online electronic music exhibition. (Mixmag) 
  • 30 years of Irish dance music celebrated in four-part radio series. (Mixmag) 
  • Bristol-based organisation Saffron has revealed details of its second annual 7 Days Of Sound event. (DJMag) 
  • The Irish Government has announced they will be paying basic income to 2,000 artists. (EDMTunes) 
  • ERA reported preliminary 2021 figures for the music, video and games markets. Within music, subscription streaming services were estimated at £1,331m, up 10.9% in value from 2020, meaning a delivery of around £900m to record companies and music publishers. Compared to pre-pandemic 2019, physical was down 8.4% to £292m (CD albums down 30.8%, Vinyl albums up 39.6%, Singles up 31.6%), downloads down 38.7% to £55m (Albums down 37.3%, Tracks down 40.7%) and streaming up 27.2%. (RotD) 
  • BPI figures for 2021 show streaming accounted for 83% of overall music consumption in the UK. (RotD) 
  • PinkPantheress has been named winner of Radio 1’s Sound of 2022. (BBC) 
  • Reports of sexual assault and rape in London nightlife venues reached a six-year high in 2021, according to a new report by Time Out. (DJMag) 
  • Night Time Industries Association has called for the Government to consider reducing the Covid isolation period for workers or to work with the industry to examine a 'Test & Release' system. (RotD)  
    The NTIA has also warned UK clubs will go bust without more government support. (RA)
ISSUE: 21 Dec 2021
  • Warp, !K7, Ninja Tune and other labels join Music Climate Pact to reach net-zero emissions by 2050. (RA) 
  • The MU has requested financial support for musicians affected by the Omicron variant. (MU)  
  • Human Rights Watch asked artists/DJs to "speak up" on alleged Saudi human rights abuses at last last week's MDLBEAST SOUNDSTORM festival. (Mixmag) 
  • A survey found a catastrophic drop in attendance, advance ticket sales and spend per head has hit grassroots music venues since the Government announced the implementation of the Plan B restrictions last Wednesday, placing the entire sector back on red alert for the risk of permanent closures. (RotD) 
  • The Welsh government announced nightclubs are to close in Wales after Boxing Day in an effort to curb the spread of the Delta and Omicron variants. (RotD) 
  • Becky Hill, Calvin Harris, Fred again.., Joel Corry and Raye have been nominated for Best Dance at the BRITs Award 2022. (RotD) 
  • Winners of DJ Mag’s Best Of British Awards 2021 have been announced: OR:LA (DJ); PAWSA (Producer); Yung Singh (Breakthrough DJ); Samurai Breaks (Breakthrough Producer); Little Simz (MC/Vocalist); Nova (Breakthrough MC); Rhythm Section International (Label); Future Retro (Breakthrough Label); Joy Orbison - Still Slipping Vol.1[XL] (Album); Ewan McVicar - Tell Me Something Good [Trick] (Track); Sophie - Bipp (Autechre Mx) [Numbers] (Remix/Edit); Special Request - DJ Kicks: Special Request [!K7] (Compilation); Jaguar, BBC Introducing on Radio 1 Dance (Radio Show); Printworks, London (Large Club); Fold, London (Small Club); Animal Crossing (Club Event); We Out Here (Festival); Lost Village (Boutique Festival) and Ben Sims (Underground Hero). (DJMag) 
ISSUE: 14 Dec 2021
  • The Museum of Modern Electronic Music (MOMEM) in Frankfurt will officially open its doors to the public on 6 April 2022. (EDMTunes) 
  • Lateral flow AI recognition system Lateral Go speeds up entry to venues by removing the need to double queue or deliver additional checks at the entrance. (FestivalInsights) 
  • UK fans fail to show up for gigs. "You’re getting as much as 40% no-shows for some gigs now. It’s an enormous problem, and it’s happening for anything that’s ticketed”. (Guardian) "You are still getting money coming in from the tickets, but money is being lost on bar spend and security costs”. 
  • NHS COVID passes will be required for entry into nightclubs in England under newly announced “Plan B” measures in response to rising coronavirus cases. (DJMag)
  • Winners of BBC Radio 1 Dance Awards 2021 have been announced: Yousef, Circus Liverpool (Dance Impact); Bicep - Isles (Dance or Electronic Album of the Year); Ewan McVicar - Tell Me Something Good (Dance Track of the Year); TSHA (Breakthrough Artist of the Year); LOWES (Dance Vocalist of the Year) and Elkka (Essential Mix of the Year). (RotD)
ISSUE: 07 Dec 2021
  • Boiler Room and Ballantine’s have launched their True Music Studios global residencies series. (DJMag) 
  • Berlin techno DJs are calling on authorities to apply to Unesco to have Berlin's electronic dance music culture recognised as "intangible cultural heritage". (Guardian) 
  • Goldie, Sama' Abdulhadi, Folamour, Or:la, LCY and Scratcha DVA are to be the newest members of the Radio 1 Residency line-up. (BBC) 
  • Rebekah and Sydney Blu have teamed up to launch a campaign to encourage record labels to add more women artists to their roster. (DJMag) 
  • The Night Time Industries Association (NTIA) have launched a campaign to establish the position of Night Time Economy Advisors in every major city in the UK, arguing they will help to kickstart the embattled sector’s recovery from pandemic closures. (RotD) 
  • IMS Ibiza returns for its thirteenth edition in April 2022 following a two-year hiatus. Co-presented by BBC Radio 1 broadcasters Pete Tong MBE and Jaguar, the summit will adopt a no-panel policy for the first time. IMS instead will curate a series of keynotes, lectures, conversations, workshops and sessions with industry thought-leaders around the core values of IMS; sustainability, climate action, equality, innovation, collaboration, transparency, education, mental health and wellbeing. (RotD)
ISSUE: 30 Nov 2021
  • Disco Pogo, a new electronic music magazine, website and community from the original founders of Jockey Slut, close in on its crowdfunding target. 
  • A third of professional musicians in the UK are still not earning from their work due to the pandemic, according to research by the charity Help Musicians. (DJMag) 
  • Black Coffee, James Blake, David Guetta, Caribou are among the 2022 Grammy Nominees. (RA) 
  • For the 2022 BRIT Awards ceremony, a new award, artist of the year, will replace the British male solo artist and British female solo artist categories. An international artist of the year award will replace the previously gendered international solo artist awards. There will be new awards for genres, including dance act, plus a new honorary award for songwriter of the year, joining the producer of the year award. (Guardian) 
  • Four Tet says his former label, Domino Records, has removed three of his early albums from streaming platforms amidst on ongoing legal dispute initiated by the U.K. producer this past summer. (Billboard) 
    Electronic artist Caribou has said that Domino’s removal of Four Tet’s albums from streaming services is a “desperate and vindictive act”. (RollingStone) 
    Domino hopes for ‘amicable solution’ in dispute with Four Tet. (MusicAlly)
    MMF & FAC statement on wider implications of the Four Tet/Domino legal dispute. (RotD) "Regardless of the legal dispute between the two parties this is a misguided and self-defeating move, and we urge them to reconsider."
  • Virgil Abloh, the artistic director of Louis Vuitton and DJ, has died of cancer at the age of 41. (Independent) 
ISSUE: 23 Nov 2021
  • Boiler Room x Ballantine's celebrate inclusive dancefloors with the launch of True Music Studios, bringing together diverse communities around the world. (RotD) 
  • International dance music festival, Beats For Beds, to raise money for homeless charities this December. (DJMag) 
  • Bicep and their management team at This Is Music won the award for Innovation (sponsored by TikTok) at Artist & Manager Awards 2021. (RotD)  
  • The music industry has welcomed the decision of the Spanish government to scrap visa requirements for UK artists and DJs on short-term tours. (RotD) 
ISSUE: 16 Nov 2021
  • The original founders of electronic music magazine Jockey Slut have announced Disco Pogo – a new magazine, website and community inspired by Jockey Slut featuring the best new electronic music and music from the last 50 years. (Dummy) 
ISSUE: 09 Nov 2021
  • Radio 1 announced the Annie Nightingale Presents Scholarship, an initiative designed to champion up-and-coming women and non-binary DJs in the dance scene. (BBC) 
  • The video for Duck Sauce’s 'Mesmerize', directed by Keith Schofield, won the Video of the Year award as well as the Best Dance/Electronic Video (International) at the UK Music Video Awards 2021. Bicep won the award for Best Animation in a Video for 'Saku'. (RotD) 
ISSUE: 02 Nov 2021
  • Brighton music college WaterBear has teamed up with Carl Cox to award a scholarship to an Electronic Music & Business student. (DJMag) 
  • Charlotte de Witte has claimed the No.1 spot in this year’s Alternative Top 100 DJs poll, Powered by Beatport.  (DJMag) 
  • The UK’s live music industry has given a mixed response to yesterday's Budget. (IQ) 
    Trade bodies react to the news from the Budget. (RotD)
ISSUE: 26 Oct 2021
  • In the US, the National Music Publishers Association, said major streaming services "have proposed the lowest royalty rates in history." (EDM)
  • The Competition and Markets Authority will conduct a review of the music streaming business, looking at any possible competition concerns related to the major labels' dominance of the industry, and how they may be leveraging that power at the expense of artists, independents and consumers. (Guardian) 
  • UK Music reported the value of the industry almost halved last year due to the financially crippling impact of the Covid crisis. (RotD) The This Is Music 2021 annual report also noted the music industry’s economic contribution fell 46% to £3.1bn in 2020 and music exports dropped 23% to £2.3bn in 2020. 
ISSUE: 19 Oct 2021
  • A new electronic music museum, Our House, is opening in Amsterdam on Friday 29 October. (Mixmag)
  • David Guetta has won the DJ Mag Top 100 DJs poll 2021. (DJMag) 
  • Help ex-fabric promoter Shaun Roberts pay for cancer treatment in Germany. (RA)
  • UK Music reported the value of the industry almost halved last year due to the financially crippling impact of the Covid crisis. (Guardian, RotD, BBC) 69,000 music industry workers lost their jobs last year. The This Is Music 2021 annual report also noted the music industry’s economic contribution fell 46% to £3.1bn in 2020 and music exports dropped 23% to £2.3bn in 2020.
  • The Featured Artists Coalition announced new board directors Aluna Francis (AlunaGeorge), Kelli-Leigh Henry-Davila, Dave Okumu and Wolf Alice's Joff Oddie along with permanent observers, Primal Scream's Simone Marie Butler and FAC Advocate, Shao Dow. (RotD)
  • About one in five night-time and hospitality businesses in the UK had to close last month or operate on reduced hours as a result of a shortage of security staff, according to the Night Time Industries Association. (Guardian)
ISSUE: 12 Oct 2021
  • Europe’s Biggest Dance Show will return to Radio 1 on 29 October, featuring nine radio stations from across eight countries. (BBC) 
  • A report for the NTIA shows around 86,000 jobs have been lost at nightclubs, bars and casinos in the UK since the pandemic hit. CEO Michael Kill said it was pivotal that no further restrictions return to the sector – such as vaccine passports – and called for financial support from the Chancellor. (Independent)  
  • DJs for Climate Action has launched a new initiative to help the electronic music industry realise a more innovative, sustainable and environmentally friendly dance music industry by 2030. (DJMag) 
ISSUE: 05 Oct 2021
  • Raving and psychedelics create “meaningful social bonds”, a new study has found. (DJMag) 
  • Splice, a platform for rights-cleared sounds and beats, has established its first Global Music Council, a strategic advisory board of artist entrepreneurs, activists and experts in major music territories. (Variety) 
  • Amsterdam Dance Event has announced its full daytime programme with Richie Hawtin, Anna, Armin Van Buuren and more. (DJMag) 
  • Creamfields 2022 has announced its festival next June had sold out, while tickets for Creamfields Chelmsford would go on sale later this month. (RotD) 
  • Swedish House Mafia was named in the Pandora Papers after they created an offshore company in a well-known tax haven where it held the ownership to the band’s name, logo and music tracks. (Billboard) A spokesperson said “The purpose of the company was not to evade tax”. 
ISSUE: 28 Sep 2021
  • Electronica is the most 'infectious' musical genre, new study finds. (RA) 
  • Midem announced the theme for this year’s Midem Digital Edition - Embrace the New Monetisation Frontiers. The 16-19 November online event will feature Steve Aoki & Deadmau5. (RotD) 
  • The UK government has recommended the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) that it consider an investigation into the UK’s leading major labels – Sony, Warner and Universal Music. It’s also recommended the CMA investigate YouTube’s dominance in the streaming market. (DJMag, BBC) 
ISSUE: 21 Sep 2021
  • Iconic toymaker Mattel has announced the Barbie Music Producer doll to empower the next generation of female artists. (EDM) 
  • A number of DJs and producers have contributed recipes to a new cookbook, 'Turn The Tables'. (DJMag) 
  • The UK’s live music sector has launched an industry campaign to deliver climate action, as it sets out its commitment to reach net zero emissions by 2030. (RotD) 
  • Ibiza has lifted coronavirus restrictions on night-time social gatherings. (DJMag) 
  • People will have to show NHS Covid Passes in order to enter certain venues, such as nightclubs, from October in Wales. (Mixmag) 
  • In the UK Boris Johnson has unveiled his autumn and winter Covid Plan. 'Plan A' is designed to prevent the NHS being overwhelmed, and promotes vaccines and testing. Vaccine passports will be introduced for nightclubs, crowded indoor venues with 500 or more attendees if the NHS comes under "unsustainable pressure" in this period under the government's 'Plan B' option. Venues would be given a week's notice to implement passports. (BBC) 
  • Amsterdam Dance Event moves ahead with Festival, but the conference has been cancelled. (ADE) 
ISSUE: 14 Sep 2021
  • According to a new report by MRC Data video games are an important music discovery tool for Gen Z. Plus, Gen Z is also a key factor in the recent uptick in vinyl sales. (Billboard)  
  • Ballantine’s True Music platform, is taking a stand to increase parity within the music industry, after its ‘Resetting the Dancefloor’ report found that 1 in 3 music lovers globally have experienced discrimination and a further 84% have witnessed it on the dancefloor. (RotD) 
  • Scotland will introduce vaccine passports for entry to nightclubs and large events from 1 October. (Independent) 
  • Vaccine passports will no longer be introduced automatically for nightclubs in England at the end of this month but Downing Street has insisted that vaccine passports are still a "first-line defence" against a winter wave of Covid-19. (BBC) 
ISSUE: 07 Sep 2021
  • Radio 1 have announced Shygirl, Ela Minus, Todd Edwards, Kampire and India Jordan to begin the brand new Residency format, now moving to Thursday nights 11pm-1am. (BBC)
  • A Tiësto fan who passed away in July was commemorated at Creamfields, where his ashes were scattered from confetti cannons. (Mixmag) 
  • A plan to ensure the live music industry meets climate targets needs to be urgently introduced by the government, according to Massive Attack, which commissioned a report on carbon emissions in the music business. (Guardian) 
  • Vaccine passports in nightclubs and other indoor venues in England will be required at the end of this month. (BBC) 
    The Night Time Industries Association in the UK has said the decision by the government to press ahead with plans for compulsory vaccine passports for crowded indoor venues was "disappointing" and was opposed by operators trying to revive their businesses. (Standard) 
    Vaccine passports are to be introduced in Scotland for nightclubs and live events. (iNews) 
ISSUE: 31 Aug 2021
  • The legendary recording, mixing & mastering engineer George Horn has died. (RA)
  • Reggae pioneer Lee 'Scratch' Perry has died, aged 85. (RA)
  • Among the winners at the AIM (Association of Independent Music) Awards were: Jayda G (International Breakthrough); megapunk (Elkka Remix) – Ela Minus (Independent Remix); Adrian Sherwood (Innovator); Love Record Stores, Bandcamp (Indie Champion). (RotD)
  • Nightlife business owners are claiming they have yet to be given any guidance over the introduction of vaccine passports next month. (Mixmag)
  • The ‘Ask for Angela’ initiative, aiming to make nightlife safer for vulnerable people, is set to be rolled out across London over the next few weeks. (DJMag)
  • An investigation by Mixmag has found that The Met was using a flawed methodology to calculate the number of raves that it was responding to during lockdown, which had the potential to dramatically inflate its statistics. (Mixmag)
  • 70,000-plus people support Unmute Us! protests in the Netherlands. (RA)
  • Belgian festival Tomorrowland has established a label, Tomorrowland Music, to work alongside Virgin Records Germany for new releases and receive global distribution support from Virgin Music Label & Artist Services. (IQ, Variety)
ISSUE: 24 Aug 2021
  • London record store Phonica has launched another offshoot of its in-house label. (RA) 
  • UK nightclubs plead for passport clarity amid "clear signs" of a slowdown in bookings from the end of next month. (Times) 
ISSUE: 17 Aug 2021
  • Jukebox PR has launched a Stateside venture with Seer Assets. (RotD) 
  • This October, the all-new Museum Of Modern Electronic Music (MOMEM) is to launch in Frankfurt. (RotD) 
  • An initiative offering free holidays in Ibiza and other destinations to NHS and public sector health workers from across Europe has launched a crowdfunding campaign. (Mixmag) 
  • Women In CTRL and PPL launch event series to improve board-level gender representation. (RotD)
  • Secondary ticketing websites could be closed down in the UK under new proposals designed to stop "unscrupulous" ticket touts. (DJMag) 
  • A new poster campaign, Change The Lineup, has been launched in the UK with the aim of drawing awareness to sexual harassment in clubs. (DJMag) 
  • UN Women UK is calling for more promoters, venues and events to sign the pledge for a safe environment for female concertgoers in their Safe Spaces Now initiative. (IQ) 
ISSUE: 10 Aug 2021
  • Carl Cox has teamed up with the NHS to encourage club-goers to get their COVID-19 vaccination. (Mixmag) 
  • The Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) has announced UK musicians and performers do not need visas or work permits for short-term tours in 19 EU countries, including France and Germany. (Parliament) 
    Music industry figures have hit back at the UK Government's recent claims of victory in securing visa-free touring for UK artists across 19 EU member states, with the claims being branded as "spin" and "meaningless posturing". (DJMag) 
  • UK music festivals and other live events are to be protected by a £750m government-backed insurance scheme if they have to cancel because of Covid. The scheme will be available from September 2021 to September 2022. (RotD)  
  • Kieran Hebden, who performs as Four Tet, has made a claim for damages against Domino Recordings based on its royalty rate for streaming and downloads of albums and singles first released in the noughties. (MusicWeek) 
ISSUE: 03 Aug 2021
  • Radio 1 announced the full line-up and plans for this year’s Dance Weekend, which will include mixes and appearances from Swedish House Mafia, MK, Paul Woolford, Carl Cox and many more from 6-8 August. (RotD) 
  • Verknipt festval has become a cautionary tale for the sector after it recorded more than 1,000 Covid infections among 20,000 attendees. The Utrecht health board has admitted that the 40-hour window in which Verknipt attendees could take and show a negative test was too long. (IQ) 
  • Some nightclubs in England have begun requiring an NHS Covid pass for entry, amid a demand for MPs to debate their use. (BBC) 
  • Nightclubs in England have seen low attendances and been forced to cancel events as the pandemic continues to disrupt the nightlife industry, with many operators blaming “low consumer confidence” in the face of confusing government messages. (Observer) 
  • According to figures published by the Night Time Industries Association, a quarter of nightclubs in the UK had all staff in quarantine after being “pinged” by the Test & Trace app, while 72 per cent of nightlife businesses were considering temporary closures or cutting trading hours even as they began to generate revenue for the first time in 15 months. (FT) 
ISSUE: 27 Jul 2021
  • DJ Mag Top 100 Voting is now open to the public. 
  • The Hyundai Mercury Prize ‘Albums of the Year' contenders have been announced, including Floating Points, Hannah Peel and SAULT. (Mixmag) 
  • Pete Tong is to be honoured with this year’s Music Industry Trusts Award (MITS), in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the music and broadcast industries. (MW) 
  • UK nightclub owners have warned the government introducing vaccine passports without "a proper and adequate consultation process" is "highly likely to be unlawful". They argue the plans could have "a discriminatory effect on grounds of race", and risk encouraging illegal raves that lack safety measures. (SundayTelegraph) 
  • International Music Summit announce details of the digital discussion series ‘The Big Questions’, in partnership with Pioneer DJ, Beatport, shesaid.so, and the Association for Electronic Music (AFEM). Hosted by Pete Tong & Jaguar, the first stream ‘Co-Existing with COVID’ featuring Carl Cox & Yousef is happening today (27 July) at 5pm BST/6pm CEST on Beatport’s Twitch, Facebook and YouTube pages and on the IMS Facebook and YouTube. (RotD)
ISSUE: 20 Jul 2021
  • The Detroit Electronic Music Conference will offer four days of free online music education later this month. (RA)  
  • Ocio de Ibiza, an organisational body that represents Ibiza's nightlife, has proposed a ban on DJs and producers who have played at illegal parties on the island during the pandemic. (Mixmag) 
  • Ibiza's pilot event on 25 June has led to no cases of Covid-19. (DiariodeIbiza) 
  • Ibiza has been put back on UK's amber travel list. (DJMag) 
  • More than 1,000 attendees of the 20,000 capacity Verknipt Festival in the Netherlands tested positive for Covid-19 since the event took place on the first weekend of July. It had barred entry to anybody without proof of full vaccination or a negative test as much as 40 hours before entry. (Pitchfork) 
    At EXIT Festival in Serbia "not one person tested positive for Covid-19". Between over 40,000 people per day attended. (Pollstar)
  • The UK government has announced nightclubs and other large venues must use vaccine passports from the end of September. (iNews, BBC)
    Michael Kill, CEO of the Night Time Industries Association, called it "another chaotic U-turn" by the PM. (Mail) 
  • MPs in the UK call for complete reset of music streaming to ensure fair pay for artists. (BBC)
    Recommended read: MusicAlly
ISSUE: 13 Jul 2021
  • New York City considers implementing 24-hour nightlife districts. (RA) 
  • IMPALA and IAO have proposed an approach to facilitating live shows and touring across the greater European region that involves creating a new cultural area with a single touring permit, instead of treating Europe as a number of distinct blocs and countries. (RotD) 
  • The Balearic government is introducing new restrictions in the Sant Antoni area of Ibiza, in order to contain the spread of coronavirus. (DJMag) 
  • Fully-vaccinated Britains will no longer have to isolate when returning from amber list countries on 19 July. (Mixmag) 
  • In the UK Covid-19 certificates will be required for customers to enter bars and nightclubs under plans to prove that they had either had both doses or a negative test the day before. (Times) 
ISSUE: 06 Jul 2021
  • A new book will look at the pre-history, lifespan and visual legacy of Manchester's iconic Haçienda club, which closed its doors back in 1997. (DJMag)
  • Ibiza DJ Mikaela has been named alongside her husband in a £14million ‘Dirty Money’ investigation by the National Crime Agency (NCA). (Mixmag) 
  • Move the Record is back for a four-week stretch this July, aiming to support independent record stores. (Mixmag)
  • Tourists arriving into Ibiza from the UK will need to show a negative Covid-19 test or proof of vaccination in order to enter. (DJMag, Mixmag)
  • Ibiza could lose its UK green list status as Covid cases surge. (Mixmag) 
  • Nightclubs in England will reportedly reopen on 19 July with no requirements for attendees to present negative Covid-19 tests or proof of vaccination. (DJMag)
  • 'It felt like a celebration': Thousands gather for #FreedomToDance protest in London. (RA, Mixmag)
  • The UK government's minister for Brexit, Lord David Frost, has said that it is not his responsibility to solve the touring crisis faced by musicians in the wake of Brexit. (DJMag) 
  • A cross-party group of UK MPs have come together to call on Prime Minister Boris Johnson to back plans to help the music industry get back on its feet following the pandemic. (DJMag)
ISSUE: 29 Jun 2021
  • A report measures the progress the music industry has made since #TheShowMustBePaused. (RA) 
  • Ibiza has been added to the UK's green travel list. (DJMag)
  • A new survey found 58% of 2,080 people asked agreed that the UK Government "should be doing more to ensure musicians can work abroad post-Brexit”. (Mixmag) 
  • The UK's Events Research Programme scheme exploring the impact of large-scale events on Covid-19 transmission has found “no substantial outbreaks”, recording 28 associated cases of infection out of 58,000 participants, according to a new report. (BBC)
ISSUE: 22 Jun 2021
  • Johann Merrich's 'A Short History of Electronic Music and its Women Protagonists' will be published next month through Amazon. (DJMag) 
  • A new report - Reality Remixed - The Future of Conviviality - exploring the future of nightlife has been published. (Mixmag) 
  • Details out for Ibiza's pilot clubbing event on 25 June. (IbizaSpotlight)
  • Moog Music has denied claims by a former employee in a lawsuit that reportedly outlines cases of misogyny, abuse and discrimination. (DJMag) 
  • According to a survey of the Night Time Industries Association's member businesses in the UK, one in four businesses will not survive longer than a month without more support and 50% will not survive longer than two months without such help. (DJMag, Mixmag) 
  • In the UK, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced that there will be a four-week delay for lockdown easing, with the initial date for the relaxation of social distancing measures in England on 21 June pushed back to 19 July. (DJMag)
ISSUE: 11 Jun 2021
  • Electronic music publication Clubbing Spain closes after 21 years, citing social networks, lack of advertising and then the pandemic as the last straw as the reasons. (RA)
  • The winners from the debut DJ Mag China Awards 2021 have been announced. (DJMag)
  • NFTs, avatars and other disruptive technologies impacting the music industry will be analysed in a new virtual workshop program from Berlin collective CO:QUO. (RA) 
  • The government of the Balearic Islands was forced to reverse a controversial decision to ban DJing last week. (RA) 
  • Ibiza's club pilot event will take place at the Hard Rock Hotel on Friday 25 June, it has been confirmed. (DJMag) 
  • Armada Music's CEO, Maykel Piron and Marshmello's manager Moe Shalizi featured in Billboard's annual Indie Power Players list. (Billboard) 
  • The UK's Night Time Industries Association (NTIA) said it is aggressively pushing back on any changes to England’s reopening roadmap. (AAA)  
  • The June reopening date for clubs in England is reportedly set to be delayed. (DJMag) Government sources have said the June reopening date will be delayed by "between two weeks and a month”.
ISSUE: 04 Jun 2021
  • 99 techno artists, including Marcel Dettmann, DJ Nobu, and DJ Rush, have contributed new and unreleased tracks to a new compilation from Planet X which aims to spread awareness about police brutality and violence during Colombia's anti-corruption movement. (DJMag) 
  • The Welsh government have decided that live music events can continue in Wales, with restrictions. (Mixmag)
  • The Association of Independent Music in the UK has published its first Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Audit and committed to follow it up every year to measure its progress in creating real and positive change. (RotD) 
  • For the first anniversary of Blackout Tuesday, IMPALA has called on independent businesses to help build a picture of the sector’s diversity across Europe and map best practices for the future. (RotD) 
  • The Netherlands has now announced its third wave of rule relaxations, with the country's latest round of updates including a green light for ticketed concerts and festivals to return on 5 June. (EDM) 
  • More than 600 artists sign #MusiciansForPalestine letter refusing to perform at Israel's cultural institutions. (RA)
  • Ibiza will hold a 2,000-capacity clubbing event in the coming weeks. (RA) 
ISSUE: 28 May 2021
  • Female-led independent radio station foundation.fm has launched a record label heralding its first new signing, MILYMA. (Mixmag)
  • Vinyl test pressings are being used as art canvases in a new London fundraising exhibition. (DJMag)
  • The Grammys category formerly known as best dance recording has been renamed best dance/electronic recording. (Billboard) 
  • Driift issued a statement regarding Glastonbury's Live At Worthy Farm livestream, which suffered technical issues on the Saturday night showing. (RotD)
    The livestream was available free to watch on Saturday after thousands of paying ticket holders were denied access. (iNews)
  • Despite the Save Our Stages Act which passed into law in December, independent music venues in the US have still yet to receive a single penny of government relief. (Mixmag)
  • Ibiza expects to be on the UK’s tourism green list from June, Spain's tourism minister has said. (DJMag)
  • New York venues will be permitted to reopen at full-capacity, provided they are hosting a fully vaccinated audience, according to an announcement by New York City governor Andrew Cuomo. (DJMag) 
  • The Night Time Industries Association (NTIA) has doubled down on its fears about the growing rent crisis facing the UK’s nightclubs as a direct result of the coronavirus pandemic. (NME)
  • The British culture sectary Oliver Dowden says he is “very hopeful” the UK will meet its 21 June target for a full reopening of venues, theatres and clubs without social distancing, following encouraging results from the recent Event Research Programme (ERP) test events. Only 15 out of a possible 58,000 people have so far tested positive for Covid-19, with nine of these coming from Circus nightclub events. (IQ, Standard) 
ISSUE: 21 May 2021
  • A licence for Equinox, a limited one-day event Glastonbury festival in September, has been approved. Up to 50,000 attendees will not be able to camp overnight. (Guardian)
  • Holding mass events without masks and social distancing can be as safe as going to a restaurant or shopping centre, UK government trials suggest. A government source said the results from the trials had been encouraging and further test events were planned for the coming weeks. “It will help make the case that these large events are not inherently more risky than other parts of the hospitality sector. It shows that there are things that you can do to make these settings as safe as other daily activities." (Times p8) 
  • Nightclubs are not being given enough time to prepare to reopen if the UK government confirms the end of lockdown, industry leaders say. (BBC)
  • Stockholm's Ericsson Globe has been officially renamed Avicii Arena: Operated by ASM Global, the 15,000-capacity venue will also be used as a hub for suicide prevention initiatives by the Tim Bergling Foundation. (Billboard) 
ISSUE: 14 May 2021
  • Noods Radio launches educational initiative, Levels. (RA) 
  • The Night Time Industries Association (NTIA) in the UK has warned that 75% of the UK's nightlife businesses are facing a bankruptcy 'cliff edge' without rent support from the government. (DJMag) 
  • London Mayor Sadiq Khan has set out plans for a £6million campaign to help support live music, culture and hospitality in London this summer. (DJMag) 
  • Two more women have come forward with allegations that EDM star Bassnectar sexually abused them when they were minors. (RollingStone) 
  • The Insomniac ruling in favour of founder Pasquale Rotella in a dispute over a mid-2000s rave festival, How Candy It Is, has been upheld despite an appeal that the judge was heavily medicated. (Billboard) 
  • To mark European Diversity Month, IMPALA is conducting the first European diversity and inclusion survey for the independent music sector. (RotD)
  • UK mental health charity Mind has shared a number of resources focused on the electronic music industry. Partnering with Ninja Tune, POLY, Paradigm and Percolate, the mental health resources are designed to provide information and support to those working across the electronic music industry, with specific guides for managers, employees and freelancers in the sector. (DJMag) 
ISSUE: 07 May 2021
  • More than 30 years of UK rave history is being documented in a new film, Better Days: The Story Of UK Rave. (RA) 
  • The Association of Independent Festivals (AIF) in the UK has called for "urgent intervention" to save the festival season, saying most could be scrapped without the safety net of government-backed cancellation insurance. (BBC)
  • Future1000, a new national training programme to get more young women into the music industry by equipping under-18s with skills, launches today, led by Radio 1 DJ Jaguar and in-school music education platform FutureDJs. (RotD)
  • Dance producer Pierce Fulton has died aged 28 after “tragic struggle” with mental health. (Billboard)
  • Winter Music Conference has released the full line-up for its upcoming virtual event on 20-21 May. Keynote speakers include Twitch Cofounder Kevin Lin, Pandora Cofounder Tim Westergren, N.W.A's Arabian Prince, Droplabs CEO Susan Paley, Raised In Space's CEO Zach Katz and a team from Spotify. Additional speakers include Claude VonStroke, Jazzy Jeff and Junior Sanchez. (Billboard) 
  • Beggars Group has entered into a partnership with Ben Turner and Simon Astall to launch a new music supervision, licensing and composition company, called Colourbox Music. (MBW)
ISSUE: 23 Apr 2021
  • A sub-label of Relentless Records, 21NHG launches today as a dedicated dance label, with its first release, Leftwing: Kody - ‘Deeper’ ft Darla Jade. (RotD) 
  • Annie Mac is to leave BBC Radio 1 after 17 years with her last show on 30 July 2021. Clara Amfo has been named as the new host of Future Sounds in a number of new changes that also sees Danny Howard take over as the host of Dance Party (Fri 6-8pm), Jaguar to present Dance Introducing (Thurs 10-11pm) and Sarah Story joins to take on Future Dance (Fri 8-10pm). Diplo's Radio 1 show Diplo & Friends is to come to an end. (BBC)
  • The UK's live music industry has made a new proposal to the Government intended to save the summer festival season, suggesting that some of the unspent Culture Recovery Fund money be used to create a contingency fund that would offer partial protection to organisers should events have to cancel because of a public health decision. (RotD)
  • Spain's tourism minister, Reyes Maroto, said in a press conference that Digital Green Certificates would allow Spain to "reopen safely" from June and be "pioneers" in global tourism following the coronavirus pandemic, as well as providing "safe mobility" for tourists. (DJMag) 
  • The Winter Music Conference had announced its first-ever virtual program for 20-21 May 2021. It will feature Keynote Speakers Kevin Lin (Co-founder of Twitch), Tim Westergren (Cofounder of Pandora), Arabian Prince (NWA / Tech Entrepreneur), and Susan Paley (CEO, Droplabs). (Magnetic) 
  • Earth Day 2021 - 22 April
    Music Declares Emergency celebrates with a week of actions and activities that will 'Turn Up The Volume' on our calls for action on climate. (RotD)
    IMPALA will be releasing a special podcast on its recent sustainability programme announcement, including its carbon targets, climate charter and more. (RotD)
    EarthPercent wants to "encourage artists and music-related organisations to pledge a small percentage of their income to EarthPercent".
    The Beggars Group and Ninja Tune announced ambitious environmental targets that will soon see both companies transform to a carbon negative position. (RotD)
ISSUE: 16 Apr 2021
  • Make Art Work launches a global initiative to support musicians and creatives who have been affected by Covid. (RotD) The aim of the network is to build a new foundation for the creative industry and provide commercial guidance as well as real opportunities to drive income.
  • The UK's Night Time Industries Association (NTIA) has surveyed 700 businesses in the Night-Time Economy about Covid Status Certification. 69 per cent of businesses surveyed said they felt Covid Status Certification would have a damaging impact on their business. (Mixmag) 
  • Electronic music organisations IMS, Beatport, Pioneer DJ, Sentric Music Group, AFEM, Mixmag, RA, IMS, and Women in CTRL partner with InChorus to launch the Electronic Music Inclusion Initiative (EMII, pron. Emmy) to take a data-led approach to creating more inclusive environments across the industry. (RotD)
ISSUE: 09 Apr 2021
  • A survey conducted by Festicket has shown that 90 per cent of UK festival-goers would feel confident attending a live event in 2021. (Mixmag) 
  • Less than 20 night clubs were awarded funding in the latest round of the government’s support package. (NME)
  • Press On Vinyl plans to make 100,000 vinyl records every month at a pressing plant on Teesside. (BusinessLive)
  • Exit Live and TicketCo Media Services have partnered to provide artists and venues with live streaming, on-demand, and audio recordings. (RotD)
  • Porter Robinson, Inna & Farina, Paul Kalkbrenner, and more clinch Clubbing TV Music Awards. (DA) 
  • Spotify’s former Head of Dance & Electronic Music Austin Kramer has launched a weekly show on Tomorrowland’s ‘One World Radio’. (EDMTunes) 
  • Record label Young Turks has changed its name to Young because "the Young Turks were a group who carried out the Armenian Genocide from 1915 onwards". (RotD)
  • Bassnectar and a variety of companies connected to the electronic music producer have been named in a new lawsuit alleging sexual abuse, grooming, human trafficking, the manufacturing and possession of child p--nography and more. (DMN)
ISSUE: 01 Apr 2021
  • Mathew Jonson starts music production school, Freedom Engine Academy. (RA)
  • A new study conducted by Midia Research, Tunecore, and Tunecore’s parent company Believe has concluded that sexual harassment is the most prominent problem women experience in the music industry. (Mixmag)
  • Attorney plans to file dozens of refund lawsuits against Ultra Miami. (Billboard)
  • Belfast duo Bicep have been nominated for Breakthrough Artist and Best British Group at the BRIT Awards. (RA)
  • Ingrooves Music Group is rolling out a suite of royalty accounting tools for labels of all sizes and varying needs. (Hits)
  • LIVE, the industry body that represents the UK's live music sector, is calling for a transitional support package to help the industry overcome the challenges presented by Brexit. (RotD) The TSP sets out the package of measures the Government can implement today to mitigate the disruption.
  • The Ivors Academy and Musicians’ Union have launched a new campaign, Composers Against Buyouts, to oppose unethical business practices that damage media composers’ rights, earnings and careers. Composers for TV, film and advertising are increasingly being asked to sell their work for an upfront fee, a buyout, which means they lose out on royalties over time. (RotD)
  • The UK retained its place as the world's third-biggest music market, with revenues of $1.5bn (£1.1bn). It achieved a fifth consecutive year of growth, although the rate of growth slowed from 7.3% in 2019 to 3.8% in 2020. (RotD, Guardian, NME) Streaming revenue was up 15.4% to £736.5m. Vinyl sales grew 30% to £86.5m, the highest total since 1989. There was an 18.5% slump in CD income to £115m, and the number of CDs sold plunged by almost a third to 16m. Revenue from downloads dropped 25.1%. 
  • Exploring the carbon footprint of touring DJs and looking towards alternative futures within the dance music industry. (CleanScene) The analysis includes an estimate that the top 1,000 DJs (as ranked by Resident Advisor) took more than 51k flights in 2019. "By travelling over 118,000 km per year, the average DJ from RA's top 1000 has double the impact of even the world's frequent-flying 'super emitters'. The average touring DJ emits 35 tonnes of CO2 per year and their carbon footprint is more than 17 times higher than the recommended personal carbon budget of approximately 2 tonnes of CO2."
  • International Music Summit (IMS), the leading platform for industry, culture and education in electronic music, has postponed IMS Ibiza 2021 and announced the summit will return in 2022 for its 13th edition. (RotD)
ISSUE: 26 Mar 2021
  • Graham Meeres played a mammoth 40-hour set and raised £25,000 for mental health charity Mind. (Mixmag) 
  • US live venues will be able to apply for the government's Shuttered Venue Operators Grant from next month. (RA) 
  • Amsterdam Dance Event has announced plans to host an event in October this year. (DJMag) 
  • A report by Help Musicians in the UK has found that 87 per cent of musicians say their mental health has deteriorated during lockdown. (Mixmag) 
  • The UK Door Security Association (UKDSA) has warned clubs may not be able to open as planned due to the lack of bouncers after many of them either retrained or have returned to their home countries. (BBC) 
  • In the UK Culture Minister Caroline Dinenage has said that the Government is reluctant to introduce an insurance scheme for music festivals this summer, due to fears that the sector will be given false hope before “pulling the rug out from underneath them again”. (NME)
  • UK Music Chief Executive Jamie Njoku-Goodwin has welcomed PM Boris Johnson’s commitment that he will fix the work permits crisis facing touring musicians. (UKMusic)
  • IFPI Global Music Report 2021: The recorded music industry revenues grew by 7.4% to $21.6bn (£15.7bn) last year, the highest figure since 2002. Streaming services accounted for 62.1% of all revenues, reaching $13.4bn (£9.7bn), with 443m people now pay for a subscription. Performance revenues declined by 10.1% to $2.3bn (£1.7bn). (MusicAlly)
ISSUE: 19 Mar 2021
  • Glitterbox to host the official Red Nose Day after-party this Saturday with DJ Gok Wan, Mevlo Baptiste and The Shapeshifters. (IbizaSpotlight) 
  • Insomniac Music Group have launched underground record label, Factory 93 Records. (EDM.com) 
  • Underplayed, a new documentary exploring gender imbalance in electronic music, is now available on Amazon Prime. (DJMag) 
  • Glitterbox have launched the nightlife documentary ’Where Love Lives’ on YouTube. The documentary describes a life-changing journey to the dancefloor and the nightlife. (Glitterbox) 
  • US industry groups call on Recording Academy to eliminate ‘archaic’ music-publishing provision. (Variety)
  • Following the announcement from the Berlin Club Commission that nightlife in the city may not return to normal until 2022, the commission has now outlined a six-point plan to safely reopen clubs in the German capital. (DJMag) 
  • UK city Liverpool will pilot a series of large-scale events in a government-led Covid-19 study event this spring. The Events Research Programme (ERP) will begin in April, when participating volunteers will attend trial events with large crowds and reduced social distancing at nightclubs, theatres, stadiums, concerts and more.  (RA)  
  • Bryony Beynon, the managing director of the Good Night Out Campaign, has called the UK's government plan for nightclubs and bars in England and Wales to be patrolled by undercover and uniformed police officers as “pretty frightening”, adding that it “feels like an increase in police intrusion into social spaces”. (Mixmag) 
  • Undercover police may patrol nightclubs and bars in England and Wales as part of new plans set out by the government to identify and prevent predatory behaviour against women. (Guardian) 
  • Kaytranada won the Best Dance/Electronic Album for 'Bubba' and Best Dance Recording for '10%' featuring Kali Uchis at the Grammys. (Grammys)
ISSUE: 12 Mar 2021
  • A new book, Lady of the House by music promoter Laila McKenzie, celebrates pioneering women in house music. (DJMag) 
  • Ghost Ship master tenant Derick Almena has been sentenced to 12 years in jail, but he is unlikely to serve further prison time. (DJMag) 
  • A new survey has found that 70% of DJs have already retrained because of Covid-19, with 26% saying the pandemic has made them less likely to pursue a full-time career in music. (Vice)
ISSUE: 05 Mar 2021
  • Mau5trap is launching a house-orientated imprint, Hau5trap. (Billboard)
  • Hospital Records are celebrating their 25th anniversary with the release of H25PITAL - a collection of 25 brand new remixes, reworks, covers and VIPs of NHS classics. (RotD) 
  • Glitterbox to launch debut nightlife documentary Where Love Lives with unique three-part live watch-along event exclusively on YouTube on 18 March. (RotD) 
  • Spain is in talks with its major tourism markets, which includes the UK as well as Germany, about reopening safe travel corridors. (Mixmag) 
  • UK festivals are under threat of cancellation without Government insurance, The Association of Independent Festivals (AIF) has said. (DJMag) 
  • The UK’s Government Budget was cautiously welcomed by the culture sector but industry figures said it lacks detail in key areas and does not do enough to support those who have missed out on government support, such as freelancers. (Guardian) DCMS committee chair Julian Knight MP said it was “greatly disappointing” that the government has not backed cancellation insurance schemes for festivals.
