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  Read Deadmau5's Latest Incendiary Rant About EDM's Death in the Mainstream

  March 14, 2013 – Deadmau5 isn't known for mincing words. Back in 2011, 'Mau5, real name Joel Zimmerman, publicly slammed Miami's Ultra Music Festival for its ticket prices and repetitive showcases. "Ultra to me is the definition of insanity: Doing the same fucking thing every year, expecting different results every time," Zimmerman reportedly said. "It's fun and it's cool, and if you've never been, go. …
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  Deadmau5 and Imogen Heap Crowdsource Animated 'Telemiscommunications' Video

  March 12, 2013 – The video for Deadmau5 and Imogen Heap's "Telemiscommunications" is the opposite of its title. For visuals to the gentle electro-pop ballad's lyrics of technologically obstructed romance, the Soundgarden-arresting EDM whiz and emotive-voiced former Frou Frou singer tapped 20 animators via an international competition. …
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  Grammys 2013: Who Should Win the Categories You Actually Care About

  February 8, 2013 – The 55th Annual Grammy Awards are almost upon us! Hey, we'd love to help you with your office pools and living-room side bets with some sure-thing, Vegas-ready odds. However, we always seem to be dead wrong about this stuff (we'll get you yet, Esperanza Spalding). …
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  Ultra Music Festival 2013: David Guetta, Swedish House Mafia, Avicii Confirmed

  January 4, 2013 – EDM superstars David Guetta, Avicii, Bassnectar, Calvin Harris, and more have joined the lineup for Miami's newly ultra-sized Ultra Music Festival, according to an official announcement (and the above video) released today (January 4). The six-day showcase, which is spread over the weekends of March 15-17 and March 22-24, has also locked down DJ sets from Armin van Buuren, Tiësto, Fatboy Slim, and Swedish House Mafia, whose&nb …
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  Deadmau5 Will Headline Miami Ultra After Harshly Slamming Fest

  December 26, 2012 – Deadmau5 will be headlining the Ultra Music Festival this March in Miami, event organizers announced after the close of business on Friday as the rest of us headed into a four-day holiday weekend. The inauspicious timing of the news comes after the 'Mau5, a.k.a. …
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  Deadmau5 Is Somehow Involved in Dave Grohl-Directed Soundgarden Video

  December 20, 2012 – Over the weekend, Deadmau5 proposed to girlfriend Kat Von D the new-fangled way: on Twitter. Von D, a tattoo artist you might recognize from such reality TV shows as Miami Ink, accepted the proposal in kind. More recently, the happy couple made their way to the set of the music video Dave Grohl is directing for Soundgarden's "By Crooked Steps." Because this whole strange paragraph? …
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  Hear Deadmau5 Expertly Remix How to Destroy Angels' 'Ice Age'

  December 3, 2012 – As SPIN's Brandon Soderberg points out in his review of Deadmau5's >album title goes here<, the reason that the EDM figurehead's music persists hinges upon the fact that his sound is surprisingly tasteful. Should you have any doubts about that proclamation, cede your next seven minutes to the Mau5's satisfyingly slight remix of "Ice Age" by How to Destroy Angels. …
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  Deadmau5: EDM Has Gone the Way of Disco

  November 27, 2012 – The loudest voice in the room isn't always the truest, but for all of his bluster, EDM godhead Deadmau5 often proves pretty astute in his public indictments of all things related to electronic dance music. …
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• Deadmau5, '>album title goes here<' (mau5trap/Ultra)

  October 8, 2012 – Deadmau5, the Toronto EDM producer and slyly self-confessed we-just-press-"play" DJ, doesn't arrange and append disparate sounds and genres to conjure up the shock of the new like, say, Skrillex, this generation’s po-mo Fatboy Slim. Nor is he unabashedly enthralled with the hokey healing powers of towering synths and beats like David Guetta, that dreamboat messiah of the Electric Daisy Carnival. …
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  Traci Lords On Seth Rogen's Musical Taste, Katy Perry Mixes, and Getting High to Ozzy

  October 8, 2012 – Traci Lords is ever the polymath—author, actress, DJ, mother, former adult film star. And she took the occasion of the release of her new dance-music compilation, Traci Lords Presents: M2F2 (Sea to Sun), to tell us about the soundtrack to her multifarious life. What was the last thing you listened to before you went to bed last night, and the first thing you listened to when you woke up this morning? …
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