Events

16/03/2010 15 years Juicy Beats: first acts confirmed

Over the last 15 years the Juicy Beats Festival has endeared itself with clubbers of the Ruhr valley by developing an affordable dance music event. Since 1996 Juicy Beats has made its home in Dortmund’s Westfalenpark, calling upon both local hot shots and international artists to provide...

15/03/2010 Mammoth Electronic Beats Festival lined up for Prague

Electronic Beats will be gathering some of the most innovative electronic artists for their 2010 Electronic Beats Festival in Prague. Headliners in this spectacular event will be London electro luminaries Hot Chip (pictured above) who have just come off the back a new LP release One Life...

11/03/2010 Moderat and Major Lazer headlining Electronic Beats Festival Cologne

Get ready for the first Electronic Beats Festival in Germany this year, which takes places in Cologne on Thursday May 20th at the cavernous E-Werk. Headline act Moderat (pictured above) - made up from equal parts Modeselektor and Apparat - are set to join us once more with their riotous...

11/03/2010 Bodi Bill plans to rock WMF

On April 17th our friends at Berlin's WMF will be hosting wild boys Bodi Bill. The trio had a successful LP Next Time and they continue to fosters a reputation of intensity and unforgettable live shows. Loving and gigging, the crew want to put on a memorable finale before they disappear...

04/03/2010 Prepare for this year’s INmusic Festival

T-Mobile INmusic festival will be celebrating its fifth anniversary in its customary party site; the beautiful Lake Jarun in Zagreb, Croatia. Boasting six different stages, the music ranges from techno to indie rock. This year InMusic will take a more dance music theme. Having previousl...

02/03/2010 New festival: Lunchmeat served in Prague

A new festival, tastily titled Lunchmeat, is going to be centered in Prague this March. The event will take from 9th through the 13th and the aim will be to introduce and describe new activities in visuals and electronic music. Festival organizers Nosaj Thing and Romain Tardy also want to build...

25/02/2010 Happy birthday, Tresor

Tresor will soon celebrate its 19th birthday party. After pushing the finest techno bleeps and thuds for the best part of two decades, the stage is set for two very big parties. Situated in a cavernous power station, Tresor has become synonymous with Berlin techno. Celebrating 19 years...

24/02/2010 Off Centre debuts with Gui Boratto, Dopplereffekt and The Field

The city of Amsterdam will come alive this May with the inaugural edition of the Dutch festival Off Centre, featuring one of the better electronic festival lineups to appear all year. Set to take place over four days in May, famous venue Melkweg will play host to a slew of ecclectic and...

19/02/2010 Massive Attack to headline Melt!

It's already that time of year, Germany's largest boutique festival Melt! has announced the first batch of names for 2010 and although quite predictable, it's not bad at all. We have Massive Attack headlining on Sunday, plus a slew of indie and electronic hotshots including British nu-ga...

18/02/2010 Trippin’ Out at the Guggenheim

New York’s Guggenheim Museum plans a psychedelic trip on its 50th birthday and no, illegal substances are not involved. Animal Collective are the creative minds behind this project and the band plans a ‘psychedelic’ art show that will leave you wondering just where your mind has gone. A...

18/02/2010 Sonar, Sonar, Sonar

Lots of Sonar news to update you on. First up, British hip-hop delinquent Dizzee Rascal and electro tunesmiths Chemical Brothers have been announced as two of the headline acts at the Spanish festival this June. This adds to the excitement, as we’ve already mentioned AIR and LCD Soundsystem will...

15/02/2010 Jeff Mills pays tribute to Debussy

It’s nice to know that heavyweight DJs and producers such as Jeff Mills are still able to pay homage to artists beyond the stratosphere of contemporary music, choosing to instead pay tribute to classical visionaries as Claude Debussy. On February 20th, the Detroit DJ will team up with pi...

15/02/2010 Jim Jarmusch to curate ATP 2010

Director behind some of the 20th and 21st century’s most iconic movies like Ghost Dog, Broken Flowers and Coffee and Cigarettes, Jim Jarmusch has been anointed curator of this years ATP 2010 festival. Set to take place at Kutsher’s Country Club in Catskills New York, the event will featu...

10/02/2010 Field day announce first acts for 2010

Field Day have released details of some of the artists who will be performing at the mini festival this summer. Taking place over the course of one day at its usual London location of Victoria Park, this year the festival organisers have embraced a more electronic lineup. Pantha...