Electronic music documentary premiere sparks an L.A. rave riot
Last night saw the L.A. premiere of Electric Daisy Carnival Experience, a documentary about the eponymous electronic music festival that’s meant to celebrate the positivity and togetherness of the still-thriving rave scene—an ideological spin that’s more important than ever after reports from last year’s EDC focused primarily on the 226 reported injuries and one likely drug-related death. Unfortunately, the film now has its own publicity hurdle to overcome: The screening at Grauman’s Chinese Theater turned into a near-riot when one of the film’s stars, DJ Kaskade, used his Twitter account to announce that he planned to throw an impromptu block party in front of the theater—which sounded like a whole lot of fun to thousands of people, who shut down Hollywood Boulevard within hours.
