Charity

Something unexpected and wonderful happened this year at Electric Forest and not many people knew about it. Bassnectar volunteered at an amazing non-profit called To Write Love On Her Arms. They serve those who have mental health issues and suicide prevention. This year at Forest they placed several phones around the grounds where someone would sit at the switchboard and wait for a light to blink. That meant there was someone one the other line. Volunteers would talk to attendees and they would ask them questions about their life and if they wanted to reach out to someone close to more »

  Watch The EDC Week Charity Auction Video Here EDC Charity Week is back again for its third year; and even better! Since the first EDC Charity Week in 2015, over $200,000 has been raised for many local non profits. This year Insomniac, along with eBay for charity, hope to raise money for the Boys and Girls clubs in Southern Nevada. Insomniac already released the first phase of the charity auctions back in March and have now released phase 2 for this years EDC Charity Week Auctions. There are 30 incredible experiences that attendees have the options to bid on now through this Thursday May 11th at more »

Coachella Valley Music & Arts // Playboi Carti With Lil Uzi Vert “Two of rap’s most buzzed about young stars came together during one of their Coachella sets: Playboi Carti appeared to perform “Woke Up Like This” during collaborator Lil Uzi Vert’s Sunday appearance.” –Rolling Stone Magazine  “Lil Uzi Vert is, for better or for worse, yanking people into the future, a world in which rap is a swirling kaleidoscope of post-regional styles and post-genre sounds…Uzi is the proper arrival, pushing that sound into more colorful, gleeful territory with the help of a murderers’ row of current producers.” – noisey more »

Insomniac Surprises Boys & Girls Clubs of Southern Nevada During Special Event Surrounding the 2017 EDC Week Charity Auction Las Vegas – On Monday, March 27, Insomniac visited the Boys & Girls Club of Southern Nevada’s Lied Clubhouse for a special surprise, announcing the local nonprofit will serve as the 2017 beneficiary of the Third Annual EDC Week Charity Auction. The funds raised from this year’s auction will go towards creating much-needed art programs for the children across all Boys & Girls Clubs in Southern Nevada. Insomniac transformed the Lied Clubhouse gym into a colorful celebration with EDC-inspired daisies and more »

ShadowTrix Music is a homebase-lease-place expanding label, whom are on the rise and dishing out some of the finest 808hop/glitch/(anything)-step/ bass music that the web has to offer. In this avenue of psychedelic- intelligent dance and experimental music ShadowTrix takes a chair among sonic comrades and fellow labels like Gravitas and Street Ritual Records. All three labels are among, I would say, the top “go-to” hubs for underground electronic bass music. These entities share and feature an array of different emerging artists; take Astro Raph for example, or an artists such as Soulular whose music trumps in the test of time. Specifically distributed via ShadowTrix some of the best renders are output here by Soulular, Pilzbeats, more »

For those of you who know what it’s like to experience a loved one go through the curse that is cancer, you understand the toll it can take. If you don’t, consider yourself beyond lucky to not know the anguish that comes from feeling helpless. To help in the neverending battle against an almost invisible enemy, a collection of your favorite artists have teamed up with FCANCER to bring a massive charity fundraiser. To help raise funds in support of cancer research and prevention, FCANCER, a leading non-profit organization is coordinating a huge auction for a series of awesome prizes more »

Insomniac has been giving back to the community for as long as I’ve been attending events (let’s not discuss this actual number). This weekend at Electric Daisy Carnival Orlando, Insomniac will be hosting their first ever canned food drive for the benefit of the Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida. Florida has one of the largest populations of food-challenged children in the United States. Please bring some canned fruit, veggies, soups, baby food or grains to benefit the less fortunate families and keep the PLUR vibes moving forward. Keep Up To Date with Insomniac at www.insomniac.com

Insomniac is known to throw some of the largest dance parties and music festivals in the world but the average rave-goer may never know the beneficiary side to the brand’s CEO Pasquale Rotella. His largest draw, Electric Daisy Carnival Las Vegas brings over 120,000 attendees a night and with each ticket bought, a dollar is donated to a charity of Insomniac’s choosing as well as $10 allocated for each guest list spot. The dust from the event has settled and the donations have been delivered to 3 organizations; the Nevada Childhood Cancer Foundation, the Emergency Medicine Resident Research Fund and more »

There is no better feeling on the planet in my opinion then that of bettering someone’s day or life for that matter. Nathaniel Knows and Dirt Monkey put out their breakbeat track “From The Back” on Kairos Audio and have donated all proceeds to help homeless veterans get back on their feet. Nathaniel himself is actually a veteran who did a 5 year stint. “From The Back” is a fun and wonky beat from start to finish featuring some cool bass lines, highly infectious grooves and a solid breakbeat backbone keeping everything together. Grab a copy below and leave the more »

Although the official EDC Las Vegas headliners have not been released by Insomniac yet, there seem to be a few artists that are being speculated about. We’ve heard through various sources that some might be heading to the Las Vegas Motor Speedway this summer. Here is a list of possible artists who could headline, along with how we heard about them: Above & Beyond who mentioned it in ABGT episode 178 Andy C who put EDC on one of his tour posters Habstrakt who has it listed on his site Martin Solveig mentioned it on his Snapchat Party Favor who mentioned it more »