  • The Culture Recovery Fund in the UK, which provides grants to the arts sector, has been increased from £1.57bn to £1.87bn in the budget. (DJMag)
ISSUE: 26 Feb 2021
  • New York house label Nu Groove to release first new music since 1992. (RA) 
  • UK non-profit Ladies Music Pub has launched its long-planned label, LMP Recordings. (RA) 
  • Daft Punk announce split after 28 years. The duo posted a YouTube video featuring a clip from their film Electroma, featuring an intertitle with the dates 1993-2021. (Guardian)
  • Lobbying group the Arena Resilience Alliance (ARA), an offshoot of the European Arenas Association (EAA), has launched a manifesto outlining what it believes to be the steps needed for the safe return of live events across Europe. (AAA) 
  • Ireland's justice minister, Helen McEntee, has unveiled new plans to overhaul current licensing laws and extend nightclub closing times. (RA) 
  • Facebook has banned accounts selling tickets to a 5000-person rave in Ireland that is supposedly going to take place on St Patrick's Day. (Mixmag) 
  • Spain plans to incorporate vaccine passports into its safe travel protocol, which may allow tourists to travel to the country and its surrounding islands this summer. (DJMag) 
  • In the UK the MU and the Ivors Academy were pleased to hear three of the music streaming giants commit to a dialogue with artists and their representatives about how revenue is shared out in the current streaming system, shed light on major label dominance and confirm that streaming is not a sales model. (RotD)
  • A full report on the UK's DCMS streaming economics inquiry, with the long-awaited appearance of Spotify, Apple Music and Amazon Music. (MusicAlly)
  • Nightclubs and festivals in England are planning to reopen from 21 June. (Mixmag) 
ISSUE: 12 Feb 2021
  • A new podcast, Blacklisted, will explore and discuss London’s house music culture. (DJMag) 
  • Both Viagogo and StubHub have signalled they are willing to sell off the latter’s international operations in order to clear the remaining legal hurdles to the merger of the two businesses. (IQ)
  • AIM has announced Nadia Khan, founder of Womxn In CTRL, as its new Chair. (RotD)
  • Power Up in the UK has announced the opening of its participant programme application process for this new initiative for Black music creators and industry professionals. It is managed by PRS Foundation. (RotD)
  • The Sony Music Publishing name celebrates its return after 25 years and introduces a new brand identity with a redesigned logo and 'revitalised mission'. (RotD)
  • Parlophone Records' iconic dance label, FFRR, has revealed details of its updated brand identity, including a refresh of its famous logo. (RotD) Evie Grain has joined the label as Marketing Manager.
  • Former R&S Records employee Raj Chaudhuri, AKA Raji Rags, has filed a case with the UK employment tribunal against the label and its CEO and co-founder, Renaat Vandepapeliere. (RA) 
  • MU and the Ivors Academy are optimistic about a fairer deal for musicians and songwriters following the latest DCMS Select Committee streaming hearing in the UK. (RotD)
    DCMS inquiry: YouTube defends its record on royalties and says it can be No.1 for streaming revenue. (MusicWeek)
  • The Global Nighttime Recovery Plan has found that 98% of workers had reported a loss of income due to coronavirus and 49% had received aid (unemployment assistance) - although 15% reported the aid had not been substantial enough. The survey also documents a growing mental health crisis among nightlife workers. (DJMag) 
ISSUE: 05 Feb 2021
  • SOPHIE, the experimental pop musician, producer and DJ, has died aged 34 after falling from her roof at home in Athens. (BBC)
  • Festivals of a smaller scale could take place safely this summer with proper coronavirus measure in place, UK MPs have been told. (DJMag) 
  • SiriusXM has launched two new dance channels: A State of Armin, programmed by Armin van Buuren and Steve Aoki's Remix Radio. (Billboard) 
  • PRS for Music in the UK has announced a new provision to its small-scale Online Live Concert licence, meaning that if a member wants to perform an online ticketed live concert exclusively of their own works, where they will receive all the royalties due, they can obtain a licence at no cost to them. (RotD)
  • Spain’s tourism minister, Reyes Maroto, has insisted that the country will open up for holidaymakers in the spring – despite the prime minister, Pedro Sanchez, warning the frontiers could remain closed until autumn. (Independent) 
  • The Night Time Industries Association (NTIA) has warned that without further support from the government, 81% of clubs in the UK will not survive past the coming weeks. (Crack)
ISSUE: 29 Jan 2021
  • DJ Ez and Defected's 24 hour stream raised £88k for mental health charity MIND. (Mixmag) 
  • Velocity Press will publish Who Say Reload, a new book giving a comprehensive history of D’n’B from those that were there at its beginning. (Mixmag) 
  • UK label Big Dada is relaunching as a "label run by Black, POC & minority ethnic people for Black, POC & minority ethnic artists." (RA) 
  • UK house DJ Phil Asher has died, aged 50, after suffering a heart attack. (DJMag) 
  • Derick Almena has pleaded guilty to 36 charges of involuntary manslaughter following a devastating fire at Ghost Ship in exchange for a 12-year sentence. (DJMag) 
  • The PRS Foundation in the UK has announced the launch of 'Power Up', a long-term initiative aimed at supporting 40 Black music creators and industry professionals a year with grants and industry-wide support. (RotD)
  • The UK's PRS Foundation has announced its nationwide Talent Development Partner programme will receive support from PPL. (RotD)
  • UK Nightlife industry leaders are calling for the public to submit evidence to the parliamentary inquiry into Covid-19's impact on the sector. (Mixmag) 
  • The All-Party Parliamentary Group for Events (APPG) in the UK has submitted a series of recommendations to the Covid Recovery Commission. (AAA)
  • In the UK PRS for Music has launched a new licensing portal for music creators, venues and promoters wanting to stage and livestream small-scale gigs, DJ events, classical concerts and theatrical events online. (RotD, IQ) The Music Venue Trust responded "We have not been consulted on such a Tariff, advised of it, or even notified of it prior to this press release being issued"... "A fixed rate Tariff is not a mechanism by which that will be achieved, and the methodology and rate proposed by PRS for Music will not result in grassroots songwriters being paid for their work". The MMF and FAC commented "They need to urgently listen to the growing concerns of artists and their representatives during the pandemic, implement a waiver for performer-writers to opt-out of such fees, and commit to a full and transparent industry-wide consultation before issuing invoices to cash-strapped artists."
ISSUE: 22 Jan 2021
  • TicketOne, the market-leading primary ticket agency in Italy, has been fined €10m by the Italian Competition Authority for alleged abuses of its dominant market position. (IQ)
  • A new study from Germany has "ruled out" the risk of COVID-19 infection in music venues, providing masks and adequate ventilation are used. (DJMag) 
  • Chicago house label, DJ International Records, has relaunched.  (DJMag) 
  • 1001Tracklists has released it's 2021 A State of Dance Music report. Diplo and SIDEPIECE's 'On My Mind' topped the DJ-supported track of the year list. (1000Tracklists) 
  • The British government is negotiating on a bilateral basis with individual EU countries in a bid to break the deadlock over the issue of visas for touring artists, culture minister Diana Barran said. (IQ)
  • Musicians are earning “multiple millions” from streaming, if their songs prove sufficiently popular with listeners, record industry bosses claimed during the UK's Parliament Culture Committee meeting. (iNews)
  • More than 100 musicians, including Brian Eno and Jayda G, have signed a letter in the Times suggesting the Government "shamefully failed" Britain's performers with its Brexit deal. (Times)
ISSUE: 15 Jan 2021
  • 827,000 ecstasy pills, 76kg of speed, 39.5kg of crystal meth and 217 litres of liquid amphetamine have been seized by Spanish police in the country’s largest synthetic drugs bust. (Mixmag) 
  • Defected Records has launched a new afro house label and will be curated by A&R Managers Sef Kombo and Louie Dunmore. (DJMag) 
  • Spain’s music sector lost €1bn in direct revenue and €7bn in indirect revenue during 2020, according to data from the federation of music in Spain, Es Música. (IQ)
  • A new all-party parliamentary group (APPG) is launching an inquiry into the impact of Covid-19 on the UK nightlife industry. (Mixmag) 
  • Arts Council England has announced another round of Developing Your Creative Practice funding for DJs, artists and other creatives. (RA) 
  • Pressure is mounting on the UK government to resolve issues around EU touring visas for musicians and crews. (BBC)
ISSUE: 08 Jan 2021
  • DJ Mag’s Best of British Awards 2020 dance music winners: Sherelle (DJ); Hudson Mohawke (Producer); Anz (Breakthrough DJ); India Jordan (Breakthrough Producer); Kiwi Records (Label); 2 B Real (Breakthrough Label); Hudon Mohawke 'B.B.H.E.' (Album); Bicep 'Atlas' (Track); Josey Rebelle 'Josey In Space' (Compilation); Floating Points 'Bias (Mayfield Depot Mix)' (Remix/Edit); Four Tet 'Baby' (Music Video); Carl Cox's Cabin Fever (Solo Stream Series); Keep Hush (Multi-artist Stream Series); Defected (Virtual Festival); DJ Hype (Soldier of the Scene); Reprezent Radio (Outstanding Contribution) & Sports Banger (Innovation & Excellence). 
  • The Grammy Awards, scheduled for 31 January, have been postponed until 14 March, due to concerns over the spread of Covid-19 in LA. (Billboard)
  • A new study funded by Spanish festival Primavera Sound suggests same-day COVID-19 testing could create a route back to indoor music events. (DJMag) 
  • The UK Government has been warned that Brexit is threatening a “talent pipeline” for new artists. (DJMag) 
  • Musicians will abandon tours after huge new costs and bureaucracy of Brexit deal, ministers warned. (Independent)
  • A petition calling for Europe-wide visa-free travel permits for touring professionals and artists has received more than 222,000 signatures. (Mixmag) 
  • AIF CEO Paul Reed has given oral evidence to the DCMS Select Committee as part of its enquiry into the future of UK music festivals, identifying three key issues that are creating uncertainty among festival organisers and preventing adequate planning for the 2021 season. (RotD) 
ISSUE: 18 Dec 2020
  • Q-dance, the Dutch organiser of large-scale dance events such as Defqon.1, has announced that it’s innovative hardstyle show, ‘Qlimax: The Source’, will be available to stream worldwide on Netflix from 22 December. (RotD) 
  • SheSaid.So announced its Alternative Power 100 Music List 2020, this year focussing on a theme of resilience and adaptability.
  • Brasilio De Oliveira, the charismatic creator of the party “La Troya”, one of the most iconic Ibiza parties, has passed away. (IbizaByNight) 
  • Pacha Group has announced the appointment of Pete Tong to its new board of directors to safeguard the spirit of Pacha as the brand expands internationally. (RotD) 
  • The Night Time Industries Association (NTIA) has expressed concerns that more than 5,000 illegal parties will take place across New Year’s Eve weekend at the end of this month in the UK. (Mixmag)
  • The global live events industry lost more than $30bn in 2020 due to the global pandemic, including $9.7bn at the box office, according to the year-end report by Pollstar. 
ISSUE: 11 Dec 2020
  • Moodymann, Keinemusik and Palms Trax have been added to Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto Online as DJs at a virtual nightclub called The Music Locker. (Mixmag)
  • DJs and performing artists travelling for ‘business’ will no longer need to self-isolate for two weeks when entering England from a high-risk country - thanks to new rules from the Department for Transport. (Mixmag) 
  • Artist and managers have given evidence to a UK DCMS select committee inquiry into the economics of streaming. (BBC)
  • Live Nation President Joe Berchtold has said that he expects live tours to resume in summer 2021, citing the news of a vaccine that is nearly ready to be distributed. (Spin)
ISSUE: 04 Dec 2020
  • AEG has signed an agreement to run a 4,400 capacity live music venue at the £1.3bn Olympia redevelopment. The venue will be purpose-built and situated above the site’s existing West exhibition hall. (Times)
  • Live Nation has been named as the operator for a new £150m 15,000 spectator capacity arena for Cardiff. It is expected to open around February 2024. (IQ)
  • Save Our Scene UK (SOS) has announced further protests to raise funds and awareness for musicians, who are still yet to see any financial support from the Government. (RotD)
  • Germany has increased its arts and culture funding to €2.1 billion for 2021. (DJMag) 
  • The Night Time Industries Association (NTIA) in the UK has warned 75.6% of night-time economy businesses face permanent closure. (Mixmag) 
ISSUE: 27 Nov 2020
  • Liverpool-based independent community radio station Melodic Distraction has partnered with Dr. Martens to launch a fundraising campaign to cover the cost of relocating to their new studio. (Mixmag) 
  • An investigation has been launched after a woman was attacked by a police dog at an illegal Halloween rave last month in Bristol, England. (Mixmag) 
  • Disclosure, Flume, Jayda G, Kaytanda and Uchis and Diplo & SIDEPIECE have been nominated in the Best Dance Recording category for the 2021 Grammy Awards. While Arca, Baauer, Disclosure, Madeon and Kaytranda are up for the Best Dance/Electronic album. (DJMag) 
  • Two oral evidence sessions in the UK Parliament’s inquiry into the economics of music streaming, focusing on musicians and their advocates. Two words loomed large: equitable remuneration. (MusicAlly) 
ISSUE: 20 Nov 2020
  • Fact relaunches print magazine with Ryoji Ikeda, Kelsey Lu, Pan Daijing, Kahlil Joseph in first issue. 
  • Midem is launching a Networking Week from 30 November, enabling music professionals to connect with industry leaders and experts specifically signing up for the week. (RotD)
  • Ben Kouijzer, a music agent for CAA UK who represented electronic acts such as 808 State and Meduza, has died of kidney and liver failure. (Variety)
  • Association for Electronic Music has published a code of conduct against sexual harassment and gender discrimination. The code aims to create "an environment where such behaviour is not tolerated through awareness, education, increased respect, protection and prevention". (NME) 
  • UK organisation Help Musicians has launched the third phase of its Coronavirus Financial Hardship Fund. (DJMag) 
  • The #SaveNightclubs campaign has addressed the British Prime Minister with an extensive plea to help save the nightclub industry amid COVID-19. (DJMag) 
  • Night Time Industries Association (NTIA) has released a statement saying it fears the ‘extinction’ of nightclubs in the UK due to a lack of government support and clear roadmap to reopening amid the COVID-19 shutdown. (Mixmag) 
ISSUE: 13 Nov 2020
  • Taylor McWilliams, the billionaire landlord DJ from Housekeeping and chief executive of property investment company Hondo Enterprises, has won planning permission for the development of a 20-storey office tower in Brixton. (DJMag) 
  • NTS Radio has been forced out of their original East London studio by redevelopments in Dalston's Gillet Square and has moved to temporary space nearby. (RA) 
  • Boudica, a London-based label and party series, is putting on a free-to-attend music conference on Sunday 15 November to inspire women and non-binary people to get involved in music. (Mixmag) 
  • A book to honour the late-UK music legend Andrew Weatherall is being published through the iconic magazine Jockey Slut. (DJMag) 
  • Music Venue Trust announced #savethe30, which will be focused on securing the future of 30 venues who have been deemed ineligible to receive funding from the Cultural Recovery Fund. (RotD)
  • The European Music Managers Alliance (EMMA), which represent music managers for thousands of artists, songwriters, musicians, producers and DJs, have devised a four-stage plan so that "a wider diversity of creators and businesses can benefit from the growth of music streaming”. (DJMag) 
  • A DCMS Committee inquiry will consider Government policy to support music festivals due to take place in 2021 in the face of immediate pressures, and consider the economic and cultural contribution that music festivals make to the UK. (Guardian) The Committee is inviting written submissions to be submitted by 9 December.
  • David Guetta was awarded the Best Electronic Artist at the MTV Europe Music Awards. (DA) 
  • David Guetta has won this year’s DJ Mag Top 100 DJs poll. He returns to the top spot for the first time since 2011. (DJMag) Charlotte De Witte wins Alternative Top 100 DJs 2020, powered by Beatport, while Sherelle wins Future Star award and Kerri Chandler wins Lifetime Achievement Award. 
  • Techno DJ and producer Derrick May has been accused of sexual assault by four women, which he denies. (DJMag)
  • The Association for Electronic Music (AFEM) has launched a Code of Conduct to help combat sexual harassment and discrimination within the industry. (AFEM) 
ISSUE: 06 Nov 2020
  • Bristol electronic music station, SWU.FM has officially launched. (DJMag) 
  • The GRAMMY Awards is changing the name of its Best World Music Album category to Best Global Music Album to avoid “connotations of colonialism”. (Mixmag) 
  • Detroit-based electronic artist Waajeed has announced a new fundraising initiative to raise money for the new Underground Music Academy. (Mixmag) 
  • 2 Bad Mice have relaunched legendary jungle label Moving Shadow label as Over/Shadow. (RA) 
  • Brownswood Recordings is to release the fourth edition of the Future Bubblers compilation, part of the talent discovery and artist development scheme focusing on developing unsigned talent and building audiences for new left-field music. (RotD)
  • Shesaid.so launches its Alternative Power 100 Music List.
  • A number of illegal raves took place across England at the weekend, despite news of an impending national lockdown being announced by the prime minister Boris Johnson on Saturday evening. (Mixmag) 
  • The Arts Council of England have frozen a £223,000 grant to defunct Birmingham nightclub Sundissential amid growing scrutiny of the Culture Recovery Fund. (Telegraph) The company was dormant between 2017 and 2019, Companies House filings show. However, the business filed micro company accounts on 1 September - just three days before the deadline for applications for the second round of grants.
  • 110 organisations from across the cultural and creative sector have published a joint call on the EU and national governments to place culture at the core of each and every recovery plan. (RotD)
  • UK Music has welcomed the Government’s “important vote of confidence” in the music industry after ministers confirmed that professional recording studios and music video productions can continue under new national restrictions for England. (RotD)
  • With England in a national lockdown until at least 2 December, the Musicians' Union has expressed its concerns at the level of support for the self-employed announced by the Government. (DJMag)
  • Industry and political leaders have united behind UK Music’s call for action on diversity following the publication of its 2020 Music Industry Diversity Survey and Ten-Point Plan. (RotD)
ISSUE: 30 Oct 2020
  • The English inventor Chris Huggett, whose innovations included the EDP Wasp and Novation Bass Station, has died. (RA) 
  • The UK-based Triple Threat Mgmt company has launched the Music Industry Diversity Initiative (MIDI) with a six-month mentorship scheme. (RA) 
  • Boudica, a platform from DJ/producer Samantha Togni, that aims to give visibility to womxn and non-binary artists, will officially launch on 15 November with an online workshop streamed via Mixcloud Live. (DJMag) 
  • The 25th edition of Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE) reached millions of people across the world with the festival’s first-ever digital event, organisers have revealed. (IQ) 
  • Benji Espinoza, co-founder of legendary Chicago house label DJ International Records and its distributor Quantum, has died. (Mixmag) 
ISSUE: 23 Oct 2020
  • Top 100 DJs Awards 2020 to be unveiled on 7 November. (DJMag) 
  • Radio 1 is broadcasting Europe’s Biggest Dance Show for another year as nine radio stations come together for an eight hour simulcast today (23 October). (RadioToday)
  • Jose Padilla, known as the 'godfather of chill-out', has died of colon cancer at the age of 64. (Mixmag) 
  • UK Music's Diversity Taskforce is calling on the music industry to dump the "outdated and offensive" term BAME. (RotD)
  • The Face-Value European Alliance for Ticketing (FEAT) has published its recommendations for the future of online ticket resale, calling for new rules that shield fans against harmful secondary ticketing practices and reduce illegal ticket resale across the EU. (RotD)
  • 55% of professional musicians are earning no money due to COVID-19, according to new research from the charity Help Musicians UK. (DJMag) 
  • Major dance venues tell government “we are culturally significant” after being denied funding. (NME)
  • The Night Time Industries Association released a statement expressing its dismay that notable London dance music venues, including Printworks, The Egg, Studio 338, Oval Spaces and The Pickle Factory, were excluded from the government’s Cultural Recovery Fund. (DJMag) 
  • 588 more cultural organisations across England are to benefit from a share of more than £76m from the Culture Recovery Fund. The full list is here, and the names in the Music category are here. (NME)
ISSUE: 16 Oct 2020
  • Saffron has announced plans to bring its Mix Nights DJ course for women and minority genders to London this weekend. (Mixmag) 
  • Cultural spaces in the Berlin face scrutiny for throwing events while being given few options to stay afloat. (ElectronicBeats) 
  • The dance/electronic winners at the 2020 Billboard Music Awards were The Chainsmokers (Top Dance Act), Marshmello “Marshmello: Fortnite Extended Set” (Top Dance/Electronic Album) and Ellie Goulding x Diplo ft. Swae Lee “Close To Me” (Top Dance/Electronic Song)
  • The majority of streaming listeners want musicians to be paid more by their respective platforms, a survey conducted by YouGov for #BrokenRecord says. (DJMag) 
  • Raj Chaudhuri has cited R&S co-founder Renaat Vandepapeliere’s unprogressive stance on ‘the roots of techno, Black Lives Matter, charity initiatives, diversity and basic decency’ as his reason for leaving his role in A&R at the label. (DJMag) 
  • A new documentary, Born Balearic: Jon Sa Trinxa and The Spirit of Ibiza, will be available next month. (DJMag) 
  • The Ibiza Government has plans for rapid COVID-19 testing systems to open a tourist corridor next summer. (DJMag)
  • The UK government is set to cover 67% of employees’ wages in businesses shut by Covid-19 restrictions, as part of the UK's winter economy scheme. (DJMag) 
ISSUE: 09 Oct 2020
  • On 21 October, the annual Bridges for Music charity cycle event, which is a tradition for Bridges for Music, Beatport, and Pioneer DJ, and one of the focal points of the annual Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE) conference, is moving online.
  • Nominated in the category of "Best Electronic" of the 2020 MTV Europe Music Awards were Calvin Harris, David Guetta, The Chainsmokers, Kygo, Marshmello and Martin Garrix. (EDM)
  • DC venue U Street Music Hall permanently shutters due to the pandemic. (RA)
  • Three Six Zero have been appointed by DJ and record producer MK as his global management team. (RotD)
  • Global has launched Capital Dance, a station dedicated to dance music. MistaJam, who recently left Radio 1, will host a show Tuesday–Saturday between 4–7pm, and also the Capital Weekender show on the Capital network on Friday & Saturday from 7pm. Capital’s Coco Cole joins Capital Dance as host of the Monday-Thursday show from 7pm. (RotD)
  • First event to test rapid coronavirus test-on-entry system to happen this month. (DJMag)
  • Coronavirus latest: Berlin imposes curfew on restaurants and bars, Scotland closes pubs in Glasgow and Edinburgh. (RA)
  • Groove Armada spoke out against the lack of support for the nightlife industry on Sky News. (Mixmag)
  • As gigs slowly return, struggling promoters balance safety with staying afloat. (BeatPortal)
  • Cultural spaces in the German capital face scrutiny for throwing events while being given few options to stay afloat. (ElectronicBeats)
  • Thermo scanners, interactive wristbands that vibrate to mark a lack of social distancing, and rapid on-site testing are all being considered by music festivals to ensure the 2021 season goes ahead despite the Covid-19 crisis. (Guardian)
  • If the government fail to save the arts and nightlife there will be "a lost generation of artists" according to rising British DJ and broadcaster Sherelle. (Mixmag)
  • Fatboy Slim talks about the government's disregard of the arts and nightlife. (Mixmag)
  • Mixmag spoke to London Night Czar Amy Lamé to ask what can be done to support the nightlife industry through the pandemic.
  • By not passing any sort of relief for the music business, the US government is doing its best to kill off independent music. (Magnetic)
  • Despite reports Coachella Festival is moving to October 2021, the rescheduling is far from a done deal, sources at event producer Goldenvoice tell Billboard.
  • Tomorrowland has announced its winter edition will not go ahead in 2021. Tomorrowland Winter 2020 in March this year was cancelled. (RotD)
ISSUE: 02 Oct 2020
  • Liverpool's Melodic Distraction radio station says they're being forced out of their studio. (RA) 
  • Hypertribe has launched its second series of workshops designed to empower women musicians with the skills and knowledge they need to succeed. (Mixmag) 
  • R&S Records co-founder Renaat Vandepapeliere has been accused of racism and negligence by LA-based artist Eddington Again. (DJMag) R&S has terminated its contract with Eddington Again, after the LA-based artist published emails in which founder Renaat Vandepapeliere responded dismissively to criticism raised about the label’s silence on the Black Lives Matter movement. (Mixmag) 
  • Ibiza will go into partial lockdown from today (2 Oct) after coronavirus spread quickly on the party island. Parties of more than five people will be banned, children’s playgrounds will be shut down and bars and restaurants will have to close at 10pm, the Balearic Islands government said. (iNews) 
  • Sacha Lord, Co-Founder of Parklife and The Warehouse Project, and Night Time Economy Advisor for Greater Manchester has joined the board of the Night Time Industries Association. (Decoded)
  • UK Nightlife:
    In a Sky News interview with Health Minister Helen Whately said “It doesn’t make sense to continue supporting jobs where there simply isn’t work at the moment.” Kay Burley responded “So you’re not going to support the nightlife industry? It’s done?”. (Twitter)

    In an interview with Sky News, the apprenticeships & Skills Minister and MP for Chichester Gillian Keegan said: "It is hard to see how nightclubs will open until we have some kind of long-term way to deal with coronavirus. That is for sure true."  (Mixmag) 

    Fat Tony has used an appearance on Sky News to blast the UK government's approach to nightlife during the coronavirus pandemic. (Mixmag) 

    Calvin Harris has said on Instagram that ‘the UK government is treating music industry like s**t’. 

    Music Venue Trust has issued a dire warning to the UK government that the entire grassroots live music sector is now at “red alert status” and has called on the wider music industry to support its ongoing #saveourvenues campaign by taking “decisive, direct action” to ensure every venue can survive and re-open safely. (RotD)
ISSUE: 25 Sep 2020
  • A book titled Synthesizer Evolution: From Analogue to Digital (and Back) celebrates the evolution of the electronic instrument and its impact on music culture. (Mixmag) 
  • MistaJam is to leave 1Xtra and Radio 1 after 15 years. Reece Parkinson will become the new host of BBC Radio 1Xtra’s Drivetime Show, while Charlie Hedges will take over Radio 1’s Dance Anthems. (RotD)
  • Night Time Industries Association has warned that about 60 per cent of UK clubs will not survive another two months without further government support. (FT)
  • The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has pledged £450,000 to support grassroots venues affected by COVID-19. (DJMag) 
  • Ministry Of Sound chairman Lohan Presencer has warned the new 10pm curfew will spark illegal raves and the closure of the superclub. (Standard)
  • The Music Venue Trust (MVT) has responded to the UK government's new coronavirus restrictions, calling for a furlough extension and continued support for grassroots music venues. (DJMag)
  • The UK government has imposed a 10pm curfew for the hospitality industry with concert and theatre venues allowed to stay open past this, though only if the performance has already started. (IQ)
ISSUE: 18 Sep 2020
  • San Antonio and Ibiza Town go into Local Lockdown from today (Friday 18th September). (Ibizan) 
  • The history of electronic instruments is charted in a new book, Synthesizer Evolution: From Analogue to Digital (and Back). (DJMag) 
  • Brand new Radio 1 Dance stream to launch on 9 October on BBC Sounds. (RotD) 
  • Artist Rights Alliance, Black Music Action Coalition, Featured Artists Coalition, Independent Alliance for Artists Rights, International Federation of Musicians, International Music Manager's Forum, Kobalt, Music Managers Forum UK and Musicians' Union have joined the Fair Trade of Music Campaign, which works to ensure that a global standard of direct royalty payments is established. (PRNewswire)
  • Tens of thousands of pubs, bars, nightclubs and gig venues will not survive increased coronavirus-prevention measures, such as local lockdowns and evening curfews, unless they receive fresh state support, the UK government has been warned. (Guardian)
  • Techno stalwart Derrick May has been accused of a long history of sexual assault, by Michael James, a former Detroit-based colleague. (DA) 
  • Ten people have shared accounts of sexual assault and misconduct against Erick Morillo to Mixmag's reporter Annabel Ross. (Mixmag) 
ISSUE: 11 Sep 2020
  • The story of rave and ecstasy in the UK has been explored in a new BBC Podcast, entitled Ecstasy: The Battle of Rave. (DJMag) 
  • An additional new syllabus of formal grade exams on DJ decks has been offered to students studying GCSE in the UK. (Guardian) 
  • Live Nation has undergone another round of staff reductions across the company, including its concerts and ticketing groups. (Pollstar) 
  • SoundExchange praised the European Court of Justice’s ruling ordering European Union countries to treat music creators equally regardless of their nationality, recognising this as an important milestone in the fight to ensure music fairness. (Trichordist)
  • Sister Bliss from Faithless has said UK nightclubs have been "left to rot in a corner" amid the pandemic.. (BBC) 
  • Simeon Coxe, an electronic music pioneer and co-founder of the group Silver Apples, has died aged 82. (Mixmag) 
  • David Marroquin, the founder of Vanity Press Records, is shutting down his label after his ex-girlfriend Molly De Wind came forward about his domestic violence. (RA) 
  • DJ Empress and Ida Engberg have published detailed personal testimonials on social media alleging that they were sexually assaulted or had their drink spiked by recently deceased DJ Erick Morillo. (DJMag) 
ISSUE: 04 Sep 2020
  • 25 people have been hospitalised with carbon monoxide poisoning following a "cave rave" in Oslo. (DJMag) 
  • 3000 people attended a Bank Holiday rave in the Brecon Beacons in Wales despite threat of £10k fine. (Mixmag) 
  • Online music marketplace Discogs' global sales in the first half of 2020 were up nearly 30% over the same period last year. (Billboard)
  • BBC Radio 1 announced Disclosure, Amelie Lens, Joy Orbison and DJ EZ as the latest additions to its Residency line-up, with shows every Sunday night into Monday morning. (RotD)
  • DJ Erick Morillo has died aged 49. His death comes a few weeks after he was arrested in Miami on sexual battery charges. (Mixmag) 
ISSUE: 28 Aug 2020
  • A police raid at a club in Lima, Peru, on Saturday night has left at least 13 people dead. (RA) 
  • Tomorrowland’s One World Radio is running a week-long Ibiza special this week. (DA) 
  • Mumbai events and booking agency Krunk is starting a label. (RA) 
  • UK Nightclub owners have warned they face a looming “financial armageddon” that could put three quarters of a million people in the struggling night-time economy out of work within weeks. (Guardian)
  • The Night Time Industries Association (NTIA) and operators from the UK’s night-time industry have presented the government with a science-backed reopening plan in an attempt to stop the sector from collapsing. (IQ)
ISSUE: 21 Aug 2020
  • London record store Low Company is closing down. (DJMag) 
  • 200 illegal parties were broken up in London in one weekend. (Mixmag) 
  • Dirtybird has announced they will be broadcasting daily shows on their Dirtybird Live channel. (EDMIdentity) 
  • Oliver Helden has topped BeatStats artist list for the last 12 months, with his track Turn Me On alongside Vula and Riton also topping the tracks list. Spinnin Records took the number one spot for labels. (DJMag)  
  • SUBPAC has announced the next generation of its tactile audio systems: the SUBPAC X1. The all-new X1 is the next step in immersing users physically in music and media through both wearable and seated experiences. (Decode) 
  • AWAL says that “hundreds” of its artists now earn more than $100k a year from streaming, and that this number (of artists) has grown by more than 40% in the last year. The company also said that “dozens” of its artists earn more than $1m from streaming every year. (MusicAlly) 
ISSUE: 14 Aug 2020
  • An illegal rave in the Lozère region of France that attracted nearly 10,000 people was shut down by police at the weekend. (Mixmag) 
  • Boxout.fm will host a 24-hour stream on 15 August featuring more than 30 Indian artists and labels. (RA) 
  • Secretsundaze, the London-based record label, promoter, and studio space, has launched a crowdfunding campaign to build a new community studio and secure the future of Secretsundaze. (DJ Mag)
  • A £270,000 aid package has been announced for artists and live music industry by the BPI. (DJ Mag) 
  • Music industry workers marched in Manchester calling on the government to provide for employees in the touring and festival events sectors. (DJ Mag) 
  • Live Nation's Crew Nation Global Relief Fund has raised $15m to support live music crews who have been affected by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. (Hits) 
  • Pioneer DJ has released a documentary on COVID-19’s impact on the electronic music industry. (Pioneer DJ) 
ISSUE: 07 Aug 2020
  • From Bedrooms to Billions: The PlayStation Revolution is a forthcoming documentary that will explore the connection between video games and the ‘90s club scene. (DJ Mag) 
  • Pictureplane, a DJ who played an illegal NYC rave last weekend, has said it was not “worth the risk” performing amid the COVID-19 pandemic. (DJ Mag) 
  • UK underground dance music brand Secretsundaze is in danger of permanent closure. (EDM.com) 
  • The UK government has postponed the return of live music performances to the 15th August as lockdown easing slows amid the coronavirus pandemic. (Mixmag) 
  • An explosion in Beirut has "virtually wiped out" the city's nightclub district. Scores of nightclubs and bars were located close to the site of the explosion, including The Gärten, The Ballroom Blitz, The Grand Factory, AHM and B018. (Mixmag) 
ISSUE: 31 Jul 2020
  • DJ Awards have postponed their 2020 awards and will return in 2021. (RotD)
  • A new survey by Ocean Recovery in the UK has found 88.3% of people think drugs are becoming easier to obtain. (Mixmag) 
  • Musicians, DJs and nightclubs are urgently calling on the UK government for support for the nighttime industry amid coronavirus closures that could decimate the sector. (Vice)
  • The first tranche of funding from the UK Government's £1.57bn cultural recovery package will be used to save around 150 grassroots music venues from insolvency, Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden announced. (RotD)
  • #LetUsDance campaign success as dance music and events sector gains government recognition within the arts and access to support via £500m Culture Recovery Fund. (RotD) 
ISSUE: 24 Jul 2020
  • Police were called to shut down an illegal rave in London last weekend. (DJ Mag) 
  • 3,000 people flout COVID-19 guidelines to attend illegal rave near Bath. (RA) 
  • Amplify London, a partnership between the London Music Fund and YouTube Music, announced its first five funded grassroots music projects. (RotD)
  • The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has revealed that Viagogo offered to sell the European entities of StubHub, in a bid to gain the watchdog’s approval of its merger with the fellow secondary ticketer. (IQ)
  • Red Bull is to close or sell off its 11 studios around the world and cancel all music events. (RA)
  • GROOVE Magazine and Goethe-Institut announce music journalism programme for aspiring writers. (RA) 
  • Families of the Oakland Ghost Ship fire victims have received a $32.7 million settlement from City Of Oakland. (DJ Mag) 
  • Fatboy Slim, Pete Tong and Norman Jay OBE have all committed to the #LetUsDance initiative and issued an urgent plea to the UK government to support the dance music clubs and events sector. (Standard) 
ISSUE: 17 Jul 2020
  • A programmed exhibition, Electronic: From Kraftwerk to The Chemical Brothers, about the history of electronic music is opening at London’s Design Museum on 31 July. (DJ Mag)  
  • Rinse FM and Seoul Community Radio announce monthly resident swap, starting this month. (RA) 
  • Live Nation CEO Michael Rapino posted an open letter to employees across the world promising greater diversity in the years to come, along with a $10m investment to “focus on developing, promoting and hiring Black and underrepresented talent.” It promised to double the number of black executives it employs by 2025. (Variety)
ISSUE: 10 Jul 2020
  • No Signal radio has launched a crowdfunding campaign for a permanent studio. (DJ Mag) 
  • Police shut down a 400-person rave in an Essex village this weekend. (DJ Mag) 
  • Youth Music has announced a new £2 million Incubator Fund aimed at tackling inequality in the music industry. (Mixmag) 
  • The Ibiza government have said they are backing the "Together for Health Heroes" scheme, which will offer free holidays to healthcare workers from across Europe. (DJ Mag) 
  • The Cause, Wire, the Barbican Centre, Platform 18 and others have responded to UK's £1.57 billion pandemic package for the arts. (RA) 
  • The Night Time Industries Association (NTIA) have issued a statement in response to the UK government's £1.57bn rescue package for the Arts and Culture sectors, highlighting a lack of support for nightclubs and late night venues. (DJ Mag)
ISSUE: 03 Jul 2020
  • The UK government is set to scrap the mandatory 14-day self-isolation policy for holidaymakers and travellers returning from Spain, France and Greece. (DJ Mag) 
  • NTS Radio reveals support scheme, adds Haruomi Hosono, Yaeji, Moor Mother as residents. (RA)
  • Carl Cox has been named Clubbing TV most-streamed DJ on the streaming platform. (IbizaSpotlight) 
  • Mixmag has halted publication of its long-running print magazine "until we bring it back next year". (RA) The magazine's online content will continue publishing as normal.
  • A letter signed by more than 1,500 musicians has been sent to Oliver Dowden, the UK's culture secretary, calling for specific financial help for venues and a clear timetable to reopen. (BBC)
  • Aluna Francis calls out the dance industry's 'extreme double standard' of racial inequality in an open letter. "Let's make the dance music of the future inclusive". Read here. (Billboard)
ISSUE: 26 Jun 2020
  • Vinyl outlets in Europe, the US and South America will participate in a 24hour Move The Record streaming event on July 3rd and 4th. (RA) 
  • Calvin Harris has topped PPL's list of UK’s most played tracks of 2019, compiled by PPL. (DJ Mag) 
  • Rights management agency SoundExchange, the Recording Academy, A2IM and others have launched Fair Trade of Music, an education and advocacy campaign to pay creators abroad. (Billboard)
ISSUE: 19 Jun 2020
  • Thousands of people attended two illegal raves near Manchester over the weekend resulting in one death, one sexual assault and three stabbings. (Mixmag) 
  • Blond:ish and her Bye Bye Plastic foundation are preparing to launch a Plastic Footprint Calculator. (Mixmag) 
  • Forbes has released its annual Highest-Paid Celebrities List for 2020 with The Chainsmokers (#21, $68m) and Marshmello (#35, $56m) the only electronic dance music acts to be featured. 
