DA’s Sunday Morning Medicine: Hip-Hop and R&B Edition
Sunday Morning Medicine is a feature from Dancing Astronaut dedicated to the mellower side of electronic music. We bring you our favorite therapeutic selections — old and new — in an attempt to alleviate the agonizing effects of a long weekend of partying.
Pierce Fulton brings on Maor Levi for the 11th installment of Get Weird
Since its inception, Pierce Fulton's Get Weird podcast has been host to some impressively eclectic tracklistings. Now in it's 11th month, Pierce establishes a heavier aesthetic than usual on this mix; opening up with Mord Fustang's "Taito" before jumping into Baskerville's remix of "Para," Kryder's "Viper" and Wolfgang Gartner's "Anaconda." John Dish's latest "Karmma" makes a stand-out appearance midway through before John Dahlback's rendition of "Insomnia" by Lazy Rich takes center stage. Signing off with DallasK's latest "Vice," Pierce hands the decks over to "Wanna Be" co-collaborator Maor Levi who caps the 90-minute mix off with a minimix of his own originals and remixes.
Exploring Indio: Day Two at Coachella, the surprise guest is… R.Kelly?
Coachella's Saturday lineup presented a new host of conflicts, while the Sahara and Yuma tents remained stacked with impressive talent, elsewhere in the festival some of most remixed indie bands in dance music were also performing. The Sahara tent would host Baauer, Kill The Noise, Bingo Players, Fedde Le Grand, Moby and more, while Yuma created refuge for fans of 2 Bears and Julio Bashmore. Rather than stay confined to the two dance music tents as promised, we explored the Polo grounds.
The history of Coachella Music Festival: From rocky starts to record-setting sales
If you've ever attended Coachella Arts and Music Festival, you need to thank Eddie Vedder. In 1993, Pearl Jam threw a concert that would inadvertently spark the birth for Coachella Arts and Music Festival. As part of a boycott against Ticketmaster, their management chose a venue in one of America’s hottest and driest locations; one with an undeveloped desert lawn that was several hours driving from any major population centers – Indio’s Empire Polo Club. As Pearl Jam performed in front of 25,000 fans, they proved Indio befitting for a large music festival. Since then the festival has gone through a a variety of growing pains, from struggling during early financial troubles to becoming the highest grossing event of its kind.