WNXP’s 1st Birthday Party at the Exit/In Nashville
Come through and celebrate WNXP turning one year old tonight! Looking forward to live performances from *repeat repeat, Liza Anne, Bantug, Josh Gilligan, and Namir Blade. … Continue reading
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Dan Digs Live: DJ Set with Frank Foreal at Ace Hotel Downtown LA this Thursday January 7
Come through and vibe on the rooftop this Thursday, January 7! Frank Foreal and I will be spinning the best in leftfield beats, future R&B, and soulful house upstairs at Ace Hotel… Continue reading
Dan Digs Live: DJ Set at Ace Hotel Palm Springs this Saturday January 2
Celebrate the start of 2016 on a day when you know it won’t be commercialized! Come through and vibe with me poolside at the Ace Hotel in Palm Springs this Saturday, January… Continue reading
Dan Digs Live: Come Hang With Me as I DJ at School Night! in Hollywood
Looking forward to DJing again tonight at the incredible School Night! at Bardot in Hollywood! Always a great music-loving crowd, always a beautiful space. Come check out these amazing bands: Kona Christopher… Continue reading
Dan Digs Live: Come Hang with Me as I DJ Upstairs at Ace Hotel in Downtown LA
Come through and vibe on the rooftop this Wednesday, October 21! I’ll be spinning the best in leftfield beats, future R&B, and soulful house along with one of my very favorite… Continue reading
The Dan Digs Show Shortlisted for the 2015 Mixcloud Online Radio Awards
Extremely excited, thankful, and generally bowled over by elation to share with you that the Dan Digs Show was shortlisted for the 2015 Mixcloud Online Radio Awards! There were over 5,000 nominations, so,… Continue reading
Get the Free Dan Digs App!
Stoked to say that the official Dan Digs app has arrived! Now you can get your Track of the Day, free music downloads, watch music videos, and listen back to every… Continue reading
Dan Digs Live: Come Hang with Me as I DJ at School Night! in Hollywood
Looking forward to DJing again tonight at the incredible School Night! at Bardot in Hollywood! Always a great music-loving crowd, always a beautiful space. Come check out these amazing new bands: The… Continue reading
Dan Digs Live: Now Dig This! at the Virgil in Silverlake Every Third Thursday 10pm-2am
Extremely excited to announce my new monthly live DJ night: Now Dig This! Now Dig This! is every third Thursday 10pm-2am in the B-Side Bar at the Virgil… Continue reading
Dan Digs Live: Come Hang with Me as I DJ at School Night! in Hollywood
Looking forward to DJing again this Monday night at the incredible School Night! at Bardot in Hollywood! Always a great music-loving crowd, always a beautiful space. Come check out these amazing new… Continue reading
Dan Digs Live: Come Hang With Me As I DJ at School Night! in Hollywood
Stoked to be DJing at the incredible School Night! at Bardot in Hollywood this Monday night! I’ve long been a fan of School Night! and their superhero ability to magically… Continue reading
Win Two Tickets to See Machinedrum Live at the Roxy in Los Angeles on Sunday March 1, 2015 + 30min Best of Machinedrum DJ Mix by Dan Digs
Travis Stewart aka Machinedrum is bringing his incredible Vapor City live show to Los Angeles! We’ve got two tickets for one lucky winner and a friend to see Machinedrum with special guest Objekt… Continue reading
Take a Trip Through Venice, California with Dan Digs and Instagram
The all-new Rverie magazine recently got in touch after spotting my Venice photographs on Instagram. I ended up writing an essay for them on my beloved new home of Venice and… Continue reading
Why Goldie’s Timeless is the Perfect Winter Album
It is fast becoming a yearly ritual of mine to listen to Goldie‘s Timeless album in full, straight through, every winter, because it is the perfect winter album. Cueing up the… Continue reading
The Chemical Brothers – “Life is Sweet” (Daft Punk Remix)
Inspired by this brilliant piece I read today on the life and times of the Chems‘ “Setting Sun,” a song that sounds as vital and compelling now as it did when it shot… Continue reading
Red Bull Music Academy Documentary – What Difference Does It Make? A Film About Making Music (Official Trailer)
So inspired to create by watching this. I can’t think of an entity that aligns more with my musical taste than the Red Bull Music Academy. The RBMA is an invitation-only series of music… Continue reading
