Industry News
26th
Yesterday a record-breaking 42,000 music fans braved the 100+ degree heat to gather at the National Orange Show Events Center in San Bernardino, California for Insomniac’s 16th annual Nocturnal Festival. Continuing Insomniac’s tradition of constantly improving the festival environment, Insomniac offered free filtered water to all its guests. In addition, Insomniac super-sized the main stage [...]
22nd
Ableton and Serato are proud to announce the release of The Bridge, a software partnership which brings together elements of DJ performance and production. With emphasis on ease and creativity, the new tools generated by this partnership push the boundaries of live performance. The Bridge 1.0 features: ‘Ableton Transport Control’ allows tight synchronization between Ableton [...]
31st
Here it is; the first major back-lash from the tragic events at Electric Daisy Carnival. The city of Los Angeles supposedly “breached its contract when it canceled what would have been an Oct. 30 concert by the well-known trance artist in the West Hall of the Los Angeles Convention Center.” But due to the negative [...]
18th
Who is Dresden and Johnston? Dave Dresden is the co founder of the influential dance music acts Gabriel & Dresden and Motorcycle, remixer for acts like Jewel and The Killers, and the co-author of the dance floor hits “As The Rush Comes”, and “Tracking Treasure Down.” Mikael Johnston is the founding member of the influential [...]
23rd
The city of Miami Beach will host the 24th annual Winter Music Conference (WMC) next month. The conference, which is scheduled to take place from March 24th to March 28th at the Miami Beach Resort & Spa, is the biggest networking event for insiders of the music industry worldwide. Each year, thousands of DJ’s, artists, [...]
19th
Sunset has just launched a digital record label this month, finding, signing and developing music artists with the overall objective of breaking them through its distribution system, licensing network, radio promotion, press and media departments along with its live download company and radio network. Sunset Connect is the now the backbone for the Sunset Records [...]
3rd
Serato, the name behind the world’s biggest selling Digital Vinyl System for DJs, today announced an initiative to license their control tone to select record labels. A Serato Pressing is a unique hybrid record that DJs can buy from their favorite record store. The new range of official Serato Pressings feature new release music on [...]
9th
Stanton, an industry leader in the design and manufacture of professional audio products for DJs, announces the launch of their new hybrid magazine-catalog that will feature the company’s full product line, as well as a variety of DJ product and lifestyle oriented articles focused on artists, events, and music. Each issue of For Life will [...]
9th
Grammy Award Winning Atlanta Crunk Pioneer To Play Multiple Artist & Exec Roles: Artist; Producer; Label Head; A & R Consultant At New Home Universal Republic Records has signed Grammy Award winning recording artist, rapper, producer, mogul and all-around hip hop Renaissance man, Lil Jon, it was announced today by Monte Lipman, President and CEO [...]
26th
(New York City, USA) – Global Underground’s don, DJ Nick Warren, is back on tour to support yet another Global Underground release. His eighth Global Underground album, GU 35 focuses on the Peruvian capital Lima. Tour dates include Cielo in New York City, Shine in Miami, The Gallery @ Ministry of Sound in London, and [...]