EDM overtakes Rock at America’s biggest festivals

Electronic dance music claims center stage at America’s top festivals, as new data reveals that EDM now leads in bookings. Clearly, organizers respond to shifting tastes by amplifying electronic acts over rock staples. Consequently, EDM dominates major lineups, signaling a new era in live-music prioritization. Moreover, this shift reflects evolving audience expectations. Festival-goers increasingly seek …

EDM overtakes Rock at America’s biggest festivals

Eight Postcards from Utopia review – found-footage fever dream of post-Ceauşescu Romania

Diverting mosaic of moments from 1990s TV ads, frantically flogging everything from sausages to laxatives, shows Romania’s newfound passion for capitalism

Part of cinema’s Romanian wave has been a shrewd, satirically surreal use of archive clips as a way of remembering the strangeness of the country’s communist and pre-communist past. In 2010, Andrei Ujică’s three-hour The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceauşescu was a film footage collage of his dictatorial life and times; and in 2020 Radu Jude’s The Exit of the Trains used official archive material to shed light on wartime antisemitism. Jude, with co-director Christian Ferencz-Flatz, has now curated a found-footage fever dream of Romania’s post-Ceauşescu passion for capitalism.

It is a mosaic of moments from TV ads in the 1990s, frantically flogging everything: soft drinks, sausages, laxatives, a new Dracula-based theme park, shares in Thatcher-style government privatisation schemes and mobile phones. One rather witty ad has Ceauşescu making a speech being interrupted by a phone – the tagline promises “free speech”. Romanian legends like Ilie Năstase and Nadia Comăneci appear, while the clips are broadly divided into chapter-headings; one tranche of ads displaying gender stereotypes is introduced with the Godardian intertitle “Masculine Feminine”. Sometimes Jude and Ferencz-Flatz take out the audio entirely so we can just focus on the eerie garish images in silence. Freeze-frames show us the quasi-porn ecstatic closing of eyes at the moment of taste. Ads for actual porn phone lines show us something similar. In one “cutting room floor” moment, we see multiple takes of an unhappy actor in an ad for financial services stumbling over the line “We all strive to multiply your money” over and over again.

Get your groove on with the Long Live House Radio Show

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Don’t touch that dial! It’s time for another generous helping of quality house music on the Long Live House Radio Show with Graeme Park. Previous mixes can be found here. This week’s two-hour mix features The Jacksons, Steve Mac & Pattern Perception, Seven Davis Jr., Lakeshouse, Cymande, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Change, 79.5, Sam Redmore & Lumi HD, Dazz Band and…

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MiiNDS – Little Spoon

MiiNDS – Little Spoon Subscribe for more music: http://bit.ly/GetTheSoundYT ? Turn on notifications to never miss a new upload! ? Listen to our Playlists on Spotify : https://open.spotify.com/user/getthesoundofficial?si=044b86c351cf40fd Follow Get The Sound : ● Instagram : http://instagram.com/getthesound ● Spotify : https://open.spotify.com/user/getthesoundofficial Follow MiiNDS : ● Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/miindsmiinds/ ● Spotify : https://open.spotify.com/artist/1xZLsUvbXgEeYWl6rGXnmt?si=HndN8ShDRbSdLvfCWfWhZg Submit your DEMO here : https://www.getthesoundrecords.com/form-pages/demo-submission

Évelyne Reflects On 10 Years Of îLESONIQ In Exclusive EDMTunes Interview

With just one day to go before Montreal’s biggest electronic music festival, îLESONIQ, we’re excited to share an exclusive conversation with Évelyne Côté. She’s the driving force behind the programming of  îLESONIQ, Canada’s largest electronic music festival, as well as its sister events, OSHEAGA and LASSO. If you follow Canada’s music scene, you already know Évelyne’s […]

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Krooked Tongue – ‘Dog Days’

Krooked Tongue captures the beauty and chaos of teenage love with ‘Dog Days’ Krooked Tongue image via press photo August 8, 2025 Bristol rock trio Krooked Tongue have released their latest single, ‘Dog Days,’ offering a heartfelt preview of their upcoming debut album, set for release in early 2026. Produced by long-time collaborator Josh Gallop […]

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