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The Five Best EDM Performers at Coachella

The first weekend of Coachella was packed with EDM revelers; in fact, dance music lovers are growing in numbers so much that every other car in line at the campgrounds checking in was blasting some sort of EDM anthem. The festival even dedicated a new, underground-leaning stage this year, called the ... More >>

Five Great Lesser-Known DJs To See At Coachella

For dance fans there has been little difference between Coachella and Electric Daisy Carnival in recent years, except that the former supplemented its Tiesto-Kaskade-Deadmau5 lineups with alt-rock while EDC did so with dubstep and drum 'n' bass. See also: Everything you need to know about Coachella ... More >>

Swedish House Mafia - L.A. State Historic Park - 3/8/13

Swedish House Mafia L.A. State Historic Park 3/8/13 Better than: Just...anything. Most other things. Anyone who thought that chilly temperates and some rain might deter the rave kids from raving full throttle at the Swedish House Mafia show last night underestimates the heartiness of rave kids an ... More >>

Swedish House Mafia's Steve Angello Is Looking Forward to Being Finished With Swedish House Mafia

There was a moment a few years back when Steve Angello was leaving a hotel in his native Sweden and found a few reporters waiting outside. They asked him what his plans were for the day. He told them nothing much. The response made the front page of the next day's newspaper. "That was the moment," ... More >>

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 >>

Mayan Apocalypse Parties

Things to do in Mexico when the world's ending

Madonna Impersonator Nadya Ginsburg Chats With Us (as Madonna)

Actress, writer for E!'s Fashion Police and Madonna impersonator Nadya Ginsburg (she does a hilarious, spot-on Cher, too) will be doing her one-woman show, Madonnalogues, at the Cavern Club tonight and Oct. 23. Ginsberg, in perfect character as Madonna, sat down to talk with us about the pop diva's ... More >>

Avicii Performs in Santa Monica Tonight: Here's Our Interview

Tim Bergling, known to the DJ world as Avicii, just celebrated his birthday last week. At barely 23, the Swedish DJ/remixer/producer ranks No. 6 on the latest installment of DJ Magazine's Top 100 DJ list -- which pretty much means he's living large and has his pick of any neon furry booted rave grou ... More >>

The Five Best Concerts in L.A. This Weekend

Friday, August 24 Friends of Friends THE ECHOPLEX L.A. lad Shlohmo brings sample-based, song-oriented R&B turntablism to his recent Bad Vibes full-length, sautéeing lo-fi, hip-hop, dubstep and beautifully odd sound design. As for Salva, he's been known to jack bassy, jungly warehouse and ethereal ... More >>

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 >>

Beyond Wonderland Rave Could Get Snow This Weekend. No, Really.

See also: Beyond Wonderland Rave in SoCal Hosts Politicians, Paris Hilton, Alleged Drug Offenders, and Maybe Even a Good Vibe Insomniac's third annual electronic music festival Beyond Wonderland takes over San Bernardino this weekend. The event's website says it's sold out and will happen "rain or ... More >>

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 >>

World's Douchiest DJs: The Top Five

Pauly D didn't make our list. He's a douche, but he's not much of a DJ.​Finding a douchey DJ is about as easy as finding an Ed Hardy t-shirt in Vegas on a Saturday night. Still, we strive for accuracy at LA Weekly, and we've gone through the list of top global spinners with a fine-tooth comb ... More >>

LinA In LA Club/Party Picks: Muse Til Midnight, Sander Kleinenberg, The Lot

Check out the Tim Burton exhibit and hear Dublab DJs at LACMA; see Sat. ​For those who like to party, Summer's soiree schedule still shines pretty bright even as the seasonal shift begins. This week offers plenty of opportunities to get down 'ti' the leaves turn brown. It's in fact a very colo ... More >>

LinA in LA: Coloring Outside the Lines

L.A. DJs Jason Bentley, Damian Lazarus Headed to Ibiza Next Month For Dance Music Summit

J to the B rockin' Stussy like it's '93.​While we like to think of ourselves as worldly ragers, the City of Angels often doesn't rate on the world map of professional partying. You know, Miami, Vegas, Berlin, Ibiza. But we're getting there (glad we have our priorities straight). Some of the g ... More >>

Ten European Artists You Should Have Heard By Now

Parisian rapper Rohff​In the States, it's easy to be stuck in the bubble of our domestic music. Sadly, many European artists have a difficult time breaking into the North American market. Often, this stems from the language barrier, but it can also be due to the straight-up oddball nature of t ... More >>

Lina in L.A.: Exclusive: City Bans Bottle Service From All L.A. Clubs

Lina Lecaro's Top Dance/DJ Picks for This Weekend

Lina Lecaro Mandatory deodorant checks at the door of Avalon will begin April 1 at Control. ​ After a Spring summit with LA's top club promoters, we have some exclusive scoop to share that may very well change the culture of clubbing as we know it! You wont read this anywhere else, folks! Sta ... More >>

Top Ten Videos to Feed Your Inner Gay Dude on Ecstasy, by DJ/VJ Ray Rhodes' Club Tigerheat

