EDC Las Vegas
EDC Las Vegas 2021 Will Move to October If “Robust Safety Plan” Is Rejected
As electronic music fans continue to clamor for updates about EDC Las Vegas, Insomniac founder Pasquale Rotella has provided a crucial update on the promoter’s most popular music festival. In an announcement shared via Instagram, Rotella said Insomniac has submitted a “robust safety plan” to Nevada officials which, if approved by the state, will allow the promoter to move forward with the festival’s dates of May 21st to 23rd. However, he cautioned that if the plan were to be rejected, EDC Las Vegas will be pushed to October 2021. Fans can expect a concrete decision by April 8th. In his statement, Rotella also attempted to allay concerns regarding travel by recommending that prospective attendees book their plans now and reschedule them to October shou...
Pasquale Rotella Says “Nothing Has Changed” With EDC Las Vegas 2021 Dates
Insomniac founder Pasquale Rotella took to social media to allay concerns regarding the potential postponement of EDC Las Vegas due to the impact of COVID-19. In a tweet, Rotella said that “nothing has changed” at this time and also promised a more comprehensive update in the near future. “Full EDC LV update coming soon. But as of now, nothing has changed,” he tweeted. “If we can have a safe show in May, then we’re going to make it happen.” At the time of this article’s publication, the dates of the 2021 edition of EDC Las Vegas are May 21st to 23rd. However, considering the extensive planning it takes to organize a music festival of this scale, a postponement seems like the most logical move for Insomniac amid the uncertainty of the...
Insomniac Officially Pulls the Plug On EDC Las Vegas, Announces 2021 Dates
EDC Las Vegas is the latest major festival brand to bite the bullet due to the impact of COVID-19. Insomniac has officially pulled the plug on the 2020 edition of EDC Las Vegas due to the impact of COVID-19. Insomniac boss Pasquale Rotella took to Instagram to share the solemn news. “Some have questioned why we haven’t postponed yet & I want to let you know what we’ve been up to,” Rotella wrote. “The team & I have spent the last several months working to create a plan that would allow us to produce a safe event for you. We wanted to implement a free two-step testing program, one test at home before traveling to Las Vegas & another test at the venue when you arrived, in addition to many other enhanced safety protocols. Unfortunately, we just lear...
EDC Shares Another Sneak Peek at Rescheduled 2020 Installment
One of the world’s most renowned yearly electronic music festivals, Insomniac‘s EDC Las Vegas, opted to reschedule its event for a later date after the COVID-19 pandemic forced cancellations and postponements for events around the globe. Typically taking place in May, EDC’s Las Vegas installment for 2020 will now be held on October 2nd to 4th. The festival is keeping the excitement alive and hopeful attendees eager, sharing sneak peeks at stage productions that will be seen in October. Pasquale Rotella, Insomniac’s founder and CEO, has taken to Instagram to share another preview to further build the hype. Posting a photo of the kineticZEN’s stage production, Rotella revealed a little bit more of what’s to be expected for 2020. Optin...
Watch Seven Lions Kick Off His EDC Virtual Rave-A-Thon Set with a Blistering Unreleased Dubstep ID
“Go hard or go home” is a mantra that Seven Lions honed in on from the literal second he started performing at last weekend’s monumental EDC Las Vegas Virtual Rave-A-Thon. Kicking off his set in thunderous fashion, Seven Lions uncorked an absolute flamethrower of a dubstep tune that dropped jaws across every kitchen in America. It’s an unreleased ID that fans have been clamoring for on Twitter ever since its debut on the livestream event. What followed after ID’s drop was a relentless live set that took hold of its viewers and simply did not let go, featuring a swirling centrifuge of soaring future bass and face-melting dubstep that surely satiated the headbangers tuning in from home. The performance featured mostly originals from the Ophelia Re...
Watch Zeds Dead Drop Huge Unreleased NGHTMRE Collab at EDC Virtual Rave-A-Thon
With its colossal lineup and astonishing live production, last weekend’s EDC Las Vegas Virtual Rave-A-Thon set the stage for all digital music festivals hereon out. With such an expansive lineup, the event was bound to be permeated with never-before-heard IDs. During a time when people are listening to more music than ever, and more frequently, the Rave-A-Thon represented an ideal opportunity for artists to test out new music. As a result, the livestream offered a myriad of unreleased music over the course of the 3-day event, but the below track from NGHTMRE and Zeds Dead is a bona fide standout. The two trap and dubstep heavyweights opted to go the future bass route in what seems like a follow-up to their fan favorite 2016 collaboration “Frontlines (feat. GG Magree),̶...
