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It has been designed to become an artist’s haven for unannounced top DJ performances where they can debut unreleased and sought-after music.
What kind of clause is "where they can debut unreleased and sought-after music"? Noun, adverb, or relative?
I'm guessing it's not a noun clause, but I could be wrong. I'm leaning towards relative adjective clause.
Structurally, it can't be a Noun Clause because the last words before it: "unannounced top DJ performances" already make up a Noun Phrase.
It can be either an Adverb Clause or, like what you strongly feel, an Adjective Clause.
But semantically, "where they can debut unreleased and sought-after music" doesn't really perform the function of an Adverb in that sentence.
This is why it's an Adjective Clause.
where they can debut unreleased and sought-after music
is a restrictive Relative Clause that modifies the entire Noun Phrase
an artist’s haven for unannounced top DJ performances
This NP has haven as its head noun. Since haven can have a locative sense, it can be modified by a locative relative clause beginning with where (similarly, only NPs that can have temporal senses can be modified by relative clauses with when).
And, since it modifies the entire NP, it has to go after it, which means after the prepositional phrase at the end. That's all, really.
