Brownies & Lemonade‘s DNBNL offshoot is hitting the road this summer, bringing drum & bass parties to a handful of Dave & Buster’s locations across the country.
A focused celebration of the genre, DNBNL has become one of the beloved electronic music event organizer’s most recognizable series. They’ve taken over Dave & Buster’s in the past, tapping into the nostalgia of arcades and providing fans with a setting that feels both unexpected and wildly fitting.
Celebrating the four-year anniversary of DNBNL, the mini-tour begins June 18th in Brooklyn and continues the following night in Orlando before heading cross-country for a West Coast leg, which kicks off July 10th in Seattle prior to a finale in Irvine.
Each stop will feature a different secret lineup. While the tour’s talent remains under wraps, the energy is all but guaranteed, considering past DNBNL shows have featured performances by drum & bass heavyweights like Chase & Status, Sub Focus, Netsky, Koven and Dimension.
Those interested in attending the upcoming DNBNL tour can RSVP here.
CRSSD is returning to San Diego’s idyllic Waterfront Park September 27-28 with an electric lineup to celebrate the festival’s 10-year anniversary.
Known as the crown jewel of techno and house music in Southern California, CRSSD’s fall edition features global superstars, genre-spanning innovators and rare B2Bs. Headliners include John Summit, Claude VonStroke, Cloonee and Empire of the Sun.
The Palms Stage will host house music favorites like Purple Disco Machine, Dombresky and Chris Stussy, along with a b2b between Jamie Jones and Adam Ten. Techno fans can gather at the City Steps Stage for sets from Boys Noize, Brutalismus 3000, Eli Brown and KETBOI69, the high-energy alias of KETTAMA and Partiboi69.
Other can’t-miss highlights on the lineup include Cassian, Ben Böhmer, Elderbrook, Sultan + Shepherd and EDM.com Class of 2025 inductees Beltran and Max Styler.
You can check out the lineup below and purchase tickets via the festival’s website.
From underground warehouses to big-name venues, Charlotte de Witte is storming New York this week with a massive run of shows.
Starting Wednesday, May 21st, the Belgian techno superstar is headlining six shows across four days, with most already sold out. She begins at Public Records before conquering Superior Ingredients, a mysterious secret location, 99 Scott, The Ruins at Knockdown Center, and finally The Great Hall at Avant Gardner.
Fans attending these shows will likely hear unreleased music from de Witte’s long-awaited debut album, due out November 7th via her own KNTXT label. She recently released its opener “The Realm” and is now set to drop another new single on May 29th, a techno track called “No Division” featuring XSALT.
The song’s vinyl version, which includes the “Original Mix” and “Instrumental Mix” as a B-side, is getting an early release and will be available to purchase sale at each show.
“Launching this single while I’m in New York feels symbolic,” de Witte said in a statement. “There’s something about the city, its chaos, its diversity, its constant movement, that perfectly mirrors the spirit of ‘No Division.’ It’s a place where differences collide and coexist.”
Tickets to de Witte’s tour are available now and you can pre-save “No Division” here.
Downtown Denver will pulse to the beat of house music and cultural enrichment alike when FISHER headlines a high-energy block party at 16th & Welton, a landmark event celebrating the $175 million revitalization of the city’s 16th Street Mall.
Scheduled for May 26th, the open-air concert is set to transform one of Denver’s most historic corridors. The city, long stereotyped as a bass music stronghold, will turn into a tech house dreamland to celebrate Memorial Day.
The event is the result of a strategic collaboration between AEG Presents Rocky Mountains, the Downtown Denver Partnership and the City of Denver. It has the feel of a turning point in the city’s cultural evolution at the intersection of art, nightlife, music and community.
“Events like this concert accelerates downtown’s economic vitality, drawing fans and visitors to our center city,” said Kourtny Garrett, President and CEO of the Downtown Denver Partnership. “Activating downtown, especially on 16th Street, is fundamental to our mission of building a thriving urban core for all to enjoy.”
DJ support will come from a stacked undercard including SIDEPIECE, Odd Mob and Lauren Lane, guaranteeing a night that will thrill fans of groove-heavy dance music. But the real story is the city itself, leaning into its growth as an electronic music capital and bringing global talent to the very streets that define it.
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.
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.
Tape B
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.
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.
John Summit is set to headline Folsom Field, the storied stadium nestled in the heart of the University of Colorado campus, for the largest headline show of his career thus far, according to a press release shared with EDM.com.
Summit, whose hits “Where You Are” and “Go Back” have become global dancefloor anthems, is no stranger to commanding iconic venues, having recently sold out Madison Square Garden and Red Rocks Amphitheatre. The dance music superstar is now set to take over Folsom Field for the high-profile concert, organized by AEG Presents Rocky Mountains in collaboration with CU Boulder.
Famed for hosting acts like The Rolling Stones, Paul McCartney and Phish, the 50,000-plus-capacity venue in Boulder will provide a dramatic Rocky Mountain backdrop for what has the feel of a watershed moment for Colorado’s EDM scene. It’s beloved for its dubstep and bass music community, but Summit will bring his anthemic house sound for a night of electrifying contrast that could signal a bold new chapter.
The show is scheduled for October 18th, 2025. It follows the success of Summit’s recent two-day event in nearby Vail hosted by his Experts Only brand, which was recently named 2024’s best record label in EDM.com‘s list of the year’s top industry leaders.
Fans can now register for a pre-sale, which is scheduled to begin Tuesday, May 13th at 10am MT. The general on-sale will begin Thursday, May 15th at the same time.