Listen to Every Single Set from Last Weekend’s EDC Las Vegas Virtual Rave-A-Thon
The EDC Las Vegas Virtual Rave-A-Thon has come and gone in the blink of an eye, but that doesn’t mean its 3 magical nights under the virtual sky should fade into the mist. The monumental livestream event should be celebrated for the mind-blowing event that it was, and now it can thanks to a diligent SoundCloud user who uploaded every single set from the weekend. Not ready to stop the party? You can now listen to all of the festival’s sets via the playlist below. The EDC Las Vegas Virtual Rave-A-Thon marked a culturally significant weekend for Insomniac and its loyal fanbase of ravers, who were treated to a truly unique festival in the wake of COVID-19. Dazzling sets from the likes of Seven Lions, Kaskade, Zeds Dead, Duke Dumont, David Guetta, and a downright mena...
David Guetta Rented Out Famed Miami Nightclub LIV for EDC Virtual Rave-A-Thon Set
If the COVID-19 pandemic has taught us anything, it’s that you can take the person out of the rave, but you can’t take the rave out of the person. That was the unofficial mantra of last weekend’s EDC Las Vegas Virtual Rave-A-Thon, which went down as one of the largest virtual music festivals to emerge from our time in quarantine. Such a monumental event required its artists to pull out all the stops in order to shake up the livestream game, like SVDDEN DEATH, who performed a barbaric set as his sinister alter ego VOYD, and NGHTMRE and Ghastly, who showed out with a special B2B set. Enter David Guetta, who pulled a rabbit out of his hat by renting out fabled Miami nightclub LIV for his ballyhooed Rave-A-Thon set. Guetta’s performance was unqu...
The Final Day of the EDC Las Vegas VIrtual Rave-A-Thon is Now Live
After two superb nights of decadent digital partying, the EDC Las Vegas Virtual Rave-A-Thon is nearing its end. From tonight until the early morning, some of the finest electronic artists across many different genres will close out the monumental virtual celebration of live dance music. For the grand finale, Insomniac is hosting performances from main stage staples David Guetta and Afrojack, sets from multi-genre maestros Seven Lions and TOKiMONSTA, and a trip to the abyss with bass titans SVDDEN DEATH and 12th Planet. Fans of the heavier side of the dance music spectrum are in for a treat as the first of the aforementioned bass artists will be unleashing a rare VOYD-branded exhibition on the masses. The EDC Las Vegas Virtual Rave-A-Thon kicks off tonight at 5PM PST (8P...
[Watch] Day Two of the EDC Virtual Rave-A-Thon is Now Live
After a huge opening day, the EDC Las Vegas Virtual Rave-A-Thon is now live for day two. Riding the hot streak of his recent debut album A World Away, Ekali is conducting the opening honors and sweeping away fans into what should be an entrancing day of performances. Following Ekali will be Whethan, JSTJR, Dombresky, Wax Motif, Malaa, and Benny Benassi, who has new music to show off, like his freshly released single “Just Miss Love.” The lineup’s second half includes Kaskade, Don Diablo, KSHMR, Flosstradamus, Vini Vici, i_o, and global techno icon Nicole Moudaber. Although EDC Las Vegas will be entirely virtual this year, Insomniac Events is pulling out all the stops to make EDC 2020 unforgettable. It was a heyday for bass music yesterday as NGHTMRE B2...
The EDC Las Vegas Virtual Rave-A-Thon Is Now Live
The EDC Las Vegas Virtual Rave-A-Thon livestream event is officially underway! Kicking things off in typical thrilling Insomniac style is NGHTMRE and Ghastly, who are going B2B for a colossal collaborative set. Today’s livestream will also feature ARMNHMR, K?D, Chris Lorenzo, Claude VonStroke, Tcahmi, Zeds Dead, Oliver Heldens, Valentino Khan, Deorro, Boombox Cartel. Subtronics, Borgore, and ZHU, who probably has some tricks up his sleeve after releasing his first single of 2020 today. You can stream the fest and check out the set times below, and treat this post as your one-stop shop for all things EDC Las Vegas Virtual Rave-A-Thon. The virtual festival will continue through the weekend until its conclusion at Sunday, May 17th at 2AM PST (8PM ET to 5AM ET). EDC Virtua...
Look Inside the Custom VR Environment Built for This Weekend’s EDC Las Vegas Rave-A-Thon [Exclusive]
As the clock ticks down to the colossal EDC Las Vegas Virtual Rave-A-Thon livestream event this weekend, technology company Littlstar is posing the question, “Why not rave in VR?” As the premier livestreaming platform on the PlayStation 4, PlayStation VR, and Android TV, Littlstar has teamed up with many EDM festivals to offer unique streaming experiences for fans, which are funneled through their favorite game consoles and hardware. The platform itself is one of the few to offer traditional 2D videos, virtual reality, 360° videos, holograms, and augmented reality. Littlstar also recently became one of the Virtual Rave-A-Thon’s official livestreaming partners, and have now teamed up with EDM.com to offer an exclusive first look into...
