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Glastonbury's Silver Hayes dance music area announces 2024 line-up

It will feature a new space, Assembly, which replaces the former WOW stage

Glastonbury's electronic music-focused area Silver Hayes has revealed its music programme for 2024. More than 150 acts are set to play across four stages over...

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TSHA shares new single, 'Sweet Devotion', featuring Caroline Byrne: Listen

"This is one to switch off and enjoy in the moment," TSHA says of the new cut

TSHA has shared a new single, 'Sweet Devotion'. Listen to it below. Out now through Ninja Tune, the track features vocalist Caroline Byrne and is...

MC Conrad, legendary drum & bass vocalist, dies aged 52

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MC Conrad, pioneering drum & bass vocalist, dies aged 52

The beloved British vocalist, producer and label founder leaves behind “an unmatched legacy”

Pioneering drum & bass vocalist MC Conrad has died at the age of 52. Tributes to the influential MC, real name Conrad Thompson, began pouring...

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Premiere: Cassie Raptor ‘The Trap’

Paris-based Cassie Raptor serves up a slab of scorched industrial techno ahead of her debut LP, ‘Predator’, landing next month

Cassie Raptor will release her debut LP, ‘Predator’, next month. Have an exclusive first listen to first single ‘The Trap’ below. After stamping herself firmly...

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Massive Attack announce full line-up for climate action accelerator concert

The Bristol group will be joined by Killer Mike, Lankum and others for the August event

Massive Attack have confirmed the full supporting line-up for their upcoming climate action accelerator event. The event, which was first announced late last year, will...

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We Are FSTVL 2024 cancelled due to "record levels of rainfall" and safety concerns

The festival's organisers have said they're "devastated" to have to call the event off

This year's We Are FSTVL has been cancelled over safety concerns. The event had been due to go ahead at Central Park in Dagenham, East...

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Mason vs Princess Superstar 'Perfect (Exceeder)' | The Making Of A Dance Anthem

This is the story of Dutch DJ/producer Mason and US rapper Princess Superstar's chart-smashing hit, ‘Perfect (Exceeder)’. A mysterious online bootleg of Mason’s 2006 dance...

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Watch Jean-Michel Jarre become first-ever passenger in flying car

"One second you speak to the driver, and next, you are up there in the air"

Jean-Michel Jarre has become the first-ever passenger to ride in a newly designed flying car. Watch a video below. The electronic music icon — known...

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Dr. Rubinstein releases debut EP, ‘Rubi’s Acid Spa’: Listen

It's been released via her new label, Uppers & Downers

Dr. Rubinstein has released her debut EP, 'Rubi's Acid Spa'. Listen to it below. Comprising three tracks, it marks the Berlin-based DJs first-ever release, and...

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Exhibition celebrating 500 years of Black music in Britain, Beyond The Bassline, opens in London

Beyond The Bassline celebrates the people, spaces and genres that have defined the landscape of Black British music

A new exhibition celebrating 500 years of Black music in Britain has opened in London. Running at the British Library until 26th August, Beyond the...

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History of the Minimoog explored in new book

Original photography, rare marketing materials, and interviews with 70 artists including Kraftwerk, J Dilla and Devo all feature

A new book celebrates the Minimoog synthesiser and its longstanding impact on music. Written by journalist and music historian Joe Silva, The Minimoog Book charts...

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Swedish House Mafia delay ‘Lioness’ release, promise it’s coming “soon”

The trio's second LP has now been pushed back twice

Swedish House Mafia have delayed the release of their highly-anticipated new single, 'Lioness'. Fans can now expect the record to arrive "soon". The trio —...

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Alok collaborates with Indigenous musicians in Brazil on new album, ‘The Future Is Ancestral’: Listen

The release coincided with Earth Day and Brazilian Indigenous People's Day, and followed a concert in Brasilia with an audience of one million

Alok has collaborated with Indigenous musicians in Brazil for a new album. You can listen to 'The Future is Ancestral' below. The Brazilian DJ and...

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NikNak: field of dreams

Turntablist NikNak has a unique style, cutting and scratching field recordings and samples into ambient tracks — but her latest album finds her leaning into the dance music you might hear in one of her club sets. Ben Murphy speaks to her about Afrofuturist sci-fi, trip-hop, pop, and why she loves found sounds

DJ, turntablist and producer NikNak approaches the decks differently. The Leeds-based artist’s debut album, ‘Bashi’, released in 2020, found her using turntables to manipulate field...

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Frank & Tony: deep in the groove

Out of club music’s modern-day practitioners, few go deeper than Francis Harris and Anthony Collins. Producing under the Frank & Tony banner, working in the grand tradition of the sound’s pioneers, the duo has just released ‘Ethos’, their first long-player since 2014’s ‘You Go Girl’. Here, they speak to Bruce Tantum about their creative partnership, the uniting power of the house groove, and melancholic beauty of everyday life

The music of Francis Harris and Anthony Collins seems, on one level, to exist in a world of their own making. Working together as Frank...