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Dance your way around LA | The City’s Top Electronic Music Venues

Dance your way around LA | The City’s Top Electronic Music Venues

Pioneers of events such as Electric Daisy Carnival – North America’s largest electronic music festival – and the thirty-two acres of full on, alfresco raving at the electronic utopia that [...]

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Burn, Baby, Burn: AfrikaBurn 2013

Burn, Baby, Burn: AfrikaBurn 2013

Since 2007, AfrikaBurn — one of the most exhilarating, electrifying, and resolutely one-of-a-kind festivals in Africa — has invited thousands of attendees to converge in a national park outside of Cape [...]

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Best Up-and-Coming Acts in the 2013 Coachella Lineup

Best Up-and-Coming Acts in the 2013 Coachella Lineup

You can’t beat a warm and sunny music festival: think endless days filled with bikinis, sunscreen, and the ability to groove without being encumbered by a fleet of umbrellas and [...]

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Away from the Main Stage: Gigs to Catch at the New Orleans Jazz Festival

Away from the Main Stage: Gigs to Catch at the New Orleans Jazz Festival

Back in 1970, when the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival was born, it only attracted about 350 guests. It’s hard to imagine those kinds of numbers now. In ensuing [...]

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Soundtrack to Bogotá

Soundtrack to Bogotá

If there was ever a weekend to travel to Bogotá, well, it would be this one. Today the madness begins with the arrival of Festival Estéreo Picnic, which comes to town [...]

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Hg2 Picks | Boutique Music Festivals 2013

Hg2 Picks | Boutique Music Festivals 2013

There’s something magical about the music festival experience – the ineffable haze of celebrating with like-minded music lovers, partying in the open air, and greeting the dawn with bleary eyes [...]

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Tel Aviv Tunes – Chatting with DJ Ari Frank

Tel Aviv Tunes – Chatting with DJ Ari Frank

Here at Hg2 we are getting seriously excited about the launch of our new Tel Aviv City Guide – so much so that we thought we’d catch up with someone [...]

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A Most Epic London Playlist

A Most Epic London Playlist

What music defines a great weekend in London? On Friday, we started asking that question here in the Hg2 offices and it proved a very popular (and impassioned) discussion. So [...]

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Music on the Streets of Paris

Music on the Streets of Paris

Do you remember the days when you had to put on a nice frock and a pair of heels to go to a gig? The years of standing or jumping [...]

Interviews, Music

DROOG on Life and Dance in LA

DROOG on Life and Dance in LA

Trying to get a handle on the manic wonderland that is Los Angeles is no mean feat. It’s really a wonderfully confusing place. That’s why we go to people in [...]

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Icelandic Pop Duo: Human Woman

Icelandic Pop Duo: Human Woman

Bred in Iceland, Gisli Galdur and Jon Atli, the pair behind Human Woman, are no newcomers to the music scene. Between the two, their background in music spans from DJ-ing, [...]

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Amirali: Tehran to Toronto In The Mix

Amirali: Tehran to Toronto In The Mix

Iranian-Canadian DJ Amirali is anything but conventional. His music is an evocative mix of the ambiance of Iran and the dance beats of Toronto that somehow come together in a [...]