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  • Blogs

    March 18, 2013

    The Five Greatest Showmen in EDM

    This week's cover story on Steve Aoki attributes much of his rise to the EDM shift from wallflower DJs to over-the-top showmen. World's Douchiest DJs: The Top Five Aoki is not the only DJ to elevate the dance floor from the collective trance of rave's past to the kind of fist-pumping festivals rep ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 11, 2013

    Deadmau5, Kylie Minogue, and Timbaland - House of Blues - 2/10/13

    Nero, Deadmau5, Kylie Minogue, and Timbaland House of Blues 2/10/13 A crew of electronic artists and pop stars performed last night as part of a Grammy afterparty that was also a benefit for Children's Hospital of Los Angeles Orthopedic Center. (Tickets started at $250.) But the cost didn't deter ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 11, 2013

    Why EDM Is Thriving While Other Genres Are Sinking

    DJs are the new rock stars? Maybe. (Although chefs are already the new rock stars.) Still, the big name DJs do seem to be living pretty large, what with the constant travel to exotic locations, goofily-clad fans, eager women, drugs and parties. Just swap MacBooks for guitars and it doesn't look so d ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 10, 2013

    Why Is Everyone So Pissed About the EDM Reality Show?

    As the Hollywood-based casting guru behind Jersey Shore and A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila, Doron Ofir knows how the lowbrow culture game is played. But even the man who gave the world Snooki might have been caught off-guard by the outrage over one of his latest projects: a competitive EDM reality ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 24, 2012

    The Ten Best EDM Singles of 2012

    The term "electronic dance music" means so many things to so many people, and this year things only got more complicated. Dubstep continued its dance floor takeover, mainstream pop-oriented EDM ruled the radio, and the beat scene pushed on. Although divergent in style and ethos, here are the ten dan ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 6, 2012

    The 20 Greatest EDM DJs: The Complete List

    Electronic dance music's recent resurgence has made the genre more popular than ever before, but it's still often not taken seriously as an art form. World's Douchiest DJs: The Top Five The 20 Worst Hipster Bands Top 20 Musicians of All Time, in Any Genre And yeah, many goofily-dressed ravers are ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 5, 2012

    The 20 Greatest EDM DJs: 10-1

    See also: The 20 Greatest EDM DJs: 20-11 Electronic dance music's recent resurgence has made the genre more popular than ever before, but it's still often not taken seriously as an art form. And yeah, many goofily-dressed ravers are so high they'll literally dance to anything. But below we've highl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 22, 2012

    Deadmau5 - Sonos Studios - 10/19/12

    Deadmau5 Sonos Studios 10/19/12 Better Than: The cheap seats On Friday night, Deadmau5, née Joel Zimmerman, played for a crowd of 200 people at acoustic gallery space Sonos Studios. This is a guy who played four nights in a row at the Palladium last August and was the first electronic artist to h ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 23, 2012

    Jamie Jones is The Best DJ You've Never Heard Of

    See also: *EDC 2012: The Underground Has Left The Building *House Music Beef With DJ Sneak Plays Out in Steve Angello's DJ Set Jamie Jones is the best DJ on the planet. And you've probably never heard of him. That's because he's not Deadmau5 or Kaskade or Afrojack or Avicii, and he's never played ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 6, 2012

    Skrillex, James Murphy - Hard Summer, Day Two - 8/4/12

    Our review of HARD Summer, Day 1 Claude Vonstroke Got in the EDM Game Late and Now He's Taking It Over HARD Summer 8/4/2012 Los Angeles State Historic Park Better than... A night without dance jams. Earlier this week, Forbes Magazine published a list of top 10 highest paid DJ/producers on the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 3, 2012

    Ask a Teen Raver

    Kerah Rose is a 19-year-old college student from Riverside and EDM aficionado. Ask a Teen Raver appears on Tuesdays in West Coast Sound. Send your questions to teenraver@laweekly.com. See also: *Interview With a Raver Who Wears Electrical Tape on Her Boobs *DJ Gets Death Threats for Playing Dubstep ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 17, 2012

    Dave Grohl "Clarifies" Grammy Speech After We Call Him Out For Sounding Like an Anti-EDM Geezer

