Tag: News
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2014 ProTip #19: Your Hotel Room Needs Cold Drinks
You’re traveling to a hotel room for anywhere from three to seven days, have you thought about how to keep your water cold? What about your beer? Chances are that your hotel room does not come equipped with a fridge and the standard ice bucket isn’t big enough to keep a six-pack cold for very long. It’s Las Vegas,…
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Stunning Aerial Footage from the Mysteryland USA Debut
Mysteryland made its North American debut over the course of the 2014 Memorial Day weekend and it has received great reviews from everyone that attended, including this writer. The location was historic and beautiful (minus some mud). The stages all had their own great vibe. The cashless system for the most part worked very well…
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2014 ProTip #20: Free Water for Camelbaks and Aluminum Bottles
The veterans are well aware of this tip but there’s still a lot of new people going to festivals for the first time, especially Electric Daisy Carnival. Insomniac will have multiple water stations located throughout the festival where volunteers will fill up anything that you have with free and clean water. There’s rarely more than…
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2014 ProTip #21: Call Your Credit Card Company and Bank
This is tip that applies to any sort of travel to another state or country and especially a large city. Plan about 15 minutes over the next week and look at the back of your debit card and credit cards and call the 1-800 number on each and every one of them and tell them you’ll…
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Armin van Buuren Introduces the Darker Side of Trance on ASOT 666
Armin van Buuren reached another milestone this week with episode number 666 of A State of Trance, his weekly radio show that’s listened to by millions around the world every Thursday. He could have just treated it like any other episode with the popular tracks of the week along with his favorites but thanks to…
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2014 ProTip #23: Learn How to Create a 3D Kandi Cuff
Kandi has been a big part of the rave scene for decades. It can have many meanings as a symbol of friendship, a remembrance of a memory or even simply a fashion statement. Kandi can come in all shapes and sizes but each piece tends to have at least two things in common the use of…
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Hardwell Throws Down at the World’s Largest Sporting Event
Every year, over 400,000 fans flock to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway to marvel at Indy Car’s biggest spectacle, the Indy 500. Reaching speeds well over 230 mph, the race is an incredible feat of engineering, but if that doesn’t flop your noodle, then maybe basking in the sound waves of the world’s biggest DJs is…
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Bored With Bikini Bottle Service Girls? A Drone Delivers at Marquee
Las Vegas is the capital of outrageous pricing and features and every club is trying to one up another with crazy options. Drais recently debuted their options where you can pay to have a fireworks display or even spend $737,000 to have a Boeing 737 fly you into Las Vegas. Hakkasan has a $500,000 option. Marquee…
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Apply Today: 150 Guards Needed for EDC Las Vegas
While a lot of the focus is on going to Electric Daisy Carnival and having fun there’s a lot of people working behind the scenes to make it happen. The construction workers, technicians, engineers, food service and of course security. Today, June 3rd, is the last day to visit the offices to get your fingerprints…
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2014 ProTip #25: Removing a Wristband You Put on Too Early
As you receive your ticket package and shuttle wristband in the mail there’ll be excitement to just put it on and raise your hand in the air in victory but we suggest you wait. Do you really want to be wearing it for another three weeks? What if you put it on too tight? Unless…
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Inside the EDC Las Vegas 2014 Ticket Boxes
It’s like Christmas morning as a little kid when your Electric Daisy Carnival ticket package arrives in the mail. Chances are by the time yours arrives you’ve already seen other people posting pictures online ruining the surprise but it’s still fun opening up the box. They could very easily just send an envelope with your ticket…
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Largest 360° LED Show in the World at EDC UK 2014
Electric Daisy Carnival will be returning to the United Kingdom for a second time and this year festival goers will get to experience the world’s biggest 360 degree LED visual show plus a 3D wall of sound designed to amplify their EDC experience. EDC UK will be held at Milton Keynes Bowl on Saturday, July 12 and Sunday,…
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90 Minute Coffee Run with deadmau5, Dillon Francis and Skrillex
This is the Mothership of all coffee runs. Clocking in at 90 minutes deadmau5 takes Skrillex and Dillon Francis out on a coffee run in his backup car, his Porsche GT. Skrillex is on the road for his Mothership Tour which is why they’re both in Toronto. At the start Dillon Francis says, “Just so you…
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2014 ProTip #26: Choosing Festival Meet Up Spots
Over the last few year one of the biggest questions I have been asked is, “What are the best meet up spots inside the festival if you break away from your group?” The easiest way to pick your meet up spot is to find something stationary and agree on a time. Countless amounts of people…
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Win a Pair of Tickets to Coldharbour Night LA with KhoMha + Grube & Hovsepian + M.I.K.E.
Here’s your chance to win a pair of tickets for you and your friend to experience Coldharbour Night LA with KhoMha + Grube & Hovsepian and M.I.K.E. at Avalon Hollywood on Saturday, June 7, 2014. The contest is pretty simple. Each like, follow, tweet gives you an entry into the contest. You don’t have to…
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Pasquale Rotella Memoir Coming to the Big Screen
Deadline.com has reported an exclusive story that Fox 2000 has made a preemptive acquisition of Insomniac: The Life And Times of Pasquale Rotella, a memoir being written by Pasquale Rotella and James Frey, the author of A Million Little Pieces. We all know of Pasquale Rotella as the CEO of Insomniac, one of the worlds biggest…
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Panelists Announced for 3rd Annual EDMbiz Conference & Expo
As everyone descends on Las Vegas for Electric Daisy Carnival there’s also the EDMbiz Conference & Expo going on three days prior to the start of the massive festival at The Cosmopolitan. The event is three days of discussion panels, networking and conferences. The 2014 edition of EDMbiz will feature keynote panels with Above & Beyond…
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EDC Las Vegas 2014 Lineup in Soundcloud Links
We all have our favorites when it comes to dance music from Hardwell to Armin van Buuren to Avicii to Tiesto to Andy C to Diplo and everyone in between. There was a time though when you probably didn’t know who they were and the same can be said about a lot of the DJs…
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Ookay Once Chose EDC Over his Prom
Ookay is another performer booked for Electric Daisy Carnival that has an interesting story from the past about attending Electric Daisy Carnival to now playing the event. Back in 2010 should he choose his prom or EDC in Los Angeles? The choice was obvious. Also see: 3Lau Goes from a Headliner to a Music Conductor in…