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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...

Floating Points, Blawan, billy woods, and more for C2C Festival 2025
Floating Points, Blawan, billy woods, Smerz, Maria Somerville, Los Thuthanaka, Barker, Mechatok, Annahstasia, and Kelman Duran have joined the C2C Festival line-up. The event retu…

Amsterdam Dance Event 2025 confirms first acts and events
Clara Cuvé, Confidence Man, Dave Clarke, Eris Drew, Flava D, Helena Hauff, Jennifer Loveless, Job Jobse, Kettama, KI/KI, Octo Octa, and Skepta are among the first acts confirmed f…

Turner Prize winner Tai Shani presents The Spell or The Dream at Somerset House
Turner Prize winner and Somerset House Studios artist Tai Shani will present a free commission as part of Somerset House’s 25th birthday celebrations in its courtyard this summer.…

The Disco Express stage joins Love Motion 2025
The Disco Express will host the second stage at the Nile Rodgers & Chic headlined Love Motion in south London. The Disco Express stages at the Crystal Palace Bowl festival on …

Full line-up for Sonic Boom Festival 2025
Everything Everything, K.O.G., Prima Queen, The Clause, better joy, Leah Wilcox, and Joel Foster will play the free main stage at Burton upon Trent's Sonic Boom Festival. This…

Burning Spear to play Electric Brixton
Jamaican roots reggae artist Burning Spear will play live at Electric Brixton in August. Burning Spear has spent over six decades carrying the torch of reggae with an unwavering m…

London's ICA reveals forthcoming programme
At the end of summer the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) will host Tanoa Sasraku’s new solo exhibition, premieres by filmmakers such as Albert Serra and Courtney Stephens, a …