
NorCal finally gets Day Trip Festival this October.
Day Trip Festival is coming to NorCal for the first time ever. San Jose, October 17 and 18. Gordo, Vintage Culture, Cloonee and more. Presale opens very soon.
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Day Trip Festival is coming to NorCal for the first time ever. San Jose, October 17 and 18. Gordo, Vintage Culture, Cloonee and more. Presale opens very soon.

From classical cello training at the Royal Academy of Music in London to Coachella 2026 in the same lifetime. Carlita just dropped Patchwork on Ninja Tune and it sounds exactly like an artist arriving at their moment. DC10 Ibiza is next. Read the full story and go stream it right now.

Dekmantel 2026 is five days in a forest with 160 artists and a house music lineup that will make you rethink every other festival you have ever been to.

From Santiago to Madrid to Ibiza, a new generation of house music DJs is taking over European dancefloors and they did not need anyone's permission to do it. Fernanda Arrau and Jay de Lys are just the beginning.

Tokyo's clubs run until 5am, the crowds know exactly what they came for, and the DJs treat a set like a commitment not a highlight reel. The world is catching up to what Japan built.

Electric Forest 2026 June 25–28 Rothbury MI: Sherwood Forest glows with secret parties, Tripolee house beats, epic installs. Chris Lake headlines, GRiZ doubles up, wild B2Bs await. Tickets vanishing fast?

Boothstock 2026 is back in Rotterdam's Kralingse Bos on June 13. Seven stages, 10 hours of house and techno, and Armand Van Helden returning to the city for the first time in over 20 years. Benny Rodrigues, Hot Since 82, Prunk, 999999999 and more. €63.50. Go get your ticket.

Amsterdam producer D Stone plays piano, builds studios from scratch, and just got booked for 909 Festival alongside Jeff Mills and Eric Prydz. His house music has soul in places most producers do not even look. Resonant Dreams EP is out now. Go listen.

Proppa is the Chicago DJ loading everyone else's flash drive and not asking for credit. House music kid turned underground heavyweight, one bassline at a time.

Dundee built a festival from scratch, sold it out before the lineup even dropped, and somehow got Paul van Dyk, Eddie Halliwell, and Lilly Palmer to show up to a park. Year two of Doof in the Park hits Camperdown on July 4th and it is not slowing down.

Sónar Barcelona just restructured everything for 2026 and the house music lineup is genuinely one of the strongest in Europe right now. MK b2b TSHA. Glitterbox taking SonarHall at 1am Saturday. Dom Dolla with a full AV show on the biggest dancefloor in the world. Six stages. Music from 5pm to 7am. All in one building in Barcelona. June 18 to 20. This one is not a maybe. Read the full breakdown before you talk yourself out of going.

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.

DJ Mandy flipped a TikTok bit into a full-blown club takeover. What started as chaotic, meme-laced mixes has turned into packed shows, major festival slots, and a fanbase that actually pulls up.

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.

PollerWiesen Festival 2026 returns to Revierpark Wischlingen in Dortmund, drawing more than 10,000 people. It has four distinct stages: Main, Beach, Hilltop and Hidden.

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.