Imagine Music Festival Will Not Return In 2024
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by Peter Volpe
10h ago
Imagine Music Festival will not return in 2024. Organizers shared the news in a statement on Instagram today that reads as follows: “Imagine Festival will be pausing in 2024 to improve on your experience. Thank you for your patience and understanding as we take this time to build an even better Imagine Festival.” Most recently held at Kingston Downs in Rome, Georgia, the festival had not yet announced a lineup or ticket sales for 2024. Imagine has tentatively confirmed a return in 2025. The hallmark event from Atlanta promoter IRIS Presents has experienced several changes, cancellations, and r ..read more
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Insomniac Adds Over 30 More Artists To EDC Week 2024
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by Peter Volpe
13h ago
EDC Las Vegas is right around the corner, and with anticipation continuing to build, Insomniac has today added over 30 more artists to its already jam-packed roster for EDC Week 2024. With more than 90 artists performing at over 70 events across Sin City, this year’s EDC Week festivities will run from May 15 to 21, 2024.  Whether you’re looking to get the party started early, extend your Las Vegas stay late, or would prefer to trade the festival madness for a comparably intimate nightclub experience, EDC Week has got you covered. Insomniac’s phase one EDC Week lineup featured chart-toppin ..read more
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Q-Dance Reveals Lineup For Defqon.1 Weekend Festival 2024
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by Peter Volpe
16h ago
The world’s largest hard dance festival, Q-Dance’s Defqon.1 Weekend Festival, has just announced its 2024 lineup. From June 27-30, 2024, over 250,000 attendees are expected to flock to the hard dance mecca in Biddinghuizen, the Netherlands, for four days of music from leading artists in hardstyle, hardcore, rawstyle, uptempo, and more. On Thursday, June 27, Defqon.1 will get the party started with “The Gathering,” featuring performances from 2024 anthem-makers Sound Rush and hardcore legend Mad Dog. These sets, exclusive to camping attendees, come as the first of four closing shows throughout ..read more
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Kygo’s Palm Tree Music Festival Taps Swedish House Mafia
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by Peter Volpe
18h ago
Kygo’s Palm Tree Music Festival always seems to bring out big stars, and the festival’s upcoming fourth edition in The Hamptons will be no different. This time around, Swedish House Mafia will join the summer fun. The legendary EDM trio will headline the single-day event on June 22, 2024, alongside multi-platinum tropical house pioneer and festival co-founder Kygo. Support performances at Palm Tree festival in The Hamptons will pack a punch as well, showcasing the upbeat sounds of Sofi Tukker (DJ set) and the funky grooves of Purple Disco Machine, plus Palm Tree debut sets from Xandra, Will Sa ..read more
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MIDI Sampler For Kids Launched In New Kickstarter Campaign
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by Peter Volpe
2d ago
Parents have big dreams for their children. Some aspire for their toddlers to become doctors or lawyers; others hope their kids will grow up to be MVP athletes.  But now, parents can help their children prepare for an eventual headline slot at Tomorrowland thanks to a new, fully functional MIDI controller built for children. During the 2023 holiday season, Fisher-Price’s “Laugh & Learn, Mix & Learn DJ Table” grabbed headlines around the country. But today, Playtime Engineering, a musical instrument company that designs synths for kids, is shifting the focus to electronic music pro ..read more
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Dreamstate Reveals Lineup For New Psytrance Event, Into The Sequence
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by Peter Volpe
2d ago
Insomniac’s beloved trance brand Dreamstate surprised SoCal ravers yesterday with an all-new, all-night trance event coming to San Bernardino’s NOS Event Center. Today, they’ve returned to announce the inaugural lineup for Into The Sequence, set for the NOS’ Orange Pavilion on Saturday, June 29, 2024. Organizers have invited attendees to “let the pulsating beats, mesmerizing melodies & psychedelic soundscapes transport you to another dimension” at the event, which will feature performances from leading psytrance artists, all night long, from 6PM-6AM. Few are better suited to lead the charg ..read more
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Festival Report Card: Beyond Wonderland 2024
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by Danielle Levy
2d ago
This weekend was full circle as we once again attended Beyond Wonderland, kicking off the 2024 festival season at one of the longest-running rave events in Southern California. We had an absolute blast with incredible music, stunning production, and meaningful connections with other ravers, but we knew what we were against. The NOS Events Center events seem to have the same issues arising repeatedly, and attendees seem to get more and more frustrated, with the greatest being overcrowding. We at EDM Maniac wrote our Beyond Wonderland 2024 Festival Report Card to let you know exactly what we tho ..read more
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Tiësto And ILLENIUM To Headline San Diego’s Horizon Music Festival
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by Peter Volpe
2d ago
San Diego’s Horizon Music Festival has announced its 2024 headliners for when the event returns to the city’s downtown Waterfront Park this June 22 and 23. A new partnership will see Horizon promoters Five Group and Night Access team up with Insomniac to collaboratively produce this year’s two-day event. The move will also facilitate headline performances from two of electronic music’s most globally in-demand artists: Tiësto and ILLENIUM. It will be a return performance for Tiësto at Horizon this year, after he headlined last year’s open-air festival. The international dance music icon will gi ..read more
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Miami PD Says Ultra 2024 Ended With “Few Related Arrests”
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by Peter Volpe
2d ago
The Miami Police Department has confirmed that this year’s Ultra Music Festival ended with “few related arrests in downtown Miami,” according to Miami news outlet Local10. Officer Kiara Delva, a spokeswoman for the Miami Police Department, told Local10 that there weren’t any Ultra-related arrests on Friday, only four arrests on Saturday, and three arrests on Sunday. Delva confirmed that the cases were for illegal vending, theft, and trespassing. NBC 6 South Florida reported 18 festival-related arrests at last year’s Ultra Miami. The 2023 arrest numbers were “fairly low-key for a second year in ..read more
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Zeds Dead’s Two Night Stand Tour Highlights Why Small Cities Matter In Dance Music
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by Federica Brandi
2d ago
An hour before doors open for Zeds Dead’s Two Night Stand tour, ravers dressed in their festival best defy the crisp March air as they line up outside the Knitting Factory in Spokane, Washington. They’ve been planning for this event for weeks if not months– the slow winter season hits smaller cities particularly hard, and big-league artists rarely grace the community with a full weekend show. Where acts like the Two Night Stand Tour come a dime a dozen in urban nightlife hubs like Los Angeles, the Bay Area, or Miami, they make a big splash in the country’s more unsung communities – communities ..read more
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