Twitch is throwing it back to the turn of the century to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Britney Spears‘ generational album Oops!…I Did It Again with an all-day DJ tribute, a representative of the streaming platform tells EDM.com.
A group of DJs will be Slaving 4 U by livestreaming 12 hours of the pop icon’s biggest hits as well as brand-new remixes and interactive moments via the Twitch chat. Whether you prefer the bubblegum brilliance of her …Baby One More Time era or the robotic glam rebellion of her Femme Fatale chapter, there’s sure to be something for every kind of Britney fan.
The DJs will keep the nostalgia flowing and the energy going, perfect for anyone looking to relive their Y2K days and saunter around their living rooms like Spears in her iconic “Toxic” video. They’ll also be sharing clips and funny moments from the stream for those who are unable to attend live.
EDC, one of the world’s most prominent EDM festivals, will launch in Colombia in October 2026, its organizer Insomniac Events announced today.
Transforming Medellín’s Unidad Deportiva Atanasio Girardot sports complex, the festival is primed to continue EDC’s global growth following successful editions across Asia, Europe and the Americas. The city offers what Insomniac founder and CEO Pasquale Rotella described as the perfect backdrop for EDC’s blend of dance music, art and community engagement.
“We’re committed to growing this global community and sharing the magic of EDC with the world,” Rotella said in a statement. “Choosing a new location for EDC is never random. It comes down to a few key factors. First, we look for a local partner who shares our values, understands the spirit of EDC, and has the vision and dedication to help bring it to life.”
The inaugural EDC Colombia represents a partnership between Insomniac and Páramo Presenta, part of Latin American entertainment powerhouse OCESA. The company, with whom Insomniac has long collaborated to produce EDC Mexico, is “an incredible team that fits that perfectly,” Rotella said.
“We are very proud to bring to Colombia such a major brand with so much history, and one that has been fundamental to the growth of electronic dance music worldwide, like EDC,” added Páramo Presenta’s Santiago Vélez. “Medellín will become the center of the electronic world in October 2026, and we hope to reveal more details soon about this festival that is returning to South America.”
The festival will feature “a massive lineup of world-renowned electronic artists” as well as multiple stage designs, large-scale art installations and carnival rides while incorporating local cultural influences, according to a press release shared with EDM.com.
Additional details, including lineup, dates and ticketing information will be announced in the months ahead. Fans can register for updates on the festival via its official website.
Planet 13, the world’s largest cannabis dispensary, is poised for what its executives are calling the busiest weekend of the year: not New Year’s Eve and not 4/20, but EDC.
The cannabis giant is celebrating the festival’s return to Las Vegas by giving away 20 three-day passes to lucky visitors as it launches a slate of EDC-themed offerings in collaboration with RNBW, the Insomniac Events-affiliated cannabis brand.
“EDC has become the busiest weekend of the year at Planet 13 Las Vegas,” said Bryant Ison, Planet 13’s Vice President of Marketing. “It’s our Black Friday, busier than 4/20, Super Bowl and New Year’s Eve. We see a 40% increase in revenues and close to a 30% increase in customer traffic at our flagship Vegas SuperStore during EDC.”
The promotion, part of the dispensary’s “Daisy Daze” weekend, features a full-scale retail activation with live vendor pop-ups, food trucks, limited-edition merch and specially curated cannabis bundles. Hopeful festivalgoers receive raffle entries for every bundle purchased and winners will walk away with passes to EDC, North America’s largest EDM festival.
The connection between Planet 13 and EDC Las Vegas runs deeper than seasonal marketing, however. RNBW is a luxury cannabis label co-developed through a strategic partnership between EDC’s organizer, Insomniac, and industry stakeholders. RNBW’s “Dark Rainbow” strain, available exclusively at Planet 13, is the dispensary’s featured drop this year.
Pasquale Rotella, Insomniac founder and CEO, has championed RNBW as part of a broader initiative “intersecting live music and cannabis culture,” he said in a 2021 statement.