  • The Balearic government has ruled Ibiza clubs will not open in 2020 and clubs could remain shut well into 2021 or until a coronavirus vaccine is found. (Mixmag)
ISSUE: 12 Jun 2020
  • The Avicii Experience is to open in Sweden next year and will include an immersive interactive exhibition that follows Tim Bergling’s musical journey. (Variety)
  • Luca Olivotto launches new imprint, Small Great Things (DataTransmission)
  • Artists including Pete Tong, The Chemical Brothers and Groove Armada have come together to create the 45 track compilation of exclusive music, donated 100% for free with all proceeds going to official fundraising partner, NHS Charities Together. (RotD)
  • Glitterbox is releasing a feature-length film, Where Love Lives, this summer. (RotD) The documentary was filmed over six months in various New York, Ibiza, Paris and London locations and features many DJs and artists.
  • In support of Black Lives Matter (Fabric)
  • The music industry is lining up to sign an open letter to repeal New York’s draconian and pretty outlandish police secrecy stature, 50-A. (Magnetic)
  • Marshmello, Bassnectar, Alison Wonderland & more speak out after the death of George Floyd. (Billboard)
  • A collective of Black music executives in the UK has sent a letter to heads of some music companies, laying out five “immediate calls to action” to tackle structural and systematic racism within the industry. (IQ, Guardian)
    • ISSUE: 05 Jun 2020
    • Spain will not allow entry for British tourists until the UK’s coronavirus figures “improve”. (Mixmag)
    • 80% of Ibiza and Formentera hoteliers are undecided as to whether they will open at all this season, according to a survey by the Hotel Business Federation of Ibiza and Formentera. (TheIbizian)  
    • After raising nearly £400,000 for out-of-work creatives, the UK version of United We Stream will be reconfigured to benefit Manchester’s night-time businesses. (IQ) 
    • AceMo, Kush Jones, Scratcha DVA share donation-matching fundraising initiative following George Floyd's death. (RA) 
    • Marshmello, Bassnectar, Alison Wonderland and more speak out after the death of George Floyd. (Billboard) 
    • The Weeknd has urged major labels and streaming services "to go big and public" with donations to racial equality organisations. (DJ Mag) 
    • #BlackOutTuesday: News, Features and Resources
      - Music companies across the globe took part in Black Out Tuesday. (MusicAlly)
      - Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, and Amazon unite in support of Black Out Tuesday (Verge) 
      - Chicago’s DJ Slugo talks his experiences with police racism and brutality, and meeting George Floyd. (beatportal) 
      - "Silence equals violence": Mayne of BLVK JCVK on protests, equality, and the crushing pain of a knee to the neck. (EDM.com) 
      - Let’s get real, Black Lives Matter in the dance music scene: An open letter to the dance music community from a black raver. (EDM Identity) 
      - Now isn’t the time for more music industry silence. (Vulture) 
      - The music industry fails black people every day. (Vice) 
      - Welcome to the anti-racism movement - here’s what you’ve missed. (Establishment)
      - How to educate yourself about racism and white privilege. (EnfntsTerribles)
      - Anti-racism resources for white people. (Google)
      - Here’s how you can support the fight against systemic racism, inequality and police brutality. (DJ Mag) 

    ISSUE: 29 May 2020
    • Ibiza to allow international visitors from July. (DJ Mag) 
    • Police have shut down a rave on Botany Bay beach in Kent (UK) this weekend. (DJ Mag) 
    • Ultra Music Festival faces a class action lawsuit on behalf of ticket holders over refusal to issue ticket refunds. (RollingStone) 
    ISSUE: 22 May 2020
    • An illegal rave was shut down by West Mercia Police in Telford, UK on Saturday (16 May). (DJ Mag) 
    • Kiss FM to host international #RadioRave event with David Guetta, Martin Garrix, Robin Schulz and more. (EDM.com) 
    • The National Crime Agency says the UK is the “biggest user of powder cocaine in Europe." (Mixmag) 
    • A new survey by the Night Time Industries Association (NTIA) shows the UK industry has grave concerns about the post-lockdown landscape. The majority of businesses expect only to operate at 40-43% capacity once lockdown is lifted and will be "financially unviable" without financial aid from Government. (RA) 
    • Booking United, a group representing approximately 70 Berlin booking agencies, has called on the German government for industry-specific assistance. (RA) 
    ISSUE: 15 May 2020
    • New podcast Bass Culture explores how bass music shaped British society. (RA) 
    • Cavin Harris is the 16th richest musician in the UK, according to the newest edition of the annual Sunday Times Rich List. (Mixmag)  
    • The Association of Independent Festivals has warned that the UK could face an 'independent festival wasteland' in 2021 and beyond if decisive Government action is not taken to support the sector. (RotD)
    • Frankfurt techno originator Pascal F.E.O.S. has died aged 52. (Mixmag) 
    ISSUE: 08 May 2020
    • The UK’s Music Venue Trust’s #saveourvenues campaign has already received over £1 million in donations since launching last week. (DJ Mag) 
    • The Frankie Knuckles Foundation and the Chosen Few DJs have launched a GoFundMe campaign to get a proper gravestone for Ron Hardy. (DJ Mag) 
    • Mike Huckaby's family is raising money for his final expenses via a GoFundMe page. (RA) 
    • Faced with a difficult immediate future, promoters are seeking to strike new deals on more favourable terms ahead of the resumption of concert touring. (IQ) 
    • Florian Schneider, co-founder of Kraftwerk, has died at the age of 73. (BBC)
      Giorgio Moroder, Thomas Dolby, Holly Herndon and more pay tribute. (RA) 
    ISSUE: 01 May 2020
    • Amoeba record store in Hollywood is to remain closed until it moves to its planned new location this autumn. (Billboard)
    • NTS Radio to host 24-hour fundraiser takeover, REMOTE UTOPIAS, this Saturday. The online event will feature more than 50 artists, including Four Tet, Erykah Badu and JME. (RA) 
    • A pandemic-proof rave suit has been designed by Los Angeles creative studio Production Club amid the ongoing coronavirus crisis. (DJ Mag) 
    • Under Live Nation's new Ticket Relief Plan, fans will be able to request a refund for shows that haven’t yet got a new date, from 60 days after the postponement was announced. (Billboard)
    • Concerts in California will be on hold until a vaccine or other therapeutic treatments for Covid-19 are developed, according to Gov. Gavin Newsom. (LATimes)
    • Record Store Day will no longer take place on 20 June, but instead, the titles on the RSD 2020 official list will be available from independent record shops on one of the three following RSD "Drop" Dates: 29 August, 26 September and 24 October. (RotD)
    • Venues in Spain may be able to reopen in May under the government’s exit plan, yet capacity reductions and other restrictions could prove a headache for organisers. (IQ)
    • Music Venue Trust (MVT) has announced a new campaign #saveourvenues, aimed at artists, music fans and the wider music industry. It aims to raise both money and awareness. (RotD)
    • PRS for Music announced the PRS Emergency Relief Fund has raised over £2.1m to help its members severely financially impacted by the coronavirus pandemic. (RotD)
    • PRS for Music strengthens its promise to the electronic music community through new membership of the Association for Electronic Music. (RotD) 
    ISSUE: 24 Apr 2020
    • Berlin record stores are opening their doors once again as Germany tentatively relaxes its lockdown measures. (DJ Mag)
    • London-based record label and collective femme culture have released the latest instalment of their HeForShe compilations. (Mixmag)
    • David Guetta’s live streamed DJ set for COVID-19 relief on Saturday night, 18 April, raised over $700,000. (DJ Mag) 
    • The European Commission has published a set of guidelines on how member states should start to emerge from lockdown, indicating that mass gatherings such as festivals and concerts may be the last kind of social activity to restart. (IQ) 
    ISSUE: 17 Apr 2020
    • Resident Advisor announces Streamland, a new listings hub for virtual events. 
    • Daft Punk's Get Lucky is the fourth most listened to song of the decade, according to a new poll compiled by BBC Radio 2 and the UK’s music licensing company, PPL. (DJ Mag) 
    • Ticketmaster has quietly changed its refund policy to cover only canceled events instead of indefinitely postponed or rescheduled ones. (DMN)
    • The UK Competition and Markets Authority said that it has started an investigation into eBay's completed sale of StubHub to Viagogo to see whether the deal will lead to a competition issue. (Guardian)
    • Larry Sherman, the founder of influential Chicago-based house label Trax, has died of heart failure. (Billboard) 
    • PPL announced a financial pledge to the Help Musicians Coronavirus Financial Hardship Funds (£500,000), the Musicians’ Union Coronavirus Hardship Fund (£100,000) and the AIM Covid-19 Crisis Fund (£100,000). (RotD)
    • Beatport and AFEM are launching their second instalment of ReConnect today (Friday 17 April) at 8pm GMT/11am PDT. 36 DJs, including Anna Lunoe, CLAPTONE, Erick Morillo, Hannah Wants, Jack Back (David Guetta), Kaskade, Maceo Plex, Monki, SAMA' and Tiesto, will play live from their homes or studios across the globe for 36 hours non-stop. During the live stream viewers can make donations to the  AFEM’s COVID-19 Hardship Fund, Bridges For Music, and Direct Relief non-profit organizations. (beatportal)
    ISSUE: 10 Apr 2020
    • BBC Radio 1 has launched a new dance music show. BBC Introducing Dance will be hosted by rising star Jaguar every Sunday night/Monday morning at 12:30am. (RA) 
    • A German court has proposed ending a criminal trial resulting from a fatal mass panic at the 2010 Love Parade techno music festival, citing questions over when the proceedings could resume in light of the coronavirus pandemic. (Billboard) 
    • Massive Attack have donated £10,000 to the Bristol Food Union’s crowdfunding campaign, which aims to provide free meals to NHS staff and other frontline workers during the coronavirus pandemic. (DJ Mag) 
    • The Association of Independent Music has launched a support fund aimed at contractors and freelance workers in the independent music industry whose source of income has been severed without warning due to lost work in April and May as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. (RotD)
    • Apple Music is quietly making a $50m advance fund available for independent labels and distributors, to support the indie sector with vital cashflow during the uncertainty of global Covid-19 lockdown. (Billboard)
    • London’s Night Czar Amy Lamé has appealed to local council authorities to suspend licence fees and late night levy fees for hospitality businesses for 12 months in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. (DJ Mag) 
    • Ibiza Needs Ibiza Beats: International Music Summit and Football Club UD Ibiza, along with multiple organisations from the entertainment industry such as Ibiza Global Radio and Dance TV, are joining forces to create a live stream to raise money to provide the Red Cross in Ibiza with much-needed support and relief in the fight against COVID-19. On Saturday 11 April at 6pm CEST DJs, such as Jack Back, Felix Da Housecat, Luciano, Paco Osuna, Pete Tong and many more, will stream live on DanceTelevision’s Stay Home Festival via stayhomefestival.org and will invite donations via gofundme.com. (RotD)  
    ISSUE: 03 Apr 2020
    • The Polish clubbing community has banded together to create an anthology that spans thirty years of techno and dance music in Poland. (Mixmag) 
    • Journalist and A&R Ralph Moore has launched A Little Moore Conversation podcast, which features chats with Fatboy Slim, The Black Madonna and Pete Tong, in its first three episodes. (RA) 
    • Billboard has suspended the weekly Billboard Boxscore and Dance Club Songs charts. 
    • Mixmag is to suspend the publication of its monthly magazine for three months. The next issue will be on sale 20 August. Digital and social channels will continue.
    • BBC Radio 1 has launched a new Friday night schedule which will see presenters Danny Howard, Annie Mac and Pete Tong continue to showcase the station’s premiere electronic music talent, with Pete Tong switching to 11pm-1am slot and Danny Howard taking 9pm-11pm show from this Friday (3rd April) onwards. (RotD)
    • Gary Salzman, talent manager and company co-founder at Big Management in New York, has died due to complications of coronavirus. The company has worked with many big names in the dance world, including David Guetta and Todd Terry. (Billboard)
    • Universal Music Group announces its response to Covid-19 for its staff, artists & songwriters and wider music community. (Billboard)
    • German music industry fears corona damage of almost €5.5bn within six months. (MusikWoche)
    • French royalty collection society SACEM has established a $6.6m relief fund to support its members throughout the coronavirus pandemic. (DMN)
    • Live Nation has established a new charitable fund to help support concert crews around the world. (Billboard)
    • In the US, leading artist rights organisations have joined to develop a website with guidance and resource materials for those in need. (RotD)
    • 8.5m people tuned in to watch Beatport's 34-hour live stream marathon with DJs from around the globe, raising over $180,000 for the AFEM (Association for Electronic Music) and WHO Covid-19 Funds. (RotD)
    ISSUE: 27 Mar 2020
    • Diplo's Mad Decent label has announced a collaborative imprint with Los Angeles-based creative agency and streetwear brand Pizzaslime. (Billboard) 
    • A collective of Ibiza business leaders wants to extend the season to November as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. (Mixmag) 
    • The UK Arts Council has announced a £160 million emergency fund for those affected by the coronavirus pandemic. (DJ Mag) 
    • IMPALA's Covid-19 Task Force has published a package of ten recommendations seeking urgent action at EU, national and sector level. The aim is to try and secure a co-ordinated approach across Europe to minimise the impact of Covid-19 on the independent music sector. (RotD)
    • Help Musicians has launched the Coronavirus Financial Hardship Fund, a new offering specifically created to alleviate some of the immediate financial pressures that many professional musicians may currently be facing. (RotD)
    • PRS for Music has announced an immediate PRS Emergency Relief Fund to support its members during the Coronavirus pandemic. In partnership with the PRS Members’ Fund and PRS Foundation, the money will be available to PRS members around the world who are facing significant financial pressure. (RotD)
    • Spotify is launching a music relief project where it will match donations up to a total Spotify contribution of $10m, along with a feature enabling artists to fundraise from fans via their Spotify profiles. (Spotify)
    ISSUE: 20 Mar 2020
    • London's Phonica Records has announced it has closed until further notice. (RA)
    • The Music Venue Trust has written an open letter to Boris Johnson, urging action to help save Britain's grass roots venues.
    • The Recording Academy has urged Congress to support the music community amid coronavirus pandemic. (Billboard) 
    • Hyperdub will give 100% of Bandcamp sales directly to the artists impacted by coronavirus this month. (DJ Mag)
    • The Scottish Government has announced a £320 million rescue package for small businesses, including small clubs, venues and record stores. (DJ Mag) The UK chancellor of the exchequer, Rishi Sunak, has announced a £330bn package of guaranteed loans for the country’s businesses. (IQ)
    • Defected Records has announced details of its first virtual music festival in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak. The label will stream 12 hours of house music from Ministry of Sound today, Friday 20 March. (Dexerto) 
    • Ultra has revealed the programming schedule for Ultra Virtual Audio Festival on SiriusXM, which starts 5:00 p.m. ET today (20 March). (DA) 
    • With this year's Ultra Music Festival postponed by a year as a result of the spread of coronavirus, organisers have announced plans for a "Virtual Audio Festival". (DJ Mag)
    • The Music Venue Trust (MVT) has put out a piece offering advice for grassroots music venues on how to sustain their businesses during the current coronavirus crisis. Read the advice here. 
    • Resident Advisor has started a #SaveOurScene campaign: Sign up to the open letter here (RA) 
    • EDM festivals and DJs have been sharing a #SaveTheSummer statement encouraging fans to stay at home to help the coronavirus pandemic and raise the chances that some events scheduled for later in the year can go ahead. (DJ Mag) 
    • Amazon has paused all vinyl, CD and music merchandise orders due to coronavirus. (MBW)
    ISSUE: 13 Mar 2020
    • Tomorrowland will offer discounted tickets to next year's main festival for Tomorrowland Winter attendees. (DJ Mag) 
    • Ultra Music Festival has promised that all 2020 tickets from the cancelled event would be honoured at either the 2021 or 2022 Miami events. (Billboard)
    • The following dance and electronic events have been cancelled due to Coronavirus:
      Time Warp, which was due to be held in Mannheim, Germany on 4 April.
      All pool parties set to take place on Miami’s South Beach are to be cancelled until further notice. (DJMag)
      Rampage in Belgium has postponed its festival until September and Snowbombing in Austria has cancelled its upcoming festival. (DJMag)
      Industry conference MusExpo Creative Summit
      Miami Winter Music Conference (DJ Mag)
      Japanese festival Rainbow Disco Club 2020 edition (RA)
      Berlin club Berghain has cancelled all "self-produced" events until 20 April. (Mixmag)
      Barcelona venues Razzmatazz, LAUT and Sala Apolo, AKA Nitsa, have confirmed their closure due to the ban on events in the region with 1000 or more people. (RA)
    • Coachella has been rescheduled for October over concerns of the Coronavirus. (Billboard)
    • DJs, promoters, festivals and venues about the effects of the COVID-19 outbreak. (Mixmag)
    ISSUE: 06 Mar 2020
    • Grimes, Teki Latex, Caribou with Octo Octa and Eris Drew join line-up for BBC Radio 1’s Residency. (BBC) 
    • Behringer has apologised for attacking journalist and MeeBlip synth co-creator Peter Kirn online in a video. (Mixmag) 
    • Stacey Lee's Bound Underplayed puts spotlight on gender inequality in electronic music. (Variety) 
    • A legal injunction has been placed against German-based Followerschmiede.de, one of Europe's leading 'fake stream' sites, ordering it to close. Customers can pay for 'fake plays' on streaming services to falsely boost an act's popularity and potentially inflate its chart position and royalty payments. (Billboard)
    • The following dance and electronic events have been cancelled due to coronavirus:
      Ultra Music Festival (Rolling Stone)
      Tomorrowland Winter (DJ Mag)
      Ultra Abu Dhabi (DA)
      Marrakech festival Beat Hotel (RA) 
      Taiwan's Organik Festival (RA) 
    ISSUE: 28 Feb 2020
    • EU DJs and artists will need a visa to perform in the UK from 2021. (Mixmag) 
    • Electronic music and networking event Brighton Music Conference added more names to the line up. (RotD)
    • The Winter Music Conference has now announced its full list of artists, panel speakers and special events. This year's keynote panel is called The Art of Visual Content: How Ultra Records Built A Monster Channel and that includes Patrick Moxey, the president and founder of Ultra, Lyor Cohen, YouTube's Global Head of Music and GRAMMY-nominated dance music duo Sofi Tukker. (Mixmag) 
    • DGTL Amsterdam to be the first 100% sustainable electronic music festival. (IQ) 
    • Viagogo provides an armoury of tools that experts say make it easier for ticket touts to commit fraud. (Guardian)
    ISSUE: 21 Feb 2020
    • Nightclubs, festivals and concert organizers across Asia are being forced to cancel or postpone gigs amid escalating global concerns over the coronavirus. (RA) 
    • Tomorrowland's One World Radio will celebrate its 1st anniversary with a 24-hour marathon show, featuring guests Oliver Heldens, Salvatore Ganacci and Nervo. (DJ Mag) 
    • Inner City Electronic has revealed its full conference programme for its 2020 edition. Orbital, Detroit In Effect and Mr Scruff feature on the March festival's lineup of talks and workshops. (RA) 
    • Andrew Weatherall, the DJ, producer, remixer and musician, who took acid house into the mainstream, suffered a pulmonary embolism and died aged 56. (Guardian) 
    ISSUE: 14 Feb 2020
    • A fire has completely destroyed the Apollo/Transco vinyl production facility, which was one of the only two lacquer pressing companies in the world. With MDC in Japan now being the only other lacquer production company for vinyl left, vinyl production now looks likely to encounter length delays as they struggle to keep up with the demand. (Mixmag)
    • The Design Museum in London will host the exhibition Electronic: From Kraftwerk to The Chemical Brothers. The exhibition will trace electronic music back to its origins to the present day. (Mixmag)
    • Insomniac's Pasquale Rotella took to Instagram to talk about EDC expansion, sustainability, skipping Nocturnal Wonderland in the ‘State of Insomniac’ update. (Pasquale Rotella) 
    • Spinnin' Records chief Roger de Graaf says he wants the label to keep on 'developing' and discovering 'innovative new artists' as he looks back on the last 20 years. (MW) 
    • Winter Music Conference has announced their second wave of speakers, panels, activations, sanctioned events and much more. (Magnetic) 
    • Brian Eno to give keynote interview at IMS 2020 about his role as founding trustee of the EarthPercent project and the "urgent need" for the music industry to tackle the climate crisis. (MW) 
    ISSUE: 07 Feb 2020
    • Zach Zimmerman – formerly Uber’s global business development manager of music and entertainment – has launched artist management company ZTZ Entertainment. (Billboard) 
    • Sigma is to use digital ID technology from Native and Yoti to tackle secondary ticketing on its forthcoming tour. (RotD)
    • Insomniac Events is suing USC Events in the wake of the fallout from last summer's Paradiso festival, the event the two promoters co-produced at the Gorge in Washington. (DJ Mag) 
    ISSUE: 31 Jan 2020
    • Tracy Young becomes the first woman to win a Grammy for Best Remixed Recording, Non Classical. (Billboard)
    • The Chemical Brothers have won the award for Best Dance Album with their ninth studio LP, No Geography as well as the accolade for Best Dance Recording with Got To Keep On at this year's Grammys. (Mixmag)
    • The Brighton Music Conference has announced its first wave of speakers for the event in April, including Carl Cox, Danny Howard, Derrick May and Norman Cook. (RotD) 
    ISSUE: 24 Jan 2020
    • Kaskade is suing the owners of Las Vegas' Palms Casino Resort for breach of contract over his residency deal with the now-shuttered KAOS nightclub. His lawyers want to keep the financial terms private. (Billboard)  
    • Ultra Music Festival has confirmed they have signed the contract with the city of Miami. (EDMTunes) 
    ISSUE: 17 Jan 2020
    • A new documentary, titled United Nation, explores the history of drum & bass. (DJ Mag) 
    • Fisher tops 1001Tracklists top tracks of 2019 in their annual A State Of Dance Music report. (1001Tracklists) 
    • Diplo is to give a keynote speech at this year's SXSW festival in March. (Billboard) 
    • A man has been arrested after hospitalising three people in a shooting outside of Tbilisi club Bassiani at the weekend. (Mixmag) 
    • Two people were taken to hospital after being stabbed at an ANTS party during Mexico’s Esto Es Tulum festival. (Mixmag) 
    • Ultra Music Festival faces a new lawsuit from residents and is yet to sign an agreement with the city to use Bayfront Park for the three-day event. (Miami Herald) 
    ISSUE: 10 Jan 2020
    • Mixmag and BUDX bring The Lab to DGTL Bengaluru.
    • Rinse FM mainstay Josey Rebelle has been awarded The Essential Mix of the Year 2019 for her February entry to the longstanding BBC series. (Mixmag) 
    • Electronic music bands together, DJs pledge support amidst Australian bushfire destruction. (DA) 
    • Mall Grab, DJ Plead and Cop Envy release new music in aid of Australian fire relief. (Mixmag) 
    • Alison Wonderland will donate all proceeds from merchandise sales in January to Australian Bushfire Relief. (DJ Mag) 
    • A judge has ruled that Martin Garrix owns the rights to his masters from his Spinnin' Records catalogue, but that his original contracts with Spinnin' and MusicAllStars Management signed in 2012 and 2013 were valid, ending a four-year legal battle between the DJ and Spinnin' Records and MusicAllStars Management. (Billboard) 
    ISSUE: 20 Dec 2019
    • Cyberpunk 2077 video game taps Nina Kraviz, Grimes, and more. (DA) 
    • Avicii's Wake Me Up has been named as the highest charting dance track of the decade on UK singles chart, which also includes four tracks from Calvin Harris. (DJ Mag) 
    • Armin van Buuren is the new global ambassador for the World Wide Fund for Nature charity, which aims to "motivate millions of people to join the movement to stop plastic waste being dumped in oceans".  (DJ Mag) 
    • Electronic Sound Summit returns to Liverpool in 2020, with Abelton Live and Crazy P announced. (iDJ) 
    • London Music Conference has announced its next list of speakers, including the timetable for its tech masterclasses. Artists include Hannah Holland, Red Rack'em, Third Son, Stefano Ritteri and Jamie Lidell, while Young Turks, FUSE, Brownwood Recs, Women in CTRL, Armada Music, Pxssy Palace, CapitalFM, Identification of Music Group and fabric itself will take part in panels. (DJ Mag) 
    • Fred P, Robyn, The Black Madonna and more share Christmas playlists for Help Refugees pop-up stores. (DJ Mag) 
    • Families of the victims of the Ghost Ship fire will be allowed to continue their civil lawsuit against California power utility PG&E. (RA) 
    ISSUE: 13 Dec 2019
    • Ministry of Sound has dropped a mini-documentary, which explores how the club has grown into a dance music powerhouse, particularly via 'The Annual'. (MOS) 
    • Music, design and art platform Test Pressing has launched a new publishing series with its first book, Ibiza DJs 1976 – 1988. (Mixmag) 
    • DJ magazine's Best of British awards were: Denis Sulta (Best DJ), Sherelle (Best Breakthrough DJ), Calibre (Best Resident DJ), The Chemical Brothers (Best Live Act), Special Request (Best Producer), Yak (Best Breakthrough Producer), Defected (Best Label), Kiwi Rekords (Best Breakthrough Label), Special Request 'Vortex' [Houndstooth](Best Album), Floating Points 'Late Night Tales' [Late Night Tales] (Best Compilation), Solardo & Eli Brown 'XTC [Ultra] (Best Track), AJ Tracey 'Ladbrooke Grove (Remix) feat. General Levy & Novelist' [self-released](Best Remix), Printworks, London (Best Large Club), Corsica Studios, London (Best Small Club), I Love Acid (Best Club Event), Junction 2 (Best Festival), No Bounds Festival (Best Boutique Festival), Dave (Best MC/Vocalist), Slowthai (Best Breakthrough MC/Vocalist), Simon Dunmore (Soldier of the Scene), NTS Radio (Outstanding Contribution), and The Cause (Innovation & Excellence) (DJ Mag)
    • Sherelle is Mixmag's breakthrough DJ of the year 2019 (top 15)
    • Eris Drew & Octo Octa are Mixmag's DJs of the year 2019 (top 10)
    • 1,500 DJs, including Richie Hawtin, Pete Tong, Honey Dijon and Nicole Moudaber, have signed Bye Bye Plastic pledge to request Eco-Riders, which will have no single use plastic. (Magnetic)
    • International Music Summit (IMS), the premier platform for business, culture and education in global electronic music returns to Ibiza on 20-22 May 2020 for its thirteenth edition. Located at a new venue, Destino Pacha Resort owned by the Pacha Group, IMS will host three days of conversation, connection and celebration. Tickets are available to buy now in full or through a new Payment Plan allowing delegates to spread the cost of badge purchases over four instalments. (RotD) 
    ISSUE: 06 Dec 2019
    • British Council's Southern Africa Arts organisation and Modzi Arts to host second DJ residency programme for women. (RA) 
    • Refuge has announced two further parties in Berlin and Bristol aimed at raising funds for NGO’s and important grassroots organisations. (Mixmag) 
    ISSUE: 29 Nov 2019
    • Amsterdam pop-up club Radio Radio will continue to operate for two more years (RA) 
    • London Music Conference has launched its Accelerator Program for aspiring electronic artists and industry talent. (RotD) 
    • The Amsterdam Dance Event board is looking for a new festival director, as Mariana Sanchotene leaves her position after a successful edition. (IQ)
    • Marshmello won the award for Favorite Artist – Electronic Dance Music at the American Music Awards. (EDMTunes) 
    • SFX Entertainment founder and EDM titan Robert Sillerman dies aged 71. (RA) 
    • Scientists from the University of Manchester are creating a blueprint to help bands and pop stars to perform live and tour the world without contributing to climate change after being approached by Massive Attack. (BBC)
    ISSUE: 22 Nov 2019
    • Tottenham-based online radio station Threads Radio has launched a crowdfunding campaign to secure its future. The station is currently preparing to relocate and find new studios as a result of the impending closure of Tottenham club The Cause at the end of this year. (DJ Mag) 
    • BBC Radio 1's Annie Mac saluted the "sea change" taking place within the electronic music industry as she picked up the Music Champion gong at the Music Week Women In Music Awards. (MW) 
    • Dance and electronic music specialist Spinnin’ Records is launching in Asia. (Billboard) 
    • Billboard has revealed Lady Gaga's The Fame has landed the No. 1 dance/electronic album of the 2010s with Daft Punk's Random Access Memories, and David Guetta's Nothing But The Beat at number two and three respectively. The genre's No. 1 song of the decade is Happier by Marshmello and Bastille. (Billboard) 
    • RÜFÜS DU SOL, The Chemical Brothers, Skrillex, Boys Noize, Flume, and more lead the electronic/dance 2020 Grammy Award nominations. (DA) 
    ISSUE: 15 Nov 2019
    • The Cat’s Mother - a brand new mentoring network aiming to provide a voluntary consultancy service for aspiring young women starting their careers in the creative industries, has launched. (RotD)
    • Boiler Room and Ballantine’s have launched a brand new investment and mentorship program to support grassroots music scenes around the world. The True Music Fund will offer financial investment and mentoring for artists, creatives and promoters. (DJ Mag) 
    • Genix has set the world record for the highest ever DJ set at 5,593 metres above sea level by DJing at Everest Base Camp. (DJ Mag) 
    • The first artists and speakers for London Music Conference at fabric have been announced. DJ Jaguar, Nemone, Scuba and Ben Pearce are among the first names, with representatives of Printworks London, He.She.They, Egg London, and north London club The Cause also attending. (Mixmag) 
    ISSUE: 08 Nov 2019
    • Pete Tong is set to grace the decks of Mixmag's Lab - Los Angeles today (8 November). Watch the livestream on Facebook. (Mixmag) 
    • Block9 - best known for their stunning Glastonbury area - has linked up with employability programme Create Jobs to announce a new scheme, named Creativity Works: Festival Makers, that will give young Londoners experience in festival production. (Mixmag) 
    • Dubstep DJ Datsik has resurfaced with a public apology video after an 18-month hiatus due to accusations of apparent sexual assault by his own fans. (Mixmag) 
    • Tomorrowland has announced the permanent status of One World Radio. The digital station will continue broadcasting live, 24/7 in the mix. (DJ Mag)
    • "Protest all day, party all night": How rave is uniting the Lebanese rebellion. (Mixmag)
    ISSUE: 01 Nov 2019
    • Discogs to host a record fair at this year's Electronic Music Conference in Sydney. (RA) 
    • Red Bull Music Academy, which shuts down this week, shares archive with over 500 lectures. (Pitchfork) 
    • Launched by techno producer UMEK, alongside CEO Matej Gregorčič and COO Vasja Veber, Viberate is the new network allowing musicians to have a place to showcase and promote their music, gain knowledge of what's going on in electronic music, and track their performance, whether that be on social media posts or plays on tracks or mixes. (Mixmag) 
    • The Dutch alternative dance music festival and online platform Strange Sounds From Beyond is shutting down after seven years. (RA) 
    • Carl Cox topped the Alternative Top 100 DJs 2019, powered by Beatport for the consecutive year. (DJ Mag) 
    • 1-800-Dubplate have launched a Kickstarter campaign to help fund a new "specialist ‘underground dance music’ record shop, dubplate cutting house and cultural hub" in South East London. (DJ Mag) 
    ISSUE: 25 Oct 2019
    • Ultra Music Festival’s Director of Marketing Albert Berdellans has resigned. (EDMTunes)  
    • Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike have won this year’s DJ Mag Top 100 DJs poll. (DJ Mag) 
    • Martin Garrix has been named as the Official Music Artist of UEFA EURO 2020 and will produce and perform the official song for the tournament as well as the official walkout music. (UEFA)
    • Rave legend and Fantazia co-founder Gideon Dawson died from a drug overdose, according to a coroner's report. (Mixmag) 
    • French authorities have passed new legislation which is being labelled 'anti-rave'. The aim is to "strengthen the supervision of rave parties and sanctions against their organisers". (DJ Mag) 
    • Klas Bergling, Avicii's father, discusses mental health for upcoming CBS special, Stop the Stigma: A Conversation About Mental Health. (EDM.com)  
    ISSUE: 18 Oct 2019
    • Daft Punk are rumoured to be collaborating with Coldplay on the band's new album. (Mixmag) 
    • The Ibiza Preservation Foundation has published new figures revealing Ibiza has generated 500kg of waste per person this year. The figure is double the amount of waste Spain produces per person. (Mixmag) 
    ISSUE: 11 Oct 2019
    • Urbanista has announced a new collaboration with the Tim Bergling Foundation called Open to Talk? Open to Listen, aiming to boost awareness of mental health issues and provide support to those affected. (Mixmag) 
    • A new book about UK soundsystem culture, called Bass, Mids, Tops: An Oral History of Sound System Culture, will be published on Friday, 13 December. (DJ Mag) 
    • NTS has announced that applications for its one-year, Work In Progress artist development programme (NTS WIP 2020) are now open. (Mixmag) 
    • R3 Soundsystem plans protest rave during People's Vote demonstration in London. (RA) 
    • Derick Almena, the lead tenant and leaseholder of the Ghost Ship warehouse which was destroyed in a fire in 2016 killing 36 people, is to face a retrial in March 2020. (DJ Mag) 
    • The number of fans using Viagogo has plummeted after its adverts were banned from Google. The number slumped to 2.5m in July, then 820,000 in August. Viagogo says it is "working with Google to resolve their concerns and be reinstated". (Guardian)
    • The Association For Electronic Music has launched a mental health guide. (RotD)
    ISSUE: 04 Oct 2019
    • On Friday 11 October, Radio 1 will join seven other radio stations from seven other countries to host a special one off dance show playing out to an audience of over 18m listeners. (RotD)
    • Point Blank Music School and Resident Advisor are teaming up again to offer a music scholarship for UK-based DJs and producers. (RA) 
    • Copa del Rave returns to Los Angeles for its second charity event at Evolve Project. (Mixmag) 
    • Insomniac Events donates EDC camping tents to shelter Hurricane Dorian victims. (DA) 
    • 77% of producers and recording studio engineers have done free work for self-funding artists in the last three years, according to a new report released by The Music Producers Guild. (DJ Mag) 
    • People in the UK are going out more, staying out for longer and spending more money on nights out now than in the last three years, the most recent Deltic Night Index has found. (DJ Mag) 
    ISSUE: 27 Sep 2019
    • Reprezent Radio regulars Naina and SHERELLE have announced their new label Hoover Sound. (Mixmag) 
    • Manchester-based station Limbo Radio has returned to the airwaves, having relocated to Downtex Mill just above Hidden. (Mixmag) 
    • MDMA can apparently be comedown-free, research says, producing an “afterglow” instead of a severe mood drop caused by a lack of serotonin. (Mixmag) 
    • Bassnectar's non-profit charity launches a free climate change course for high school teachers and students. (Billboard) 
    • DVS1 has launched Support Organize Sustain (S.O.S.), an independent Initiative to promote community and artistry in electronic music. (DJ Mag) 
    • UK-based music services company Monokrome Music has launched Rights HUB, an online contractual rights and file management platform for labels, artists, managers, and other rightsholders. (RotD)
    ISSUE: 20 Sep 2019
    • Ableton Loop has opened ticket registration for 2020 edition. (Ableton) 
    • Long-time Berlin resident Tilman Brembs has curated a new photo book capturing the raw energy of the city's 90s techno scene. (Mixmag) 
    • James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem is opening his new cafe, Daymoves, this Thursday in Brooklyn. The club section, Nightmoves, is set to open at a later date. (Mixmag) 
    • Med School, the sister label of Hospital Records, have decided to cease operations after 13 years of releasing music. (DJ Mag) 
    • Mixmag and New Era release documentary following Moodymann around his home town of Detroit. (Mixmag)
    • A copyright lawsuit initiated by ARTY, alleging Marshmello's hit Happier shares nearly the exact same compositional progression in the melody as his remix of One Republic's 2014 hit I Lived, was filed in May of this year. It has now been described by Marshmello as "an exercise in futility” with a demand the suit be thrown out. (EDM.com)  
    • Chase & Status (Bass), ARTBAT (Breakthrough), Maya Jane Coles (Deep House), and Maceo Plex (Melodic House & Techno) were among the winners at this year's DJ Awards held at Heart Ibiza. Defected's Simon Dunmore won the Outstanding Contribution. See here for a full list of winners.
    ISSUE: 13 Sep 2019
    • Sydney’s night-time economy looks set to receive a major boost as the local government moves to relax the lockout laws which have long suffocated its nightlife. (Mixmag)
    • The highest price ever paid for a rare Röyksopp record painted by Banksy on Discogs Marketplace has been topped after a copy sold for US$8,178 in July. (Mixmag)
    • The latest additions to BBC Radio 1's Residency have been announced. Nastia, Denis Sulta, Saoirse and Sherelle will join Paul Woolford aka Special Request, Charlotte de Witte, HAAi and Jayda G. (Mixmag)
    • The 22nd edition of the DJ Awards takes place for the second year at Heart Ibiza on Monday 16 September. (DJ)
    • It has now been fifty weeks since Marshmello and Bastille hit the top of the Dance/Electronic Music chart on Billboard. (YourEDM)
    • Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike have officially announced the creation of their own e-sports organisation, Smash Esports. (YourEDM)
    ISSUE: 06 Sep 2019
    • Radio 1 has locked in Denis Sulta, HAAi, Nastia, Sherelle and more for residencies. (DJ Mag) 
    • Johns Hopkins Medicine is launching a new research centre aimed at how psychedelics and wellness uses of a class of illegal drugs affect health and changes in the user's consciousness. (Mixmag) 
    • Native Instruments cut 20% of their workforce last week ahead of the launch of a "new, unified and fully integrated platform," which will be available in 2020. (CDM) 
    ISSUE: 30 Aug 2019
    • Fabric is to host next year's London Music Conference from 30 January to 1 February. (Mixmag)
    • Three people have been injured after a small plane crashed leaving Burning Man. (DJ Mag) 
    • An illegal rave on Cala Conta beach on Ibiza has led to 70 arrests and hospitalisations. (DJ Mag) 
    • IMS College – Malta has revealed its final schedule for 2019, with artists Nic Fanciulli, Marco Faraone and Joyce Muniz joining industry leaders Beatport, elrow, Armada Music and more. (RotD) 
    ISSUE: 23 Aug 2019
    • A new film The Shock of the Future by Nouvelle Vague band member Marc Collin pays tribute to electronic music's female pioneers. (Mixmag) 
    • Polish LGBTQIA and non-binary platform and feminist collective Oramics is donating proceeds from its new 120-track compilation, titled TOTAL SOLIDARITY, to two Polish queer organisations: Kampania Przeciw Homofobii and Miłość Nie Wyklucza. (Mixmag) 
    • Calò d'en Serral beach in Ibiza has been closed by authorities in response to an outbreak of E. coli contamination caused by high levels of human excrement in the water. (Mixmag) 
    • Ishkur’s Guide To Electronic Music has been given a huge update.  
    ISSUE: 16 Aug 2019
    • Mixmag's September 2019 issue is out now and celebrates the South African artists and DJs turning the country into a house music superpower. 
    • Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano has become the first person to DJ in space. (Mixmag) 
    • Factory Records to celebrate turning 40 with two new boxed sets. (Mixmag) 
    • Shesaid.so, a global creative network for female-identifying and non-binary people in the music industry, have added more artists and speakers to music industry conference, MEETSSS. (DJ Mag) 
    • No Deal Brexit could cost touring DJs and live artists thousands per year, according to new guidelines from Incorporated Society of Musicians (ISM). (DJ Mag) 
    ISSUE: 09 Aug 2019
    • The DJ Awards has organised a plastic clean-up on Ibiza today (9 August) in San Antonio starting at 18.00. The organisers will be joined by event partners Oceanic Global, Ibiza Preservation Fund, Ibiza Limpia & Casita Verde, Bye Bye Plastic, Plastic Free, plus parties WooMooN and Storytellers along with locals, workers and environmental activists. (IbizaSpotlight) 
    • The Loop has been testing ecstasy pills at music events across this summer and shared details on the 10 strongest pills tested, advising caution for anyone who comes into possession of the tablets. (Mixmag) 
    • Visual designer Dan Derham has designed a Keith Flint tribute t-shirt to raise money for mental health charity CALM. (DJ Mag) 
    • DJ Bone is hosting a Homeless Homies Benefit Event at Shelter Amsterdam during ADE this October. A star-studded cast of nine international artists are set to perform with DJ Bone at the function, including Peggy Gou, Dubfire, and KiNK. (Mixmag) 
    • Four men were stabbed at London's Eastern Electrics festival over the weekend. (Mixmag) 
    • Tomorrowland employees confess to dealing drugs on festival site. (RA) 
    • International Music Summit (IMS) announces the return of its summer camp educational program, IMS College, to the Mediterranean island of Malta for the fourth year running on 13-14 September 2019. The line-up already includes a keynote interview with Nic Fanciulli plus speakers from Armada Music, Beatport, elrow, and Point Blank School (RotD)
    ISSUE: 02 Aug 2019
    • Paris Electronic Week has announced its first panels and speakers. Taking place 25-29 September at Gaité Lyrique and various other venues around the city, the 5-day programme will comprise talks, exhibitions, workshops and masterclasses on a range of subjects, plus speakers from the likes of Burning Man, Nuits Sonores, Rinse France,  1024 Architecture and more. (RotD) 
    • Los Angeles-based producer Ras G has died, according to Brainfeeder. (Mixmag) 
    • Poland's electronic music community has called for global support following a spate of anti-LGBTQ+ violence. (DJ Mag) 
    • Jeremy Deller explores how the UK's boundaries of identity, class and geography in the 1980s was changed forever by rave and acid house culture in a new documentary. (Mixmag) 
    • Marshmello, Alison Wonderland, RL Grime, Sigala and more participated in the Fortnite World Cup celebrity Pro-Am competition last weekend. (EDM.com) 
    • The Chainsmokers have dethroned Calvin Harris from the top of Forbes' World Highest-Paid DJs of 2019 with earnings of $46m for the past 12 months, compared to Calvin's $38.5m, which sees him drop to 3. Marshmello climbs to 2 with $40m while Steve Aoki ($30m) and Diplo (£25m) finish the top 5. (Forbes)  
    • The European Court of Justice has ruled that the reproduction of a sound sample taken from an existing recording must be authorised by the original producer. The landmark judgement was based on a 20 year old case bought by Kraftwerk. (Billboard) 
    ISSUE: 26 Jul 2019
    • Berghain's in-house label Ostgut Ton has announced it will host a Rinse FM and Rinse France takeover on August 3 from noon to midnight GMT.  (Mixmag)  
    • Mixmag and Coors Light are offering people the chance to record their own mix in The Lab LDN as part of a new DJ contest, DJ Academy. (Mixmag)
    • Mixmag is joining forces with shesaid.so to launch a new editorial partnership that will offer shesaid.so members the chance to have their work published in the pages of their magazine. (Mixmag) 
    • Ultra Music Festival is set to return to downtown Miami in March 2020 after city commissioners voted 3-2 in favour of the event on Thursday. Ultra had tweaked the agreement’s details to appease residents, from reducing the amount of days Ultra will close the park to lowering the maximum decibel level for the music. (MiamiHerald) 
    ISSUE: 19 Jul 2019
    • Mixmag has launched its new e-store, Mixmag Supply, in the US. (Mixmag)
    • Jeff Mills believes political issues are being overlooked in electronic music, largely due to being "typically middle class". (France24)
    • The Black Madonna has revealed she will be launching her own radio platform, titled We Still Believe Radio, marking the further growth of her We Still Believe label and brand. (Mixmag) 
    • Jayda G, Caribou, Jon Hopkins, Coldcut and Floating Points are among acts who have shared support for a new climate change initiative, Music Declares Emergency. (DJ Mag) 
    • Google has suspended Viagogo as an advertiser, after claims touts resell tickets at inflated prices on the site. (BBC)
    ISSUE: 12 Jul 2019
    • The Independent Label Market (ILM) returns to London this Saturday, 13 July. (DJ Mag) 
    • Ableton's LOOP summit is returning to Berlin in 2020 on 24 to 26 April. (DJ Mag) 
    • Police in Norfolk, UK, took 20 hours to shut down an illegal rave. (Mixmag) 
    • Forbes has revealed its 100 Highest-Paid Entertainers list for 2019 and includes three electronic artists. They are Chainsmokers at 67($46m), Marshmello at 87($40m) and Calvin Harris at 95 ($38.5m). (Forbes) 
    ISSUE: 05 Jul 2019
    • After years of testing, talking and tweaking, rights management organisations APRA AMCOS and PPCA have launched OneMusic Australia, a single public performance licensing system. (Billboard)
    • A new charity collaboration, CRXSSINGS, has been announced that will raise money for City Plaza Hotel, an ex-hotel turned squat in Athens that houses refugees. (Mixmag) 
    • Ticketmaster has been ordered to pay a hefty fine following an investigation into misleading ticket prices carried out by Canada's Competition Bureau. (DJ Mag) 
    • Brian Eno and Ben UFO have signed a letter criticising Germany's Open Source Festival for cancelling rapper Talib Kweli over BDS support. (RA) 
    • shesaid.so announces MEETSSS conference for 'music industry professionals and artists of all genders'. (RA) 
    • Police have issued new warnings over blue 'Punisher' ecstasy pills after the death of two teenagers. (Mixmag) 
    • London's Saatchi Gallery will host the first major exhibition on rave culture and acid house this summer. (DJ Mag) 
    ISSUE: 28 Jun 2019
    • Streaming In DJ Booths: what the DJ industry really thinks at IMS Ibiza 2019. (DJTechTools)
    • Curating Balanced Line-Ups presented by shesaid.so at IMS 2019. (IMS)
    • Sven Väth discusses 20 years of Cocoon in Ibiza at IMS 2019. (IMS)
    • Charlotte de Witte: Keynote Interview with Pete Tong at IMS 2019. (IMS)
    • IMS 2019:
    • Voting has opened for the DJ Awards following the announcement of this year's nominees. (Ibiza Spotlight) 
    • Hyperdub will launch its new sub-label, Flatlines, in July with an audio essay by the late Mark Fisher and philosopher Justin Barton. (Mixmag)  
    • The PRS Foundation has extended the Keychange pledge to nearly 200 festivals. The festivals have committed to a 50/50 gender balance by 2022. The pledge is also expanding to include conservatoires, orchestras, broadcasters, concert halls, agents, labels and any music organisations seeking to achieve a better gender balance in the industry. (Guardian) 
    • Ultra Europe has confirmed it is moving to the Mladeži Park in Split, Croatia, for the next four years, including its 2019 edition. (EDMtunes) 
    • Pete Tong is joining Three Six Zero Recordings as President. Launched in 2018, the Recordings arm is a joint venture between Sony Music and management company Three Six Zero. (Billboard)
    ISSUE: 21 Jun 2019
    • Watch IMS Ibiza 2019: After-Movie (IMS)
    • Watch The Digital Debate 2019 at IMS 2019. (IMS) 
    • Watch DJ Mag's 'A Twist In My Sobriety' panel at IMS 2019. (IMS) 
    • Watch Klas Bergling & Pete Tong: Keynote interview at IMS 2019. (IMS)
    • IMS 2019:
    • Donatella Versace's new menswear collection is inspired by The Prodigy's Keith Flint. (RA) 
    • A new study by Eventbrite has found that over 3.7 million Brits over the age of 45 go raving once a week. (Mixmag) 
    • Almost two thirds of people who "party or used to party" believe you're never too old to stop raving, a new survey by ticketing platform TickPick has found. (DJ Mag) 
    • Warp Records will celebrate its 30th anniversary with a three-day takeover of NTS from 21 to 23 June. (Mixmag) 
    • Aluna Francis of AlunaGeorge alleges attempted assault by collaborator. (Guardian)
    • Miami City Commission has authorised the city manager to offer Ultra Festival a license to return to Bayfront Park. (Billboard) 
    • Philippe Zdar remembered by Calvin Harris, DJ Snake, Ed Banger and more. (Billboard) 
    • Philippe Zdar, a member of French electronic duo Cassius and a prominent producer, has died aged 50. He accidentally fell from “a high floor of an old building in Paris”. (Pitchfork)
    ISSUE: 14 Jun 2019
    • Global music marketplace BeatStars, where Lil Nas X found his Old Town Road beat, has paid out more than $50m to producers who license and sell their work on the platform. (Billboard)
    • Further to the NYTimes story on Billboard's chart rules, DJ Khaled is poised to hit the Billboard Chart with a lawsuit alleging the organisation unfairly disqualified more than 100,000 sales of his new album, robbing him of the No. 1 spot. (PageSix)
    • Discogs have revealed the 100 most expensive items purchased in the United States via its online marketplace since its launch in 2005. (DJMag)
    • Desert Hearts launches a new label, Desert Hearts Black. (RA)
    • Point Blank China to accelerate electronic music education in the Far East. (DT)
    • Journalist Matt Anniss to retell the history of bleep techno in new book, Join The Future. (Fact)
    • The annual report by the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drugs Addiction (EMCDDA) find that drug traders had set up "cocaine call centres" throughout Europe, ensuring quick and easy delivery of the drug. (Mixmag)
    • In Australia, APRA AMCOS has linked up with the Association for Electronic Music (AFEM) as an affiliate member, a partnership which should carve out a new revenue stream for homegrown electronic music producers. (IO)
    • Broadwick Venues has unveiled plans for a new 10,000-capacity venue on the site of a derelict former railway station in Manchester. (IQ)
    ISSUE: 07 Jun 2019
    • Singer-songwriter Matthew Koma has accused Zedd of "toxic behaviour" and stealing credit in a social media post. (Mixmag) 
    • Pablo Fierro's edit of Baianá by Barbatuques is top of Shazam's first Ibiza dance chart. (Billboard) 
    • Rinse FM locks in Jensen Interceptor, Jasss, Roman Flügel and more as new residents. (DJ Mag) 
    • The French performing rights organisation Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers (SACEM) has become the first collective management organisation to join the Association for Electronic Music (AFEM). (Billboard) 
    • Kevin Watson, the author of the IMS Business Report, has told Music Week the popularity of the video games business represents a "huge" opportunity for electronic music. "There's a natural overlap in target market between electronic music fans and gaming fans" (MW) 
    • Resident Griessmuehle DJ Darwin tweeted she is launching an environmental initiative called Clean Scene together with journalist Chal Ravens and Eilidh Sinclair from POLY.Artists. Their first project is building an easy-to-use system specifically tailored for DJs and agencies to offset their carbon emissions from flights.
    ISSUE: 31 May 2019
    • Ministry of Sound is to remain the curation partner for the fifth series of ITV2 dating reality show Love Island. (RotD)
    • New South Wales State Premier Gladys Berejiklian has indicated Sydney's lockout laws will be reviewed. (RA) 
    • In a four-part series, starting 1 June at 9pm on BBC Radio 2, Pete Tong will explore his personal love of house music in Pete Tong's House Nation. (BBC) 
    • Crowds pushed through security gates at London festival We Are FSTVL after some festivalgoers collapsed in the heat as they queued to get in. (BBC) The organisers said: “Due to unforeseen technical difficulties at the wristband exchange, customers had experienced longer waiting times".  
    • DJ Mag reveals the Best of North America Awards 2019 winners, including Richie Hawtin (Outstanding Contribution), Honey Dijon (Best DJ), Zeds Dead (Best Producer), Armand Van Helden (Hall of Fame), Griz (Best Live Act) and Mad Decent (Best Label). (DJ Mag) 
    • Other:
    • A roundup from the 12th International Music Summit Ibiza. (RotD)
    • Grand Finale for IMS Dalt Vila 2019. (Ibiza Spotlight) 
    • The state of Ibiza in 2019 - day 3 at IMS 2019. (Ibiza Spotlight, Decoded) 
    • The number of nightclubs in the UK dropped by more than a fifth in the space of a year, according to the International Music Summit's annual industry summary.  (RA, Decoded) 
    • Klas Bergling spoke about mental health and suicide prevention during an emotional interview with Pete Tong at IMS Ibiza. He also announced the launch of the Tim Bergling Foundation to focus on preventative work for mental illness and suicide. (DJ Mag, Decoded)
    • IMS Ibiza:
    ISSUE: 24 May 2019
    • Marshmello & Bastille's Happier breaks the record for the longest duration at No.1 on the Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart. (Billboard) 
    • A new study suggests that taking psychedelic drugs like LSD and magic mushrooms could help overcome alcohol dependency. (Mixmag) 
    • Only 44% of Ibiza's Airbnb properties have the correct tourist licence under the Balearic Tourism Law, according to a recent report by Terraferida and DinsAirbnb. (Ibizan) 
    • Marco Carola has denied breaching his contract in an Ibiza court after moving his Music On night from Amnesia to Pacha this year. (Mixmag) 
    • Miami City Council has reopened talks to host Ultra Music festival in 2020, while Homestead City Council has extended its Miami Speedway venue licence to 2am should Ultra wish to move there. Another touted venue location, Miami Beach, has voted against approaching Ultra about relocating to South Beach. (DJ Mag, EDM.com)
    • Other:
    • Jax Jones hosts a songwriting and production masterclass with Point Blank Music School. [video] (Facebook) 
    • Day 2 highlights - IMS Ibiza 2019 (IMS)
    • Electronic music for the planet and mental health - IMS Ibiza day two. (IbizaSpotlight) 
    • Day 1 highlights - IMS Ibiza 2019 (IMS)
    • The present and future of the dance music industry - IMS Ibiza day one. (IbizaSpotlight)
    • Avicii's father Klas Bergling spoke about the newly created Tim Bergling Foundation, mental health and suicide prevention in an interview with Pete Tong at IMS Ibiza. In the interview, Klas paid tribute to his son and outlined some of the areas that may have contributed to a deterioration of his state of mind pointing at a punishing schedule, lack of sleep, pressure to perform and alcohol abuse all contributing to depression and anxiety. (RotD, DiariodeIbiza)
    • IMS Ibiza:
    ISSUE: 17 May 2019
    • OpenLab, the radio station started by the late Robert Miles has begun broadcasting again as of this month, on Ibiza FM and online. (DJ Mag) 
    • Privilege Ibiza can open for a new season but not the whole club, rules San Antonio council. (RA) 
    • shesaid.so is celebrating its partnership with IMS Ibiza by throwing a free party on 22 May. The collective will be joined by Eclair Fifi, Seb Wildblood and Romanian artists Alexandra and Miss I. (Mixmag)
    • International Music Summit (IMS) announce the official IMS Dalt Vila after party line-up at Heart Ibiza. The after party line-up includes Charlotte de Witte, Adam Beyer, Ida Engberg, Pete Tong, Agoria, SAMA' and Manu Gonzalez. (Ibiza Spotlight)
    • Mixmag Records will put out its first ever vinyl release, Mixmag Presents The Keyboard Wizards Of Acid House, next week (20 May). (Mixmag) 
    • Arts Council England has set aside a £1.5 million for independent live music venues, clubs and promoters. (DJ Mag) 
    • The final details of International Music Summit Ibiza 2019 have been released. The three-day programme, curated alongside shesaid.so, will feature 118 global leaders and experts in addition to networking events and parties. Newly announced speakers include Seth Troxler, Sasha, Paco Osuna, Elrow Family founder and CEO, Juan Arnau Jr., and Loco Dice. (Mixmag, DJ Mag)
    ISSUE: 10 May 2019
    • David Attenborough is looking for producers to remix his 70-year-old field recordings. (DJ Mag) 
    • 30 ravers had to be treated for hypothermia this past weekend at France’s Teknival festival. (DJ Mag) 
    • Billboard is to launch The Global 100 later this year - the first authoritative chart ranking top songs globally, based on worldwide streams and download sales. (Billboard)
    • Nicole Moudaber’s In The MOOD will broadcast live from IMS Dalt Vila 2019. (Decoded) 
    • Coroner finds insufficient evidence to record Keith Flint's death as suicide. (Mixmag) 
    • Marshmello is facing a copyright infringement lawsuit from producer Arty over alleged similarities between his song Happier and Arty's remix of OneRepublic's I Lived. (Rolling Stone) 
    • Marco Carola is allegedly being sued for €2.4 million by Amnesia Ibiza. (Mixmag) 
    • Ultra Music Festival ends its 21-year relationship with Miami, and is 'finalising' a new South Florida home. (Billboard)
    • IMS Ibiza announces final details and full IMS Week schedule featuring 118 global leaders and experts plus island wide networking events and parties. (RotD)
    ISSUE: 03 May 2019
    • Ultra Music Festival was plagued by shuttle issues on the first night, leaving thousands to walk home. (YourEdm) 
    • A new study published in the scientific journal Acta Tropica claims that the classic Skrillex track 'Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites' can actually protect you from mosquito bites. (Mixmag)
    • Shesaid.so has published its Alternative Power 100 Music List 2019.
    • IFPI Global Music Report. (RotD) Worldwide recorded music revenues rose 9.7% to $19.1bn (£14.6bn) in 2018. Streaming revenue rose by 34% year-on-year to $8.9bn, accounting for 47% of the total. The sale of physical formats fell by 10.1% to $4.7bn, 24.6% of the market. Download revenue declined 21.2% to $2.3bn, 7.7% of the market. Sync revenue was up by 5.2%, while performance rights revenue was up by 9.8% and now represents 14% of total recorded music revenues.
    • Red Bull Music Academy and Red Bull Radio will end in its current form in October. A statement read "Red Bull will be moving away from a strongly centralized approach, will gradually phase out the existing structure and will implement a new setup which empowers existing Red Bull country teams and utilizes local expertise. Red Bull will continue to explore new ways to support promising and cutting-edge artists wherever they may be". (RA) 
    ISSUE: 03 May 2019
    • Avicii's father Klas Bergling gives a talk with Pete Tong about the Tim Bergling Foundation. (MW)
    • Alan Walker's Faded has now surpassed 1 billion streams on Spotify.
    • The Chainsmokers win best Electronic Artist and Album award at the Billboard Music Awards while The Middle by Zedd, Maren Morris & Grey wins best Electronic Song. (Billboard)
    • International Music Summit (IMS) announces the details of IMS Week 2019 – a schedule of events that revolve around the three-day summit, featuring an exclusive entertainment industry focused retreat, daily yoga, the IMS Official opening party at Pacha, IMS Dalt Vila closing celebration, the IMS Legends Award, Ibiza club openings and over 20 networking events and parties across the island. (Decoded)
    ISSUE: 26 Apr 2019
    • tappit to be Official Technology Partner for International Music Summit Ibiza. (Tappit) 
    • IMS Ibiza has announced its keynote speakers and panels for 2019, including Avicii's father Klas Bergling, who will give a talk about the Tim Bergling Foundation and the importance of mental health support in the music industry.  (DJ Mag, Ibiza Spotlight, Pulse, DT, MOS)
    • An official Avicii biography written by journalist Måns Mosesson will be released in 2020. (DJ Mag) 
    • Manchester's DJ community have set a new world record for the largest b2b DJ relay. 182 DJs took part in the b2b event beating the previous holders, Stoney Roads with 147 DJs. (Mixmag) 
    • Brighton Music Conference to host a David Morales live stream tonight (26 April, 8pm GMT). (RotD)
    • Ibiza superclub Privilege will have to stay shut following its legal appeal against the San Antonio council suspension order being rejected in court. The suspension order was put in place by San Antonio in September 2018 due to the club having made expansions and alterations that were unauthorised and so illegal. (Ibizan) 
    • The Virginia Key Advisory Board has advised the City of Miami to “revoke its license agreement” with Ultra after reports of loud music caused significant distress to the island's wildlife. (Mixmag) 
    • The 2019 IMS Legends Award honours Javier Anadon, Ibicencan businessman and creator and founder of Café Mambo, one of the islands most respected music venues. (IMS) 
    ISSUE: 19 Apr 2019
    • Swedish House Mafia are opening a special photography and film exhibition later this month called 'Purgatorium'. (DJ Mag) 
    • A new exhibition celebrating the history of global club culture is coming to Fabric on 25 April. (Mixmag) 
    • Mixmag's BUDX Paris event announces full program: three days and nights of panels, workshops and parties beginning April 24. (Mixmag)
    • The International Music Summit (IMS) has announced its keynote speakers for the 12th edition of the annual three-day forum. Speakers at this year event include: Klas Bergling (Avicii's father) who will be discussing the important work his charity the Tim Bergling Foundation will do in supporting people and organisations working in the field of mental illness and suicide prevention; artists Madame Gandhi, Professor Green and Luciano will join leading mental health experts in the MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS DEBATE; shesaid.so founder Andreea Magdalina will be talking under the topic “The Future of Feminism is Male – Gender Diversity in the Workplace”; and Zane Lowe is to host a talk about Apple Music and its global live stream Beats 1. Plus artist speakers include Adam Beyer & Ida Engberg, Agoria, Blond:ish, Joseph Capriati, Nastia, Nicole Moudaber, SAMA’, SOPHIE, and Sven Väth. (Mixmag)
    • The European Parliament has voted to ban the use of automated software ('bots') to mass-purchase concert tickets which are then resold at inflated rates on the secondary market. (RotD)
    ISSUE: 12 Apr 2019
    • The first posthumous track by Avicii, titled 'SOS', has been released following the artist's tragic death on April 20, 2018 (Mixmag) 
    ISSUE: 29 Mar 2019
    • Vinyl makes more revenue for the British music industry than YouTube, according to a new report by the Entertainment Retailers Association (ERA). (DJ Mag) 
    • Ibiza's West End venues have been fined a total of €1.4 million since the introduction of new licensing laws. (Mixmag) 
    • A report by research firm Nielsen predicts 530m electronic-music listeners in China by 2021. (Music Ally)
    • The European copyright directive, voted in by 348 MEPs to 274 against, has been approved by the European Parliament. (Guardian)
    • Avicii's family establish the Tim Bergling Foundation, with an initial focus on mental health and suicide prevention. (Billboard)
    ISSUE: 22 Mar 2019
    • Bradley Gunn has announced that his time as Bradley Gunn Raver has come to end. (Mixmag) 
    • Marshmello, Zedd, and The Chainsmokers win big at iHeartRadio Music Awards. (EDMTUNES) 
    • Mixmag pledges to Smirnoff's Equalising Music initiative with Annie Mac, The Black Madonna and more. (Mixmag) 
    • POW Brixton is hosting a fundraising event in honour of the late Keith Flint. Titled Warrior’s Dance, the event will take place on March 30 and will raise money for 24/7 industry support line and service Music Minds Matter. (Mixmag) 
    • Identification of Music (IOM) are launching a new event series titled Breaking In. The series aims to bring together a wealth of producers, artists, DJs and more from across the electronic music and nightlife arenas, inviting them in to discuss their first steps into the industry. (Mixmag)
    • UK record company trade income has risen by 21.8% following three years of consecutive growth since 2015. (RotD)
    • Venue operator DHP Family calls the PPL SFE tariff increase, from 3.9p to 9p per person per hour by 2023, "a slap in the face" for grassroots clubs. (IQ)
    • PPL has published details of its new Specially Featured Entertainment (SFE) tariff, coming into effect on 1 July 2019. The new tariff relates to the playing of recorded music in public at events and replaces the current tariff has been in place for around 30 years. It will be phased in until 2023. (RotD)
    ISSUE: 15 Mar 2019
    • A petition has been created to erect a statue of the late Keith Flint in The Prodigy's hometown of Braintree in Essex, England. (Mixmag) 
    • Spotify has defended its recent decision to appeal royalty rates set by the Copyright Royalty Board, calling into question "significant flaws" in how they were determined. (Billboard) You might have heard about the streaming industry’s CRB appeal - here’s what you need to know. (Spotify)
    • Spotify has lodged an antitrust complaint against Apple with the European Commission. (Guardian)
    • IMS Ibiza have announced exciting DJ back-to-back sets for Dalt Vila 2019. The line-up includes Agoria b2b SOPHIE, Joseph Capriati b2b Pete Tong, and Nicole Moudaber b2b DJ Sama. (Ibiza Spotlight) 
    • The International Music Summit (IMS) co-hosted with shesaid.so have announced their key themes and topics for 2019. Topics to be discussed at the event in May include Mental Health Crisis in Electronic Music; Clubland in Crisis; Big Data & 'The Data Guide'; The Politics of Dancing; and the Palestinian and Eastern Bloc Electronic Scene. (Mixmag)
    ISSUE: 08 Mar 2019
    • The Competition and Markets Authority has said Viagogo had not fully complied with the terms of a court order designed to protect consumers, despite being given a grace period to do so. (IQ)
    • Radio 1 has announced a new Residency line-up including HAAi, Paul Woolford, Charlotte de Witte and more. (Mixmag) 
    • The Prodigy frontman Keith Flint has died at the age of 49. (Mixmag) 
    ISSUE: 01 Mar 2019
    • Mixmag Record's first ever vinyl release The Keyboard Wizards of Acid House is out today. Curated by promoter Sean McLusky the album features rare and remastered vintage live tracks from Orbital, Adamski, Altern-8 and 808 State. (Mixmag) 
    • Microdosing reduces depression and mind wandering but increases neuroticism, according to first-of-its-kind study. (PsyPost)
    • The International Dance Music Awards (IDMA) has announced its nominees and opens voting. The awards will take place in Miami during the Winter Music Conference. (DT) 
    ISSUE: 22 Feb 2019
    • The Keyboard Wizards of Acid House is Mixmag Records' first vinyl release. Curated by promoter Sean McLusky the album features tracks from Orbital, Adamski, The Shamen and Meat Beat Manifesto. (Mixmag) 
    • Jukebox PR's CEO Alex Jukes and Data Transmission owner Grahame Farmer launch The Tribes, a music and lifestyle network that connects brands with youth culture and relevant music markets. (RotD)
    • Resident Advisor launches Doors Open, the first electronic music jobs board. (RA) 
    ISSUE: 15 Feb 2019
    • Arts Council England advises arts organisations in event of no-deal Brexit. (RA)
    • Making music makes you healthier and happier, a new study shows by Music For All. (DJ Mag) 
    • Dance for Refuge are hosting parties in London and Manchester on International Women’s Day. Proceeds from both parties will be donated to Women For Refugee Women. (Mixmag) 
    • Justice wins Best Dance/Electronic Album while Electricity by Silk City & Dua Lipa wins Best Dance Recording at this year's Grammys. (BBC)
    • Brighton Music Conference has announced 180 artists and speakers, including David Morales, Ultra Music, Defected and more from across the music, nightlife, tech and digital industries. (RotD)
    • The European Union's plan to reform copyright has taken a major step towards becoming law after policy makers agreed upon a definitive text of "Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market". (Billboard)
    ISSUE: 08 Feb 2019
    • After a short hiatus, discussions on the new EU copyright law proposals are moving forward again. France and Germany have reached a deal on which services should be bound to Article 13. (TorrentFreak)
    • A judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by a rival festival which was aiming to stop Ultra from going ahead this year at the proposed site. (DJ Mag) 
    • Beatport has announced the winners for the second edition of its Beats In School mentorship initiative. The winners are Sammy Legs (Dirtybird), Redemptive (Hospital Records), Donny Carr (mau5trap) and dotdat (Second State). (Mixmag) 
    • The 12th edition of IMS Ibiza to be presented with SheSaid.So - the leading global network of women in the music industry. This year's event will focus on the key objectives of inclusivity, balance and gender parity, as well as health and wellness. (IMS)
    ISSUE: 01 Feb 2019
    • Kieron Donoghue, founder of Humble Angel Records and previously VP of Global Playlist Strategy and Curation at Warner Music has launched an independent dance record label, Humble Angel Dance. (RotD)
    • Rinse FM has announced its residency programming for the next season, adding over 40 names to its extensive roster, including Discwoman’s Ciel, LSDXOXO and Solid Blake. (DJ Mag) 
    • SoundExchange reports it distributed more sound recording performance royalties to recording artists and rights owners than in any other year of its 15-year existence - $953m. (AllAccess)
    ISSUE: 25 Jan 2019
    • New London station Threads Radio finds a home in London club The Cause. The station will feature a mix of "cutting edge music" and "socially and politically focussed talk-based content." (RA) 
    • The MPAA, RIAA, and various other copyright groups see pirate site blocking as one of the priorities for a US-UK trade deal. ISP blockades are already commonplace in the UK and the groups hope to achieve the same in America. (TorrentFreak) 
    • Viagogo has said that it was now compliant with the Competition & Markets Authority’s demands, but music industry figures and critics said they believe it is still withholding some information from fans about what they are buying. Viagogo published details of its most prolific sellers, under the terms of a court order secured against the company by regulators. (Guardian) 
    • Article 13 in disarray as European Copyright Directive stalls. (MBW)
    • The 34th annual Winter Music Conference has announced its first keynote speakers, select programming and additional partnerships for its 2019 edition. Keynote speakers for this year include Armin van Buuren, Dr Douglas Rushkoff, Irvine Welsh, Sam Feldt and Laidback Luke. (Mixmag) 
    ISSUE: 18 Jan 2019
    • Aphex Twin, Rudimental, Calvin Harris and Sigala have been nominated for BRIT Awards. (Hits)
    • Bleep ×, Bleep.com's pop-up record store in Dalston, and Resident Advisor are teaming up for eight in-store events over seven days. Laraaji, Peder Mannerfelt, Benji B, Peach and more will be stopping by the East London shop for a week of talks, DJ sets and live performances. (RA) 
    • In a week from now, we should know more about the final language of Article 13 and the broader copyright reform proposals. (TorrentFreak)
    • DJ, producer and comedian High Rankin to host a live podcast series focusing on mental health in music. (Mixmag)
    • Ultra Music Festival in Florida has been issued a cease and desist letter from a competing electronic-focused event, Rapture Electronic Music Festival. (Billboard)
    ISSUE: 21 Dec 2018
    • A counterfeit vinyl pressing plant has been busted by authorities in Wales. (DJ Mag) 
    • The Dutch Green Party, GroenLinks, has said that the government should act to regulate the production of ecstasy. (Mixmag)
    • Drinkaware is urging people to step in if they see people being sexually harassed in clubs. (Mixmag) 
    • A new record pressing plant is to open in Liverpool, housed in The Jacaranda music venue. (DJ Mag)
    • HAAi wins BBC Essential Mix of the Year 2018. (BBC Radio1)
    ISSUE: 14 Dec 2018
    • Household names from the world of music have joined several leading UK music industry bodies in signing a letter drafted by Music4EU that calls on the Government for an alternative to Brexit. (Guardian)
    • TOKiMONSTA, Jon Hopkins, SOPHIE and Justice have been nominated for Grammy Awards. (Mixmag)
    • Agoria, Avalon Emerson, Four Tet, HAAi, Ivy Lab and Ricardo Villalobos have been shortlisted for Radio 1's Essential Mix of the Year 2018 by Pete Tong. (BBC) 
    ISSUE: 07 Dec 2018
    • Following the Competition & Markets Authority publishing Viagogo’s court order, more specific requirements of the secondary ticketing company have been outlined. (FanFair)
    • Martin Solveig has apologised for asking Ballon D’or Winner, Ada Hegerberg, to 'Twerk' on stage. (DJ Mag)
    • 70% of gig-goers are irritated by phones on the dancefloor, according to a new study. (Mixmag)
    • Winter Music Conference 2019 has announced its first phase of programming and partners for its 34th edition. Media partners include Mixmag, The Verge, Grammy.com and Billboard Dance, while WMC has partnered with more than 40 international labels and brands including Beatport, Scratch DJ Academy, Anjunabeats, Spinnin Records, Splice and more. (Billboard)
    • Insomniac’s in-house record label services group, Insomniac Music Group, will oversee distribution and management for artists while also continuing to develop their own internal imprints. (EDMIdentity) 
    ISSUE: 30 Nov 2018
    • Silent Disco tours in Edinburgh are "too noisy", city council seeks action. (Mixmag)
    • New research into the effects of drugs like MDMA by British scientists could help develop more effective treatments for mental health problems. (Wired)
    • Los Angeles party crews combat homelessness with the third edition of LA Gives Back. (Mixmag)
    • EDC China warned performers against swearing due to risk of police action last weekend. (DJ Mag)
    • Viagogo could be forced to pay back millions of pounds to fans who bought tickets through the site only to be turned away at the door. (Guardian) Viagogo will have to pay for a third party to monitor its compliance with this week’s court order, which demanded a “complete overhaul” of the controversial tickets site. 
    • The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority has been granted a landmark court order securing a range of concessions from Viagogo, with it avoiding a costly trial after agreeing to address the competition watchdog’s concerns. (IQ)
    ISSUE: 23 Nov 2018
    • Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh plans to release acid house album. (Fact)
    • LA jury awards woman $3.8M in stage-diving suit against Skrillex. (CBS) 
    • Discogs has published a report looking at the fluctuation in price of its high value items over the last eight years and shows the rarest records are getting more expensive. (Discogs)
    • Detroit techno documentary starring Juan Atkins, Derrick May & Kevin Saunderson seeks funding via Kickstarter. (Billboard)
    • MDMA makes people more cooperative and forgiving, scientists discover. (Metro) 
    • Remedy State Presents ARETÉ, expands arts & entertainment wellness retreat in 2019 (Billboard)
    • Police in the UK have issued a report warning illegal raves are on the rise. More than 680 reports of unlicensed music events were recorded last year, up 9% on the previous year. (Sky News)
    • A YouTube campaign which claims internet users and music-makers will suffer under the European Commission’s (EC) new copyright proposals has been slammed by digital music experts and the EC itself. (M)
    ISSUE: 16 Nov 2018
    • Next Tuesday (20 November), Duncan Dick explores the history of techno in the first of a series of Mixmag Talks in association with Funzing. Tickets are available here. 
    • Yaeji, Madame Gandhi, and Moe Shalizi named in Forbes 30 Under 30 2019 Music List. (Forbes) 
    • The DJ Growth Lab, an online Facebook group set up to help aspiring DJs, will be launching their first day conference on Saturday 8 December at the Birmingham & Midlands Insitute. Roger Sanchez will head up the event that also features panel discussions and workshops. (DT) 
    • Nightlab, an Eventbrite and Mixcloud collaboration, will return for its second free event on 28 November. The event will provide an intimate insight into the past, present and future of UK club culture with discussions from DJ Greg Wilson and A Guy Called Gerald. (Broadway World) 
    • The International Live Music Conference (ILMC) has announced details for the 2019 edition. (RotD)
    • REMEDY STATE presents ARETE launches a powerful 9-minute film to announce its second edition in Ibiza before IMS 2019. (Remedy State)
    ISSUE: 09 Nov 2018
    • Mixmag's editor, Duncan Dick, explores the history of techno at a special event in London on 20 November. (Mixmag)
    • 76 per cent of participants in MDMA-assisted therapy for PTSD have responded well in a recent trial. (Mixmag)
    • Ultra Miami festival has revealed plans to move to Virginia Key, however, Rapture Electronic Music Festival claims they have already signed a contract for the dates in question. While local residents have also expressed serious concerns about a festival of Miami Ultra's size moving in. (DJ Mag)
    ISSUE: 02 Nov 2018
    • Bok Bok, Hannah Wants and Mr. Mitch confirmed for Rinse FM residencies. (Mixmag) 
    • Ocean Beach Ibiza has announced plans to become 'O Beach Ibiza' as the brand prepares to expand globally to other party territories including Dubai and Croatia. (TheWhiteIsle)
    • Presented by Somerset House Studios, ASSEMBLY is a new five-day event celebrating experimental and contemporary sounds in electronic music is heading to London this November. (Mixmag) 
    • Ultra to relaunch Miami Winter Music Conference next year. The event will welcome professionals alongside consumers with an interest in production, DJing, management, tech, dance and club culture. (DJ Mag)
    • Data and personal information of 64,000 attendees of Tomorrowland's 2014 festival has been stolen in a recent online hack. (DJ Mag) 
    • IMS Ibiza returns for its annual three-day educational, inspirational and motivational thought-leadership forum next year. The 12th edition will take place between 22 May and 24 May 2019. (DT)
    ISSUE: 26 Oct 2018
    • Amsterdam Dance Event 2018 broke attendance records with over 400k visitors from more than 100 countries. (Billboard) 
    • Ice-T launches techno label called Electonic Beat Empire with Afrika Islam. (Mixmag) 
    • DJs like Laidback Luke say their mental health is being damaged by the brutal pressures of the music industry. (BI) 
    • Martin Garrix has been revealed as the winner of the DJ Mag Top 100 DJs Poll 2018, with the 22-year-old Dutch superstar making it three in a row. (DJ Mag)
    • Spotify has appointed Christie Driver-Snell to a newly-created position, Editor for Dance Music (UK). She was formerly Head of Programming at Rinse FM. (MBW)
    ISSUE: 19 Oct 2018
    • Ibiza Leisure Association has responded to Prou Ibiza sustainability plan and described it as "delirious" and it would lead to “25 years of poverty” for Ibiza. (The Ibizan)
    • Canadian radio host, DJ, producer and label owner B.Traits has announced that she is leaving BBC Radio 1 after being with the station for six years. She has decided to leave as she feels she can no longer devote the necessary time to make the show. (Mixmag)  
    • The global music industry loses out on $2.65bn every year because of small businesses misusing personal music-streaming services, according to a study conducted by Nielsen Music and licensing service Soundtrack Your Brand. (Billboard)
    • Point Blank to partner with Chinese internet company NetEase to open the first Electronic Music School in China in the summer of 2019. (XLR8R)
    • Jason Ellis has been promoted to Managing Director of Positiva Records. He will continue in his role as A&R Director for Virgin EMI Records. (MBW)
    ISSUE: 12 Oct 2018
    • Simon Dunmore tweeted - Heavy rumours that, due 2 low numbers, 2 established UK brands will not return 2 Ibiza next summer. If so it really does underline Defected's move to San An has paid off. San An remains the gateway for many & these kids are our future. Making nightlife in Ibiza affordable is key.
    • A recent study published by The European College of Neuropsychopharmacology revealed the regular use of the drug GHB may have negative effects on "long-term memory, working memory [and] IQ" while raising stress and anxiety. (Mixmag) 
    • Over 80% of people working in the music industry are suffering with continuous levels of stress, anxiety and depression, a new survey suggests. (FI)
    • Groove, the Berlin-based dance music publication to stop print magazine after nearly 30 years. (RA) 
    • More than one-third of global music listeners are still pirating music, according to a new report by the IFPI. (Guardian) The IFPI estimated that YouTube represented an annual revenue of less than $1 per user, compared to $20 on Spotify.
    • Dance music industry back PRS for Music and PPL as music recognition technology is extended to nightclubs. (RotD)
    ISSUE: 05 Oct 2018
    • Marshmello & Bastille hit No. 1 on Hot Dance/Electronic songs chart, after 33 weeks of The Middle up top. (Billboard) 
    • Amsterdam Dance Event has completed its 2018 program with the final announcement of speakers and artists, including Nile Rodgers, Jean-Michel Jarre, Cassy and Carl Craig. (Mixmag) 
    • London Music Conference founder Sam Speaight on why London needed a dance music conference. (Magnetic) 
    • Marshmello donates $500,000 to KIND Foundation to support refugee and immigrant children. (Billboard) 
    • YouTube has revealed the top 15 most streamed artists who have played Ibiza this summer. The top five from the top are Juan Magán, Calvin Harris, David Guetta, Danny Ocean, and Martin Garrix. (Mixmag)  
    • Red Bull Music Academy celebrates its 20th anniversary by creating the world's largest sequencer and bringing essential machines of electronic music to Berlin. (RBMA)
    • The Balearic Statistics Institute have issued the key Fitur tourism statistics for Ibiza August 2018, which showed a 3.7% drop in numbers compared to last year. However, the number of Britons visiting the White Isle increased by 9.2%. (Ibizan)
    • Beatport achieved year-on-year global track-download revenue growth of 8% in H1 2018 versus the same period of last year. Robb McDaniels explains why one of dance music's biggest brands is bucking the universal trend of falling download sales. (MBW) 
    ISSUE: 28 Sep 2018
    • In the wake of allegations that Ticketmaster is looking the other way as scalpers and professional ticket resellers violate company rules on Ticketmaster’s resale platform, the company president says it is to take a closer look at its own secondary-market policies. (Billboard) 
    • Proximity, the digital dance curator and newly minted record label, is launching SAVE, a charity campaign to promote mental health awareness. (Billboard) 
    • Ushuaïa and Musicians Against Animal Cruelty (MAAC) go WILD for a good cause. (Ibiza Spotlight)
    • Brighton Music Conference returns in 2019 from Wednesday 24th April to Saturday 27th April. (DT) 
    • PRS for Music and Sony/ATV Music Publishing Benelux have announced they are hosting a songwriting camp in Amsterdam for dance music. (M)
    ISSUE: 21 Sep 2018
    • A new three part BBC TV series 'Can You Feel It - How Dance Music Conquered The World' airs on BBC4 this weekend.  (DJ Mag) 
    • Ticketmaster has been essentially accused of colluding with scalpers — and collecting double fees in the process. Undercover reporters were pitched TradeDesk, the company’s invite-only proprietary platform for reselling tickets, It enables resellers to purchase tickets in bulk from Ticketmaster’s site, and then resell them for higher prices — with Ticketmaster taking a percentage of both sales — raising or dropping prices with the click of a button based on their assessment of fan demand. (Star, CBC, Variety)
    • In the US, the Senate has unanimously passed the Music Modernization Act. (Billboard) The bill will now head back to the House, where its changes will need approval, but it sets in motion an overhaul of music licensing legislation over a number of areas.
