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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...

Tomorrowland Brasil, ANOTR, Scuba, Nicole Moudaber to speak at ADE 2025
Tomorrowland Brasil, ANOTR, Scuba, and Nicole Moudaber, are among the latest speakers confirmed for its 2025 Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE) Pro Conference. The line-up brings togethe…

One in four UK late-night venues closed since 2020
Nearly 800 late night venues in the UK have closed since March 2020. The Night Time Industries Association (NTIA)'s Night Time Economy Monitor claim that's a drop of 26.4 …

KILIMANJARO to headline Electric Brixton
Zambian-Scottish artist KILIMANJARO will headline Electric Brixton on Saturday 29th November. The show comesat the end of a series of live dates still to come this year at Ushuaia…

Hospitality Weekender 2026 reveals line-up
Hedex, Kasra b2b Samurai Breaks, and a first collaboration between Valve Soundsystem and Virus Recordings will be part of the Hospitality Weekender 2026. Other exclusives at the B…

West London's Gallery Club reveals autumn line-ups
Krystal Klear, Jeremy Underground, Dennis Ferrer, Damian Lazarus, Toman, Beltran, Abel, and Reznik will play the autumn season at West London's Gallery Club. The Kensington Hi…

Armand Van Helden to headline Ministry of Sound 34th birthday
London's Ministry of Sound will celebrate its 34th birthday in October with a headline set from Armand Van Helden. The party will run across four rooms on Saturday, October 4t…

Publishers converge on London's ICA for a weekend of activities
London venue the ICA will bring together more than 60 publishers for a weekend of exhibitions, talks and workshops in September. GLUE will run on Saturday, September 13th and Sun…