Industry

Ultra Music Festival Phase 3

February 15th, 2013

With Festival season set to begin in just a few weeks, Ultra Music Festival has just released phase 3 of the legendary lineup. With the biggest names in the game all playing in Miami, this is a show you can’t miss. In phase 3, the names are just as good for the main phase of [...]

Feed Me Recovers From Meningitis – Tour Will Continue

February 14th, 2013

Feed Me has released the following statement regarding his hospitalization in Colorado this last week generating much concern that his ongoing tour with Mord Fustang would be cancelled or rescheduled: “To clear any confusion, this week I somehow contracted a viral form of Meningitis. I started feeling off key right before the Boulder show, and [...]

Potato Will Eat You – Skrillex, A-trak, Diplo Collab Out 2/18

February 14th, 2013

Word of a Skrillex, A-trak and Diplo collab has been spreading like wildfire since the 3 world famous producers began hinting at a release called ‘Potato Will Eat You’ due out Feb. 18th.  Now Diplo has uploaded the above video to his Youtube and the news is  confirmed – watch out, Monday!

Cosmic Music Academy Opens in Miami

February 7th, 2013

The team behind Cosmic Opera and Cosmic Management have developed a state of the art alternative music academy based in Miami Beach. For the past six months they have been building the academy in a 7,800-square-foot Mediterranean Villa in Miami Beach and have already taught their first round of students in a sold-out class that started on [...]

Spotify to Pay Rights Holders $500 million in 2013

February 7th, 2013

It looks like the difficult relationship between Spotify and the music industry can expect brighter days. Daniel Ek, the chief executive and co-founder of the free music service, revealed on Tuesday at a technology and media event hosted by the Founders Forum in Los Angeles that Spotify is planning to pay out $500 million to music copyright [...]

LIGHT – New Las Vegas Cirque de Soleil Goes EDM

February 7th, 2013

It was reported yesterday that a new Vegas club called LIGHT is supposed to open this spring boasting a world-class Cirque de Soleil show with residencies from the likes of Skrillex, Zedd and Alesso.  Scheduled to open April 26th at Mandalay Bay, LIGHT is conceived as an entire universe where each resident DJ will use [...]

Shazam To Integrate Beatport’s Catalog For During-Mix Track IDs

February 7th, 2013

The popular music-identifying service Shazam announced a partnership with electronic music distributor Beatport to add a massive collection of dance music tracks to the service’s repertoire. If you’ve never used Shazam before, the concept is simple – hold your phone up during any song and let it sample the track, send the sample off to Shazam’s servers, and more often [...]

Discovery Project – Win a DJ Slot on Beyond Wonderland

February 6th, 2013

This March, go beyond being just a bedroom producer!  Reveal your sound to the masses at Insomniac’s most enchanting Beyond Wonderland event.  To embark on this adventure, produce a remix of James Egbert’s track ‘Back to New’ (using the official track stems available at www.discoveryproject.com) and record a thirty-minute DJ mix by February 22nd. Winners will: [...]

Marquee New York- The Rebirth

February 4th, 2013

Earlier this year, Marquee re-opened its New York Nightclub after going through extensive renovations. The Marquee brand has made a name for itself with its great attention to detail and spectacular lineup of artists coming through. Like it’s Las Vegas counterpart, the club is capitalizing on the dance music movement and added new amenities like [...]

Insomniac Announces The Return Of EDC Texas

February 1st, 2013

Big news out of Insomniac today. The popular CEO Pasquale Rotella recently instagrammed the release that Insomniac would be bringing back the Electric Daisy Carnival to Texas. He also explained that EDC would no longer be expanding the brand past the venues already established. This includes all the stops on the road to Las Vegas [...]