What Coachella taught us about the future of dance music
by August Brown, Los Angeles Times
Apr 15, 2019
3 minutes
INDIO, Calif. - For about a decade after Daft Punk's landmark 2006 performance, EDM was ascendant at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.
There have always been DJs and electronic acts at the fest - the Chemical Brothers and the Prodigy played early gigs there - but this strain of high-velocity European dance music, played by superstar DJs in the dance-focused Sahara tent and Coachella main stage, drove a lot of the festival's 2010's growth.
It may have also stirred the first grumblings of pandering to
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