Brent Burns is a Recording Academy/GRAMMY.com contributor.
While dance/electronica music is heard in the background in nightclubs, Internet communities such as Beatport and hyperactive car commercials, alongside pop, rap, country, and R&B, some would argue it is a genre swimming underneath the mainstream. On the other hand, in drawing 250,000 fans to festivals such as Las Vegas' Electric Daisy Carnival in June 2011, artists such as David…
It's perhaps appropriate that the East Coast-bred Grace Potter & The Nocturnals derived the latter part of their name from their late-night practice sessions as a band. Fronted by the Vermont-born namesake and frontwoman, Grace Potter, the collective is in the midst of playing dates on the Brothers of the Sun tour with Kenny Chesney and Tim McGraw. The group…