    • The first ever London Music Conference has revealed further details of its events programme and panel speakers. Panels include Spotify For Artists 101, Beatport presenting new ways to start and grow labels and Secrets to Success. (Standard)  For more details visit LMC website. 
    • Carl Cox has revealed that he has partnered with Space Ibiza founder Pepe Rosello, former general manager Juan Arenas and Ibiza promoter Dave Browning as the team behind new Space Ibiza venture. (Mixmag)
    • 10 things we learned from this year's IMS College - Malta, including the best promotional strategies have a story, the importance of good management and that the creation of Elrow was a happy accident. (IMS)
    ISSUE: 14 Sep 2018
    • The European Parliament has passed the new European Copyright Directive. (Guardian) Trade bodies welcomed the result. Statements from MPA, BPI, PRS for Music, IFPI, Impala, AIM, UK Music, CISAC.
    • Hannah Wants announces the launch of her new label, Etiquette. (Mixmag) 
    • Raving makes you happier, healthier and more successful, according to a new scientific study. (DJ Mag)
    • Sasha to speak at Electronic Music Conference in Sydney this November. (Mixmag) 
    • A new roster of talent and new staff aim to refocus Astralwerks on its roots as an influential arm of the dance music community. (Billboard)
    • Apple synched Loyal by Odesza (Ninja Tune) to launch their latest iPhone and Apple Watch product lines. The track was also Zane Lowe's 'World Record' on Apple Music's Beats 1 this week. 
    • Carl Cox (International DJ), Jamie Jones (Tech House Master), Black Coffee (Deep House), and Roger Sanchez (House Master) were among the winners at this year's DJ Awards held at Heart Ibiza. Track of the Season went to Your Mind by Adam Beyer and Bart Skils. See here for a full list of winners.
    ISSUE: 07 Sep 2018
    • Gilles Peterson is curating a week of mental health fundraising events in North London for local charity Safaplace. (Standard) 
    • Over 8,000 people used drug testing facilities at seven UK music festivals this summer. (BBC)
    • Peggy Gou, Tracey Thorn, Goldie and Sophie were among the winners at this year's AIM Independent Music Awards. (Music Week)
    • Marshmello has been confirmed to headline the upcoming Forbes Under 30 Summit Music festival. (Billboard) 
    • London's Take Note Academy has finalised its 2018 programme with live performances from Silvia Kastel and Tom Demac. (RA) 
    • The first ever London Music Conference is launching in October and will be hosted over multiple leading venues across the capital. The event will feature panel discussions, talks and production masterclasses from influential industry figures, including Broadwick Live's Mark Newton, Ministry of Sound's booking manager Nikki Gordon and Mixmag's editor Duncan Dick. (Standard) 
    ISSUE: 31 Aug 2018
    • Radio 1 has announced the new line up for its Residency, with Danny Byrd, George Fitzgerald, Monki and Peggy Gou joining the line-up alongside Artwork, Bradley Zero, Jubilee and The Black Madonna who are staying on rotation and altogether will form the Residency team from September 2018 – February 2019. (BBC) 
    • Yellow 'UPS' pills being as sold as MDMA at Creamfields festival last weekend were found to contain a stimulant called alpha-PVP which can cause anxiety, paranoia and hallucinations. (Mixmag) 
    • Help Refugees is teaming up with Pikes Ibiza to launch a new, annual charity night to raise funds for individuals involved in the current refugee crisis. (Mixmag) 
    • Black Coffee, Adam Beyer, Art Department, Bedouin, Tiga plus more play for Music Against Animal Cruelty (MAAC) at a fundraising party hosted at Ushuaïa Ibiza. (Pulse) The DJs involved are contributing their performance for free and all profits from this event are going directly to wildlife conservation projects. 
    ISSUE: 24 Aug 2018
    • Spotify, Berklee College of Music and Electric Lady Studios launch Equal (EQL) Studio Residency Program for emerging female producers and engineers. (Billboard)
    • Four Tet’s four shows at O2 Academy Brixton this October will be 100% ticketed via mobile, with the aim of restricting resale. (RotD) 
    • Music tech conference We Are Robots returns for its second year at the Old Truman's Brewery in London this October. The event will feature panel discussions, live events and demos from Moog, Arturia, and ROLI. (DJ Mag)
    • Educational initiative IMS College - Malta announce their 2018 summer camp schedule and final speakers. (DT) The line-up includes talks with Dubfire, Mambo Brothers and Tenishia, plus speakers from Beatport, Elrow, Mixmag, Point Blank Music School, Toolroom, and Ultra Music.
    ISSUE: 17 Aug 2018
    • Ticketmaster is closing its secondary ticketing websites Seatwave and Get Me In and replacing with a fan-to-fan ticket exchange in October. (Billboard). 
    • Yellow 'Super Mario' Pills contain the Dangerous Chemical N-Ethylpentylone. (Mixmag) 
    • Canadian duo BLOND:ISH are teaming up with International Music Summit, Casita Verde, and Ibiza Preservation Foundation to clean up Ibiza's Playa d’en Bossa beach. (Mixmag)
    • Zedd's The Middle smashes record for most weeks at No. 1 on Hot Dance / Electronic Songs Chart. (Billboard) 
    • The first speakers have been announced for the Electronic Music Conference taking place at Sydney’s University of Technology this November. (Industry Observer)
    • Swedish House Mafia part ways with longtime manager Amy Thomson. (Billboard) 
    ISSUE: 10 Aug 2018
    • A humiliating and hostile visa entry system is preventing a growing number of international acts from performing in the UK, placing the future health and diversity of the festival market at risk, warn senior figures in the live industry. (Billboard)
    • Take Note Academy London has announced a mentor scheme, which will run during its forthcoming music conference this September. (DJMag)
    • The Chainsmokers and Halsey’s Closer ranks at No.13 on Billboard's chart of the biggest hits of all time. (YourEDM)
    • The music industry made $43bn in 2017, but artists only took away 12% of it. (DA)
    ISSUE: 03 Aug 2018
    • HAAi, Martha and B.Traits announced for Take Note Academy London. (Mixmag)
    • Class A drug use among UK youth hits highest rate in more than 25 years, thanks to cheap cocaine. (DA)
    • Voluntary drug testing will be on offer at a dozen UK music festivals this summer as police say they will not arrest those who use the service. (Mail)
    • Radar Radio has ended up £4 million in debt. (Mixmag)
    ISSUE: 27 Jul 2018
    • The EM Awards expand on global platforms and highlight equal representation in 2018. (Mixmag)
    • Female music industry networking group shesaid.so has opened applications for its mentoring scheme, she.grows. (shesaid.so)
    • The Met Police spent more than half a million pounds investigating an illegal rave that took place in 2015 and led to violent clashes. (Mixmag)
    • An Ibiza protest group is demanding immediate action over noise at the island's beach clubs. (Mixmag)
    • A protest against Hackney Council's controversial licensing laws is to be held on Friday July 27. (RA)
    ISSUE: 20 Jul 2018
    • Educational initiative IMS College returns to Malta for the third year this September 14-15 (IMS) The line-up already includes an intimate interview with Dubfire plus speakers from Aei, Elrow, Beatport, Ultra and Warner. 
    • The New York City Council and Mayor Bill de Blasio have appointed members to a new nightlife advisory board. (RA)
    • LA music production school ICON Collective launches Woman's Scholarship program. (Mixmag)
    • All inclusive hotels in Ibiza may start charging for alcohol soon as the Balearic government tried to curb anti-social behaviour through new measures. (Mixmag)
    • Ibiza and Majorca's regional governments are planning to organise a summit to address airline passengers' alcohol consumption at airports and on flights while traveling to the Balearic Islands. (Mixmag)
    • London borough Hackney’s council looks set to go ahead with its hugely unpopular plans to impose venue closures at 11pm on weeknights and midnight on weekends. (HackneyGazette)
    ISSUE: 13 Jul 2018
    • A campaign has been launched to rebuild Detroit's most famous techno sound system. (Mixmag)
    • Chicago label Still Music rescues decades of house history from a south-side storage locker. (ChicagoReader)
    • Zedd, Maren Morris and Grey’s The Middle was the biggest selling song in the dance/electronic genre in Nielsen's 2018 US mid-year report. (Billboard)
    • Ibiza hotels have begun to offer major discounts as many businesses attempt to make up for the recent lack of demand from British, German and other foreign tourists during this year's high season. (Mixmag)
    • The UK's Home Office has said it “would not stand in the way” of drug testing at clubs and festivals. (Independent)
    ISSUE: 06 Jul 2018
    • Future Bubblers, the artist mentorship programme started by Gilles Peterson, is open for applications. (RotD)
    • ​Discogs now has 10 million releases listed on its database. (Mixmag)
    • The annual DJ Awards have announced new categories and a move to Heart Ibiza this September. (DT)
    • Australian radio station triple j has announced triple j dance, a new destination for electronic music fans. (IndustryObserver)
    • Ghost Ship operators plead 'no contest,' will serve under ten years in jail. (RA)
    ISSUE: 29 Jun 2018
    • Take Note Academy London returns to East London’s design space Second Home on Saturday 15 September. (DT)
    • ​Ableton brings its annual Loop summit to Los Angeles this November 9–11. (Mixmag)
    • Mixmag won the Consumer Media Brand Of the Year Award at the 2018 PPAs. 
    • Eventbrite has become ticketing partner to Superstruct-owned Spanish party promoter Elrow Family. (IQ)
    • A new survey reports US musicians are more prone to frequent drinking and substance abuse. (RA) The survey of 1227 musicians also revealed 72% of female musicians experienced sexual discrimination.
    • A new non-profit campaign titled Festival Safe, focusing on risk reduction, has been brought together by Broadwick Live’s Jon Drape. (Mixmag)
    • Greater Manchester's mayor has launched a review into the region's music scene. (Mixmag)
    ISSUE: 22 Jun 2018
    • A 24/7 mental health helpline has been launched for music industry professionals in Australia. (Mixmag)
    • Swedish House Mafia manager Amy Thomson launches music business charity course. (Billboard)
    • YouGov poll reveals one in five festival goers experience sexual harassment or assault, almost half of women under 40 experience such incidents. (Mixmag)
    ISSUE: 15 Jun 2018
    • Ableton Loop 2018 ticket registration opens. (Fact)
    • The UK music community remembers DJ and record shop owner Liz Edwards. (RA)
    • Cement dust and talcum powder were found in drugs at Gottwood Festival. (Mixmag)
    • Experts issue warning for a deadly "MDMA-like" substance at festivals. (Mixmag)
    ISSUE: 08 Jun 2018
    • DJMag announces the DJ Awards for North America. (EDMSauce)
    • Bestival to debut drug testing facilities in harm reduction efforts. (DA)
    • Festival Republic has decided not to allow on-site drug testing. (Mixmag)
    ISSUE: 01 Jun 2018
    • As previously reported, the IMS Business Report 2018 showed that the size of the global EDM market dropped 2% to £5.5bn last year – its first ever fall. (Guardian)
    • IMS has partnered with Deeper Sounds to present IMS keynotes on all British Airways in-flight audio entertainment, the June show featuring Kaskade keynote interview from IMS Asia-Pacific 2015 now live, previous featured keynotes include The Martinez Brothers, Yann Pissenem, Bernard Sumner and The Pet Shop Boys. Listen here.
    • MTV UK has announced the launch of its latest music channel, Club MTV, and the expansion of its eponymous touring brand. (MusicWeek)
    • Influential house producer Dwayne Jensen has passed away. The cause of death is not yet known. (DJMag)
    • Dance music-centric Italian indie label Ego Music has expanded its alliance with Believe to provide digital distribution services for the former’s new releases, as well as its back catalogue as it was previously. (CMU)
    ISSUE: 25 May 2018
    • ​Techno holds its spot as Beatport's best selling genre as the platform announces track revenue growth of 7% this year. (Mixmag) It has also announced genre Hype Charts launching in Q3 2018, Beatport DJ discount subscription service launching Q4 2018 and Beatport full catalogue streaming into DJ software in Q1 2019. (DJTechTools)
    • The Night Time Industries Association and Culture24, the producers of the Museums at Night festival, have announced a joint declaration to bring the museum and gallery world together with clubs, bars and venues to promote and develop the UK’s world-beating evening culture and nightlife offer. (Decoded)
    • Other:
    • USA legend makes IMS debut: Todd Terry. (EDMTV)
    • IMS debate: Festive holiday destinations that aim to compete with Ibiza. (DiariodeIbiza)
    • IMS Ibiza 2018 – 10 essential debates and events you must attend. (MyIbiza)
    • The Identification Of Music Group Director Robbie Murch is an IMS Visionary. (Mixmag)
    • Viral sensation Bradley Gunn Raver gives his IMS keynote with Mixmag's Nick DeCosemo. (Facebook)
    • IMS keynote: 15 Years Of Toolroom Records. (Facebook)
    • IMS day 2 report: Streaming, drugs and emerging markets. (Musicweek)
    • Day 2 highlights – IMS Ibiza 2018. (IMS)
    • Innovation and inspiration - day 2 at IMS Ibiza 2018. (IbizaSpotlight)
    • Day 1 highlights– IMS Ibiza 2018. (IMS)
    • Tips to dance safely - takeaways from IMS Ibiza day 1. (IbizaSpotlight)
    • IMS day 1 report: Why hasn't music had its 'MeToo' moment? (MusicWeek)
    • International Music Summit co-founder Pete Tong has told Music Week the EDM bubble has "punctured" rather than burst ahead of this year's IMS Ibiza, which begins today. (MusicWeek)
    • Pete Tong speaks about Avicii’s tragic death at IMS Ibiza: ‘We weren’t supposed to die chasing the dream’. (BBC, Metro, Music Week, RA, Sun, DJMag, YourEDM)
    • IMS Ibiza:
    ISSUE: 18 May 2018
    • Venues, festivals and music association reps part of new City of Sydney night-time advisory panel. (TMN)
    • Ravers hit the streets of Georgia to protest police raids of clubs Bassiani and Café Gallery. (Mixmag)
    • Following successful pilots at multiple British musical festivals, the first ever city centre drug safety testing facility designed for recreational narcotics opened in Bristol at the weekend. (Mixmag)
    ISSUE: 11 May 2018
    • The Electronic Music Awards are set to return November 8 at the Willow Studios in Los Angeles. (Mixmag)
    • Ableton’s Loop Summit moves to LA from Berlin for 2018. (XLR8R)
    • 40 more festivals and conferences, including Annie Mac Presents Lost & Found (Malta), have joined the Keychange pledge to achieve or maintain a 50/50 gender balance in their line-ups by 2022. (RotD)
    • A further 28 electronic music artists and professionals join the IMS Ibiza 2018 schedule, including Andy C and Danny Tenaglia, plus representatives from Beatport, Ministry of Sound, Seven20, SoundCloud and more. (RotD)
    ISSUE: 04 May 2018
    • Burning Man co-founder Larry Harvey has died aged 70. (Mixmag)
    • Australia’s first pill-testing trial, held at Groovin the Moo in Canberra, has been hailed a success by the government of the Australian Capital Territory (ACT), with around 130 festivalgoers believed to have used the facility. (IQ)
    • The IMS Legends Dinner honouring Underworld will be celebrated on Wednesday May 23 at Heart Ibiza, featuring an exclusive live performance from the duo. (RotD)
    • Decks are now recognised as a formal instrument by examination boards in the UK meaning students can now DJ as part of their music GCSE. (BBC)
    ISSUE: 27 Apr 2018
    • The shesaid.so community has announced its 2018 the Power 100 list.
    • To celebrate Scotland’s Year of Young People 2018, Dundee Dance Event (DDE) is launching the UK’s first dance music industry careers event. (EveningTelegraph)
    • Australia's first pill testing operation is expected to take place on Sunday (April 29) at Groovin' The Moo festival in Canberra.  (Mixmag)
    • Hundreds of locals took to the streets of Ibiza this week to protest against what they say is “unlimited, disrespectful and excessive” tourism. (Mixmag) Noise pollution and the privatisation of beaches remain a major concern for residents.
    • Independent artist revenue from music sales grew nearly 30% in 2017, says report. (RA)
    • The House of Representatives unanimously passed the Music Modernization Act, which aims to streamline how artists get compensated in the digital era. (RA)
    • Tim Bergling, AKA Avicii, died Friday 20 April in Oman, aged 28. (Variety) Autopsies show nothing suspicious. (Billboard) His longtime manager Ash Pournouri has shared a heartfelt message. (Billboard) Sweden’s Prime Minister Stefan Löfven has also addressed his death. (YourEDM) In the statement to press, his family shared their appreciation to his fans and the artist tributes that took place throughout the weekend. (Independent)
      Update: Avicii “wanted peace” and “could not go on any longer”, his family said in an open letter. (Guardian, Pitchfork) There is no confirmation whether he had taken his own life. Rolling Stone reports he died of an “apparent suicide”.
    ISSUE: 20 Apr 2018
    • 'There could be 100 comas in the year': Paris police chief reacts to rise of GBL, GHB overdoses in clubs. (RA)
    • A candidate in Melbourne’s upcoming election for a new lord mayor has called for a night czar for the city. (Mixmag)
    • AVA has teamed up with Smirnoff to host an Equalising Music stage at this year’s edition of the Northern Irish festival. (Mixmag)
    • International Music Summit (IMS), the three-day inspirational, educational and motivational thought-leadership platform held annually in Ibiza, has announced a further 23 global artists and industry heavy-weights to join proceedings including: Todd Terry, B.Traits, BLOND:ISH, Broadwick Live, elrow, Deezer, Native Instruments and more. (RotD)
    ISSUE: 13 Apr 2018
    • Berlin label Creamcake announce interdisciplinary workshop Interrupted = Cyfem and Queer. (Fact)
    • Live Nation's Festival Passport, which offers unlimited to entry to 100+ Live Nation festivals globally, is back for 2018, more than doubling the amount of passes available after a sell-out first year. (IQ, Billboard)
    • New music industry event organisation, the Women in Dance Music Collective, will launch at this month’s Brighton Music Conference. (RotD)
    • Remedy State, the new retreat launching this May 20-23 in Ibiza, in partnership with IMS, will celebrate and teach wellness and self-care within arts and entertainment industries. (Mixmag)
    • On-site festival pill testing, of the kind common in Austria, the Netherlands and, most recently, Britain, could reduce the harm caused by drug use and potentially save festivalgoers’ lives, according to major new review of drug policy out of Australia. (IQ)
    • Burning Man founder Larry Harvey was hospitalized after suffering a massive stroke, where he remains in critical condition. (DA)
    • New York’s night mayor fights to stop gentrification killing clubland. (Times)
    ISSUE: 06 Apr 2018
    • Remedy State, a wellness platform for the entertainment industry, has now published the full schedule details of the retreat, taking place at Sa Talaia, Ibiza on May 21-23 as a precursor to IMS Ibiza.
    • Ministry Of Sound to open co-working space. (Mixmag)
    • Allocation For Music Producers, or AMP Act, will see producers finally be paid for streaming. (Hypebot)
    ISSUE: 29 Mar 2018
    • Physical sales top downloads in the US, with vinyl leading the way. (RA)
    • Ibiza’s San Antonio council confirms new West End opening hours. (ManinSanAn)
    • Australian drug law reform report: Explore sniffer dog use, recreational cannabis. (Mixmag)
    • Billboard Dance 100 Artists of 2018: The Complete List. (Billboard)
    • Billboard Dance Power Players 2018: The managers, live leaders & tastemakers shaping the genre. (Billboard)
    • Music Venue Trust has announced Fightback London, a key component of the Sounds Like London campaign, the Mayor’s month long celebration of London’s grassroots venues that will take place in June 2018. (RotD)
    ISSUE: 23 Mar 2018
    • Kansas City-based festival Dancefestopia has fired its talent buyer after sexual assault allegations surface over Twitter. (DA)
    • Armin van Buuren, Kygo, Axwell Λ Ingrosso and The Chainsmokers amongst winners at the International Dance Music Awards. (YourEDM)
    • A broad and detailed report from piracy tracking outfit Muso shows that visits to pirate sites went up last year. (TorrentFreak, Billboard) Music piracy in 2017 grew 14.7% year-on-year. Following IFPI action, in second six months of 2017, encompassing the four months following YouTube.mp3 shutting down, visits to stream ripping piracy sites declined 34% over H1.
    • A report on drug use among UK clubbers, by The Loop, Volteface, Durham University and The All Party Parliamentary Group for Drug Policy Reform, has called for urgent action to install harm-reduction measures, such as ‘regional drug-testing hubs’, as deaths linked to cocaine and ecstasy have risen to record levels. (RA, IQ)
    ISSUE: 16 Mar 2018
    • Brighton Music Conference has confirmed the official fifth anniversary parties and networking events for BMC18. (Decoded)
    ISSUE: 09 Mar 2018
    • Leipzig has abolished its 5am curfew. (Mixmag)
    • The Worldwide Independent Network has announced a new initiative to add to the signatories of the 2014 Fair Digital Deals Declaration. (RotD, Billboard) WIN wants the majors to compensate indie labels distributed by them "their corresponding share of any pay out received” from Spotify’s public offering.
      Sony to is to share profits from Spotify stock sales with the independents: Will Universal and Warner follow suit? (Billboard)
    • The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has placed new restrictions on four of the main secondary ticketing sites by banning them from using misleading pricing to sell tickets. (RotD)
    • Jean-Michel Jarre, President of CISAC, and a delegation from five different EU Member States presented a petition signed by more than 14,000 authors and composers to the European Parliament, calling for an end to the “transfer of value” that is benefiting certain major digital platforms at the expense of creators. (CISAC)
    • Smirnoff parters with Global, Spotify, Deltic and Live Nation on Equalising Music 2018. (RotD)
    • Billboard Radio China and DJ Mag Asia launch new EDM radio show. (Billboard)
    • ​NYC commits to support club culture by appointing its first Nightlife Mayor, Ariel Palitz. (Mixmag)
    • The number of planned unlicensed music events in London recorded by the Met Police nearly doubled between 2016 and 2017. (SundayTelegraph, Guardian, Mixmag) Mark Davyd of the Music Venue Trust said the high cost of maintaining a licence and paying business rates can drive innovative music underground and increasing the allure of unlicensed events.
    • Ben Turner and Blaise James are launching Remedy State, a three-day holistic retreat designed by and for industry professionals, taking place before this year's IMS. (Billboard)
    • After much speculation, Winter Music Conference has announced it will indeed return this year, March 20-22. (MNT)
    ISSUE: 02 Mar 2018
    • IMS has partnered with Deeper Sounds to present IMS keynotes on all British Airways in-flight audio entertainment. The March show featuring Sven Väth, in conversation with Ben Turner at IMS Ibiza 2013. Previous featured keynotes include The Martinez Brothers, Yann Pissenem, Bernard Sumner, Seth Troxler and The Pet Shop Boys. 
    • Berlin vinyl store The Record Loft has reopened. (RA)
    • Applications for the BURN Residency 2018 are open now. (Mixmag)
    • A collection of nightclub owners and nightlife professionals in Tel Aviv have banded together to form Nightlife Against Deportation, a campaign that aims to take a stand against the deportation of asylum seekers. (Mixmag)
    • Amsterdam elects new night mayor, Shamiro van der Geld. (RA)
    • The Loop introduces new training course: ‘responding to drug use in the night time economy’. (FestivalInsight)
    • MUTEK and Worldwide are amongst the 45 festivals that have signed up to a gender equality pledge to hit 50/50 target by 2022. (RA)
    • Billboard has announced its Billboard Dance 100, a new data-driven artist ranking that will give fans and industry members alike a “credible and comprehensive” look at the “power and influence” of electronic dance music's biggest names.
    • deadmau5, Black Coffee and Pandora execs among speakers confirmed for International Music Summit in Ibiza. (Billboard, RotD)
    ISSUE: 23 Feb 2018
    • Brighton Music Conference (BMC18) announces Irvine Welsh, Eats Everything, BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat, Hospital Records Sonic Surgery and more. (Decoded)
    • Belfast's AVA Festival comes to East London in March. (RA)
    • shesaid.so, the global network of women who work in the music industry, is taking nominations for its second alternative Power 100 list.
    • Airbnb has been fined €300,000 by the Balearic Government for failure to comply with the new 2017 tourist rental legislation. (Ibizan)
    ISSUE: 16 Feb 2018
    • IMS has partnered with Deeper Sounds to present IMS keynotes on all British Airways in-flight audio entertainment, the February show featuring Seth Troxler in conversation with Pete Tong at IMS Ibiza 2014 is now live, previous featured keynotes include The Martinez Brothers, Yann Pissenem, Bernard Sumner and The Pet Shop Boys. (IMS)
    • Jean-Michel Jarre urges European Parliament to close loopholes in copyright law. (RA)
    • Business owners in Ibiza's West End claim that ‘earlier closing times could cost more than 300 jobs’. (RA)
    • Plans defeated for new Sydney music hub in industrial area. (Mixmag)
    • West Midlands Police want to introduce on-site drug testing in nightlife areas. (Mixmag)
    • IMS Ibiza in association with Pioneer DJ announce the IMS Dalt Vila 2018 line up. (MW) Headline performances come from Sven Väth, Dubfire, Jackmaster, Nastia, Peggy Gou and more.
    ISSUE: 09 Feb 2018
    • Ibiza City Council has banned Airbnb and other holiday home rentals in the island's capital ahead of the summer season. (Sun)
    • UK duo Above & Beyond hit No. 3 on the Billboard chart this week with Common Ground. (Forbes) The trance album begins with an impressive 64,000 equivalent units. Before this they had only charted one Top 40 album in the U.S.
    ISSUE: 26 Jan 2018
    • International Music Summit (IMS) has announced IMS x Mixmag Visionaries 2018 and IMS Accelerator, two initiatives designed to support the next generation of industry innovators, influencers and disruptors. (RotD)
    • The British government is to write the Agent of Change principle into planning law. (RotD, IQ, Billboard) The announcement was welcomed as a “seismic victory” for music venues by UK Music CEO Michael Dugher. (RotD) Secretary of State Sajid Javid noted: “Music venues play a vital role in our communities, bringing people together and contributing to the local economy and supporting the country’s grass roots music culture”. (RotD)
    ISSUE: 19 Jan 2018
    • Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) has announced that the 5am closing time for clubs in the Malaysian capital will be reviewed. (Pulse)
    • The latest edition of BURN Residency, the annual DJ programme with a top prize of a €100,000 grant and a management contract, has begun accepting applications. (RA)
    • Campaigners are fighting a proposal from London's Hackney Council to restrict all new bars and clubs in Dalston and Shoreditch to closing at 11pm on weekdays, midnight on Fridays and Saturdays, and 10.30pm on Sundays. (Standard)
    • International Music Summit (IMS) has announced two initiatives designed to support the next generation of industry innovators, influencers and disruptors: IMS x Mixmag Visionaries 2018 will, for the fifth year, uncover and highlight emerging industry professionals, while IMS Accelerator will spotlight and support the next wave of innovative music business start-ups. (RotD)
    ISSUE: 12 Jan 2018
    • Amsterdam Dance Event returns 17-21 October this year with a focus on South Korea and its emerging electronic scene. (MagneticMag)
    • Nine San Antonio venues to temporarily close amid noise crackdowns in Ibiza. (Mixmag)
    • fabric lawyer Philip Kolvin QC quits as chairman of the Night Time Commission in London, claiming that City Hall failed to give the body the independence it required. (RA)
    ISSUE: 22 Dec 2017
    • Dancefair announce dates and program for its annual Utrecht event in 2018. (Decoded)
    • The free Songdex Claiming System allows publishers to claim recordings that embody their songs, offering a valuable tool to clear up publishing information for the millions of tracks - most of which come from independent artists - that are digitally distributed online through such platforms as TuneCore and CD Baby. (Billboard)
    • The Association for Electronic Music (AFEM) has launched a confidential sexual harassment support service for the electronic music industry. (RotD, Billboard) the service will provide advice and guidance to anyone whose been affected by sexual harassment or assault on the job.
    ISSUE: 15 Dec 2017
    • Among the winners at DJ Mag’s Best of British Awards this year were Label of the Year, Ninja Tune. (DJMag)
    • Winners of the ninth annual Drum&BassArena Awards revealed. (DA)
    • Amsterdam’s DGTL wins FestX award for Outstanding Green Event. (Decoded)
    • Drumcode has been revealed as Beatport’s Most Popular Label of 2017, based on customer sales. (DA)
    • Berlin politician Georg Koessler of the Greens party: "Using taxpayer money to support techno is the least we can do”. (Mixmag)
    • Trial begins over the Love Parade tragedy that left 21 people dead and more than 650 injured. (Mixmag)
    ISSUE: 08 Dec 2017
    • AVA (Audio Visual Arts) Festival and Conference will take place June 1-2 in new venue S13, a former B&Q warehouse that has been transformed into a industrial event space in Belfast. (Mixmag)
    • Moogfest hosts 50-artist live stream with all female, trans and non-binary talent. (Mixmag)
    • Camelphat & Elderbrook’s Cola was most popular song of 2017 on Beatport. (EDMSauce)
    • The Creative Footprint aims to gather data on New York nightlife to protect its venues. (Mixmag)
    • Online festival travel platform Festicket has announced an integration partnership with ticketing and event technology company Eventbrite. (RotD)
    • ​The Berlin government is to invest €1m to support nightclubs. (Mixmag)
    • International Music Summit returns to Ibiza with a Wellness agenda next May 23-25. (RotD) The 11th edition of IMS Ibiza examines the most crucial issues that face the industry, placing special attention on health and wellness for mind and body. 
    • Help Musicians UK (HMUK) has launched a 24/7 mental health service ‘Music Minds Matter’ for anyone working in the music industry. (RotD)
    ISSUE: 01 Dec 2017
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    • IMS has partnered with Deeper Sounds to present IMS keynotes on all British Airways in-flight audio entertainment, the December show featuring Bernard Sumner speaking at IMS Ibiza 2017 debuts today. Listen to previous shows featuring keynotes from The Martinez Brothers and Yann Pissenem. 
    • Tokyo Dance Music Event schedule revealed. (IDJ)
    • Drug testing initiative The Loop won The Innovation Award at the UK Festival Awards. (RotD)
    • The Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has included the 'agent of change' principle within his new planning strategy for the capital. (RotD) It means developers would have to take account of the impact of any new scheme on pre-existing businesses like music venues before going with their plans.
    • Live electronic acts thrive and indie dance arrives in 2018 Grammy nominations. (Billboard)
    • The Chainsmokers have scored their fourth Grammy nomination, for Something, in the Best Pop Duo/Group Performance category. (Billboard)
    • Odesza, Bonobo herald a new post-EDM wave at the Grammys. (LATimes)
    • The 2018 Grammy nominations for Best Dance/Electronic Album are: Bonobo - Migration; ODESZA - A Moment Apart; Kraftwerk - 3-D The Catalogue; Mura Masa - Mura Masa and Sylvan Esso - What No. (Billboard)
    • Australian lobby body for dance music is “definitely coming” says Hardware’s Richie McNeill. (IO)
    ISSUE: 24 Nov 2017
    • The Ransom Note opens record shop in East London. (RA)
    • DJ Mag Best of British Awards 2017 announced (EntertainmentFocus)
    • Electronic pioneer Delia Derbyshire has been awarded a posthumous PhD. (Mixmag) She was celebrated for her work with the BBC Radiophonic Workshop and as the co-composer of the famous Doctor Who theme song, amongst other achievements. 
    • London nightlife receives boost as Sadiq Khan announces 24-hour Overground plans. (Fact)
    ISSUE: 17 Nov 2017
    ISSUE: 10 Nov 2017
    • French pressing plant delays wreak havoc with labels’ including R&S, трип and Hotflush schedules. (Mixmag)
    • London’s night czar, Amy Lamé, has urged councils and property firms to “give a break” to late-night venues by offering more help with rates and refrain from hiking up rents. (Standard)
    ISSUE: 03 Nov 2017
    • A survey released by FanFair Alliance found that two-thirds of respondents who had paid more than face value for a ticket on a resale site said they would attend fewer concerts in future, while half would spend less on recorded music. (Guardian)
    • A nearly century-old law that turned New York bars into no-dancing zones is finally set to be struck down. (NYTimes)
    • Jamie Spinks of Polydor was honoured with the A&R - Electronic/Dance award at the UK's A&R Awards. (MBW)
    • IMS Ibiza has announced its return in 2018 and will take place May 23-25 at the Hard Rock Hotel. The new ticket package offers three tiers: delegate normal, delegate plus and all access. (IMS)
    ISSUE: 27 Oct 2017
    • New vinyl pressing plant to open in California next year. (RA)
    • The Rio Music Conference is changing names and becoming the Brazil Music Conference (BRMC). (RotD) The electronic music event is held in March.
    • The 22nd edition of Amsterdam Dance Event was attended by a record number of 395,000 visitors. (Decoded)
    • French DJs, club owners and festival bosses are warning the nation’s ability to party is under threat from tough new restrictions on decibels and basslines. (Guardian)
    • SACEM has launched the Electronic Music Factory, an online resource centre dedicated to electronic music. (RotD)
    ISSUE: 20 Oct 2017
    • Among the winners at the Audio and Radio Industry Awards were: Annie Mac, Radio 1 (Music Presenter – non breakfast); Benji B, Radio 1 & 1Xtra (Specialist Music Show); BBC 1Xtra (National Radio Station). (RadioToday)
    • MNEK won the Top EDM Song gong for Never Forget You by Zara Larsson & MNEK at this week's ASCAP Awards London.
    • UK Music Chief Executive Michael Dugher has unveiled plans for a new law to protect music venues threatened with closure. (RotD) The proposed crackdown would force developers to consider the impact their schemes could have on nearby music venues and take steps to ensure their continued survival.
    • Universal Music has announced the launch of a ‘accelerator engagement network’ with the aim of promoting the development of innovative music-based start-ups around the world. Universal will mentor the chosen digital music companies. (PRNewswire)
    • The city of Amsterdam launched a drug safety campaign aimed at visitors to the Amsterdam Dance Event, taking place from Wednesday to Sunday. (NLTimes)
    • KUVO, a club culture entertainment service managed by Pioneer DJ, has partnered with Canadian PRO SOCAN to support the fair distribution of royalties to copyright holders of music played at nightclubs in Canada. (RotD)
    • SACEM partners with DJ Monitor to improve accuracy in capturing and tracking royalties for creators of electronic music. (RotD)
    ISSUE: 13 Oct 2017
    • The Association of Independent Festivals (AIF) has announced its Independent Festival Awards shortlist. (RotD) The Pioneer Award will go to Freddie Fellowes of Secret Garden Party.
    • Australia's first pill testing operation at a festival will not go ahead amid claims of political pressure from conservatives on organisers of Canberra's Spilt Milk. (Mixmag)
    • Sydney proposes agent of change principle amid other nightlife reforms. (RA)
    ISSUE: 06 Oct 2017
    • Chor Ng, the owner of the Ghost Ship warehouse which burned at a 100% Silk showcase in Oakland last December, killing 36, will receive a $3 million insurance payout for the building. (RA)
    • ADE completes 2017 program with Philip Glass, Ellen Alien, Shanti Celeste. (Pulse) Underworld have also been announced to make a keynote speech at the event. (RotD)
    • IMS has partnered with Deeper Sounds to present IMS keynotes on all British Airways in-flight audio entertainment. (IMS)
    • Pasquale Rotella, Chief Executive of Insomniac, has agreed to settle a civil lawsuit filed by the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Commission, resulting in a payment of $3.5 million to the government agency. (LATimes) The case saw two longtime stadium managers accused by the government of enriching themselves through “corrupt efforts” while two rave companies were allowed to underpay the Coliseum.
    ISSUE: 29 Sep 2017
    • Martin Garrix wins major victory in lawsuit against Spinnin' Records. (Billboard)
    • The winners of the inaugural Electronic Music Awards announced in LA. (HR)  Bonobo’s Migration won Album of the Year.
    • Canberra's Spilt Milk festival will be the first in Australia to provide on-site pill testing in a huge step forward for harm minimisation in the country. (Mixmag)
    • A new report has found that there has been an increase in the number people attending music festivals and they're travelling further afield in search of their perfect festival experience. (DJMag)
    • British arrivals in Ibiza this August increased by 6.7% from last year, totalling at 400,722. (Mixmag)
    • Among the winners at the 20th anniversary of the DJ Awards in Ibiza were: Hardwell (International DJ), Richie Hawtin (Electronic Live Performer), Elrow Ibiza (Ibiza Night), Dimensions Festival (International Festival), Drumcode (Label Of The Year) and Marshall Jefferson (Electronic Music Pioneer).
    ISSUE: 22 Sep 2017
    • An Atlanta promotions company co-owner, Woodie Louis Ochle, has been sentenced to 10 and a half years in prison for conspiracy to distribute thousands of MDMA pills throughout raves in the Southeast. (YourEDM)
    • The rise of Airbnb and a proliferation of fraudsters means its harder than ever to find a room in Ibiza. (Mixmag)
    • Ninja Tune (via their Counter Records imprint), scored their highest ever chart position (3) on the Billboard 200 with electronic act Odesza. (RotD) The only other electronic acts to make it into the top 3 in 2017 have been Gorillaz, Calvin Harris, Chainsmokers, and LCD Soundsystem.
    • The winners of the inaugural Electronic Music Awards, co-produced by Paul Oakenfold and held in LA were:  Migration by Bonobo (Album); Cold Water by Major Lazer ft. Justin Bieber & MØ (Single); Innerbloom (Sasha Remix) by Rufus Du Sol (Record, Remix); EDC (multiple cities) (Festival); Output (New York) (Club); Diplo for Diplo & Friends and Pete Tong for The Essential Selection (Radio Show - tie); Alison Wonderland (New Artist); Eric Prydz (DJ).
    ISSUE: 15 Sep 2017
    • The Electronic Music Awards have announced 'The Detroit Dock', an entire arena featuring Juan Atkins and others for the LA event. (Mixmag, Mixmag - nominations)
    • Andrew Weatherall, Cookout and Dekmantel among the winners in The Online Radio Awards. (ORA)
    • Ibiza Rocks Hotel in Ibiza is ceasing to put on live music due to restrictions put in place by local law on the island. (IbizaRocks - Andy McKay, owner) The hotel will still deliver pool parties during the day.
    • Abel Ortiz from Spain has won the seventh edition of the Bedroom DJ Competition in partnership with Mixcloud. A jury selected him from 562 sessions submitted. (BedroomDJ)
    • Mixmag has opened its fourteenth global office in Tokyo, Japan. (Mixmag) Mixmag Japan will offer bespoke and translated content to the local audience.