EDC returns to the Las Vegas Motor Speedway this weekend from May 16-18 with Martin Garrix, Alesso, Tiësto, REZZ and many more. You can find the festival’s full lineup and read more about its 2025 edition here.
Twenty of Fortnite’s top professional players teamed up with 20 of the biggest content creators for a six-round tournament at the Fortnite Championship Series (FNCS) Pro-Am on Saturday in Los Angeles. The 20 duos squared off for a share of $500,000 up for grabs. An average of more than 480,000 fans watched as pro player Peterbot and content creator Aussie Antics rose to victory, taking home the FNCS Pro-Am trophy and $25,000 each.
Hitmaker and Fortnite superfan D4vd was on site to help hype up the crowd in the Galen Center at the University of Southern California. He made a surprise appearance at the announcer’s desk during the event’s halftime. The singer/songwriter even livestreamed the tournament from his official Twitch channel.
After the 40 competitors greeted some lucky fans in attendance, they headed to the official Fortnite After Party powered by Billboard. Guests enjoyed pizza while sipping on cocktails inspired by Fortnite. They could choose from a bourbon-based Victory Crown or Slurp Juice, which celebrated Fortnite’s latest reload map, Slurp Rush! made with tequila.
It wouldn’t be a Billboard party if it didn’t feature some unforgettable music. Sarah Benyo got the party started with a set that spanned multiple genres of dance music. She set the tone of the evening before Top Dance Albums chart-topper ZHU took over the decks with an exclusive set filled with hit after hit featuring live vocals.
Check out highlights from the Fortnite Championship Pro-Am and Fortnite and Billboard’s Official After Party in the photos below.
If you’ve ever been to Lightning in a Bottle, you know it’s just as much a festival as it is an adult playground disguised as one. The team behind Do LaB continues to treat staging like sorcery.
The genius of their curation lies not just in their genre-spanning lineups, but in their understanding that context transforms sound. Watching a DJ spin beneath intricate geometric structures as desert winds carry notes across the water creates memories that streaming services could never replicate.
Lightning in a Bottle will once again guide attendees through its whimsical core stages, Lightning, Woogie and Thunder, onwards to its community-driven programming at The Stacks, The Junkyard and The Grand Artique. Each environment features its own unique aesthetic, vision and sound.
This year’s lineup is a genre-fluid dream, dipping into indietronica, skittering across UKG and plunging headfirst into dubstep swamps and house grooves. Read on to discover a handful of performances you simply cannot miss in 2025.
Lightning in a Bottle returns over Memorial Day Weekend from May 21-25, 2025. Tickets are on sale via the festival’s website.
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Tape B, who was recently named to the EDM.com Class of 2025, is one today’s most sought-after dubstep and bass music producers. Nostalgia is his love language, threading hip-hop throwbacks with growling beats while dusty vinyl crackles ripple through with analog warmth.
Girl Math is the formidable duo of Nala and VNSSA, who joined forces to infuse a punk edge into their hip-shaking house beats. The former brings Riot grrrl-influenced vocals to the table while the latter smashes it with metal-infused drums.
“I thought being a drummer in a metal band was the coolest thing you could ever do prior to being a DJ,” Nala told EDM.com in a late-2024 interview. “So I was like, we need to incorporate this history on both sides and turn this into something that’s rowdy and fun and chaotic.”
Dirtybird founder Claude VonStroke recently took flight on a comeback tour following a two-year hiatus that saw him sell his prized record label. After dropping a stunning EP, he’s now heading to Lightning in a Bottle for the tour’s first festival performance, which is officially billed as “The Return of Claude VonStroke.”
Few duos in electronic music have stood the test of time quite like Sultan + Shepard, whose emotionally charged sound blends textured synths with pulsating rhythms. Whether they’re producing generational progressive house anthems like “Walls” or aching deep house tracks like “Under The Surface,” they thread nostalgia and wonder through every release.