    Jena Ardell​Guess we hit a nerve when we called out Dave Grohl for his anti-EDM Grammy Awards acceptance speech. Besides tons of hate mail (our favorite told us to " ... go eat a bag of dicks") and some support (Moby's former manager noted we were there when that real punk rocker went electro ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 13, 2012

    Why the Grammys Stink

    See also: *2012 Grammys: The Best, the Worst and the Weirdest *Deadmau5, Rihanna - House of Blues - 2/13/12 *Dan Wilson: From "Closing Time" to Adele's "Someone Like You" So, our Grammy credentials were fairly limited last night. In fact, we were trapped in a room for eight hours, with journalists ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 13, 2012

    Deadmau5, Rihanna - House of Blues - 2/13/12

    Deadmau5, Rihanna House of Blues 1-13-12 See also: *Why The Grammys Stink *2012 Grammys: The Best, the Worst and the Weirdest Better than... The Grammy telecast's attempts to showcase EDM. Skrillex may have won three Grammys, but it was Deadmau5 who ultimately impacted the celebration, its red c ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 13, 2012

    Dave Grohl: His Grammys Speech About Electronic Music Was Bullshit

    See also: Dave Grohl "Clarifies" Grammy Speech After We Call Him Out For Sounding Like an Anti-EDM Geezer We like Foo Fighters. They're the Samuel Adams beer of pop -- solid, familiar, a good call in a one-jukebox town. But innovators they're not. Quite the opposite: If one could feed off a dying ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 24, 2012

    Moguai - Monday Social at the Playhouse - 1/23/12

    See also: Our Moguai Interview: Deadmau5's Associate Leads A Big Beat Comeback. Moguai Monday Social @ The Playhouse January 24, 2012 Better than...Remembering that the week has only just started. When I interviewed Moguai for West Coast Sound recently, he spoke about keeping an eye on the crowd. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 23, 2012

    Moguai: Deadmau5's Associate Leads a Big Beat Comeback

    Veteran DJ Moguai was born Andre Tegeler; he's been playing parties and putting out music since the mid-'90s. Jams like "U Know Why" (2002) picked up on the Big Beat sound popularized by artists like Fatboy Slim, while 2007's "Freaks" is a guitar-inflected electro track. He's even got his own label, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 28, 2011

    Zedd - Dim Mak Sunday - 11-27-11

    Zedd Dim Mak Sundays 11-27-11 Better than... bottle service. Last summer, Zedd hit L.A. to warm up the crowd when Deadmau5's Meowingtons Hax tour hit the Palladium for a few sold-out nights. He returned to the city last night as a headliner for his own mini tour, supporting the single "Stars Come ... More >>

  • Music

    October 20, 2011

    Skrillex: L.A. DJ, Producer Is Boy King of Electronic Dance Music

    Leads the mashed-up, remixed generation

  • Blogs

    October 18, 2011

    I'm in Las Vegas Bitch: Fare War From L.A. to Sin City Breaks Out Just in Time For Party Season

    DIDEOVegas culture.​Okay, party people, while you might think that summer DJ sessions in 100-degree poolside heat is the shit, the real season in Sin City starts now (you know, when it's only 80-plus degrees out). And, just in time, the air routes between L.A. and Las Vegas are the subject of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 7, 2011

    Tiesto Heads to L.A. For Record Crowds at Home Depot Center Saturday: We Ask Him Why

    See also: *Our review of Tiesto's show at Home Depot Center, October 8, 2011 *Tiesto's Home Depot Center Show in October Billed as Largest One-DJ Gig in U.S. History Tiesto is a love-him-or-hate-him DJ, but if you look at his draw in the L.A. market and beyond, you have to think people really do l ... More >>

  • Music

    September 29, 2011

    Friday Night Fever

    Formerly the bastard stepchild of club nights, Friday is giving Saturday some competition

  • Music

    August 18, 2011

    The Ettes, Sade, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Benefit for Nick Curran

    Also, Kendrick Lamar, the Punk Rock BBQ, Katy B and others

  • Blogs

    August 2, 2011

    John Digweed Heads to The Mayan Downtown Wednesday: He Does The LA Weekly DJ Q&A

    John Digweed.​Paris Hilton recently tweeted that "House music is taking over!" And she thus marked a new life cycle for a 30-year-old genre. In dance music, though, it's not about what's taking over but about what aspect of the scene has bubbled back up and taken on a new identity. The house ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 19, 2011

