Claude VonStroke's Dirtybird Records label has become a quintessential part of the electronic music landscape in recent years, which has translated into opportunities for the brand to reach ever-wide audiences. The imprint has announced the return the Dirtybird BBQ Tour by revealing five 2016 dates throughout the country.
Speculations permeated the electronic music community that Martin Garrix was behind anonymous producer(s) AREA21 when he premiered their debut single, "Spaceships," during his set at Ultra Music Festival. The outfit was then confirmed to be signed through the Dutchman's brand new STMPD RCRDS imprint, and now they've announced their next release.
Tigerlily looks to be kicking things into high gear for the 2016 festival season, dropping a brand new melodic house song to give electronic music fans the perfect summer soundtrack.
Joseph Capriati has emerged as a favorite among techno fans over the past several years, and now he's using his celebrity as a platform for other artists of the same genre. The Italian DJ/producer has announced the launch of his very own record label called Redimension.
Everyone's had their fill of cheesy EDM tracks in 2016, but every now and then a producer puts out a track so overwhelmingly sugary that it comes full circle to sound subversive and challenging. Fareoh took a creative risk when he decided to stick with the progressions he chose for "Cloud Ten," but you can't get around that the end result just plain works.
Now that Kygo's debut album, Cloud Nine, has had several days to simmer, it looks like he was due for another televised appearance. The Norwegian tropical house DJ/producer appeared on the ABC program Good Morning America to perform "Stay" alongside the track's featured vocalist, Maty Noyes.
In addition to being the year of electronic music reunions and the year that the EDM bubble burst (probably), 2016 might also be shaping up to be the year of DJ documentaries. German electro house superstar Zedd apparently has one on the way that will premiere at this year's edition of La Film Festival.
You might expect a progressive house virtuoso and decorated Twitter troll like deadmau5 not to have any interest in collaborating with a pop star, but as long as the star in question isn't Justin Bieber that's apparently not the case. He recently reached out to "The Hills" singer The Weeknd about a potential collaboration.
The story of how Justin Bieber and Skrillex became friends when the two of them worked with Diplo on "Where Are Ü Now" became a favorite of music fans in 2015, but Bieber has yet to release anything with Diplo. Earlier in the year they revealed that that was about to change, and now his joint effort with Major Lazer is imminent.
Sebastian Ingrosso's "Dark River" was fairly ahead of its time when he began playing it out last year, and now that the electronic music world has caught up, he's decided to put it back on the map. The DJ/producer and former Swedish House Mafia hitmaker has released a lyric video for the track whose surrealism fits its wonky production.
