A country singer walks into a Las Vegas EDM club. The punchline? He’s headlining the place. Dustin Lynch, the chart-topping Tennessean behind the global country hit “Small Town Boy,” has
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As June comes to a close and the summer solstice greets us with its long-awaited warmth, the country’s observance of Pride Month ends on a somber note. This half-century-old tradition
The butterfly effect is perhaps the most poetic concept in chaos theory: the idea that one small change, even seemingly insignificant, can profoundly shape the future. In the 1960s, mathematician
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I still vividly remember when I heard the song that would forever guide my journey into the world of electronic dance music. It was sometime in the winter of 2010
This is an opinion column. The thoughts and viewpoints expressed are those of the author, Dominic Lalli of the influential electronic music duo Big Gigantic. Where do you go after
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There are moments in every John Wick film when the bass drops and you know someone’s about to be very, very sorry. Those moments derive from the virtuosic hands of
When the world was opening back up after the pandemic, Christian Smith, better known as Crankdat, found himself considering walking away from music altogether. At that point, he’d been touring
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Back in 2012 inside a Toronto penthouse, a domestic shorthair cat once gazed out over Yonge–Dundas Square, his own face beaming back at him in LED glory from a billboard
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Whether it was electronic artists claiming the lion’s share of the lineup or the countless individuals roaming Empire Polo Club with “sprouts” on their heads, the message in Indio this year was
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Billy McFarland knows the power of a brand that breaks the internet. But that same notoriety has become both his greatest asset and most stubborn obstacle. “Fyre certainly is the most
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