    ISSUE: 08 Sep 2017
    • A festival-goer who ran into the Burning Man fire has died. (Mixmag) Another attendee has been sent to intensive care after he was hit by a car while he was sleeping in a tent on Monday night. (Mixmag)
    • Police warn the UK public of 'ecstasy' pills containing ketamine. (Mixmag)
    • California State Assembly rejects extending last call to 4 AM, asks for task force to report back in 2019. (RA)
    • Steve Beckett of Warp Records won the Pioneer award at this year's AIM Independent Music Awards. (Full list)
    • Amsterdam Dance Event’s festival program nears completion with the latest additions including Armin van Buuren (NL), Charlotte de Witte (BE), Dixon (DE), Helena Hauff (DE), Jon Hopkins (GB), Maceo Plex (US), Nina Kraviz (RU) and Ricardo Villalobos (CL). (RotD)
    • Recession, dating apps and late opening pubs are being blamed for a decline in the UK club industry. (Times)
    ISSUE: 01 Sep 2017
    • The United States FDA gives ecstasy "breakthrough" status in PTSD treatment trials. (Mixmag)
    • The Red Cross tests the 'future of emergency aid' at Mysteryland 2017. (RA)
    • A petition has been launched to support extending California's last call to 4AM. (Mixmag)
    • Brighton Music Conference (BMC18) – the UK’s only electronic music conference – returns for its fifth year in 2018, with early bird tickets on sale now. (M)
    • Former Webster Hall director Gerard McNamee is vying to be picked as 'night mayor' of New York. (NYDaily)
    • New York City officially passes bill to create a nightlife office. (RA)
    • Full speakers and running order announced for IMS Asia-Pacific. (Pulse)
    ISSUE: 25 Aug 2017
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    • E.M.M.A’s Producergirls workshop launches Kickstarter campaign to go nationwide. (Fact)
    • The Adam Smith Institute, a neoliberal UK think thank, has called on the Conservative party to drop its air passenger duty on under 30s, known as the ‘Ibiza tax’, to improve young people’s prospects of travelling, living and working abroad. (Mixmag)
    • Income for the UK's biggest nightclub companies has fallen for the fourth year running, as the nighttime economy turns increasingly to bars. (CityAM) Turnover from the top 100 nightclubs in the UK has fallen 5% over the past year to £325m.
    ISSUE: 18 Aug 2017
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    • Reverb to launch online vinyl storefront, Reverb LP. (DA)
    • A new study suggests that only 34.7% of MDMA sold in the USA is pure. (DA)
    • IMS Asia-Pacific 2017 has announced its first round of speakers including Axwell & Ingrosso, Ryan Wilson of Sony Music, Andrew Goldstone of Deckstar Management and Scarlett Li of CMC Capital Partners. (IMS, Billboard)
    • A group of establishments in Ibiza are pleading with local authorities to implement harsh punishments and increased restrictions on unlicensed and illegal parties. (Mixmag)
    ISSUE: 11 Aug 2017
    • Due to last week’s Radio 1 Ibiza special, there is no Essential New Tune.
    • Leeds Festival has been forced to scrap plans for on-site drug testing after an agreement with Leeds City Council could not be made. (Mixmag)
    • The Chainsmokers’ Closer has now been in the Top 40 for an entire year. (DA)
    • A UK police chief has called for politicians to stop treating drug users as criminals. (Mixmag)
    • Calvin Harris is the world’s highest paid DJ for the fifth year in a row. (Stereogum)
    • New York City government committee votes to create nightlife office. (RA)
    • Mayor Sadiq Khan reveals plan to turn London into a “24-hour city”. (Mixmag)
    • Ibiza authorities ban DJs from beach clubs to reclaim beaches from dance music. (Mixmag)
    • The cost of a holiday in Ibiza is expected to surge after the Balearic Islands introduced a cap on tourist bed numbers and tough rules for AirBnB lets. (Times)
    ISSUE: 04 Aug 2017
    • Ableton Loop completes line-up with Goldie and JD Twitch. (Mixmag)
    • Native Instruments announce Infinite Loops conference with Perc, Randomer and DEBONAIR. (Mixmag)
    • IMS Asia-Pacific reveals first round of speakers and topics for 2017. (Pulse, Billboard)
    • AFEM works with Help Musicians UK to create mental health support line. (DA)
    ISSUE: 28 Jul 2017
    • Sponsored post: Ibiza Rocks, the famed brand that brought a bit of rock 'n’ roll to Ibiza, have upgraded to VOID's new Arcline system. "Void provides a cool credible system and we knew them as probably the most respected new player in the dance world. When we found out they had launched a new high end touring system, suitable for live and club, we were naturally drawn to working with them.” - Andy McKay - CEO and Founder of Ibiza Rocks Group.
    • The UK's first ever festival for vinyl has been cancelled for unknown reasons. (Mixmag)
    • An autopsy conducted by the Clark County Coroner has ruled the cause of death of 34-year-old EDC Las Vegas attendee Michael Morse as acute MDMA and TFMPP toxicity, with environmental heat exposure as a second significant factor. (Billboard)
    • Ableton’s three-day Berlin event Loop 2017 adds Goldie, Laurel Halo and Jenny Hval to its November edition. (Fact)
    • London's night czar Amy Lame plans London-wide women's night safety charter to help cut down on harassment. (CityAM)
    • The results of Mixmag’s Top 50 Labels Of The Decade. (Mixmag)
    ISSUE: 21 Jul 2017
    • Sponsored post: Ibiza Rocks, the famed brand that brought a bit of rock 'n’ roll to Ibiza, have upgraded to VOID's new Arcline system. "Void provides a cool credible system and we knew them as probably the most respected new player in the dance world. When we found out they had launched a new high end touring system, suitable for live and club, we were naturally drawn to working with them.” - Andy McKay - CEO and Founder of Ibiza Rocks Group.
    • Lisbon record store Twice.Discos closes. (RA)
    • A 19-year-old student has died after collapsing at elrow's 16-hour party in Barcelona last weekend. (Mixmag)
    • The fourteenth global Mixmag office has opened in Tokyo, Japan. (Mixmag)
    • Authorities in the Balearic Islands have asked Spain and the European Union to ban alcohol on flights and in airports as they battle “anti-social tourism”. (Guardian)
    • Miami residents are set to face-off against three 24-hour nightclubs at an upcoming hearing where each venue will look to dismiss citations relating to noise violations. (Mixmag, MiamiHerald)
    ISSUE: 14 Jul 2017
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    • New record store, The Mixtape Shop, opens in Brooklyn. (RA)
    • Canadian festival-goers are worried about tainted drugs: Vice Survey. (Thump)
    • On Nielsen Music’s mid-year dance/electronic charts The Chainsmokers dominate with the most popular album of the year (Memories… Do Not Open), the top three most-streamed songs, and the top selling song (Something Just Like This, with Coldplay). (Billboard)
    • On September 21, the inaugural Electronic Music Awards will take place in Los Angeles and be streamed around the world via Twitter. (Mixmag, Billboard)
    • Vice has launched a drug safety campaign, Safe Sesh, which talks down the media's role in the UK’s growing narcotics problem. (Drum)
    ISSUE: 07 Jul 2017
    • A new 800-capacity club called WAS is opening in Utrecht this September. (Mixmag)
    • Fyre Festival creator Billy McFarland arrested and charged with wire fraud. (Thump)
    • The organisers of UK festival Boomtown Fair have teamed up with drugs education charity The Loop to provide onsite drug testing. (IDJ)
    • Voting has now opened for DJ Mag’s annual Top 100.
    • Zürich recognises 'techno culture' as part of its UNESCO 'intangible cultural heritage’. (RA)
    • The UK's Association of Independent Music (AIM) Awards Pioneer Award recipient for 2017 is to be Steve Beckett, Founder of Warp Records. The awards are on 5 September in London. (AIM)
    • A deal struck between the Night Time Industries Association (NTIA), insurance specialists NDML and legal protection specialists Rradar will provide UK venues with support when tackling issues with local authorities. (RA)
    ISSUE: 30 Jun 2017
    • New record store PALMA39 opens in Madrid. (RA)
    • Detroit's mayor is open to the city being a destination for techno parties. (Mixmag)
    • One dead, four in critical condition after taking "highly potent" MDMA in Oldham, Greater Manchester. (Mixmag)
    • Sony Music to start pressing records after nearly 30-year hiatus. (Mixmag)
    • Konstantin and the Giegling crew have been dropped from the line-up of London festival Sunfall following Konstantin's comments that 'men are better DJs than women'. (Mixmag)
    • Smirnoff Sound Collective has announced its Equalising Music Initiative, aiming to address the gender imbalance, and has committed to doubling the number of female headliners by 2020, supported by a committee including representatives from IMS, AFEM and SheSaid.So. (RotD)
    • WME agent David Levy this week sent this important link regarding the Grenfell fire disaster in London, please take the time to read and consider donating. 

    ISSUE: 23 Jun 2017
    • Void Acoustics installs the worlds first four point custom Incubus sound system at Blitz, Munich.
      Void Acoustics installs the worlds first four point custom Incubus sound system at Blitz, Munich.  “From all the loudspeaker developers I’ve talked to about BLITZ, the people from Void Acoustics were the ones pushing me in my dreams and going the extra mile in every aspect, in order to create the wonderful, outstanding, one-of-a-kind, custom-made sound system and acoustic space you can now experience at BLITZ.” - David Muallem, Blitz founder and resident DJ  (Void)
    • Police have issued warnings about extra strong 'IKEA' ecstasy pills circulating the island of Jersey. (Mixmag)
    • Police in Victoria, Australia could get new powers to search festival-goers. (Mixmag)
    • Vancouver introduces Sydney-style lockout laws. (RA)
    • EDC Las Vegas reports one death, over 1000 medical calls and 95 felony arrests. (Mixmag)
    • Voting for DJ Mag’s Top 100 DJs Poll opens on 5 July, with UNICEF as the charity beneficiary. (RotD)
    • Billboard's dance power players 2017: The DJs, execs and tastemakers cueing up tomorrow. (Billboard)
    • Noiiz to launch unlimited royalty free sample and presets download service. (DataTransmission)
    ISSUE: 16 Jun 2017
    • Revolver issues warning on dangerous 25C-NBOMe drugs in Melbourne. (Mixmag)
    • New York City Council is to hold hearing on Cabaret Law, the controversial "no-dancing" law. (RA)
    • Calvin Harris tops all EDM earners in the recent highest-paid celebrities list produced by Forbes. (DJMag)
    • Call for drug test services at all UK festivals and clubs after successful pilot. (BBC)
    ISSUE: 09 Jun 2017
    • Sponsored post: Ibiza Rocks, the famed brand that brought a bit of rock 'n’ roll to Ibiza, have upgraded to VOID's new Arcline system. "Void provides a cool credible system and we knew them as probably the most respected new player in the dance world. When we found out they had launched a new high end touring system, suitable for live and club, we were naturally drawn to working with them.” - Andy McKay - CEO and Founder of Ibiza Rocks Group. 
    • Following the death of 36 people at the Oakland DIY art space Ghost Ship last December, two arrests have been made on charges of 36 counts of manslaughter. (Mixmag)
    • UK health experts have recommended that drug testing at festivals should become “standard” to protect attendees. (Mixmag)
    ISSUE: 02 Jun 2017
    • Sponsored post: If you're looking for a boat trip in Ibiza this summer, Mixmag recommends Boatsibiza.com The Ultimate in boat hire and yacht rental on the island
    • California Senate has passed a bill allowing last call hours to extend to 4am. (Mixmag)
    • The Association for Electronic Music (AFEM) has announced the first phase of its artist ambassadors initiative, which now includes Nile Rodgers, Louie Vega, Carl Craig, Jean Michel Jarre, Anja Schneider, Armin Van Buuren, Black Coffee, B-Traits, Nicole Moudaber, Paul Van Dyk, Pete Tong and Seth Troxler. (Billboard)
    • IMS College Malta has announced its first round of speakers including Sven Väth, Uner, Agoria, Mia Amare and representatives from Beatport, CR2, Toolroom Academy and more. (IMS)
    • Drum 'n' bass producer Marcus Intalex, AKA Trevino, has died, cause of death currently unknown. (Billboard)
    • Amsterdam-based secondary ticket marketplace TicketSwap, which caps the price of resold tickets at 20% above face value, has won the backing of some of the Netherlands’ biggest electronic dance music festivals and promoters. (IQ)
    ISSUE: 26 May 2017
    • Amsterdam Dance Event is moving to the Nieuwe DeLaMar Theater as major renovations are set to take place at Felix Meritis, the old venue. (Billboard)
    • The Chainsmokers won four Billboard Music Awards; Lindsey Stirling won Top Dance/Electronic Album. (DA)
    • Detroit techno collective Underground Resistance has accused Armin Van Buuren of plagiarising its name and logo for his new Ibiza residency, U R With Armin Van Buuren. (RA) Armin has explained that the decision to call his party 'U R' was derived from an older Armin concept called Universal Religion. (Mixmag) The branding will now be removed from the event. (RA)
    • Melvin Benn, the head of Festival Republic, hopes to allow people to test drugs onsite at at least six FR festivals in the UK as part of a radical scheme aimed at reducing drug-related deaths. (Guardian)
    • Association For Electronic Music (AFEM) has announced the first phase of artist ambassadors to advocate the industry including: Jean Michel Jarre, B-Traits, Nile Rodgers, Pete Tong, Black Coffee, Seth Troxler and Louie Vega. (RotD)
    • The International Music Summit has released the annual IMS Business Report, an in-depth economic study of the electronic music industry, covering all aspects of the genre. (RotD, Billboard, IBTimes) Among the highlights, the sector is said to have grown 3% in 2016 and is now worth £5.7bn. 12bn electronic music streams a month on Spotify are reported and 25 times more tracks are available to buy on Beatport since 2007.
    ISSUE: 19 May 2017
    • Just before IMS conference kicks off, Mixmag will host a pre-party at Pacha to lead into the season with a night of musical gold. Bicep, Honey Dijon, Mall Grab and Anna Wall are locked in to perform and promise some of the freshest house music you'll hear all summer. The party takes place on Tuesday night, May 23, running from just before midnight through to 7am the following morning. For guestlist please contact Daisy with Mixmag x Ibiza in the subject header
    • Music market development agency Sound Diplomacy has called for every country in the world to establish a music export initiative. (IQ)
    • The Vinyl Festival is a new two-day event set to take place at London’s Printworks venue on 23-24 September. (VinylFactory)
    • Detroit Electronic Music Camp announced for May with Juan Atkins, DJ Minx. (RA)
    • The BBC is to host an event for aspiring artists and musicians at London’s Excel this October. BBC Music Introducing hosts Amplify will be held over three days and will feature masterclasses, recording workshops and talks. (BBC) Radio DJs Annie Mac and MistaJam are part of the event.
    • IMS Ibiza has announced its full and final schedule for the 10th anniversary event taking place this May 24-26. (Pulse) Highlights include The Definitive Digital Ecosystem Discussion featuring representatives from Spotify, Facebook, Deezer, Best Practise Masterclasses from Spotify and Facebook, plus keynotes from The Black Madonna, Bernard Sumner and Dixon.
    • Synthesist and composer Suzanne Ciani has been named the recipient of 2017’s Moog Innovation Award. (Fact)
    • Pioneering Frankfurt DJ and producer Heiko MSO dies. (RA)
    • Dubspot, a global music school focused on DJ and production, has come under fire for scamming its paying students. (Mixmag)
    • Due to major renovations at its old HQ, Felix Meritis, this October ADE will relocate to the DeLaMar Theater in the heart of Amsterdam. (Mixmag)
    ISSUE: 12 May 2017
    • A new campaign called High Alert will provide real-time sniffer dog location updates and legal information in Melbourne. (Mixmag)
    • Defected has acquired the rights to the Nu Groove catalogue. (RA)
    • The Oram Awards, by The PRS Foundation and The New BBC Radiophonic Workshop, are to celebrate women innovating in sound and music. (Fact)
    • DJ Snake and Lil Jon have received a lawsuit claiming the pair’s single Turn Down For What is too similar to The Architectz’s 2013 single of the same title. (THR)
    • Mixmag is to host a pre-IMS Ibiza party at Pacha on Tuesday May 23. (Mixmag)
    • IMS Ibiza has announced its full and final schedule for the 10th anniversary event taking place this May 24-26. (RotD) Highlights include The Definitive Digital Ecosystem Discussion featuring representatives from Spotify, Facebook, Deezer, Best Practise Masterclasses from Spotify and Facebook, plus keynotes from The Black Madonna, Bernard Sumner and Dixon.
    • New York City councilman announces campaign to create 'night mayor' position. (RA, Mixmag)
    • DJ Robert Miles, best known for his trance hit Children, has died at the age of 47 after a battle with cancer. (BBC) The dance music world reacts. (DJmag)
    ISSUE: 05 May 2017
    • Berlin Community Radio has announced applications are open for its Incubator scheme which aims to promote underrepresented and marginalised creative voices based in the German capital. (Mixmag)
    • Berlin welcomes new vinyl pressing plant Intakt!. (Mixmag)
    • The Chainsmokers have spent a year nonstop in the Hot 100's Top 10. (Billboard)
    • Entries are now open for Association of Independent Music's Independent Music Awards 2017. (RotD)
    • HARD Summer founder Gary Richards, who is also known by the stage name Destructo, has called out EDC/Insomniac head Pasquale Rotella for blocking artists from playing his festival. (DJMag)
    • “Luxury” festival Fyre in the Bahamas was cancelled on its first day after attendees turned up to an unfinished site and allegedly squalid conditions. (Times, Telegraph) A $100m legal action has been launched against the organisers. (Times, Guardian, Billboard) VIP passes to next year's edition have been offered in lieu of refunds. (Mixmag)
    • A further 20 international speakers have been announced for IMS Ibiza including: Patrick Moxey (Ultra Records, President/Founder, USA), Brigitte Armengol (HEART Ibiza, Booking Manager, Spain), Duncan Smith (Playstation, Senior Music Supervisor, UK), Charlotte Lucy Cijffers (DJ Magazine, Digital & Ibiza Editor, UK), DVS1 (Artist, USA), Nicole Moudaber (Artist, UK), Gregor Pryor (Reed Smith, Partner/Co-Chair of the Global Entertainment and Media Industry Group, UK), Johannes Goller (Cocoon, Head of Cocoon Ibiza, Germany), Loco Dice (Artist, Tunisia), Carly Hordern (Point Blank, Presenter/A&R, UK). (RotD)
    ISSUE: 28 Apr 2017
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    • Amsterdam's Red Light Radio opens shop and event space. (RA)

    • Ableton’s three-day conference Loop 2017 to take place November 10-12 in Berlin. (RA)
    • A new exposé written by Professor Pete Dale of Manchester Metropolitan University raises the intriguing point that integrating techno and other electronic styles into standard music curriculums could revolutionise education. (Mixmag)
    • No women are in Billboard’s Hot 100's top 10 for the first time in 33 years. (Billboard)
    • IMS Ibiza has announced a further 20 speakers, global industry leaders and influencers to talk at the 10th anniversary event this May. Names include the likes of: Andreas Allen (Head of Artist Relations, Native Instruments, USA), Alice Favre (Head of Operations, LWE, UK), David Emery (VP / Global Marketing Strategy, Kobalt Records, UK), Eddie Dean (CEO, RPM Presents, USA), Sulinna Ong (VP / Artist Marketing, Deezer, UK), Monki (Radio Presenter / DJ, BBC Radio 1, UK) Hot Since 82 (Artist, UK), Jason Ellis (A&R Director at Positiva/Virgin Records) and more. (RotD)
    • Twenty people were arrested as police hit Melbourne clubbing precincts with sniffer dogs as part of a new operation at the weekend. (Mixmag)
    • Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has launched a consultation into the health of the capital’s nightlife. (M)
    • Police have charged Arthur Collins, 24, over an acid attack at Mangle in east London which left two people blinded. (Mixmag)
    • A trial has been ordered over the Love Parade 2010 stampede which left 21 people dead and more than 500 injured. (Mixmag)
    ISSUE: 21 Apr 2017
    • Goa bans late-night dance parties in India’s rave destination and brands them "against our culture”. (Mixmag)
    • New York store Halcyon has relaunched its e-commerce site, revamped its distribution arm, and expanded its services in-store to include record maintenance services and one-on-one DJ lessons. (XLR8R)
    • 12 people suffer burns from a "noxious substance" at London venue Mangle E8. (Mixmag, Billboard)
    • IMS Ibiza has announced a further 20 speakers, global industry leaders and influencers to talk at the 10th anniversary event this May. Names include the likes of: Andreas Allen (Head of Artist Relations, Native Instruments, USA), Alice Favre (Head of Operations, LWE, UK), David Emery (VP / Global Marketing Strategy, Kobalt Records, UK), Eddie Dean (CEO, RPM Presents, USA), Sulinna Ong (VP / Artist Marketing, Deezer, UK), Monki (Radio Presenter / DJ, BBC Radio 1, UK) Hot Since 82 (Artist, UK), Jason Ellis (Artist and Relations Director at Positiva/Virgin Records) and more. (RotD)
    • Finish experimental artist Mika Vainio, of Pan Sonic, has died age 53. (RA)
    ISSUE: 14 Apr 2017
    • The Chainsmokers have topped the Billboard charts for most weeks in the top 10 for a group/duo. (YourEDM)
    • London’s live music venues face closure in the wake of the business rates rise, mayor Sadiq Khan has warned. (Times) A report has found 21 venues at risk of imminent closure and a further 18 of the capital’s 94 music venues set to experience significant financial challenges. Almost one third of grassroots venues have seen their annual rates increase by £10,000 or more.
    • IMS College - Malta for aspiring producers and future electronic music industry leaders returns this July 7-9. (InternationalDJ)
    • Lutz Leichsenring of Berlin Clubcommision has launched a new non-profit worldwide project called Creative Footprint. (RA) The project measures and indexes urban space in cultural capitals, hoping to enable communities with the information and resources to realise their potential against adversity. (Mixmag)
    ISSUE: 07 Apr 2017
    • A new exhibition collecting the most iconic electronic instruments of the last 100 years has opened in Berlin. (Fact)
    • In the US, harm prevention service DanceSafe has restructured its leadership in order to take its work ‘to the next level’. (FesetivalInsight)
    • It is now a criminal offence for fans (but not artists and promoters) to possess flares or fireworks at festivals and shows in the UK. (IQ)
    • Point Blank Music School will launch in Ibiza this summer. (DJMag)
    • Moogfest, taking place May 18-21 in Durham, North Carolina, has unveiled its full schedule including master classes on spatial sound, instrument design, the future of creativity and much more. (Billboard)
    • Jeff Mills, Leftfield's Neil Barnes confirmed for AVA Conference in Belfast. (RA)
    • Brighton Music Conference has announced speakers from Mixmag, Beatport, AFEM, PRS for Music, PPL, Ministry of Sound, Sony and more as part of its two days of panels, workshops and seminars this April. (Mixmag)
    • Warehouse Project and Parklife's Sacha Lord-Marchionne leads push for 'night czar' in Manchester. (RA)
    • Amanda Moss, a cofounder of South London's Corsica Studios, died of cancer this week. (RA)
    • Mixmag has launched a vote to crown the label of the decade.
    • Nightclub closure powers in the UK have been branded “confusing and misleading” in the wake of the temporary shutdown of Fabric. Peers have called for current rules to be clarified and for appeals to be fasttracked. (BigHospitality)
    • A series of changes and a maturing crowd have been attributed to arrests at Ultra Music Festival Miami being down 50% on the previous year. (MiamiHerald)
    • Roland founder and music pioneer Ikutaro Kakehashi dies aged 87. (Observer) DJs and record labels pay tribute. (Mixmag)
    ISSUE: 31 Mar 2017
    • Owners of the building that housed the Ghost Ship in California knew about dangerous electrical issues more than two years before a fire there killed 36 people at a party last December. (Billboard)
    • A petition launched by Dance Liberation Network and NYC Artist Coalition aims to repeal the outdated Cabaret Law which makes it illegal for three or more individuals to dance inside a space that does not have a cabaret license. (Mixmag)
    ISSUE: 24 Mar 2017
    • Record Store Day UK has revealed the 500+ limited edition releases available on 22 April, as it celebrates its 10th anniversary.
    • IMS Ibiza has announced further speakers for its May 24-26 event including: Miss Kittin, Jesse Rose, Yann Pissenem, B.Traits and Nicole Moudaber
    • A coalition of New York-based grassroots advocacy groups are meeting with local government officials this month to voice opposition to the city's archaic Cabaret Law and other regulations negatively affecting DIY venues. (Thump)
    • Artists including Ed O'Brien of Radiohead have backed FanFair Alliance's new online guide to help music fans beat ticket touts. (RotD)
    • Ticket sales for the Netherlands' dance music festivals increased to €140m last year – although consultancy DDMCA says the market is fast approaching a "ceiling". (IQ)
    ISSUE: 17 Mar 2017
    • Secluded new studio, Devon Analogue, opens by Exmoor. (RA)
    • 65 people injured in a stampede at Australia's Falls Festival in Lorne have launched a class action lawsuit which could total more than $1m. (Mixmag)
    • Fabric has put its Room Two soundsystem up for auction on eBay with half of the proceeds going towards the medical fundraising for Corsica Studios co-founder Amanda Moss. (Mixmag)
    • With four nominations, Flume leads the pack heading into next month’s APRA Music Awards in Sydney. (Billboard)
    • Pacha Group founder Ricardo Urgell to be honoured with IMS Legends Award. (MusicWeek)
    • In the UK, online touts who bulk buy tickets and sell them for inflated prices will face unlimited fines under government plans. (BBC, Guardian) An amendment to the Digital Economy Bill means it will be illegal to use "bots" to bypass limits on the maximum amount of tickets that can be bought.
    ISSUE: 10 Mar 2017
    • A warning has been issued about pink teddy bear pills, thought to be ecstasy, after four 13-year-old girls fell ill last weekend. (Mixmag)
    • DJ competition BURN Residency returns for 2017, with the winner set to receive a management contract worth €100,000. (RA)
    • There has been a significant boost in the amount of assaults in areas surrounding Sydney's lockout zone since the controversial laws were introduced. (Mixmag)
    • The British Tinnitus Association, a charity dedicated to raising awareness of the condition, has announced Plug’em, a new campaign focusing on the prevention of tinnitus from live music events. (Mixmag)
    • UK Music CEO Jo Dipple has written to Chancellor Philip Hammond to raise concerns over the potential negative impact the imminent business rates revaluation could have on the live music sector. (RotD)
    • Videos and images of a huge wildfire that ripped through the heart of Ibiza Town earlier this week have surfaced across social media. (Pulse) Arson is being blamed. (Pulse)
    • A new venture called Vinylised wants to unite record buyers to crowd fund vinyl releases and make it easier for small labels by providing a complete end-to-end service. (VinylFactory)
    • On International Women’s Day, SheSaidSo announced The Alternative Power 100 Music List featuring the likes of Annie Mac and Gina Tucci, Head of A&R, Big Beat Records. (SheSaidSo)
    • The Black Madonna and Dixon have been named among 10 keynote speakers at IMS Ibiza this year to celebrate 10 years of the three-day summit. (Mixmag) Other speakers announced include: Masters At Work, New Order’s Bernard Sumner, The Martinez Brothers, leading figures from Facebook, Spotify and Media Records founder Gianfranco Bortolotti.
    ISSUE: 03 Mar 2017
    • Bristol record shop Idle Hands is moving to a larger premises this month. (RA)
    • Jack White has opened new record pressing plant in Detroit. (RA)
    • Oakland orders police to crack down on underground events. (RA)
    • Chicago’s famed smartbar is set to host a series of workshops as part of Daphne: A Women's Movement In Dance Music. (Mixmag)
    • Mixmag is teaming up with International Music Summit (IMS) to find the music industry innovators of the future through the global Visionaries Contest. (Mixmag) Submissions are open until April 12. Enter the contest and see full details of the prizes here.
    • London club Corsica Studios co-founder Amanda Moss is seeking donations to fund health treatment for a rare form of cancer. (Mixmag)
    • The Chainsmokers and Coldplay top this week's UK Official Trending Chart with Something Just Like This. (OCC)
    • The Chainsmokers & Coldplay have broken the YouTube record for most single-day lyric video views. (Billboard)
    ISSUE: 24 Feb 2017
    • Bristol Women In Music is to host an industry conference at Colston Hall March 30. (Facebook) keynote speeches come from the likes of Eats Everything and Crazy P's Danielle Moore.
    • California lawmakers consider 4am alcohol curfew. (RA)
    • 21 people hospitalised following suspected GHB overdose at Melbourne’s Electric Parade festival. (Fact)
    • Roni Size was awarded the Inspiration gong at last week's Music Producers Awards. (RotD)
    • The Chainsmokers' Closer breaks record for most weeks in Billboard Hot 100's Top 5. (Billboard)
    ISSUE: 17 Feb 2017
    • Beatport launches 'leftfield house and techno' section. (RA)
    • Stevie Wonderland and Goldsmiths to host London nightlife panel on March 1. (RA)
    • Producergirls founder E.M.M.A. and Glaswegian DJ Nightwave are teaming up with Ableton on March 4 to host a beginners' music production workshop for women at SWG3. (Mixmag)
    • Electronic Sound magazine has raised over £105,000 in a crowdfunding campaign, but is still short by about £70,000 of its target. The offer closes on 17 February. (Crowdcube)
    • Brighton Music Conference (BMC17) has revealed the first panels and speakers for the fourth edition of the electronic music industry event. (RotD)
    • Flume has won his first Grammy after being awarded Best Dance / Electronic Album for his album Skin. (Billboard) The Chainsmokers won Best Dance Recording for Don't Let Me Down featuring Daya. (Thump)
    ISSUE: 10 Feb 2017
    • The toxic make up of a batch of drugs sold as ‘MDMA,’ leading to three deaths and a spate of hospitalisations in Melbourne, have been revealed to contain amphetamine-type stimulant 4-FA and highly potent synthetic hallucinogen 25C-NBOMe. (Mixmag)
    • Nickelodeon has added an EDM category to this year's Kid's Choice Awards. (DJMag)
    • Dennis Barton, co-founder and sole constant member of the Orange County–based electronic dance music act Skylab2000, has died at 54 with the cause of his death yet to be determined. (LAWeekly)
    • Influential producer David Axelrod has passed away at the age of 83. (Pulse)
    ISSUE: 03 Feb 2017
    • New record shop, DDD, opens in Paris. (RA)
    • A new vinyl pressing machine from Viryl Technologies is said to be able to produce 4,000 records a day due to its better trimming/tracking system and sensors that check everything from temperature to pressure. (Mixmag)
    • After departing the UK for the first time and arriving in the United States (New York City) last November, the Mixmag Live event series is now heading to Brazil. (Mixmag)
    • Red Bull Studios in London has launched a new project called Normal Not Novelty which invites women to build lasting networks in the music industry with a series of workshops. (Mixmag)
    • In a ground-breaking copyright law development which will initially benefit promoters, festival organisers and some venues in Germany, record labels and broadcast media will have to pay the event organiser a share of the revenue from live concert recordings. International promoters operating in the country or co-promoting with local partners will also be entitled to benefit from the ruling. (Audience)
    ISSUE: 27 Jan 2017
    • A new vinyl manufacturing facility is opening in Sydney with the capacity to press three million records each year. (Mixmag)
    • According to Chance the Rapper, the Grammys will now recognise music released on SoundCloud for eligibility in 2018. (Uproxx)
    • Classic House, a collaboration between Pete Tong and conductor Jules Buckley, is leading the race for UK No.1 album in the Official Charts Company’s midweek update. (Independent)
    • The most influential people in music, according to Debretts includes the likes of Calvin Harris, Chase & Status and Mark Ronson. (Telegraph)
    • BPM Festival has released a full statement following the shooting at this year’s event. (Magnetic Mag) The company has raised a GoFundMe campaign for the victims and noted: “At this time, we will not be commenting publicly so as not to interfere with, or impede, the ongoing police investigation”
    ISSUE: 20 Jan 2017
    • A dangerous batch of drugs sold as MDMA has been linked to three deaths in Melbourne. (Mixmag)
    • Forbes’ 30 Under 30 Europe Entertainment list features Kygo while the Music list highlights DJ Snake.
    • Mo Chaudry, a fundamental promoter in the Ibiza scene, has passed away. (Mixmag)
    • Inside the BPM shooting: drug cartels and corruption threaten Mexico's festival scene. (Thump)
    • 'Doorman legend' killed in BPM Festival shooting remembered as 'great soul’. (Billboard)
    • Five dead and 15 injured after shooting at the BPM Festival. (Mixmag) DJs, promoters and record labels send their condolences. (Mixmag) Local Mayor Cristina Torres Gómez has reportedly stated that no electronic music festivals will be allowed to take place in Playa del Carmen going forward. (DJMag)
    ISSUE: 13 Jan 2017
    • The first Essential New Tune of 2017 will feature on Pete Tong’s BBC show tonight and will be listed in next week’s Industry Insider. 
    • Data Transmission has launched its own label, Shanghaied.
    • Discogs has announced its 8 millionth release being entered into its database. 
    • A Toronto councilwoman has announced she will be asking the Community Development and Recreation Committee to require electronic music festival promoters to staff city paramedics on-site. (Mixmag)
    • The Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE) will this year take place 18-22 October and has announced an extensive program in Mumbai, India and showcases at SXSW, in Austin, USA. (RotD)
    ISSUE: 06 Jan 2017
    • ISIS claims responsibility for Istanbul nightclub shooting; death toll now at 39. (DA)
    • London’s Lucky Seven record shop is set to close thanks to soaring rent. (Fact)
    • Up to 80 people injured in Falls Festival stampede. (Mixmag)
    • Official documents say drugs weren't the main reason for the acid house crackdown. (Mixmag)
    • At the inquest into a teenager's drug related death, the Coroner describes the problem as being ‘bigger than Fabric.’ (Thump)
    • A teenager who died after his Fabric visit took an MDMA dose “well within the fatal range”. (Mixmag)
    ISSUE: 16 Dec 2016
    • Nineteen organisations representing every corner of the US music industry have issued an open letter to President-elect Donald Trump. (Billboard)
    • MDMA is more dangerous in the US than in Europe, according to experts. (Mixmag)
    • An amendment to the UK’s Licensing Act 2003 that would have compelled local authorities to consider “social or cultural” benefits when granting live music licences has been withdrawn by its sponsor. (IQ)
    ISSUE: 09 Dec 2016
    • Six men stabbed in mass brawl outside London club Box H9. (RA)
    • A new record shop called 2 Bridges has just opened in NYC, offering a new outlet to showcase a wide variety of music, art and literature. (Mixmag)
    • Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf has announced a grant intended to create affordable spaces for artists and arts organisations. (RA)
    • Oakland fire recovery effort ends leaving death toll at 36, raging fire trapped people on second floor. (Billboard)
    • Vinyl sales made the UK record industry £2.4m, while downloads took in £2.1m last week, ERA said. 120,000 vinyl albums were sold, compared with 295,000 digital ones. (BBC)
    • The Lancashire Police force is backing a new initiative that will allow people in Preston to legally take drugs like cocaine and MDMA if they subject the substances to a chemical purity test beforehand. (Mixmag)
    • The Chainsmokers and Flume represent for dance music at 2017 Grammys, DJ Snake snubbed once again. (Billboard)
    ISSUE: 02 Dec 2016
    • Smirnoff Sound Collective aims to tackle dance music's diversity problem. (Billboard)
    • Gov. Cuomo has vetoed legislation that would have provided millions of dollars in tax breaks to the music and digital gaming industry in both sectors doing business in New York. (NYPost)
    • Italian lawmakers have approved a bill criminalising ticket resale, paving the way for some of the strongest anti-touting legislation in the world. (IQ)
    • A plan to ban the use of computer software to harvest tickets for live events and sell them on for inflated prices has been drawn up by an influential group of UK MPs. (Times)
    • Ecstasy confirmed as cause of death in three Hard Summer fatalities in Southern California. (DA)
    • MDMA inches closer to prescription status as FDA approves Phase 3 trials. (Mixmag)
    • The UK's National Police Chiefs' Council has suggested it may be open to the introduction of drug testing, as revealed in BBC Newsbeat's documentary, Clubs, Drugs and Saving Lives. (Mixmag)
    ISSUE: 25 Nov 2016
    • Pill-testing kits are expected to be widely distributed at music festivals around Sydney this summer. (RA)
    • U.S. issues travel advisory for European festivalgoers this holiday season. (Magnetic Mag)
    • The 2017 Global Drug Survey (GDS) is looking for participants. (Mixmag)
    • Stories from Italy and the UK show that promoters and venues are involved in getting tickets to the touts. (IrishTimes)
    • At the ARIA Awards in Australia, Flume won eight of the 11 awards he was nominated for. (ARIA, Billboard)
    • New survey reveals 9 in 10 female students have been groped in a nightclub. (Mixmag)
    • French composer and electronic music pioneer Jean-Claude Risset has died age 78. (RA)
    • Fabric releases fifth transparency statement. (Magnetic Mag)
    • Fabric in London is to reopen after Islington council agreed to strict new licensing conditions, including an over-19s policy and ID scanners at the entry to the venue. (Guardian, IQ, RA) There will also be changes to its management structure and accountability.
    • IMS to celebrate 10th anniversary in 2017. (RotD)
    ISSUE: 18 Nov 2016
    • A French nightclub is to sue four men who were hospitalised after overdosing at their venue. (Pulse)
    • New York promoter Thomas Dunkley has resigned as a talent buyer at Schimanski, following a Facebook post in support of president-elect Donald Trump. (RA)
    • A number of industry figures appeared before MPs on the Culture, Media and Sport select committee in London, talking about secondary ticketing.
      Secondary ticketing websites are enabling professional touts with "preferential schemes" for power sellers, MPs have been told. (BBC) Chris Edmonds, Chairman of Ticketmaster UK, confirmed that up to 50% of tickets could already have been allocated when the general sale begins.
    • The British government is to table a motion banning the use of "bots" to buy up large numbers of concert tickets for later resale. (Billboard)
    • A former police chief inspector has provided one of 41 written statements backing Fabric's bid to reopen. (Islington Tribune) The appeal hearing begins on November 28.
    • Ibiza has reportedly had its biggest ever year for tourism in 2016. (Billboard) Over 7.1m people visited the island from January through October – a 14.6% increase on the same period last year.
    • David Mancuso, DJ and pioneer of the New York underground club scene, has died aged 72. (Billboard)
    • London's Fabric nightclub is in talks with Islington council and Metropolitan police to reopen. (RA)
    ISSUE: 11 Nov 2016
    • Boiler Room releases statement responding to Weekender shut down. (FACT)
    • Jean-Jacques Perrey, the French composer and pioneer of electronic music, has died at 87. (Guardian)
    • Next week, the UK Culture, Media and Sport Committee is holding a one-off evidence session into ticket touts and the problem of secondary ticketing. (RotD)
    • The UK government says it will address the so-called music 'value gap' as part of Brexit negotiations. The confirmation came in response to a probing Digital Economy Bill amendment which would see sites like YouTube lose their safe harbour protections if they "optimise the presentation" of uploaded works. (TorrentFreak) 
    • Fabric promises to run at ‘gold standard’ if allowed to re-open. (Mixmag)
    • Fabric calls on former police chief and drug expert for appeal hearing. (FACT)
    • Fabric has submitted a 155-page operating manual, detailing safety, welfare and medical provisions, ahead of its upcoming appeal against losing its licence. The club has also suggested 32 new licence conditions, in the event that it is permitted to re-open. (Fabric)
    ISSUE: 04 Nov 2016
    • UK startup Encore is attempting to disrupt the traditional agency model, making it easier to book a musician or band for an event. (TechCrunch)
    • Fania, the iconic NYC based global music, entertainment and lifestyle company, is partnering with the Brooklyn Electronic Music Festival (BEMF) to deliver an immersive club and pop-up store focusing on the talented artists inspired by Fania’s legacy. (Mixmag)
    • Government commits to further measures to tackle online ticket touting. (RotD, IQ)
    • According to anti-piracy group BREIN, Facebook has complied with a request to delete nine groups where thousands of albums were being shared without permission. (TorrentFreak)
    • In the US, foreign bands will have to pay the increased non-immigrant worker visa fee from next month. It is rising from $325 to $460 per act, and the same per crew. (Mixmag)
    • A judge has ruled the identities of undercover police officers involved in the Fabric nightclub investigation must be made public. (Mixmag)
    • Sadiq Khan announces Amy Lamé as London's first Night Czar. (Standard)
    ISSUE: 28 Oct 2016
    • High alert issued for pink 'Superman' pills being sold as ecstasy. (Mixmag)
    • A new Norwegian study has found that musicians in the country are three times more likely to face deteriorating mental health than other citizens. (M)
    • UK Culture Secretary Karen Bradley appeared before a committee of MPs to look at, among other issues, the government intervening to combat ticket touting. (Times)
    • The identity of London's Night Tsar will be made public next month and a report by the mayor-appointed “night time commission” published by the end of the year. (Observer)
    • The demise of the nightclub has been greatly exaggerated, according to Britain’s biggest club operator Deltic. (Times) The company found that almost 40% of the population go on a late night out once a week, while for 18 to 21-year-olds the proportion rises to 72%.
    • Martin Garrix voted the world’s No.1 DJ in annual DJ Mag poll. (RotD)
    • Billboard publishes its ’40 Under 40’ list of young power players, which includes Adam Alpert (CEO, Disruptor Records) and Sam Hunt (Agent for Diplo, Major Lazer, The Windish Agency).
