Skrillex was interviewed by Howard Stern this morning, and they discussed a variety of topics. Early on in the interview, Stern asks Skrillex about deadmau5 seemingly insulting him. However, Skrillex responded in a very diplomatic way. He said, “He criticizes everybody. He talks shit about everybody…He was posting about me when I was first releasing music and helped a lot, released one of my first EPs on his label.”

For those who don’t remember, deadmau5 brought up Skrillex during a Rolling Stone interview in 2012. Deadmau5 said, “Even Skrillex [a friend of Zimmerman’s] isn’t doing anything too technical. He has a laptop and a MIDI recorder, and he’s just playing his shit … People are, thank God, smartening up about who does what – but there’s still button-pushers getting paid half a million.”

He also discussed Paris Hilton’s recent claims of making $1 million for some of her sets. Skrillex stated, “It is what it is, if people want to go out and pay to see her.” However, Skrillex is hesitant to believe the $1 million claim. He added, “I don’t think she makes a million dollars a night I think that’s just a rumor.”

Stern’s SoundCloud account uploaded small clips of the interview, and it’s divided by topic. You can hear Skrillex talk about his stage name and his relationship with Ellie Goulding below.

If you want to hear the full 42-minute interview, we’ve embedded it below.

Just two years ago, Stern was ridiculing deadmau5 and electronic dance music as a whole. We’ve included the clip below. However, it seems like Stern didn’t know much about DJs and producers back then, and he’s definitely learned a lot more about the industry over the past two years.

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In February, a mysterious Outkast medley surfaced on dance-music blogs, credited to an unknown artist who signed his work simply in white paint strokes. Less than nine months later, that anonymous act had a hit single in 10 territories, a U.S. deal with Columbia Records and a booking at HARD Day of the Dead directly preceding Deadmau5 — feats made even more impressive by his categorical rejection of the music press and most social media.

That artist, Steven Zhu, a 25-year-old Chinese-American dance-pop singer-producer known as Zhu, insists it’s no gimmick. Rather, he believes music should speak for itself.

For manager Jake Udell of Th3rd Brain (who also handles Krewella), not seeing was believing. After connecting through David Dann, Zhu’s creative and business partner at indie label Mind of a Genius, Udell and his team marketed the young artist — anonymously — through the blogosphere. Supported by gritty, self-directed music videos, Zhu subsequently released “Superfriends” and “Faded,” topping the influential Hype Machine site and building a mystique around his identity — he performs shrouded in shadows — that persisted even after a blog cracked the case using info from cached sites.

In response, Th3rd Brain ramped up the branding, employing a guerrilla marketing campaign centered solely on Zhu’s logo. Stamped $1 bills were distributed to fans through festival vendors and posters quietly rose on walls from Paris to Berlin, while graffiti appeared on the streets of Sydney and Melbourne, Australia. Two shows in New York were initially announced solely through posters displaying the symbol and dates, with details and tickets (only sold physically through a fashion boutique) circulated through blogs. HARD even teased news of Zhu’s debut in a 36-hour social platform takeover that revealed his logo one signature brush stroke at a time. “As long as that logo would be unified to future releases, it didn’t matter whether anybody knew his name or not,” says Udell.

To be sure: After releasing the Nightday EP in April and entertaining offers from several majors, Zhu signed with Sony’s Columbia for North America. His debut album is slated for release in 2015.

Describing the current music climate as “very black and white,” Udell acknowledges that race played a role in Zhu’s faceless rollout. “Some of us don’t even know the limitations of our own prejudice,” he says. “Rather than put those limitations to the test, we’ve created an engaging way for fans to focus on the music rather than who’s behind it.”

Posted by Matt Medved (via Billboard)

Hello friends! Been a minute since I’ve logged on to the blog here to post something, been working really hard @ the Club Killers headquarters here in Las Vegas.

If you didn’t download the Halloween pack we posted last week (which I highly suggest you do) make sure you go download this exclusive edit, it’s a big room mash up of one of my favorite dance tracks of the year, love the original, play it all the time in mixshow but it wasn’t really working for me in my club peak hour sets.

I’m sure some of you can relate so why not share if it can help your next DJ set. Enjoy.

Posted by Alex Dreamz

It’s official: Taylor Swift’s 1989 debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart with the largest sales week for an album since 2002.

1989 sold 1.287 million copies in the week ending Nov. 2, according to Nielsen SoundScan. 1989 is Swift’s fifth studio album and was released Oct. 27 through Big Machine Records. It’s her fourth No. 1 album, following Red (in 2012), Speak Now (2010) and Fearless (2008).

Here are some of the achievements Swift has earned with the debut of 1989:

– The largest sales week for an album since June 2, 2002, when Eminem’s The Eminem Show sold 1.322 million in its second chart week at No. 1. The album debuted atop the chart a week earlier, selling 285,000 copies after it was released on a Friday, giving the album only three days of sales in its chart bow.

– Swift is the only act to earn three million-selling weeks with an album. She also racked up million-selling weeks with the debuts of Red (1.208 million) and Speak Now (1.047 million). She was already the only woman to have two million-selling frames. (Her first two albums, 2008’s Fearless and her 2006 self-titled debut, bowed with 592,000 and 39,000, respectively.)

– 1989 is immediately the biggest-selling album released in 2014, and the only one to sell a million in total, after only a week on sale. It jumps ahead of Sam Smith’s In the Lonely Hour, which has sold 746,000.

– Incredibly, after just one week on sale, 1989 is the second-largest-selling album of 2014, behind only the Frozen soundtrack. The latter has sold 3.2 million this year. (It was released in November 2013 and has sold 3.5 million cumulatively.) 1989 and Frozen are the only two albums to sell a million copies in 2014.

