Steve Angello Is Looking Forward to Being Finished With Swedish House Mafia

(LA Weekly) There was a moment a few years back when Steve Angello was leaving a hotel in his native Sweden and found a few reporters waiting outside. They asked him what his plans were for the day. He told them nothing much. The response made the front page of the next day's newspaper.

"That was the moment," Angello says, "I knew things were different."

And they've remained different ever since. As one third of DJ supergroup Swedish House Mafia, Angello -- along with Axwell and Sebastian Ingrosso -- has been on the forefront of EDM's takeover of popular music and top 40 radio. The group formed in 2008, progressing through the club scene and ultimately building a massive international fanbase. They did so on the basis of their big beat dance music, ginormous live shows, the unhinged party rave atmosphere they concocted, and crossover hits like "One" and the Grammy nominated "Don't You Worry Child." (Watch your back, Al Walser!)

Last December, Swedish House Mafia was the first electronic act to play New York's Madison Square Garden, and the show sold out in 16 minutes. They later became one of the few electronic acts to ever headline the mainstage at Coachella.

Backstage before that show, the guys said it took "thousands" of emails and "a dozen" flights to get the three of them in the same place. They were joking, but a certain strain was apparent, and two months later, the group announced...

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2012 Biggest EDM News Stories PART 1

2012 was a massive year for electronic music, in particular the niche segment relegated to the new term "EDM".  With so much happening in the year we decided to go threw our blog database and recount 2012 Biggest EDM New stories in chronological order:

January-March Edition after the Jump:

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Avicii vs Nicky Romero - I Could Be The One (Official Videoclip)

By Max:

For me electronic music has always been about the escape from the mundane day to day tasks and enjoying life and being around fun people.  In Avicii & Nicky Romero's new video they have captured that exact feeling, albeit in a unique woman.

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Rihanna - Right Now (Richard Fraioli Bootleg) [FREE DOWNLOAD] Made Proper by Boston Local

Boston's Richard Fraioli, is by no means a mega producer.  However the Massachusetts native is more then experienced when it comes to running the decks at any of the various nightclubs he works in the new england area.  So much so that Ultra Music Festival has consistently asked him to play at their prized festival.

In addition, to his multiple gigs he plays a week and his podcast, Fraioli squeezes studio time.  Fraioli's new Bootleg of Rihanna's "Right Now" is a prized bootleg that should help keep him a Boston representative in the dance arena.  This bootleg will offer EDM fans the perfect mix to rage to, instead of the lame original that squanders and can leave your party feeling flat when it needs a kick. So grab RIGHT NOW free download now:

You can also listen to Fraioli's monthly podcast That Mother Fucking House Music

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Parrots 'DISLIKE' Dance Music, Says Study

(NME.com)A new study has found that parrots have an 'intense dislike' of dance music.

In findings published in the journal Applied Animal Behaviour Science - via The Telegraph - researchers found that a pair of African grey parrots had wide ranging tastes in music, but both hated dance music.

The birds, from a popular breed of pet parrot, both bobbed their heads along to rock and folk, but were left distressed by electronic dance music.

Dr Franck Péron of the University of Lincoln, said: "The birds clearly showed preferences. One preferred the rhythmic and one preferred the classical."

Music in the rhythmic category included U2, UB40 and Joan Baez whilst Bach was one of the classical artists played to the birds.

He said that the birds were not keen on the music by The Prodigy and The Chemical Brothers.

He explained: "The electronic dance music was not appropriate for them. We had the radio on in the office and when it was a very fast beat, they started to scream; not in a friendly, communicative way but in a distressed, scared way. They seem to like pop music when there is a voice.

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