Mary Droppinz’s music is a kaleidoscope of genre-defying sounds, fusing house, breakbeat, dubstep and drum & bass under one electrifying umbrella. She’s also known to bring unbridled energy to the stage, and with upcoming performances at Lollapalooza, Red Rocks and many more, she’s rising at a breakneck pace.
Portola, which is quickly establishing itself as the Bay Area’s premier electronic music festival, returns to San Francisco’s Pier 80 this September with an electrifying 2025 lineup and a wave of rare performances.
Presented by Goldenvoice, the two-day fest from September 20-21 follows a sold-out 2024 edition and promises a genre-spanning bill that includes dance-punk icons LCD Soundsystem and Australian house music superstar Dom Dolla in headlining slots.
In one of the festival’s most surprising bookings, Christina Aguilera is set to bring her pop prowess to the electronic stage. Elsewhere on Portola’s 2025 lineup are The Chemical Brothers, closing Saturday’s Warehouse with their only West Coast DJ set of the year; Moby, performing live in San Francisco for the first time in over a decade; and Anti Up, the formidable house duo of Chris Lake and Chris Lorenzo.
This year also marks the San Francisco debut of “DESPACIO,” the vinyl-only, audiophile dancefloor environment co-created by James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem, the Dewaele brothers of 2ManyDJs/Soulwax, and sound engineer John Klett. The trio will curate all-weekend DJ sets inside the “immersive audio experience,” according to a press release.
Loyalty passes go on sale Wednesday, May 14th at 12pm PT before the general on-sale begins the following day at the same time. 2-day GA starts at $399.95 and 2-day VIP starts at $649.95, while single-day GA starts at $279.95 and single-day VIP starts at $399.95.
You can check out the full lineup below and purchase tickets here.
In the perpetually evolving ecosystem of Ibiza nightlife, certain moments signal a shift in the island’s cultural aesthetic. Francis Mercier‘s newly announced eight-week residency at Chinois is precisely one of those moments.
The Haitian DJ and producer is poised to plant his flag at Chinois with “Solèy,” a unique DJ residency that treats global rhythms not as exotic accessories, but as essential ingredients. His choice of Chinois, nestled within the Ibiza Gran Hotel and rapidly establishing itself as “the club of Ibiza,” speaks volumes about his ambitions.
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“Solèy,” Haitian Creole for “sun,” serves as both the residency’s name and its philosophical framework. Its radiant sound will pump from midnight to dawn, allowing you to dance literally until the sun comes up.
Mercier, who cut his teeth as a guest DJ at the venue last season, has committed to transforming Friday nights from June 13th through August 1st into a cross-cultural sonic expedition. His particular brand of musical cosmopolitanism carefully curates an experience where Afro-house beats intersect with Levantine melodics and Caribbean rhythms.
Mercier will also preset performances by Giolì & Assia, Nitefreak and Wakyin, who were named to EDM.com‘s Class of 2021, 2024 and 2025, respectively. Other notable artists include Something Else, the underground alias of Brazilian dance music superstar Alok; Major League DJz, the deeply influential Amapiano duo; and Sparrow & Barbossa, the Swiss-Uruguayan duo surging through the ranks of Afro-house.
Check out the 2025 schedule for Mercier’s “Solèy” residency at Chinois below. Tickets are available now via the club’s website.
Reinvention is ritual in Ibiza, and its newest nightlife destination, [UNVRS], arrives not merely as another venue but as a game-changer poised to reshape what club culture looks, sounds and feels like on the legendary party island.
Set to open its doors at the end of this month, the hi-tech [UNVRS], the latest venture from Yann Pissenem’s The Night League, is readying a launch of epic proportions. Equal parts club, arena and immersive installation, the venue will make its long-awaited debut with a “once-in-a-lifetime” opening party, per a press release.