    Craigslist Missed Connections, Coachella Edition: Guy Eye-Bangs Bleach Blonde in Gold AmApp Top at Sahara Tent, Invites Her to Lincoln Heights to "420 It Up and Listen to Deadmau5"

    ​Ah, romance, or, as Erasure would say, Oh, L'Amour... This little Coachella-related message in a bottle went up today on Craigslist's infamous Missed Connections section, possibly the saddest region in the entire Internet where--most likely late at night and surrounded by a collection of cru ... More >>

  • Music

    April 14, 2011

    Swedish House Mafia's Steve Angello: The Swedish Godfather

    Despite the rumors, Coachella may have not lost its edge — it just relocated to the dance tent

  • Blogs

    March 25, 2011

    Girl Talk vs. Deadmau5: Which Non-DJ Rocks the Party Harder?

    Timothy NorrisThe dance floor at the Palladium for Girl Talk.​Read more in Ali Trachta's story "Mash-Up Party in the USA: The LA Weekly Interview with Girl Talk." Over the course of the past week, both Deadmau5 and Girl Talk, two of the biggest names in dance-oriented music, have played Los A ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 8, 2010

    Will.i.am's New Say-No-To-Ecstasy PSA : Your Tax Dollars At Work

    blackeyedpeas.com​Via Dennis Romero and our own Informer blog: L.A. County's Department of Public Health taps the Black Eyed Peas' Will.i.am and Deadmau5 collaborator Kaskade for an anti-ecstasy PSA to prevent future incidents like the death of Sasha Rodriguez at June's Electric Daisy Carnival ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 17, 2010

    DJ Q&A: Benny Benassi Bikes His Way To Music Box In Hollywood

    ​The latest, most-successful-yet wave of electronic dance music (Deadmau5, Kaskade, Will.i.am) might not have been if Benny Benassi hadn't unleashed his own brand of cross-over electro house in 2002 with his robotic hit "Satisfaction." Suddenly the hip-hop-loving club world understood the synt ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 6, 2010

    Top 10 Memorable Cosplays of Anime Expo

    Check out more photos in "Anime Expo 2010: Thursday, Day One," "Anime Expo 2010: Friday, Day Two," and "Anime Expo 2010: Saturday, Day Three." For Fourth of July weekend, tens of thousands of anime fans headed downtown to the Los Angeles Convention Center for Anime Expo. Many of them were in cospla ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 30, 2010

    Video Of Electric Daisy Carnival Rave Depicts Crush Of People, Injuries

    View photos from the mega-rave in the "Electric Daisy Carnival: 60 Most Memorable Moments" slideshow and "Electric Daisy Carnival: The greatest show on earth?" slideshow. YouTube​Video of a crush of gatecrashers Saturday at the controversial Electric Daisy Carnival rave in Exposition Park de ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 30, 2010

    Raves Temporarily Banned At Los Angeles Coliseum Following Problems At Electric Daisy Carnival

    ​ View photos from the mega-rave in the "Electric Daisy Carnival: 60 Most Memorable Moments" slideshow and "Electric Daisy Carnival: The greatest show on earth?" slideshow. The president of the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Commission has temporarily banned raves at the venue following the d ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 29, 2010

    Fifteen-Year-Old Girl Dies After Attending Electric Daisy Carnival Rave; Drug Overdose Suspected

    ​A 15-year-old girl who attended an Exposition Park mega-rave died of a suspected drug overdose Tuesday, on a day when headlines were dedicated to mayoral and police concerns about the more than 200 medical emergencies and reported 65 arrests related to two-day event at the Los Angeles Memoria ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 28, 2010

    More Than 200 Medical Emergencies At Mega-Rave

    Via Twitpic​The Los Angeles Fire Department reported over the weekend that it responded to 226 medical emergencies at the annual Electric Daisy Carnival mega-rave in Exposition Park, with 114 people being taken from the event to hospitals. CBS2 reported that many of those requiring emergency ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 28, 2010

    Is Electric Daisy Carnival the Greatest Show on Earth?

