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Dance headliner Illenium has taken to X to respond to fans roasting him online for using artificial intelligence to design a flier for his upcoming four-night run at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco.

On Monday, Illenium announced four dates at the San Francisco venue, July 19-20 and 26-27. A number of fans suspected the artwork for the show poster was created using AI and took to Twitter to roast the dance star. The image features a man, who is supposed to be Illenium, wearing a backward San Francisco Giants hat while standing in the middle of the Golden Gate Bridge staring at the city skyline.

Fans were quick to call out the poster, calling it ugly and complaining that Illenium should pay an actual artist for artwork rather than using AI.

Earlier Tuesday (June 4), Illenium copped to the AI allegations, writing on X, “Hey guys, I hear all ur feedback on the sf art. My mgmt worked with (and paid) a designer on a few options. Our team had also created an ai version to help conceptualize. My mgmt ended up using the ai art because they’re stupid and have no taste. However, we still worked with designers to create the final result. We realize now that a few elements were sloppy and missed by us. New artwork incoming.”

A number of fans roasted Illenium for his response, with user @chieflaser writing, “Blaming it on your management like you don’t have the final say? Tough look, while @LikRRaider mocked the fan outcry, writing, “Why are you caving to people on the internet? It’s really not that big of a deal. Pay people for the time they came up with designs, but if you find you like something more then stick to it. People, if you want your art used then you should probably get better at it.”

Fellow dance star John Summit weighed in too, writing in the replies: “the mgmt dunk lmfaoooo if we had it their way flyers would just be date & location w ticket link via notes app.”

Artist presale for all four shows opens Wednesday (June 5) here.

The long-awaited followup to Jamie xx‘s debut album is now a reality. On Tuesday (June 4), the British producer announced that his sophomore studio LP, In Waves, will be released via his own Young label on Sept. 20.

The 12-track album will follow xx’s debut solo album, In Colour, which was released in May of 2015 to broad critical acclaim. Containing classics including the Young Thug and Popcaan collab “I Know There’s Gonna Be (Good Times)” and “Loud Places” with his bandmate from The xx, Romy, the album spent five weeks on the Billboard 200, peaking at No. 21 in June of 2015.

The album announcement comes in tandem with a new single, “Treat Each Other Right.” The cerebral dance-floor heater comes with a music video directed by Rosie Marks. This is the second single from In Waves, following May’s “Baddy on the Floor” with Honey Dijon.

Jamie xx shared on Instagram Tuesday the indeed very wavy album artwork and wrote, “My new album, In Waves will be out on September 20th. I am so unbelievably happy. It’s been a while…and a lot has happened in that time. Ups and downs, growing up, figuring stuff out and then forgetting it all many times over. Life changing events and world changing events. These waves that we have all experienced together and alone.

“I wanted to make something fun, joyful and introspective all at once. The best moments on a dance floor are usually that for me. I can’t wait to share it with you.”

To that end, the producer’s summer and fall tour schedule includes festival sets at Glastonbury, Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago, HARD Summer in Los Angeles, Portola in San Francisco and III Points in Miami.

Check out “Treat Each Other Right” below:

One of the busiest producers in dance music just added another big moment to his calendar, with John Summit today (May 29) announcing that he’ll release his debut album on July 12.

The project is titled Comfort In Chaos and will be released via Darkroom and Summit’s own Experts Only label. The album announcement follows a string of recent singles, including the recently released “Go Back,” the Hayla collaboration “Shiver” and last summer’s official remix of the Kaskade and deadmau5 classic “I Remember.” Summit’s catalog has generated 152.7 million on-demand official U.S. streams, according to Luminate.

In a statement, Summit says that “Trying to find peace in chaos is the overarching theme of this album – this is a far more emotional, melodic body of work for me, because it’s my most introspective work to date. John Summit is the performing act, but when I write music I get more vulnerable – while writing this album, I had to go from being in the mindset of John Summit to being John Schuster, my real name.”

The album’s cover art taps into themes of peace, chaos, life and death and was created by Puerto Rican visual artist Marcos Alvarado, who also made the visuals for a number of Summit’s recent singles. See this cover image below.

Summit is one of the most in-demand dance artist of the moment, with a series of recent major sets (including performing twice over each weekend of Coachella) leading up to a headlining show at Madison Square Garden on June 29. Beyond that, Summit has 26 other club and festival dates on his summer and fall schedule, with more to be announced. This grinding pace recently lead commenters on to suggest that Summit might “crash out” like the late producer Avicii, an observation Summit addressed on TikTok earlier this week.

“Please stop making this comparison, it’s really extremely disrespectful,” he says in the clip. “Avicii was an incredible artist and incredibly inspiring to me, and if there’s any way to honor his legacy, it’s by not making those same mistakes. It’s just really really getting on my nerves. It’s not the easiest life I live, but I really f—ing love it. And I really love entertaining people, and making music is my life.”

Check out the official artwork for Summit’s Comfort in Chaos below:

Skrillex and Fred again.. both just expanded their U.S. summer tour schedule, announcing Friday (May 24) that they’re playing a show together at San Francisco’s Civic Center Plaza on June 1.

“Fred and I have way too much new music we need to test out so we’re going to throw a rave in San Francisco next week BRB,” Skrillex wrote on X to announce the event. Tickets for the show went on sale Tuesday (May 28).

This last-minute show expands Skrillex’s U.S. summer tour schedule by a third, with the producer playing a headlining set at Lightning in a Bottle near Bakersfield, Calif., this past Sunday and a set scheduled for Lollapalooza in Chicago this August.

Meanwhile, Fred again.. is headlining Bonnaroo in June and before that will play three headlining sets at the Frost Amphitheater in Stanford, Calif., June 4-6. Skrillex also made a surprise appearance during a Fred again.. set in Mexico City earlier this month.

The pair have not performed together in the U.S. in an official capacity since headlining Coachella with Four Tet in 2023, when the trio — who earned the name “Pangbourne House Mafia” after making music together in Pangbourne, England — was swapped in as the festival’s Sunday night closers after Frank Ocean pulled out of the show. That trio made their U.S. debut in February 2023 when they headlined Madison Square Garden, with the show selling out in two minutes.

Details for the San Francisco show are scarce, but the space can hold approximately 3,000 people, according to the San Francisco Recreation & Parks Department.