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February 5, 2013
Raves: Insomniac Posts Rebel Response To L.A. Times Ecstasy-Deaths Story At ... 4:20
The nation's biggest electronic dance music promoter fired back at the Los Angeles Times after the paper reported that several people have died after attending Insomniac Events and Go Ventures parties. The L.A. promoter argued that the paper's description of "deaths ... linked to Ecstasy or similar ... More >>
Blogs
February 4, 2013
Raves: 14 Deaths After Insomniac, Go Ventures EDM Parties
In recent years 14 people have died from overdoses or drug-related incidents after attending raves put on by some of the nation's biggest electronic-music event promoters, Insomniac Events and Go Ventures, both based in L.A. Most of the deceased were teenagers or twentysomethings attending events t ... More >>
Blogs
June 27, 2012
EDC Rave Could Lose Vegas Permit if Promoter is Convicted in L.A. Scandal
< /a>Updated at the bottom with a Vegas official saying EDC's license for next year could be denied if convictions are successful in the bribery case against rave promoters in L.A. First posted at 3:24 p.m. Tuesday. Headline has changed to reflect new info. The promoter of Electric Daisy Carnival, ... More >>
Blogs
May 30, 2012
Sasha Rodriguez's Post-EDC Rave Death: Parents Settle With Promoter, L.A. Coliseum
Rewritten throughout to reflect confirmation from the family's attorney. The parents of Sasha Rodriguez, a 15-year-old girl who died of an ecstasy overdose after attending 2010's Electric Daisy Carnival rave at the L.A. Coliseum, have come to a settlement with the venue and the promoter after they ... More >>
Blogs
May 7, 2012
Rave Promoters See Parts of L.A. Coliseum Lawsuit Dismissed
Are the cases against rave promoters caught up in the L.A. Coliseum corruption scandal starting to unravel? Last week we reported than an email described by the prosecution as a "smoking gun" had a questionable time stamp and arguably raised other issues with the criminal case against Insomniac Eve ... More >>
Blogs
May 2, 2012
Rave Corruption Case at Coliseum Involves Questionable Email D.A. Calls 'Smoking Gun'
The case against two of the nation's biggest rave promoters, who have become entangled in the L.A. Coliseum corruption scandal, relies on emails between the party organizers and a public employee, Coliseum events manager Todd DeStefano. One of those emails, which a main prosecutor told us is a "smo ... More >>
Blogs
April 5, 2012
Rave Promoters Rotella, Gerami Face Potential of 10 Years-Plus in Jail
The rave promoters indicted as part of the L.A. Coliseum corruption scandal could see more than 10 years each behind bars if convicted, an L.A. County District Attorney's office official tells the Weekly. In fact the potential sentence for Reza Gerami of Go Ventures is 15 years, 8 months, according ... More >>
Blogs
March 23, 2012
Rave Promoters Reza Gerami, Pasquale Rotella Plead Not Guilty in Coliseum Corruption Case
Updated at the bottom with indictment details from the District Attorney's office. First posted at 12:22 p.m. Defendants in the corruption scandal at the L.A. Coliseum today pleaded not guilty today. Indictments, the details of which had yet to be revealed to the press, targeted rave promoters Rez ... More >>
Blogs
March 23, 2012
Rave Culture Implicated, Wrongly, in Case Against L.A. Coliseum Promoters
In its prosecution of two electronic dance music promoters and four others for alleged corruption at the L.A. Coliseum, the office of Republican District Attorney Steve Cooley also nearly indicted rave culture itself. Cooley, also known for his stance against medical marijuana dispensaries, almost ... More >>
Blogs
December 21, 2011
Rave Promoters Gave $40,000 to City Leader Bernard Parks' 4th of July Event: Money Magically Came Off Their L.A. Coliseum Bills
Cesar SebastianRavers at the L.A. Sports Arena.L.A. city Councilman Bernard Parks has been an ardent supporter of the four-times-a-year raves that were fixtures at the publicly owned L.A. Coliseum and Sports Arena since 1998. Parks, a former LAPD police chief, is a law-and-order guy through- ... More >>
Blogs
November 14, 2011
Reza Gerami, Owner of Rave Promotion Co. Go Ventures, Sees Home, Office Raided in Coliseum Investigation