Promising “scale, spectacle and storytelling,” the launch event is dubbed “[UNVRS] – The Opening.” Built by the same creative minds behind Ushuaïa and Hï Ibiza, the venue aims to blend the intimacy of a club with the reach and resonance of an arena-sized production.
“With everything we’ve built with Ushuaïa and Hï Ibiza, I hope [UNVRS] becomes a defining cultural icon in Ibiza’s legacy—a place that sets a new global standard and continues to lead the world in sound, creativity, innovation and experience,” Pissenem said. “I want to encourage every clubber and guest who shares our passion to feel part of what begins now. This is a new chapter in the island’s story.”
The opening party with Michael Bibi,, Carl Cox b2b Jamie Jones, Joseph Capriati b2b The Martinez Brothers and more is just the beginning. The [UNVRS] summer calendar includes high-profile residencies from Anyma, Eric Prydz, David Guetta, FISHER, elrow.
Tickets for “[UNVRS] – The Opening” on May 30th are on sale now. Check out the full lineup below.
Galantis is set to bring a touch of folkloric terror to Colorado’s Red Rocks Amphitheatre with a Midsommar-themed concert, the DJ announced today.
Midsommar is a traditional Swedish festival celebrating the summer solstice by virtue of vibrant communal gatherings with maypole dancing, feasting and Scandinavian folk music. Often associated with pagan roots, it symbolizes renewal and community, though its depiction in Ari Aster’s spine-chilling 2019 horror film of the same name casts a darker, fictionalized lens on the rituals.
Billed as “Midsommar: All Hallows,” Galantis’ upcoming show nods to Aster’s daylight nightmare, which had viewers rethinking floral crowns and European vacations. Scheduled for November 1st, the one-night-only event promises to blend the Swedish EDM powerhouse’s anthemic beats with eerie festival aesthetics—minus the bear carcasses and human sacrifices, we hope.
It’s the latest in a series Galantis had traditionally presented at the Brooklyn Mirage, attracting over 40,000 fans at eight sold-out shows over the course of the last four years. He’ll now head to Red Rocks, where the venue’s towering monoliths and natural amphitheater setting will provide quite a backdrop for what he describes as “the crazy Midsommar spirit.”
While he hasn’t specified if attendees should wear white gowns or bring emotional baggage like Florence Pugh’s character in the horror film, a press release promises a “dreamlike sensorial experience.”
“This event means the world to me, I couldn’t be happier to bring the crazy Midsommar spirit to one of the most iconic venues, Red Rocks,” said Galantis, who also encouraged fans to rock their best costumes.”‘Midsommar: All Hallows’ will be a night to remember.”
The night will also feature DJ sets by Dillon Francis and Forester prior to Galantis. You can check out a teaser below and purchase tickets here.
What more can we say about Breakaway Festival? The barnstorming brand, the nation’s fastest-growing traveling music festival, has been unstoppable.
Organizers have now revealed their latest high-profile lineup. Breakaway, which in late-2024 was named by EDM.com as the year’s top event organizer, is heading back to Charlotte this year for its Carolina edition and bringing along a slew of electronic heavy-hitters.
True to form, the Breakaway team brought the heat with the headliners. Dance music superstar John Summit tops the bill along with the Grammy-winning electronic music virtuoso Kaytranada as well as techno breakout Eli Brown and chart-topping duo Louis The Child.
The flyer’s undercard is no less impressive, with a melting pot of house, indie-dance, bass music and more. Fans can catch performances by PEEKABOO, Disco Lines, Wuki, Jake Shore, me n ü, Surf Mesa and EDM.com Class of 2025 star Max Styler, among others.
Breakaway Carolina is scheduled to return to zMAX Dragway at Charlotte Motor Speedway from September 26-27. Tickets are on sale now, including two-day GA, VIP, Ultimate VIP and Space Deck passes as well as Space Deck tables.
