The parents of Sasha Rodriguez, the 15-year-old girl who died of an Ecstasy overdose in June 2010 after attending the Electric Daisy Carnival at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, have filed suit against the event promoter and the group that operates the venue. more ›

Thousands of fans weren't invited to Wednesday's private screening of the "Electric Daisy Carnival Experience," but promoters want you to know that despite some theaters yanking the movie from their upcoming schedules, the EDC movie will still make its nationwide debut on August 4th. Citing "the incident in Los Angeles," Regal and AMC have decided they will not show the film at their theatres, reports the L.A. Times. more ›

It didn't take long for the promoter of the controversial Electric Daisy Carnival "rave," Insomniac, Inc., or the EDC's fans, to distance themselves from the fracas. So is a Twittering DJ looking for a #flashcrowd to blame? more ›

Lock up your daughters! It appears as though underage partygoers at last year's Electric Daisy Carnival rave -- which has since been relocated to Las Vegas -- were consuming alcoholic beverages. The LA Times reports that the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, which hosted the rave last year, is being accused by the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control of allowing alcohol sales outside designated areas, and allowing minors to drink. more ›

Organizers of the popular but controversial Electric Daisy Carnival announced yesterday that they were through with the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, and Los Angeles in general, and will be setting up their annual event in Las Vegas come June. more ›

If you're going to a rave, and you're going to take Ecstasy, should the Public Health Department help you know how to take the drug safely? A flier intended to be distributed at rave events that was produced by the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health has come under scrutiny, particularly by Supervisor Michael D. Anotonvich, who has ordered the distribution of the fliers halted. more ›

Los Angeles Coliseum commissioners will decide today if they will issue a permit for the Electric Daisy Carnival to return to the venue this June, according to ABC. The event was discontinued after 15-year-old Sasha Rodriguez collapsed from an ecstasy overdose at last year's event and died days later at a local hospital. Her death resulted in a moratorium on raves for several months, but the rave ban was lifted last November. The Electric Daisy Carnival is not the only recent rave that has come under intense scrutiny. Last month, USC president C.L. Max Nikias warned students about the dangers of ecstasy at raves after 17 people were taken to the hospital after a near-campus New Year's Eve rave. Thirty-five people were arrested after the Monster Massive rave on Halloween. more ›

The family of teenager Sasha Rodriguez have filed a $5 million claim against the management of the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, alleging the venue's operators were negligent in permitting the Electric Daisy Carnival to happen on public property, according to the LA Times. more ›

Last month the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Commission overturned the venue's temporary moratorium on holding raves, and yesterday the group voted in approval of restrictions for future events of that nature, according to an AP report published by KPCC. Now event organizers "must provide detailed security and operational plans at least two months in advance for commission review if they want to hold a rave party at the Coliseum or the neighboring Sports Arena." more ›

Coming straight outta Hamburg (Germany,) Marco “Tensnake” Niemerski is dance music’s man of the moment. With Tensnake, an it-producer tag makes sense. He’s got the underground cred (thanks to original productions and remixes,) pop radio play in England, and now a big-label double-CD compilation. Tensnake’s no joke. With Tensnake, an it-producer tag makes sense. He’s got the underground cred (thanks to original productions and remixes,) pop radio play in England, and now a big-label double-CD compilation. Tensnake’s no joke. more ›

The Commission that runs the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum has overturned a ban on raves at the venue initiated in June of this year, according to the LA Times. The moratorium on the events was issued following the drug-related death of a teenager who had been at the Electric Daisy Carnival. more ›

An 18-year-old University of Southern California freshman was seriously injured early Monday morning after he fell from his sixth floor dorm room window, according to LA Now. more ›

At least 35 people were arrested last night during the course of the 13th Annual Halloween Monster Massive, a rave and live music event held at the L.A. Sports Arena, reports ABC7. more ›

Of the some 4,100 attendees at the 18th Annual Love Festival in the Los Angeles Sports Arena, 80 were arrested and 16 people were treated for injuries by paramedics, according to the Associated Press. To gain entry, party goers had to prove they were 18 and over -- some were arrested for using fake IDs -- in hopes to avoid the madness at the Electric Daisy Carnival (attendance was around 180,000) last month where a 15-year-old died and hundreds of others went to the hospital and 60 were arrested. more ›

