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Martin Garrix
Agganis Arena — Boston, MA
Martin Garrix
Agganis Arena — Boston, MA

Martin Garrix became the youngest producer ever to top the Billboard Hot 100 when 'Animals' hit in 2013, when he was 17. The Dutch DJ built his sound around infectious, buildable melodies and had that rare knack for making club tracks that also worked on mainstream radio. After 'Animals,' he kept the momentum with 'Scared to Be Lonely' and 'There For You,' collaborating with artists like Dua Lipa and Troye Sivan while maintaining his reputation as someone who actually knows how to structure a dance track. His sets tend to lean progressive—slower builds, layered production, less about banger-after-banger and more about patience with the crowd.

Garrix's shows are methodical rather than frantic. He reads the room carefully, building tension over long stretches. The crowd tends to be patient with him in a way they aren't with everyone—they know something's coming and they wait for it. His production values are slick, his transitions clean.

Known for Animals, Scared to Be Lonely, There For You, Citadel, Forbidden Voices

Martin Garrix touched down in Boston back in February 2014 at Royale, still riding the wave of 'Animals,' the track that had made him a teenager with a legitimate claim to electronic music relevance. The Dutch producer was early to the big room house thing, before it became the default setting for festival main stages everywhere. At Royale—that narrow downtown venue that's seen everything—he played the usual suspects from his nascent catalog, the kind of drops that were still capable of feeling novel on a dancefloor. It was the sort of show that mattered more in hindsight than it probably felt at the time, a data point in Boston's relationship with electronic music when the genre was still figuring out how to age.

Boston's electronic music scene has always been fragmented, caught between the city's indie rock identity and the touring circuit that passes through with big-name DJs. The venues that host electronic acts—Royale, Middlesex, the Sinclair—tend to draw a mix of students and transplants rather than a unified community. Progressive house and festival-ready bigroom sounds like Garrix's have found their audience here, but it's never been a city known for developing its own electronic producers or cultivating deep underground movements.

Stay in the Back Bay neighborhood—it's walkable, lined with brownstones, and positioned between the best dining and the waterfront. Book a table at No. 9 Park for New American cooking that actually justifies the hype, or hit Oleana in nearby Cambridge if you want something fresher and less fussy. Spend an afternoon at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, a genuinely strange and rewarding art collection housed in a deliberately eccentric mansion. The Prudential Center has decent shopping if that's your thing, and the waterfront is legitimately beautiful for a walk before the show.

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