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EDM is an acronym for “Electronic Dance Music,” but in today’s popular culture, it’s proven to be so much more. Since the term’s widespread acceptance, and the music’s embrace by a generation in the early 2010s, “EDM” has become a dubious calling card for the commercialization of dance music culture and the culture of excess that came with it.The EDM era introduced a swath of massive and hyper-produced concert events, and it took DJs out of dark corners of small nightclubs and made them into celebrities on par with pop music icons like Snoop Dogg and Post Malone, both of whom collaborated with the famed DJ and producer, Tiësto, on his latest album, 2020s The London Sessions...

Check out this month's In Tune cover story to learn more.

Also in this month's In Tune:


Influences: From Joji to Marvin Gaye

What Do You Do: Erik Philbrook

Icon: Janis Joplin

Classic Album Covers: 1999 by Prince

The Write Stuff: Rhyme Time

Activity plans for this month's features

Cover: Tiesto

The EDM icon eschews excess and pushes musical boundaries

Techniques: Blue Notes

How to add that classic blues flavor to your melodies and solos

How to Play "Hanging By a Moment"

Explore the drop-tuned guitars and dynamic vocals the breakout 2001 hit




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Listening List: this monthly podcast accompanies each issue! 
Hear the Listening List songs in their entirety
  1. Easy For You Anna Graves 3:06
  2. Let Me Down Easy Daisy Jones & The Six 3:24
  3. Make Me a Believer (Radio Edit) Conrad Sewell 3:02
  4. adios JAWNY 3:24
  5. Another Heart James TW 3:42
  6. Living In A Haze Milky Chance 2:53
  7. Perspective Cafuné 2:43
  8. Middle Man Tyler Braden 3:38
  9. But Not for Me Fred Hersch & Esperanza Spalding 9:32
  10. Phaéton. Poème symphonique, Op. 39, R. 170 Sinfonieorchester Basel & Ivor Bolton 8:56



  1. Easy For You Anna Graves 3:06
  2. Let Me Down Easy Daisy Jones & The Six 3:24
  3. Make Me a Believer (Radio Edit) Conrad Sewell 3:02
  4. adios JAWNY 3:24
  5. Another Heart James TW 3:42
  6. Living In A Haze Milky Chance 2:53
  7. Perspective Cafuné 2:43
  8. Middle Man Tyler Braden 3:38
  9. But Not for Me Fred Hersch & Esperanza Spalding 9:32
  10. Phaéton. Poème symphonique, Op. 39, R. 170 Sinfonieorchester Basel & Ivor Bolton 8:56