Founders Entertainment, the promotional company behind the New York based festival Governor's Ball, has a brand new two day event headed to Queens this fall. Dubbed The Meadows, the new festival has already began announcing some of its lineup, revealing a roster filled with big name acts.
In a massive series of Tweets this week, deadmau5 dropped some major announcements regarding his new album, his plans for touring in the near future, and his upcoming live set with Eric Prydz at Tomorrowland.
For their fourth studio album, Cash Cash up the ante on their radio ready brand of dance pop, delivering a whopping sixteen songs. As a result, Blood, Sweat & 3 Years shines with its upbeat party vibes, strong production values and memorable songwriting.
While Insomniac Events had a busy three days over the weekend that saw this year's EDC Las Vegas come to realization, the major promotional company is wasting no time on gearing up for their future festivals. Last night, promotional flyers began to make their way around the festival ground with a huge announcement printed on them; the lineup for Nocturnal Wonderland 2016.
Deadmau5's label has returned over the weekend to drop the seventh episode of the Mau5trap Presents mix series on Beats 1 radio. The Mau5 leader himself opens the two hour mix with an introduction before delving into his recent track "Imaginary Friends."
The EDM world has been proliferated with an ongoing joke for a while now where fans and DJs alike refer to good tunes as "fire," often utilizing the refrain "it's lit, fam" to denote a particularly good track or a really good DJ set. But the popular turn of phrase couldn't prepare dance music fans for what would happen at EDC Las Vegas over the weekend.
The allure of the mystery producer has proven an effective marketing tactic for DJs, dating back to the masked robot appearance of Daft Punk that helped propel the french duo into super stardom. A number of other artists using the masked DJ model have surfaced over the last few years, none more notably than Marshmello, who swept dance music fans up with his sugary brand of future bass.
EDC Las Vegas 2016 came and passed with a bang over the weekend, serving as the culminating dance music event of the year for many ravers who traveled to the American Southwest for the major festival. Featuring a stacked roster of top notch talent, EDC took the spotlight in the EDM community as fans and festival goers took to social media to revel in the event. Dance music's resident sourpuss deadmau5, on the other hand, was predictably unimpressed.
Dirty South dropped some new material over the weekend, delivering a hypnotizing song titled "All Of Us." In a quote with Billboard, the Serbian-Australian DJ described the new track, stating “I love making emotional and meaningful dance music and this one is exactly that, featuring a beautiful voice of Arielle from indie band ANIMA!”
The mainstage at EDC Las Vegas saw a number of fresh faces over the weekend, including rising bass music producer Jauz. The shark squad leader dropped a few treats in his set, surprising the audience by previewing an upcoming collaboration by Zedd and his protege duo Grey.
