Tomorrowland Festival to be Livestreamed in Dolby Atmos – 1st Time

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Photo Credit: Tomorrowland Festival The Tomorrowland Festival will livestream for the first time with Dolby Atmos for immersive sound. The dance music festival runs from July 15 to August 4 and welcomes more than 600,000 […]

Audiotistic Bay Area Kicks Off The Festival Summer Season

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Audiotistic Bay Area 2022 Photo Credit: Ivan Meneses for Insomniac Events This past weekend (July 9th & 10th), the Bay Area hosted its annual EDM and hip-hop crossover 2-day festival, Audiotistic.  Since 1997, Audiotistic has […]

Cutting up the dancefloor: the glorious, dubious history of the disco edit | Disco

Larry Levan DJing at Paradise Garage, New York, 1979.

Triumphantly countering the racist, homophobic chumps who burned records during the Disco Sucks movement in the US in the late-70s, disco has continued to thrive in the past four decades. The frequently bombastic, sometimes camp […]

SLANDER Announce Release Date of Debut Studio Album, “Thrive” – EDM.com

SLANDER perform at Coachella 2022.

It’s all led to this for SLANDER. It’s been quite a journey for the barnstorming bass music duo, who launched their musical project way back in June 2010. Longtime fans will recall SLANDER’s humble beginnings, graduating […]

Manila Killa’s Long-Awaited Debut Album to Feature Lights, EVAN GIIA, More: See the Full Tracklist – EDM.com

Manila Killa's debut album will feature collaborations with Lights, fknsyd, EVAN GIIA, Panama and more.

Gearing up for the release of his debut album, Manila Killa has revealed its tracklist and features. Titled DUSK, the record is scheduled to drop on July 21st. If its list of collaborators is any indication, fans […]

Insomniac Music Group and Sony Music Publishing Ink Global Administration Partnership – EDM.com

The bassPOD stage at the 2022 edition of Insomniac Events' EDC Las Vegas music festival.

Insomniac has signed a global administration deal with Sony Music, inking a partnership that has the look of watershed moment for the electronic music powerhouse. Billboard reports the deal entails royalty collection between the two […]

Gabriel & Dresden’s Josh Gabriel Opens Up About Heart Attack: “It Came as Quite a Shock, But It Made a Lot of Sense” – EDM.com

Gabriel & Dresden's Josh Gabriel Opens Up About Heart Attack: "It Came as Quite a Shock, But It Made a Lot of Sense" - EDM.com

Josh Gabriel of famed dance music duo Gabriel & Dresden has announced he’s stepping away from touring in the wake of a recent heart attack. Gabriel took to the duo’s verified Instagram account to open up […]

“A Whole New Direction”: Tiësto Says His New Album Will Heavily Embrace House Music – EDM.com

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With house music flourishing at the moment, Tiësto is readying what may be his grooviest album yet.  Tiësto has certainly been a key contributor to the current boom cycle in the genre, achieving big-time commercial success […]

LP Giobbi Signs With Counter Records, Drops “All In A Dream” With DJ Tennis and Joseph Ashworth – EDM.com

LP Giobbi Signs With Counter Records, Drops "All In A Dream" With DJ Tennis and Joseph Ashworth - EDM.com

After an impressive run of releases in 2022, LP Giobbi has signed with Ninja Tune’s renowned Counter Records imprint. Giobbi, who was named Best Music Executive on EDM.com‘s “Best of 2021: Industry Leaders” list, also released […]

MoMA PS5 on Beyoncé, House Anthems, and Rainbow Capitalism

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Photo by Sidewalkkilla. “Don’t Break My Soul,” Beyoncé’s latest track, a house music revival that features Big Freedia, the legendary queer Black icon known for popularizing New Orleans bounce, has the internet aflame. In fact, […]

Schoolboy Q, Rezz, Chris Lake Headline Audiotistic Bay Area 2022

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Photo Credit: Skylar Greene for Insomniac Events It’s not uncommon for dance music and hip-hop to collide, as we’ve recently seen with the release of Drake’s newest dance music album Honestly, Nevermind. Audiotistic Bay Area […]

Here Are the Final First Week Numbers for Drake’s ‘Honestly Nevermind’

Here Are the Final First Week Numbers for Drake’s ‘Honestly Nevermind’

Drake has scored his 11th No. 1 album on the Billboard 200, as his latest offering Honestly, Nevermind debuted atop the chart, Billboard reports. Drizzy’s seventh studio album earned 204,000 equivalent album units in its first week of […]

80s’ pop star Tiffany wasn’t keen on releasing mega-hit I Think We’re Alone Now – Music News

80s' pop star Tiffany wasn't keen on releasing mega-hit I Think We're Alone Now - Music News

80s’ pop star Tiffany didn’t want to record ‘I Think We’re Alone Now’ because she didn’t want to head in a dance direction. The 50-year-old singer – whose full name is Tiffany Darwish – has […]

The Results Are In: Here Are the Winners of the 2022 Electronic Dance Music Awards – EDM.com

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Electronic dance music fans fans have spoken. The Electronic Dance Music Awards heard from the global EDM fandom, who eagerly cast their votes on this year’s best-in-class songs, artists, companies and more across a wide range […]

The Black Women Who Shaped House Music

The Black Women Who Shaped House Music

Image Source: Getty / Monica Morgan / Larry Busacca Beyoncé’s first single from forthcoming album “Renaissance,” entitled “Break My Soul” and featuring Big Freedia, also features a sample of Robin S.’s house hit “Show Me […]

“None of Us Realized How Big This Record Would Be”: VASSY Celebrates 2 Billion Streams of “BAD” – EDM.com

"None of Us Realized How Big This Record Would Be": VASSY Celebrates 2 Billion Streams of "BAD" - EDM.com

It’s 2014. You’re at a festival. Big room house rattles your teeth at every stage. You belt “BAD” at the top of your lungs. Life is good. It didn’t take long for David Guetta and […]

Avant Gardner Acquires Made Event, Electric Zoo for $15 Million – EDM.com

Fireworks erupt over the main stage at Electric Zoo

New York City’s most popular EDM venue has taken over its premier electronic festival. Last week, Billboard reported that the investment group behind Brooklyn hotspot Avant Gardner is purchasing New York promoter Made Event for $15 […]