Your Coachella 2023 lineup is here. Following weeks of feverish speculation and the classic music industry rigamarole of fake lineup posters, Coachella’s organizers have revealed the full lineup for the festival’s two 2023 weekends: April 14-16 and April 21-23. Set to perform at the iconic Indio music and arts festival this year are Calvin Harris, Eric Prydz, Kaytranada, Alison Wonderland’s Whyte Fang, SOFI TUKKER, Porter Robinson, Mura Masa, TSHA, The Chemical Brothers and deadmau5’s TESTPILOT, among other major artists from the electronic music scene. House music superstars FISHER and Chris Lake have also been confirmed for a can’t-miss collaborative DJ set. Prydz, the Swedish dance music icon, is set to bring his subversive “HOLO” production to ...
EDM.com proudly publishes four installments of annual year-end coverage: Industry Leaders, Performances, Music Producers and Songs. To honor their creativity and deeply influential work to challenge the boundaries of performance, we’ve recognized 10 of the year’s best sets from around the electronic music world. Alison Wonderland Alvarado Laundry, Los Angeles If you asked us to think of a rarer show than a rave with Alison Wonderland in a laundromat, our hands would be Tide. In celebration of her remarkable third album, Loner, the superstar DJ and singer-songwriter rinsed out a slew of filthy tracks live from a vacant L.A. laundromat. Organized by Brownies & Lemonade, the pie-in-the-sky performance was attended by less than 100 people, who raved away as strobe l...
This weekend, fans of Porter Robinson will descend on the Bay Area for the third chapter in the saga of Second Sky, the Nurture artist’s curated music festival. This year’s fest will feature a special headline set from Robinson himself, as well as a hotly anticipated B2B between his Virtual Self alias and G Jones. Second Sky 2022 will also feature performances from RL Grime, Hudson Mohawke, Bladee and more. Skrillex is also primed for his first festival set of 2022 at Second Sky after replacing Fred again.., whose third studio album, Actual Life 3, is scheduled to release one day prior. Skrillex coincidentally filled a guest slot at the fest’s inaugural edition in 2019. Second Sky 2022 will take place on Saturday, October 29th on the grounds of the Oak...
When seemingly all hope had been written off for a Skrillex festival set in 2022, he delivered a surprise no one saw coming. Skrillex was slated to return to the festival circuit this year with scheduled performances at Tampa’s Sunset Music Festival and Detroit’s Movement. However, just as we turned the corner into summer, the pioneering electronic music producer announced he simply hadn’t had the time to prepare as he’d been preoccupied with finishing work on his upcoming albums. Skrillex confirmed his first festival set of 2022 at Porter Robinson’s Second Sky Festival. Marilyn Hue It seemed that was going to be the end of it. Then in late September, Fred again.., who was one of the scheduled artists set to play at Porter Robinson’s Second Sky, an...
Porter Robinson and Crunchyroll are teaming up for a bespoke “anime music experience” at Second Sky, the electronic music star’s curated music festival in the Bay Area. According to a press release shared with EDM.com, the “Anime Shelter” experience will feature DJs from Tokyo’s iconic Akihabara anime nightclub, MOGRA, who are set to return to the states for the first time since 2019. Ravers will also be able to gulp down anime-inspired drinks at the pop-up, which takes its name from Robinson’s 2016 hit, “Shelter.” “MOGRA is one of my favorite places in the world—the all-night anisongs and incredible live VJing is an experience that has become rightfully famous worldwide and it’s somewhere I go every time I’m in Japan,”...
It’s 2012. “Levels” is blasting through every house party. Big room house music is dominating the club circuit. Avicii, Skrillex and Pretty Lights are headlining Ultra Music Festival. Life is good. That year, the EDM bubble looked more like a 5 Gum commercial, a mind-bending maelstrom of fantastical electronic music festivals and totemic tracks. Rave culture bubbled up from the underground and exploded through the mainstream, leading to a collective serotonin rush that still remains. And while the EDM ecosystem is still thriving, it’s markedly different from those days, when DJs and producers pumped out hits like a broken printer. 2012 gave rise to a slew of generational dance anthems, which are now relics of a bygone era. Read on to turn back the clock a ...
