More often than not, a convention is not quite worth the aggravation -- speakers ramble on about lofty ideas of expertise, happy hours cloud your judgement (I'm so not speaking from experience) and morning meetings turn into how-can-I-cancel-this-kindly calls? But this year, there was no doubt, that anyone livin' online,...

I've been to a lot of festivals this year. I've interviewed a lot of artists, I've downloaded a lot of sets, I've planned out my get-a-reaction-from-the-crowd outfits and I've mapped out my recovery. So post Ultra Music Festival, Coachella, Governor's Ball, Snowball, Mad Decent, Escape to...

Last year, over 50,000 fans descended on New York's Randall's Island as over 67 DJ's, producers and live acts banded together for Electric Zoo, the city's Electronic Music Festival. Now in its third year, the fan favorite festival is back and bigger than ever, with more than 100...

Today, a Turkish woman in a cave took out her eyeliner and rubbed it abruptly inside the lower lid of my eye. It was sandy, slightly painful and, to my New York City mind, not appropriate. In my hometown, if a woman in a headscarf took out her makeup and...

Escape to New York had a lot on its plate... and I'm not just referring to the World's Largest Festival Brunch, which was planned to kick off on Sunday. The first-year festival on the Shinnecock Reservation in Southampton billed itself as more than just a three-day music event...

DJ Woooo is a he. He is located in the Northeast, and splits his time between NYC and a rural town in New England. He works for startups in NYC developing mobile apps. He is the godfather of Turntable.fm aka the world's #1 virtual DJ....

This summer will mark the debut of Identity, the first-ever touring electronic only music festival that will visit major outdoor amphitheaters throughout North America in August and September.

Approximately 20 shows are on tap for the traveling extravaganza with top-tier artists performing on multiple stages starting in...

Lauren Bush is an Elite Model, a Princeton graduate, a photographer, and a kick-boxer. She has appeared on Friends, been named one of the World's Sexiest Vegetarians (pretty uncommon for a born-and-bred Texan) and made it on Vogue’s best dressed list (twice). She is the niece of President George W. Bush...

Despite the many forces trying to keep crowds away (fire at Miami airport, delays into Ft. Lauderdale Airport, traffic all over Miami, overbooked cab companies) over 150,000 enthusiastic fans made their way to Bicentennial Park on Friday for the 13th annual Ultra Music Festival. It was hot, it was packed...

There are a lot of music festivals out there, from big names like Lollapalooza and Austin City Limits, to smaller fests like this summer's Electric Forest and Governors Ball - yet few challenge your mind and body quite like this past weekends Snowball Festival in Avon, Colorado. Sure,

Music fans, hold on to your headphones. The 2011 Coachella lineup is out, and there's a lot to be excited about. Leading the pack is Kings of Leon, Arcade Fire, The Strokes and Kanye West. Black Keys, Lauryn Hill, Cee Lo Green, Mumford & Sons, Duck Sauce and...

New York's live in-flight entertainment leader JetBlue Airways announced a free, private concert by Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter James Blunt on Tuesday, January 18 at Terminal 5 (T5) at John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK). The Live from T5 concert will celebrate the release of five-time Grammy nominated,...

Some seriously lucky Jetsetter's are ringing in the New Year with Erick Morillo, Jay-Z, Coldplay or Florence & The Machine in concert at the brand-new Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas (yes, from those trippy commercials). But for those of us who can't make it all the way...

Blog Action Day is an annual event held every October 15 that unites the world's bloggers in posting about the same issue on the same day with the aim of a global discussion and driving collective action. This year, we're talking about water and the global issues surrounding it from...

Poetry is a thing of the past, unless you include rap as poetic play-on-prose. But there's one man out there keeping the literature alive. Walter Skold, the founder of the Dead Poets Society (and no, not Robin Williams), is kicked off the first National Dead Poets Remembrance Day...

We can't all travel all the time, but now we can pretend to with Google Street View. The controversial (but awesome!) technology provides panoramic, street-level views of locations around the world from the Stadiums in South Africa to Museums in New York City. Today, Google added Antarctica to...

Fashion inspires art and art inspires fashion; but sometimes, travel inspires both. Fashion Week kicked off on Friday, and it's clear that this year's top designers have channeled sought-after destinations for their Spring/Summer 2011 collections. Be it a Parisian tweed jacket or a Kimono-inspired gown, fashion can transport you (and...

This past weekend, over 50,000 fans descended upon New York City's Randall's Island as over 67 DJ's, producers and live acts banded together for the second annual Electric Zoo festival.

The 12-hour, two-day festival showcased an eclectic mix of some of...

Armin Van Buuren, Dutch trance producer and the world's #1 DJ, is taking it stateside on September 5th as the headliner for Electric Zoo, New York's premier electronic music festival.

He won't just be stopping by. After months of...

Sometimes you're in the mood for total relaxation on vacation, but sometimes you want to go a little wild (one word: Ibiza). With the pending doom of summer's end, it's time to put on (or take off) our Saturday's best and head to the world's best party destinations. Nightlife isn't...