Artists Stopped Waiting for a Festival Slot. Now They're Building the Room.
Spotify Deleted 75 Million Songs. That's Not a Cleanup — It's an Admission.
Festivals Don't Get Decided by Lineups Anymore. They Get Decided by Airspace.
Kavinsky Made One Record That Outran Dance Music Completely
Dance Music Is America's Fastest-Growing Genre — and 2016 Is Doing Half the Work
Fifteen Years On, Hardwell Let a Jacket Do the Talking for Avicii
A Bot Went No. 1 on Beatport — and "You Can Always Tell" Just Died
The Nopia Synth Will Write Your Chord Progressions for You. At About $700, That's Exactly the Pitch.
Lauren Bennett Gave Us the Loudest Four Bars of 2011
Madonna Is Back on the Dancefloor — and She Brought Martin Garrix
Hedging the Broadcast:
Artists Stopped Waiting for a Festival Slot. Now They're Building the Room.
Spotify Deleted 75 Million Songs. That's Not a Cleanup — It's an Admission.
Festivals Don't Get Decided by Lineups Anymore. They Get Decided by Airspace.
Kavinsky Made One Record That Outran Dance Music Completely
Dance Music Is America's Fastest-Growing Genre — and 2016 Is Doing Half the Work
Spotify Deleted 75 Million Songs. That's Not a Cleanup — It's an Admission.
Spotify says it's not banning AI music, just gutting the bot-farmed junk gaming its royalty pool. The bigger story: it took 75 million fake tracks before anyone acted.
Festivals Don't Get Decided by Lineups Anymore. They Get Decided by Airspace.
Monegros broke its attendance record and Mayan Warrior conquered Chicago. Outline got erased mid-setup over a drone threat. Three festivals, one week, and the deciding factor in none of them was the music.
Kavinsky Made One Record That Outran Dance Music Completely
Vincent Belorgey died at 50 in Paris this week. The tribute list — Guetta, The Weeknd, Justice, the President of France — is the clearest measure of how far 'Nightcall' got from the club it started in.
Dance Music Is America's Fastest-Growing Genre — and 2016 Is Doing Half the Work
Luminate's midyear report puts dance/electronic ahead of every other genre in US growth. The overlooked detail: a big share of that growth is coming from records that are already ten years old.
Fifteen Years On, Hardwell Let a Jacket Do the Talking for Avicii
Hardwell closed his Tomorrowland set in one of Avicii's own tour jackets — no speech, no spectacle. The quietest tribute of the weekend was also the loudest.
A Bot Went No. 1 on Beatport — and "You Can Always Tell" Just Died
A fully AI-made track topped a Beatport genre chart with zero disclosure. The scary part isn't that a machine made a good record. It's that nobody could tell.
The Nopia Synth Will Write Your Chord Progressions for You. At About $700, That's Exactly the Pitch.
After years of teasing, the viral pastel 'harmony machine' is basically finished. Chords, bass, arp, and pads in one box — a bet that the hardest part of production should be the easiest button to press.
Lauren Bennett Gave Us the Loudest Four Bars of 2011
The 'Party Rock Anthem' singer has died at 36. She wasn't the face of the biggest party record of the decade — but hers is the voice that kicks the whole thing off.
