Electronic Music's Next Huge Thing: Porter Robinson

If you felt like you were late to the Skrillex party last year, don't make the same mistake twice. We hope you learned your lesson and are already hip to Porter Robinson because he could be the next act to blow the roof off of electronic music. The 19-year-old’s accomplishments thus far rival many seasoned veterans’ and may we remind you he’s only 19?!?

Having just completed a tour supporting Tiesto in which Robinson performed for the largest DJ event in US history (approximately 26,000 were in attendance), his peers are already touting him as one of the nu-breed saviors of electronic music. Porter Robinson was featured on Billboard’s “Top 21 Under 21” list, and managed to crash Beatport’s servers when he released his Spitfire EP earlier this year. He’s already remixed the likes of Lady Gaga and Avicii with several more A-list offers rolling in. What’s that, you want to see Porter Robinson live? Well you’re in luck because he’s stopping by The Music Box Saturday December 3rd (get tickets here).

If you can, clear your schedule on the 3rd…you won’t be disappointed.

Wild (and sick) Week

The week started off with a bit of a Coachella hangover that was quickly cured by Keith Masters' electro majic at Libertine for Hunnypot Unlimited.

The electro-party carried over into Tuesday with performances by Steve Aoki, Felix Cartal and Tiesto - as well as resident staples Them Jeans and Dan Oh! - at Cinespace for Dimmak Tuesdays. The party jumped until 2 am easy....

Wednesday saw me roll to the Troubadour for a trio of rising bands - Bad Rabbits, Young Veins and Foxy Shazam. Although they played in that order - I must say that I thought Bad Rabbits provided the most exhilarating performance of the three. The soulful voice of their lead, and his range, is absolutely incredible. Despite the fact that Young Veins contains two members of Panic At The Disco!, I left thinking they gave the weakest showing of the sets. Foxy Shazam was a whole stage show - from coordinated headbanging to the keys man playing with his feet and his crazy beard.

Thursday saw me get super super ill....which unfortunately meant I had to miss John Fulford's Jingle Schmingle that featured the up and comer Chiddy Bang. Also meant I missed Bonobo :(

Today, I tried to get back on the train and went to the Entourage set to facilitate some product placement and show Keith Masters what LA is like, then to the THC Expose to link up with Grassroots California and then the after party to see some cannabis themed bands like Los Marijuanos.

Although not the insanity of Coachella, it was a wild week. We hope to see you all out again at a show sometime soon.

FYI - tomorrow night Redman and Barrington Levy are playing at Vanguard.