– 1989 is just the 19th album to sell a million copies in a week since SoundScan started tracking sales in 1991. Of the last four million-selling weeks, which have all occurred since 2010, three of them are owned by Swift.

Posted by Keith Caulfield (via billboard)

Deorro has had a pretty big year, overall. He has been touring extensively and his label PandaFunk has been doing exceptionally well. However, as you might remember, back in May he announced that he would quit DJing. Not only that, he stated in pretty clear terms his reasons, and to be honest, I can’t really find fault in them. Not that it should even matter what I think, he is his own man and can do what he wants.

At only 23 years old, Erick “Deorro” Orrosquieta already has two children, with one beginning school. And according to him, he has already missed enough of his children’s precious moments.

“Touring has blessed me with everything that I have . . . But now that I have everything I need, I also want to give the same thing to others . . . I’m going to replace myself with ten people that also want the same dream . . . Don’t get me wrong, I love to DJ, I’m gonna miss it. I’m probably gonna miss it two days after I go home but I’d rather miss DJing than my family.”

Deorro also talked about building a multi-studio complex in Los Angeles, replete with living quarters and “bunk beds” for budding producers to use and apply their talents. It is clear that Deorro’s ego, however much of it he actually has, is well overshadowed by his love for others. Deorro placed #19 in this year’s DJ Mag Top 100, and while it is the opinion of most everyone that the poll is a farce, I don’t think anyone could argue that he didn’t deserve that spot.

Posted by Matthew Meadow (via youredm)

Everyone’s favorite troll, Deadmau5, has now admitted he is willing to perform with his arch nemesis, Paris Hilton… for a price.

For the low price of $2 million dollars, Deadmau5 is willing to perform an unforgettable set with dance music’s public enemy number 1. This comes at a surprise as most of us were under the impression that all the gold in the world would not be enough to force these two onto the same DJ decks.

Joking aside, we really hope this never comes to be an actual thing. You can check out deadhilton5 discuss the proposal below:

Posted by Nick Ward (via youredm)

DJ Remy Sounds is back with a vengeance! Straight out of Washington DC representing the Blend Artist, Remy returns with another fresh multi-genre set. If you haven’t had a chance to check out his skills you better get with it & get familiar with Remy Sounds. Check out the full track list after the jump. Continue reading →

Is fair to say that the term DJ is being thrown around a little bit. Maybe even dragged through the mud in some cases. It seems nowadays anyone in front of some CDJs can call themselves a DJ. Understandably so, some of the people that have dedicated their lives to being DJs and producers are beginning to take offense to the situation when MTV reality show stars and hotel heiresses begin to plague the scene. To add insult to injury, these counterfeit acts are capitalizing at an alarming rate, pulling in astronomical amounts of money from aimless party-people stuck wondering when will the bass drop? Fortunately however, some of the patriarchs and pioneers are starting to respond; DJ Craze‘s two cents on the matter might be the best counter so far.

The Slowroaster supreme recently uploaded a video to Youtube of his latest routine behind the turntables that he has built his legacy upon. With more DJing championship titles than you can count on three hands, one of the greatest, truest, classically trained disc jockeys in the world started off with Kanye West’s “New Slaves,” to deliver a sharp message about what real DJing actually looks like.

Blindly trusting his cross-fader to lead his body, the Miami-made DJ carves out a head-spinning scratch routine with an unteachable finesse. Dropping in spastic samples and crisp scratching, the Slowroast Records founder genuinely feels the music as he glides between the decks, rather than calling for another “everybody put your hands in the air.” Not only does Craze highlight the fact that real DJing is seldom come by, but points to the unfortunate truth that anyone who is a true turntablist might be one of the last of a dying breed.

Posted by David Klemow (via dancing astronaut)

Since it’s Halloween week we feel it’s only right to share an amazing track pack with all the non members of the site. We only do this a couple times a year so make sure you tell your friends & share the pack.

17 Halloween edits including our exclusive Halloween intros. 13 regular club edits, just a tease of what we work on, we don’t want to give out too much of that good stuff we post weekly for the CK fam. If you’re a active member of the site most of this stuff is old news cause we always make sure we take care of the CK fam first. Happy Halloween!

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Posted by David Miller

Last month we sat down with R3hab in our Las Vegas radio home KLUC 98.5 FM. & talked shop on his tour life as well as his ambitions on future music projects. Special thanks to R3hab, Roc-Nation,, DJ CO1 @ KLUC, Dirty Lou, & Jon Que.

Posted by John Cha

Britney Spears and Celine Dion have made bank in Las Vegas. Kanye West reportedly could’ve done the same, but, according to TMZ, said “no thanks.”

The proposed residency for Kanye at Planet Hollywood’s Axis Theater was brief but lucrative enough to make him Vegas’s highest-paid performer: three weeks, three shows per week, one $4.5 million paycheck. That’s $500,000 per show. TMZ says Britney’s current rate is about $475,000 per show, and Celine Dion’s is $476,000 per show.

Just last week, word came in that Jennifer Lopez was also in negotiations for 72 shows, or 24 weeks of three performances a week. The report said J.Lo’s salary would be in the $350,000-per-show range. Spears’ Britney: Piece of Me has been running since December 2013 and will continue through 2017. That steady gig has added roughly $20 million to Planet Hollywood’s annual earnings, according to a recent report.

Posted by Zach Dionne (via Billboard)

Our official Club Killers remix of The Weeknd’s latest hit “Often” has hit the blogosphere as of this week. Check out our Soundcloud page for a listen & free download. Special thanks to Davey Dee @ Republic/Universal, DJ Mike D, & Phil Nieves @ Ultra Records

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http://hypem.com/track/27asa/The+Weeknd+-+Often+(Club+Killers+Remix)

Posted by David Miller