Global News Venezuelan techno DJ jailed after selling US$9.3 million worth of counterfeit plane parts José Alejandro Zamora Yrala sold over 60,000 fake parts that were fitted in planes across the world
Features How India ferried the new Gorillaz record ‘The Mountain’ across Aditi Dharmadhikari traces the creative currents that shaped the release through the subcontinent’s musicians, studios, and spiritual traditions
Features Raves as Rituals: The Rise of the Bantuwing and the decolonisation of a Manila dancefloor Shot as a music video, the event organised by [29] reframes the rave as a site of queer power and indigenous wisdom
Global News Multiple hard techno DJs removed from club and festival line-ups amid sexual misconduct allegations Numerous events and festivals have removed Shlømo, Odymel, CARV, Basswell and Fantasm from line-ups amid an outpouring of allegations, which is being dubbed as the genre's "#MeToo" moment
Features Mengzy Selects – 044 / February Mixmag Asia's bass purveyor Mengzy shares her musical discoveries from around the region
Asia News “Something we can nurture and grow responsibly”: Wonderfruit expands with Open Fields & Kyoto chapter Stretching beyond 5 days & Thailand, Music Director Phuong Le mentions how the expansion sharpens the festival’s curatorial focus
Asia News Narcotics agency pushes for tighter regulation on vapes & nitrous oxide in Indonesia Lab tests found nearly a quarter of vape liquid samples contained narcotics; every sample tested during investigations came back positive
Events Singapore: Dub Skank’in Hifi x Freeform present Dub to Drum & Bass feat. Ray Keith Sunday, March 8, 2026
Features Artists exciting us in 2026 / February Our monthly round-up of names from Asia & the diaspora, making major noise & moves everywhere that matters
Global News Industry figures address AI-generated music in Say No to Suno open letter "The hijacking of the world’s entire treasure-trove of music floods platforms with AI slop and dilutes the royalty pools of legitimate artists from whose music this slop is derived."
Global News Anonymous user overloads Soulseek with thousands of Homer Simpson "covers" It's estimated at least 2,000 tracks currently feature vocals from the cartoon patriarch on the file-sharing platform
Film & TV Gorillaz drop trailer for animated short ‘The Mountain, The Moon Cave and The Sad God’ Both the band’s hand-drawn film and new album ‘The Mountain’ arrive this weekend
Global News Daft Punk share new music video for 'Human After All' on fifth anniversary of split The new visual features footage from the Robots' 2006 film Electroma, edited by creative director Cédric Hervet
Asia News Musicmine founder Hideoki Amano has died aged 63 Since establishing the label group in 1994, Amano helped lay the groundwork for the Japanese techno scene throughout the '90s and '00s