    ISSUE: 21 Oct 2016
    • Paris record shop La Source will close permanently on Sunday, October 23. (RA)
    • SXSW has announced another batch of keynotes and featured speakers, including a keynote speech from Zane Lowe of Apple's Beats 1. (Billboard)
    • Martin Garrix is named No.1 in DJ Mag’s Top 100 DJs poll for 2016. (Billboard)
    • Chicago has put forward new tax rules, which would exclude music venues from a 3% tax. (RA, Billboard)
    ISSUE: 14 Oct 2016
    • UK electronic music industry event Brighton Music Conference (BMC) has revealed its 2017 edition will take place 27-28 April. (RotD)
    • Mike Baird has been tipped to support the Callinan Review's recommendation for Sydney's lockouts to be pushed back by half an hour. (Mixmag)
    • The New York State Liquor Authority will not be granting any "all-night" alcohol permits for New Year's Eve 2017. (Mixmag)
    • Burning Man organisers have spoken out against acts of vandalism. (DJ Mag)
    ISSUE: 07 Oct 2016
    • Listen Up Music Promotions announces its move into Digital Marketing with Listen Up Digital. (RotD)
    • London nightlife promoter Roger Michael has thrown his hat in the ring to be the capital’s first “night czar”. (Standard)
    • Flume has swept the nominations for the 2016 Aria awards, shortlisted for 11 categories in total – and already winning in three. (Guardian)
    • Tokyo Dance Music Event, Japan's first conference of the electronic music industries, will launch this December 1-3. (RotD)
    • IMS and Storm collaborate again for the IMS Asia-Pacific conference and Storm Festival, helping to grow China's dance music scene. (Billboard)
    • A peaceful protest in support of London's nightlife is happening this Saturday (October 8), starting in Hoxton Square at 1pm. (Mixmag)
    • Fabric's appeal against the club's licence being revoked will be heard on November 28. £260,000 in donations have been raised so far. (Mixmag, Billboard)
    ISSUE: 30 Sep 2016
    • A new free e-magazine, Dance Music Review, has launched. It is aimed at the mobile DJ, the commercial club DJ, bedroom mixer and general dance enthusiast, with an emphasis is on commercial dance music.
    • Music conference Take Note returns to London on November 19, where experts including B.Traits and Toddla T offer advice to those wanting to break into the music industry. (Mixmag)
    • A Spanish promoter has been jailed for four years after being sentenced for his part in the deaths of five people at a Steve Aoki gig in Madrid in 2012. (Pulse)
    • Calvin Harris has become the first 'EDM artist' to receive a diamond certification, awarded for his 2011 collaboration with Rihanna, We Found Love. (Dancing Astronaut)
    • The IMS Tech Report, which delves into the tech side of the music industry in Asia, and the IMS Audience Report, which provides a deeper analysis of the Asia-Pacific region, have been released. (IMS) All IMS business reports can be downloaded here.
    • London Mayor Sadiq Khan plans to introduce an Agent of Change rule into the next London Plan, meaning “developers building flats near existing venues will need to ensure that residents are not unduly affected by sound from the venue, and that may include paying for soundproofing.” (Standard)
    • Admissions to nightclubs have fallen by 23% in five years, down to 115m last year. Mintel predicts numbers will fall a further 14% by 2020 because of competition from bars. (Guardian)
    ISSUE: 23 Sep 2016
    • Speaking at the Live & Ticketing Summit, Professor Michael Waterson said artists should embrace tiered pricing to stop their tickets appearing on resale sites. (IQ)
    • Almost 100 arrests after Defqon1 in Sydney, citing drugs, alcohol and anti-social behaviour. (Magnetic Mag)
    • The SSE Scottish Music Awards has announced Best Dance Act as a new award category to recognise Scotland's rich dance music scene. (RotD)
    • Kaytranada has won the Polaris Music Prize for his album 99.9%. The award – Canada’s equivalent to the Mercury prize – is given to the Canadian album with the most artistic merit, regardless of sales or label. (Guardian)
    • London's Metropolitan Police have denied that their push to close Fabric was an attempt at "getting the club back" following the Farringdon venue's successful court appeal last year. (Mixmag, RA)
    • London club Fabric has launched a crowd funding campaign to support its legal costs after its license was revoked on September 7. (Mixmag) Further to this it has released a statement regarding its Save Our Culture campaign, outlining how funds raised will "support the continued hibernation of the club" through its licensing appeal. (Mixmag)
    ISSUE: 16 Sep 2016
    • The InTheMix Awards are back for 2016 – with some important changes. (inthemix)
    • The recommendations from the review into Sydney's lockout laws have been released. (Mixmag)
    • New proposals are in the works to offer various creatives in London protection from property developers. (Mixmag)
    • Recorded music sales increased in Sweden by 8.6% during the first six months of 2016. (MBW)
    • In the first half of 2016, recorded music sales in Spain were up 4.1% over the same period in 2015. (Billboard)
    • UK Music Measuring Music report: Music streaming revenues in the UK grew 49%, to £251m, last year, — but the country’s live music market shrank 2%. (RotD, FT, BBC, BBC) The industry contributed $4.1bn to the British economy in 2015, up 17% since 2012.
    • IMS Asia-Pacific announce topics and more speakers for Shanghai. (Pulse)
    • Fabric has announced it’ll host a Boiler Room event discussing the future of club culture. (Pulse)
    • Vienna has lifted a tax on Dance Clubs. (RA)
    • German court rules that Berlin club Berghain provides more than mere entertainment and should therefore be taxed at lower rate. (Guardian, Mixmag)
    • Spanish law enforcement have found millions of Euros in cash at Ushuaïa and Pacha when both were raided by Spanish police at 6:30am and 8am respectively on September 15, El Mundo reports. (Mixmag, Pulse)
    ISSUE: 09 Sep 2016
    • Drug safety body The Loop has issued a warning over orange Tesla extacy pills. (Thump)
    • Activists vow to set up pill testing centres at dance music festivals in Australia this summer - defying police threats of arrest 'because it saves lives'. (Mail)
    • Council members in Ibiza's San Antonio voted and unanimously passed legislation that would ban the construction of new beach clubs and outdoor hotel venues, potentially spelling the end of new outdoor clubs in Ibiza. (Thump)
    • Alan Miller of the Night Time Industries Association has called on people to contribute funds in a grassroots national movement to lobby their MP and councillors against Fabric's closure. (Independent)
    • Fabric nightclub: Outpouring of anger after council's 'disgraceful' decision to close world famous venue. (Mirror)
    • London mayor Sadiq Khan says London's nightlife is at risk after Fabric is shut. (Fox)
    • Newly obtained documents suggest Islington Council orchestrated the closure of Fabric. (Thump)
    • Cameron Leslie, Fabric's co-founder and director, passionately defended his club's reputation at the council meeting, read his speech in full. (RA)
    ISSUE: 02 Sep 2016
    • Police have confirmed the death of a 26-year-old man at Creamfields Festival, cause unknown. (Sun)
    • Further drug-related deaths will happen at Fabric unless serious changes are made, according to the Met Police. (BBC)
    • The co-founder of Fabric has pleaded for a reprieve, claiming a move to shut it after two recent drug-related deaths “would be the beginning of the end for clubbing in London”. (Standard)
    • The Metropolitan Police in London have filed a report on the club that aggressively states that Fabric should be closed indefinitely, and Pulse Radio has obtained the documents. (Pulse)
    • Fabric has pledged to pursue a "gold standard" for safe clubbing if it's able to stay open. (RA)
    ISSUE: 26 Aug 2016
    • New London Mayor Sadiq Khan has advertised for a Night Czar at £35k a year. (Mixmag)
    • The unveiling of the Night Tube in London has prompted Sydney’s Lord Mayor to call for the same in his city. (Mixmag)
    • Las Vegas clubs Hakkasan and Omnia might be among the assets seized in the most extensive international corruption investigation in history. (Magnetic Mag)
    • Cook County in Illinois is targeting several Chicago venues to recall and collect back taxes related to live performances, potentially spelling the end for several venues. (Mixmag)
    • The organisers of Moonrise Festival in Baltimore have logged around 150 security guard extortion complaints. (Magnetic Mag)
    • Eric Zho, CEO of A2LiVE and creator of Budweiser STORM Festival: Pioneering China’s electronic music awakening. (Pulse Radio)
    • London venue Shapes say that ‘unethical measures’ forced their closure.  (Mixmag)
    • The team behind Studio 338, the London venue recently destroyed by fire, has issued a statement hinting at future plans. (Mixmag)
    • An official petition to save Fabric has been posted on Change.org, directly addressed to London Mayor Sadiq Khan in the wake of closure after the death of two teenagers. (Mixmag)
    ISSUE: 19 Aug 2016
    • An 18-year-old girl died in her tent at the UK festival BoomTown Fair last weekend - cause of death is yet to be released. (BBC)
    • Calvin Harris has topped Forbes magazine’s Electronic Cash Kings list with an estimated fortune of £48m. (Forbes, Billboard, Guardian) Tiesto is No.2 with $38m and David Guetta No.3 with $28m.
    • IMS Asia-Pacific 2016 has announced its first speakers, including Skrillex, Alesso and Pete Tong. (Billboard, Dancing Astronaut)
    ISSUE: 12 Aug 2016
    • YouGov research has shown the age range of the majority of vinyl buyers to be between 45 and 54, with 18 to 24-year-olds least likely to buy their albums on wax. (Fact)
    • New ecstasy pills found in Ibiza might be strongest ever tested. (Pulse)
    • NYC collective Discwoman head to Berlin in order to provide DJ workshops for women and LGBT groups. (Mixmag)
    • Kiko Deal, one half of Mexican house duo Climbers, has reportedly passed away. (Pulse)
    • BitTorrent is offering up to $100,000 in cash grants for artists and musicians. (Dancing Astronaut)
    • New research suggests turnover of the top 100 nightclub companies in the UK fell by 9% last year to £340m, the third year in a row of falling sales. (Times)
    • London nightclub Fabric will be closed this weekend (August 12-14) following the recent deaths of two 18-year-old men from drug overdoses. (RA)
    • A man has died from burns injuries after a fire broke out and destroyed popular London club Studio 338 this week. (BBC) Investigations into the cause of the blaze continue. (Mixmag)
    ISSUE: 05 Aug 2016
    • Hard Rock Cafe could be held liable for Steve Aoki’s neck-breaking stage dive in 2012, after the victim’s lawyer told a jury that they should have known the Dim Mak label boss would attempt the stunt. (DJmag)
    • A meeting has been set up by the Night Time Industries Association (NTIA) to discuss The Promotion Event Risk Assessment Form 696, a document aimed at minimising violence at events in London. (Mixmag)
    • Shambhala is asking attendees of the Canadian festival to help crowd-fund a miniature mobile mass spectrometer, a drug screening device that would detect the presence of opioid fentanyl. (Dancing Astronaut)
    • Amsterdam Dance Event is one of five Dutch festivals denied FPK funding for 2017–2020. (IQ) It had applied for €300,000.
    ISSUE: 29 Jul 2016
    • IMS Asia-Pacific 2016 official trailer released.
    • Pending results from a State Review, Sydney’s controversial 1:30am lockout law could be on the way to being amended. (Resident Advisor)
    • The parents of a deceased 18 -year-old HARD Summer attendee are suing festival organisers over her ecstasy-related death, claiming it could have been prevented. (DancingAstronaut)
    • Major Lazer, Justin Bieber and MØ's Cold Water has topped the UK's Official Trending Chart. (OCC) 
    • Secret Garden Party became the first UK festival to allow attendees to test their drugs before taking them, aiming to increase safety at the event and promote more considered thought around drug taking whilst at events. (Thump)
    ISSUE: 22 Jul 2016
    • Sunset Music Festival 2016 deaths were due to ecstasy overdoses, autopsy finds. (Billboard)
    • Amsterdam's night mayor Mirik Milan will be one of the keynote speakers at the Electronic Music Conference in Australia this November. (SMH)
    • Eli & Fur have been announced as some of the recipients of the PRS Music Foundation Momentum Music funding. (RotD)
    • UK Music has said that better regulation of clubs and bars is a "priority" for politicians.
      (BBC)
    • An Ibiza official has said the island cannot handle the growing influx of tourists [see full interview in Comment below]. (RA)
    ISSUE: 15 Jul 2016
    • Authorities in the Australian state of Victoria have threatened pill testers with arrests and criminal charges, despite having been made legal at music in every state outside New South Wales earlier this year. (YourEDM)
    • A dangerous batch of fake ecstasy pills possibly containing PMA could be back in circulation. Featuring a Rolex logo some have been some seized at T in The Park in the UK. (Mixmag)
    • Newly-opened Frankfurt record store Gosu has launched an in-house label. (RA)
    • Flume's Never Be Like You was the most popular single in Australia in the first half of 2016. (Billboard)
    • Calvin Harris is the highest dance music entry in this year's Forbes Global Celebrity 100. He came in at No.21 with a reported $63m income last year. (YourEDM) Tiësto is featured at No.70 with $38m, and is the only other dance “celebrity” on the list.
    • The UK Music Diversity Taskforce has launched the first music industry workforce diversity survey. (RotD)
    ISSUE: 08 Jul 2016
    • 40 cases of sexual assault have been reported across Swedish festivals this week. (PulseRadio)
    • 10 things we learned from IMS College – Malta. (IMS)
    • IMS College – Malta: Weekend highlights. (IMS)
    • IMS Malta 2016: Secrets to success from EDM experts Pete Tong, Eli And Fur and Mark Netto. (IBTimes)
    • Pete Tong tells IMS Malta 2016 that Adele and Sam Smith's success is down to Radio 1. (IBTimes)
    • Def Jam CEO Steve Bartels will participate in a keynote Q&A at Amsterdam Dance Event. (Billboard)
    • Zhu and Deadmau5 are amongst the 180 signatories of a petition to reform online copyright laws via an update to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. (Mixmag)
    • Ibizan club Amnesia came under a 17-hour raid on Tuesday (July 5), followed by a second the following day, as The Guardia Civil investigated "alleged crimes against the Treasury" according to Diario De Ibiza. €2m were uncovered hidden inside, resulting in club owner Martin Ferrer, artistic director and son of the owner Marti Ferrer, general/business manager David de Felipe and accountant Vicente Pérez de Montis being arrested. (Mixmag, Magnetic Mag)
    ISSUE: 01 Jul 2016
    • New child friendly logos on ecstasy tablets appear to be targeting very young people, in a worrying trend. (Pulse Radio)
    • Skrillex and Diplo's debut album under joint alias Jack Ü has been certified gold by the RIAA after selling over 568,000 copies. (DJMag)
    • A 20-year-old woman has died after attending EDC Las Vegas. (Billboard)
    • Seth Troxler has joined Nightlife Matters, the campaign to promote UK nightlife, created by the Night Time Industries Association. (Clash)
    • Black Coffee won Best International act, Africa, at the BET Awards. (Billboard) He was also the only electronic musician to be nominated in the category and the first South African to win a BET.
    ISSUE: 24 Jun 2016
    • Dave Clarke, Luke Slater, Marcel Fengler, Tommy Four Seven, Henrik Schwarz, Cassy and Ben Sims are amongst the artists confirmed for ADE 2016, one of Europe’s most important electronic music conferences. (Resident Advisor)
    • Corporates take over the music festival stage. (FT Weekend) Live Nation and AEG Live have grown to dominate a business that began with the countercultural shows of the ’60s. “We’re not a Johnny-come-lately American company that is just discovering festivals,” says Joe Berchtold, Live Nation’s chief operating officer. “It’s been the linchpin of our concert business for the past 10 to 15 years."
    ISSUE: 17 Jun 2016
    • Low Four, an online music platform, studio and event space based at the Old Granada Studios in central Manchester has launched. (M)
    • Dallas based company Hand Drawn Records have announced plans to build the first automated pressing plant in 30 years, to cope with the backlog of orders in the wake of vinyl resurgence. (Mixmag)
    • Diplo named dance artist of the year in Billboard's third annual power list of DJs and execs. (Billboard) Gatekeepers named include: Zane Lowe & Julie Adenuga at Apple Music, founder/CEO of SoundCloud Alexander Ljung and Annie Mac & Pete Tong at Radio 1.
    ISSUE: 10 Jun 2016
    • Diplo named dance artist of the year in Billboard's third annual power list of DJs and execs. (Billboard) Other artists included: Above & Beyond, Steve Aoki, Deadmau5, DJ Snake, Flume, Martin Garrix, David Guetta, Calvin Harris, Kaskade, Kygo, Skrillex, The Chain Smokers and Tiësto. Pasquale Rotella, founder of Insomniac Events named Executive Of The Year whilst 'gatekeepers' named include: Zane Lowe, Alexander Ljung, founder/CEO of SoundCloud and Patrick Moxey, President/CEO, Ultra Music. 
    • SoundExchange has begun its appeal of the Copyright Royalty Board’s (CRB) recent rate ruling, saying “the webcasting rates set in the Web IV proceedings do not reflect a fair market price for music and will erode the value of music in our economy”. (Billboard)
    • Richie Hawtin and underground superstars discuss Playdifferently at IMS Ibiza. (DeepHouseAmsterdam)
    • Video: Yann Pissenem, Ushuaïa founder, IMS Ibiza keynote interview. (Ibiza Spotlight)
    • IMS College Malta schedule revealed with in-depth individual sessions focused on specializations, interactive learning sessions, speed networking and thoughtfully-curated panels. (IMS)
    ISSUE: 03 Jun 2016
    • Overdoses suspected in two deaths at Florida EDM fest, 57 others hospitalised. (Mashable)
    • Germany’s constitutional court has handed a defeat to Kraftwerk by ruling that a hip-hop artist can sample a two-second beat from a band’s tracks without infringing copyright. (Guardian, Billboard, BBC)
    • Eight things we learned at IMS Ibiza 2016. (Pulse)
    • Liz Stokes travels to IMS Ibiza to find the dance music world being underserved by the streaming services and fighting its battles on its own whilst it grows its global revenues. (RotD)
    • Legends unite at IMS Ibiza; Carl Cox, Pepe Roselló and Lynn Cosgrave on Space's final year. (Ibiza-Spotlight)
    • Watch: IMS Ibiza panel discuss gender diversity in music. (Clash)
    • From IMS Ibiza: Diversity in electronic music: "never use the phrase 'female DJ' again". (Pulse)
    • The great Ibiza debate at IMS. (Ibiza-Spotlight)
    • Watch first full-length talks from IMS Ibiza 2016. (IMS) Featuring Erick Morillo, Pet Shop Boys and diversity in electronic music. 
    ISSUE: 27 May 2016
    • Sigma and Take That's single Cry is No. 1 on this week's Official Trending Chart. (OCC)
    • A judge has granted a motion for David Lowery and Melissa Ferrick’s lawsuits against Spotify to be consolidated. Spotify will file a motion to dismiss and/or to move the case to New York. (Billboard)
    • Iggy Pop has taken a huge swipe at the current state of music in a recent interview, stating "Why don't you just kill me now?" (EDM.com)
    • Magnetic Magazine announced that they will be launching in Spain and Latin America at this year's IMS Ibiza conference. (MagneticMag)
    • Deadmau5 has threatened to sue fellow artist FAKU over his track Purple Eyes, which bears similarities to deadmau5's newly uploaded melody Sellout. (EDM.com)
    • Ushuaia Ibiza boss Yann Pissenem revealed at IMS Ibiza that the current Space building in Playa d'en Bossa wouldn't be knocked down, but couldn't divulge on what it would be called in 2017. (Mixmag)
    • Space Ibiza legends Carl Cox, Pepe Rosello and Lynn Cosgrave held a panel during the first day of IMS Ibiza to reminisce about the first days of the venue while looking ahead to the club’s 27th year - set to be its last as we know it. (IbizaSpotlight)
    • 25-year old Inder Phull has won IMS and Mixmag's 2016 Visionary award, givene very year to the leading light in the next generation of electronic music visionaries. Inder is the founder of KRPT, a UK-­based brand­-building network made up of creatives with expertise in youth culture. (Mixmag)
    • An annual business report on the state of the electronic music industry was presented at IMS Ibiza. Download here. Growth in the sector is slowing - up just 3.5% year-over-year. (Billboard, DancingAstronaut, Thump) In the US, dance streams grew by 33% to 15bn in 2015. 54% of US dance ‘sales’ are now streams.
    ISSUE: 20 May 2016
    • The West Village home of DFA Records is up for sale (Resident Advisor)
    • Canada’s chief collective of songwriters – the Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN) announces acquisition of MediaNet Digital allowing them to monitor online and public music more thoroughly and get royalties to it's members faster. (Globe&Mail)
    • First speakers announced for IMS College Malta including Eli & Fur, Pete Tong, Wilf Gregory and more as well as masterclasses curated by SAE Institute and Point Blank Music School. (IMS)
    • Watch full talks from IMS Engage 2016 - Hear from Marc Geiger (WME), John MacFarlane (Sonos), Arthur Baker (Music Producer), John Singleton (Film Director), Ted Cohen (Tag Strategic) and Mike Knobloch (Universal Pictures). (IMS)
    • IMS has released the full schedule for its Ibiza event next week. (IMS)
    • In the US, The National Music Publishers' Association (NMPA) and Dubset have reached a deal that will allow the NMPA's independent members, both publishing companies and songwriters, to take part in a new streaming "sub-economy”, with the new revenue source through derivative works, or pieces of music that are wholly or partially based on others' creations, like DJ mixes and remixes. (Billboard)
    ISSUE: 13 May 2016
    • On May 5, 2016, hugely influential Japanese composer Isao Tomita died from a cardiac failure at the age of 84. Tomita introduced analog synthesis to Japan by importing a Moog III in the 1960s. (DancingAstronaut)
    • Twitter shows tickets for Calvin Harris' Las Vegas shows at Omnia are 150% more expensive for males than females. (Thump)
    • A ban on tourist cars entering the Balearic Islands may be introduced this year. (Mixmag)
    • A local government ban on “all rave-style events” in the Southern California city of San Bernardino is being voted on at the end of the month (May 24). (Fact)
    • Final speakers announced for IMS Ibiza including artists such as Joseph Capriati and Kölsch and industry representatives from Spinnin’ Records and SoundCloud amongst others. (IMS)
    ISSUE: 06 May 2016
    • Uber has announced that Ibiza is its next target. (DancingAstronaut)
    • In a new study conducted by the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (or EMCDDA for short), the current status of contraband MDMA seems to be rising by different means, with findings showing that the drug's purity and branding are at their highest level ever. (YourEDM)
    • The UK government's Intellectual Property Office (IPO) has admitted it simply made up an official justification for 10-year jail sentences for copyright-infringing file sharers. (Register)
    • Two U.S. Government representatives are proposing a new bill, the Allocation for Music Producer Act, which hopes to honour engineers, producers, and mixers in royalty distribution. (YourEDM)
    • Joel Zimmerman, AKA Deadmau5, has reached an agreement with his former Canadian label Play Records over the use of his early tracks after a legal wrangle. (Billboard)
    • Watch the talks from IMS Engage. (IMS) Including Pete Tong with Bob Lefsetz and James Barton with Lee Anderson.
    ISSUE: 29 Apr 2016
    • IMS Engage in Los Angeles recently wrapped up a successful fourth edition. You can watch the recap video here. (IMS)
    • Blonde, Craig David and Galantis lead this week's Official Trending Chart in the UK. (OCC)
    • IP minister Baroness Neville-Rolfe has used the occasion of World Intellectual Property Day to call for an IP framework "fit for purpose in the digital age”. (Billboard)
    • Pirate sites received 140 billion visits last year, but there's a clear shift from torrents to direct download and streaming sites. (TorrentFreak)
    • Stem claims to make it easy for musicians who distribute music to platforms to track the revenue that content generates and bring it back to them. The company takes a 5% cut. (Recode, TubeFilter) The US-based startup has raised $4.5m of funding from investors including Scooter Braun, Bradford Cobb and Three Six Zero Group.
    • The government of Argentina’s capital Buenos Aires has stopped issuing permits for major electronic music festivals in response to the death of five people who overdosed at a party. (Billboard)
    • Those going to Ibiza from July 1 will have to pay a new 'Sustainable Tourist Tax', with the money going towards protection of resources on the island. (Mixmag)
    • The majors allege that YouTube’s filtering technology fails to identify enough of the content they own. YouTube vigorously rejected the labels’ claims and has pointed to what it says is Content ID’s 99.5% success rate in identifying music. “The failure of Content ID to identify videos that Sony identified… would have cost Sony and its artists $7.7m in revenue from approximately 10bn plays”. (FT)
    • The announcement by the New York Attorney General that a $2.76m settlement had been reached with six ticket brokers may be only the beginning, as it continues to look into anti-consumer tactics employed by primary and secondary sellers. (Billboard)
    • The first keynote speakers, panel topics and opening concert of ADE 2016 have been announced, with Henrik & Metropole Orkest performing the opening concert, and Anthony Saleh (CEO, Emagem Entertainment Group), Bruce Eskowitz (COO, Red Light Management) and Martin Goldschmidt (Managing Director, Cooking Vinyl) among the keynote speakers. (ADE)
    • IMS have officially revealed details for the launch of IMS College Malta, taking place at Westin Dragonara Resort from July 1-3. (Decoded) The event will consist of a range of seminars, panels and interactive sessions – paired with a party schedule throughout the weekend. Delegate badges are now available. (IMS)
    ISSUE: 22 Apr 2016
    • In Australia, the majors are seeking to have access to Kickass Torrents and its affiliated proxy sites banned by ISPs. (TheMusic)
    • London club Fabric has announced it will now offer the option to donate £1 on advance ticket purchases to help refugees. (Fact)
    • Grimes says producers have said they won’t finish her songs unless she goes back to their hotel room. (Guardian)
    • The UK authorities need to work harder to embrace electronic music and nightlife culture, a Brighton Music Conference (BMC) panel has urged. (M)
    • Director John Singleton and Universal Pictures President of Film Music And Publishing Mike Knobloch spoke at this week's IMS Engage in Hollywood. (Variety, Hollywood Reporter)
    ISSUE: 15 Apr 2016
    • Uber is to introduce drivers to Ibiza for the first time this season. (Ibiza Spotlight)
    • A new online music retailer, The Mixtape Shop, is now open. Founded in 2009 as a tool for sharing and discovering new music, the site relaunched this year as an online vinyl record store. (ResidentAdvisor)
    • Live Nation has acquired New York’s Governor’s Ball Festival. (DMN)
    • US television network Fox has announced that the inaugural edition of their EDM award show – the Electronic Music Awards – is to be postponed. The event was due to take place this month. (Fact)
    • Figures this week's IFPI Global Music Report 2015 show that digital music revenues have surpassed the takings from traditional music formats for the first time. (RotD, Guardian, Billboard, Billboard, Times) IFPI head Frances Moore highlighted the "value gap" - the points between the amount of free, ad-supported on demand streams on services like YouTube, and the money those streams generate for the industry: “Music consumption is exploding worldwide, and it’s a 3.2% increase. The question could be why is it not higher?”
    • Pete Tong in conversation with Bob Lefsetz announced for IMS Engage, taking place April 21 at the W Hollywood, Los Angeles. (IMS)
    ISSUE: 08 Apr 2016
    • There are only two weeks left until the beginning of IMS’ calendar year, which lands in Los Angeles on April 21 at the W Hollywood Hotel. (IMS)
    • Ibizan tourism authorities have taken exception to Mike Posner’s track I Took A Pill In Ibiza, and have invited the singer to see what the island is really like away from the partying. (Mixmag)
    • Sydney's Lord Mayor Clover Moore has called for some exceptions to the city's much-contested lockout laws, in a submission to the official review of the laws. (DancingAstronaut)
    • Ticket outlet and event guide Skiddle has released a statement hitting back at a recent BBC article entitled Whatever happened to the Great British nightclub? (Accessaa)
    • Dubai is to get its first dance music conference this April 21-22, courtesy of events and management company Blue Leaf. (IQ)
    • At this year’s JUNO Awards, Dim Mak trio Keys N Krates beat out Diplo & Sleepy Tom, Borgeous & Lights, and A-Trak for Dance Recording of the Year with their Katy B-assisted single, Save Me. For Electronic Album of the Year, Vancouver-based future soul standout Pomo came out victorious with his debut LP, The Other Day. (DancingAstronaut)
    • Music sales in Italy were up for a third consecutive year in 2015. Recorded music sales in 2015 totalled €148m, up 21% on 2014’s figure of €122m. Physical sales totalled €88m (59% of the market), up 17% from €75m the previous year. Digital now accounts for 41% of the market totalling €60m. (RotD, Billboard)
    ISSUE: 01 Apr 2016
    • The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) has passed the milestone of 200m infringing URLs sent to Google for removal from search results since its first notice in July 2011. (RotD, Guardian) The BPI’s Geoff Taylor said: “We are calling on Google and Bing to show their undiluted commitment to artists and the creative process by implementing a more pro-active solution to illegal sites appearing in search results. This will avoid the cost for both of us in dealing with hundreds of repeated notices for the same content on the same illegal sites”.
    • Legendary synthesizer manufacturer Moog has taken a stand against new laws passed in North Carolina that eliminate anti-discrimination protections for members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer population. (EDM.com)
    • Trax & Wax is the first vinyl subscription service focused on sub-genres within electronic dance music. (TechCrunch)
    • Space Ibiza announced as the No.1 club in the world, according a DJMag poll. (RotD)
    • SFX discloses festival line-ups in connection with artist deal. (WSJ)
    • Robert Sillerman's frank farewell letter to SFX staff as he steps down as CEO, but remains Chairman. (Billboard)
    • IMS Engage 2016 announces first speaker pairings: Marc Geiger, James Barton, Lee Anderson and more. (Billboard)
    ISSUE: 24 Mar 2016
    • Speaker company Sonos recently collaborated with Apple to study the effects that listening to music out loud, together has on people, and the results are overwhelmingly positive. (EDM.com)
    • UK Home Office ministers have confirmed that alkyl nitrite, also known as poppers, will not be banned by the government’s Psychoactive Substances Bill that comes into law on April 1. (Mixmag)
    • Donald Trump has had his team send a cease-and-desist order to New York City duo Fight Clvb over their use of his image and likeness in the video for their track, Donald Trump. (EDM.com)
    • IMS Engage, which take place in LA, is now less than a month away with limited badges still available. (IMS)
    • France’s MPs have voted to reduce the country's legal quota of French songs played on the radio from 40% to 35% amid complaints the rule forces DJs to repeatedly play ‘boring’ old French ballads. (Telegraph) However, stations will have to air more new French songs.
    • Sigala's summer club anthem Say You Do is top on the UK’s Official Trending Chart. (OCC)
    • BBC Worldwide has announced the acquisition of music documentary Stories, from Avicii. (RotD)
    • The Melbourne Electronic Sound Studio (MESS), a music non-profit organisation, has announced plans to transform its studio, and massive collection of rare and vintage synthesizers, into an interactive museum. (DancingAstronaut)
    • Tiesto has officially become the first DJ to win the Edison Pop Award. (EDM.com)
    • Radio 1 has partnered with dance music festival Hideout for the station’s first event in Croatia. (IQ)
    • Radio 1 (Radio Station), SoundCloud (Music App), Spinnin’ Records (Global Label) and Ushuaia - Ibiza (Global Club) were among the winners at the 31st annual International Dance Music Awards in Miami. (WMC)
    • Ibiza's San Antonio Council has announced that it has suspended dynamic advertising including commercial parades, ticket selling and PR’s on the streets of San Antonio for 2016. (White Isle)
    • In 2015, vinyl earned more than YouTube Music, VEVO, SoundCloud, and free Spotify combined. (DMN)
    • Streaming music services have displaced digital downloads as the largest source of revenue in the US. (FT )
    • The US recorded music business grew year on year, reporting 2015 revenues of $7.016bn, an increase of 0.9% on 2014. (RIAA, Billboard) Streaming revenue accounted for 34.3% [up from 27% in 2014] of the industry's total, with revenues from paid subscriptions growing 52% to $1.2bn. Download sales accounted for 34% of the market, physical 28.8%, and sync 2.9%.
    ISSUE: 18 Mar 2016
    • Michael Rapino, Chief Executive of Live Nation, said that artists were missing out on billions of dollars by underpricing tickets that are snapped up by touts at face value and then resold for a profit on the $8bn-a-year secondary market. (FT)
    • Rebeat Digital has filed a patent for High Definition Vinyl, which has 30% more capacity, 30% greater volume, and double the audio fidelity of a typical LP. (DMN)
    • Deadmau5 starts a regular radio programme for Apple Music’s Beats 1 this Friday, despite signing competitor Tidal's declaration when the service launched. (Billboard)
    • As part of the UK’s Office for National Statistic's 2016 Consumer Price Inflation Basket of Goods and Services study, the price of entry to a nightclub in the UK is to no longer be included in the government's official inflation figures. (Thump, Fact)
    • London mayor Boris Johnson has announced plans for a Night Time Commission in the UK capital. The commission involves a six-month investigation into "what should be done to protect and manage the night time economy". (ResidentAdvisor)
    • Music startup Dubset is launching its new Mixbank platform for clearing and distributing licensed remixes and longform DJ mixes, with Apple Music as its first client. (Billboard) It is predicted to unlock ‘hundreds of millions’ of dollars in new music revenue. (IBITimes)
    ISSUE: 11 Mar 2016
    • Over 250 labels are set to release limited edition records for the ninth annual Record Store Day on 16 April. (RotD, BBC)
    • In the US, new stats have emerged revealing the most popular music genre for each state, with EDM taking top spot in just one – Nevada. (EDM.com)
    • New research reveals the “vast economic, cultural and social impact” of live music to the UK city of Bristol in 2015. (RotD) The Buckinghamshire New University and UK Music census showed that 50% of the city’s music venues were affected by development, noise or planning issues, which poses “a huge threat to the future of this vibrant ecosystem”.
    • IMS and Mixmag have launched the Visionaries Contest 2016. (IMS)
    • IFPI has partnered with SoundExchange to create a website that will make it easier to identify sound recordings. (RotD)
    • In the UK, Radio 1 has announced details of their coverage of dance festivals over the summer. (BBC)
    • The National Institute of Drug Abuse recently released the results of their 2015 Monitoring the Future survey. It shows that drug use among teens has been stable or decreased across nearly all substances of abuse. (EDM.com)
    • Just before his sudden and mysterious death early last year, Miami nightlife legend Alex Omes had initiated an uphill legal battle against Ultra Music Festival. Omes sought to regain control of the festival he’d co-founded before being ousted as its president. A judge has ruled in favour of Ultra, citing a lack of official employment contract or binding documentation between the late Omes and the festival’s board. (DancingAstronaut)
    • New network, EDMtv, dedicated exclusively to the genre, will go live on Monday (March 14) via DirectTV. (Billboard, Mixmag)
    • Tickets have been released for IMS Engage in Los Angeles. (IMS) The day of one-on-one conversations between icons of electronic music and leaders of the wider world of film, technology and futurism takes place April 21. 
    • Major Lazer have become one of the first US acts to play in Cuba following the diplomatic thaw. The free public gig took place on Sunday (March 6) at Havana’s Tribuna José Martí event space, near the US Embassy, in front of tens of thousands of people. (Fact)
    ISSUE: 04 Mar 2016
    • A Minnesota record store owner has found over 100,000 LPs in the basement of a disused record store in Big Spring, Texas. (Fact)
    • Canadian festival Hi-Fi Musical Adventure has been cancelled following public comments made by its founder on the Kesha vs Dr Luke trial. (EDM.com)
    • Artists who performed at high-profile live events the Grammy Awards and the Super Bowl saw a spike in sales and streams afterwards, reveals new research by Nielsen. (IQ)
    • Zedd was the latest artist to chime in on the Kesha vs Dr. Luke saga, offering to produce new music on Kesha’s behalf via Twitter. (DancingAstronaut)
    • On March 7 Mixmag will be dedicating their weekly live stream, The Lab, to International Women’s Day. B.Traits and La Fleur take control of The Lab LDN, Gina Turner hits The LAB LA, the Discwoman collective curates The Lab NYC and KLP steps into The Lab SYD. (Mixmag)
    • DJ EZ has completed a 24-hour fundraising set in the name of cancer research, raising nearly £60,000. (DancingAstronaut)
    • Merlin calls foul on streaming rates with Pandora. (Thump)
    • PRS for Music has launched MAPS, a new anti-piracy tool, which will locate unlicensed and infringing content made available online and will then allow users to automatically generate and serve notices to remove the content. It will also allow users to remove links to the content found on Google and elsewhere. (RotD)
    • Deadmau5 and Kanye West have been exchanging jabs in a high-profile Twitter feud over West's alleged illegal downloading of music-making software. (Mixmag)
    • Over 50 music artists from across Europe have come together to sign a letter in support of the International Artist Organisation's campaign for Artists In Europe. (IAO)
    • Ticket reselling sites have defended themselves against accusations that they allow professional touts to profit at the expense of fans. (FT)
    • IMS Ibiza 2016 has announced its first round of speakers for this year's event, including Pet Shop Boys, Carl Cox and Crowdmix CEO Rob Wells, amongst many others. (RadioAndMusic)
    • TomorrowWorld's organisers have announced that the festival will not be taking place in 2016 due to its "current environment." (Mixmag)
    ISSUE: 26 Feb 2016
    • Sales of music tapes are rising so quickly in American that the RIAA is pondering ways to track numbers for the first time since the early 1990s. (Times)
    • A study of 251 venues and 135 festivals in the UK finds the majority fail to provide adequate information for people with disabilities. (Independent)
    • Kaskade is set to be the first dance music headliner at the Los Angeles Convention Centre. The Chicago-native will play a solo headline show there on May 7. (Billboard)
    • In the UK, the BBC has launched BBC Music, an iOS and Android app that acts as a hub for the broadcaster’s music content across TV, radio and online channels. (Fact)
    • More than 15,000 people hit the streets of Sydney to protest the city's lockout laws at the weekend. (Mixmag)
    • Richie Hawtin has collaborated with Andy Ribgy-Jones, Allen & Heath and parent company Audiotonix to launch PLAYdifferently on his Prototypes Tour, a mysterious project that aims to build what its equally evasive website calls  “innovative instruments for the professional DJ.” (Billboard)
    • The Electronic Music Awards Foundation has released its seven award categories and the complementary nominees for each. Reflecting other music-related awards shows, EMAF will honor Single of the Year, Album of the Year, Radio Show of the Year, Festival of the Year, DJ of the Year, Best New Artist and Best Club of the Year. (Mixmag)
    • Electric Daisy Carnival Las Vegas has generated more than $1.3 billion for Clark County's economy over the past five years, according to the festival's 2015 Economic Impact Report. (Billboard)
    ISSUE: 19 Feb 2016
    • Following a recent wave of public discourse regarding the restrictions aimed against Sydney nightlife, known as The Lockout Laws, the group known as Keep Sydney Open has planned and organized a formal protest in Sydney's Belmore Park that is set to take place at noon on February 21. (XLR8R)
    • Acoustic experts claim the path to perfect sonic reproduction is vinyl albums produced at the “half-speed” of 16 2/3 RPM. Six classic albums have been cut for release at Abbey Road Studios using half-speed mastering. (Independent)
    • The world’s #1 ranked house/techno DJ Carl Cox is partnering with UK charity Last Night a DJ Saved My Life to help to bring awareness to the plight of children living in conflict zones around the globe. (EDM.com)
    • Respected and much loved music lawyer and founder at Full + Bless Management Richard Antwi has died aged 38. The cause has not yet been confirmed. (Buzzfeed, Twitter, Voice)
    • DJ & producer Danny Howard will officially launch his dance label, ‘Nothing Else Matters’ with former Radio 1 colleague Nigel Harding and RCA Records today. (RotD)
    • Lucian Grainge tops Billboard’s annual Top 100 Power list.
