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Located in the heart of Kenya's capital, the venue features a Funktion-One soundsystemn and "cutting edge" lighting Continue reading...

Future events will see the likes of Narciss, DJ Fuckoff and more play at the new club Continue reading...

Coming from the team behind London's Warm-Up Parties, the new venue has been fitted with a Funktion-One soundsystem and an "immersive" layout Continue reading...

Brixton has always had a bustling music scene and now it’s got a new addition coming its way with Brixton Storeys set to launch on April 18th 2025. In a time where it’s hard to not be struck with early curfews, Brixton Storeys boasts a 24-hour alcohol and music license which is a huge win. Set on the former Prince of Wales site, this reinvented venue has a litany of amazing features that are set to make it one of the best music venues in London. With a 750-person capacity, world-class sound, hig

The newly renovated “cultural space” opens this summer from the team behind ION and Junction 2 Continue reading...

From the team behind event series Stranger Than;, the converted supermarket will host the likes of Moodymann, Carl Craig, Orbital and more Continue reading...

The venue opens for the first time this July from the team behind Electric Ballroom Continue reading...

The venue will act as the "nocturnal part" of Bodies In Space, a office block-cum-arts-venue on the outskirts of the Belgian capital Continue reading...

Apple continues to break new ground in accessibility and personalized technology. In a recent post on X (formerly Twitter), CEO Tim Cook celebrated the strides Apple has made in creating features that directly improve lives. He spotlighted the innovative Hearing Aid feature on the AirPods Pro 2, which leverages a user’s personalized sound profile to deliver clearer and more tailored audio experiences. The Hearing Aid feature on AirPods Pro 2 is part of Apple’s broader initiative to impr

A brand-new EDM festival is colonizing this summer in Wisconsin, bringing an extraterrestrial twist to a venue better known for heavy metal and country music. Force Fields, the latest venture from the organizers behind Rock Fest and Hoofbeat, leans hard into the region's reputation as a UFO hotspot. Promising "mind-bending visuals" and "awe-inspiring production," the marketing plays up an alien invasion narrative that feels perfectly at home in Cadott, where locals have reported mysterious light

Few artists still make the same kind of dubstep that was coming out around 2010-2014, whether that’s brostep or just “old” dubstep. And that’s okay — styles and tastes change, trends evolve. However, there’s a fair amount of fans who don’t vibe with the current iteration and still yearn for the sounds of yore. Deadbeats, for all intents and purposes, appears to be leading the charge of embracing and reviving that older sound, especially after signing the new EP from Emalkay, The Others, and Sub

Created with “DJs and music-lovers” in mind, the newly-launched app allows users to filter by genre and recommends music at random Continue reading...

The collection spans Metalheadz mixes to Rinse FM sets, compiled across multiple platforms Continue reading...

Let’s just get this out of the way now for the old schoolers: if this was the mid-to-late 90s or even earlier, Mint June would not be seen as experimental. With lashings of early industrial, techno and electro house making up the bulk of his work, this project dreamed up by composer Jeremy Jung in 2019 would be easily classed as electro house or breaks, akin to Electroliners or DJ Icey. Apparently that stuff is now old enough to be reborn in new formats and mashups, and honestly we’re here for i

Despite the updated big booty bass sound and feel of his most recent single “Big Drip,” the Florida-based artist known as 3Fifs generally has generally had a more-heard-hitting style during his decade-long career. The St. Louis native uses his diverse musical style to drive his deeper points home, as is exemplified in the re-release last year of one his of first and heaviest singles, “Dive In Deep.” Now with his return to hip hop, this Urban Songwriter of the Year is just getting started. 3F

The term “ambient” gets batted around quite a bit in electronic music, whether it’s to describe background sound design, a certain style of synth or melody or even the mood of a piece. There is, however, still a pretty strong self-defining ambient genre within electronica, though artists’ adherence to that format seems to be in varying degrees. On one end of the spectrum is meditation music or new age work that’s largely beatless and meant for relaxation. On the other end are acts like Moby, Eni

