Pioneer, Beatport, DJ Magazine and Let’s Mix have announced the Next Generation DJ (NGDJ) talent competition. (Hmmm, sounds familiar… —Ed.) To win, DJs will have to demonstrate their skills by uploading and promoting a mix on the new mixing and social networking platform, letsmix.com as well as prove that they have the entrepreneurial aptitude...

World Exclusive! According to our sources in Sweden, Propellerheads will use their upcoming Producers Conference (see locations below) on May 9th to announce a new Digital Audio Workstation product. The Reason community has been clamoring for the Scandinavian concern to add a no-holds-barred audio recording feature into the product since it first debuted, but...

Decibel has announced dates for the 2009 edition of their West coast electronic music festival. The 6th annual Decibel takes place September 24th through September 27th in Seattle, WA in various venues throughout the city. Since its inception in 2004, Decibel Festival has distinguished itself as a unique event of its kind in North America dedicated to live...

Paul McCartney, The Killers and The Cure have been officially announced as the headliners for Coachella 2009. McCartney, making his first US festival appearance, is among the 130-plus acts set for the tenth Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, CA. Other artists confirmed for America’s most critically acclaimed music...

NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., announced the discovery of cosmic radio noise is six times louder than what the scientists expected. A team led by Alan Kogut discovered the radio noise via a balloon-housed instrument dubbed ARCADE, which stands for the Absolute Radiometer for Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Diffuse Emission. In July...

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