August came and went with lots of awesome music events (and some that are still going on). September will be packed with lots of open-air events too. So what is going on on the EDM festival front in September? Here is a list of our favorite festivals, starting with Electric Zoo (yeah, we are a [...]
With a slight format change, we re-launched our Top 10 Electronic Music – Movers & Shakers list last week. Anticipating questions: This is not a “The Most Popular” list. This is not an “Our Top 10 Favorite Electronic Music Artists” list either. What we are doing here is pouring over last.fm data and identifying the fastest moving electronic music artists of the week in terms of listener popularity. Some artists are household names, some are up and coming. To be fare, we grouped all of the artists in our database into 5 “weight classes” and picked the top 2 from each class to build this Top 10 Electronic Music – Movers & Shakers list. Now here comes the August 30th list. Enjoy
With podcasts gaining traction in the Electronic Dance Music scene as an awesome promo tool, we thought it’d be helpful to give you guys some insight into how the big dogs produce and promote a podcast. To give you just that, we interviewed Barish Turker – Resident DJ for the Crobar Boramusic Housecast – on [...]
We recently had the opportunity to pick Max Willen’s brain who currently serves as the primary editor of one of our favorite music blogs called We All Make Music. The blog is dedicated to helping musicians make it on their own terms and serves as a ultimate resource for novice and experienced artists looking to take their careers to the next level.
Busy preparing for his upcoming Burning Man DJ sets, The Scumfrog (also a Gigsby user) was generous enough to spend some time discussing the ever interesting topic of how much DJs make. The following is a recap of our discussion and certainly is worth the read.