Spring Awakening 2017 lineup: Phase one
Chicago's biggest electronic music festival returns to it’s new location at the Addams/Medill park. React Presents just released it’s first phrase of it’s massively stacked lineup.
The sixth annual festival will be host over 80 artists from Friday, June 9 – Sunday, June 11. Along with the lineup we already see which artists are performing at certain stages.
The phase one lineup includes returning favors with some local talent coming back home. For it to be just phase one, Spring Awakening surely has more surprises in store for when phase two is announced. React Presents along with the lineup announced this year’s six branded stages.
Festival fans will get to experience uniquely tailored lineups for each stage. Returning favorites like the Trance Area and Bass Kitchen stage with host a lineup of artists of grit and grime.
New themed stages we haven’t witnessed at Spring Awakening will be Sunday School, ANJUNADEEP, and music publication’s Dancing Astronaut. The two main stages are already announced to have some of the biggest names in electronic music today.
The Solstice stage with host artists from Afrojack, Alesso, Diplo, and Martin Garrix. While the Equinox stage with host Chicago’s own Louis The Child, Krewella, along with Die Antwood and others.
Check out the full lineup below. Tickets are available for purchase here.
Spring Awakening 2017 - Phase 1 Lineup (In Alphabetical Order)
- Afrojack
- Alesso
- Armin van Buuren
- Axwell ^ Ingrosso
- Datisk
- Die Antwoord
- Diplo
- Duke Dumont
- Excision
- Galantis
- GRiZ
- Jauz
- Krewella
- Louis The Child
- Marshmello
- Martin Garrix
- Yellow Claw
- ZHU
Ultra Music Festival Announces Packed 2014 Lineup
Ultra Music Festival is the annual Electronic Dance Music super-festival that is easily the largest such event, outside of EDC Las Vegas and Tomorrowland/world. For the sixteenth installment of the neon-splattered mega-rave, organizers went a bit, H.A.M. The first phase of 2014's installment of Ultra Music Festival includes a who's who of artists in the EDM world, including the likes of Armin Van Buuren, Afrojack, Kaskade, Avicii, Krewella and MixMag's No. 1 DJ in the world, Hardwell, who top a packed list.
An interesting tweak at Ultra Music Festival is the split between a DJ and Live lineup. The live lineup has grown and this year includes M.I.A, MGMT, Cut/Copy, Empire of the Sun and Pusha T. I've written about a lot of festivals with over the top lineups, but Ultra may have pushed the envelope another step forward, it's hard to imagine there could be more phases of artist added. The full list of performers can be found below, it may take you a minute to digest the entire situation.
The festival will take place March 28-30 at Bayfront Park in Miami. While VIP tickets have sold out, you can still drop a cool $399.95 for General Admission tix here. Check out a recap video of last year's Ultra and the full list of performers, below.
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[Video] Krewella & HeadHunterz: "United Kids of the World"
Dance music acts Krewella and HeadHunterz teamed up recently for the uplifting track, "United Kids of the World", a song celebrating individuality and condemning bullying both on and off the internet. It's an anti-bullying message for a new crop of Millenials who have grown up with a screen almost always stuck to the tip of their nose and realized, as their parents and elders did around the time the AOL guy was still running across our screens, that it is much easier to passive-aggressively put others down using the World Wide Web.
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In talking about the motivation to do the track, HeadHunterz had this to say: “Social media is a safe haven to say anything that comes to mind, but what we do with this freedom is our own choice. We can use it as a weapon or as a self-defense mechanism. 'United Kids of The World,' with Krewella, was not written to point fingers at anyone, but to spread a compassionate message. All three of us have experienced being bullied in our youth, and the only thing that was causing that was a lack of self-awareness. That is where bullying starts. So world, dear reader, listener, it is time to become aware of your role in this, your actions and their consequences.”
There have been several national stories in the news as of late dealing with young teen suicides as a result of bullying on the Internet, one of the most publicized being the Missouri mother, Lori Drew, who bullied a girl on Myspace for her daughter that led to 13-year-old Megan Meier taking her own life just before her 14th birthday. Stories like this, and the number of shootings and suicides that have plagues our communities because kids these days spend too much time behind a screen, saying things without being held accountable.
With the proliferation of young adults gravitating toward EDM and the larger-than-life DJs that make up the artist side of things, along with the fact that the genre essentially lives on the Internet where the bullying is taking place; Krewella and HeadHunterz release could possibly have a decent impact. I'm never one top put much into these "uplifting anthems" because I don't believe music necessarily spurs action all the time in these situations, but it is refreshing to see artists on top of their game taking some time to do something a little extra. Krewella and HeadHunterz teamed up with DoSomething.org, where you can buy the song, "United Kids of the World," here.
[Album] Nicky Romero & Krewella: "Legacy Remixes"
Nicky Romero and Krewella represent a young generation in dance music that is working with new aesthetics to take things beyond just pressing buttons onstage. Romero and the trio of Krewella teamed up for this remix project titled the "Legacy Remixes". The "Legacy" track that was produced/created by Krewella and Romero has since gone on to peak at No. 1 on the Beatport charts and spawn the myriad re-makes that pushed the release of a project like "The Legacy Remixes". Vicetone, Wildstylez, Don Diablo, and Candyland are all enlisted to craft the new feels. Overall, the brief project is a killer mix of takes on the Dutch DJ and Chicago EDM team. Check it out below and pick up the full release via iTunes.
Krewella: "Live For The Night" (Danny Avila & Deniz Koyu Remix)
Talk about a rise in a year. Chicago-bred dance music threesome Krewella has blown up since hitting the scene in late 2011 with their debut EP, Play Hard, which was met with rave reviews and slots on seemingly every major stage there was this summer for an EDM act. Today, the trio gets the remix treatment on their track "Live For The Night". The song gets re-arranged and done up by the talented pairing of Danny Avila and Deniz Koyu. Check it out for yourself below and pick it up on BeatPort.
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[Event] Krewella's Get Wet Live Tour at Aragon Ballroom 11/16
Chicago EDM trio Krewella will be returning back home this November. The "Alive" artists will be joined by Santa Barbara group Candyland for their tour. The tour's "Get Wet" title is the perfect name considering how sweaty the crowds will get fist pumping to their beats and breakdowns. The tour is also in support of their debut full-length album, also titled Get Wet. Even if you're not into the whole EDM scene, it's always great to see a Chicagoland area group find success, and if you're a fan of anything even remotely related to fun, you'll want to be at this show.
You can buy tickets to the show here. If you've never seen Krewella live, a recap video of their performance at this summer's Spring Awakening can be seen below.
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