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.
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.
South Africa has been cooking something serious and JAZZWRLD is proof. From teaching himself how to produce in Carletonville to landing global features with Tems and Omah Lay, this man's journey is not a coincidence. It is discipline, culture and a ridiculous amount of talent.
Seoul raised. Amsterdam based. Dancefloors worldwide. DJ Naone has been putting in the work and the underground is paying attention. Sets at Dekmantel, releases on Safe Trip and UTTU, and her own vinyl-only label down2earth. DJ Mag and Mixmag both called it for 2026. Go find her mixes. You will not regret it.
Dom Dolla went from designing tour posters in Melbourne to headlining a 17th century UNESCO site on the Thames. Here is the full story of how a kid from the Australian outback became one of house music's most unstoppable forces, 1.5 billion streams and counting.
Peggy Gou took the long road, teaching herself production, grinding through Berlin's underground, and building everything from scratch. One viral TikTok moment, a debut album, and millions of streams later, she is now one of the most in demand names in house music worldwide. The culture chose her because she never stopped choosing the culture first.
30 years of EDC Las Vegas, one very ambitious owl on the main stage, a free parade shutting down the Las Vegas Strip, and 240 artists across 16 stages. May 15 to 17 at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway and the desert has absolutely no idea what is coming.
Malta. Five days. House music royalty. Sunny Side Festival 2026 is running from 14 to 18 May and the lineup is genuinely something else. Chez Damier, Ben UFO, Helena Hauff, Satoshi Tomiie live, KiNK, tINI and so many more across vineyards, beach clubs, a record store and boat parties on the Mediterranean. This is the one.
Here is the short summary: CORE Los Angeles lands at LA State Historic Park on May 2 and 3, 2026, marking the first ever US edition of the Tomorrowland and Insomniac collaboration. Two days of alternative house music featuring Four Tet, Honey Dijon, Eric Prydz, Mall Grab, Nina Kraviz, Dixon, TSHA and more. This is the house music weekend Los Angeles has been waiting for.
We covered Showcation 2026 and honestly it sounds like the most fun anyone has had at a festival in years. House music, live drums, Jersey club and zero fourteen dollar water bottles hopefully. Read it.