2012 Skrillex Tickets: New Year’s Eve, NYC & L.A.

Coming of a year in which he exploded onto the electronic music scene, Skrillex will attempt to take is stardom to new heights in 2012. He has already announced two multi-night runs in both New York and Los Angeles that will see him performing at a different venue each night out. The Grammy Award-winning DJ will also be throwing a New Year’s Eve party in Milwaukee at the Eagles Ballroom on December 31, 2011. Anyone who has ever attended a Skrillex Concert will tell you that the show is like nothing they have ever experienced, which is one of the main reasons for his surge in popularity: the live performance. If you plan on seeing Sonny John Moore (that’s his real name) producing beats in-person in 2012, you can get your Skrillex Tickets for every show currently schedule right here at BroadRippleTickets.com.

Sonny Moore was formerly the frontman for the emo band From First to Last, which he left in 2007 to pursue his solo electronic music project. Now known as Skrillex, Moore has seen a steady rise in popularity in the past five years, and totally exploded into the mainstream in 2011. His album Scary Monster and Nice Sprites earned him five Grammy Award nominations, and with each live performance his audience grew, to the point he was selling out venues in a matter of minutes. 2012 doesn’t figure to be any different, and in fact Skrillex may even reach Deadmau5 level of popularity if he continues cranking out hit songs in the new year. If you want to see him perform on NYE, or in New York or Los Angeles (or anywhere else Moore may be DJing), get your Skrillex Concert Tickets as soon as possible, as these will be some of the most in demand Concert Tickets of 2012.

Crystal Method, DJ Premier, Pretty Lights, Mark Ronson, and Skrillex Movie Premiere

(MSO) Re:Generation Music Project will enjoy a unique nationwide, one-night only theatrical release in select cities and venues on Feb. 16, 2012. Encore screenings will be scheduled for Feb 23.

Re:Generation Music Project is a new documentary that examines music's past, present and future, while yielding five revolutionary collaborations in the process. 

Directed by award-winning documentarian, Amir Bar-Lev (The Tillman Story, My Kid Could Paint That), the documentary follows five electronic DJs/producers as they re-imagine music by collaborating with influential artists from each genre. In the film, The Crystal Method, DJ Premier, Pretty Lights, Mark Ronson, and Skrillex use technology to mix musical styles and generations for the creation of five original tracks that are nothing short of magical.

In the film, current GRAMMY®-nominated artist Skrillex heads into a Los Angeles studio with members of the iconic rock band The Doors to collaborate on a new song, "Breakn' A Sweat." 

Meanwhile, The Crystal Method touched down in Detroit to work with Martha Reeves of The Vandellas and The Funk Brothers on the R&B number, "I'm Not Leaving." Mark Ronson created a southern brew of New Orleans jazz in "A La Modeliste" that boasts a veritable all-star cast of Erykah Badu, Trombone Shorty, Mos Def, Zigaboo Modeliste, and members of The Dap Kings. 

DJ Premier tapped NAS and Boston's very own Berklee Symphony Orchestra for his "Regeneration," and the documentary culminates in Nashville on the dusty intergalactic twang of Pretty Lights' "Wayfaring Stranger" featuring vocals from LeAnn Rimes and Dr. Ralph Stanley.

The documentary is making an impact with music fans, having garnered more than two million views of the aggregated clips from the film, as well as more than one million streams of the tracks in the first six weeks since they launched.

Skrillex: Happy Holidays! Pirate My Music, I’ll Still Love You

As negativity surrounding online piracy grows to epic proportions in the United States, Sonny John Moore is playing the intelligent game. Moore, better known to his fans as Skrillex, has a total of six 2011 Grammy nominations under his belt but he’s still not towing the corporate line on file-sharing. As he drops his brand new album, Skrillex tells fans that don’t have the money to go ahead and pirate it instead.

 

Today, on a Christmas morning with giving, kindness and sharing on our minds, we thank Sonny John Moore for his contribution to the holiday spirit.

These days Moore is better known as Skrillex, and since taking his current form in 2008 he’s been going from strength to strength. Last year he released his debut EP, My Name is Skrillex, as a free download and he hasn’t looked back.

He’s currently nominated for no less than six Grammys including Best New Artist, Best Dance Recording and Best Dance/Electronica Album. Everyone seems to love Skrill’ and today his fans will love him even more.

After delivering his much anticipated new album Bangarang this week, Skrillex reached out to fans both rich and poor, and trashed the mainstream recording industry mantra that “file-sharing is evil”.

“Happy holidays just like I promised,” said Skrillex on his Facebook page. “Just like I always say, go pirate it if you don’t have the money, I just want you to have it.”

“You can buy it here, either way i’ll love you,” he concludes.

Quite how long Skrillex will be able to deliver this crowd-pleasing attitude is unclear. He’s signed to Big Beat Records, an Atlantic Records subsidiary which in turn is owned by Warner Music. Hopefully, though, Skrillex will be left alone to do his thing, and here’s why he should be.

Modern electronic music, and by that I mean material from the last 25 years, has drawn its lifeblood from piracy. Sampling, cut-and-paste, mixtape and more recently file-sharing cultures have ensured that artists like Skrillex can hit the mainstream, gain a huge fanbase, get Grammy nominated and yet still give stuff away for free. And make money.

But perhaps more importantly in these turbulent times, this kind of approach gains the respect of fans, regardless of how deep their pockets are today. And tomorrow, one way or another, they will spend. If they actually enjoy doing that, the rest is easy.