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You do not make fun of Taylor Swift's little booty on Twitter and get away with it, my friend. Not when Lorde's ancient spirit is also on Twitter.
During this summer's Mad Decent Block Party, Diplo and Skrillex have been continually regaled as two conquering EDM heroes arriving home back in Greece. But as the EDM maestros learned during an appearance at Burning Man last week, not all electronic fans are quite as ready to shower onto them throngs of adulation.
Photo by Leigh Barton On Saturday, I schlepped on down to Coney Island to check out the Mad Decent Block Party, held at the Brooklyn Cyclones baseball stadium. At this point in its evolution, MDBP is to dance music proper as the Vans Warped Tour is to hardcore and punk: roving festivals that offer a facile imitation of the real thing, just for kids.
Attorney David Rappaport, whose clients include Diplo and Mad Decent, Phantogram, Cold War Kids and Dirty Projectors, among others, has joined law firm Manatt, Phelps & Phillips as a partner in the New York office. He will also oversee the Manatt's music transactional practice.
Diplo is one of the most in-demand producers on the planet. Who else but the 35-year-old DJ could knock out "four or five" songs for Usher's next album in a week's time, work on new tunes with both Ty Dolla $ign and Lorde and gather 30 new tracks for Major Lazer's upcoming release without breaking a sweat?
With Chris Brown's long-delayed X album dropping Sept. 16, the R&B star just revealed the title track to his upcoming sixth album. "X" -- produced by Billboard's current cover star Diplo -- finds Breezy in decidedly EDM territory.
Two have died and 20 were hospitalized after Friday's Washington, D.C., stop on Diplo's Mad Decent Block Party tour. According to ABC affiliate WMAR, Tyler Fox Viscardi, 20, from Raleigh, North Carolina, was pronounced dead at 9 p.m. on Friday after leaving the Merriweather Post Pavilion, and Sunday night, a 17-year-old attendee died of a drug overdose.
Hands off, RiFF RAFF, Katy Perry is a taken woman! Well, the singer hasn't come out and publicly announced that she and Diplo are an item, but eyewitnesses at Seth Meyers ' Emmys party are saying these two are definitely more than friends!
