Mikey Mooguire is an online publisher, entrepreneur and artist coach based in Dublin, Ireland.
Having spent years running music magazines in print form, In 2013 Mikey launched the satirical dance music magazine Wunderground. The site quickly amassed a cult following and several million readers a month, growing to be one of the most read electronic music magazines in the world, featured in Rolling Stone, Mixmag, The Daily Beast, Resident Advisor, Billboard, Fact, USA Today, Complex, Elite Daily, Magnetic Mag, Your EDM, Dancing Astronaut & more.
Shared, loved and loathed the world over by some of the most influential acts in dance music, such as David Guetta, Steve Aoki, Frankie Knuckles, Tiesto, Calvin Harris, Carl Cox, Adam Beyer, Diplo, Charlotte De Witte, Solardo, Disclosure, Solomun, Nike Rodgers, Dixon, Maceo Plex, Tale Of Us, Seth Troxler, Frankie Knuckles, David Morales, Eats Everything, Hot Since 82 and even P Diddy!
In 2016 he took the reigns along the Ibiza Club News team to form IbizaClubNews.net. With a client list including every big club on the island, including Pacha, Ushuaia, Hi Ibiza, DC10, Amnesia, Privilege & Ibiza Rocks, as well as over 1 million followers, Ibiza Club News is Ibiza’s biggest online community. It’s weekly podcast, Ibiza Club News Radio, which relaunches this November, was #1 on iTunes every week it ran in 2018/19.
In 2019 he formed The Daily Beat, renaming his Breakthrough Program which launched in 2017 ‘The Daily Beat Artist Development Program’, as well as launching a series of conferences in popular clubs globally, such as the legendary fabric in London and House Of Yes in Brooklyn, New York.
Also this year he has purchased the much-loved classic dance music magazine, Ibiza Voice, with the legendary Ibiza Voice podcast series, with over 550 episodes with every guest you can imagine; Solomun, Svan Vath, Richie Hawton, Adam Beyer, Loco Dice (add more)
2019 was a busy year, as Mikey also launched his media network, Dance Village with festival clients including Epizode, elrow Town, Ultra Miami, EDC, Timewarp, Defected, Tomorrowland, Resistance, elrow Town & hundreds more.
With a love for public speaking, Mikey has spoken at music conferences around the globe, including ADE, Miami Winter Conference and Brighton Music Conference and well as keynote talks at high-level marketing conferences such as POMP and CTEF (proof).
In 2019 Mikey’s Wunderground brand held a season long residency in Hï Ibiza alongside the Bodyworks event with Solardo, Camelphat & Fisher, as well as a festival residency with elrow town. Before that, Mikey’s brands have held or hosted events in clubs such as Space Ibiza, Ministry Of Sound, fabric london, Sankeys & more.