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As August continues to roll through, the time for Sun City Music Festival will soon be upon us. El Paso certainly knows how to party, and you’ll see that when you join us on the dance floor for Texas’ largest dance music event. Grab your tickets now to score the best deal!

On this edition of the Sun City drop, it’s all about the launch. We’ve got one of our headliners launching a new radio show and another act is relaunching their own imprint.

Tiësto Launches New Radio Show Dedicated to House

This past Sunday, Sun City headliner Tiësto launched his new radio show Club Life After Hours. The new weekly show on Sirius XM will be dedicated to house in all of its forms. Clocking in at a whopping 24 hours, the show will run from 5:00 AM Sunday to 5:00 AM Monday. Though the show won’t feature Tiësto every week, special guest DJs will be invited to throw down on the decks.

The first episode ranged from the chiller side of house to the funkier styles, featuring artists like Audiofly, Tale of Us, and Tube & Berger. “Stylistically, I don’t think [house is] ready for my live sets just yet because I like to play a little more energetic and uplifting, but who knows in the future?” Tiësto says. “For now I want to experiment with it on the radio and see what people think.”

With a trap release on Musical Freedom last week and recent tweets promising to produce a trance song, what’s one more genre to add to the multifaceted artist? We’re not sure what to expect when Tiësto takes the stage at Sun City Music Festival, but we do know there’s only one way to find out. Have you bought your tickets yet?

Candyland relaunches Sweet Shop Records

Back in 2012, breakout successes Candyland launched their own imprint in Sweet Shop Records. Though the duo took a small hiatus, we were overjoyed when we learned that Ethan and Josie are relaunching the project – with some newly added benefits.

Sweet Shop Records is a multi-genre label, which, of course, is fitting considering the duos eclectic productions. Fans can now send in demos to have the chance at having their work distributed to the world by the company. The label’s official site has also launched the Sugar Free feature. Sugar Free is a mailing list that anyone can subscribe to. Fans can sign up on Facebook or the duo’s site to receive notifications of ticket giveaways, remix stems, free downloads, and so much more.

We’re sure you’ll hear some sweet stuff when Candyland joins Sun City Music Festival this August 31st and September 1st. Tickets are available online, buy your tickets today!

The boys of Flosstradamus are certainly no newcomers to dance music. Comprising of Josh Young and Curt Cameruci, the duo have become synonymous for their eclectic mix of pretty much any genre to get the party started. Having performed at some of the biggest festivals and college campuses in the world and even making an appearance on Nick Jr.’s Yo Gabba Gabba, Flosstradamus knows how to bring any crowd together with their unique sound.

The Floss story started quite some time ago. Young recants, “I was living in an apartment with a bunch of dudes and one of the guys worked at Whole Foods with Curt knew I was trying to start a little duo. He said I should meet his friend, who had a similar style to me. He introduced us, and we knew immediately. We were like, ‘Oh, wow, this is really going to work.'” Using their combined brainpower, the two began to brainstorm on a name, “We were just drinking one night and randomly throwing out names. It wasn’t even us that came up with it, it was a friend of ours. We were like, ‘Next subject!’ We knew straight away that was going to be our name. It’s funny, because everyone thinks it’s got to be this incredible story. We’re just like, “Yeah, because we can predict the future.”

Donning stage names Autobot (Curt Cameruci) and J2K (Josh Young), the boys first popped up on Chicago’s music radar in 2005, when the duo formed and hosted the “Get Outta’ the Hood” parties at local joint, Town Hall Pub. The event was a wildly successful, no-frills affair where the night would always end up in a massive dance party. Thanks to an increasingly supportive music scene, Flosstradamus have since gotten out of the hood. When MTV2 featured Josh’s sister, accurately named Kid Sister, on its My Block Chicago episode, the then rising hip-hop star landed Flosstradamus some airtime as well helping build some Floss buzz that scored the boys blurbs in publications like URB Magazine and Rolling Stone. In 2006, the duo hit the club circuit hard and hasn’t looked back since. Now having an at-length list of accolades, releases, and milestones, Flosstradamus are easily one of the most popular acts in dance music right now.

Putting a Floss spin on all of your favorites and delivering a crazy amount of energy to every set, Flosstradamus are going to tear up Sun City Music Festival, happening August 31st and September 1st. Buy your tickets today!

To steal a direct quote from Bristol native Eats Everything, “I like big bass and solid beats.” And while that is a very broad description of Eats, or Daniel Pearce’s booty-shaking productions, we can’t get enough of those basslines and tricked out drum beats which is why we are very excited to have Eats Everything join us for Sun City Music Festival, going down August 31st and September 1st.

Daniel Pearce’s vision for music has been molded from an early age. “I grew up listening to early hardcore at the start of the 90s, Ellis Dee, Carl Cox. Easygroove etc, and seriously into jungle when it emerged from the hardcore scene and the harder end of techno as well. One day a good friend played me a house record by the Rhythm Masters and from there on it was house all the way. I guess the strong musical vision comes from the fact that I have been listening to dance music and DJing for a long, long time and I have seen a lot of genres/styles come and go. I guess that I encompass a lot of those styles both old and current and try to do something unique.” It is that unique sound that has landed Pearce to the worldwide success he’s at now.

Eats Everything first caught our eye with his breakout release “Entrance Song” back in 2011. Pearce recalls how it was signed, “I made it in June 2010, a few labels that I sent it to turned it down and then it was meeting J Phlip from dirtybird at a club in Bristol in February that was the turning point really. I gave her the tracks, she loved them, passed them to Voitek and Greg from Catz n Dogz and the next day they emailed me asking to sign them. I couldn’t believe it as I was a massive fan of Pets Recordings, Catz n Dogz and J Phlip and it was amazing that they were into my music.”

Since the Entrance Song EP, Pearce has won massive support from heavyweights in wide array of genres including the heads at label dirtybird. “I had been sending stuff to Claude Von Stroke but to no avail, he was always polite and said it wasn’t quite right or whatever. Then he heard Justin Martin play “The Size” at Movement Festival earlier this year and the next day I had an email asking if he could sign it. It was signed to another label at the time, a really good one but not as big as dirtybird, so Vonstroke asked Worthy if he could sign it, Worthy said yes.”

So what can you expect when Eats Everything plays on our newly announced Beatport stage for Sun City Music Festival? Expect a lot of hard-hitting tracks from his own production other label buddies. Get to witness Eats Everything play a variety of house and incorporating funk, disco, hip-hop, and so much more at Sun City Music Festival. Buy your tickets today!