    • Lucian Grainge notes Universal has all five Album of the Year nominees at the Grammys. (Billboard)
    • Universal and Warner are, unofficially, each claiming 34 Grammy wins from their artists and songwriters, while Sony privately counts 32 wins. A2IM says its member labels' artists were awarded 22 times, but it’s not straightforward for any claimants. (Billboard)
    • With two wins for Jack Ü at the Grammys this year, Skrillex has now dethroned Daft Punk as the electronic artist with the most Grammys. (EDM.com)
    • Diplo and Skrillex did a clean sweep of electronic music categories at this year’s Grammys, winning for both Best Dance Recording and Best Dance/Electronic Album. (Dancing Astronaut)
    ISSUE: 12 Feb 2016
    • A new vinyl subscription service is launching focussed exclusively on disco, house and techno. (VinylFactory)
    • The UK’s PRS For Music has supposedly enlisted the help of Google to help report performance fees for music played in public more accurately. (YourEDM)
    • iHeart Radio Music Awards has added a new Dance Artist of the Year category. (YourEDM)
    • Ukraine club Closer, a well-known Eastern European destination suited for house and techno aficionados, is facing heat by local authorities for alleged drug trafficking. (Dancing Astronaut)
    • Julian Jones and Mike Hawkins have followed Martin Garrix’s lead and parted ways with Spinnin’ Records. (Billboard)
    • Record sales for vinyl in 2015 have led to innovative developments in vinyl-pressing technology. (Dancing Astronaut)
    • The ban on new pub and club licenses in central Sydney is to be extended to February 2017, Resident Advisor reports.
    • Electronic music conference International Music Summit returns with IMS Engage, IMS Ibiza, and expands IMS Asia-Pacific with two-day conference in Shanghai. (RotD)
    ISSUE: 05 Feb 2016
    • A number of electronic music projects have gone on to great success after securing funding on Kickstarter, with these three leading the way. (EDM.com)
    • PlayPass confirms Eastern Electrics as its first 100 percent cashless festival client in the UK. (FestivalInsights)
    • Skrillex is the newest artist to join Beats 1 with a radio programme residency. (Billboard)
    • A new study has suggested that ketamine may be the most effective cure for severe depression. (Mixmag)
    • The year in electronic music with a look at what may lie ahead in 2016, particularly for the UK's clubs. (Quietus)
    • PRS for Music is reportedly working with Google on a project that should make performance fees for music played in public more accurate. (Fact)
    • After being threatened with closure earlier this week, legendary Hamburg club the Golden Pudel has issued an official statement confirming they will remain open. (Mixmag)
    • Juan Atkins has called DJ-ranking website The DJ List racist for not including more black DJs in its top 100. (Thump)
    • A US Department of Commerce report makes conclusions on three important copyright topics in the digital age: the legal framework for the creation of remixes; the relevance and scope of the “first sale doctrine”; and the appropriate calibration of statutory damages in the contexts of individual file sharers and secondary liability for large-scale infringement. (USPTO)
    • Atlanta-based EDM festival TomorrowWorld may not return in 2016 after the bankruptcy of its parent company, SFX Entertainment. (Fact)
    ISSUE: 29 Jan 2016
    • Neil Warnock, Head Of Music Worldwide at United Talent Agency; Gao Xiaosong, Chairman of China’s Alibaba Music Group; and Music Supervisor at Saturday Music, Mary Ramos, are to be keynote names at music industry conference Midem in Cannes this June. (Midem)
    • "I believe MDMA has an important role to play in the healing of our country" - Emanuel Sferios on reversing drug stigmas. (EDM.com)
    • A group of Australian festival-goers were given criminal records over minor drug offences after their pleas for leniency were rejected by a Sydney magistrate. (Mixmag)
    • 15 people have been indicted for their roles in the 2012 Madrid Arena catastrophe that killed five women. (Thump)
    • Australian radio station Triple J has revealed the results of its annual Hottest 100 list, featuring the likes of Major Lazer, Disclosure and The Weeknd in the top 10. (DancingAstronaut)
    • One of the UK's electronic music conferences, Brighton Music Conference (BMC), has announced the first speakers and talks for the 2016 event. (RotD)
    • Pete Tong and Richie Hawtin have officially brought the much-acclaimed Essential Mix series to the US. (Thump)
    • The Sunday Times' list of Britain’s 500 most influential people includes dance-related names, amongst them Annie Mac (BBCRadio1), Calvin Harris and Jamie xx. (Sunday Times)
    • Chris Price is to be the new Head Of Music for BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra, replacing George Ergatoudis who is moving to Spotify shortly. (RotD)
    ISSUE: 22 Jan 2016
    • An Australian woman has urged her fellow citizens to support pill testing following the death of her son at a music festival. (YourEDM)
    • Official warnings have been issued about a “dodgy” batch of ecstasy pills in Scotland that are reportedly blue, oval-shaped and larger than usual. (Mixmag)
    • Ultra Singapore 2016 signs viagogo as the official ticketing provider. (RotD)
    • A study has suggested that regulators need to ensure music videos show warnings when they have alcohol and tobacco references. (Billboard)
    • EU governments don’t have to impose a levy on blank media to compensate copyright holders for losses from private copies, the European Court of Justice has decreed. It paves the way for the UK to “legalise home taping” without imposing a levy on gadgets or media - after its earlier attempt to introduce the copying exception was ruled unlawful last July. (Register)
    • For the first time in history, “old” music is outselling new artist releases. (Thump)
    • Sydney-based dance label Hussle Recordings has announced a new ‘strategic partnership’ with Universal Music Sweden. (MBW)
    • Forbes' list of the 30 most influential Europeans in entertainment includes Avicii, Afrojack and DJ Snake. (Mirror)
    • The Night Time Industries Association have launched a new campaign to save Britain's venues. (Thump)
    ISSUE: 15 Jan 2016
    • The Tokyo nightclub WOMB, which is widely recognised as being one of Asia’s most iconic electronic music destinations, has announced the start of its very own music label, entitled Session WOMB. (XLR8R)
    • Last week, Major Lazer and DJ Snake's MØ-assisted clip for Lean On became the 14th music video to hit one billion views on YouTube. (Billboard)
    • Aphex Twin nominated for Best British Male in the UK's BRIT Awards. (Clash)
    • Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE) will be held 19-23 October. (RotD)
    • Major Lazer have become the first major US dance act to play Cuba since the US reinstated diplomatic relations in 2014. (Mixmag)
    ISSUE: 08 Jan 2016
    • Copyright holders asked Google to remove more than 560m allegedly infringing links from its search engine in 2015, an increase of 60% compared to 2014. (TorrentFreak)
    • Potentially lethal 'Lion' pills are said to be in circulation in the UK, with two deaths on Boxing Day and five hospitalisations across New Year being linked to the drug. (Mixmag)
    • Spotify UK has launched a monthly ‘In Residence’ show hosted by Rob da Bank. (RotD)
    • Nielsen Music's 2015 end-of-year figures for the US show overall album sales, physical and digital combined, declined by 6%. Without Adele's 25, album sales would have dropped by 9%. There was a 93% lift in on-demand streams. Digital album sales fell by 3%. Digital song download sales fell by 12% to 965.7m. 61 songs sold at least a million downloads, down from 82 in 2014 and 106 in 2013. Vinyl album sales were up by 30% to 11.9m. (Billboard, NYTimes)
    • Global communication tool Chew – marketed as “Twitch for DJs” – have announced that they are opening up the company to investment from their global community of DJs. (DataTransmission)
    • Goldie has been awarded an MBE in the UK's 2016 New Year's Honours list. (Resident Advisor) 
    • Artists and government promise tougher times for UK ticket touts. (FT)
    • Jersey-born musician Guru Josh, the man behind hit single Infinity, has died at the age of 51. (Mixmag)
    ISSUE: 18 Dec 2015
    • Today's edition is the last Industry Insider of 2015. It will return on January 8 2016.
    • DJ Magazine's Best Of British award winners announced. (RotD)
    • Musicians vs. gun violence: Deadmau5 and more voice their thoughts. (EDM.com)
    • Mixmag's club of the year announced as Razmattazz in Barcelona, Spain.
    • Diplo has been named as the most Shazamed artist of 2015. (Billboard)
    • Online record marketplace Discogs has rededicated its efforts to its VinylHub record store directory. (ResidentAdvisor)
    • Richard Branson is making a major push for Australia to decriminalise drugs. (Mixmag)
    • Australian nightclub owner, Murat Kilic, has slammed the draconian lockout laws that are killing the city's nightlife in a keynote speech at the IMS Asia-Pacific 2015 conference. (Pedestrian.TV)
    • City Councillor Anne Moran of Adelaide, South Australia has just called for a ban on EDM events during extreme heat. (EDM.com)
    • London nightclub Fabric has released a statement following a court ruling that it needn't use sniffer dogs and ID scanners, as previously proposed. (RA)
    • Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE), is taking its global touring platform to Mumbai, India from April 7-10 2016. (RotD)
    • Kaskade and the electronic dance music industry talk growth, challenges in Asia-Pacific. (Forbes)
    • Dance music 'grows' faster than any other genre, according to the British Phonographic Industry (BPI). (BBC)
    ISSUE: 11 Dec 2015
    • DJ Mag has announced that voting opens for the 2016 edition of the annual Top 100 Clubs Poll. (RotD)
    • Autechre's webshop for selling exclusive live recordings is now open to the public. (Thump)
    • Ministry of Sound and WOMAD festival are to use ticketing platform Eventbrite. (RotD)
    • In other Stereosonic news, three police officers tested positive for ecstasy and meth at the festival. (Mixmag)
    • A second person has died from drug-related complications at Australian festival Stereosonic. (Mixmag)
    • South east London’s pool hall-turned-club space Canavan’s has become the latest venue in the area to come under threat from property developers. (Fact)
    • Cr2 Records' Sample Tools is now open for memberships. (Mixmag)
    • Dixon tops Resident Advisor's top DJs of 2015 for the third year running while KiNK is voted best live act of the year. (RA, RA) 
    • Mintel research shows that music fans in the UK have spent £2.1bn this year on concerts and festivals. Spending on shows is up 45% on 2010. (Mirror)
    • Adele‘s hit song Hello has placed No.1 on the Billboard Dance/Mix Show Airplay chart. (YourEDM)
    • The nominations for the 58th annual Grammy awards ceremony have been announced, with Caribou, The Chemical Brothers, Jamie xx and Flying Lotus amongst the nominees. (XLR8R)
    • According to a new report, Facebook is partnering directly with venues, artists and promoters to sell concert tickets. (Billboard)
    ISSUE: 04 Dec 2015
    • An ER doctor in Australia is pushing for pill testing at festivals following last weekend’s death at Stereosonic. (YourEDM)
    • A 25-year-old woman died during the opening leg of Stereosonic in Sydney, Australia at the weekend, reportedly from drug-related complications. (Mixmag)
    • DJ Mag has announced the nominations for the 2015 Best Of British awards. (RotD)
    • Holly Herndon is building a crowd-sourced database of sound based on the internet. (Thump)
    • Steve Angello has been inducted into the elite BBC Radio 1 Hall of Fame. (Dancing Astronaut)
    • Mixmag and Smirnoff Sound Collective's weekly live stream The Lab launches in Sydney with Basenji. (Mixmag)
    • IMS Asia-Pacific announces schedule. (IMS)
    • Creative industries contributed $2.25 trillion to the global economy, but the creators behind the boom are not properly compensated, according to an in-depth report presented by global rights group CISAC. (Billboard)
    • Steve Lawler is the subject of a new dance music documentary, The Art Of The DJ, which uncovers what happened when dance music became a global business and what happens when DJs achieve what they've worked for. (RA) It's available to stream via Vimeo.
    ISSUE: 27 Nov 2015
    • Skrillex, Diplo and Calvin Harris all won big at this year’s AMAs. (Billboard)
    • Music and sports fans have lost more than £1.2m to ticket fraud in the last six months, police figures have revealed. (BBC) One consultant suggested the true cost of ticket fraud was "without a doubt" in the tens of millions.
    • Eric Prydz has won Reddit’s Top 100 DJs poll. (Dancing Astronaut)
    • Armin Van Buuren announced for keynote interview at IMS Asia-Pacific. (IMS)
    ISSUE: 20 Nov 2015
    • Dimitri Hegemann, the founder of Germany’s club/label Tresor, has announced that he has started in raising the funds for a techno museum in Berlin. (XLR8R)
    • An investigation has been launched into the death of a woman who went overboard on a Mad Decent Boat Party. (Billboard)
    • Live Nation has vowed to increase security at its venues following the terror attacks in Paris. (Fact)
    • IMS Asia-Pacific has revealed the first line-up of speakers for 2015. (Pulse)
    ISSUE: 13 Nov 2015
    • Romanians are protesting for justice after the horrific nightclub fire of last week. (EDM.com)
    • Last year The Recording Industry Association of America reported LP sales of 14m in the USA. Things are only looking up in 2015 with H1 sales already clocking in at 9m. (Fact)
    • Queensland is set to face the brunt of Australia’s toughest drinking laws, with last drinks being served at 2am if the government has its way. (Mixmag)
    • The Drug Policy Alliance and Electronic Music Alliance have issued a list of answers to commonly asked questions regarding MDMA. (EDM.com)
    • UK electronic music conference, Brighton Music Conference (BMC), has confirmed its 2016 two-day event will take place at the Brighton Dome 14-15 April. (RotD)
    • IMS readies to announce speakers and topics one month ahead of IMS Asia-Pacific. (IMS)
    • The musician behind The Amen Break, one of the most-sampled pieces of music in history, has finally been rewarded for his work. (BBC, Thump) A crowdfunding campaign raised £24,000.
    • Having announced his departure from Spinnin’ Records and its management leg MusicAllStars back in August, reports now suggest that Martin Garrix plans to take Spinnin’ founder and ex-manager Eelko Van Kooten to court surrounding matters that led to the termination of their professional relationship this year. (Dancing Astronaut)
    • SFX CEO Robert Sillerman has been hit with a lawsuit over alleged "misleading statements" and "possible violations of federal securities laws" in his attempts to re-privatise the company. (Mixmag)
    ISSUE: 06 Nov 2015
    • Partygoers in London were involved in clashes with police at an illegal Halloween rave this past weekend. (Mixmag)
    • Yahoo! have officially pulled the plug on Simon Cowell’s Ultimate DJ TV show. (Thump)
    • The latest UK radio Rajar figures show Annie Mac's Radio 1 audience now stands at 1.74m, some 110,000 higher than Zane Lowe’s during his last audited quarter fronting the programme in 2014. (Independent, EDM.com)
    • SFX Entertainment has appointed Life in Colour’s Sebastian Solano as the new CEO of ID&T North America / Made Event. (Billboard)
    ISSUE: 30 Oct 2015
    • A new online archive called Many Many Women is dedicated to female musicians actively working in the fields of avant-garde music. (Thump)
    • Earlier this year, San Diego’s Thrift Trader vinyl store collapsed due to the weight of vinyl records. Now, with the building set to be demolished, the store is having a closing sale. (Fact)
    • A new online radio station, Radio Quantica, is launching to highlight the new wave of talent from Portugal and lusophone countries. (Fact)
    • Ibiza president Vincent Torres and the city’s five mayors settled on an agreement last week that the island’s new club closing time will be 6:30am, posing a threat to venues like Space, Pacha, Amnesia and DC-10. (Resident Advisor)
    • HARD Events has announced that it will offer comp tickets and credentials to "qualifying media" for events such as HARD Day of the Dead in California following a previously reported "media blackout". (Billboard)
    • Carl Cox has announced the reasoning behind his decision to end his 15-year residency at Space Ibiza. (Dancing Astronaut)
    • UK Government Minister encourages music venues to apply for funding. (Mixmag)
    • BBC Radio 1 Dance Anthems presenter Danny Howard and former Radio 1 executive Nigel Harding have launched Nothing Else Matters Records in partnership with RCA UK. (RotD) The wider Nothing Else Matters brand “will focus on releasing tracks, curating events and representing dance and electronic music as the lifestyle we all live and breathe."
    ISSUE: 23 Oct 2015
    • Officials respond to misinformed claims that ecstasy is legal at ADE. (EDM.com)
    • An official report from the Medical Examiner’s Office has revealed that the cause of death a 22 year-old attendee at TommorowWorld was “acute toxic effects of MDMA”. (YourEDM)
    • Diplo & Sleepy Tom's track Be Right There is the new Shazam UK No.1 this week. (Shazam)
    • After taking their pop-up record shop to New York this summer, Jamie xx and label Young Turks have opened a London branch of Good Times. (Fact)
    • Crowdfunded vinyl re-pressing service Beat Delete will be shutting its doors after a recent decrease in orders. (Dancing Astronaut)
    • Calvin Harris earned $66m this year. (YourEDM)
    • Data published by the Intellectual Property Office shows that 1.3bn files were accessed illegally online last year. From March to May 2015, pirate files accounted for 28% of all music consumed online. (Billboard)
    • Abbey Road in London is launching Europe’s first incubation programme focused exclusively on music technology start-ups. (FT) Abbey Road Red plans to host three start-ups every six months and take an equity stake of 1 or 2%.
    • A recent Ticketmaster report has revealed that dance music festivals in the UK have increased by 500% in 15 years. (Mixmag)
    • The Better Online Ticket Sales Act aims to ban scalper bots from ticketing sites. (EDM.com)
    • Ultra Music’s Patrick Moxey recently spoke to Billboard about the positive sides of EDM’s movement into mainstream consciousness. (Billboard)
    • Badges are now on sale for IMS Asia-Pacific, set to take place December 11 at the W Hotel Sentosa-Cove, Singapore. (IMS)
    • Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike's management have responded to allegations about the duo employing a team to canvas DJ Mag Top 100 votes at Tomorrowland. (YourEDM) In her statement, Debby Wilmsen admits to engaging in promotional campaigns to secure their votes, but says that it was ultimately their status as artists that won them first place.
    • Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike have won DJ Mag’s Top 100 DJ Poll. (Billboard)
    • After the problems at this year's TomorrowWorld, SFX issued a full refund for some ticket holders instead of the intended third and then subsequently charged them again for the over-refund. (HypeBot)
    ISSUE: 16 Oct 2015
    • Basic Channel-founder and techno innovator Moritz von Oswald has put his mixing board up for auction on eBay. (Fact)
    • A 23-year old woman has died from suffocation at a Skrillex show in Gurgaon, India. It has been reported that the venue was at nearly double capacity at the time. (Thump)
    • Martin Garrix has been announced as a co-host of the MTV European Music Awards alongside Ed Sheeran and Ruby Rose. (YourEDM)
    • At Vanity Fair’s recent New Establishment Summit, Beats 1 executive Jimmy Iovine stated that he was “scared” for the future of music. (Dancing Astronaut)
    • The 2015 edition of the American Music Awards have announced the nominations for Favourite EDM Artist, featuring the likes of Calvin Harris, David Guetta and Zedd. (YourEDM)
    • Synth veteran Charles Cohen, considered a pioneer of the rare and unique Buchla Music Easel synthesizer, has been charged in a child sex case. (Fact)
    • Amsterdam authorities have announced that it will be legal to carry five or less ecstasy pills on your person at this year’s ADE. (Thump)
    • Aphex Twin's Syro and Jamie xx's In Colour are amongst the shortlisted nominees for the UK's Mercury Prize.
    • Traxsource will return any owed money, that may have been held by a third-party, to artists and labels it's worked with since its launch. (Mixmag)
    • A study by Ticketmaster has shown that 16% of the British public attended a dance music event in the last three years whilst the genre ties with pop as attendees' favourite. (RotD) Fabric is named the UK's favourite dance venue. 
    ISSUE: 09 Oct 2015
    • Young DJs are currently taking the world by storm, with a 14-year-old set to play at ADE (Dancing Astronaut) and this 3-year-old through to the semi-finals of South Africa’s Got Talent. (Dancing Astronaut)
    • Fabric are auctioning off the dress Seth Troxler wore to the legendary London club’s 14th anniversary event. (Resident Advisor)
    • 40 DJs banded together at this year’s iScratch event in Tokyo to break the record for the world’s biggest scratch session. (Fact)
    • Hacienda DJ and Manchester mainstay Dave Haslam is selling his collection of over 4,000 vinyl. (Fact)
    • Dutch health officials are warning of a particularly strong ecstasy pills that are likely to be doing the rounds at this year’s ADE. (Mixmag)
    • Disclosure’s Caracal beat New Order to the top of the UK Album Charts this past week, giving the duo their second number one album. (Mixmag)
    • In an effort encourage volunteer work within the dance community, Seth Troxler is planning to cook a three-course lunch for the homeless at this year’s ADE. (Thump)
    • IMS Conference launched in China last weekend, alongside Storm dance festival with Skrillex and Flo Rida. (Billboard)
    • Following the death of a 22-year-old at TomorrowWorld, the drug concerns around EDM events seem far from resolved as drug safety advocates work to repeal the RAVE act. (Dancing Astronaut)
    • Nick Clegg, leader of the Liberal Democrat party in the UK, has called for global drugs policy to be reformed. (Mixmag)
    ISSUE: 02 Oct 2015
    • Homeland actress and big-time movie star Claire Danes went on US TV show Ellen to talk about her love for Berlin's most infamous clubbing spot, Berghain. (Mixmag)
    • Syrian artist Omar Souleyman has announced a new run of shows, looking to raise funds for refugees fleeing his home country. (Mixmag)
    • Steve Albini vented his hatred of club culture in an email response to XL Recordings artist Powell, who had enquired about using a sample from one of Albini’s tracks. Powell’s response? Put the entire email on a prominent billboard in East London. (Thump)
    • Protests took place outside of London nightclub DSTRKT after punters were reportedly turned away for being “overweight” and “too dark”. (Thump)
    • Australia's Listen Out has promised to be "a lot louder" next year after the volume at the festival's Melbourne leg was criticised heavily on the weekend. (Mixmag)
    • A new exhibition about the rise of techno in Berlin is set to open in east London next month. (Fact)
    • Zedd has voiced his thoughts on age restrictions at EDM events. (Your EDM)
    • TommorowWorld’s well-documented failures have taken their toll on SFX Entertainment’s already plummeting share prices. (Billboard)
    • New videos have surfaced of the deplorable situation fans were left in following TommorowWorld’s cancellation. (Your EDM)
    • Marijus Adomaitis (aka Ten Walls) has come out with a new public apology for his homophobic rant earlier in the year, delivered exclusively to DJ Mag via email. (XLR8R)
    • The first edition of electronic music industry conference Take Note has been announced to take place on November 21, 2015 in East London. (Mixmag)
    • IMS China closes memorable inaugural event. Paul Oakenfold, Eric Zho, Greg Consiglio of Beatport and more share invaluable insight for the future of China's electronic music scene. (IMS)
    ISSUE: 25 Sep 2015
    • A man has died after falling from a statue at Paris music festival Techno Parade over the weekend. (Your EDM)
    • YouTuber Lohanthony’s personally curated album Landscapes: A Music Compilation has debuted at No. 3 on the Top Dance/Electronic Albums chart. (Billboard)
    • Take Note conference comes to London. (Pulse)
    • Could techno be used to treat Parkinson’s disease? New research from LIVELab has turned up some intriguing findings. (Thump)
    • Artists on the Collect roster have spoken out after discovering that their label is owned by venture capitalist Martin Shrekli, who recently gained notoriety for hiking the price of an HIV drug from $13.50 to $750 per pill. (Fact)
    • In the UK, albums sold at gigs will now count towards the Official Albums Chart. (Fact)
    • A leaked email from EDM.com has revealed just how prevalent artists paying for editorial coverage and social media promotion has become. (Thump)
    • Manager Amy Thomson responds to the story about why she and Axwell & Ingrosso went their separate ways. (Billboard)
    ISSUE: 18 Sep 2015
    • America’s newest vinyl pressing company, Independent Record Pressing, plan to build their business by serving smaller labels that have been shut out due to the pressing demands of major labels. (Fact)
    • Thousands took to the streets of Sydney to protest the city’s lockout laws, which prevent people from entering a new venue after 1:30am. (Dancing Astronaut)
    • The first labels signed up for the inaugural Independent Label Week have been announced. (RotD) The annual celebration of independent record labels worldwide will be held in November and aims to encourage audience engagement with their local independent labels, and also to learn more about labels outside of their hometowns.
    • IMS China announces full speaker list and schedule for the inaugural summit on October 2nd in Shanghai. (IMS) Panelists include President of Entertainment at Fosun Group, Maggie Huang, Above & Beyond Artist Manager James Grant, Artist Manager for Tiesto Andrew Goldstone and many others.
    • SFX Entertainment is reportedly being sued by investors following claims that they were misled by CEO Robert F.X Sillerman. (Mixmag)
    • Axwell & Ingrosso have left longtime manager Amy Thomson's ATM Artists and plan to pact with longtime friend Ash Pournouri's At Night Management. (Billboard)
    ISSUE: 11 Sep 2015
    • A death from Backwoods Music Festival last weekend is now being investigated as a possible homicide by Oklahoma police. (Your EDM)
    • Dubai is planning to host its own EDM conference in February 2016. (Dancing Astronaut)
    • New FBI documents obtained by MuckRock have revealed that the US government agency has been tracking activities at Burning Man Festival for the past five years. (Dancing Astronaut)
    • Los Angeles county is to create an 'electronic music task force' to explore ways to make festivals safer, but will also consider banning EDM festivals altogether. (Rolling Stone)
    • Major Lazer’s Lean On is officially the most streamed song of the summer. (Your EDM)
    • 2 Many DJs will launch a new label, Deewee, later this month. (Thump)
    • New laws put in place by the European Union mean Discogs sellers will now have to pay VAT at their local rates on all sales made through the site. (Fact)
    • FKA Twigs and Flying Lotus were amongst the winners at the UK's AIM Awards. (Mixmag)
    • Legendary British DJ Colin Faver has passed away at the age of 63. (Dancing Astronaut)
    ISSUE: 04 Sep 2015
    • Los Angeles ER doctors want to put a ban on all county-wide dance music events due to the damaging effects of drug-use associated with EDM festivals. (Dancing Astronaut)
    • Calvin Harris finally landed his first No. 1 single in Australia. (Billboard)
    • The death of a festival-goer at June’s Paradiso Festival was caused by ecstasy poisoning, it has been revealed. (Your EDM)
    • New laws put in place by the European Union mean Discogs sellers will now have to pay VAT at their local rates on all sales made through the site. (Fact)
    • Lawsuits against SoundCloud are growing, with BASCA now announcing they’ll be taking legal action against the company. (Dancing Astronaut)
    • EMI Production Music is declaring a six-month amnesty of all sampling declarations (past and present) from its extensive back catalogue (RotD, Billboard) Anyone coming forward and declaring previously uncleared samples from the Sony/ATV Music Publishing-owned library will be given the opportunity to enter into a licence for future use without the fear of a royalty back claim.
    ISSUE: 28 Aug 2015
    • Women are using social media to help increase awareness and understanding of the growing problem of rape in nightlife. (Thump)
    • Sony Music has signed onto Artist Growth's cloud-based tool for web and mobile that allows touring artists to track finances, merchandise and royalties. (Billboard)
    • The owner of file-sharing site RockDizFile has is the latest to plead guilty to copyright infringement. (Dancing Astronaut)
    • Forbes have listed Calvin Harris as the world's richest DJ, reporting him to be worth £41.8m.
    • PRS for Music begins legal action against SoundCloud. (RotD)
    ISSUE: 21 Aug 2015
    • Major Lazer are No.1 on the latest Shazam worldwide Top 100.
    • A 15-year-old girl died at Zoo-Tronic in Fresno, California this weekend in a suspected drug-related incident. (Your EDM)
    • A new study has uncovered that music can eliminate the need to take painkillers. (Dancing Astronaut)
    • The All Party Parliamentary Group for Drug Policy Reform have stated that drug taking should be a human right. (Mixmag)
    • Legal experts and activists are protesting a UK Government proposal to increase the maximum jail term for online piracy from two to 10 years. (TorrentFreak)
    • The UK Government is working with the UK music industry, BBFC and digital service providers like Vevo and YouTube to take further action to protect children from viewing inappropriate videos on the internet. (RotD, Fact)
    ISSUE: 14 Aug 2015
    • A crowdfunding campaign has been started in an attempt to stop Burning Man attendees from returning to the San Francisco Bay Area. (Deep House Amsterdam)
    • LA’s HARD Summer Music Festival has addressed the deaths of two teenagers at the festival last weekend. (Your EDM)
    • A UK teen has shared a photo of himself in a medically-induced coma after taking an array of ecstasy tablets at a music festival. (Your EDM)
    • Drug experts are pushing to legalise MDMA in Australia. (Deep House Amsterdam)
    • Insomniac founder Pasquale Rotella has voiced his concerns on LA’s pending rave ban. (Dancing Astronaut)
    • Chief Executive of Ministry of Sound, Lohan Presencer says tuition fees are among several factors that led to decline of UK nightclubs. (Independent)
    • According to industry figures, the UK has last almost half of its nightclubs in the past 10 years. (Fact)
    • Beatport has confirmed it will pay labels the money that was "trapped" while parent company SFX was in a "going private" process. (Billboard) In a statement CEO Robert F.X. Sillerman apologised for the "inexcusable" way the situation was handled.
    ISSUE: 07 Aug 2015
    • In the UK, following the Chemical Brothers' new No.1 album Burn In Echoes last Friday, they now claim the most No.1 studio albums for a dance act in Official Chart history. (OCC)
    • Two teenage girls died of suspected drug overdoses at last weekend’s HARD Festival in Los Angeles. (Dancing Astronaut)
    • Instagram has banned the #EDM hashtag. (Fact)
    • Los Angeles County is contemplating a ban on raves due to concerns about illicit drug use and unsafe environments. (Fact)
    • After two drug-related deaths on the opening night of Hard Summer music festival at the Fairplex in Pomona this weekend, festival organisers, city officials and dance music fans continue to debate the best ways to prevent such tragedies. (LA Times)
    • Ben Bowler and Valerie Lee named as IMS Visionaries competition winners for young industry leaders. (RotD)
    • IMS Ibiza has released a limited amount of super early bird badges for 2016, a great saving if you buy now. (International Music Summit)
    • Insomniac, one of the leading EDM events brands, has generated over $3bn for the US economy in the last five years. (Dancing Astronaut)
    • Wired magazine's list of the 100 most influential people in the digital world across Europe includes Daniel Ek of Spotify at 9, Oliver Schusser of Apple at 39 and Alexander Llung and Eric Wahlforss of Soundcloud at 100.
    ISSUE: 31 Jul 2015
    • A Spanish businessman is trying to secure the rights to the Ibiza Shore name in an attempt to stop the planned MTV show from going ahead. (Mixmag)
    • Nile Rodgers has connected with RobHallett and Robomagic Live to promote his brand new FOLD Festival, taking place Long Island NY. (RotD)
    • Photos emerged over the weekend of popular Las Vegas venue The Cosmopolitan engulfed in smoke and flames. (Dancing Astronaut)
    • The BBC have released David Guetta: Made In Ibiza, a documentary about the French artist. (Mixmag)
    • Pete Tong defends Radio 1's 'Ibiza Prom' of ibiza classics live from Royal Albert Hall. (BBC)
    • Dutch anti-piracy outfit BREIN has published details of its operations in the first half of 2015, including pressuring local web hosts to take down 128 file-sharing sites. (TorrentFreak)
    ISSUE: 24 Jul 2015
    • A new study on festival wristbands has revealed some serious hygiene concerns. (Deep House Amsterdam)
    • Copying music for private use is once again illegal in the UK. (Fact)
    • Grooveshark co-founder Josh Greenberg has been found dead at his Florida home at the age of 28. (Deep House Amsterdam)
    • London record store Vinyl Pimp recently stumbled upon a collection of 24,000 records charting the evolution of dance music between 1983 and 1993. (Fact)
    • The island of Ibiza is looking to stop a forthcoming MTV Jersey Shore spinoff titled Ibiza Shore from becoming a reality. (Dancing Astronaut)
    • More than 14.7m millennials (18-34-year-olds) attend at least one music festival ever year. And with $1.34bn spent on live music and festival sponsorships in 2014 alone, they’re more receptive than ever to marketing - albeit done the right way. (Billboard)
    • An artist invited by One Direction to remix one of their tracks as part of a competition has been hit with copyright infringement complaints after it was uploaded to Soundcloud. (TorrentFreak)
    • Berlin-based record label 50Weapons is set to close its doors for good. (XLR8R) Benjamin Damage’s new album Obsidian, to be released on 25 September, will be the last from the label
    • Australian MPs want the country to decriminalise drug use. (Mixmag)
    • Electronic pioneer Dieter Moebius has passed away at the age of 71. (Thump)
    ISSUE: 16 Jul 2015
    • Annie Nightingale is amongst the celebrities to have signed a letter to David Cameron demanding he protects the BBC. (Mirror)
    • Deadmau5 has accused Parisian producer Zimmer of plagiarising one of his most popular tracks. (Deep House Amsterdam)
    • David Zowie debuted at the top of the UK Official Singles Chart on Friday, the first chart on the new Global Release Day. (OCC)
    • Ninja Tune founders Matt Black and Jonathan More (aka Coldcut) and label manager Peter Quicke will receive the Innovator Award at the AIM Independent Music Awards on 8 September. (RotD)
    • DontSample.Me has unveiled a list of major label artists currently issuing take down notices. (Fact)
    • The BBC has implemented a new policy that will prevent electronic artists such as Skrillex and Chase & Status from being played in the UK. (Your EDM)
    • Japanese producer and composer Susumu Yokota has passed away at the age of 54. (Resident Advisor)
    • IMS China badges and hotels now on sale.
    • Powerful documentary about female DJs, Girl, launches Indiegogo campaign to help clear music – with support from Paul Oakenfold.
    • Richie Hawtin receives an honorary doctorate of the University Of Huddersfield for outstanding contribution to the world of music-technology. (RotD)
    ISSUE: 10 Jul 2015
    • Much-loved New York nightlife promoter Rob Fernandez reportedly dead. (Mixmag)
    • While Facebook will expand its trial to music videos soon, the social network is also planning to follow that with the launch of an audio music-streaming service, MusicAlly reveals. Rollout is expected to happen in the next few months.
    • Paul Van Dyk’s new album has been banned by Arab States for its Israeli collaborations. (Mixmag)
    • Finnish music fans are now eligible for gig refunds, so long as the general consensus agree that the concert was sub-standard. (Dancing Astronaut)
    • These experts think you should be able to buy MDMA over-the-counter. (Pulse)
    ISSUE: 03 Jul 2015
    • The Association of Independent Festivals (AIF) has announced its annual event, The Festival Congress, will return to Cardiff in November. (RotD)
    • Lost Frequencies is No.1 on Shazam's Top 100 chart for a third week.
    • A bill aimed at curbing the use of “legal highs” could end up damaging medical research, senior scientists have warned. (Times)
    • From London to Glasgow, clubs and venues are closing as licensing rules get tougher, leaving their owners furious. Have the authorities got carried away? John Harris reports. (Guardian)
    • An Atlantic City EDM event was forced to shut down due to inclement weather. (Press of Atlantic City)
    • DJ Awards announces 2015 nominees. (Pulse Radio)
    • Forbes has revealed its list of the highest paid celebrities of 2015, with Calvin Harris, David Guetta and Tiesto leading the way for dance artists. (Your EDM)
    • Helena Hauff will be launching her own label called Return To Disorder, stating it will bridge the gap between psych-rock and techno. (Data Transmission)
    • Disclosure and Flume are throwing a Wild Life party in Ibiza's Dalt Vila. (Your EDM)
    • Australia’s notoriously strict nightclub limitations are about to get even worse with a new breathalyser law. (Dancing Astrronaut)
    ISSUE: 26 Jun 2015
    • Deadmau5 has come to an agreement with Disney over his registration of a caricature of a mouse head with black ears, black face, white eyes and white mouth. (Hollywood Reporter)
    • EDM tastemakers gathered at EDMBiz to discuss exactly what makes a hit radio record in the modern digital climate. (Billboard)
    • The new Galantis album took the top spot on this week’s Billboard Top Dance/Electronic Albums chart. (Dancing Astronaut)
    • Armin van Buuren recently divulged the realities of his profit/loss margin for some of his highest-paying gigs. (Bloomberg)
    • David Guetta has become the first artist to reach a spectacular two billion streams on Spotify. (Your EDM)
    • Ahead of London's highly anticipated 24-hour tube service opening, recently published data has revealed that the UK's nightlife industry is worth a reported £66 billion. (Resident Advisor)
    • Disclosure are among acts said to be hosting shows on Apple's forthcoming Beats 1. (NYTimes)
    ISSUE: 19 Jun 2015
    • Drug use, dance music and sweltering heat addressed at EDM Biz panel, just ahead of Electric Daisy. (Billboard)
    • Video: Drug use at EDC topic of dance music panel. (Review Journal)
    • 'What is radio's future role?:' tastemakers discuss listening trends at EDMbiz panel. (Billboard)
    • Billboard's Top 30 EDM Power Players. (Billboard)
    • Carl Loben has been announced as the new Editor of DJMag.
    • Japan has officially eased its infamous “no-dancing” legislation. (Resident Advisor)
    • Legendary D&B label Renegade Hardware will bring the curtain down on its club events and record label at the end of the year. (Thump)
    • UK-based promoter Sound Channel have bought an island in Croatia, with the sole purpose of hosting festivals and parties. (Thump)
    • Arca and Evian Christ had a friendly but passionate Twitter exchange over excessive branding in live performances. (FACT)
    • A brand new film about France's electronic music scene in the 1990s, EDEN, will hit theatres on 24th July. (DJ Mag)
    • Jamie xx’s new album In Colours debuted at number one on Billboard’s Top Dance/Electronic albums chart this week. (Dancing Astronaut)
    • Sonos Chief Executive John MacFarlane is confident Apple Music will come to Sonos when it is ready to enter the home. (Telegraph - Sophie Curtis)
    • Propellerhead—the company behind Reason, ReBirth, Figure and Take—has announced a new platform that will allow users to easily collaborate and work on music together. (XLR8R)
    ISSUE: 12 Jun 2015
    • Glasgow venue The Arches is entering administration. (Resident Advisor)
    • Eli & Fur launch the first artist partnership with Beatport. (RotD)
    • Holy Ship! has been spying on its fans via Facebook, blacklisting anyone who referenced drugs in online posts and banning them from future events. (Magnetic Mag)
    • There’s a new movement in the U.S. pushing for ‘sober raving’, hoping to banish the image of dance festivals as drug-fueled frenzies. (Deep House Amsterdam)
    • EDMbiz 2015 announces final program. (Billboard)
    • Jack U’s collaboration with Justin Bieber shot into Billboard’s Streaming Chart at No.10 this week. (Your EDM) 
    ISSUE: 05 Jun 2015
    ISSUE: 28 May 2015
    • Joan Riba, who has spent two decades as a resident DJ at Pacha in Ibiza, has won one of four city council seats for a fledgling left-leaning political movement, Guanyem. (Independent)
    • MDMA assisted therapy sessions have been given the green light in San Francisco. (Mixmag)
    • A video round-up of the highlights from Day 1 and 2 of IMS Ibiza. (DataTransmission) (DataTransmission)
    • Simon Cowell plans to attract the “most edgy” artists to his Ultimate DJ show, set to debut in Spring 2016. (Mixmag)
    • Converse are giving artists of all genres the chance to work at some of the world’s most iconic recording studios. (Forbes)
    ISSUE: 22 May 2015
    • All of Starbucks’ 150,000 US employees have received a complimentary Spotify Premium subscription to prepare for a planned autumn in-store music programme that will give customers access to exclusive playlists and the opportunity to play their own favourite tracks in-store. (RotD, Billboard)
    • Martin Garrix is the latest artist to have his own tracks taken down by SoundCloud after his collaboration with Usher disappeared for no reason. The track has now reappeared. (YourEDM)
    • Giorgio Moroder is collaborating with Novation on a new limited edition synth called the MoroderNova. (xlr8r)
    • Spotify’s contract with Sony Music, signed in 2011, has been leaked. The agreement included a Most Favored Nation Clause and required Spotify to pay Sony up to $42.5m in advances over a maximum three year term. Sony was given $9m in ad space that it was entitled to resell for profit. $15m in discounted ads were also available for Sony to purchase. (Verge)
    • The world’s first-ever ecstasy shop has opened in Amsterdam (of course). (Mixmag)
    • The AQA Exam Board is calling for DJ’ing to be included as part of GCSE Music courses. (Mixmag)
    • Steve Aoki is being sued for breaking a fan’s neck after jumping onto a raft in the crowd during a show in San Diego in 2012. (Mixmag)
    • Calvin Harris took home the award for Best Electronic Artist at this year’s Billboard Awards, with DJ Snake and Lindsey Sterling also winning big. (Forbes)
    • Madeon has criticised on Sony Music's decision to remove all its distributed content fromSoundCloud, which will mean many artists seeing their hard-build presence on the platform slashed. (YourEDM)
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