Dan Digs’ Top 20 Remixes of 2013
Rrrrrrrremix! 2013 was a vintage year for the rework, the rejazzed, the re-booted and the re-beated. Here’s my favorite song versions of other people’s song versions of their favorite songs of other people.… Continue reading
Dan Digs’ Top 10 Albums of 2013
It would be hard enough to compile a Top 500, what with all of the under-the-radar Bandcamp treasures, glorious mixtapes aka .zip files, and of course the big, shiny, important album releases of… Continue reading
Beat Generation – Article on Seattle’s Annual Decibel Festival of Electronic Music Written by Dan Digs for City Arts Magazine
I wrote about Seattle’s annual electronic music extravaganza Decibel Festival for this month’s issue of City Arts magazine. You can read the story here. At its heart, this newness is what Decibel is… Continue reading
Seattle Sunsets
From Jonathan Raban‘s “Too Close to Nature?” essay published in the Seattle Times, April 2004. Seattle sunsets are raw and bloody things; good ones look like a busy day at the slaughterhouse, as… Continue reading
The Englishman on the Hill: Author, Traveler and Survivor Jonathan Raban is Loyal to His Experience – Article Written by Dan Digs for Seattle’s City Arts Magazine
It was a delight to meet Seattle-based English author Jonathan Raban. I wrote about it for this month’s issue of City Arts magazine. You can read the story here.
Walk this Way, No, the Other Way: the Alternate Beatles Abbey Road Album Cover Photo Up for Auction
It’s expected to go for a mere 9,000 quid. Also possibly available: photos of the Nirvana baby swimming upside down and the Dark Side of the Moon album cover outtake that features… Continue reading
Classic Album Covers Recreated Using Only 144 Dots
Gary Andrew Clarke aka Graphic Nothing enjoys recreating classic album covers with dots. 144 of them, to be precise. Here are some of my favorites. You might have to set your laptop down… Continue reading
Underworld Appointed Music Directors of the Opening Ceremony at the London 2012 Olympic Games, Give Away Album “A Hundred Days Off” in Celebration (Free MP3 Download)
How cool is it that Underworld have just been appointed Music Directors of the London 2012 Olympics opening ceremony? In celebration of a hundred days to go until the event, top gents… Continue reading
Austrian Photographer Josef Hoflehner’s “Jet Airliner” – Black & White Photographs of Airplanes Zooming Inches Over the Beaches of the West Indies
The arresting monochrome and stark surreality and juxtaposition of heavy, sleek, man-made, polished, winged titanic tubes of steel screaming fury only a few feet above the warm, carefree, untroubled, neo-Edenesque sands of St.… Continue reading
REVIEW: The Robert Glasper Experiment featuring Bilal at Neumos Seattle: Eclectic Relaxation (Friday March 23, 2012)
“His mastery of musical astronomy created constellations where there had once only been lone stars. The orbits of the planets Coltrane, Hancock, Dilla, Yorke, Morello, and Cobain were shifted and new asterisms formed.… Continue reading
REVIEW: Skream & Benga at Neumos Seattle: Why Seattle Does Dance (Thursday March 22, 2012)
“The sonic assault emanating from the two CDJs and a mixer upon which Skream and Benga tag-teamed throughout their set was like a sea monster with severe indigestion from eating an alien spaceship.… Continue reading
8-bit Night Drive Retro
8-bit Night Drive Retro. Courtesy of noirlac. Just looking at this conjures up a Pavlovian reaction to listen to some inane chip-tune melody and feed quarters into something.
Anarchy in the U.K.
Danger.
How Dubstep Began
This is actually true. The other photo of how dubstep began that features a cracked-out walrus playing a didgeridoo while randomly revving a chainsaw is out there somewhere.
Song from Shabazz Palaces’ New Album Black Up or William Wordsworth Poem?
1. “A Whirl-Blast from Behind the Hill” 2. “Recollections of the Wraith” 3. “An Echo From The Hosts That Profess Infinitum” 4. “Calm is all Nature as a Resting Wheel” 5. “The World… Continue reading
MELLOW: A Jazz & Beats Night at W Nashville – Every Thursday 8pm
If you like Robert Glasper, BADBADNOTGOOD, Kiefer, Khruangbin, Dilla, Nate Smith, Theo Croker, Terrace Martin, then you need to know about this. The first installment of my new… Continue reading →