Internet radio has come a long way since the early 2000s. Back then, services would let you select up to five artists to create a playlist and then pull a bunch of related songs. Sometimes, it would work; other times, you’d add some classic electronic artists and then end up [...]
Tiesto got some attention this past month for his latest In The Booth series. The music itself wasn’t particularly remarkable, but rather, a statement he made was: Getting signed to a major label is the next step his career needs. “I wanted to work with the biggest player in the [...]
For EDM, entering the “mainstream” music sphere officially over the last two years has come with a few exhilarating peaks, like earning a top Billboard 200 hit, and seemingly perilous lows, such as sales and accolades heaped on David Guetta, Calvin Harris, and other producers who put out half-assed pop [...]
It’s easy to dismiss James Murphy, formerly of LCD Soundsystem and now a solo act, producer, and DJ, as a hipster who never grew up. But despite ties to Brooklyn and producing Arcade Fire’s latest album, Murphy has some cogent observations about dance music and DJing that all performers – [...]
You know how, when you see one of those get rich quick schemes on late night television, the back pages of your local alternative weekly, or on Craigslist, the promises of unlimited income always seem too easy and too good to be true? That could be what EDM is starting [...]
These days, a week doesn’t go by without some news about EDM in Las Vegas: a DJ scores a new residency, a new club gets built, or more funds get put toward improving one of the Strip’s several venues. Recently, what caught attention about Las Vegas’ nearly-overnight shift wasn’t some [...]
All the way back when we attended the 2013 Winter Music Conference, there was a quote Secret Society’s Frank Lords said during one of the panels: “There’s nothing like the dirt in analog. I don’t think you can really pull that out of a digital plug-in.” And to a certain [...]
How soon after a highly-publicized death should artists – or anyone, for that matter – start spouting off a bunch of nonsense about everything that’s wrong with Americans’ attitudes toward drugs? When you’re a high-profile artist, you ought to wait – at least a few months. Although considered a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it [...]
While I can’t speak about what goes on in Europe, it seems that a fair percentage of U.S. television commercials now contain an EDM track to it – a bit of dubstep in a video game advertisement, a Feenixpawl song accompanying the Kia Soul hamsters, or Diplo-produced Alex Clare track [...]
Within the subject of mainstream EDM festivals, it’s practically a cliché now to talk about how nearly every producer or DJ on stage goes through the same tracks. There’s no air of experimentation, no sense of adventure during a set list, and certainly no moment that makes you go, “What [...]