• Music Times Rates Billboard's Songs of The Summer 2014

    Billboard provided a Top 10 Songs of The Summer and Music Times checked its work to determine what songs of the summer were actually the best. Love our decisions or hate them, make sure to give your own thoughts at the bottom.

  • Calvin Harris, David Guetta, Tiësto and Avicii Top Forbes Highest-Paid EDM Performers List

    Music Times caught Calvin Harris at Lollapalooza during the first weekend of August and noted that it seemed the DJ had invested his earning from last year-$46 million-into his elaborate and bright stage set. If our hypothesis that the size of his set directly reflects his earnings, next year's concerts will be off the charts: Harris topped Forbes' list of the highest earning electronic musicians for the second straight year, bringing a whopping $66 million over the last 12 months.

  • Lollapalooza 2014 Day 2 Review & Recap

    Music Times reporter Ryan Book works best in his home territory of the Midwest, or at least that's what he told us. Join him every day this weekend for a chronological look at what went down at the Lollapalooza music festival in Chicago.

  • Calvin Harris Hosts Will Smith as Hype Man at T in The Park

    Yesterday we reported on Danny Brown hosting A$AP Rocky while opening for Eminem, and then the headliner himself bringing Dr. Dre onstage, but we're not sure either of those compares to the guest that Calvin Harris brought up during another UK performance: Will Smith.

  • Austin City Limits Releases Lineup

    Austin City Limits, the last of the American mega festivals to release its lineup for the 2014 season, has finally dropped its lineup for both weekends of the event, which will go down between October 3 and 5, plus between October 10 and 12.

  • Eminem, Outkast, Kings of Leon among Official Headliners at Lollapalooza

    Remember those reports about a possible Lollapalooza lineup leak last week? It turns out they were exactly correct. Eminem, Kings of Leon, the Arctic Monkeys and Skrillex will be among the headlining acts at the 2014 variant of the Chicago music festival. The event released its official schedule Wednesday morning.

  • 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.

  • Tiësto, Calvin Harris and Steve Aoki Slated to Play MGM Grand's Wet Republic Opening Month

    We've frequently commented on the Hakkasan nightclub's most stacked of residential lineups for 2014, and how it's the envy of electronic dance venues in Las Vegas, and in doing so, we may have failed to give attention to the other clubs held within the MGM Grand complex. The casino resort's Wet Republic is set to reopen during late March after some remodeling during the off-season, and it plans to open the venue with a slew of big name DJ's.

  • New Top 100 DJ's List Challenges Authority of DJ Mag Top 100

    The DJ Magazine Top 100 DJ's list is a go-to reference point for us at Music Times, but we understand that many fans and performers in the EDM genre don't think that list is worth jack. The problem on our end is that there's no comparable list to resort to. Until now.

  • 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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