Insomniac and Ebay For Charity have just announced their first and second phase auction items for this year’s charity event.  All proceeds for this event go to “The Shade Tree” which is a charity set up to offer help to victims of domestic violence.  All of the items are one of a kind and truly amazing experiences for any EDM fan, items include Dj lessons with A-trak, Racing cars with Marshmello, Chomping down on some pizza with Martin Garrix and So much more! Check out the phases below and contribute to such an amazing cause. Bid Here: http://www.ebay.com/rpp/insomniac

Written by: Jared Rapoza California based startup EmazingLights, founded by Brian Lim, has been on the rise ever since it was created in 2010. EmazingLights is the front runner retail company of many LED rave accessories, and they are best known for their light show gloves that any festival goer is bound to see at least once. ‘Gloving’, has gone viral and become a hobby for many, and even a career for some people with extremely talented hand choreography skills. They recently released a promotion video, titled, “Gloving is Not a Crime – Gloving is” where people passionate about the more »

Thousands of fans filled London‘s Wembley Arena this past November 13 to support JONO GRANT of the internationally renowned British dance act ABOVE & BEYOND (together with fellow members TONY MCGUINNESS andPAAVO SILJAMÄKI) for a special gig in memory of his sister, Charlotte Morley, who died suddenly earlier this year. Today (December 23), the band has released a short film that tells the story behind the fund, set to ABOVE & BEYOND with Justine Suissa’s song “Little Something,” an ode to parenthood. The sold-out concert raised more than £222,000 for the Little Something charitable fund, set up in Charlotte’s memory, to support pregnant women and mothers with more »

Ever want to go to Vegas with a big EDM artist? Steve Aoki is giving you the chance of a lifetime: “I’m flying you and a friend out to Vegas, hooking you up with a room at the MGM and giving you VIP access at Hakkasan Las Vegas Nightclub!! Every donation supports advancing medical research through my charitable fund.”  

Las Vegas – On Thursday, Oct. 8, Insomniac donated $105,000 raised through Electric Daisy Carnival (EDC), Las Vegas 2015 ticket sales to three local nonprofit organizations, honoring the company’s commitment to giving back to the communities where their festivals are produced. This year’s recipients include the Injured Police Officers Fund, Emergency Medicine Resident Research Fund and HELP of Southern Nevada’s Shannon West Homeless Youth Center. Leaders from the three charitable groups came together at Downtown Container Park where Pasquale Rotella, Founder and CEO of Insomniac, presented each with a donation of $35,000. The Container Park stage was decorated with beautiful more »

DJ producer ShaR4, a founding member of the Electronic Music Alliance (EMA), is the 3rd EMA member to “Play it FWD” and release a charity track through Cadence and Cause. ShaR4’s track is called “Can You Hear Me Now?” and benefits the cause to end global disease.   One in six people in the world suffer from neglected tropical diseases. These diseases blind, disable and disfigure their victims, trapping them in a cycle of poverty and disease. But for less than 50 cents per year one person can receive treatment and protection against the seven most common neglected tropical diseases. “Global disease more »

EMA PlayitFWD campaign and CHARITY TRACK, “Satisfaction” will be released through Cadence and Cause. Each song purchase will provide a child with a hearing loss and ear infection screening.   Tuesday night , July 14th 2015, Disco Killerz & Liquid Todd released via WORLD Premiere on SiriusXM #BetaBPM, a new collaboration track feat. Larcy titled “Satisfaction” to provide children around the world with hearing loss and ear infection screenings. Founding EMA Member DJ Liquid Todd from Sirius XM and Disco Killerz are releasing this track as part of the Electronic Music Alliance (EMA) Play it FWD campaign. EMA artists are asked more »

Watch the Trailer Video Here   For Show Registration & More Information, visit: www.Foundation.DJHardwell.com India is a country that continues to remain special for Hardwell. Since playing a headline slot at Sunburn to bringing his famed I AM Hardwell world tour concept to Indian cities in Bangalore, Delhi and Mumbai, the Dutch maestro’s affinity with India has only continued to grow. On Dec 13, 2015 Hardwell will return to Mumbai, India to host an exclusive launch show that will not only go down in the history books of live entertainment, but more importantly will see him become the ambassador of a new charity more »

The Best Entrepreneur on Shark Tank according to Robert Herjavec, Brian Lim has constructed a new charity initiative from the EmazingLights headquarters in Anaheim. In alliance with 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization The Walk and Roll Foundation, EmazingLights is revitalizing dance music for disabled fans by introducing them to the art of LED gloving. Lim calls it:Glove 4 Glove.   As with many of Lim’s curations, this one will send waves throughout the dance music community, spreading the message thatgloving is empowering. By providing disabled children and festival fans with direct access to light up gloves, they discover new ways to express themselves more »

  CURRENTLY ON SECOND LEG OF MASSIVE ‘VOID TOUR’ ORDER ‘VOID’ RL Grime has teamed up with the non-profit organization UNICEF for a moving new video to show the painful realities behind child marriage and help end the dangerous practice. The video tells the story of a young girl forced into marriage, set to RL Grime’s emotive track “Always” from his debut album ‘VOID.‘ The video was shot in Chad, which has the third highest child marriage rate in the world, with 68% of girls married as children. The collaboration is part of a UNICEF series using powerful music to raise awareness about critical issues affecting children around the more »