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What Happens When a Dance Music Subgenre Loses Popularity?: Predicting EDM’s Future

Since 2012, we’ve been hearing that this EDM thing is about to reach a peak. Trend forecasters ended up wrong after festival attendance and record sales surged globally, with North America consuming a greater portion of the market. 2014, however, appears different. It’s not so much that all aspects have [...]

By Irene Test|2023-11-24T07:49:24-05:00April 28, 2014|

Resurrect The Disco

In the second half of the 1980s, Morrissey, still with The Smiths, sang, “Burn down the disco, hang the blessed DJ.” Now, according to a trend piece in the New York Times, disco revival groups – but not nu-disco – want to resurrect it. But acts like Crystal Ark Party [...]

By Irene Test|2023-11-24T07:38:58-05:00December 17, 2012|