For those that don’t know, March is informally the season for dance music awards. Newcomer the Beatport Awards ended its poll at the end of February and announced its winners earlier in the month, and the long-standing International Dance Music Awards (IDMAs) revealed its lineup on March 27 during the [...]
By now, you’ve heard Daft Punk’s “Get Lucky,” the initial single from their first studio album since 2005. With its slowed down tempo, upbeat character, and prominent guitar groove, “Get Lucky” – and Daft Punk’s upcoming album Random Access Memories, out May 21 in the U.S. – has served as [...]
The International Dance Music Awards, or IDMAs, have been around as long as the Winter Music Conference and now span roughly 50 categories ranging from music to artists to events to gear. Upon entering the Colony Theater in Miami Beach for the March 21 ceremony, we noticed Lee Dagger of [...]
Larger festival presence and greater music sales form just one part of EDM’s mainstream ascent. Whether you argue this visibility has watered down the genre or is more beneficial is a moot issue. Instead of being seen as a more repetitive, if not lesser, form of disco, electronic dance music [...]