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"HARD, the influential, six-year-old dance-music festival that typically stacks its headliners with men like Skrillex, Deadmau5 and Diplo, will launch a &amp;quot;weekender&amp;quot; of all-female DJs in New York and Los Angeles next spring. Gary Richards, the festival&amp;apos;s founder and a performing DJ known as Destructo, won&amp;apos;t name the stars, but he promises &amp;quot;all the dope-ass girl DJs that play HARD &amp;#x2013; and some new ones that haven&amp;apos;t played before.&amp;quot;\r\nSee Photo Highlights From Hard Day of the Dead\r\nMaya Jane Coles, Annie Mac, Heidi and J. Phlip have been on various HARD bills in recent years, including last weekend&amp;apos;s Day of the Dead and last summer&amp;apos;s touring festival. Although electronic dance music festivals have taken off throughout the U.S. over the past decade &amp;#x2013; the Electric Daisy Carnival draws as many as 300,000 fans in a single weekend every year &amp;#x2013; even the best female DJs rarely make it to the top tier.\r\nRichards is planning the spring festival to change that, without pandering or stereotyping. &amp;quot;People are like, &amp;apos;It&amp;apos;s the new Lilith Fair,&amp;apos;&amp;quot; he says. &amp;quot;I&amp;apos;m like, &amp;apos;What the fuck are they talking about?&amp;apos;\r\n&amp;quot;I don&amp;apos;t think it matters if you&amp;apos;re male or female, as to how good you are making music or performing as a DJ,&amp;quot; he continues. &amp;quot;Why not have more women involved and have a spotlight shine on them? I look at my artist page on people who&amp;apos;ve played HARD, and it&amp;apos;s kind of dude-driven. I&amp;apos;d like to balance that out more. It&amp;apos;s important to showcase more female talent in this space.&amp;quot;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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