Archive for April, 2011

Worldwide Wednesday 04.27.11

Lollapalooza 2011 line-up posted

The official Lollapalooza 2011 20th anniversary line-up has been posted. Some of the big names at the Perry’s Place stage are:

  • Girl Talk
  • Afrojack
  • Modeselektor
  • Chuckie
  • Busy P
  • Skrillex
  • & more!

View the entire Lollapalooza 2011 line-up at lineup.lollapalooza.com/.

Lollapalooza 2011 teaser

The official lineup for Lollapalooza 2011 is just hours away from dropping, stay tuned for the official announcement. Until then, check out the official 20th anniversary teaser with organizer Perry Farrell.
Lollapalooza 2011 from Lollapalooza on Vimeo.

 

 

Google Trends shows popularity of electronic dance genres

By Tommy Butala

The graphs below, courtesy of Google Trends, illustrate the amount of Google searches for popular electronic dance music genres.

When in “relative mode” (as shown below), Google describes Search Volume index as “the average search traffic for your term (represented as 1.0) during the time period you’ve selected.” Therefore, the figures along the y-axis show the spike in traffic times the average search traffic over the given time period (2004 – 24 April 2011).

News reference volume depicts the number of times a topic appeared in Google News stories.

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Summer music festivals in America 2011

Summer’s almost here, and you know what that means: it’s festival time.

The club can be fun, but it’s always nice for a little change of pace. And what better an environment than a sunny day outside surrounded by thousands of other party-goers to enjoy drinks, music and all of the festivities?

As you probably already know, tickets can be expensive. They’re known to raise in price as time goes by, so act fast. Before you do though, check out this list of the five hottest American dance music festivals this summer.

Lollapalooza

Lollapalooza sign 8 August 2006 - by tammylo

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MTV to host Amnesia Fridays in Ibiza

Amnesia Ibiza 2006

According to Ibiza-Spotlight.com, MTV will host Friday nights at Amnesia in Ibiza this summer.

MTV will team up with Amnesia to host 10 Friday parties this summer season, says Ibiza-Spotlight, with headliners including Duran Duran, Layo & Bushwhacka!, Magda, Plastikman, Marc Ronson and more.

MTV’s opening party at Amnesia will be Friday, July 22 with Mar-T, Layo & Bushwhacka!, 2manydjs, and more to be announced.

Worldwide Wednesday 04.20.11

Montreal-born Tiga's Turbo Recordings hits its 100th release with 'ZZAfrika Remixes'



Tiesto and Deadmau5 collaborate

As they have both been found in headlining spots at the world’s biggest events for years, Tiesto and Deadmau5 have decided to get into the studio together and are currently collaborating on a new track.

Tiesto dropped in by Deadmau5′ studio while he was touring Canada this weekend. “Awesome… we got the groundwork done for a track, give us a lil time and we’ll give you a banger, thanks for droppin in @tiesto!,” Deadmau5 tweeted on Friday, April 14.

As inthemix.com.au points out, Tiesto has been quite busy on the collaboration front as of late. He has worked recently with Diplo, Marcel Woods and Mark Knight. Check out his track with Mark Knight, ‘Beautiful World,’ on the latest episode of Grooveslanger Radio.

No release date for the Tiesto-Deadmau5 collaboration has yet been announced.

 

‘Rebound’ from Arty and Mat Zo out now on Anjunabeats

‘Rebound,’ the massive collaboration between Arty and Mat Zo is out now on Anjunabeats.

Announced today via the Twitter feed of label masters Above & Beyond, the release came out on Friday and features an original and radio mix. The record is Anjunabeat’s 200th release.

Coachella 2011 video highlights

In case you weren’t in Cali for the Coachella 2011 action this weekend (and you also happend to miss the live stream from YouTube all weekend long), here’s some of the best electronic dance music acts from the fest.

Boys Noize (Day 1)


Boys Noize at Coachella 2011 courtesy of YouTube user Chrono12334

Afrojack (Day 1)


Afrojack at Coachella 2011 courtesy of YouTube user Chrono12334

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