It’s EDC Week here in Las Vegas. While a ceremony and a plaque probably aren’t necessary for anybody in this town to know this, suppose an official proclaimation from Clark County never hurts, especially when you get to take your picture next to a giant, adorable, fuzz-green monster on the Las Vegas Strip.
Although Franky Perez has traveled the world playing music, with an impressive list of marquee names in the music industry, he always comes back home. This is the place that shaped him and where his best memories live.
For decades, nobody wanted to have this conversation. But incidents outside the speedway are impossible to ignore, and the promoters of the Electric Daisy Carnival now are leading the conversation.
Life is Beautiful just added a half dozen more acts, including Snoop Dogg, to an already brimming bill that includes heady headliners like Stevie Wonder, Imagine Dragons, Kendrick Lamar and a whole bunch more.
Phish isn’t playing on Halloween, but Trey Anastasio is. In Las Vegas, at the Brooklyn Bowl. Show was literally just announced, and the tickets go on sale next Thursday.
If you’re not immersed in dance music’s subculture, the buzz EDC generates likely resonates at the same frequency as white noise. But what may seem like little more than a debaucherous dance party in the desert, populated by people in wild getups, some wearing next to nothing at all, is far more than that to a legion of people all over the country.
If you’re a Janet Jackson fan, now would be a really good time to whip out your calendar and prepare to enter a new date — or dates, as the case may be. A month after revealing plans for a new album and tour, Jackson has announced dates for two Las Vegas shows.
Protip: If you ever happen to find yourself displeased with a band at a concert, for whatever reason, and you feel like tossing anything on stage to express your displeasure, we implore you to resist the urge, particularly if the band in question happens to be Smash Mouth.
If you were planning to catch Alesso at Boulevard Pool at the Cosmopolitan, you might want to start making other plans. We just received an update that’s likely to completely crush your groove.
We’ve read all the music news stories, so you don’t have to. Some of the top items making headlines recently: Yelawolf on ESPN talking alcoholism, Dave Grohl breaks a leg, 5 Seconds of Summer guitarist gets burned onstage, YG gets shot and Sprite’s Obey Your Verse campaign.
