Skip to main content
Tag:

California

Ariel shot of Coachella at sunset

The festival returns for its second weekend with a slew of electronic acts on the bill

Coachella 2024 returns for round two of its 2024 festival this weekend. For those of you not headed to the desert, you can check out...

Coachella sunset with the festival's ferris wheel in the background

The new stage will showcase extended three-hour DJ sets from a range of acts

The organisers of Coachella have announced a new dance music stage for this year's festival called Quasar. Revealed on social media earlier this week, the...

Leaked photo of the new 37-key Akai MPC

Photos of the new compact Akai product have surfaced on Facebook and Reddit

A new Akai MPC featuring a 37-key compact keyboard is on the way, according to recent photos leaked via an MPC Facebook group. Images of...

Clubs and bars in California required to provide drink spiking tests under new law

Bar owners in California will be required to have testing kits available from July

From this summer, clubs and bars in California will be required to provide drink spiking tests under a new law. Coming into force in July...

Photo of omniboi posing while wearing a patterned shirt and white glove

Propelled by online communities and inspired by the backing soundtracks of digital realms, Omni Rutledge aka omniboi has evolved beyond his 8-bit beginnings, but he’ll never lose touch with the music that first rocked his world. Megan Venzin catches up with the multi-instrumentalist to learn more about his Twitch kingdom and his new EP on Nettwerk Music Group

Ask millennial artists about their earliest influences and the answers will often go something like this: “My parents played instruments”, “My parents insisted I play...

Tupac Shakur poses in a baseball cap in a black-and-white image

Tupac Shakur Way is located close to where the late rapper lived in the '90s

Tupac Shakur has been honoured 27 years on from his death with an Oakland street sign named after him. ​​The road in question forms a...

Goa Gil, psytrance pioneer, dies aged 72

The 72-year-old DJ and musician had been undergoing chemotherapy for cancer

Goa Gil, the DJ, musician and pioneer of the psytrance movement, has died following a battle with cancer. News of his passing was shared this...

Photo of Tomu DJ gazing downwards with long hair sweeped in front of her face in a green park space

The new tape will be the West Coast producer’s “most straightforward and club-oriented record so far”

Tomu DJ has announced a new record, ‘Crazy Trip’, via NO BIAS. Listen to the first single, ‘Bedroom DJ’, featuring Petty Getty below. The collaborative...

kingbritt

It's based on his acclaimed university course, which honours people of colour who have pioneered groundbreaking genres within electronic music 

King Britt has announced details of a new exhibit based on his music-based university course, Blacktronika: Afrofuturism in Electronic Music. The acclaimed educator, producer, musician...

PR header

Anime fanatics, veteran ravers and generous gamers find their happy place at Porter Robinson’s Second Sky, an annual meet-up of subcultures powered by kindness and a singular line-up. DJ Mag heads to California’s Bay Area over Halloween weekend to feel the love

"What would I like to go see?” That’s the first question Porter Robinson asks himself when he designs the landscape of Second Sky, his festival...

skrillex_2022

It marks the American DJ and producer's first festival appearance of 2022

Skrillex has been announced as the special guest DJ at Porter Robinson’s Second Sky festival this weekend. Five months on from cancelling a couple of...

Pioneering DJ Art Laboe dies, aged 97

His last radio show was produced last week and broadcast this past weekend

Art Laboe, a pioneering US DJ credited with coining the phrase "oldies, but goodies", has died, aged 97. A spokesperson for Laboe's production company Dart...

porter_rob

Porter Robinson's Second Sky Festival returns later this month. Set to take over Oakland Arena Grounds in Oakland, California on Saturday, 29th October, the festival's...

skyfest_photo

Skyfest attendees can skydive "just a few dozen yards away from the dancefloor"

A skydiving techno festival, Skyfest, is set to take place in California later this month. Taking place in San Diego on Saturday 27th August, Skyfest...

Slander press shot

Walk On Water So Cal will take place on the 15th & 16th July

Slander have announced two headline shows in California next week. The LA-based DJ duo, who released single 'Walk On Water' back in April featuring RØRY...

Björk’s new album “should probably come out in the summer”

"It’s always really hard for me to describe the album while I’m still making it," added the Icelandic artist

Björk has revealed that her new album "should probably come out in the summer". Speaking to LA Weekly, the Icelandic artist and actor said that...

He died of a rare form of cancer, which he had battled since 2017

Influential Bay Area hip-hop producer Traxamillion has died. He was 42.

The San Jose-born producer - real name Sultan Banks - was best known for...

He made the announcement to his fans via Instagram 

Skrillex has confirmed he will release new music "soon".

After sharing Ableton production 'Kliptown Empyrean' via Soundcloud last year, California-born DJ and producer Skrillex...

Almena is likely to spend the next 18 months under house arrest

Derick Almena, the former master tenant of San Francisco Bay Area warehouse and event space Ghost Ship, has been sentenced after pleading guilty to 36...

Cypress Hill: Tres Equis is available for pre-order now

Cypress Hill will celebrate the 30th anniversary of their debut album release with a new graphic novel.

Legendary American hip-hop group Cypress Hill — who have sold...