Justice André Chémétoff The Justice comeback is gaining momentum, with the French duo confirmed as keynote speakers at SXSW 2024. Happening at the Austin Convention Center on March 13 at 2:30 p.m., this rare public conversation from Justice’s Gaspard Augé and Xavier de Rosnay will focus on their forthcoming album, Hyperdrama (due out April 26), and the legacy and future...
Sara Landry 2023 Boiler Room Set Courtesy of Boiler Room Even for casual dance fans, the format is immediately recognizable. A tight shot of a DJ behind the decks, with a heaving, usually very enthusiastic, typically quite stylish crowd packed behind them, going for it. Launched in 2010, as it so often touts “with a...
Shaquille O’Neal as DJ Diesel performs at Shaq’s Fun House Big Game Weekend at Talking Stick Resort on Feb. 10, 2023 in Scottsdale, Arizona. Ethan Miller/Getty Images An elder statesman of NBA stars with rapping side hustles, Hall of Fame center Shaquille O’Neal landed his first hit, “What’s Up Doc? (Can We Rock),” on MTV...
Kaskade on his DJ platform at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas for the 2024 Super Bowl on Sunday, Feb. 11. Mark Owens LAS VEGAS — It turns out Kaskade found out he was DJing at the Super Bowl not too long before the rest of us did. In fact, his first time seeing the elevated...
Anyma Courtesy of Interscope Records This week in dance music: Skrillex, Flowdan, Fred again.. and Kylie Minogue all won dance Grammys, demonstrating the efficacy of the awards’ new pop dance category, Elements 2024 released a phase one lineup lead by Illenium, Slander, Liquid Stranger, Sophie Ellis-Bextor enlisted Pnau for a remix of her viral hit...
Sophie Ellis-Bextor Laura Lewis As Sophie Ellis-Bextor‘s 2001 disco pop classic “Murder on the Dancefloor” continues its rise up the charts — sitting at No. 57 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 4 on Hot Dance/Electronic Songs — on the power of its Saltburn synch, the track is getting extra momentum Friday (Feb. 9)...
Tiësto Courtesy of Spinnin Records Tiësto is bowing out of the big game. The Dutch DJ, who was scheduled to be the 2024 Super Bowl‘s first ever in-game DJ, announced today (Feb. 8) that he will not be playing during the game in Las Vegas this Sunday due to “a personal family emergency.” “Me and...
Countdown 2023 Orhun Uygur This past New Year’s Eve (Dec. 30-31) hordes of dance fans descended on the NOS Events Center in San Bernardino, Calif., for two days of traditional year-end partying. Highlights from the Insomniac Events-produced festival included Porter Robinson playing as the clocked ticked to 2024, a DJ set from British legends Nero,...
Elements Festival 2023 Adi Adinayev Pennsylvania’s Elements Festival will be back for 2024 with a lineup of more than 100 dance acts including future bass star Illenium, a redux set from Kaskade, psychedelic bass powerhouse Liquid Stranger, the ever vibey Bob Moses, house fav BLOND:ISH, along with Slander, Barclay Crenshaw, Wreckno and many more. See...
After a breakthrough year, Dom Dolla received his first-ever Grammy nomination for best remix recording of his remix of “New Gold” by the Gorillaz and Tame Impala, and to celebrate, he sat down with Billboard‘s Katie Bain to discuss how he found out about the nod. “I was in bed, I woke up, checked my...
