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Paco Osuna’s NOW HERE residency runs rings around Ibiza’s mainstream club nights

Returning for his second year, Paco Osuna showed us how he’s conquered Hï’s Club Room - and how it’s conquered him in return

16 photos of NYC Downlow’s super sweet, sordid 16th year

Glastonbury's queer utopia is a liberating, life-changing experience

UNUM Festival shows why Albania is Europe's new favourite dance music destination

With quality programming and soundsystems, coupled with a focus on local talent, the marathon six-dayer should be a go-to event for four-to-the-floor lovers of all descriptions

Seven days in paradise: Kala is providing the blueprint for the festival-holiday hybrid

With a mouthwatering underground line-up, and a holiday package offering that rivals most luxury resorts — Albania's Kala festival provided the best of both worlds for its fifth edition

Project 6 was a raucous celebration of soundsystem culture in South London

Check out all the best photos from Project 6’s debut festival where dubstep, grime, and drum ‘n’ bass had a fair split

10 years strong: Silver Hayes’ birthday bash was more than just a celebration

A decade on from its debut, Glastonbury’s Silver Hayes showed why it's one of the best areas to be when the sun is shining down

Why Glastonbury's unusual late-night spots are the key to a good time

The best way to enjoy Glastonbury in the night-time is to explore — here’s some of the weirdest things you need to try when the lights go down

Primavera Sound 2023 review: A return to form for the festival institution

Primavera Sound made a blazing return to Barcelona after a troubled 2022, cementing its clout as Europe's most progressively curated and beloved summer festival for music heads, artists and dancers with the stamina to groove 'til sunrise

City Splash is bringing a carnival atmosphere to London's day festival scene

The festival is a welcome addition to the mainstream London all-dayer scene, which is currently obsessed with neoliberal rave and Salomoncore

Elevated experience: Horst delivers a vision of festival Utopia

By expertly balancing a cutting-edge line-up, otherworldly art and good old fashioned fun, Brussels’ Horst Festival stands in contrast to an increasingly vibe-absent festival circuit

Dance freely: Newcastle's Bend&Shake is creating a safer place to party for people who need it

The multi-genre, global majority-led queer party is curating amazing and necessary clubbing experiences for people who are intersectionally marginalised

Movement Festival is a celebration of techno's past, present and future

Held in Detroit, the birthplace of techno, the three-day festival should be on every clubber’s bucket list

UK Tek 2023 showed why free party culture will never die

The 3,000 people strong Teknival rave showed that free parties are still a powerful, attractive and valuable social phenomena. Rave documentarian Matthew "mattko" Smith explains why

What is Coachella?

Now the dust has settled... David McGraw reflects on weekend 1 of Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival 2023: a commercial colossus that's become a pre-eminent institution of the music industry

Subverting expectations: Club Night Club is flying the flag for New York's warehouse party revival

We chat with Club Night Club founders Roddy and Blake about pushing sonic boundaries, warehouse parties, and bringing something different to New York City’s dynamic club scene

Minimal marathon: VBX's 10th birthday showcased its influential role in Amsterdam's underground

Over the past decade, Amsterdam has become a 24-hour party city, with VBX among the party pioneers. Its 10th birthday - spanning nearly 30 hours across three of the city’s most unique venues - was a fitting celebration

Perfectly mixed: Snug encapsulates the extravagance and debauchery of Hanoi's queer clubbing community

Founded on a belief that Hanoi's LGBTQIA+ clubbing scene is up there with the world's best, Snug's combination of local talent and international favourites has made it a shining star of Vietnam's underground dance scene

"The ends rule": Perifa No Toque is a baile funk haven for people on the fringe of São Paulo

Mixmag caught up with two of the key members of the party for people on the city’s peripheries, to chat about its rise from a tongue-in-cheek barbecue fundraiser to one of its most important proponents of an often demonised genre and culture

"It's a family affair": South Asian clubbers share what the dancefloor means to them

Vee Pandey asks the attendees of Daytimers' Phonox takeover about the significance of club culture to London's South Asian diaspora

Wild Wild West: After the pandemic, LA's rave underground bounces back stronger than ever

A new era of the rave underground - led by femme and queer POC DJs and collectives – is popping off in Los Angeles. Star Eyes and Bianca Oblivion of the Warp Mode crew clue us in

“DJs are surprised when they visit”: Why Newcastle’s DIY clubbing scene is thriving

In the post-industrial North East, grassroots collectives such as STEREO 45, Ghetec and Chain Reaction are building a booming dance music scene. Jack Ramage reports

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