WTF, Mariah Carey is a DJ now?
So this post focuses more on promotional gimmicks still being used at top name clubs with no personal attack on Mariah Carey, because she's Mariah Carey and can do whatever…
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Electric Daisy Carnival Las Vegas: A festival diary in GIFs
This past weekend, Electric Daisy Carnival hit The Las Vegas Motor Speedway for its 20th show. The festival – over three nights and with over 400,000 attendees – is an expression…
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FORM Arcosanti: The story of raw music, wonder and beauty (ft. Braids)
FORM Arosanti is one of those special festivals that many may not know of but is adored and loved by those who do. Just 70 miles north of Phoenix, an experimental…
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Is Beyoncé's 'Lemonade' a sad portrayal of the current state of women in music?
I believe it's incredibly important for both women and men to equally discuss issues of gender equality. Only when both sides are working together —towards having these conversations and creating solutions—…
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The balance between playing music for you or your fans [Interview w/ HUMANS]
In today's incredibly diverse electronic industry, many artists are tormented with the pressure of playing easily accessible music for the general public or risking popularity by releasing a personal track that's new…
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What's your legal right to bring marijuana to a festival?
There are more than 1,000 music festivals in the U.S. alone and more than 32 million people will be attending at least one of them this year. Many fans will…
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Tinnitus, Suicides & Earplugs: Don't be an idiot
I’m aware of the alarmist tone of this post but it is truthfully a serious conversation about something that’s so easily preventable. As the Senior Editor here at EARMILK, I've…
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Is Jazz the future of Hip Hop?
Jazz has not been advanced with the same rapidity and originality since John Coltrane, but it may be on it’s way with the next giant step thanks to new age…
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Six things I learned during Miami Music Week 2016
I consider myself to be a veteran attendee of Miami Music Week. It’s been five years of me attending the week-long extravaganza – first as a fan, and for the…
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I Took Acid And Went To A Carly Rae Jepsen Show
Carly Rae Jepsen is not the Grateful Dead and the 30-year-old Canadian pop singer is far from an ambient DJ set at Burning Man for one to get lost in hours of…
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Why collaborating with someone new is like going on a blind date [guest post by Kitty]
I’m going to start this one with a disclaimer. I am not a producer, and though I do write my own songs, I am not able to produce my own…
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Courtney Barnett and the ineffable sense of "real"
At some point in our lives, we’ve all described something as real, like ‘I love that dude because he’s so real’ or ‘everything those guys create just feels so real’. We add that…
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