No camping. No chaos. Just a beautiful garden in Cheshire and a lineup that basically built the dancefloor you grew up on. Daresbury Festival 2026 is June 20th at Walton Hall and Gardens. 808 State headline. Sam Divine is the special guest. Tickets are going fast.
House music is going back to where it was born. ARC Music Festival returns to Chicago's Union Park this Labor Day weekend for its biggest edition yet. Four days for the first time. Over 100 artists. Anyma, Honey Dijon, Derrick Carter, Carl Craig, Moodymann, The Blessed Madonna, Joy Orbison and many more across four stages. September 4 through 7.
There is a producer in Berlin making the most personal project in house music right now. Her name is Khadija. Dunya means world in Arabic and the trilogy she is building on Radio Slave's REK'D label explores exactly that. Faith, grief, resilience, one chapter at a time. Dunya I came in January. Dunya II just landed May 1. One chapter still to come. Get familiar before the world catches up.
So DJ Mandy started as a TikTok joke. Funny mixes, chaotic energy, the whole thing. Then she kept going. Then the festivals called. Then Breakaway Tampa put her on the same lineup as Dom Dolla and Tiësto. Then the original music dropped and the clubs started playing it. Funk U Want and And That Is House are not content drops. They are actual records. The internet found her first but the dance floor is keeping her.
merchant is the Jamaican born Afro house producer already backed by Black Coffee, Diplo and Pete Tong. He is making dance floor records with real emotional depth and the scene is paying attention.
Cercle Festival 2026 is putting house music inside an aerospace museum and honestly it is the most dramatic thing to ever happen to a kick drum. Kerri Chandler, Michael Bibi, Eric Prydz and 41 others. Three stages. One rocket. Two Concordes. An A380. May 22 to 24, Le Bourget, Paris. See you on the tarmac.
The Dutch house music producer who went from Amsterdam's underground to Beatport number one. Jamback's rise in 2026 is the story you need to read.
25,000 people, four stages, one Sunday in Dortmund that your future self will absolutely thank you for. PollerWiesen Festival 2026 is here and the lineup just made every other plan irrelevant.
Eleven years in and BAUM Festival 2026 just dropped a lineup that has no right to be this good. Disclosure in DJ mode, Mall Grab on the floor, Cassian bringing the feelings and Underworld performing live. Bogota, May 22 and 23.
Australian DJ duo X and Ivy have gone from lockdown fame to underground house credibility, and their 2026 EP "Broken Jam" might be their best argument yet for why that switch was worth it.
Gottwood turns fifteen in June 2026 and the Welsh woodland is about to go fully unhinged. John Talabot, Eris Drew b2b Octo Octa, Gene On Earth, Sally C, Nicolas Lutz and about sixty other reasons to cry on a dance floor are all confirmed. Oh and they got a 24 hour licence this year so the party literally does not stop. Five thousand people, one ancient forest, zero bad taste in music. Your summer plans just sorted themselves.
Mau P is not building a career. He is building an empire, and 2026 is where it all gets serious. From Amsterdam bedroom to Coachella mainstages, the Dutch house music force is dropping a debut album, launching his own label and taking his Baddest Behaviour party series back to Pacha Ibiza for a second summer. The dancefloor has been notified.