EDC 2012

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View Comments 6/14/12 12:00am

Vegas Moment

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Blue Valentine

The strange secret of music we love is that it seems to love us back. Whether your tastes run to Ludwig van Beethoven or Armin van Buuren, you’ve probably felt embraced—even somehow known—by a song. At the Electic Daisy Carnival June 8-10 at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway (where van Buuren took the stage while Beethoven rolled over and told Tchaikovsky the news), these great glowing petals seemed to embody the spirit of the music, communing with fans, speaking in the pulsating language of Read More
View Comments By Sean DeFrank 6/14/12 12:00am

About Town

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The Old Man and the EDC

Yeah, I remember the last time electronic music was supposed to take over America. Back in my day, in the 1990s, people called it “electronica,” and magazines like Rolling Stone were raving about pioneering British DJs/producers with names like Fatboy Slim and the Chemical Brothers. I wasn’t immune from the hype, buying the Crystal Method’s CD Vegas and occasionally partying on the Strip at Club Read More
View Comments By Jason Scavone 6/14/12 12:00am

Gossip

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Holly does the smart thing for EDC travel

Like Hilton, Holly Madison did her part to alleviate traffic by flying to EDC in a helicopter. Because she’s very concerned about the deleterious effects of a large gathering on civil-engineering systems not designed to support that kind of usage. Or, you know, because they didn’t want to wait in the three-hour traffic at 5 a.m. to get out of the Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Either Read More
View Comments By David G. Schwartz 6/13/12 12:00am

The Week

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The Worst Night Ever?

Las Vegas took it on the chin the second weekend in June. Saturday should have been great: a championship boxing match, sportsbook action for an NBA Game 7 and hockey’s Stanley Cup Finals, and the second night of the Electric Daisy Carnival, an event that’s been hyped for months. It’s safe to say that thousands of visitors were primed to have the best night Read More
View Comments By Deanna Rilling 6/11/12 7:44am

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Top 10 favorite random moments at EDC 2012 on Sunday (in no particular order)

1. Mother Nature learning to chill and the last day of Electric Daisy Carnival appearing to go off without a hitch (unlike Saturday’s wind storm). 2. Armin van Buuren making it up to the TranceFamily since his Saturday night set on the Circuit Ground/A State of Trance stage was canceled due to weather, thus adding an extra set on Sunday besides his Kinetic Field set later on in the evening. 3. Two words: Carl Read More