EDM News Roundup: Week of September 14

When it comes to live performances, you can either watch them in person or on your computer, and this week’s news has announcements for both forms. First, Tiesto, who released a video for his upcoming Club Life College Invasion Tour, added Quintino to this lineup. The tour – an in-person [...]

By |2023-11-24T07:39:23-05:00September 14, 2012|

Clubs Versus Concert Halls: How Do You Like Your Live EDM?

EDM’s ascent is fraught with compromises: pop star vocals for radio play, Skrillex for dubstep, and concert halls for clubs. While Skrillex’s merits can be debated and vocals are no stranger to electronic dance music, transitioning from clubs – the music’s origins – to arenas, stadiums, and even smaller venues [...]

By |2023-11-24T07:39:24-05:00September 13, 2012|

Kill the Silence: A Nice Change of Pace

Swedish EDM artist, John Dahlbäck, has been producing his own music since he was only 15 years old. And not only has he been prolific in musical output, but he even started his own label, Pickadoll Records, in his later teenage years. The last five years have proved to be [...]

By |2023-06-05T08:59:16-04:00September 12, 2012|

Graffiti Prague

Before the mayor of New York provided “initiatives” like Graffiti Free New York, which cleaned up the City of graffiti, there was artwork over the walls of buildings, near subways and on streets. Sure a lot of graffiti was just kids acting out and writing curse words or drawing funny [...]

By |2023-11-24T07:56:49-05:00September 11, 2012|

When Does Experimental Become Ridiculous?

Being a general proponent of freedom and self-expression, I’ve always been one to support even the weirdest experiments in music. It doesn’t matter whether it’s my thing, I can still appreciate someone’s effort to create something novel. I mean the same goes with hairstyles and fashion, right? (Although personally, I’ve [...]

By |2023-11-24T07:56:49-05:00September 11, 2012|

EDM News Roundup: Week of September 7

This week finally saw AN21 & Max Vangali’s debut album, People of the Night, drop. This highly-anticipated release, with 15 tracks and several guest appearances, came out on Size Records. Also anticipated, the remixes for “Silhouettes,” Avicii’s follow-up to “Levels,” came out. Lending their talents are Estonian DJ Syn Cole, [...]

By |2023-11-24T07:39:25-05:00September 7, 2012|

Pause Rewind EP: A Simple Sadness

Like many other artists in the EDM world, bassDrumsnareDrum didn’t start out making electronic music. He started out studying Music at Southampton University, then proceeded to tour the northwest of Europe as a drummer for a pop group. He spent many years working under Warner Music, and even composed mash-ups [...]

By |2023-06-05T08:59:16-04:00September 5, 2012|

EDM in Prague

Europe is arguably the home of dance music and also home to much of the art and fashion that has been innovative for centuries. America may be catching up on the EDM scene, but it is here that it all started and in many ways dance music is so a [...]

By |2023-11-24T07:39:26-05:00September 4, 2012|
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