Antman Ant is, by his own admission, nothing if not an OG raver so it’s not really fair to call him a “new artist.” He has, however, been sort of hiding his huge talent from the wider EDM world, so he’s new to us. Producing since well before the current generation of EDM fans were even born, his work is less about any sort of throwback style than a consistent evolution that’s moved in time with that of dance music at large. This means he can, and often does, draw on nearly 30 years of dance, sou

Aura Blaze is a dream pop/shoegaze/psych pop project started by producer and instrumentalist Rhode Rachel with his Zappa-esque 2015 debut self-titled album. Clearly influenced by early psy-and-surf-rock like the Beach Boys, King Crimson and The Doors with a tinge of psychobilly a’la The Cramps, Aura Blaze’s style back then was big and bold and, energetically was sort of a retro-styled match to The Polyphonic Spree. This huge, orchestral sound only comes out of one person, however, so it’s not su

Blunda is one of those artists for whom the “New Artist Spotlight” tag is a misnomer, as he’s been making music longer than most of YEDM’s punters have been alive. Starting young as a classical pianist, Andy Blunda played guitar and keyboard in the high profile indie bands Fastball and Paloalto in the 90s and early 00s. After that, Blunda stayed active in Hollywood, composing soundscapes for movies and television until he got the inspiration to go solo in 2014. With a distinctive style both in h

At only 20 years of age, the singer, songwriter and award-winning jazz musician known as ADVIKA has already made a significant name for herself with an impressive body of work that belies her age. She began releasing jazz-infused pop folk songs in 2020 as she entered the prestigious Berklee College of Music’s Electronic Production and Design program, but her accolades as a vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and Carnatic singer began well before her college-level studies. She won the the YoungArts a

It’s surprising that Brynilde is based in the US, given her artist name, which is a permutation of the Old Scandinavian “Brunhilda” as well as the timbre of her exquisite soprano, which is spot on for ancient Nordic folk songs, a’la YouTube star Jonna Jinton. Brynilde’s debut album, The Sound of the Winter Sun, which came out last month, also has track names like “Priestess or Shieldmaiden.” Actually a French expat, one might think that Brynilde is based in Sweden or Norway. It turns out she’s j

Throwback styles, especially those that model the 80s, tend to be covered in about ten layers of irony and hipsterism when presented to the world nowadays, and it’s no wonder. The jangly synths, neon eyeshadows and Flock of Seagulls hairstyles that typified the 80s pop scene weren’t even a hundred percent serious at the time. In an era fueled by cocaine and Diet Coke, we can’t exactly blame modern artists for poking a little fun at the era that brought us Cyndi Lauper’s “Girls Just Want to Have

For fans of experimental electronica, artists like Cerpintxt have to represent the future of this cutting edge discipline. Now located in London by way of her native Egypt, Cerpintxt’s haunted, acoustics-focused science project of a sound has been picked up not only by like-minded atmospheric, drone and visual artists and labels such as CAMP Editions, Carlos Casas, Machinefabriek and Matchess but has bled into the EDM world. Now with her new EP, microtubule encoded memory, Cerpintxt stands to un

It’s clear there’s a lot going on upon first listen to one of the three singles Melbourne, Australia band Chained Lizard has released thus far. Theatrical sound design, thrash metal-level guitar shreds and beat structures that range anywhere from industrial to future bass come together in “Broken Glass,” “Take Me for a Ride” and their latest psycho-sexual offering, “Electric Vibes” in a way that hearkens memories of Evanessence or early Linkin Park. There’s even more going on beyond the first li

It’s extremely few and far between, despite sharing a lot of common methods and sounds, that ambient music that can truly be called meditative and EDM cross paths in a way that make them actually cross over. Quite often new age music is just a little too woo with not enough pop or dance cachet to light up the average EDM fan, and of course EDM is generally a bit too charged and fast for the spa or yurt. There are, however, a handful of artists who have truly cracked that code and successfully bl