Paul Oakenfold

Big Surf Waterpark Hosts a Rave of Global Proportions

Paul Oakenfold, Wild Knight, 2/1/13

Paul Oakenfold @Wild Knight|2/1/13Even before veterans like Benny Benassi stepped foot into the EDM world, UK DJ Paul Oakenfold has been merging the world of pop and electronic music for four decades. He might not be the first name EDM fans name-drop when discussing their favorite DJs, but last nigh ... More >>

Top Five Must-See Shows This Weekend in Phoenix

Yeah, yeah, yeah...we get it. Mondays suck (we've read Garfield). But it means the start of a new week, which means a bunch of killer shows in and around Phoenix. And here are a few of the coolest -- our top five must-see shows this week.

Paul Oakenfold: Electronic Legend Says America Will Dominate the Next Wave of EDM

DJ Paul Oakenfold holds the distinction of being one of the first electronic superstars. He's been performing and mixing since 1980, and he's not planning on spending his 33rd year in the business chilling out: In addition to his recent work with Madonna and Bruno Mars, he's scheduled to perform at ... More >>

Stop Hating on the 2013 Coachella Lineup

Each year, like many of you, I impatiently wait for the Coachella lineup to be announced. Sometimes it's disappointing (if Daft Punk says they're not touring, chances are they're not playing the festival), but there's always going be a few redeeming artists. At best the lineup will be amazing, and i ... More >>

Coachella 2013 Official Lineup is Posted

The wait, as they say, is finally over. You can cease all the speculation of who the hell is officially playing this year's Coachella as Goldenvoice unveiled the lineup in grand fashion. See also: -Who Is Really Playing Coachella This Year? -The Rolling Stones Aren't Playing Coachella, but Some ... More >>

Nick Warren @ Bar Smith

Paul Oakenfold @ El Santo

Former Scottsdale Favorite Markus Schulz Among the Richest DJs in the World

More than 15 years ago, trance wunderkind Markus Schulz earned some serious scrilla performing at now-defunct Valley clubs like The Works in Scottsdale and Freedom in Tempe, as well as spinning up EDM on local radio. The German-born trance artist, who resided in the Phoenix area back in those days ... More >>

Infected Mushroom @ Infected Mushroom

DJ Sean Essex Talks Club Freedom, Tiësto, Paul Oakenfold, John Askew, Fei-Fei, and More

DJ Sean Essex​Name: Sean Essex AKA: eSSicCS Current club gigs: Giant Wednesdays at 910 Live once or twice a month, and on Fridays at Cream Stereo Lounge and Afterlife in Scottsdale. How did you get started as a DJ? I got started because electronic music just overcame me. When I first listened ... More >>

Paul Oakenfold and Calvin Harris Get Marquee Theatre Crowd to Dance Their Pants Off

Paul Oakenfold​Who cares if the Marquee Theatre smelled like a fishtank last night? Not the hundreds of people who came out to shake it like it was nobody's business last night at the Paul Oakenfold concert. Before the Big O came out, Calvin Harris got the crowd warmed up, and not even the most te ... More >>

Paul Oakenfold @ Marquee Theatre

Gomi, The National, Nas and Damian Marley, and More in This Week's Issue

Mike R. MeyerGomi's bringing grunge to the Phoenix music scene.​Local music duo Gomi is among the first artists to participate in America's grunge revival. In fact, they're loosening the genre's boundaries by playing shows with alternative artists in addition to other grunge bands. They're even ex ... More >>

Cool Breeze

Florida MC influenced by air conditioning

Huun Huur Tu & Carmen Rizzo

Tranzit Screens His Chronicles of a DJ Documentary Tonight at Cream Stereo Lounge

​Few DJs in the Valley pimp themselves as hard as Tranzit.  Every time the award-winning house mixmaster has an event to promote, my cell phone, Facebook, and e-mail seem to blow up with announcements aplenty from the dude. This week was no exception, as the 29-year-old has been promotin ... More >>

J. Alan Talks Bad Requests, A-Trak, Bad Boy Bill, Scottsdale Clubgoers, and More

​Name: J.Alan Ehrhardt AKA: DJ J. Alan Current club nights: Thursday at Suede, Friday at Axis/Radius, Saturday at Suede, one Sunday per month at Martini Ranch. Genres spun: Hip-hop, house, electro, and Top 40 How did you get started as a DJ: Rob Wegner was DJing at Club 411 at the time. He and ... More >>

16bit

Darude Awakening

Z-Trip Wins America's Best DJ Contest

​ Bad Boy Bill, DJ Skribble, Adam Goldstein, Scotty Boy, Steve Aoki, and Q-Bert. What do all these cats have in common? They're some of the best DJs and turntablists that our country has to offer. And every last one of them were soundly defeated by Z-Trip to become "America's Best DJ" for 2 ... More >>

Nightlife

More Edgefest Photos

Edgefest Coverage Closer: Must-See Multimedia

Getting Down With the “Krown” and Other Confusion

When Will Rise Against, Gogol Bordello, Flobots, NOFX, Flogging Molly, Pennywise, And The Other Bands At Tomorrow’s Edgefest Be Hitting The Stage? Here's The Schedule

Edgefest Lowdown: Micky Avalon, Authority Zero, Flogging Molly and More

Armin van Buuren

Super Bowl weekend

Official 944 Party

2006 — The Year the Superstar DJ Died

Dinosaurs rule the dance floors no more

Paul Oakenfold

A Brit of all right

Blur

Blink and you'll miss it

Christopher Lawrence

Trance until you drop

BK at Metropolis

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

What's Selling

Top 10 selling CDs at Swell Records

Final Days of Freedom

Hernan Cattaneo at Freedom

D:Fuse at Freedom

Electro-Style Wars

Sometimes, as in the case of onetime Phoenician Sandra Collins, you can't judge a trance DJ by her cover

Brand Name, House Special

The Paul Oakenfold dance-music franchise grows larger and more all-encompassing

Scene of the Rhyme

Blunt Club prizes poetry

One of a Kind

Dance DJs spin into Valley for weekend music fest

Paul Oakenfold

Bunkka (Maverick)

Timo Maas

Loud (Kinetic)

Norman Cook, Paul Oakenfold

All Star Breakbeats (Hypnotic), Bust a Groove (Hypnotic)

Reading the Beat

American dance-music journalism shows it has a long way to go

Going Underground

Astropop, kindness and the art of noise

Instant KARMA

New Tempe club night tailors the rave ambiance for the 21-and-over crowd