Lina Lecaro Videos and vamps- Tigerheat eye candy​Wanna see the hottest hits and soon-to-be hits really pop on the dance floor? There really is no place like Tigerheat, the exuberant, mostly gay gathering held every Thursday at Avalon. It'd been a while since we popped in, so we forgot just ho ... More >>

DJ Q&A: Pete Tong Says 'L.A. Is The Home Of The BIG Event' When It Comes To Global Dance Music

It's all going Pete Tong Saturday at Monster Massive.​Pete Tong, as the U.K.'s Independent newspaper put it, is "the god of dance music." With BBC Radio 1's "Essential Selection" and "Essential Mix" shows, he certainly is global clubland's most influential DJ. He's the guy who every other A-l ... More >>

DJ Top Five: Lee Foss, Who Spins At The Standard Downtown Sunday, Lists His Favorite Choons

​Lee Foss has become a Los Angeles mainstay, spinning with the likes of Droog and unleashing mixes and productions that tap into that bubbly, neo-tech goodness. He's at the Standard Sunday afternoon for Droog's Culprit party. We asked him to list his favorite tracks (there's also a DJ mix link ... More >>

Listen: White Arrows Covers Fleetwood Mac, Goes All Ibiza for Superhumanoids Remix

White Arrows gets the Ibiza treatment on Superhumanoids' "8050" remix.​Currently buzzing local psych-rock crew White Arrows wrapped up its gratis residency at Spaceland last night, but that doesn't mean the free music should stop anytime soon. The band, which features Dios' John Paul Caballer ... More >>

The DJs List: Spinners You Should See This Weekend -- Damian Lazarus, Christian Martin

miss-nine.com​ The dog days of summer have arrived, the mega-ravers are taking a weekend off, and all the party people are in Ibiza. Right? Wrong. There's plenty of talent in L.A. for you to enjoy in mid-August: Friday: The new (-ish) promoters over at Vanguard have been slowly putting togeth ... More >>

DJ Q&A: A Few Questions For Heidi (Who Says She Wants To Get Naked On The Dance Floor)

Heidi is somewhat of a techno prodigy, having grown up in Windsor, Ontario, in the shadow of the genre's birthplace, Detroit, and eventually moving to London to learn the record-bin ropes working in famed music store Phonica. Today she resides in dance music's new capital, Berlin, spins monthly on B ... More >>

INCHES reviews Baron Zen, Bohren & Der Club Of Gore, Soft Circle High Places, I Heart Lung [MP3]

In the strange wake of music's digital rebirth, vinyl has experienced a modest boom in popularity, seen by many as a replacement for the awkward middleman that is the compact disc. INCHES reviews the output of L.A.'s healthy vinyl community (artists and labels, indie or other), believing that good m ... More >>

Top 10 Dance Albums: Club-land Crossover

In 2009, the mainstream flocked to dance-floor grooves

Interview: The DJ Prince of Darkness, Steve Lawler, Says L.A. Is Hot

Steve Lawler is the Ozzy Osbourne of dance music - a big-room prince of darkness to be sure. The British spinner has been a longtime champion of the more macabre, bacchanalian sounds of the underground, from tribal to twisted techno. Now that the druggy grooves of Europe are back in style - minimal ... More >>

Interview: Ben Watt on the Dark Euro Sound, the Business of Dance Music and the Future of Mixes

Ben Watt has had one of the more unusual journeys in the annals of DJ success. As one half of pop act Everything But The Girl, he had much more mainstream fame (and likely more fortune, too) than almost anyone could achieve in club-land. But as the duo followed its muse toward electronic elements in ... More >>

Marcus Schulz, Dragstrip 66, Devlin & Darko of Spank Rock

Trance-a-licious at the Shrine; Local Heroes Warehouse Shindig

Droog's Sun Sessions

Ringing in spring at the Standard

Guetta Grip

David Guetta at Giant; Laurent Garnier at Avaland anniversary bash

Circus Acts

Pig & Dan

Tiësto in Concert

Elements of style

Politics Meets Street

Why are politicians and civic leaders bellying up to the eyebrow-raising 740 Club?

Real Time With Clifford Irving

The Hoax author speaks... or does he?

Too Much Sexy

Pedro Winter and the French funk of Ed Banger Records

Cruel Hypnosis

Los Super Elegantes at Safari Sam’s, August 12

Whip It Good

How To Cure Hollywood’s Summertime Blues, The Sequel

Guilt by Association

It’s Too Funky in Here

Rockers invade Groovetown

Insane Clone Posse

Cease to Exist

The opening of Genesis P-Orridge

A Mythic Thing

Tony Wilson on the city of Manchester, the Sex Pistols, Joy Division, Factory Records, New Order, the Hacienda Club, Happy Mondays . . . had enough yet?

Judgment Day

The Nine Lives of Rave

Giant Steps

Anatomy of a dance superclub

Beat Freaks

Dance clubs L.A.: a forbidden world beckons

A Night in Orbit

Gay music? It's a body/soul thing