Porter Robinson has a habit of pulling out all the stops to make his own Second Sky Music Festival a memorable experience, and this year will be no exception. Robinson has announced his plans to showcase a new experience for Nurture, his scintillating sophomore album. He took to Twitter to reveal a “reimagined” live show, which will feature a full band at his side. Robinson elaborated that rehearsals for his headlining set, dubbed “”Porter Robinson (Together Live),” with the live band are already well underway. And there’s a familiar face in the ranks that fans of the “Mirror” producer are likely to recognize. YouTube creator keudae, a musician with over 75,000 subscribers, has filmed several popular piano covers of Robi...
There’s nothing that blurs the line between frightening and fascinating quite like artificial intelligence. And since artificial intelligence and electronic music are becoming more symbiotic by the day, the staff here at EDM.com wanted to see just how far it could go in a visual sense. So we came up with bizarre descriptions of artists and fed them through A.I. art generators. Some images are photorealistic. Others are fancifully distorted. And the majority of them are flat-out creepy. But we digress. Read on to see our weird and wonderful creations. TOKiMONSTA “TOKiMONSTA DJing in a neon sky arcade with golden canaries” by Jason Heffler. Jason Heffler REZZ “REZZ DJ as painted by Salvador Dalí” by Nick Yopko. Nick Yopko Flume R...
The electronic music community is constantly evolving with new sounds every week, as artists become more innovative with their compositions. EDM.com’s weekly “Playlist Picks” series highlights the top releases in the genre, helping uncover the latest tracks that will soon dominate the dance music scene. EDM.com Top Hits Porter Robinson & League Of Legends – Everything Goes On Anna Lunoe – Alright ODESZA – Light of Day (feat. Ólafur Arnalds) Festival Hits 2022 Dom Dolla & Clementine Douglas – Miracle Maker ESCAPEPLAN & Rich The Kid – Jungle (Destructo Remix) Scroll to Continue Recommended Articles Bexxie – Real Good Slushii & Tokyo Machine – PEW PEW Electronic Avenue Kaivon – Hollywood Hills Double Take &...
Porter Robinson has been chosen to soundtrack one of League of Legends‘ most beloved events. Out now on Riot Games‘ flagship title is the return of Star Guardian, an in-game event that alters the lore of the popular MOBA game. According to a report from Polygon, the event series transforms some of the characters into cosmic-powered high school kids who have to save the universe. Seeing as this is one of the biggest happenings of the year for their international fanbase, Riot Games has recruited the help of Robinson to produce this year’s Star Guardian anthem. Fans recently noticed a link to Robinson’s website in the announcement trailer for Star Guardian 2022. While no details were shared at the time of the announcement, considering the fact that Robinson is a ...
League of Legends quietly revealed that one of their superstar fans would be involved in the game’s upcoming event. On July 14th, fans will be able to participate in the newest entry in the long-running “Star Guardian” in-game event series. As expected, fans of the wildly popular multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) game were excited to learn more about the unfolding story and what content they can get their virtual hands on. However, the description of the trailer video contained an eyebrow-raising name, per AFK Gaming. With accompanying text reading, “A new day is just over the horizon,” LoL‘s developer Riot Games included a link to Porter Robinson‘s official website. Scroll to Continue Recommended Articles The des...
It’s felt like a lifetime since Porter Robinson’s legendary side project, Virtual Self, went underwater in 2019. Now, three years and a pandemic later, he’s decided it’s time for the moniker to make its epic return. Mark your schedules for October 29th-30th, 2022, Robinson stans, because that’s when Virtual Self will go B2B with G Jones at his flagship Second Sky Music Festival. “The technic-Utopia is awakening,” reads the project’s Instagram bio. A 48-second-long visualizer was used to announce the news, soundtracked by a mashup of “Particle Arts” by Virtual Self and “Time” by G Jones. Attendees at this year’s Second Sky will also be treated to a special headline set from Robinson himse...