• Second Death At Stereosonic Fest Calls Into Question Security, Pill Testing

    Stereosonic Festival in Australia suffered another death over the weekend on its five city tour across the country. After a 25-year-old Sylvia Choi died of a suspected drug overdose on day one of the Stereosonic tour in Sydney, another man, Stefan Woodward, 19 died after being rushed to a local hospital after attending the EDM festival in Adelaide. As a result of the second death, many are wondering how this could have happened with the heightened police presence and if these heavy-handed approaches should give way to pill testing.

  • Woman Reportedly Suffers a Drug Overdose at Stereosonic Festival in Australia

    Electronic music festivals have come under fire for the number of overdoses in recent years, and now a woman has reportedly died from a drug overdose at Stereosonic Festival in Australia. The traveling event is unique to Australia and more than 50,000 people attended the first date of the event in Sydney at Olympic Park.

  • Stereosonic Announces '15 Dates, Tix Info: Festival Moving to 1-Day Format

    Though the festival is far away in December, Totem OneLove's Stereosonic has announced its 2015 festival dates and given a timeline for more information on venues and ticketing later on in the year. Over the weekend, the festival announced it would be returning for a ninth consecutive year and shared the dates last night, March 15. The most noticeable change for 2015 will be the return to a one-day format, as opposed to the two-day format that it has been doing over the past few years.

  • Skrillex Shares OWSLA Stereosonic Video Recap [WATCH]

    Skrillex's record label, OWSLA, hosted its own stage at Australian touring electronic music festival, Stereosonic, at the end of December 2014. They decided to put together a recap video of what happened down under in the studio for the Triple J mixes, on stage during various sets and of Skrillex "interviewing" some of his friends. The video is stacked with guest appearances with artists who are loosely affiliated with OWSLA or Skrillex in some way like Diplo, DJ Snake, Foreign Beggers, RL Grime and others.

  • Tomorrowland, Coachella Most Popular Festivals Of 2015 So Far According To Viagogo

    2015 has just started and we are already becoming overwhelmed with news for North American festival season. While our friends down in the Southern hemisphere continue the outdoor party until the weather no longer permits, the temperatures will soon warm up in the north and our sun-deprived skin will return to the light once again. With all of the news surrounding festivals to kick off 2015 as they compete with each other over the same 18-30 year-old market of music fans, Viagogo has compiled a list of the most popular festivals on their ticket service thus far in 2015 via NME. The results are not too surprising with incredibly popular electronic music festival Tomorrowland leading the way, Coachella slotting in second as the lone United States representative after selling out in a record 39 minutes and the Brazilian edition of Tomorrowland slotting in at third.

  • Stereosonic Releases 2014 Aftermovie [WATCH]

    Many festivals wait months to release their festival video recap as it takes some time to cut the footage and edit it together. Plus, event companies usually wait until they can use the footage as a promotional tool to announce the following festival or help sell tickets for the next year. Stereosonic just threw that model out the window by releasing their aftermovie two weeks after the festival wrapped up, putting together a 6 minute movie filled with crowd shots, interviews with some of the acts who graced the stages around Australia and plenty of clips showing off the massive crowd and production.

  • Watch Real, Fake Steve Aoki Punk Stereosonic [WATCH]

    Steve Aoki has met his match. Photographer Jarrad Seng trolled Stereosonic Perth, Australia, by impersonating Steve Aoki and putting the video of his exploits online, which promptly went viral. Steve Aoki commented in a radio interview shortly thereafter that he had seen Seng in the crowd and was amused by the whole thing. The real Steve Aoki enjoyed the stunt so much he decided to invite Seng out to Stereosonic Melbourne to try and pull a prank together. The pair walked through the crowd as Seng pretended to be the real Steve posing for pictures with unsuspecting fans who apparently had not seen the previous prank video. Aoki pretended to be Seng, taking pictures of fake Steve with fans before removing his hood and sunglasses to reveal that the fans had been punked and taken a picture with an imposter Steve Aoki. Using the same hidden camera technique as done with the previous Seng attempt in Perth, the whole scene is documented as fans go from joy to bewilderment to sheer excitement, via "Beatport News." Some fans claimed to have seen the other prank video and were wiser to what was happening, but most fell right into the fake Steve trap. Seng even started an interview for the real Aoki, which fell apart when they reportedly heard Seng's Australian accent. They also try and get some DJ friends of Steve's — including Skrillex, who does not fall for it for one second, and then What So Not, who was totally baffled at the whole thing.

  • Stereosonic Finalizes 2014 Lineup With Hundreds Of New Additions

    Australian dance music festival, Stereosonic has finalized all additions to the 2014 edition. It already announced the headliners over the summer when tickets when on sale. Some of those headliners who will travel along the 5-date festival tour include, Calvin Harris, Tiësto, Skrillex, Alesso, Carl Cox, W&W, DJ Snake, Laidback Luke, Steve Aoki, Disclosure, Diplo and many others. Now the festival has rounded the full lineup with primarily local acts to keep an Australian flavor to the festival.
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