[Review] Mad Decent Block Party returns to Chicago

Diplo’s Mad Decent Block Party returned to Chicago despite negative feedback from previous years. This year hosted in Chicago’s heart of the Museum Campus, Northerly Island, Mad Decent definitely received a much needed facelift. On the shore of Lake Michigan, Diplo headlined the event at the First Merit Bank Pavilion. The beautiful city skyline was […]

[Album] LIZ: “Just Like You”

LIZ has been popping up all over our radar since just before the start of the new year. The Los Angeles-based Mad Decent signee may very well be the best example of the theory of a “twenty year loop” in fashion, media, art and music. Her website literally has the Millennium embedded into the title and […]

Diplo Releases “A Very Decent Christmas”

Diplo is a man that seems to never cease working. Whether it be producing for other artists, working on his own music, playing live shows or whatever else, the Godfather of EDM never seems to stop moving. Today, he released a project of dance music Christmas songs, perfect to get Grandma moving after the family […]

[Video] Sasha Go Hard at Mad Decent

The folks at The Fader teamed up with the Mad Decent Block Party crew to produce a series of videos from the summer-long fest that spanned most of the country. Chicago’s own Sasha Go Hard, who was on tour for several of the dates, had a camera crew following her to catch all the action. […]

Mad Decent Block Party: Q&A with Big Gigantic

The Mad Decent team has been steadily criss-crossing the country with an also-steadily changing group of performers. As the summer begins hitting the homestretch, Mad Decent heads to Texas for an all ages performance at the Whitewater Music Ampitheater before the festival series heads off to the west coast for a pair of final dates […]