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Twitter will livestream the Electronic Music Awards September 21st
If festival season has left you tapped out financially and physically, Twitter has a way for you to watch this year's Electronic Music Awards. Come September 21st, the microblogging service will broadcast electronic music's Grammy's from a "custom multi-stage warehouse venue" in Los Angeles' Downtown Arts District, as spotted by AdWeek. Other details are scarce at the moment, but the show promises more news will arrive ahead of the big night. Hopefully legendary producer Paul Oakenfold helping run the event will keep everything from devolving into a series of incomprehensible bass drops. But honestly, this seems like something that'd be better suited for Twitch than it is for Twitter's livestreaming efforts at this point.
Electronic music gets its own televised awards show
Variety is reporting that Fox will broadcast the inaugural Electronic Music Awards on Saturday, April 23rd at 8pm. The network has teamed up with superstar DJ Paul Oakenfold to create the event as a celebration of the genre. It'll feature red carpet coverage, interviews, the ceremony itself and performances from the world's biggest artists. Read between the lines and you'll assume that the move was born out of frustration with the Grammy's traditional disdain for electronica. As Oakenfold says, he's "thrilled to be part of an awards show that finally" (emphasis ours) "recognizes and celebrates... one of the biggest music genres in the world." You can feel the heat radiating off that burn from a mile away.
