Reasons to wake up early for Ultra Weekend One
With the prospect of a long day ahead, festivals can be tempting times for ticket holders to stay in bed a little bit longer. You're missing the opening acts, but hey, at least you'll have energy for the end of the night, right? Wrong. Showing up early to festivals have led me to some of my favorite sets in memory. Lines are shorter, stages aren't as crowded, and you have the opportunity to catch some of the most promising talent of the day. Artists opening festival stages feel a lot of pressure and tend to deliver far beyond expectations. With Weekend One of Ultra fast approaching, start planning your first sets of the day.
Skrillex teams up with Cliff Martinez to score ‘Spring Breakers’
Taking a page out of the Trent Reznor and Daft Punk playbooks, Skrillex teams up with the man behind Drive's score, Cliff Martinez, to lend his touch to the soundtrack for the upcoming movie "Spring Breakers." Cliff's ethereal approach to creating soundscapes that ebb and flow with haunting energy, combined with Skrillex's signature melody-driven dubstep work in tandem to create a dazzling display of electronica. Featuring a string version of "Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites" and a handful of classic Skrillex originals. With production credits on nine of the nineteen tracks, the album isn't completely scored by Sonny but serves as yet another part of the music industry that the dubstep producer has made his mark on.