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This Ain't No Disco: How Swedish House Mafia Brought EDM to America

This Ain't No Disco

Swedish House Mafia remade rave music in rock's image — and got America listening.

Win Tickets to See Beats Antique, Deadmau5, and More at Tahoe's SnowGlobe Music Festival

Wait... who says festival season has to end just 'cause it's winter? They've clearly never heard of SnowGlobe Music Festival, a three-day musical gathering in South Lake Tahoe starting Dec. 29 that features the worldly rhythms of Beats Antique, Deadmau5, Wiz Khalifa, Big Gigantic, Polica, Zion I, an ... More >>

Bass Instincts: How Bassnectar Came to Rule American Dance Music

Slideshow: Bassnectar in San Francisco

Body & SOUL Focuses on the Party, Not the DJ

Madge Gets Stupid: Five Dumb Things Madonna Has Said Lately

When Madonna goes dumb, it's like everything else she does in her life -- she goes for gold. Of course, we know that Madge has had a ton of inspiring, empowering and intelligent moments in the course of her career, too. And of course we know that nobody's perfect. But lately, the outspoken singer se ... More >>

Kaskade on the Rise of EDM, What He Really Does Onstage, and Missing San Francisco

After growing up in Chicago and passing through New York and Salt Lake City, Ryan Raddon -- better known to his thousands of fans as Kaskade -- came to San Francisco. It was here, among the city's flourishing early-2000s house scene, that Raddon came into his own as a DJ/producer of electronic dance ... More >>

DJs from Mars: Show Preview

Weekend Parties: Warm Leatherette's Third Anniversary, Hard French Returns, Monarch Goes Late, and More

We're now a week on from Paris Hilton's DJ debut and Deadmau5's flame-baiting blog post. Thankfully, the world hasn't collapsed, and it seems as though both events have prompted some serious discussion about the place of the DJ in contemporary society. For those of you interested in such things, we ... More >>

Weekend Parties: Avicii, Sandwell District, Mark E, Robert Hood, Ivan Smagghe, and More!

The past week has been a fairly wild ride for fans of electronic dance music. A Rolling Stone cover story about and subsequent blog post by Deadmau5 have both opened up a Pandora's Box of questions within the echo chamber of the blogosphere. Are technical DJ chops relevant? Has the producer supplant ... More >>

EDC 2012: The Underground Has Left The Building

Twenty years after rave culture first entered the American mainstream, the success of a festival like Electric Daisy Carnival begs the question: Can electronic dance music retain its authenticity, warehouse roots and peace, love, unity and respect (PLUR)? EDC, whose organizers claim they sold out t ... More >>

EDC 2012: Calvin Harris Plays CDs of Himself Singing

Dance music is fighting for its soul. The charts are filled with tracks (Rihanna, Flo Rida) that borrow from the ecstatic trance and pulsing grooves of electronic dance music. The last time pop was so infatuated with the dance floor was 1979, the year disco died. This time around fans are more sa ... More >>

EDC 2012: Coachella or Electric Daisy Carnival: Which One is Better?

See also: Our Complete Coachella Coverage Dance music is coming to an arena near you: Kaskade will be the first DJ ever to play Staples Center (July 27). And mainstream concert promoters such as Live Nation are diving into the electronic dance explosion. Electric Daisy Carnival, which is being hel ... More >>

The Associated Press Has Just Now Discovered the Popularity of Electronic Dance Music

Have you heard of Skrillex? David Guetta? Deadmau5? Did you know that they have, like lots of fans? Well, today, the Associated Press finally caught up with you. Its report about the popularity of dance music on American shores is a carnival of unintentional hilarity dressed up as a long-expired mu ... More >>

Deadmau5 Comes Out as a Non-Drug-User. Is EDM Sobering Up?

​This week, one of the biggest stars in EDM -- Deadmau5 -- chastised one of the biggest pop stars of all time -- Madonna -- for using drug lingo (specifically the phrase "Has anyone seen Molly?") on stage at this year's Ultra Music Festival. And he didn't do it in a small way either, indulging in ... More >>

Indie on Top: Noise Pop Celebrates 20 Years of Independent Music

Q&A: Mux Mool on Videogame Music and the Limitless Possibilities of Laptop Production

Intentionally or not, some electronic musicians -- like Daft Punk, Deadmau5, Eskmo, Tobacco, and Tycho -- come off as spectral, detached figures. Mux Mool, whose real name is Brian Lindgren, is not the shadowy type. He portrays himself as the sort of guy you could invite over to your place for barbe ... More >>

The Grammys: A Timeline of Madness and Misery

The 54th Annual Grammy Awards happened yesterday. Which we're sure you know already. If you missed it, however, you may have missed some of the weirdest details. So here, for your convenience, is a timeline of events. Get comfortable, 'cause this thing was a three-and-a-half-hour carnival of absurdi ... More >>

Producers Gabriel and Dresden on the New Dance Scene and Loving Berkeley Bowl

Following their debut in 2001, S.F. trance producer-DJs Gabriel and Dresden quickly gained recognition in the EDM scene for putting feel-good lyrics and melodies over progressive house beats. Shying away from one-dimensional beat reverberations on dynamic tracks like "Arcadia" and "Tracking Treasure ... More >>

Who Has a Better Visual Show -- Deadmau5 or Skrillex?

