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John Digweed

  • Blogs

    May 15, 2012

    Ask a Teen Raver: Our Teen Raver's Last Column

    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. Dear Teen Raver: Do you like any crusty old DJs like Sasha and Digweed and Paul Van Dyk and all them? Don't you thi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 22, 2012

    Interview With a Raver Who Wears Electrical Tape on Her Boobs

    Ciara Mimms is perhaps the L.A. area's most devoted raver, in an area crammed with them. The 18-year-old high school senior lives in San Bernardino County, but spends her free time in the city at clubs like The Avalon and The Music Box. She takes her EDM seriously, and making costumes for the part ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 9, 2012

    Guy Gerber Is an Israeli DJ Who Made a Surprisingly Good Album With Diddy

    Guy Gerber is an electronic music artist who can frustrate the short-attention-span masses used to the nonstop aural pop shots of top festival DJs such as David Guetta, Afrojack and Deadmau5. His sound is ethereal and groovy, sublime and cinematic, optimistic and airy. The Israeli artist's work has ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 29, 2011

    LinA In LA: What To Do This New Year's Eve

    Lina Lecaro​See also: *Ten Mystical Songs For Making Out With Your Hippie Boyfriend on New Year's Eve *Top 10 L.A. Club Nights of 2011 We love L.A. We love the nightlife. We always will. It was a tough year for a lot of us, but the sounds and sights we soaked in, the floors we tore up and ... More >>

  • 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

    October 25, 2010

    Monster Massive Rave In L.A. Sees As Many As 40 Arrests, 37 Medical Emergencies

    Ravers are under the microscope in Los Angeles.​It was a spooky scene for as many as 40 people who were put in the back of police cars at the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena, where the annual Monster Massive rave attracted about 16,000 other law-abiding dance music fans. The arrests were mo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 22, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    August 20, 2010

    Get Ready for the Weekend with the TGIF DJ Mix: This Week, Jimmy Van M

    ​During his seminal time in Orlando, Florida and New York, DJ Jimmy Van M became one of the world's original purveyors of the bubbly, electronic "progressive house" sound. Now based in Spain, Van M is still rocking the decks with a darker, more tech-flavored vibe. In honor of Friday, we picke ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 10, 2010

    The DJs List: Spinners You Should See This Weekend (And Beyond) -- Steve Lawler, Heidi, John Digweed

    ​Save up your energy, kids, summer's almost officially here, and the talent is flowing like bubbly at a Jamie Foxx party. We especially like the mix-and-match paring of Steve Lawler and Heidi Saturday at Avalon and the return of John Digweed to his L.A. home, the Mayan, Wednesday. Friday: If ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 19, 2010

    Day 3: Infected Mushroom Brings Head-Banging Trance To Coachella

    Dennis RomeroInfected Mushroom performs at Coachella.​Confession: Trance (spikey-haired douches bouncing to 135 beats-per-minute music) is not our thing. Burning Man (sweaty, 40-year-old shaved-head guys perving on 18-year-old, pigtailed girls with lollipops) -- also not our thing. Put the two ... More >>

  • Music

    March 18, 2010

    Dance Club Pick: Club Fight

    Dennis RomeroInfected Mushroom performs at Coachella.​Confession: Trance (spikey-haired douches bouncing to 135 beats-per-minute music) is not our thing. Burning Man (sweaty, 40-year-old shaved-head guys perving on 18-year-old, pigtailed girls with lollipops) -- also not our thing. Put the two ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 15, 2010

    Live Review: Sasha Baptizes Avalon With Aqua Grooves

    Dennis Romero​Despite the technological and musical innovations forged by the progressive-house generation of DJs that ruled the '90s, clubland's focus has shifted in recent years to dark-wave sounds emanating from Berlin, the neon sound-clash of New York and L.A.'s neon punks, and the pop cro ... More >>

  • Music

    March 11, 2010

    Music Picks: Sasha & Kazell, She & Him, Efterklang, Xiu Xiu

    Also, Holly Miranda, Les Blanks, Mumiy Troll and others

  • Blogs

    January 16, 2010

    Super-Club Promoter Giant Moves Back To Avalon

    Super-club promoter Giant and its founder Dave Dean have quietly returned to Avalon Hollywood to help promote Friday and Saturday nights, club representatives confirmed. The move marks a reunion for Dean and his onetime home base after he was booted from the club in 2006 (rumors were that his cut o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 4, 2010

