Miami’s Ultra Music Festival has announced the first wave of performers for this year’s dance music bachanal taking place March 23-25 at Bayfront Park in downtown Miami. Along with UMF regulars Tiësto, David Guetta, Avicii, Armin Van Buuren and Carl Cox, electronic music pioneers Kraftwerk will make a highly rare concert appearance, along with electro superstars Justice, ’80s techno-pop heroes New Order, Grammy-nominee Skrillex and hit makers Duck Sauce. Tickets are onsale here (the full 150,000 sold out in advance last year), and you can check the complete list of 92 acts announced so far after the jump.
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Now in it’s 15th year, Amsterdam Dance Event has grown into one of the world’s premier electronic music gatherings. With top DJs playing in dozens of clubs each night, and a daytime program that’s actually interesting enough to attend, ADE has gained enough status in the past few years to be considered a rightful rival to Miami’s annual Winter Music Conference.
With Holland’s globally renowned mainstream dance acts mingling with Berlin’s biggest underground techno practitioners and America’s dance music veterans, it’s hard to be sure where to best spend you time. Check out our list of top things to do at ADE after the jump, and save yourself some time in the que. …MORE
North Coast Music Festival recap of day two.
We’ve all been in that situation where we’re trying to figure out who the hell to catch at a music festival. So I did all the dirty work for you, of course. I went down the schedule day-by-day and hour-by-hour and chose the people who in my opinion you can’t miss. Don’t worry about having to write down names and acts just print it out here and if you happen to see me around the festival I’ll be glad to kiss it.
Early Monday morning, Belgium’s Tomorrowland Festival drew to a dream-like close after attracting record crowds (the final numbers showed nearly 200,000 attended over three days this year). Sporadic rain could not and did not deter Dutch, French and Belgian fans of electronic music who flocked en masse to the event, which is quickly emerging as Europe’s answer to the Electric Daisy Carnival and now firmly established as a global DJ circuit “must” for fans and industry alike.
But the truth is Tomorrowland is in many ways better than EDC. Here are just five reasons to hit this sensorial experiential extravaganza next year (start saving up now, tickets sold out early this year and will again in 2012). …MORE



























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