EDM snubbed at the VMAs

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As reported by Dancing Astronaut:

"Despite MTV’s recent MTV Clubland outlet, dance music stars were snubbed of awards at last night’s VMAs. There was Zedd being beat out by Austin Mahone for the fan-voted Artist to Watch, Calvin Harris falling short to Pink for Best Collaboration and to Justin Timberlake for best editing, A-Trak & Tommy Trash being toppled by Ryan Lewis & Macklemore for Best Cinematography, and both Skrillex and Duck Sauce taking a back seat to Capital Cities for Best Visual Effects." 

Can't say that I'm surprised, but I was hoping for at least one award going to an EDM act this year. 

Watch a clip from Daft Punk's upcoming official video for "Lose Yourself To Dance"

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Everyone who watched the VMA's yesterday were treated to a promo clip of Daft Punk's upcoming official video for their next release "Lose Yourself To Dance", check it out: 

Kinda weird that they didn't perform live though, especially after that entire Colbert incident.  

(Source: Beatport) 

Top tracks from trance Thursday

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It was another successful week of back to back episodes for trance Thursday on di.fm and here are the top tracks from this week's edition:

Markus Schulz' Global DJ Broadcast "Global Selection": Lange - "Imagineer" 
  

A State of Trance (ASOT) 627 "Tune Of The Week": Mark Eteson - "The Firm"

ASOT 627 "Future Favourite": Dash Berlin ft. Sarah Howells - "Go It Alone" (Andrew Rayel Remix) 

M.I.K.E Club Elite Sessions 318 "Track Of The Week": Meridian - "Full Anger"

Simon Patterson's Open Up 030 (EDM Canada's pick): Simon Patterson & Blazer - "Contraband" (Simon Patterson Remix) 

You can tune into the trance Thursdays broadcasts every week starting at 12:00 pm EDT for free on di.fm.  

 

 

Skrillex is definitely playing new music this weekend in the U.K

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Skrillex told BBC's DJ Zane Lowe that he will be playing his first "proper Skrillex" festival show this year with brand new tracks this weekend in the U.K:  

"This is the first time I've played a proper Skrillex show at a festival all year, actually. So I'm excited to play some new music and we have new visuals and stuff that we're working with."

Asked whether his new music will be released, he replied: "For sure – sooner rather than later, I'd say sooner. I have a lot of music right now, I have more songs than an album. Will it be two releases or will it be one release? I don't know."

(Source: Mixmag) 

Sonny Moore is definitely up to something this weekend as he even asked the BBC Reading Festival NOT to film his set:

This all points to a potentially brand new album and more than likely a new tour to support it in the near future. The question is, will it be released this year or in 2014?