Rolling Stone: 50 most important people in EDM
/Rolling Stone put together a comprehensive list of the 50 most important people in electronic dance music and it's a good read. Click here to read it now.
Uproxx: "Rolling Stone’s ‘Rocker Vs. DJ’ Commercial Is One Big F*ck You To Electronic Music"
/According to Uproxx, the following commercial was commissioned by Rolling Stone Italy. It's a pretty shocking attack of electronic dance music by a publication that has been slowly warming up to EDM over the past several years:
Skrillex and Daft Punk to be featured on Kanye West's upcoming album
/Quoted from Rolling Stone:
"The track list for the album is still being finalized, but the all-star crew of artists who have joined West in the studio is a who's who of music in 2013, ranging from Daft Punk and Skrillex to underage Chicago MC Chief Keef and members of Odd Future. "It was very raw," Daft Punk's Thomas Bangalter says of one recent session with West. "He was rapping – kind of screaming primally."
When Rolling Stone gets it wrong
/Credit goes to VanCityDanceNrd for finding this big mistake on the part of Rolling Stone who wrote a quick article on the Phase 2 lineup of the Ultra Music Festival:
"The festival has also added a batch of electronic up-and-comers, including Benny Benassi, Steve Aoki, Dirty South, Eric Prydz, Hardwell and more."
Whoops. With the exception of Hardwell, none of those names can be considered 'up-and-comers'.
Rolling Stone's "The 25 DJs That Rule the Earth" List
/Top 15:
1. Tiesto
2. Swedish House Mafia
3. Avicii
4. Kaskade
5. Diplo
6. David Guetta
7. James Murphy
8. Skrillex
9. Boys Noize
10. DJ Harvey
11. Richie Hawtin
12. Ricardo Villalobos
13. Seth Troxler
14. Danny Tenaglia
15. Maya Janes Coles
Click here to see the full list from Rolling Stone.
One major difference between this list and DJ Mag's Top 100 Poll is that Rolling Stone has decided to include a lot more House/Techno DJs with Richie Hawtin being the highest ranked of the bunch. I'm particularly happy that Rolling Stone decided to rank Diplo and Boys Noize in the top ten because they are far too talented and influential not to be included. But where are the Trance DJs? Not one Trance DJ is represented in this top 25 list. Surprising.