Swedish House Mafia

Sizzle & Fizzle: Highs and Lows from the Last Week in S.F. Music

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.

Thomas Gold: Show Preview

The Best Shows in San Francisco This Week

Low End Theory @ Mighty, Friday, Jan. 4 Here's one thing that's changing in 2013: Low End Theory, the local offshoot of the L.A. bass music party that's helped launched the careers of Flying Lotus, Nocando, Thundercat and others, is moving venues from 1015 Folsom to Mighty. We'll call that good news ... More >>

SF MusicTech Summit: Big Predictions, Blanket Dismissals, and Lots of Bad Words

Prediction: In 10 years, no one's going to care about owning music as long as they have access to it. Prediction: No one except for .1 percent of music listeners and Neil Young will pay for Neil Young's high-quality digital audio service. Prediction: In 3030, mashups will finally be legal. So i ... More >>

Body & SOUL Focuses on the Party, Not the DJ

Sizzle & Fizzle: Highs and Lows from the Last Week in S.F. Music

Swedish House Mafia Ticket Giveaway: The Top Five Funniest Entries We Received

Starting yesterday, we here at All Shook Down held a contest for a free a pair of tickets to Swedish House Mafia's farewell S.F. show at Bill Graham Civic on Feb. 16. The rules were simple: Write us something funny and creative about why you should be the winner. Well, we got A LOT of entries -- and ... More >>

Swedish House Mafia's Final S.F. Show: Win Tickets Before They Go Onsale

As we mentioned lat week, EDM giant Swedish House Mafia is going on one last world tour before its three members hang up their headphones. The group's final run includes a stop here at San Francisco's Bill Graham Civic Auditorium on Feb. 16, 2012. Tickets for the last-ever S.F. show go onsale tomor ... More >>

Swedish House Mafia Hints at San Francisco Stop on Farewell Tour

Swedish House Mafia, the three-DJ dance juggernaut that ranks among the world's most popular EDM groups, is saying farewell to all the thumping and the lights, and hanging up its headphones for good. But before they call it quits, DJs Steve Angello, Sebastian Ingrosso, and Axwell are heading out for ... More >>

Noel Gallagher Claims Rock Stardom Will Go Extinct, Apparently Hasn't Heard of Other Forms of Stardom

Aw, look: Another one of Oasis' Gallagher brothers uttered a statement that managed to be arrogant, ignorant, and fuddy-duddy all at the same time! This time it was the elder (and usually saner) one, Noel, speaking to the U.K.'s Sunday Express about the impending die-off of that rare and vital spec ... More >>

DJs from Mars: Show Preview

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: 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: House Music Beef With DJ Sneak Plays Out in Steve Angello's DJ Set

In early spring, a Twitter beef erupted between DJ Sneak, a Chicago house music legend, and Steve Angello, one-third of the DJ supergroup Swedish House Mafia. Sneak called SHM's music "fake shit" and said they "do not play house music" -- as in, real house music. On Friday, in front of a huge crow ... More >>

Top Five Reasons Outside Lands Is Better Than Coachella

See also: Our complete Coachella coverage Coachella 2012 has come and gone; now it's time to brag about our awesome tans and how we lost count of all of the onstage mindfucks. But while we Nor-Cal-ers try to switch our brains back to reality, let us also explain why we're really looking forward to ... More >>

DJ Thomas Gold on Collaborating with Dirty South and His Upcoming Single "Sing2Me"

Known for his percussion-heavy progressive house beats, Berlin-based producer Thomas Gold was named the best upcoming DJ/producer of 2011 in DJ Mag by dance music powerhouses Swedish House Mafia, Axwell, Cosmic Gate, and more. Although he has been producing and DJing since 2006, last year saw a bre ... 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 >>

Is This the Coachella 2012 Lineup?

Coachella 2012 is still more than four months away -- so naturally, it's time to start hyperventilating over rumored lineups for the first year the festival will stretch over two weekends. One "leaked" lineup appeared last week on StarzUncut, a celebrity gossip website with more than 58,000 Twitter ... More >>

Saturday: Chocolate Puma Helps Ruby Skye Win Over the Locals

Kahley EmersonDancers at Ruby Skye on Saturday night​ World Town Presents Chocolate Puma
 Saturday, September 17

 Ruby Skye Better than: What you think Ruby Skye is like. Big, expensive, and a little gaudy -- there are few clubs in San Francisco that provoke such an immediate visceral ... More >>

Exclusive: DJ White Mike's 'Lights and Sounds' Mix

'Lights and Sounds Mixtape' Artwork​San Francisco's DJ White Mike is the man behind this 40-minute mixtape of club-ready sonics, which he calls Lights and Sounds. We've certainly featured Mike and his Get Loose! shindig before, but this upbeat DJ set is something a tad different from the mixm ... More >>