Megan Venzin

Megan Venzin

Megan is a freelance writer for GRAMMY.com

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Steve Aoki Connects Music & The Card-Game Metaverse On ‘Hiroquest’: “It’s About Telling The Story Of The Future Cryptid World”

He’s a globetrotting DJ, a best-selling author, a renowned restaurateur, a label boss, a philanthropist, a film scorer, and a cake-launching showman. This vast list of titles could only belong to one man: Steve Aoki. Aoki has unleashed energizing music since the 1990s, first lending his vocals and guitar skills to post-hardcore and punk bands like This Machine Kills, Esperanza…

San Holo Gets Personal With New Indie Rock EDM Album ‘BB U Ok?’

San Holo Gets Personal With New Indie Rock EDM Album ‘BB U Ok?’

San Holo doesn’t call himself a DJ. Ask him for a more relevant term and his answer is simple: "I'm a musician." It’s hardly left field to say that San Holo’s emotional productions feel right at home on a hip, college radio station. Instrumentals have always been a part of the Dutch artist born Sander Van Djick’s style, and his…

Porter Robinson Finds Peace With Passionate New Album, ‘Nurture’

Porter Robinson Finds Peace With Passionate New Album, ‘Nurture’

Porter Robinson is finally giving himself permission to be human, though this road to acceptance was not without bouts of darkness. It’s been nearly a decade since the GRAMMY-nominated DJ/producer’s 2011 debut project, the Spitfire EP, helped ignite North America’s explosive fascination with EDM—its instantly recognizable synth stabs and pulsing electro beats brought him to EDC that year, when he was…

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