Tag: 2026
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Opening night sets are almost always cautious. The artist maps the room. The crowd figures out whether they’re allowed to let go yet. FISHER’S May 15 performance at Omnia Day Club — the venue’s first-ever public set, full stop — lasted about four minutes before all of that dissolved. By the time the second track…
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The building is still there. Armin van Buuren pointed at it from the stage at The Loft Amsterdam, and for a moment the room went slightly quieter — the way crowds do when something stops being a show and gets real. Twenty-five years ago, somewhere inside or near that structure, he hosted the first episode…
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The dance floor has always been a useful place to lie to yourself. “Sad Girls” — Bebe Rexha and David Guetta’s recent collaboration — is a song about exactly that lie, and about what happens when it starts to unravel somewhere around the second chorus. That’s a strange premise for a dance track. It works…
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From Veld to Sold Out: Ten Years in One Conversation The last time Garrix sat in this studio, he’d played Veld Music Festival on an early slot and wasn’t sure anyone would show up. He was seventeen. People came running over the hill anyway. That was 2014. Tonight he’s at RBC Amphitheatre for the first…
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Subtronics does not belong on kineticFIELD. That was the prevailing logic — the main stage at EDC is built for a particular kind of euphoria, wide melodic arcs and slow-building anthems that make 500,000 people feel like they’ve found religion in the desert. Subtronics makes the opposite. His riddim-influenced dubstep is mechanical, percussive, designed less…
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The tent at Diplo’s HonkyTonk is air-conditioned, which matters in Indio in late April. On April 25, 2026, it also shook with techno. That part was less expected. Rebecca Black ran a 13-track set through dance, electro pop, and something harder at the edges — not the polished, festival-safe EDM that occupies most big-tent lineups,…
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Sunday night at the cosmicMEADOW. San Holo took the stage at 10 pm, played an hour of Wholesome Riddim, and did something most of the 200+ artists across nine stages that weekend didn’t quite manage: he made a crowd of tens of thousands feel like the music was specifically for them. EDC’s 30th anniversary delivered…
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There is a moment in every Armin van Buuren set — usually somewhere after the crowd has stopped expecting it — where the music stops being about the music. May 17, 2026, kineticFIELD stage. It happened around 5 a.m. EDC Las Vegas turned 30 this year. Three nights, a hundred thousand people, stages built like…
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The video starts mid-crowd. You can’t locate the stage immediately — there’s just a wall of light ahead and bodies in every direction, already moving at the same frequency. Holy Priest is already playing. That might be the most telling detail about this set: there’s no real beginning. You join it in progress, the way…
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What Does a Flawless Tech House Set Actually Sound Like? Ben Sterling at Gallery Club Has the Answer
The Set That Has the EDM World Talking The Mixmag Lab has hosted a lot of good DJ sets. This one is different, and the difference is audible within the first three minutes. Ben Sterling’s session at Gallery Club — recorded live in the venue’s 360-degree concrete booth — is the kind of tech house…