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Montréal Police Investigating Needle Attacks at îLESONIQ Music Festival

Police in Montréal are investigating reports that six people were deliberately pricked, possibly with needles, during the 2025 edition of îLESONIQ Music Festival earlier this month, CBC reports. The incidents occurred on August 9th and 10th during îLESONIQ, an annual electronic dance music festival that draws thousands to the sprawling Parc Jean-Drapeau. Victims, including both […]

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SoundCloud’s New Limited-Edition Merch Taps Into Y2K Internet Culture and Glitch Aesthetics

Inspired by the sparkle-core aesthetics of the Myspace-top-8 era, SoundCloud’s new line feels like it was plucked from your favorite music producer’s closet. SoundCloud has launched CloudWear: Deep Cuts, a limited-edition merch line melding visual elements from turn-of-the-century internet culture and electronic music history. Drawing from glitch art and bloghouse nostalgia, the new collection’s aesthetic […]

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Jon Casey’s New EP Is a Globally-Inspired Vision for Trap Music’s Future: Listen

Weaving Casey’s distinctive percussion through heavyweight collaborations, “HAPPY TO BE HERE” is a showcase of genuine artistic talent. Jon Casey has dropped a new six-track EP, HAPPY TO BE HERE, an emphatic statement of where the trap genre can go next. Drawing from his South African roots and extensive production experience, he fuses it with […]

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VELD 2025 Cements Toronto as Premier Canadian Summer Destination for Dance Music

Toronto’s Downsview Park stood among tall amongst the giants of North America’s dance music circuit last weekend as VELD returned with a festival engineered for peak summer intensity. Over three cloudless days, the festival welcomed tens of thousands to a city-sized celebration of electronic dance music, where towering LED stages, a glowing Ferris wheel,and nightly […]

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Lane 8, Porter Robinson and Nora En Pure to Headline We Belong Here’s 2025 Festival in Central Park

The festival will also feature Sultan & Shepard, Wax Motif and VNSSA, among other influential tech and melodic house producers. Electronic music’s boutique darling We Belong Here has unveiled its 2025 Central Park festival lineup, marking another major development in the red-hot organizer’s ambitious expansion in New York. The Miami-based brand, which launched in 2021, […]

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A Couples Guide to Bass Canyon 2025

Every raver has their first love: the concert or festival that converts them from doe-eyed observers to wide-eyed obsessives. For my wife and me, that’s Bass Canyon. Colleagues in my other career, covering combat sports, often ask why I’m so infatuated with electronic dance music. The list is long: the community, self-expression, music and theatrics. […]