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"Phone-free" club events rose by 567% globally in 2025, new data reveals

The UK is the "global leader" of phone-free events, with a study from Eventbrite claiming that attendance at said events has grown by 1,441% in just one year

Berlin club Blue Velvet appeals for support after raccoons “eat insulation”

The venue said it faced a tough winter with frozen pipes, damp conditions and some unwanted, four-legged guests

Police step in as illegal rave in Welsh mountain rages on

Ravers descended on Rhigos Mountain in southeast Wales over the weekend

Man arrested under suspicion of arson following blaze at Milton Keynes LGBTQIA+ nightclub

Pink Punters, which has been open for over 36 years, was completely destroyed as a result of the fire

Carl Cox: “The Arches is still a big loss for Glasgow”

Cox has spoken about the closure of the famed Glasgow nightclub, where he felt “at home”

New music on our radar this week: Surusinghe, Machinedrum, horsegiirL

All the biggest releases on our radar

Festival line-ups you might have missed: Beyond Boundaries, Piano People, La Nature

Rounding up festival news from across the dance and electronic world

Police intervene after Drake fans use blowtorches on block of ice to discover album release date

As part of a pre-release stunt, Drake dropped a mound of ice in Toronto with the drop date of his next record ‘Iceman’ hidden inside

Coachella fined $40,000 due to Anyma and Justin Bieber sets running over curfew

Anyma's second weekend set cost the festival an additional $24,000 due to running over for nine minutes

Boards of Canada return with first album in 13 years, ‘Inferno’

The 18-tracker will be released on Warp next month following much online speculation

Salmon swim faster and further on cocaine, study finds

Scientists exposed 105 wild salmon to cocaine in Sweden's Lake Vattern to conduct their research

Streaming was the music industry's fastest growing sector in 2025, IMS report reveals

Findings from the IMS Business Report also revealed that the electronic music industry grew by 7% last year to $15.1 billion

London's "first" spatial audio listening room to launch in Soho

The 360° audio experience will allow attendees to take in "multi-dimensional sound environments", powered by an L-Acoustics soundsystem

Carl Cox honoured with mural in Cardiff ahead of The Prodigy tour leg

The portrait was painted by Welsh artist Steve Jenkins ahead of Cox’s appearance at the Utilita Arena

Unreleased Prince track 'With This Tear' shared on 10th anniversary of his death

The late-musician's original demo of the track, which was eventually given to Celine Dion, has now been officially released

Brockwell Park residents launch new challenge against council over festival licenses

“Large-scale” events that are being challenged include Field Day, City Splash and Wide Awake

Women aged between 40-65 say clubbing benefits their mental health, study finds

Those surveyed said nights out give a release from the pressures of daily life and are an outlet for self-expression

Anna's Archive ordered to pay $322 million for mass-scale scraping of Spotify

Spotify claimed that "99.6% of all music listened to by users on the platform" was "unlawfully scraped" by the online activist group last year

Kraftwerk lose one of music's "longest-running" copyright cases

An EU court ruled in favour of producer Moses Pelham, marking the end of Kraftwerk's 30-year dispute over a sample of 'Metall auf Metall'

New 2,000-capacity venue from team behind Mint Club to open in Leeds

Named Mint XL, the venue is set to open from September with a “strict” no-photo policy

New music on our radar this week: Oppidan, DJ Seinfeld, TOMORA