Toronto Star: City bans electronic dance music events from Exhibition Place

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As reported by Toronto Star: 

"City-owned buildings at Exhibition Place will no longer host popular electronic dance music parties after its board voted 4-3 Friday to ban them...."

"...Those in favour argued it would make teens and tweens safer, saying drug and alcohol abuse among minors is rampant at electronic dance music (EDM) events."

"..The decision will likely cost Exhibition Place around $1 million in annual revenue, Perks said..."

This is terrible news for electronic dance music in Toronto. 

You can read the full article by clicking here. 

Update: Thump wrote about the issue (Link), and so did DJ Mag Canada (Link)

Update 2: Toronto Sun wrote about it too (Link). 

Update 3: There's a new petition out there titled "Keep EDM Events at Exhibition Place" (Link). The author is listed as "EDM Toronto", and I just wanted to state for the record that I didn't write it. (They have since changed the author's name to "EDM T.DOT")

Watch Flosstradamus, Alesso, Calvin Harris, Big Gigantic, Adventure Club + More tonight on the Coachella video feed

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Here's the general schedule for what's left of the Coachella music festival: (All times in PST)

06:00 – Flosstradamus
06:30 – The 1975
07:15 – Little Dragon
07:40 – The Naked and Famous
07:50 – Alesso
08:30 – Daughter
08:30 – Calvin Harris
09:00 – Big Gigantic
09:25 – Beck
09:55 – Adventure Club
10:10 – Nas
10:20 – Arcade Fire
10:45 – Duck Sauce
11:10 – Disclosure

To switch between all 3 Coachella channels, click here. 

Listen to the very first track off of Kaskade's upcoming REDUX EP

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Kaskade has uploaded the "premiere" single off of his upcoming REDUX EP, which will be out later this month. It's called "Please Say You Will" and features the vocals of Adam Klopp, check it out: 

Kaskade hints that the rest of the EP will be straight house music. 

If you live in Montreal, the only remaining tickets left for Kaskade's REDUX tour in Canada are at the Stereo Nightclub on Friday, May 2nd - click here for more ticket information.