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Brighton Music Conference (BMC)'s welcome party will kick off three days of activities across new venues and includes the return of the 'A&R Sessions'. The party a…

Sub Focus, Maddix, Subtronics, Karla Blum, Per Pleks, Avaion complete the NIBIRII 2025 line-up. The event invites techno, drum & bass, and GOA fans to Düren from Friday, Augus…

Obscure Shape, Head High, BADSISTA, Trancemaster Krause, AGY3NA, and The Muffin Man help complete the Home Again Club Festival 2025 line-up. Also confirmed are ALIS., Christa Bell…

Ulverston International Music Festival is mixing gastronomy with music by offering food-themed experiences to go hand-in-hand many of its concerts. Sound Bites is a new foodie the…

4AD, Because, Bella Union, Big Dada, Brainfeeder, Dead Oceans, Dirty Hit, Domino, Fire, Ghostly, Jagjaguwar, Late Night Tales, Mute, Matador, Ninja Tune, Partisan, Secretly Canadi…

The Prodigy, DJ Snake, and Solomun will headline EXIT Festival’s special 25th edition. They join a line-up that includes the Sex Pistols with Frank Carter, Tiësto, Eric Prydz, Ame…

Art app and social platform gowithYamo has teamed up with culture critics The White Pube for the return of What I Saw Last Week video series. Every Monday this month, one half of…

Solomun, ÂME b2b DJ Holographic, Young Marco, Patrick Mason, and WhoMadeWho (Hybrid set) will play Docklands Festival 2025. The 15th anniversary of the event at Münster's Hawe…

Everything Everything, The Leisure Society, The Bug Club, Seb Lowe, Omega Nebula, Chiedu Oraka, Riding the Low, and Eighty Eight Miles will play Sonic Boom Festival 2025. The even…

Ghanaian-American rising star MOLIY has joined the City Splash Festival 2025 line-up. The event takes over London's Brockwell Park on Monday, May 26th. Moliy joins acts such a…

Massive Attack, Iggy Pop, Suede, Nathy Peluso, Bad Gyal, Rigoberta Bandini, Antònia Font, Dorian, Sidonie, and Villano Antillano will top the bill at Mallorca Live Festival 2025. …

C2C Festival's theme for 2025 will be “Per aspera ad astra” (Through hardship to the stars), in loving memory of founder and director Sergio Ricciardone. Sergio sadly passed a…

Queer East Festival will take over London's cinemas, theatres, and community spaces from Wednesday, April 23rd to Sunday, May 18th. The festival will showcase boundary-pushing…

FKA Twigs, Little Simz, Empire of the Sun, Alessi Rose, The Joy, Sevdaliza, Miss Monique, and Michael Kiwanuka are among more than 50 acts added to Sziget Festival 2025. The Óbuda…

Charli XCX, Tyla, and Africa Express are among 20 acts joining Denmark's Roskilde Festival 2025. The latest additions also include Anton Westerlin, Amenra, Bela, Charanga Do F…

Mogwai will headline London's South Facing Festival on Thursday, August 7th. The band will be joined by Lankum at Crystal Palace Bowl. Other shows in the series already announ…

Price hikes and shrinking workforces will increase pressure on the nighttime economy, warns the the Night Time Industries Association (NTIA). The trade association conducted a fla…

This summer Sónar teams up with Boiler Room and Printworks for its Barcelona festival. Sónar by Night on Friday, June 13th and Saturday, June 14th will see a stage co-hosted by ea…

Fat Dog, BDRMM, deBasement, Curtisy, RIP Magic, and 3L3D3P will play Wide Awake Festival 2025. They join headliners Kneecap, CMAT, and English Teacher, plus others such as Peaches…

Morcheeba, UNKLE, and special guest DJ Shadow will headline London's South Facing Festival on Thursday, August 14th. The Crystal Palace Bowl day event series will host the tri…

Jyoty, Nooriyah, and Mason Collective are among the first acts confirmed to play new London venue Unlocked Shoreditch. The space on Curtain Road will tease its capabilities throug…

Pyramid World Tour will host two stages OFFBCN Festival 2025 in Barcelona on Friday, June 13th and Saturday, June 14th. The Ibiza brand has invited Jamie Jones, Rossi, Salomé Le C…

Performances from Samuel Kerridge and Daisy Dickinson, Aja Ireland, NØELLE, and Sculpture will complement talks, interactive workshops and jam sessions at Crux Festival 2025. The …

The Wombats and Razorlight are joining forces for two double headline shows as part of the Margate Summer Series and Hitchin Priory Summer Series in August. On Friday, August 22nd…

