Swedish House Mafia to Light Empire State Building Blue and Yellow

Swedish House Mafia will be lighting up the Empire State Building in New York City tonight through this weekend in honor of their Black Tie Rave charity event at the Hammerstein Ballroom-- a concert with a black tie dress code. This charity rave will be benefiting Hurricane Sandy relief and Save The Children, along with their sold out shows at Madison Square Garden and Barclay's Center this weekend. 



While SHM won't be coming to Boston on their One Last Tour, many other artists will be and you can check our our calendar of events here!

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John Digweed Set to Invade Bijou in April

By Mike H:

As if the Boston electronic dance music scene has not already cemented itself as one of the best in the country, our community will receive yet another boost with the legendary English DJ, John Digweed. He will be hitting the decks at Bijou Nightclub, Sunday, April 14. He's part of an already supercharged spring lineup of shows in and around Boston; Digweed will join heavy hitters such as Roger Sanchez, Laidback Luke, Martin Solveig (also at Bijou), and many more of the industry's biggest names.

Seen by many as a pioneer in the progressive house genre, the one-time DJMag #1 DJ has held residencies at clubs around the world, including his current spot at Sankey's Ibiza. Known for his powerfully constructed  sets, and eclectic mixes that seem to glide effortlessly across the sound spectrum, Digweed is sure to blow the socks off even the most hardcore house heads who turn out to see him. He's also one of the many DJs that has a frequent podcast.

Although many of us are starting to wonder how we could possibly fit into our schedules all the shows available this spring, this is by no means one to skip. With the expert sounds that Digweed has to offer, coupled with Bijou's stellar sound system and high-quality service, this is shaping up to be night to remember for Boston house fans.

Don't miss out, grab your tickets before they're all gone!

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Beatport sold

Robert Sillerman, the original creator of live nation, has upped his anti on his proclamation, last year, to invest 1 billion dollars into Electronic Dance Music. Yesterday he inked a deal for his company SFC Entertainment to acquire Electronic Music Superstore Beatport. For those unfamiliar with Beatport.com, it is a music download site that exclusively features electronic music. Beatport sold for a reported 50 million dollars, although unconfirmed, and adds Beatport to Sillerman’s growing EDM enterprise.

According to sources, Beatport amassed 15-18 million in revenue last year through exclusive music releases and its ability to cash in on an underserved niche by itunes. Despite these good fortunes the site still turned an unreported loss of $2 million.

Sillerman now owns Life in Color (formerly Day Glow) and Disco Donnie Presents. In addition to Beatport Sold to Sillerman, SFX has also procured Voodoo Experience and ID&T, the largest dance event promoter in the world. Despite this frenzy of purchasing Sillerman still thirsty to add more to his empire and certainly has money left in the bank as the aforementioned purchases haven’t come close to the 1 billion in purchases he promised.

The move to join SFX could help Beatport expand into live events as well as garner international success exclaimed Beatport head Matthew Adell.

EDMBoston certainly agrees with the Beatport head on Beatport Sold. If you examine the company’s purchased by Sillerman’s SFX Entertainment, they are purchasing an infrastructure base to make serious moves in electronic music. Acquisitions of two of the largest promotion companys give SFX an instant pathway to reach customers. Couple this with ownership of the premier source for fans to purchase electronic music and an established concert tour that reaches the mainstream and Sillerman has instant access to start generating money from electronic music instantly. He has contact with fans in every aspect and stage of the fan experience, except one thing. Sillerman’s SFX has failed to purchase a community and a blog.

The essential vitamin that makes electronic music what it is, is community. No matter how much money Sillerman dumps into electronic music he will never be able to be successful unless he wins over the fans. Life in Color isn’t building a community, but rather providing people with a onetime cheap imitation EDM experience. Long time electronic fans know this and new fans that take to the music move on from those types of events. This insincerity, capitalization, and failure to cement roots with fans will never create the lasting success of an Electric Daisy Carnival or Tomorrowland. If Sillerman is unable to generate events of this magnitude with long running success he’s headed for massive financial losses.

Comment Below NOW: Do you want Sillerman to fail or succeed after Beatport Sold out?

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