It was a double-whammy of big-name electronic dance music in S.F. this weekend. Friday saw bass-music wunderkind Skrillex take over the Warfield (see more photos here); then, on Saturday, Deadmau5 dragged his big beats out to a packed Bill Graham Civic Auditorium (see more photos). It one sense, any ... More >>

Top Five Reasons Spotify Kinda Sucks

​Yes, we know, everyone loves Spotify (even us). Yes, we know, free music is really sweet, and we feel pretty spoiled for even bringing this up. But Spotify has a ways to go before it's our favorite music app. Here are five things about the new-to-America streaming service that are kinda sucky ... More >>

5 Things to Like About the Outside Lands Festival Schedule

Outside Lands: Now without (hopefully) the painful decision-making!​ The schedule for this year's Outside Lands festival hit the web earlier today. But you can stop gritting your teeth and clutching the edge of that desk: Although many festival schedules are an exercise in painful decision-mak ... More >>

A Guide to NorCal Music Festivals

S.F. DJ Andy Schneider Aims to Resurrect Progressive House

Download a Free EP (Recorded in Journey's Old Studio!) From S.F. Trio Pance Party

Corrugate your FACE​I can't pretend some prescriptivist tendency in me doesn't disapprove of the misspelling (because I don't think they're talking about this), but I'm finding it hard to claim that the three cardboard-faced gentlemen of San Francisco's Pance Party didn't choose the perfect ... More >>

Outside Lands 2011: Phish, Muse, Arcade Fire, Black Keys, Deadmau5, and More

Three days of this for 2011!​As promised, Outside Lands' avatar Ranger Dave announced the lineup this morning for the festivals fourth incarnation, to be held August 12-14, 2011. Your headliners: Phish, Muse, and Arcade Fire. Also playing: the Black Keys, Deadmau5, MGMT, Girl Talk, Decemberists, a ... More >>

Wolfgang Gartner Plays Beethoven for the Spring Breakers at Ruby Skye

Let's play Tetris. ​Wolfgang Gartner April 7, 2011 @ Ruby Skye ​ Better than: Sitting through an interpretive dance ceremony.How many elbows to the head would you take to catch your favorite artist? If your answer is fewer than ten, then you might not have made it to see electro- ... More >>

Saturday Night: Mayer Hawthorne, White Mike, Riche Panic, and Others Soundtrack A Santa-Filled Night in the Mission

The Saturday night crowd at SOM Bar​Meyer Hawthorne, Richie Panic, White Mike and othersDecember 4, 2010@ Public Works, SOM Bar, and Beauty BarBetter than: Being forced to sit in Santa's lap at your mandatory company holiday party. Jingle bells, confusion, and offensive party smells! Such was th ... More >>

The Top 10 Music-Related Children's Costumes

So last week you may have seen us going apeshit over this rad dude who made his three-year-old son a mind-blowing Deadmau5 costume for Halloween. Having concluded that he's pretty much the best dad ever, we started thinking about what band-related costumes we'd like to put on the (unfortunate) small ... More >>

Dad Makes Son Awesomely Realistic Deadmau5 Costume; Deadmau5 So Impressed He Calls Them

​You know you're a cool dad when you take your three-year-old son to see Deadmau5 at Treasure Island Music Festival. You know you're an even cooler dad when you make an incredibly realistic (and labor-intensive) Deadmau5 costume, after your son decides he wants to be Deadmau5 for Halloween. But th ... More >>

Treasure Island Day 1: LCD Soundsystem, Deadmau5, !!! Have Crowd Dancing To Keep Warm

Joseph Schell!!!'s Nic Offer dove into the crowd no fewer than three times.​Treasure Island Music Festival, Day One October 16th, 2010 Better than: A 1974 episode of Soul Train taped inside a meat freezer. We were breakfasting with friends in Potrero Hill when our hostess prono ... More >>

Behind the Beat with Relentless

Relentless​Relentless is a name I've seen around the local San Francisco electronic music scene for a long time, but I never took the time to get to know the duo's music or backstory. I've come to find out that the tale behind Ian Buzz's and Austin Heap's musical collaboration is as classic as the ... More >>

LCD Soundsystem, Belle & Sebastian, The National, Broken Social Scene Top Treasure Island Lineup

Christopher VictorioJack White with the Raconteurs at Treasure Island 2008​The lineup for the 2010 Treasure Island Music Festival was unveiled earlier today, and it's every bit as drool-worthy as we had hoped. First: the rumors were right, and Belle & Sebastian is headlining the second day's s ... More >>

Sasquatch! Music Festival Lineup: Pavement, Dam-Funk, Girls, Massive Attack, the XX

Joseph SchellEdward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros: festival favorites​More music news today for festicationers: Sasquatch! Music Festival laid out its lineup last night at a party at Seattle's Crocodile Cafe. This Memorial Day Weekend (May 29-31) the indie rock caravans will head to Washington's ... More >>

Top Ten Dance Collections of 2008, Both Mixed and Unmixed

By Randall RobertsAny knucklehead with DSL and a laptop can now make an electronic track. With a half hour of clicking and fiddling, you can sample enough cheesy beats and mashups to clog arteries from here to Berlin. Simple dropdown mouse maneuvers can transform electro tracks into progressive hous ... More >>

Trapped in the Deadmau5 beat

Coachella 2008 Lineup Announced