Touring electronic music festival HARD Summer took place in Pomona, California over the weekend, and in a tragic turn of events two attendees - aged 18 and 19 - have passed away due to suspected substance abuse. Authorities have not yet revealed the names of the deceased, but will do so after their family members have been notified.
As we count down the days until the release of Disclosure's highly anticipated follow-up to their debut album, more and more information from the effort finds its way to us. After wowing us with their brand-new Sam Smith collaboration, "Omen," the Surrey, England brothers have delivered an official track list for Caracal.
Alright everybody, looks like tropical house isn't cool anymore. Justin Bieber has uploaded a 12-second clip from his follow-up to his and Jack Ü's collaboration "Where Are Ü Now," and artists like Kygo, Klingande and Thomas Jack must be rolling their eyes at his co-opting of their signature style.
It feels like it's been ages since we've seen any Mat Zo headlines that don't have to do with his epic Twitter tirade, and his publicists certainly don't seem willing to put him all the way back in the spotlight just yet (we know, we tried). His latest release doesn't appear to have been his own doing, though - his long-awaited remix of Arty's "Stronger" has surfaced, and now everybody's talking about him again.
House heads rejoice! Berlin house favorite Claptone has announced a highly anticipated debut album, Charmer, releasing one of its singles a couple months early. The man behind the golden mask has served up "Puppet Theatre," offering a taste of the soul-tinged house that's become synonymous with his eccentric stage persona.
Jack Ü is all the rage in EDM nowadays, and love them or hate them, you can't deny that their global takeover is under way. The project between bass music icons Skrillex and Diplo just wrapped up their Full Flex Express train tour throughout Canada, and they've followed it up by announcing their first-ever show in dance music mecca Ibiza at the 5th anniversary celebration of weekly party series, Together, at Amnesia.
For most of Europe, there's no bigger dance music massive than Tomorrowland. We already brought you a live stream from the Boom, Belgium music festival and broke some major new music debuts after the fact, but in case you wanted to relive some of the bigger sets in all their splendor then look no further.
International house music icon Erick Morillo needs no introduction. Between being the mind behind world-famous crossover tracks like his remix of "Muevolo" and "I Like To Move It" as far back as 1991 and reviving the NYC club scene before the turn of the millennium, the Colombian-American DJ producer's reputation certainly precedes him.
Everybody's got one or two songs that reminds them of every festival they go to, and apparently so does Shazam. The music identification app aggregated the numbers of Shazams of different tracks at Boom, Belgium festival Tomorrowland last weekend - as it does at countless others - and even though much of the results were to be expected, there were still a few surprises.
By now, it shouldn't be news to anyone that former Oasis lead guitarist Noel Gallagher spoke ill of dance music in an interview leading up to his performance at Scottish music festival T in The Park. After claiming that he had no idea who Avicii was and poking that he sounded "like an artist from the Renaissance period," Gallagher went on to criticize deadmau5 in another interview. Both artists have recently responded to Gallagher's remarks, each in a fashion befitting their very different public personas.
