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August 28, 2012 – As Boys Noize prepares to release his third album, Out of the Black, the Berlin producer is clearly making the most of his growing Stateside fame: He's got a residency at Las Vegas' Haze nightclub, a headlining slot at this weekend's Electric Zoo festival, and a new collaboration with Skrillex called Dog Blood. While he's riding high on the American EDM wave, Boys Noize (Alex Ridha) clearly isn't coasting.

August 27, 2012 – After collaborations with pop newcomer Eric Turner and pop hangover Lenny Kravitz, EDM golden boy Avicii released his first new solo track since "Silhouettes" this week, and for listeners expecting more lighters-in-the-air froth in the vein of his mammoth (46 million YouTube views and counting), Etta James-sampling "Le7els," the instrumental cut may come as a surprise.

August 24, 2012 – Diddy has periodically flirted with dance music on record, from 2010's Diddy-Dirty Money album, Last Train to Paris, to an as-yet unreleased album he recorded with the Israeli tech-house producer Guy Gerber. But his enthusiasm as a clubber — not sequestered behind a velvet rope and a pyramid of empty Cristal bottles, but down in the scrum, sweating buckets — is well documented.

August 23, 2012 – Earlier this month, the Red Hot Organization announced This Is How We Walk on the Moon, a collection of Arthur Russell covers performed by a wide range of contemporary artists — comparative left-fielders like Laurel Halo and Sandro Perri alongside Robyn, Hot Chip, and even Scissor Sisters. As it happens, that's not the only Arthur Russell tribute coming this year.

August 21, 2012 – Somewhere in Ibiza, ca. 1989: A suave gentleman, nationality unknown, with an inverse pyramid of tanned skin glowing beneath the icy white of his unbuttoned shirt, is cornering his prey at the dark end of the bar. "I want to tell you something," he purrs. "Something about your language, about your roots." Strobe lights flash in time to the robo-disco throb. "What are you waiting for? Sing in Spanish," he whispers, drawing closer.

August 17, 2012 – So many things could go wrong when remixing Elton John.