First Floor #18 – Is the Music Press Just Going to Pretend That EDM Festival in Saudi Arabia Didn't Happen?

a.k.a. The electronic music media's attitude toward MDL Beast has been somewhere between "suspiciously silent" and "alarmingly complicit."

Happy new year everyone.

You know, I was hoping that we could all ease into 2020. This time of year is usually pretty quiet, at least in the music industry, which always needs a few weeks to fully awaken from its end-of-year slumber. New releases are scarce, and even semi-interesting tidbits of news can be hard to come by, so I was initially thinking tha…