Northwestern University's annual Philfest, a collaboration between A&O Productions and Students for Ecological and Environmental Development (SEED), tapped Frankfort, IL-based Sound Works Productions to provide audio production for the festival.
By Steve Harvey Described variously as "The New Rock and Roll," "the rave wave" and "new rave," EDM—electronic dance music—has become a major moneymaker in the United States in recent years. Having failed to ignite the U.S. public's imagination previously in the 1990s when it arrived from Europe marketed as electronica, EDM has now gone well and truly mainstream, in the process spawning a year-round schedule of festivals that, in some instances, attract audience numbers rivaling the legendary rock gatherings of yore, such as Woodstock and England's Isle of Wight.