Electric Zoo pre-sale tickets end Monday

Made Event has once again updated the information page for Labor Day's upcoming Electric Zoo festival, this time with a notification that early bird tickets will no longer be available after Monday. However, the steep $26 in service fees charge still applies to these tickets.

On Monday at midnight, regular priced tickets for each day will be up for sale, and Made Event has hinted on the event's Facebook page that more artists will be announced as well.

Weekly shows update

Upcoming:

- Pacha has announced two notable upcoming dates: Eddie Halliwell on May 28 and Hernan Cattaneo on June 11. 

- Agoria, whose Balance 016 Mix I reviewed a month ago, will bring the album's release tour to 50 Bowery on May 21.

- Seth Troxler, Lauren Lane, and Crazy Larry will hold a show at Cielo on May 27. On July 8, James Holden will perform there. 

This week:

Thursday: Roni Size, Hellfire Machina, Code of Arms, Odi, and Morphous @ Love

Friday: Three and Pete Bones @ Love

Saturday: Kaskade will be performing at the Roseland Ballroom with Infected Mushroom

[Flyer credit: Love, Info credit: TranceAddict]

Aly & Fila's album set for May 28 release

Armada Music has announced today that Aly & Fila's debut album, Rising Sun, will be out in stores at the end of this month.

Tracklisting:

1. Medellin (vs. Activa)
2. Crowe It Will Be Ok (feat. Katherine)
3. My Mind Is With You (feat. Denise Rivera)
4. Rosaires
5. Listening (feat. Josie)
6. Menes
7. Still (feat. Sue McLaren)
8. Perfect Red (vs. Bjorn Akesson)
9. I Can Hear You (feat. Sue McLaren)
10. Without You (The Never Knowing) (vs. Philippe El Sisi feat. Senadee)
11. Paradise (feat. Tiff Lacey)
12. Khepera
13. Sandgroper
14. Breeze (feat. Jass)
15. Rising Sun

Some users on Trancefix have already compiled a list of YouTube links for some of the tracks on the disc, and things are sounding good.

But I can't get over the ridiculous album art that they decided to go with for Rising Sun. Are they trying to pull off the gangsta rap tough guy look?


[Image credit: ArmadaMusic.com]

2,000 page views!

Over the weekend this blog got its 2,000th page view. Whenever someone visits the site or clicks on content, a "page" is created in their browser. Users can record multiple page views per visit, and this number doesn't mean that 2,000 different people visited the site.

I'll admit it: I visit this blog often to fine-tune the layout or re-read some of my posts, so a bunch of these pages views come from myself. But as for the others, they come from you- the reader.

Here are some stats about the site based on the first 2,000 page views:

I've had visitors from every continent on earth, minus Antarctica. If a country or state on the maps below are green, then that means that at least one person from that location has viewed this blog.

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The countries with the most visits:

1) United States (duh)
2) Canada
3) United Kingdom/Australia (tie)

The states with the most visits:

1) New York
2) New Jersey
3) California

The highest viewed posts:

1) DJ Eco interview
2) Brad Miller interview
3) Lorant Duzgun interview

Highest number of unique visitors in one day: 126 on February 25.

This site is most often viewed through: Firefox.

Through search engines, the most popular term that lands people on this blog: "electric zoo 2010 presale tickets"

The funniest search term that has landed someone on this blog: "peoples comments about waiting in line at nokia theater, nyc"

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Dance music finally making its way onto DJ Hero

When Activision's DJ Hero video game launched last October, its track selection was woefully short in the electronic dance music department.

But on Thursday, Activision released the Domination Pack of downloadable content for the game, which features three mashups with electronic songs from Josh Wink, Wolfgang Gartner, Darude, and Danny Byrd.

Darude's song is "Sandstorm", arguably the most overplayed dance music song in America since its release in 1999, but the inclusion of more electronic music in this game is a good sign of future things to come.

The content costs $8 on Xbox Live and Playstation Network, and $3 per song on Wii, according to Joystiq.