HiJinx Music Festival – Philadelphia Convention Center – Philadelphia PA – December 27 & 28, 2019 – Photo by Isa Barnett © 2019 HiJinx Music Festival – Philadelphia Convention Center – Philadelphia PA – December 27 & 28, 2019 To find yourself in a place of pure euphoria, a space where people are full of genuine joy, you must attend HiJinx Music Festival, which ran through the final days of 2019. Ravers jumped at the opportunity to dance all night to some of today’s greatest E

DJ Ayokay – The Foundry – Philadelphia, PA – November 4, 2019 – Photo by Kayla Marra © 2019 DJ Ayokay & Wingtip – The Foundry – Philadelphia, PA – November 4, 2019 Monday night, DJ Ayokay brought his We Come Alive Fall 2019 Tour to The Foundry in Philadelphia. The Michigan-born producer, also known as Alex O’Neill, hit the road in October for a month-long tour alongside alternative/electronic artist Wingtip. Fans queued up long before the doors were to open, anticipating a fu

Maren Morris – The Fillmore – Philadelphia, PA – April 26, 2019 Scroll through more concert photos above. Photos by Ruth Bekele © 2019 #Country #April26 #RuthBekele #EDM #ConcertPhotography #Zedd #2019 #MarenMorris #TheMiddle #PA #philadelphia #TheFillmore #ConcertPhotoAlbum #ConcertPhotos

Ibiza IBIZA (2018) Starring Gillian Jacobs, Vanessa Bayer, Phoebe Robinson, Richard Madden, Michaela Watkins, Augustus Prew, Humphrey Ker, Anthony Welsh, Félix Gómez, Jordi Mollà, Nelson Dante, Anjela Nedyalkova, Miguel Angel Silvestre, Marina Salas, Tea Vracic, Bojan Ban, Tara Thaller, Marko Paradzik, Ivan Devcic, Bozena Bilanovic and Petar Cvirn. Screenplay by Lauryn Kahn. Directed by Alex Richanbach. Distributed by Netflix. 104 minutes. Rated TV-MA. When Netflix announced

Goo Goo Dolls – Robby Takac and Johnny Rzeznik Goo Goo Dolls Thinking Outside of the Boxes by Jay S. Jacobs It’s hard to believe that Goo Goo Dolls’ self-titled debut album came out 30 years ago.  (Heads up, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.)  Of course, back then they were a scrappy punk band in the vein of the Replacements on the Metal Blade label formed by two college students from Buffalo, New York, Johnny Rzeznik and Robby Takac. That was back in the days when bands could work

Steve Aoki at the Tribeca Film Festival. Steve Aoki In Bio Doc Premiering at TFF, DJ Mixes Up An A-List Career by Brad Balfour Son of sports star and entrepreneur Rocky Aoki, long-haired Steve Aoki strode a very different path to set in motion his own career. But becoming an internationally-renowned DJ / mixer / producer wasn’t initially part of his plan. A Grammy-nominated international producer / DJ, electronic dance music entrepreneur and founder of the trendsetting record

ETC(!) ETC(!) vs. Heroes X Villains TWURKAHOLICS VS. MOOMBAHOLICS EDITION – District N9NE – Philadelphia, PA – January 23, 2015 Philadelphia got loud last Friday night as snow fell onto the city and hundreds of bass music lovers packed in to District N9ne to brave the storm. It was sure to be a crazy night as the venue was set to headline trap artist Heroes X Villains, and Moombahton producer ETC! ETC! The event was sponsored by University EDM and labeled as a “Twurkaholics”

Safe In Sound Festival in Philadelphia, September 27, 2014. Safe In Sound Festival – Festival Pier – Philadelphia, PA – September 27, 2014 “Who likes music?” shouted Flux Pavilion as he hit the stage around 7:30 on Saturday night at the Festival Pier at Penn’s Landing in Philadelphia. The crowd erupted in screams as the 25 year old English dubstep producer threw his hands in the air. “Now, who likes loud dance music? Well my name is Flux Pavillion, and I’ve come to bring you

Terri Nunn of Berlin at World Cafe Live in Philadelphia, PA on July 14, 2014. We chat again with the lead singer of the legendary New Wave band Berlin about her long career creating hits like “Take Your Breath Away,” “Sex,” “No More Words,” “The Metro” and their new CD Animal. #newwave #GiorgioMoroder #interview #EDM #JimRinaldi #NoMoreWords #popentertainment #NiceToMeetYou #PopEntertainmentcom #jaysjacobs #Animal #TerriNunn #Berlin #SexImA #CarltonBost #TakeMyBreathAway

Terri Nunn of Berlin Terri Nunn of Berlin Embraces Her Animal Instincts by Jay S. Jacobs Berlin rode the synthesized new wave to pop stardom in the early 80s.  The band was formed in Santa Monica, California, in the late 70s when songwriter and producer John Crawford hooked up with former actress and model Terri Nunn to take on the just about-to-explode synth pop world. For a few years they gained little traction – and Nunn briefly left the band in a personnel dispute, leadin