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Inside Captain Morgan and Pepsi Max's The Mixer pop-up in East London

Convenience store by day, raucous house party by night — find out what went down at Captain Morgan and Pepsi Max's perfectly blended Shoreditch pop-up

Abrupt festival is an intriguing, unpredictable showcase of global sounds and subcultures

The first edition of the Brussels-based festival championed unconventional music in unconventional spaces

“Dedicated to the music”: Halfmoon Festival is the underground gem of Thailand's island party scene

Founded as an alternative to the commercial parties dominating Koh Pha-ngan, Halfmoon Festival has been building its reputation as a go-to event for dance music lovers for more than 20 years

17 of the best images from BEONIX festival's captivating 2024 edition

This year saw 25,000 people descend on Cyprus for BEONIX's first ever sold-out festival, with highlights including a new stage aimed at platforming emerging DJs

“A unique and special moment”: Margins United is Europe’s first festival celebrating alternative ESEA culture

Ahead of the debut festival from Eastern Margins, Meena Sears speaks to organisers and artists about the pioneering event, championing East and South-East Asian culture, and changing the music industry

The lesser told story of broken beat, the enigmatic sound that is yet to ‘break’ the mainstream

As broken beat slowly returns to the collective consciousness following years in the shadows, Jamaal Johnson takes a look at the lesser-told story of the West London-born subculture, chatting with scene stalwart IG Culture and the up-and-coming Donsurf. They discuss the sound and why it has remained underground, as well as looking at the reasons for its resurgence, considering the changes we might see with the newest wave of broken beat

100% independent: Why Draaimolen isn’t your average dance music festival

Draaimolen's independent and collaborative approach allows for unique worlds to exist within the Dutch festival, with flawless soundsystems, production and sets that can move you to tears. Sophie McNulty reports

Review: Bilbao BBK Live 2024, an eclectic blend of music and nature in Kobetamendi

Bilbao BKK Live serves up world-class music in a captivating setting

"Festival of dreams": Body Movements 2024 was a playground for London's queer ravers

Celebrating its biggest iteration yet at London’s Southwark Park, Body Movements made a spectacular return over the Bank Holiday weekend with a space for unabashed expression and adventure

"The beautiful story starts again": 15 of the best images from Space Riccione's opening fiesta

Former resident Carl Cox helped mark the return of the notorious Ibiza club brand to Europe, bringing a slice of the White Isle to the Italian Adriatic Coast

10 triumphant years: Dekmantel's biggest ever festival is still a tight-knit community of electronic music obsessives

Will Welsh gets well stuck into the Amsterdamse Bos for the flagship festival weekend of Dekmantel's tenth anniversary, experiencing first-hand why its success keeps on building

“Self-taught and self-built”: DJ Petchy’s Soul Sure is part of the backbone of London’s party scene

DJ Petchy, a born and raised Londoner with a magnetic personality, has grown from dedicated raver to a linchpin of the city's grassroots club scene, building a passionate community around his Soul Sure events

Review: Dialled In's debut in Manchester felt like a beacon of hope against a disturbing political environment

The collective focused on championing South Asian culture have made real progress in improving representation across the industry — and the momentum keeps on building with every invaluable event

Techno in its purest form is thriving at Stone Techno Festival

Away from the noise of online and hard and fast trends, Stone Techno Festival brings raw, pure techno to a breath-taking industrial setting, attracting a non-judgmental crowd and a noticeable lack of phone cameras

“Symbol of resistance”: Tijolo is the community-first party series uniting dancefloors from New York to Brazil

Developing as a label and event series after the pandemic, Tijolo has become a core meeting point for dance music communities in North and South America. Jamaal Johnson chats to head honcho SIXX4SIXX about creating dedicated spaces for Latin clubbers

Amapiano’s Second Wave: Upcoming producers and the risks of exploitation

Amapiano has taken over the world, but despite its success, some of the genre's most influential creators are not getting the rewards they deserve. In the final instalment of our three-part series documenting Amapiano's Second Wave, Jake Colvin explores how South Africa's economic conditions and exploitation from established stars are adversely affecting young producers

Return to Genosys: The comeback of Block9's post-apocalyptic spectacle

Block9's beloved brutalist behemoth returned for Glastonbury 2024, Megan Townsend speaks to co-creative director Stephen Gallagher to find out how his team overcame rain, damage and COVID to bring Genosys back in all its dilapidated glory

“NYC Downlow’s slutty little sister!”: Why The Meat Rack was bigger and better than ever in 2024

Now that Block9's NYC Downlow is one of Glastonbury's foremost nightlife temptations, changes have been made to cope with demand. This year its dark and intimate 'Room Two', The Meat Rack, doubled in size and really came into its own

Review: Charli xcx brought 'Brat' summer to Glastonbury... but you didn't have to be there

The club-meets-pop hedonism of Charli xcx's Partygirl sent fans at The Levels into a frenzy... but there was plenty of 'Brat' to be had beyond Silver Hayes

Babylon Uprising is Glastonbury’s best kept secret for heavyweight dance music

Glastonbury’s tiny, anarchic home for soundsystem culture is a word of mouth favourite. We joined the uprising this year and report from inside

How Arcadia transformed a war machine into a party paradise at Glastonbury

Arcadia enters a new era at Glastonbury Festival with the launch of The Dragonfly, a reimagined military helicopter inspired by nature, optimism and creating a party spectacle like no other