Drum & bass artist Edward Holmes, more popularly known as Optiv, part of the group Cause4Concern, has passed away. News of his passing spread throughout the drum & bass community early yesterday morning. The cause of death hasn’t been made known as of yet, but his legacy in the scene is known to all including pillars like The Prototypes, Phace and Andy C. Cause4Concern posted a tribute too Optiv across social media, which you can read below. Can’t even believe I’m having to write this but as many of you will already know by now it’s with great sadness that...
The new compilation from Zeds Dead and Deadbeats, WE ARE DEADBEATS (Vol. 4) drops one week from today on January 14 and we couldn’t be more excited. Collaborations with Subtronics, Dion Timmer, Jauz, Delta Heavy, Jauz, and DROELOE have already seen the light of day, but there are seven more coming. Among them is “Dead Of Night,” the Canadian duo’s second collaboration with Ganja White Night, following 2018’s “Samurai.” They just teased the collab on Twitter today and it’s getting our blood pumping for sure. You’re likely to see a bunch of these teasers in the week leading up to the...
Despite their signature back-to-back Gud Vibrations sets, NGHTMRE and Slander (surprisingly) haven’t put out any new music together for years. But, that’s all about to change! Slander reveals in a new tweet they have already checked off new music with their favorite collaborator in 2020. Together they have released a handful of collaborations, including their massive hit “Gud Vibrations,” which they packaged together for the Nuclear Bonds EP. “It’s been almost 4 years since we released new music together,” NGHTMRE states in the post below. “The wait is finally over!! #FeelingGud” — the hashtag could very well hint at a track title....
The Subtronics Cyclops Invasion Tour starts this Thursday. He was named Your EDM’s Breakout Artist of 2019. It’s a brand new year. He’s got collabs with Zeds Dead and Excision on the way. What better time to drop his hotly anticipated NOW THAT’S WHAT I CALL RIDDIM VOL 5 mix than now? Subtronics only released the mix less than two hours ago, at time of writing, and it already has nearly 50,000 plays. The nearly 36-minute collection of tracks sounds like it’s stuffed to the absolute brim with edits and IDs, like the kind of $32 ravioli you get from...
A danish music festival known as NorthSide has tickets available for an insanely discounted price. The catch is — you’ll have to wait until 2049 to attend. According to NorthSide’s website, the festival has partnered up with Danica Pension to encourage people to fill their future with everything they love today, including good music. Having a festival ticket reserved for 2049 gets people thinking about the decades to come, regardless of what the lineup may be. A ticket for the 2020 festival, located in in Aarhus, Denmark, costs 1,895 kroner, but the 2049 installment is going on sale for a...
GRiZ has a very important PSA — please, do not touch. It’s 2020 and we thought everyone would have got the memo by now — it’s most definitely not cool or ok on any level to touch someone’s butt or grab at them without consent. Unfortunately GRiZ, like so many other artists, has experienced this firsthand when meeting fans and posing for photo ops. He writes in the Twitter thread below, “do not grab my butt or grope me when taking a picture w me or if you see me in public. No it’s never ok and no it’s...
It’s relatively easy to take Hakkasan Group’s yearly roster of artists for granted. It seems every year they’re able to bring in A-List DJs like Tiësto, Zedd, and Martin Garrix. But doing it year after year without any compromise in quality, and while also upgrading their clubs with new features is why Hakkasan remains one of the leaders in entertainment in Las Vegas year in and year out. This year, they’re inviting back some of their biggest artists like the ones mentioned above, as well as adding some by hip-hop heavy hitters like Tyga, Tory Lanez and Lil Jon. “Hakkasan Group continues to offer its...
The results are in! r/edm has revealed its Best of 2019 Awards in various categories. The cool thing about these awards is that they’re voted on by electronic/dance music fans just like you and me. Over the past two weeks, the community has voted on what it thinks is the best music from 2019. Best artists for the year include JOYRYDE, Eric Prydz, Chris Lake, Martin Garrix, Madeon, Virtual Riot, RL Grime, Illenium, Tchami, Blanke and more, each awarded by genre. Some of the runners up in various categories include Habstrakt, KSHMR, Wooli, DROELOE, Flume, Brooks, 1788-L and Rezz. There’s plenty of crossover, as some artists are mentioned in more...
It’s the beginning of the season when major lineups are starting to drop their lineups for 2020. Coachella just announced a matter of days ago, and now Bonnaroo is here with a lineup to rival it. Headlined by Tool, Lizzo, and Tame Impala, the festival boasts a wide variety of artists and an undercard that is just as enticing if not more so than its top tier artists. Supporting the headliners this year will be Miley Cyrus and Bassnectar on Friday (how weird is it to see their names side by side, by the way?), Flume and Oysterhead on...
YELLOW CLAW have officially revealed their fourth studio album, Never Dies, coming out January 31. The Dutch duo last released their 8-track Danger Days EP in the beginning of 2019, following their third album, New Blood, in 2018. As for the new project, not a whole lot is really known about it. EDM Identity did an interview with the duo after their show at EDC Orlando in November last year, but didn’t talk a lot about the album itself. Since the release of the Danger Days EP last year, YELLOW CLAW has dropped many songs: “We Can Get High” with Galantis, “Get Up,”...