BEONIX Festival returns to Cyprus from Friday, September 19th to Sunday, September 21st headlined by Armin Van Buuren, Boris Brejcha, and Adriatique. Hosted at ETKO in Limassol, t…

Brighton Music Conference (BMC) has revealed its first wave of speakers and panels, plus a new health, wellbeing and lifestyle focus for 2025. The 12th edition will run from Wedne…

Gardna will bring the ‘Time To Move’ A/V show to Bristol's Prospect Building on Saturday, May 3rd as part of a day of drum & bass, jungle, UKG, and reggae. The ‘Time To Mo…

Ulverston International Music Festival 2025 has revealed its line-up ranging from classical and folk to jazz and tango running from Friday, May 30th to Sunday, June 8th. This year…

AI, the future of the creative industries, and the relationships between technology, culture, and society will take centre stage at Sónar+D 2025. The Barcelona festival running fr…

Brixton Disco Festival returns for its seventh annual edition on Saturday, 3 May 2025. Expect live music, DJs, screenings, talks, food & drink in the venues surrounding Brixto…

Andy C, Friction, Borgore, Bou, Camo & Krooked, Hannah Laing, Harriet Jaxxon, I Hate Models, REAPER, and Shlømo have been confirmed by Germany’s NIBIRII 2025. The festival ret…

Armand Van Helden, Fabio & Grooverider and the Outlook Orchestra, Hybrid Minds, Dave Clarke, and Goldie will play Beat-Herder Festival 2025. The 20th edition of the event will…

Pyramid Ibiza will launch its 2025 residency at Amnesia on Sunday, June 8th. In the Main Room, techno will take centre stage with Nina Kraviz, Deborah de Luca, Marco Faraone and L…

Pet Shop Boys, FKA Twigs, Damanio David, and Jorja Smith will headline when MEO Kalorama returns to Parque da Bela Vista in Lisbon. Azealia Banks, Father John Misty, The Flaming L…

Kybba, Ms Dynamite, Qing Madi, Nia Smith, Sasha Keable, SadBoi, Jords and headliner Popcaan have been confirmed for City Splash Festival 2025. The event returns to London’s Brockw…

Basement Jaxx have added a second headline show at London’s South Facing Festival 2025. The duo will play Crystal Palace Park on both Friday, August 22nd, and Saturday, August 23r…

FKA Twigs and Anohni and the Johnsons are among the 27 new artists confirmed for Roskilde Festival 2025. Flo, Jasmin.4.T., Knocked Loose, Bright Eyes, Tierra Whack, Lyra Pramuk, O…

Barcelona’s Brunch Electronik Festival has announced their full line-up across four days, including a Maribou State opening concert. More than 90 acts will play across two venues …

C2C Festival has confirmed the first acts for its 23rd edition in Torino from Thursday, October 30th to Sunday, November 2nd. This year’s lineup features five major return acts - …

Printworks London and Sónar will collaborate for a second year to present two line-ups at Sónar by Night in Barcelona on Friday, June 13th and Saturday, June 14th. SonarLab x Prin…

Fat Dog, Digable Planets, Moonchild Sanelly, OneDa, and Hak Baker are the latest acts added to Shambala 2025. The festival returns for its 25th anniversary from Thursday, August …

Nile Rodgers & CHIC will headline Love Motion, the disco, soul and electronic day of South Facing Festival on Sunday, August 24th.  Support at the Crystal Palace Bowl show wil…

Independent Label Market (ILM) returns to Coal Drops Yard in London King’s Cross, on Saturday, May 10th. ILM is also joining forces with Rough Trade to launch new pop-up markets …

Pendulum, Laurent Garnier, Blawan b2b SHDW, Ben Sims, Indira Paganotto, Richie Hawtin, Nico Morino, Héctor Oaks, Layla Benitez, Miss Monique, and SPFDJ will play Monegros Desert F…

Hospitality On The Beach returns to Tisno in Croatia for seven days of drum & bass headlined by Hybrid Minds, Netsky, Kings Of The Rollers, and A Little Sound. This summer the…

Terminal V has revealed which days its acts will play at Edinburgh's Royal Highland Centre on Saturday, April 19th and Sunday, April 20th.   Saturday, April 19th will host 999…

Ezra Collective will headline Moovin Festival 2025 with support from acts such as DJ Paulette, Folamour, Roni Size, Craig Charles, Derrick Carter, and The Sugarhill Gang. The even…

MARRØN, VTSS, DJ Nobu, The Lady Machine, Rødhåd, Nina Kraviz, Ben Klock, and Daria Kolosova will play Awakenings Festival 2025. DJ Gigola, 6EJOU, Carl Cox, Richie Hawtin, Indira P…