Good mourning Britain: how chillout music soundtracked the death of Diana | Music

Elton John singing Candle in the Wind at the funeral of Princess Diana in 1997.

What was the soundtrack to Diana, Princess of Wales’s death? Surely Elton John’s Candle in the Wind 1997? After all, it’s the biggest-selling UK single of all time. But no: if you were listening to […]

We Out Here festival review – celebratory weekend of raucous dance and cosmic jazz | Music

Gilles Peterson performing on the main stage at We Out Here festival.

The musical taste of Gilles Peterson – the BBC Radio 6 Music broadcaster and curator behind Worldwide FM and Brownswood Recordings – is nothing if not eclectic. We Out Here, the festival he stages across […]

A Collab Between Big Sean and Detroit Techno Legend Juan Atkins Is In the Works – EDM.com

A Collab Between Big Sean and Detroit Techno Legend Juan Atkins Is In the Works - EDM.com

It was exactly 20 years ago that Eminem famously proclaimed, “Nobody listens to techno,” but in 2022 the the worlds of hip-hop and electronic music are becoming more intertwined by the day. The latest narrative […]

Chemical Brothers and Kraftwerk drive London wild at record breaking APE Presents Field Day – Music News

Chemical Brothers and Kraftwerk drive London wild at record breaking APE Presents Field Day - Music News

London’s legendary Field Day celebrated its 15th anniversary year pulling its biggest-ever crowd, making it the largest festival in London this year. 50,000 music fans flocked to the sold out event, which was presented as […]

Watch Electric Callboy’s Incredible Performance Of ‘We Got The Moves’ At Parookaville – News

Watch Electric Callboy’s Incredible Performance Of ‘We Got The Moves’ At Parookaville - News

Electric Callboy came, saw and conquered at Parookaville a few weeks ago, and here is the evidence. Last month Electric Callboy played a show at Parookaville Festival. For those unfamiliar, Parookaville is a predominantly electronic […]

The Girlfriend Who Didn’t Exist: the Manti Te’o hoax revisited with sympathy | NFL

Manti Te’o is interviewed by Katie Couric in the days following the unravelling of the hoax in 2013

Two sporting scandals dominated the American news cycle at the start of 2013: the disgrace of Lance Armstrong and the humiliation of college footballer Manti Te’o. But if Armstrong’s belated confession that he doped to […]

For All Mankind season 3 showed how hard Star Trek’s utopia is to achieve

Dev Ayesa leaning over a desk with computers on it; his team around him is smiling and looking on

After two seasons of an extended Cold War, For All Mankind moved into the technology boom of the ’90s. If the real ’90s were driven by a techno-optimism, For All Mankind explores an idea of […]

Charlotte de Witte Makes History As First Woman to Close Out Tomorrowland’s Mainstage – EDM.com

Charlotte de Witte Makes History As First Woman to Close Out Tomorrowland's Mainstage - EDM.com

One of techno music’s modern day icons, Charlotte de Witte, has landed herself in a page in the EDM history book. The renowned Belgian DJ and electronic music producer has become the first woman and […]

Beyoncé’s ‘Renaissance’: a landmark expression of Black joy

Beyoncé's 'Renaissance': a landmark expression of Black joy

Consider the wiggle released. When Beyoncé told fans about her seventh solo studio album, “Renaissance” — and let’s just say right here that as far as seventh albums go, this one feels like as big […]