Add Electric Daisy Carnival and the entire concept of raves, for that matter, to the list of things Judge Judy didn't know about before donning her doily for work one day, and clearly still would rather not know about ( Grindr and e-cigarettes are also recent entries on that list).

When people respond to modern dance music, chances are they are responding to drops. A drop happens when the beat comes back after temporarily exiting the sound design. In drop-fueled dance music, this happens every few minutes — the beat asserts itself, people freak out, their interest wanes, the song breaks down, the beat dissolves and then drops back in, asserting itself all over again, making people freak out all over again. And over and over and over again.

This was the shuttle bus. I had to stand because the kids took all the seats. It was like the subway but with more bass.

The premiere of rave documentary Electric Daisy Carnival Experience at the famous Grauman's Chinese Theater has reportedly been cancelled after a larger-than-expected crowd showed up to see DJ Kaskade and ended up shutting down part of Hollywood Blvd.

Doctors, who are boring buzz-kills if there ever were such a thing, think that Los Angeles shouldn't let the publicly-owned Coliseum stadium hold "government-encouraged … drug fest[s]" like the Electric Daisy Carnival. What happened to PLUR, man? [LAT]