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Sónar Report 2025

Blawan, Daito Manabe, Cora Novoa, Plaid, Flore b2b Peder Mannerfelt, Helena Hauff, Noia, MCR-T, and Alva Noto & Fennesz's 'Continuum' were the highlights of Sónar 2025. The Barcelona festival returned for its 32nd edition from Thursday, June 12th to Saturday, June 14th, and brought down the curtain on its time in Montjuïc ahead of a new single-venue space next year. Sónar attracted 119,000 visitors across Sónar by Day (52,500) and Sónar by Night (66,500), plus another 42,000 across OFFSónar and the rest of the Sónar Week activities. While this year’s programme brought together more than 1,400 artists, exhibitors, and speakers from the worlds of art, technology, and science, the core three days of by Day and by Night were impacted by previously-announced participants cancelling their invovlement owing to Sónar's parent company Superstruct being sold to a consotrium including global invetment firm KKR last year. The cancellations first emerged when KKR was highlighted...

Solstice Solidarity Synethsis Winter 2025 edition with Drum & Lace, elisa, Louf, rhubiqs, Sinemis
The ambient, experimental, and electronic concert series Solstice Solidarity Synethsis returns to the Old Church in Stoke Newington on Wednesday, December 17th. Celebrate the Wint…

More acts for Iceland Eclipse Festival 2026
Android Jones, Ayla Schafer, Captain Hook, Chris Dyer, CloZee, Ida Engberg, Kenny Dope, Nick Warren, Playing For Change, Nightmares on Wax, Steven Blumenfeld, Tinna María Verret, …

First acts for Field Day 2026
Honey Dijon, Andy C, SICARIA, Joy Orbison, MJ Cole, Interplanetary Criminal, and Floating Points are among the first acts confirmed for Field Day 2026. The festival returns to sou…

First acts and new format for Sónar 2026
Sónar's Barcelona event will evolve in 2026 with a single venue, and the first acts have been confirmed. From Thursday, June 18th to Saturday, June 20th, Sónar will take place…

Beres Hammond, Gyptian, Jada Kingdom to play City Splash 2026
City Splash returns to celebrate Caribbean and African culture in London's Brockwell Park on Monday, May 25th. Beres Hammond, Gyptian, and Jada Kingdom top the bill with Queen…

First acts for Hideout Festival 2026
Interplanetary Criminal, Skream, Josh Baker, Max Dean, Eliza Rose, Gorgon City, Sarah Story, and sim0ne are among the first acts confirmed for Hideout Festival 2026. The event re…

EXIT Festival to embark on global tour
EXIT Festival will tour through Egypt, India, Malta, Croatia, Macedonia and Serbia next year. Following the final edition of the annual event at the Petrovaradin Fortress in Novi …