Sammy Virji sold out Alexandra Palace twice, got a Four Tet remix, and still has Sónar, Finsbury Park and Red Rocks left on the calendar. UK garage is having its moment and he is leading it. Read the full story.
Glorious Day Festival just dropped a lineup that should not be possible for a one day boutique festival. Groove Armada. Jocelyn Brown live. Todd Terry. Norman Jay. Brighton seafront. 13 June. Go get your ticket before someone else does.
There is a moment in every Black Coffee set where time kind of stops. The bass gets deep. The drums get personal. And something that started as house music starts to feel like the entire African continent just sat down in the room with you. That is the thing about Black Coffee. He is not just playing records. He is doing something to the air.
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.