HARD’s first summer show at the Los Angeles Stage Historic Park (which was to feature M.I.A., N.E.R.D., and food trucks) was canceled. The second one, HARD Summer, will be going down from noon to midnight at the same Chinatown-adjacent park this Saturday, August 7. more ›

Scheduled for this weekend, HARD L.A. has now been canceled, according the LA Times. It is the second music festival to go wayside following the controversial Electric Daisy Carnival at the L.A. Coliseum, where more than 100 people were sent to the hospital, including 15-year-old who later died. more ›

The Fresh Squeezed Music Festival 2010 was meant to be a "gathering of epic proportions never before seen in Southern California," according to their site, but it seems that the show won't go on tonight after all. more ›

In the wake of the recent Electric Daisy Carnival, a rave-like music festival held at the Coliseum, the "Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors has voted to form a task force to examine safety hazards at rave parties," according to the Daily News. more ›

After a death of a teenager and over one hundred injuries at last weekend's Electric Daisy Carnival, two L.A. County Supervisors today called for a multi-agency task force to address the health and safety issues associated with rave party events and report back with findings and recommendations. more ›

Following the death of a teenage girl who attended this weekend's Electric Daisy Carnival at the L.A. Coliseum, a Los Angeles County Supervisor is calling for a moratorium on raves at the location. 15-year-old Sasha Rodriguez was one of the over 100 people transported to local hospitals during the event, which drew around 185,000 people. She died Tuesday afternoon. more ›

15-year-old Sasha Rodriguez of Atwater was one of the over 100 people transported out of the Electric Daisy Carnival at the Coliseum this weekend to an area hospital. The teen was in respiratory arrest when she arrived, lapsed into a coma, and experienced organ failure. Sasha "died shortly before 5:30 p.m. Tuesday," according to the LA Times. Her parents had to decide whether to remove her from life support. more ›

The Electric Daisy Carnival, one of the largest events of its kind, drew almost 200,000 attendees over two days and boasted five stages for performers and a rave atmosphere in the Los Angeles Coliseum and at the adjoining Exposition Park. more ›

Friday and Saturday's Electric Daisy Carnival drew an estimated 185,000 attendees, and of those, over 100 had to be transported to area hospitals from the music event, according to cbs2. more ›

North America's largest electronic dance music festival, the Electric Daisy Carnival, returns to Los Angeles this Friday and Saturday at the Coliseum and Exposition Park. Both days feature twelve hours of fun (2 p.m. to 2 a.m.) Last year's event featured 135,000 people over both days and this weekend looks to be more of the same. more ›

Local techno trio, Droog, has had their share of crazy parties atop the Downtown Standard Hotel's legendary roof. Earlier this year, UK record label Crosstown Rebels' web series, Rebel Rave, dropped in to one of them and chatted with the dudes about nightlife and their new record label: Culprit. more ›

100,000 electronica fans dance for two days at the L.A. Coliseum. more ›

Taking place this Friday and Saturday is the Electric Daisy Carnival, a mega-rave on steroids, or "EDC" if you're in-the-know. USC's football team has been kind enough to take the day off and provide the Coliseum for the bash's main sage, the Kinetic Field. The rest of the stages will be spread around the Exposition Park grounds. A map of the grounds can be found on the EDC website. Remember kiddies, drink lots and lots of water and stay away from the brown acid. more ›

Insomniac's events have made people dance through their bedtimes since 1993. Never have they made insomniacs out of 100,000. That’s the goal for this year’s Electric Daisy Carnival, their largest annual event. Seas of people will dance away their economic woes in what should be the largest electronic dance music festival this city has ever seen. more ›

Top techno night Compression features a double-bill of headliners this Friday at King King in Hollywood. DJing alongside New York’s Francois K will be Los Angeles legend John Tejada. They're two DJ/producers who have walked very different paths to global dance music stardom. more ›

Los Angeles is no stranger to globetrotting DJs. We saw some of that last month. February featured more top international jocks, as well a local favorite crowd-surfing his way to club stardom. more ›