    New Year's Eve in Los Angeles: A YouTube Snapshot at Midnight

    Lord knows West Coast Sound can't cover everything, but why should we even have to when God YouTube is doing the heavy lifting. A lot of stuff went down in LA this weekend, for sure. Some crazy shit, actually. All that gunfire had to come from somewhere. The sirens, the tire squealing, the horns. Th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 29, 2009

    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 >>

  • Music

    October 1, 2009

    Best of L.A.: Nightlife

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    September 10, 2009

    Monday Social Makes a Move: A Conversation with Mick Cole

    Monday Social is Los Angeles' longest-running, electronic dance music night. It started in 1996 as an off-night ode to a cast-off scene, a place where true fans of digitally flavored "progressive" house music could get their fix away from the celebrity crowds. It turned into an affair of its own, ho ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 23, 2009

    On Danny Tenaglia's Eight Hour Marathon Set at Avalon

    By Dennis Romero The last time we caught Danny Tenaglia at Avalon Hollywood, in 2007, the stage production was over-the-top. He was perched on a boom-box façade, a with a cartoon subway cutout nearby, that celebrated the DJ's Big Apple heritage. This time around, the soul train was gone and the se ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 19, 2009

    LA Rave Champion Swedish Egil Plays Downtown Saturday Night

    Saturday night's Rave L.A. event will bring together the old school and new when Swedish Egil, one of the major forces behind popularizing techno and house in the city, joins Bul!m!atron and DJ S!n for a downtown all-nighter. "Swedish" Egil Aalvik began his DJ career in Europe in the 1970s and relo ... More >>

  • Music

    March 5, 2009

    Rock Picks: BLK JKS, Lambchop, Efterklang, Yelle

    Also, Michael Gira, The Pretenders, Foreign Born, and others

  • Blogs

    October 5, 2008

    Detour Dance Party: Cut Copy, Hercules and Love Affair, Silent Disco Caught on Video

    Despite foreboding clouds and a few rounds of mist-like rain, dancing began in the early afternoon at this year’s Detour Festival and continued until the witching hour. For much of the day, the electronic grooves were confined to the courtyard of City Hall, where DJs like Paparazzi and Kid Lightn ... More >>

  • Music

    May 1, 2008

    Behind the Velvet Fence

    Prince of the desert; VIP couch; and other tales from Coachella

  • Music

    December 27, 2007

    Revenge of the New Year

    Hollywood vs. downtown...

  • Music

    December 27, 2007

    Downtown in Stereo: New Year’s Street Parties Compete

    Year-end bashes fulfill L.A.’s huge dance-music appetite

  • Music

    October 11, 2007

    DJ Quivver at Nacional

    Peer pleasure

  • News

    October 4, 2007

    The Last Days of Disco

    Nightranger’s welcome to the jungle

  • Music

    August 30, 2007

    Working the Floor

    Labor Day fave raves

  • Music

    March 1, 2007

    Soft Sonic Swirls, Brilliant Beats

    Dublab's Tonalism and John Digweed and MSTRKRFT at Giant

  • Music

    March 1, 2007

    Rock Picks

    For the week of March 1 - 8

  • Music

    December 28, 2006

    New Year’s Evenings

    Recommended events for counting down and getting it on the last night of the year.

  • Music

    January 12, 2006

    Big & Bad

    Recommended events for counting down and getting it on the last night of the year.

  • Calendar

    December 29, 2005

    Stumbling Toward 2006

    Recommended events for counting down and getting it on the last night of the year.

  • Music

    January 6, 2005

    Can't Let It Go

    Recommended events for counting down and getting it on the last night of the year.

  • Music

    October 10, 2002

    Your Time Is Now

    Recommended events for counting down and getting it on the last night of the year.

  • Music

    September 5, 2002

    Street Action

    Recommended events for counting down and getting it on the last night of the year.

  • Music

    August 29, 2002

    Heathen Worship

    Recommended events for counting down and getting it on the last night of the year.

  • Music

    July 25, 2002

    Hit the Decks

    Recommended events for counting down and getting it on the last night of the year.

  • News

    November 8, 2001

    The Nine Lives of Rave

    Recommended events for counting down and getting it on the last night of the year.

  • Music

    March 8, 2001

    Giant Steps

    Anatomy of a dance superclub

  • Music

    November 9, 2000

    I Can Dig It, You Can Dig It, We Can Dig It

    Anatomy of a dance superclub

  • Music

    June 29, 2000

    Beat Freaks

    Dance clubs L.A.: a forbidden world beckons

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