Memorial Day Weekend 2013: Vegas Showdown

Memorial Day Weekend. The official beginning to summer time pool parties and sun drenched electronic music. For sinners in their city, Vegas is the Pu-Pu platter of DJs.

The hottest dayclubs and the coolest nightclubs will all feature some of the world’s top talent, from one end of the strip to the other.

Light Nightclub Turns On MDW 2013

Starting from the south, Mandalay Bay’s newest nightclub, The LIGHT, a EDM lover’s dream of Cirque de Soleil combined with raging beats, will be having it’s opening weekend for Memorial Day. They booked Zedd with Hook n Sling for Friday, Sebastian Ingrosso with Otto Knows on Saturday night, and his Swedish House Mafia buddy Axwell will be rocking the joint Sunday night. Check out The LIGHT’s website for more details.

The Daylight beach club has Axwell & Zedd on Saturday, J.Cole with Eric DLux on Sunday and Harlem Shake‘s Baauer on Monday. Don’t forget their late night pool shows, Axwell on Wednesday and Grammy-winning Skrillex on Sunday night. Ticketing can be found on Daylight’s website.

Next up is the still new Hakkasan and it’s Wet Republic Dayclub counterpart. Starting with Laidback Luke‘s Thursday performance (by the way, he’ll be making his way to El Santo in Scottsdale for a set Sunday as well!), Hakkasan will also include Tiësto on Friday, Calvin Harris on Saturday, Steve Aoki AND deadmau5 for back to back sets on Sunday, finishing off with Hardwell on Monday night. Tickets can be bought on the Hakkasan Las Vegas website.

Wet Republic has their larger than life set list as well, with R3HAB and Tommy Trash Friday during the day, Tiësto on Saturday, Calvin Harris Sunday, and deadmau5 on Monday. Tickets are featured on the Wet Republic website.

Don’t forget, trap-crazed ravers. Major Lazer will be bumping Haze at Aria. Here is the Haze ticketing website.

Marquee Memorial Day Weekend 2013 Teaser

Prep yourself trance family, for The Marquee Nightclub & Dayclub has you covered. Arty‘s Dayclub performance will be a huge kickoff, especially with Armin van Buuren‘s White Party show that night with trance giants W&W. Gareth Emery will jump start Marquee’s Wet Wonderland series Saturday, ending with Kaskade‘s Summer Lovin’ residency that night.

You can expect Kaskade back at the Dayclub Sunday and Benny Benassi to finish out the night. Sander van Doorn (who’ll also be rocking the tables at El Santo on Saturday) will have a Monday residency during the day. Concluding their massive weekend that night will be Dash Berlin. Ticketing for both the Dayclub and Nightclub at Marquee Las Vegas can be found on the Marquee Las Vegas website.

Finally, we’re headed north to check out the DJs at all four Wynn venues, XS, Surrender, Tryst and their daytime dance floor, Encore Beach Club. Knife Party will be blasting Surrender Wednesday night. Then comes Cedric Gervais at Surrender and AN21 & Max Vangeli at Tryst that evening. Dirty South will spin at Encore Beach Club Friday afternoon, while that night’s events will include Eric Prydz at Surrender, Avicii at XS and RL Grime at Tryst.

MDW 2013 at XS Las Vegas

Steve Angello joins sun bathers at Encore Beach Club Saturday, while Porter Robinson rocks Surrender that night, Afrojack cranks it up at XS, and Lil Jon pumps up Tryst. Avicii returns Sunday at Encore Beach Club, and Above & Beyond will join the mix with their newly minted residency with Wynn at Surrender that night while David Guetta plays at XS. Finally, David Guetta goes to Encore Beach Club Monday afternoon, and Steve Angello with Afrojack thrill XS. Tickets can be found on the Wynn website.

This might be harder than deciding which of you kids you like more. Good luck! We’ll see you in Vegas!