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Deadmau5 and Space Invaders have teamed up to create a lifestyle brand crossing a myriad of categories launching in the high-end and specialty markets. Expected launch is Winter 2013.

Last week in Japan, Steve Aoki treated the eastern dance music world to a preview of his forthcoming collaboration with a surprise appearance from its collaborators.

Ditching the DJ booth for the wedding booth, Tiësto took his hand at a new practice yesterday: officiating a marriage.

Canada’s Apollo Music have purchased a ‘hoarder house’ collection of 250,000 records after it’s owner passed away leaving behind a treasure chest of the plastic stuff including over 20,000 45′s!

The atrociously named but affectionately called “EDM” has officially taken over, according to Eventbrite’s recent polling. This should come as no surprise to anyone reading this article, but the numbers may surprise you. Dance Music (that’s the term I use) fans are more active with their friends and on social media than in comparison to other genres.

Deadmau5 doesn't think that the current EDM craze can last forever, and he's surprisingly zen about the whole thing. As far as he's concerned, the electronic dance revival he's currently at the forefront of will eventually fade, just like every genre and fad that came before it. 

Forbes has just released its list of the top earning electronic talent in 2013. Despite earning more than he had in 2012, Tiësto lost his Top Earner title to Calvin Harris, who netted $46 million dollars in 2013, out-earning not only Tiësto but Jay Z, Kanye West and Katy Perry as well. 

With its infamous summer clubbing season now well underway, you would struggle to find a European destination more hotly discussed among clubbers than Ibiza. 

In a recent video interview special with VEVO entitled “Becoming: Avicii,” the Swede responsible for “Levels” and the explosive career that followed opens up about his earliest days in the electronic dance music sphere. Beginning with his name, Tim explains “the name Avicii means the lowest level of Buddhist hell,” and how he chose the moniker when finding that his real name was already used upon creating his MySpace page. 

DJ's 80-foot toss coats crowd-surfing quadriplegic in frosting Some days the universe just aligns perfectly, ya know? Last weekend during Steve Aoki's set at Toronto's Veld Music Festival, a wheelchair-bound dude named Ian McAdam was crowd-surfing in the right place at the right time to get hit in the face with an entire cake thrown by the DJ from stage.

Sales of extra albums for $1 apiece started August 8 and runs through August 10 The New York Public Library is in the midst of unloading a huge trove of vinyl albums. The library announced this week (via Resident Advisor and the Vinyl Factory) that its Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound is selling 22,000 copies of LPs it received as unsolicited donations over the years but already has in pristine shape in its collection. The recordings span from foreign classical pressings to funk, '70s country, and Ronald Reagan spoken-word.

A drug, which has only recently been made illegal in the US as a schedule 1 substance, is starting to make a comeback amongst rave-goers and drug users in general. That drug is 2C-E.