Following up on the release of his anticipated sophomore effort Skin, Flume has embarked on a world tour in support of the new album. The Australian future bass producer has been documenting the tour to give fans a behind the scenes look, starting with the first episode released in July that detailed his shows throughout Europe. A second episode has now been made available for streaming.
Back in 2007, rapper MIA was thrust into the spotlight with her single "Paper Planes," an infectious pop number that took the radio by storm and gained further notoriety when it featured in the trailers for Pineapple Express. What a lot of dance music fans may not realize though, is that the hit song was produced by none other than Diplo, who is now best known as the leader of Major Lazer and one half of Jack Ü.
Insomniac Events founder Pasquale Rotella is set to stand trial this November for embezzlement allegations that were leveled against him and his partner Reza Gerami in the wake of an investigation surrounding the death of a teenage girl at EDC six years ago.
During his recent set at Mad Decent Block Party, Dillon Francis fans were treated to some unreleased material in the form of his upcoming collaboration with trap duo Flosstradamus. The "Get Low" producer has been rather fond of dropping IDs in his sets lately, unveiling a number of collabs over the last few months at his festival appearances at Paradiso and Spring Awakening.
Legendary DJ Pete Tong of BBC Radio 1 fame has a brand new radio show headed for the big apple. Sponsored by RPM Presents, the newly announced All Gone Pete Tong show is heading to New York City, with aid from local darling Lauren Lane, Danish producer Kölsch and a special guest to be announced at a later date.
We're sad to report that three fatalities occurred over the weekend at the ninth annual HARD Summer. As is far too often the case with music festivals, two women and one man died at the event, which took place over an extremely hot couple of days. Two deaths occurred on Saturday, while the last reported death occurred on the festival's final day on Sunday.
After a seven year absence, UK dubstep founders Caspa and Rusko have returned to deliver a new three track EP. Following up on their live reunion last year at Exchange LA, the two bass icons have dropped their new collaborative effort EP1 over the weekend.
Deadmau5 has been on a roll as of late in terms of his live show, and the Canadian producer has been unveiling some seriously cool innovations over the last several months. From his celebrated live show with Eric Prydz at Tomorrowland to hinting at the possibility of adding a virtual reality element to his stage production, deadmau5 has some pretty interesting stuff up his sleeves. Of course his cube stage design has always been a fan favorite, and the mau5trap leader has been teasing the cube 2.0 for a while now. With the passing of Veld Music Festival, we now have the first opportunity to see the new stage production in action.
Slushii just played his debut live set at HARD Summer over the weekend, which included a special guest in the form of Skrillex, but that didn't stop the rising dance music star from releasing an original production just days prior to the performance. Teaming up with vocalist Madi, the future bass producer has released a smooth new single titled "So Long."
It's that time of year again where the major streaming services begin to compile data on the most played songs. Spotify recently compiled a chart of the most viral tracks of 2016, ranking the songs that garnered the most streams over the last eight months.
