Electric Daisy Carnival

Live Nation to acquire stake in Electric Daisy Carnival producer

2013-05-02 17:20:00

Concert and ticketing giant Live Nation Entertainment Inc. is nearing a deal to acquire a stake in the events company that puts on the Electric Daisy Carnival dance music festival, a person with knowledge of the matter confirmed. Beverly Hills-based...

Casting agency looking for Electric Daisy Carnival documentary stars

2013-05-10 06:00:00

The man who gave the world DJ Pauly D is looking for a few good ravers for his next project. Pop & Hiss was pleased to be on the receiving end of a notice from Doron Ofir Casting, the agency that corralled the stars of "Jersey Shore" and "RuPaul's...

Insomniac and SBE announce new Hollywood EDM club Create

2013-05-07 08:00:00

Last week, Live Nation�drew close to finalizing the acquistion of about half of the L.A. EDM promotion firm Insomniac. But that isn’t Insomniac’s only new partnership of note. The firm has just announced a new collaboration with the...

Insomniac Events confirms talks with Live Nation, other suitors

2013-05-04 14:30:00

Insomniac Events, the producer of the Electric Daisy Carnival dance music events, confirmed in a statement to the Los Angeles Times that it has had talks with Live Nation�Entertainment Inc.�regarding a sale to that company, but no deal is complete....

HARD Summer 2013: Knife Party, Dog Blood and Bassnectar headline

2013-04-23 09:41:00

If you liked the Sahara tent at Coachella, you're going to love the lineup at this year's HARD Summer. Several of the fest's major dance headliners, including neo-dubsteppers Knife Party, the Skrillex/Boys Noize project Dog Blood and the hirsute low-end...

Coachella 2013: Down deep in the dance grooves

2013-04-15 05:30:00

The heaviest place to be at Coachella 2013, from a sound perspective, wasn't in the sweet spot of the Main Stage rig while Phoenix was preparing for the arrival of R. Kelly, or at the heart of the Sahara stage during Baauer's big, dumb, joyous set of beat...

Holly Madison gives birth to a baby girl in Las Vegas

2013-03-05 17:02:00

Holly Madison is officially a mom next door, having given birth to a baby girl on Tuesday. Madison, one of Hugh Hefner's former girlfriends who rose to fame on the E! reality series "The Girls Next Door," welcomed the baby girl with current beau...

A fatal toll on concertgoers as raves boost cities' income

2013-02-02 15:30:00

On the edge of the Mojave, music promoter Pasquale Rotella staged a rave about 11 years ago that ended with a coroner's wagon rolling down desert roads. Five people died of overdoses and drug-related car crashes during or shortly after the Nocturnal...

Al Walser calls his Grammy nomination a win for independents

2013-02-08 07:56:00

Dressed in a black leather punk jacket, Al Walser leans conspiratorially across a glass table in a Mid-Wilshire office suite. It's stacked with paperwork, golf clubs and a placard deeming the space an Honorary Consulate of the Principality of...

Rave producer Insomniac defends concerts, criticizes Times

2013-02-04 17:43:31

Raves: Records show deadly toll of drugs among concertgoers

2013-02-04 06:54:01

V Squared Labs visualizes dance music

2012-12-29 12:00:00

When Brazilian electronic musician Amon Tobin took the stage at the Greek Theatre for his headlining set in October, fans couldn't see much of him. That's because he was concealed behind panes of opaque, electrically charged specialty glass, part of an...

Electric Daisy Carnival at Las Vegas Motor Speedway in Las Vegas last year.

2013-05-16 13:09:00

Rave fans dance during a set by DJ David Guetta during the second day of the Electric Daisy Carnival at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway. The EDC is one of the largest electronic music festivals in the world.

2013-05-02 16:20:30

Long before electronic dance music drew hundreds of thousands of neon-painted hipsters to events like the Electric Daisy Carnival in Las Vegas and producer-DJs from Calvin Harris to Afrojack were improving hit singles by mainstream pop stars, there was Oakenfold.

2012-12-27 13:11:00