Antithetical conflicts have mired the rise of electronic dance music. Too much pop sounds and collaborations, attention to the wrong releases, and just press a space bar assumptions play off the popularity a genre long underground is now experiencing. The latest issue? What, exactly, to call the genre. A snipe [...]
In summer festival sets and even a Kia commercial, the anthem “In My Mind” has been inescapable. The tune, on the other hand, is too often erroneously attributed to Swedish House Mafia. Instead, Australian duo Feenixpawl, composed of Aden Forte and Josh Soon, created this ubiquitous track with TV Rock’s [...]
The big news, if you haven’t heard already, is, DJ Magazine’s annual poll was released last Friday. As has been the trend over the past few years, Armin Van Buuren is No. 1 and Tiesto holds strong at No. 2. Avicii moved up to No. 3, surpassing Deadmau5 (No. 5) [...]
Modern-day electronic music owes a great deal to New Order, of seminal 1983 dance single “Blue Monday.” That being said, the band’s 30-plus year career has never kept on a strictly electronic path, starting out as quintessential post-punk outfit Joy Division, experimenting with synths and sequencers early on, dabbling in [...]
EDM, as we’ve said before, you’ve come a long way, baby. But, makeup taglines aside, this is as far as you can go. When the general listener hears you as an un-evolving fad of 4/4 bass drum beats and catchy synth lines, you’ve been pigeonholed – and not in a [...]
Multiple events and artist tours were announced over the past week. Feenixpawl, the Australian duo behind this summer’s hit “In My Mind,” announced their first U.S. tour, which starts on November 7 and lasts through November. Afrojack is also coming to the U.S. for his Jacked Tour. The DJ known [...]
Back in 2009, just as dubstep was taking off stateside and a strong mainstay in the U.K., producer Untold, observing the nascent genre’s near future and potential offshoots, said, “[I] hope dubstep continues to be hard to pin down, disobeys its manifesto, gets called stupid names, gatecrashes other scenes and [...]
The stadium or the outdoor festival is allegorical in EDM’s history. In the 1990s, just as the genre started to take off, larger venues symbolized just how far its performers have come. The bowl-shaped concert hall, holding thousands and placing the DJ front and center, became the apex. But, in [...]
Opinions about the state of EDM mattered more than releases and tours this past week. Kaskade stated the obvious on his Tumblr: “Put simply, EDM is not the new kid on the block.” Boys Noize, in an interview with Gawker, called dance music “dumb”. Zedd says he doesn’t like “the [...]
It’s imperative for any successful pop or hip-hop artist to dabble with fashion. On the smaller scale, Nicki Minaj, Lady Gaga, and Azealia Banks collaborated with MAC Cosmetics in recent years, and Taylor Swift, Justin Bieber, Rihanna, and Beyonce are among the current top 40 talent with perfume lines. Going [...]