Nadia Vela
Nadia files from the floor: festivals, club nights, and the culture that builds around a great set. She came up on artist liaison and a residency of her own before she started writing, so she still reads a room like a selector.
Stories by Nadia Vela
Heaven's renewed community-asset status shows how LGBTQ+ nightlife spaces can turn cultural value into notice, time and planning leverage.
Suno Vinyl is still a waitlist six weeks on. Its transparency tools are built for platforms, and a 12-inch record isn't one.
Luminate's 2026 midyear data: dance/electronic led US genre growth, US CD sales rose 16%, and half of young CD buyers own no player.
Insomniac's Medellín debut leads with kineticFIELD, Dreamstate and Time Warp. DJVibe ran the same stage-first announcement for EDC New York in 2012.
Two dance sets stopped in one late-August weekend over crowd size. Festival Republic's Melvin Benn said the stage was too small for the draw.
End Overdose wants 10,000 people trained by August 31. Insomniac, Goldenvoice, AEG and Breakaway are the route it is travelling.
The Consell d'Eivissa's PIAT, still in drafting, would stop the island issuing new nightclub licences. It would not close the rooms already open.
Kerri Chandler, Moodymann, Loco Dice and Andy C play Ministry of Sound's 35th birthday weekend, October 2-4. The bill is a programming statement.
Techno Friday, house Saturday: Factory 93 puts Hawtin, Jamie Jones, 999999999 and more in one Alameda hangar, 30-31 October, 21+.
England will cut business rates 20 percent for pubs, clubs and live music venues from April 2027. What it means for small rooms, and why it is contested.
Storms killed Friday at Ullevi. By Saturday night Swedish House Mafia had played a free Götaplatsen set and the moved stadium show.
Tomorrowland scaled Weekend 2 back to limited controlled pyrotechnics under Code Orange wildfire risk. What the Mainstage did instead.