    By Scott Sterling Every year at this time, a sadly sizable contingent of L.A. media trot out the same tired warhorse in regard to the Electric Daisy Carnival. It's all shock and awe that 800 kazillion people faithfully flock to the annual dance music bacchanal. (Actual numbers are awaiting official ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 25, 2010

    10 Electric Daisy DJs You Can't Afford to Miss

    Deadmau5​Our good friends at URB magazine have put together a pretty comprehensive package on the best of the Electric Daisy Carnival, which kicks off today at Exposition Park and the L.A. Coliseum. L.A. Weekly contributor and URB editor Joshua Glazer has rounded up 10 performers that are not ... More >>

  • Music

    June 24, 2010

    Nightranger: Gamer Gauche

    Deadmau5​Our good friends at URB magazine have put together a pretty comprehensive package on the best of the Electric Daisy Carnival, which kicks off today at Exposition Park and the L.A. Coliseum. L.A. Weekly contributor and URB editor Joshua Glazer has rounded up 10 performers that are not ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 15, 2010

    Live Review: Activision's E3 2010 Preview Event with Eminem, Jane's Addiction & Usher - "We Got the Cash!"

    Last Night: Activision E3 2010 Preview Event with Eminem, Jane's Addiction, & Usher

  • Blogs

    April 17, 2010

    Deadmau5 Blazes New Trails In The Desert

    Deadmau5, the young DJ from Toronto, has been one of dance music's most-electrifying stories of the last five years. He's a former computer geek who came out of nowhere to blast digital dance music retailer Beatport with some of its best-sellers. He came of age in the download era and didn't even ha ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 17, 2010

    Day 1: Volcano, Disorganization Can't Stop the Music

    We're tempted to tell you about Jim Morrison and the really interesting remixes of their old catalog featured on the soundtrack to the new documentary People Are Strange. This is because we spent a few hours listening to it trapped in traffic trying to get to the parking lot so we could get to spend ... More >>

  • Music

    January 14, 2010

    Glow Riders

    New adventures in rave-gear technology

  • Blogs

    January 14, 2010

    New Advances in Rave Gear Technology: A Tutorial for Your Head-Trips

    In his feature, Glow Riders, in this week's print version of the LA Weekly, writer Joshua Glazer focuses on all the new advances in rave gear technology. It stands to reason that with general advances in humanity since the invention of strobe lights and glow sticks, rave culture would progress, too, ... More >>

  • Music

    December 24, 2009

    Top 10 Dance Albums: Club-land Crossover

    In 2009, the mainstream flocked to dance-floor grooves

  • Blogs

    November 5, 2009

    Interview: Robbie Rivera Hates It When His Warm-Up DJs Play 'Crazy' Hard

    The dance music underground might be rocking bleepy techno and dark-wave house from Europe, but the stuff that really moves the masses combines the synthetic strings of trance with the tough percussion of house. One look at the most popular DJs in the world, from Tiesto to Deadmau5 to Kaskade, point ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 2, 2009

    Gatecrashers Hit Halloween Dance Parties: Nearly 100,000 Attend, About 50 Arrests Made

    View photos from HARD Haunted Mansion in our Friday night and Saturday night slideshows. About 50 arrests were made at the biggest Halloween dance parties over the weekend, including HARD Haunted Mansion Friday and at Monster Massive Saturday, Los Angeles police told L.A. Weekly. Lt. Darrell Belt ... More >>

  • Music

    October 29, 2009

    Rock Picks: Amy Millan, Dirty Projectors, Chip Taylor, LA 101

    Also, Pixies, Justice, the Happy Hollows and others

  • Blogs

    July 20, 2009

    Dave Dresden Returns to Monday Social Tonight

    Dave Dresden live @ Monday Social, 8/04/08 Savvy locals know that you want to catch superstar DJs, but don't feel like being trapped inside a megaclub with 2000 weekend warriors, you wait until the night when the rest of the city is catching up on sleep and head down to Monday Social. This week, ... More >>

  • Music

    April 2, 2009

    The Last Dance: Is the Superstar-DJ Era Over?

    Avalon co-owner Steve Adelman: “I don’t think it’s over, I think it’s evolving”

  • Music

    February 5, 2009

    Remixing the Grammys

    Avalon co-owner Steve Adelman: “I don’t think it’s over, I think it’s evolving”

  • Music

    October 30, 2008

    Rock Picks: Orphics, Roky Erickson, Madonna

    Also, Linda Ronstadt, Rise Against and more

  • More >>
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