• Steve Aoki Shares 'Delirious' Music Video from 'Neon Future' Featuring Kid Ink [WATCH]

    Steve Aoki’s latest album "Neon Future" was just released last week, and today the EDM superstar has shared the album’s first music video via MTV. As its title promises, the video for "Delirious" is filled with imagery you would probably see in a delirious state, including flashing lights, floating eyeballs, floating oranges, a giant fuzzy monster and of course, tons of neon. Los Angeles rapper Kid Ink drops by to lay down some verses, giving Aoki plenty of room to dance and scream at the camera.

  • Veld, Boonstock Festival Casualties Add To EDM Festival Safety Concern

    Two Canadian music festivals ended disastrously last weekend, with a total of almost 100 hospitalizations. This is the latest of the ever-growing list of overdose-related deaths and hospitalizations at festivals. The unfortunate events occurred this weekend at Boonstock Festival and Veld Music Festival.

  • Pretty Lights to play first Pay-Per-View concert

    Pretty Lights will hold its first ever Pay-Per-View concert on Saturday November 30th at 9pm PST. Derek Vincent Smith will be playing with some of the musicians from his acclaimed A Color Map of the Sun album. You can get the live electro hip-hop soul sounds for $19.95 via IN DEMAND, Avail-TVN, DIRECTV, and DISH Network.

  • Manchester Warehouse Project Using Social Media To Spread Word about Bad Pills

    Following a number of deaths from MDMA (ecstasy or "molly" in its powdered form), publication The Economist has posed a radical solution: free testing. A government organization in the Netherlands already offers pill-testing to ravers and EDM attendees at electronic music shows, and those who engage in the service aren't subject to prosecution. The idea is to stem the number of hospitalizations and deaths tied to the drugs, but The Netherlands is far less conservative than the United States and the U.K., where a majority of the recent molly-deaths have occurred.

  • Another EDM Ecstasy Death Mars Manchester's Warehouse Project

    Some electronic music performers have accused the media of putting too much attention on drug overdoses at EDM events, but it's hard not to cast a suspicious eye when the incidents have stacked up as much as they have in the last month. The ugly trend continued Friday night in Manchester when a 30 y.o. attendee of the Warehouse Project died and five others were hospitalized after taking what police described as "bad pills."

  • Electric Tomato Festival Cancelled by Nassau Coliseum Following Deaths At Nearby Electric Zoo Festival

    The first "Electric Tomato Festival" has been called off by the Nassau Coliseum due to, reportedly, recent drug overdose incidents at other events involving EDM. Erin Chase, the booking and marketing manager for the coliseum said that she wasn't aware EDM would be involved in the proceedings and that staff were concerned following the recent deaths of two concertgoers at the Electric Zoo festival in nearby New York City.

  • Another Ecstasy Death Mars EDM Scene After Sydney's Defqon. 1 Festival

    The sudden rash of drug-related deaths at electronic music events continued over the weekend as a concert-goer in Sydney, Australia died of an overdose at the Defqon. 1 Festival. The suspected cause of the death was "tainted Ecstasy." During the weekend, 14 more attendees were hospitalized.
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