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Sónar Report 2025

Blawan, Daito Manabe, Cora Novoa, Plaid, Flore b2b Peder Mannerfelt, Helena Hauff, Noia, MCR-T, and Alva Noto & Fennesz's 'Continuum' were the highlights of Sónar 2025. The Barcelona festival returned for its 32nd edition from Thursday, June 12th to Saturday, June 14th, and brought down the curtain on its time in Montjuïc ahead of a new single-venue space next year. Sónar attracted 119,000 visitors across Sónar by Day (52,500) and Sónar by Night (66,500), plus another 42,000 across OFFSónar and the rest of the Sónar Week activities. While this year’s programme brought together more than 1,400 artists, exhibitors, and speakers from the worlds of art, technology, and science, the core three days of by Day and by Night were impacted by previously-announced participants cancelling their invovlement owing to Sónar's parent company Superstruct being sold to a consotrium including global invetment firm KKR last year. The cancellations first emerged when KKR was highlighted...

First acts for Hideout Festival 2026
Interplanetary Criminal, Skream, Josh Baker, Max Dean, Eliza Rose, Gorgon City, Sarah Story, and sim0ne are among the first acts confirmed for Hideout Festival 2026. The event re…

EXIT Festival to embark on global tour
EXIT Festival will tour through Egypt, India, Malta, Croatia, Macedonia and Serbia next year. Following the final edition of the annual event at the Petrovaradin Fortress in Novi …

Little Simz to headline Cross the Tracks 2026
Little Simz will headline London's Cross the Tracks next year. The festival returns to Brockwell Park on Sunday, May 24th with KOKOROKO, Obongjayar, Lady Wray, Brooke Combe, B…

Amsterdam Dance Event prepares for 30 year anniversary
After a record-breaking year hosting 600,000 visitors and nearly 3,500 artists across more than 1,200 events, Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE) is preparing for its 30 year anniversary.…

4,000 capacity club Eutopia Warehouse in Barking to open
A new 4,000-capacity music venue in East London launches this weekend. Eutopia Warehouse is an indoor–outdoor music, arts and cultural space set across three interlinked warehouse…

Maribou Statue, De La Soul, Orbital, Hybrid Minds, Sub Focus for Snowbombing 2026
Maribou Statue, De La Soul, and Orbital will be the live headliners for Snowbombing 2026. The ski festival in Mayrhofen returns from Monday, April 6th to Saturday, April 11th with…

Somerset House Studios launches new space for interdisciplinary experimentation
A new initiative to bring together artists, technologists, academics, and industry professionals has launched at Somerset House Studios. This month the London insitution launched …