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  • Bass Center 2016: Bassnectar, Wu-Tang Clan Prove ‘Music Is The Drug’ at Camping Festival

    Following the release of his twelfth studio album, Unlimited, Bassnectar hosted Bass Center 2016, the producer's inaugural two-day camping festival July 29-30 at Dick's Sporting Goods Park in Commerce City, Colorado. The extended two-hour sets from Lorin Ashton himself were the highlight for most of the 50,000 Bassheads who drove, flew and hitchhiked from around the country. However, the opening sets from Wu-Tang Clan, Porter Robinson, Flux Pavilion, AlunaGeorge, Flying Lotus and Lupe Fiasco combined with the overall next-level event production really set the concert apart from the rest, proving that, to quote the producer's latest collaboration with LUZCID, "Music Is The Drug."

  • Bassnectar Shares Full Details for Bass Center Camping Festival

    The inaugural Bass Center is scheduled to go down July 29-30 in Commerce City, Colorado. As BassHeads take to Twitter to count down the days until Wu-Tang Clan, Porter Robinson, Flux Pavilion and others join Bassnectar for the first-ever two-day camping festival hosted by Lorin Ashton himself, the producer and his team has shared the full details for the almost sold-out event, including a stacked Silent Disco.

  • EDC Las Vegas 20th Anniversary: 10 Festival Moments That Prove Insomniac Still ‘Wide Awake’

    Electric Daisy Carnival, Pasquale Rotella and Insomniac brand's brainchild also known as EDC, celebrated its landmark 20th anniversary with a sold-out crowd of over 400,000 electronic dance music culture fans over the weekend at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Here are ten top festival moments from beneath the electric sky that prove Insomniac is still as "Wide Awake" as their tagline suggests.

  • Girl Power Guide to Mysteryland USA 2016: 7 Female DJs to Catch on Woodstock ‘69 Grounds

    If you're counting down the hours until Mysteryland USA kicks-off this weekend, you probably already know the set times for ID&T's Bethel Woods-based EDM festival by heart. It goes without saying that most "Nomads" will flock to the Main Stage for headliners Odesza, Skrillex and Bassnectar, but with a diverse lineup of over 90 artists, those big name favorites are just the tip of the iceberg. While dancing beyond the Main Stage, celebrate girl power by checking out our guide to some of the female DJs and producers who will be gracing the decks this weekend on the site of Woodstock '69, below.

  • Kygo Delivers the Feels on Euphoric Debut LP; Stream, Download ‘Cloud Nine’ [LISTEN]

    After reigning the tropical house game for two years with a steady stream of remixes and singles, Kygo delivers all the feels on his aptly-titled euphoric debut LP, Cloud Nine. The blissed-out dance record, which features collaborations with the likes of John Legend, Kodaline, Parson James, Julia Michaels and Foxes among others on 14 out of the 15 tracks, is overall perfect for barbeque season. Stream the new album in full here, and download it here.

  • Grimes Plays Dress-Up With Purity Ring, HANA, Others in Dreamy ‘California’ Video [WATCH]

    Electronic art-pop oddball Grimes has dropped the dreamy new video for her 'Art Angels single.' "California." It looks like it was an absolute blast to film: the Canadian, born Claire Boucher, plays dress-up and channels the likes of Dolly Parton and old-school Hollywood starlets with the help of friends including Megan James of Purity Ring, frequent collaborator HANA, Cecil Frena of Born Gold, model Eric Cheng, and her brother Mac Boucher.

  • ‘Hopelessness’ Reviewed: ANOHNI Makes Protest Pop Music About Drones and Global Climate Change

    ANOHNI, formerly known as Antony Hegarty of the chamber pop group Antony & The Johnsons, fuses elements of dance floor-ready pop with conventions of protest music on Hopelessness, her debut album under new moniker. With help from avant-electronica producers Oneohtrix Point Never and Hudson Mohawke, she presents goosebumps-inducing protest music for an era marked by drone bomb strikes and global climate change.

  • Stream New Death Grips Album, ‘Bottomless Pit,’ Download The Stems [LISTEN]

    Experimental hip-hop trio Death Grips have surprise-released Bottomless Pit, their fifth studio album and follow-up to last year's double LP The Powers That B. They've not only made all 13 new rock-rap noise jams available to stream on YouTube, but they've also shared a free download of the stems for your remixing pleasure.

  • ODESZA’s Foreign Family Collective Stream New Jai Wolf Track ‘Drive’ [LISTEN]

    It seems like only yesterday when Skrillex introduced Jai Wolf to the world with an OWSLA re-issue of the young DJ's bootleg remix of "Ease My Mind," but this week finds the Bangali-born, NYC-based producer sharing his second single released on ODESZA's Foreign Family Collective label. Stream "Drive" featuring Kamtim Mohanger, AKA The Chain Gang Of 1974, via the label's Soundcloud below.

  • Brian Eno Covers Lou Reed, Conjures the Titanic on New Album ‘The Ship’ [LISTEN]

    Brian Eno just released The Ship, his latest full-length solo album on Warp. Apparently, the LP grew out of the legendary producer's fascination with World War I and the sinking of the so-called "unsinkable" Titanic. It plays like a pastiche, conjures a collage of different stories told with the help of sea-like ambient instrumentations that conclude with a pretty straightforward cover of The Velvet Underground's "I'm Set Free," penned by Lou Reed.

