Dub-huh? Skrill-who? How many BPM in your EDM? Say what? If you’re new to the electronic dance music scene, the terminology may seem like a riddle of genres, sub-genres and cryptic abbreviations. In ...
This year’s Grammy Awards, which took place on February 2nd in Los Angeles, marked the 67th installment of the annual award show. However, the Best Dance/Electronic categories are relatively new. In ...
Being in my forties, I can't say I have a favorite DJ. I still think of music as something coming out of a guitar. But being in marketing, I can't ignore the ferocious upswell in popularity of this ...
The Thornton School of Music will offer a new course, “Electronic Dance Music” (MUSC 499) in the fall. The course will present a comprehensive look at the history and development of the electronic ...
Electronic dance music, or EDM, represents a broad range of subgenres created primarily for nightclubs, raves and festivals. The earliest EDM dates back to disco in the 1970s. The genre has since ...
When electronic dance music heavyweights like Calvin Harris, Martin Garrix, Bassnectar, Afrojack, and dozens of others take the stage this weekend in Las Vegas in front of hundreds of thousands of ...
In the beginning, there was Jack, and Jack had a groove. And from this groove came the groove of all grooves. He declared: “Let there be house!” and house music was born … And so the bodies murmured ...
A 2015 Forbes list of the highest paid Electronic Dance Music DJs celebrates 12 multimillion-dollar earners, all of whom are male and, with the exception of two, are also Caucasian. The same ...
The International Dance Music Summit has published its annual business report. This year’s edition focuses on the global impact of the pandemic on electronic dance music in 2020. The overall earnings ...
I remember going to my first 'Rave'. I was 13, and I am pretty sure my mother forced my brother to take me in the classic 'You can go if you take your little sister' scenario. My brother dressed me in ...
It's hard to boil down the year in electronic dance music to just 10 tracks. There are numerous genres (house, techno, EDM, etc.) and sub-genres (funky, hardstyle, deep house, etc.), and producing a ...