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Several weeks ago, we caught a Facebook post by electro star Peaches, whose sexually-charged career has challenged the norms of mainstream sexuality since her first hit, “Fuck The Pain Away.” The presumably feminist performer called out UK dance music magazine DJ Mag’s annual reader-voted Top 100 DJ List for containing zero women. “DJ MAG! Your Top 100 DJ boy club list can eat a dick! Where the ladies at???” wrote the often controversial performer. Look around the dance floor (and the online), and it seems the ladies are everywhere—in various states of undress.
Peaches’ calling out of male DJ dominance (along with …
Electric Daisy Carnival isn’t the only American dance music festival trying to bring the mega-rave experience to theaters and DVD player this year. Miami’s Ultra Music Festival has announced the release of their own eye-popping cinematic experience, entitled Can U Feel It, coming in 2012.
From what we can tell via the first :90 trailer, CUFI has all the flashing lasers, leaping DJs and bouncing boobies one experiences when actually attending UMF in Miami. It also features a someone incongruous radio DJ voiceover that you’ll have to sit through for the first 30 seconds. We suggest keeping that segment on mute and just enjoying the bikinis in silence.
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Traveling electronic music tour Identity Festival launched this summer as a sort of touring Electric Daisy Carnival, aiming to bring the recent dance music craze to secondary markets such as Indianapolis, Pittsburgh and Long Island in venues with names such as PNC Bank Arts Center, 1-800-ASK-GARY Amphitheatre and Jiffy Lube Live (seriously). And while we’re not so snobbish to think that kids who live outside of major metropolises don’t deserve to see the country’s most popular DJ—including Kaskade, Steve Aoki and Skrillex—it is interesting to note that in Los Angeles, the city that pretty much hatched the current rave movement, Identiy Festival has relocated from the originally planned San Manuael Amphitheatre to the Hollywood Palladium. …MORE
Electric Daisy Carnival founder and chief executive Pasquale Rotella has written an op-ed piece that was published in today’s LA Times. In the article, Rotella finally speaks out about the unfair targeting of EDC by the media that eventually pushed the festival out of Los Angeles after 15 consecutive years and millions of dollars in revenue for the city.
“A snowball of negative press and political fallout followed the tragic death of a teenager after the Electric Daisy Carnival in June 2010,” Rotella wrote. “Attention focused on such an alarming incident is understandable, but ever since then Insomniac has been unfairly placed under a microscope. The same scrutiny has not been applied to individuals engaging in illegal behavior or to other festivals and mass gatherings that endure similar issues.”
You can read the full op-ed at LATimes.com, and tell us in the comments section how you feel about EDC’s treatment more than a year after the events. …MORE
Hollywood Blvd. was the site of considerable mayhem last night in a scene that recalled LA’s infamous Depeche Mode fan riot of 1990. The unrest took place surrounding a private invitation-only screening of the film The Electric Daisy Carnival Experience at Grumann’s Chinese Theater near the high-traffic corner of Hollywood and Highland.
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