• Toronto EDM News: Good and Bad

    There's good news and bad news for the Toronto electronic music scene from this week. We'll get the bad news out of the way first.
  • Afrojack Announces New Album 'Forget The World'

    It's a big week for EDM album announcements. Skrillex was the first to the punch, revealing his previously unannounced album Recess to his fans track-by-track via an app available on his website. Afrojack might not have demonstrated that sort of flair when he came forth to declare his own debut album, Forget The World, but a name as big as his doesn't necessarily need a gimmick to make the announcement a big deal.
  • Electric Daisy and Mysteryland Face Off for New York EDM Fans Memorial Day Weekend

    It's bad enough when you've got to figure out which music festival you're going to drop a lot of money on this summer. It's worse when two music festivals appealing to the same fan base are going down on the same day. It's the worst when both of those music festivals are going on within 100 miles of each other. Such is the case between the Electric Daisy Carnival New York and the Mysteryland Festival are both going down this Memorial Day weekend.
  • Tomorrowland Sells Out Two Weekends Within An Hour

    Even with the threat of Tomorrowland's second weekend being cancelled, the European EDM festival moved more than 360,000 tickets to both weekends, selling out in less than an hour. Granted, that's more than twice as long as it took to sell out last year's festival, but yeah. Less than an hour, 360,000 tickets.
  • Afrojack and Others Doing Las Vegas Residencies at Hakkasan during 2014

    One of our big points when analyzing Forbes' list of the highest-paid DJ's of the previous year was noting that many of the big money-makers were affiliated with Las Vegas nightclub Hakkasan, the star player in a city filled with star players. The club, part of the MGM Grand, welcomed in even more big names for residencies during 2014.
  • Calvn Harris, Tiësto Highest Paid DJ's of 2013

    The increasing profitability of EDM has been a theme throughout the year in both Music Times as well as numerous financial publications. Many businessmen and promoters are looking to make a buck off the trend, but one the producers themselves are definitely cashing in, as Forbes' list of the highest paid DJ's indicates. Calvin Johnson topped the list for 2013, bringing in more than $46 million (a total that topped Jay Z's earnings for the year).
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