In only 11 days, Downtown Los Angeles will be crawling with thousands of dubstep, disco, moombahton, and trap music fans alike at one of the most highly anticipated Halloween festivals of the year: HARD Day of the Dead. This year's lineup is chock-full of some of the biggest names in electronic music including Deadmau5, Pretty Lights, Zed's Dead, Boys Noize, Skrillex, and many, … [Read more...]
Pretty Lights Retaliates to Danny Brown After ‘Weak’ St. Louis Show
Pretty lights recently invited Danny Brown to open up on a leg of his fall tour that included stops in St. Louis and Nashville. Last night was the first stop of the tour, which took place in St. Louis, and the crowd didn't seem to react very well to Danny Brown's set. Sometimes things like that are bound to happen, and crossing the bridge from EDM to Hip-Hop can be difficult, … [Read more...]
Break Science – Nasty {Run The Trap Premiere} + Contest
Our latest Run The Trap premiere is a dope new single from Adam Deitch and Borahm Lee, also known as Break Science. With their debut album Seven Bridges, Break Science is attempting to bridge the gap between the past, the present and the future and they accomplish that with their single Nasty. Featuring a deep bassline, wonderful vocal samples, and live instrumentation, Nasty … [Read more...]
Pretty Lights Makes His TV Debut on Conan (Video)
Last night on Conan, Pretty Lights made his late night television debut. He brought with him his live band featuring Break Science and Talib Kweli to perform his single Around The Block. This is a pretty big moment for electronic music and it couldn't have happened to a better person. Check out the video of their performance below and be sure to catch Pretty Lights and his live … [Read more...]
Best Mixes Of The Week: Brodinski, Pretty Lights, Smookie Illson, Branchez & H x V
We're back again, with the second installment of of our Best Mixes Of The Week series. Where we use our knowledge and supreme taste in music (lol) to find you the best mixes the internet has to offer over the past seven days. Some might be trap music mixes (the majority will be), as well as a variety of other mixes across trap music related and non trap music related genres. … [Read more...]
Pretty Lights – A Color Map of the Sun
In anticipation of A Color Map of the Sun, Pretty Lights has uploaded the entire album to stream. Derek Vincent Smith traveled all over the country working with various musicians to make this beautiful collage of music. The album, like all of Pretty Lights' music, will be available for free download on July 2nd; but for the first time Pretty Lights will be releasing hard … [Read more...]
Trapped In The Forest: The Trap Music Fan’s Guide To Electric Forest 2013 #TRAPPEDEF
Sometimes going to a music festival can be a daunting task, and when they are as top notch as Electric Forest Music Festival 2013, planning your day-to-day activities and music you want to check out can be tough to say the least! Well, we at Run The Trap present you with our Trapped In The Forest coverage of Electric Forest this year, mapping the days out by some of our top … [Read more...]