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Dance music

February 2026

  • Olivia Dean receives the pop act award at the 2026 Brit awards.

    Brit awards 2026: full list of winners

  • SOH Grace JonesGrace Jones performs at the Sydney Opera House forecourt on 28 February 2026

    Grace Jones review – chaos, nudity and endless costume changes: the disco legend’s show has it all

  • BRIT Awards 2026Olivia Dean receives the artist of the year award during the Brit Awards 2026 at Co-op Live, Manchester. Picture date: Saturday February 28, 2026. PA Photo. Photo credit should read: Doug Peters/PA Wire

    Olivia Dean sweeps the board at 2026 Brit awards, winning four including artist, song and album of the year

  • Partygoers at Temple Meltdown in Tainan, Taiwan.

    Temple of boom! Why Taiwan’s religious sites are becoming unlikely rave venues

  • Willie Colón was an explosive energy source who took salsa into the stratosphere

    Garth Cartwright

  • Raye review – dazzling display of range from old-school Vegas to Euro-dance

  • Brief letters
    What DJs, chefs and politicians have in commons

  • The hill I will die on
    The hill I will die on: ‘Being a DJ’ isn’t a proper job

    Phil Mongredien

  • Fred Again review – guest-heavy homecoming for the golden boy of UK dance is an eclectic triumph

  • ‘The music could not stop for three days’: how Sirāt went on a road trip to the dark heart of rave

January 2026

  • Harry Styles

    Harry Styles: Aperture review – a joyous, quietly radical track made for hugging strangers on a dancefloor

    Styles is wonderfully loose and unhurried on the lead single to his new album, taking a bold path away from the rest of today’s mainstream pop
  • Booty @ Area, Obs Music Oct 06 09 Bootylicious @ Area, Vauxhall, London, UK, for The Observer Music Magazine, October 2006 The crowd will always bring their own colour to the event in more or less subtle ways. Permissive spaces always seem to propagate fresh and innovative fashion statements blurring the boundaries between irony, acceptability and taste.

    ‘Who was this golden creature?’: the stars of London’s black queer nightlife – in pictures

    From newbie drag queens to wild voguing performances, a new archival exhibition boasts images from four decades of riotous nightlife
    Gallery12

    • Resolution festival review – admin hell, an epic club night and flamenco voguing

    • Sébastien Tellier: ‘I thought I’d be famous after Eurovision - but nobody noticed’

    • Ranked
      Songs about new beginnings – ranked!

December 2025

  • ‘I sacrificed my childhood to be in these adult spaces’ … Alex Young AKA Villager.

    New music for 2026
    ‘By 15, I was hanging out with Skrillex’: the idiosyncratic club music of reformed EDM kid Villager

    Disillusioned by his early EDM success, Alex Young bought hardware, embraced UK dance culture – and reinvented himself
  • side by side photos of three musicians

    2025 in culture
    The best songs of 2025 … you may not have heard

    From a folk murder ballad to an impassioned call for peace, Guardian writers pick their favourite lesser-heard tracks of the year

    • Jewish klezmer-dance band Oi Va Voi: ‘Musicians shouldn’t have to keep looking over their shoulders’

    • Best music of 2025
      Paranoia, pop-dubstep and perfectly odd gems: the best old music we discovered this year

    • Best music of 2025
      The 10 best global albums of 2025

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