Go VenturesReza Gerami.District Attorney's investigators raided the home and office of rave promoter Reza Gerami, owner of Go Ventures, as part of its look into alleged improprieties at the publicly run L.A. Coliseum. Authorities served search warrants at his Malibu home and West Hills offic ... More >>
Blogs
November 3, 2011
Rave Promoters Insomniac, Go Ventures Sued by L.A. Coliseum, Which Also Targets Venue Leaders Pat Lynch And Todd DeStefano
Raving at the Coliseum.The L.A. Coliseum and its public commission announced today that it has filed suit (PDF) against a pair of rave promoters and a pair of the venue's leaders who are accused of bilking the place out of hundreds of thousands of dollars if not more. Former Coliseum general ... More >>
Blogs
October 14, 2011
Monster Massive Halloween Rave 'Canceled,' Says Ticket Seller: Top DJs Armin Van Buuren, Erick Morillo Pull Out
erickmorillo.comErick Morillo is frightened by the L.A. market.Groove Tickets announced on its website today that the Halloween rave Monster Massive has been canceled. The party, which had Moby, Armin Van Buuren, Erick Morillo and other superstar DJs on its lineup, apparently had trouble fin ... More >>
Blogs
July 27, 2011
Rave Controversy at L.A. Coliseum Spawns Audit From L.A. City Controller Wendy Greuel
Raving at the Coliseum.L.A. City Controller Wendy Greuel will announce that she's launching an audit of the L.A. Coliseum today following reports of double dipping by a venue official who worked for a rave promoters, a taxpayer-owned car allegedly taken by a former general manager, and planne ... More >>
Blogs
June 17, 2011
Together As One New Year's Rave Rejected by L.A. Coliseum
Caesar SebastianTogether As One.Even as Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman is calling L.A. "second-class" for losing the mega-rave Electric Daisy Carnival to his fair city (for now), the public L.A. Coliseum Commission this week shot down another late-night mainstay, New Year's Eve's Together As O ... More >>
Blogs
June 9, 2011
Rave Promoters From Electric Daisy Carnival, Together As One Paid L.A. Coliseum Manager $10,000 a Year
Caesar SebastianEDC.A report in today's Los Angeles Times expands the number of side jobs former L.A. Coliseum events manager Todd DeStefano had, indicating his own private companies took tens of thousands of dollars from the likes of Coca-Cola and UCLA as those entities booked events at the ... More >>
Blogs
March 17, 2011
Rave Promoter Reza Gerami Says He'll Fight (And Sue) For His Right to Party at L.A. Sports Arena
Go VenturesReza Gerami.Much of the focus regarding raves at the publicly controlled L.A. Coliseum and Sports Arena has been trained on the promoter of last summer's controversial Electric Daisy Carnival, which attracted about 160,000 young people over two days. But there's another major prom ... More >>
Blogs
March 16, 2011
Raves: Love Festival Planned For Las Vegas in May; L.A. Event Up in the Air
Caesar SebastianRavers at Love Festival in L.A.Added: Commenters are telling us that this event is planned in addition to the party in L.A., and has happened in past years in Vegas. So calling this a "move" would not be accurate. However, if the event in August is canceled, it might be. We ch ... More >>
Blogs
February 25, 2011
Raves: Electric Daisy Carnival Leaving L.A. Coliseum For Las Vegas
Caesar SebastianElectric Daisy Carnival.Update: City council candidate Forescee Hogan-Rowles is claiming victory over raves, after the jump. See our piece about how raves could be finished at the L.A. Coliseum and Sports Arena here. After a thorough shellacking over their controversial 2010 ... More >>
Blogs
July 19, 2010
Raves At L.A. Coliseum On Probation As Commission Continues Dance Party Inquisition
By Steve La and Dennis Romero Timoth NorrisA scene from 'EDC.'The Los Angeles Coliseum Commission over the weekend continued a temporary moratorium on raves at the Coliseum/Sports Arena complex while allowing three previously scheduled dance parties, including one slated for next month, go o ... More >>
Music
December 11, 2008
Honey Soundsystem and Horsemeat Disco
Also, Tommy Lee and DJ Aero at the new Ecco Lounge
Music
December 27, 2007
Revenge of the New Year
Hollywood vs. downtown...
Music
December 28, 2006
New Year’s Evenings
Recommended events for counting down and getting it on the last night of the year.
Music
June 29, 2000
Beat Freaks
Dance clubs L.A.: a forbidden world beckons

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