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Claude Vonstroke Urban Animal Tour 2013

Sam — Tue, 13 Aug 2013 17:53:58 +0000

Claude Vonstroke, founder of Dirty Bird records and all around awesome guy, has announced tour dates for his Urban Animal North American Animal Tour.

Claude Vonstroke Urban Animal Tour 2013

October 4th — Regency Ballroom — San Francisco, CA

October 5th — Exchange LA — Los Angeles, CA

October 12th — The Sinclair — Cambridge, MA

October 13th — Metronome — Burlington, VT

October 17th — Grand Central — Miami, FL

October 18th — The Hoxton — Toronto, ON

October 19th — SAT — Montreal, QC

October 24th — Kingdom — Austin, TX

October 30th — Monarch Theatre — Phoenix, AZ

October 31st — Royal Oak Music Theatre — Royal Oak, MI

November 1st — Rendezvous — Buffalo, NY

November 7th — Wow Hall — Eugene, OR

November 8th — Branx — Portland, OR

November 9th — City Hall — Denver, CO

November 13th — U Street Music Hall — Washington, DC

November 14th — The Kennedy — Tampa, FL

November 15th — Union Transfer — Philadelphia, PA

You can purchase your tickets by clicking here. Check back here for more updates!

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HARD Holy Ship 2014 Lineup Announced

Sam — Thu, 06 Jun 2013 18:54:58 +0000

Welp, it’s official: the coolest show/festival you could ever possibly go to, HARD Holy Ship!!!, has announced their 2014 lineup. If you are unaware, Holy Ship!!! is four day cruise departing from Miami and sailing across the Atlantic to a private island in the Bahamas where every day is a party and every night is a show. Not only that, but you get to share the ship with all of the top billing EDM artists to date. Not only THAT, but these artist also hold workshops and seminars, instruct yoga, and run mini golf tournaments. “How to Scratch” with A-Trak?

Yes please.

This year, the lineup follows suit to many of HARDs typical lineups. Passengers are given a variety of different styles of dance music that no current electronic cruise festival can top (because there are no other electronic dance music cruises). Here is what is in store for the HARD Holy Ship 2014

Artists we are not surprised about:

Skrillex, Duck Sauce, Zeds Dead, Diplo, Boys Noize, Zedd, Laidback Luke, Dillon Francis

These dudes have been playing EVERY festival, cruise ship or not, for the past couple of years. HARD included. It’s safe to say most people are getting pretty tired of seeing these artists as the top bill for this or any festival. In reality though, who cares. Seeing any of these artists on a boat completely changes the game.

Artists we are surprised about:

Maceo Plex, Claude Vonstroke, Flume, Justin Martin, Griz, Gramatik, Jerome LOL

As the deep bass/booty house movement is taking off, it’s nice to see some of the Dirty Bird players being included in this year’s lineup. Claude Vonstroke and Justin Martin have slowly but surely been making a name for themselves in the festival circuit. Also, the more funky acts like Griz and Gramatik taking the stage is a HUGE surprise as these guys tend to have more of a cult following throughout the US and have hardly broken through the international scene.

All in all, Gary Richards knows what he’s doing. A four day party with everyone you want to party with is not a bad idea. Not a bad idea at all.

Needless to say I’ve joined the waiting list for 2015 and will be holding my breath until I board that ship.

EDIT: Pharrell Williams will also be joining the HARD Holy Ship crew!

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EDM Spotlight: Dirtybird Records

Sam — Fri, 17 May 2013 00:22:31 +0000

Based out of San Francisco, Dirtybird Records has been turning out some tasty jams since 2005. Headed up by Barclay Crenshaw, better known by his DJ alias Claude Vonstroke, the record company was formed after years of frustration in the bay area’s EDM scene by a group of producer/DJ’s that called themselves the “dirtybird” crew. The coalition would set up free shows in Golden Gate Park for free and for anyone willing to come and dance. Now, almost ten years later, Dirtybird Records boasts top-billing artists like Justin Martin, Christian Martin and J. Phlip — one of the few (and most attractive) female DJ’s on the scene.

Short after the creation of the label, Dirtybird was able to land licensing gigs with the CSI Season 9 premier, Nike, and Lincoln Mercury. The Martin Brothers (Justin and Christian) had the number 1 song on Beatport and Claude Vonstroke was hand picked to DJ one of Diddy’s beach parties in South Beach.

The music coming out of the record company has been described as “booty house” “dirty house” or “bass house.” Whatever you want to call it, it’s really some of the most funky, minimal electronic music on the market and is on it’s way to becoming the next big thing. They’ve even landed their own stage at HARD Summer this year and a summer-long residency at the world famous Sankeys club in Ibiza.

With the world of EDM constantly evolving, it’s tough to say where exactly we’ll see DBR go from here. However, if their mass amounts of success in less than ten years is any indication we should be seeing lots more from this talented group of booty-shake inducing producers.

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