  • Stream ‘Parallel Lines,’ New Summer-Ready A-Trak Collaboration with Phantogram [LISTEN]

    Fool's Gold label lead Alain Macklovitch, best known as A-Trak, has been on a collaborative streak lately, working with Jamie Lidell on "We All Fall Down," Disclosure on a "Magnets" rework, and Rick Rubin on Star Wars Headspace. Now, the Canadian producer and DJ has joined forces with NYC synth-pop duo Phantogram on the summer-ready fist pump-inspiring new track titled "Parallel Lines."

  • Moderat Conclude Electronic Pop Trilogy, Evoke Dystopian Dreamscape on ‘III’

    III finds Moderat, the hybrid trio of Apparat's Sascha Ring and Modeselektor's Gernot Bronsert and Sebastian Szary, embracing unrestrained, raw emotion while evoking a decidedly dystopian dreamscape. The album, which masterfully combines introspective ambience with hard-hitting IDM and infuses it all with a pop sensibility, not only marks the conclusion to the outfit's electronic pop trilogy but also achieves what they sought out to do on 2013's II and 2019's Moderat.

  • Skrillex Features New SNAILS On OWSLA Radio; Diplo Drops Jack U Opener On Good Enuff [LISTEN]

    After throwing down another massive headlining set at Coachella together as Jack U, both Skrillex and Diplo continued to share new music with the masses all weekend long. The former featured brand-spanking-new tracks from none other than SNAILS on the seventh episode of his OWSLA Radio Beats 1 show; the latter finally dropped the previously unidentified Jack U opener, now known as Donald Buck's "Bloodclat," via his new Mad Decent sub-label Good Enuff.

  • Matt and Kim Debut New Music at Coachella, Surprise-Release ‘We Were The Weirdos’ EP [LISTEN]

    Ahead of their upcoming tour with Ellie Goulding, the Brooklyn-based indie dance-pop outfit consisting of Matt Johnson and Kim Schifino -- best known simply as Matt and Kim -- have surprise-released a new EP titled 'We Were The Weirdos.' The duo announced the EP and debuted a driving dance-punk track from it titled "Please No More" during their Coachella set this past Sunday afternoon.

  • PJ Harvey, Political Activist? ‘The Hope Six Demolition Project’ Reviewed

    "The Hope Six Demolition Project" leaves one asking if English rocker PJ Harvey has turned into a political activist. The album was recorded in public sessions as part of a living art exhibit in London and was inspired by her travels to Kosovo, Afghanistan and Washington, D.C. alongside filmmaker Seamus Murphy.

  • YACHT and LCD Soundsystem Honor Prince With Electro-Pop ‘Controversy’ Covers [LISTEN]

    Electro-pop outfits YACHT and LCD Soundsystem are among the latest to pay tribute to Prince following the genre-bending pop icon's untimely death at the age of 57 in his Minnesota Paisley Park Estate earlier this week. Both bands honored the Purple One with covers of Controversy tracks: YACHT offered up their own version of "Annie Christian" whereas LCD Soundsystem paid their respects by covering "Controversy" at Coachella.

  • Grimes Shares New Aristophanes Track Produced By Arcade Fire’s Will Butler [LISTEN]

    Following her recent Janelle Monae-featuring Coachella set, art-pop singer-songwriter Claire Boucher, best known as Grimes, dropped by Apple Music's Beats 1 studio to chat with DJ Zane Lowe and deliver a 40-minute mix. During the brief guest set, the Canadian oddball treated listeners to an exclusive preview of a brand-new track by Taiwanese rapper Aristophanes that was produced by Arcade Fire frontman Will Butler.

  • Kesha Shows ‘True Colors’ Onstage With Zedd At Coachella [WATCH]

    The first weekend of Coachella 2016 was full of guest appearances from Bernie Sanders introducing Run The Jewels to Kanye West joining Diplo and Skrillex for Jack U's headlining set. One of the most magical of these moments was hands-down when Kesha joined Zedd onstage for a soulful rendering of the electro-house producer's 2015 track "True Colors."

  • Glow In The Dark, Peach Scented And Filled With Kesha’s Blood: 11 Weird Novelty Vinyl Records

    With Record Store Day and garage sale weather just around the corner, 'tis the season for crate diggers (and everyone else who owns a turntable) to rejoice that the so-called vinyl boom lives on, and with it comes an abundance of creative limited edition pressings of favorite, obscure and otherwise coveted albums. From albums pressed with Kesha's blood to LPs that glow in the dark or come peach scented, here are 11 of the weirdest vinyl records ever.

  • Secret Solstice Offers $1 Million Festival Ticket: Does It Get You Closer to Radiohead?

    Secret Solstice turned heads last year by offering the world's most expensive festival ticket package, which included a party inside an iceberg, for $200,000. Not to be outdone, the Icelandic destination event has announced the world's first-ever $1 Million Dollar Festival Ticket, which comes with a stacked package of perks but still begs the question: does it get you any closer to Radiohead?

  • Pretty Lights Launches Spotify Playlist, Offers Download of ‘Only Yesterday’ [LISTEN]

    Derek Vincent Smith, the electro-soul pioneer best known as Pretty Lights, is back with a free download of his latest track, "Only Yesterday." Additionally, the Colorado-based producer has launched a new Spotify playlist series called "The Hot Sh*t," which features cuts from Bonobo, DJ Shadow, A$AP Rocky, Run The Jewels, Nina Simone, Atmosphere and Ryan Hemsworth among others.
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