Lily Moayeri

Bikinis and bare chests are the default, and getting an intimate view of perfectly formed butt cheeks is not unusual at Wicked Paradise, the hot roving shindigs from Tom Astley Williams and Matt Orlove. The daytime outdoor pool parties will be raging for Labor Day weekend....

There is a video post on Gary Richards aka Destructo’s Instagram dated July 16. The video starts with a classic Los Angeles rave flyer for the original Magical Mickey’s Electric Daisy Carnival from 1991, an event thrown by Mr. Kool-Aid and “Gary from Sermon.” That is how Richards was known back then, in association with his Sunday sunrise after-hours party, Sermon....

Attendance numbers at electronic dance music festivals are staggering. According to the Las Vegas Sun newspaper, this year’s Electric Daisy Carnival had 400,000 festivalgoers through its gates over its three-day stretch. Even for the seasoned EDM aficionado, however, there still is a genre within electronic dance music’s wide expanse of styles that is largely unfamiliar, drum & bass....

Watching Soothslayer do a circle headbang is a sight to behold. She looks like she’s possessed, whipping around and pogoing, with sparks shooting out of her electric blue hair. It has taken a while for the drum ’n’ bass DJ and up-and-coming producer, who when she’s not on a flyer goes by Caroline Miller, to be able to let loose like this. Until not too long ago, much of her time behind the decks was with her head down, avoiding eye contact....

Insomniac, which puts on Electric Daisy Carnival events around the world and has one in Las Vegas May 18-20, is run by longtime rave enthusiast Pasquale Rotella....

It's a particularly intense time for Sheffield, England-born Arctic Monkeys as they prepare for the initial bout of touring for Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino. The tour's third date, on May 5, is in their adopted hometown, at Hollywood Forever Cemetery, less than a week before the album's release....

“We did the exhibit, not for all the Bernstein fans out there, of which there are many, but more for the grandchildren of those fans so they could learn about this incredible genius. We wanted to build an education program around the exhibit so people who only knew the name but didn’t know anything about him could see how complex and interesting he was, along with all the great music he made.”...

DREAMS are a super-duo of sorts, the brainchild of Empire of the Sun’s Luke Steele and Silverchair’s Daniel Johns. While the two speak like they have never left their native Australia, Steele has been an Angeleno for a long minute and Johns splits his time between here and Down Under....