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Dance music

July 2024

  • Mercury rising … (L-R) Charli xcx, Corinne Bailey Rae and Beth Gibbons.

    Mercury prize 2024: Charli xcx, the Last Dinner Party and Beth Gibbons among nominees

  • Princess Superstar performing in New York, 2006 – the height of the original electro-house boom.

    Watch me work it, I’m perfect! The return of electro-house, pop’s trashiest, brattiest sound

  • A visitor wearing a VR headset and using controllers

    VR show takes ravers old and new back to early UK acid house scene

  • Portrait of Alan Sparhawk, who wears a dark denim shirt.

    Low’s Alan Sparhawk on the death of his wife and bandmate Mimi Parker: ‘If you fall in love, you know this could happen’

  • ‘If the world explodes, the only survivors will be cockroaches and Cubans!’: the Guantánamo musicians defying the island’s crisis

  • How we made
    ‘We knew a banjo house record would annoy the techno bores’: how the Grid made Swamp Thing

  • Kiasmos: II review – will have you crying tears of joy on the dancefloor

  • South Asians have been insultingly ignored by most music festivals – so thank you Glastonbury

    Nikhita Chulani

June 2024

  • Jimmy Somerville of Bronski Beat in the video for Smalltown Boy

    Why Bronski Beat’s anthem of gay culture resonates 40 years on

  • Landmark moment … Orbital (Phil, left, and Paul Hartnoll) play the Pyramid stage at Glastonbury 1995.

    ‘We were the bridge between indie and dance’: Glastonbury icons Orbital on 30 years of breaking barriers

  • ‘I thought everyone in music had a really glamorous life. So I tried to make normality feel glamorous’ … Mike Skinner of the Streets.

    The reader interview
    The Streets’ Mike Skinner: ‘My mid-20s were utterly traumatic. Everything was upside down’

  • The Zawose Queens.

    ‘Women have always been sidelined. So we’re radical’: the Zawose Queens go from Tanzania to Glastonbury

  • ‘I’m getting 500 DMs a day’: Fish56Octagon, the dressing gown-wearing viral DJ sensation

  • Post your questions for Orbital at Glastonbury

  • From Coldplay to KMRU: who to see at Glastonbury 2024

  • Club culture
    Energy and inclusivity: London’s LGBTQ+ club scene – in pictures

  • James Chance, key figure in New York’s no wave music scene, dies aged 71

  • Dance music producer Dario G known for No 2 hit Sunchyme dies at 53

  • Club culture
    From topping the 90s charts to ‘very controlled and predictable’ today: is the remix dead?

  • Post your questions for Mike Skinner

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