Special Guest Rachel Narozniak from Dancing Astronaut; Black Coffee x Usher, Area 51 Rave Update, $10 Billion industry, and more | Ep. 31

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Rachel: Petit Biscuit - We Were Young (DROELOE remix)
About Rachel Narozniak

Based out of New Jersey, Rachel Narozniak is a Senior Editor
& Writer for the electronic music news outlet, Dancing
Astronaut.


You can find her latest interview/article about Ezoo here
New Music:

Jauz, Zeds Dead - Shake


3LAU - Miss Me More


Dimitri Vegas, Like Mike, Bassjackers, D’Angello & Francis -
The Flight


Sub Focus, Wilkinson - Illuminate


Headhunterz - Home


Eli Brown - 92 Thing
Inside the Industry with Rachel Narozniak

She discusses some noteworthy festival cancelations. Here's what
she talked about:


1) Woodstock 50


Per Billboard: festival was cancelled due to concerns about the
capacity of the festival, permit issues [festival reportedly did
not obtain a mass gathering permit from the NY State Dept. of
Health, per Rolling Stone, and site readiness.


You would imagine that for the most part, these 3 areas of
concern could have been addressed before a lineup is announced.
This was an example of operational issues that was smack in the
center of the public eye given the stature of the Woodstock name.


2) Super Mega Ultra Giant MDBP Festival


Kodak Black dropped from the lineup (on June 7th). The
organizers didn’t cite the specific circumstances around why he
did.



3) Ultra 2019’s try at Key Biscayne; now back to Bayfront Park


Rachel: Media portrayal of this move: has this been great
press for Ultra in that it’s really foregrounded the festival, or
has this whole saga detracted from Ultra’s reputation for
meticulousness?



4) Electric Zoo


Her thoughts on it becoming NYC's biggest EDM festival.

Specialized News & Culture

Rachel, Samir and Alec discuss a broad array of topics.


Alec's Update on Alienstock... Is it canceled! Or is it not?!
Very confusing series of events that led to miscommunication and
false reports… here’s what happened




Originally, Matty Roberts - the creator of the viral Area 51
group - teamed up with Connie West - the owner of the Little
A'Le'Inn in Rachel - to put on the controversial Alienstock
festival




On Sept. 9th, Matty Roberts decided to break ties with Connie
West and the Alienstock festival in order to move it to a
“safe, clean, secure area in downtown Las Vegas”; he also
said “We are not interested in, nor will we tolerate any
involvement in a FYREFEST 2.0. We foresee a possible
humanitarian disaster in the works, and we can’t participate
in any capacity at this point.” Link to article




Now with a new partner - Frank DiMaggio - Matty has renamed
his festival “Area 51 Celebration” and has secured a new
lineup + sponsorship from Bud Light.




National outlets such as Vice and Buzzfeed took Matty’s
statement and new festival to mean that Alienstock was
canceled...




NOW HERE’S THE TWIST...




Connie West is STILL PUTTING on Alien Stock outside the town
of Rachel, Nevada




In fact, she already has signed agreements (verified by 13
Investigates) for over 100 portable toilets, security and
first responders. She’s also announced 20 bands and 2
comedians to the lineup.




The new website for Connie West’s Alienstock is, Alien Stock
Parking. You buy tickets there.




The original Alienstock website redirects you to Matty
Robert’s new event, Area 51 celebration. It’s free with RSVP.




Swedish House Mafia rolls out an all access pass to all their
shows, merch, and other special events


Are they taking their comeback too far?



Music industry (in general) expected to break $10 billion for the
first time since 2007


Fueled by streaming platforms

Vinyl sales will outsell CDs by year end

Source info from RIAA

What Are We Listening To?

Flux Pavilion, What So Not, The Chain Gang of 1974 - 20:25


Black Coffee, Usher - LaLaLa
Artists We’re Watching

Rachel: Kaivon // Soundcloud // Instagram // First Breath (track)


First EP coming out on Deadbeats on Sept. 20,
“Transformation”



Alec: Tenebrax // Soundcloud // Instagram // Swarm - Breathe
(Tenebrax remix) (track)


From Moscow, Russia

Midtempo, bass music



Samir: ALRT // Soundcloud // Instagram // Pushin’ On (track)