In the months that follow Martin Garrix's split with Dutch label Spinnin' Records, more and more fallout from the untimely turn of events surfaces. Footage from the young DJ/producer's performance at Sziget Festival was recently pulled from YouTube, and now it appears that they've done the same with his Ultra Music Festival 2015 performance as well.
Mysteryland USA's organizers have announced that the Bethel Woods, New York festival will no longer be a 21+ affair in 2016. The decision follows a move away from Labor Day Weekend for the 2016 edition as well as the subsequent appointment of Sebastian Solano as CEO of Mysteryland USA promoter ID&T's stateside branch by its parent company, SFX Entertainment.
By now, it's pretty likely that you've heard about the scale of Zedd's live shows during his performances on the True Colors tour. With the last of his dates wrapped up, Live Nation TV has released a mini-documentary detailing everything that goes into the visual elements of each show - and now it makes sense why they generated the buzz that they did.
If you told me that L.A. trap duo Slander released a Halloween-themed trap production that borrows heavily from metal music, I'd laugh in your face. First of all, I'm not crazy about Slander, and second of all, releasing holiday-themed tracks sounds like something that Barry Manilow would do - but I'll be damned if I didn't put this track on and find myself turning up the volume once it got going.
It's been several months since Shambhala Music Festival shone like a beacon in the North American festival circuit, and the organizers have just released the official 2015 aftermovie in conjunction with an announcement that tickets for 2016 have just gone on sale. We only had positive things to say about the one-of-a-kind massive in our own coverage of the event, and the video only reinforces our own observations.
It seems a bit late in the year for a festival to release its phase 1 lineup, but LED's OMFG! NYE 2016 has revealed the first round of headliners on its roster. The San Diego massive - which takes place from December 30th-31st at the Valley View Casino Center - just put out a flyer with 19 names to entice SoCal party kids into buying tickets to the event.
It's time for another We Got This Covered contest! This time, we're going to give one of our lucky readers in or around the Toronto area two tickets to attend Sander Van Doorn's performance at Uniun Nightclub.
Few electronic music artists have built as cryptic a brand around themselves as Aphex Twin. The avant-garde UK producer became so ubiquitous a name in electronic music over the course of the '90s that he came to influence the likes of The Red Hot Chili Peppers and Kanye West - and then inexplicably faded into obscurity before re-emerging over the past couple years with enough new music to win him a Grammy (the ceremony of which he famously didn't attend).
Just because festival season's slowing down doesn't mean Martin Garrix is. Less than a week after releasing "Poison," he' used his set at Escape: Psycho Circus in SoCal as a platform to debut a brand-new Jay Hardway collaboration.
As we close in on the release of Laidback Luke's upcoming album, Focus, the Filipino-Dutch DJ/producer has been releasing more and more tracks from the effort - but little of what he's teased out has proven all that memorable. The latest of these is "Fantasize," a pop-infused progressive house track with little more than saccharine vocal melodies to stimulate the senses.
