Category: News
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EDC Las Vegas 2015: Ticket Sale Questions and Answers
We’re only hours away from EDC Las Vegas tickets from going on sale. Are you ready to buy your ticket or do you still have some lingering questions? Maybe you’ll find your answer in our FAQs below. You can also head over to Insomniac’s site for the official ticketing FAQs. Q. When do the tickets go on…
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Review: The Sound of Q-Dance LA 3
Hardstyle is here to stay. While it never really left, it waned in popularity during the rise of other genres like dubstep or trap. Now, a whole new demographic of ravers is finding out about a genre that is fairly mysterious to them and they can’t get enough of it. The Sound of Q-Dance III…
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EDC Las Vegas 2015: Insomniac Announces Festival Dates Plus Ticket On Sale Date, Prices & Payment Plan
Insomniac has officially announced information for Electric Daisy Carnival 2015 in Las Vegas which will be held from June 19 through 21 at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway for the fifth year in a row. It also marks the return of EDC Week which runs from June 16 through 24. EDC Week begins on the Tuesday prior to the…
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TomorrowWorld 2014 Aftermovie Released
Electronic music fans gathered at Bouckaert’s Farm in September to listen to some of the world’s top DJ’s on seven different stages. Nearly 32,000 individuals stayed on site at the TomorrowWorld campground, known as DreamVille bringing the total up to over 50,000 attendees per day. There were people from seventy-five different countries and all fifty…
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Review: Highlights From SF MusicTech Summit
On a cloudy morning in Japantown, hundreds of musicians, industry professionals, sound engineers, and all types of music entrepreneurs descended upon the Kabuki Hotel. At this Japanese themed complex, founder and executive producer Brian Zisk hosted an annual gathering of thought leaders at the intersection of music and technology: The SF MusicTech Summit. The big…
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Mysteryland Returns to Bethel Woods NY Over Memorial Day Weekend 2015
The three-day Mysteryland US festival returns in 2015 for its second year to Bethel Woods, NY over Memorial Day Weekend, May 22–24, 2015. A two-hour drive away from New York City, the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts in New York is site of the legendary 1969 Woodstock festival. Important ticket pre-sale details: Register for the official pre-sale, which kicks off…
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Local Economy Boosted by Almost $1 Billion from EDC Las Vegas
Since Electric Daisy Carnival debuted in Las Vegas in 2011, the three-day event held annually at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway, has generated an estimated almost $1 billion for the residents, businesses and local governments within Clark County, Nevada over the past four years. According to economic data provided to Insomniac by Beacon Economics, LLC., EDC Las Vegas continues to…
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EDC Las Vegas Will Be Only One Weekend in 2015
Earlier this year during an interview with Las Vegas Weekly Pasquale Rotella, CEO of Insomniac was asked if he was thinking about expanding EDC Vegas to two weekends. He responded, [quote]”Absolutely I would think about that. I go back and forth about it. I’m going to reconsider it after this year…
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Groove Cruise Miami Announces Lineup
Over 15,000 lives have been changed forever by an oceanic experience unlike anything on earth. What started in 2004 with a group of 125 friends has now erupted into the world’s largest floating dance music festival. Each year, The Groove Cruise sails from Miami on a 3-4 day mind-blowing high energy experience. The Groove Cruise is…
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Armin van Buuren Chooses Andrew Rayel and Heatbeat as ‘CNN Ones to Watch’
The latest edition of CNN ‘Ones to Watch’ is dedicated to EDM, the world’s fastest-growing musical genre, worth over six billion dollars a year. In the latest three episodes Dutch DJ Armin van Buuren, voted the world’s number one DJ a record five times, chooses two artists he believes have the potential to become global…
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We Are All We Need – North American Tour
Above & Beyond is an English electronic dance music group consisting of members Jono Grant, Tony McGuinness, and Paavo Siljamäki. Formed in 2000, they are the owners of London-based electronic dance music labels Anjunabeats and Anjunadeep, and also host a weekly radio show titled Group Therapy Radio. The trio has been consistently ranked amongst DJ…
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Photos: Trance Stage Makes a Comeback at Escape All Hallows’ Eve 2014
Trance fanatics were thrilled with the trance filled lineup at Escape All Hallows’ Eve. A majority of the trance artists performed Friday at the Ghouls’ Graveyard stage with only Dash Berlin playing Friday and Armin van Buuren on Saturday at the main stage Slaughterhouse. Arctic Moon was scheduled for a two-hour set. However, Jordan Suckley…
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The Sound of Q-Dance Los Angeles Part 3
Q-Dance and the hardstyle movement invaded the United States with their standalone event back in November of 2013. Since then, hardstyle and hard dance has grown in popularity among many who are looking for a new style of EDM to experience. After hosting their first Sound of Q-Dance in Edmonton, Canada earlier this month, which was aptly…
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Interview: X-Tour with Bassjackers and Dyro
As I headed into Bassmnt in San Diego for the first stop of Bassjackers and Dyro’s X-Tour, I already knew that it was going to be a great night. Kenneth G was on the decks making the crowd move in the fully packed club, I could tell that it was going to be a great night.…
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BPM Festival Tickets On Sale November 3rd Plus Phase 1 Lineup Announced
The BPM Festival will be returning to Playa del Carmen in Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula on January 9-18, 2015. Celebrating its 8th anniversary in 2015, the 10-day festival will have over 75 events to choose from. 2014 was a record-breaking year for The BPM festival where over 50,000 attendees from over 50 countries danced around-the-clock over 10 days and…
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Insomniac Donates $90,000 From EDC Las Vegas 2014 Ticket Sales
Following Electric Daisy Carnival (EDC) Las Vegas 2014, as part of their charitable giving initiative, Insomniac donated a total of $90,000 from ticket sales to three Las Vegas charitable organizations. This year’s recipients included the Boys & Girls Clubs of Southern Nevada, Injured Police Officers Fund (IPOF) of Las Vegas and the University Of Nevada School Of Emergency Medicine. …
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EDC Heads Back to Mexico for a Second Year
Insomniac will be partnering with OCESA again to bring Electric Daisy Carnival back to Mexico City for a second year at Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez racetrack on Saturday, February 28 and Sunday, March 1, 2015. EDC Mexico 2015 will feature four stages of music with over 60 artists performing, fireworks, cutting-edge signature audiovisual production, carnival rides, art installations and costumed performers. A…
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Above & Beyond Back In LA
After a career-defining Madison Square Garden show that had Jono, Paavo, Tony and tens of thousands of fans simultaneously feeling and knowing “We Are All We Need”, Above & Beyond will be bringing the same explosive energy to The Forum on February 6. This is bound to be an amazing event as are all Above &…
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EDC Orlando Has Gone Cashless
Insomniac has made some great strides during the last year with all of their shows especially EDC, so why not go cashless. This will allow headliners to seamlessly go about their festival activities without the worry of keeping money in their pockets. Check out what Insomniac had to say! The future is now, Headliners. This year,…