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Dance music

October 2026

  • 2026 Wilderness FestivalCHARLBURY, OXFORDSHIRE - AUGUST 01: (EDITORIAL USE ONLY) Jake Shears of Scissor Sisters performs during the 2026 Wilderness Festival on August 01, 2026 in Charlbury, Oxfordshire. (Photo by Jim Dyson/Getty Images)

    ‘My hips can’t help but move’: readers on the songs that always get them dancing

    From Northern soul and 90s bangers to disco classics and indie anthems, readers share the floorfillers that never fail to start the party

September 2026

  • Singer Saffron of Republica sings passionately into a microphone on stage

    How we made
    ‘We wanted it to be a battlecry’: how Republica made 90s anthem Ready to Go

  • Taylor Swift poses with hand on hip in a black top and sequined skirt

    MTV VMAs 2026: full list of winners

  • Fans at Oasis’ 2025 tour in Buenos Aires

    Oasis, Leicester punks and Ukraine techno: Abbey Road music photography awards 2026 – in pictures

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  • Closeup of UK writer and producer MNEK.

    MNEK on writing smash hits, battling self-doubt and his solo struggles: ‘I’m a fat Black gay man. Try selling that’

  • The rise of Dom Dolla: what the DJ’s record-breaking stadium show for 60,000 fans tells us about music today

  • ‘It’s about being loudly visible’: Ahadadream, the British-Pakistani dance star defanging racist slurs

  • Fancy a pint … at Lidl? The bizarre battle over Northern Ireland’s stifled nightlife

  • Flashback
    Singer Becky Hill looks back: ‘Aside from the music I was making, I hated every minute of my 20s’

  • Empress Of: Dream House review – a tender and openhearted rebirth after wildfires razed her house

  • ‘Very authoritarian, very brutal’: three decades after the UK’s anti-rave crackdown, why is France doing the same?

August 2026

  • Kettama raises both arms above a DJ deck on stage, red lights behind

    Reading and Leeds festival review – post-GCSE blowout shows how dominant dance music now is

  • Cheerful young friends dancing and enjoying together at nightclubPosed by models GettyImages-1461603754

    Tell us: what’s the song that is guaranteed to get you on the dancefloor?

  • Jorja Smith lying down lokoing at the camera

    ‘So many people say things about my appearance – it’s not normal’: Jorja Smith on burnout, body-shaming and finding freedom

  • SKINTOWN production, Day 4, photographed in Antrim, Co. Antrim on Thursday, 18 September 2025. Photography by Brendan Duffy.

    Skintown review – Northern Irish scamps rave their Troubles away

  • Overmono review – irresistible dance duo swap club intimacy for well-earned spectacle

  • Prince to Madonna, Blur to Beth Orton: William Orbit’s 12 greatest recordings

July 2026

  • A woman of colour wearing black with her hair spread out behind her on a blue background

    ‘I was so self-assured in my early 20s. Then my frontal lobe hit’: Rachel Chinouriri, every pop star’s favourite UK pop star

    ​She faced racist bullying as a child – then pigeonholing as an artist. Now following up a hit debut album championed by the A-list, the Croydon singer-songwriter says she finally understands who she really is
  • Tricky

    Honest playlist
    ‘People say they’ve conceived to my music’: Tricky’s honest playlist

    The trip-hop star doesn’t believe in getting jiggy to songs and would choose Cyndi Lauper at karaoke. But which classic reminds him of his mum?
  • A close-up of the musician Nia Archives' face, as she holds a manicured finger to her teeth

    Nia Archives: Emotional Junglist review – breakbeats and heartbreak combined by a brilliant British one-off

    On the Bradford-born producer’s self-assured second album, drum’n’bass rhythms power up angsty odes with shades of Arctic Monkeys, Kate Nash and myriad genres
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