The Crystal Method’s Scott Kirkland (pictured right) has issued a statement revealing that he has undergone brain surgery, resulting in the delay or cancellation of the band’s fifth album and tour dates. No tumor was found but doctors did find a benign posterior fossa arachnoid cyst. News of Kirkland’s health scare comes after New York DJ/producer [...]

It’s not even Memorial Day, but the team behind Ultra Music Festival are hard at work, announcing this morning that Ultra Music Festival 2014 will take place March 28-30, 2014 in Miami. Following its successful 15-year celebration in 2013 that was spread out into two separate three-day celebrations that drew over 300,000 dance music fans [...]

Insomniac has partnered with L.A.-based hospitality company SBE to launch Create Nightclub in  Hollywood. The opening night will take on May 11 and will feature Dutch trance star Dash Berlin. While Create’s Facebook page only features the club’s logo and no images of the club, the venue located in the former Vanguard space is promising state-of-the-art [...]

Hot 97 old-school DJ Mister Cee has been arrested and charged with soliciting sex from a male undercover cop in Brooklyn. According to the Daily News, Mister Cee (real name: Calvin LeBrun) was taken into custody after he solicited sex from a man who he thought was a prostitute at Madison Street and Broadway in [...]

Acclaimed Rhode Island-based hip-hop producer and MPC whiz AraabMUZIK (a.k.a. Abraham Orellana) was shot yesterday during an apparent robbery. The producer is currently hospitalized and his publicist stated he is “currently alive and well.” George Moore (a.k.a. DukeDaGod), AraabMUZIK’s manager, shared an image of the producer in a hospital bed (see above). “Rumors have begun [...]

UK label Anjunabeats has issued a statement regarding their assertion that Will.i.am’s track “Let’s Go” featuring Chris Brown sampled Arty and Mat Zo’s “Rebound” collaboration without proper permission. The label issued the statement today to counter an interview Will.i.am gave to the Associated Press where he said, “You can’t steal if you credited somebody. He [...]

Event promotion company Insomniac has confirmed that Electric Daisy Carnival with return to Las Vegas Motor Speedway on June 21-23. An array of over 500 acts (a.k.a. “creators”) including DJs, artists and theatrical performers have been announced for the event taking place at the 1,000-acre complex (see lineup below). Obligatory press gush from Pasquale Rotella, [...]

London’s Cable nightclub has been forced to close its doors after a long running dispute with Network Rail. Known as a purveyor of quality bass, techno and grime as well as a stream of underground parties, the team behind the club said goodbye via a statement issued today on its Facebook. “This is not only [...]

Michael Diamond (a.k.a Mike D) and Adam Horovitz (Ad-Rock), the surviving members of the Beastie Boys, have signed a deal with Spiegel & Grau, an imprint of the Random House Publishing Group, for a book celebrating the life and times of one of the music world’s most influential and groundbreaking bands. The book is as-yet [...]

Despite LCD Soundsystem releasing the celebratory documentary Shut Up and Play the Hits in 2012 chronicling the end of the band and continually maintaining that the famed dance-punk outfit is now forever in the past tense, rumors have been periodically popping up stating the opposite since the New York band called it a day in 2011. Call these [...]

After weeks of teasing Daft Punk finally released their new single “Get Lucky” at 12:01 today. As heard on a commercial aired during Saturday Night Live aired in March and a trailer video shown at Coachella, the disco jam features vocals by Pharrell Williams and guitar work by Chic axeman Nile Rodgers. “Get Lucky” appears on [...]

Grammy award-winning New York City-based DJ/producer/remixer Peter Rauhofer has been diagnosed with a brain tumor, according to a post by Rauhofer’s manager, Angelo Russo, on the artist’s Facebook. The Austrian native known for his big room house records produced under the alias Club 69 (“Let Me Be Your Underwear,” “Take A Ride” featuring Connie Harvey [...]

After posting an album teaser on YouTube back in March, British techno master Jon Hopkins has shared the first track from his upcoming fourth solo album, Immunity, due out June 4 on Domino Recordings. “Open Eye Signal” is a rollicking cut that rolls along at a breezy clip, clocking in at nearly eight minutes in [...]