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Porter Robinson Accused Of Inciting A Riot

by Your EDM Staff
April 29, 2013
in EDM News
Porter Robinson Accused Of Inciting A Riot

Last night at the Matador Music Festival in Santa Barbara, California, Porter Robinson was cut short during his set by city police. Scheduled to play through 11:30 pm, the police interrupted the event at 11:00 pm and asked Porter to stop playing which, Porter did not heed. He was right in the middle of playing his monster tune, Language, and instead of stopping, he decided to finish the song. The police cut the power and accused Porter of “inciting a riot” and was nearly arrested for failing to comply. Porter later updated his twitter feed on the full story of what happened:

 

the cops cut me 35 minutes short and shut down this show halfway through language. really sorry to everyone to paid to see this show.

— porter robinson (@porterrobinson) April 28, 2013

 

i got on the mic and said “guys, the cops are shutting us down in 5 minutes. gonna play language. don’t get mad, stay positive.”

— porter robinson (@porterrobinson) April 28, 2013

 

the cops cut the power two minutes after that, claiming that i was ‘inciting a riot’ by explaining the situation to the crowd.

— porter robinson (@porterrobinson) April 28, 2013

 

the sheriff told me he was going to arrest me and seize all of my equipment ‘as evidence’. vindictive tyrant is embarrassed about the truth.

— porter robinson (@porterrobinson) April 28, 2013

 

UPDATE: We are now getting reports that the cops arrived to respond to a noise complaint filed by surrounding neighbors. We will keep you updated as we get the concrete facts.

 

Below is a video from the crowd which features the moment when the power was cut during Porter’s set. The exact time in the video is from 3:16 until the end. Although this is not much to go on, we will make sure to update as more information becomes readily available.

 

-Nick Ward @NickWard20

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Comments 115

  1. Eduardo Chavez says:
    10 years ago

    Like we all know, MURICA killing the electronic scene.

  2. Awad Jeeawody says:
    10 years ago

    OMG!

  3. Mikkel Theodor Karlsen says:
    10 years ago

    ‘Muricah!

  4. Ryan Hayes says:
    10 years ago

    Wow. Those cops needed to chill out, seriously. They should know Porter Robinson wouldn’t start a riot.

  5. Anthony Derry says:
    10 years ago

    They’re just intimidating by your amazing music you produce. So disrespectful how they treated you – I really hope everyone understood the situation.

  6. Jimmy McMinn says:
    10 years ago

    Ignorance is Bliss

  7. Jonathan Villalta says:
    10 years ago

    Hire a very good lawyer and sue,impky

  8. Chandler Meade says:
    10 years ago

    Why were the police there in the first place? What brought them there?

  9. RageTracks.com says:
    10 years ago

    CRAZAY!

  10. RageTracks.com says:
    10 years ago

    LANGUAGE WILL MAKE ANYONE GO CRAZY!

  11. Dakota Conrad says:
    10 years ago

    What brings cops to any edm party or event? They think its where they can cleanup real nice and bust alot of drug dealers, and they are probably right! Sure does make it sucky for the people just there for the music =/

  12. Alex Berriman says:
    10 years ago

    Noise complaint about a music festival? I don’t even…

  13. Sebastian Malinowski says:
    10 years ago

    I wonder if the same cops would have cut the power off to their own Nirvana concert back when they were young…

  14. Sebastian Malinowski says:
    10 years ago

    I wonder if the same cops would have cut the power off to their own Nirvana concert back when they were young…

  15. Shaun Warner says:
    10 years ago

    Nice one coppers. Those who didn’t know who Porter is , now does. You can’t buy that advertising.

  16. Shaun Warner says:
    10 years ago

    Nice one coppers. Those who didn’t know who Porter is , now does. You can’t buy that advertising.

  17. Kyle Barrie Abernethy says:
    10 years ago

    LOL

  18. BehudIn Nyström says:
    10 years ago

    Stupid americans!

  19. ToNy L Pdx says:
    10 years ago

    They should be sued for slander

  20. Jake Kovach says:
    10 years ago

    literally am taking the time to look him up on spotify now…

  21. Roger Kelly says:
    10 years ago

    rioting is the last thing that I want to do when I listen to language.
    damn pigs

  22. Dany Captn Béland says:
    10 years ago

    I second, this is bullshit!

  23. Spencer Alexander Leigh says:
    10 years ago

    What happened to noise until 11? Though this was pretty standard, but I guess people that don’t like to have fun decided it was 9. You don’t like the sound? Move to a state where they play the noise you enjoy hearing, assholes.

  24. Josh Conatser says:
    10 years ago

    He’s great… check out Spitfire. That bit right after the intro is sick mate

  25. KaNi Crabson says:
    10 years ago

    Same thing for people complaining about bad smell about a food festival. This is a complete nonsense.
    Guess that neighbourhood’s expecting everyone wearing headphones in a concert

  26. Danny Cusolito says:
    10 years ago

    Does everyone commenting about how dumb americans are realize that Porter Robinson is from the USA..

  27. William Pauley III says:
    10 years ago

    This is pretty angering! If you live near music festival grounds, then you know what to expect. Especially with a concert driving artist like Porter Robinson!

  28. MindControl Protocol Dubstep says:
    10 years ago

    Quite common in NZ. People move in to an area surrounding a place where there have been festivals for years, then they ring the noise control and complain about the noise. Dickheads

  29. Brandon Dunaway says:
    10 years ago

    Cops are true pieces of shit who have power lmao smh fuck em!

  30. Dimitri Kline says:
    10 years ago

    http://bit.ly/Va82an

  31. Michelle Barrett says:
    10 years ago

    ^this this this

  32. Ryan Shuster says:
    10 years ago

    Musical racism. this would never happen to a hip hop artist or a famous singer.

  33. Kevin A. Moran says:
    10 years ago

    …idiot humanity is idiot…

  34. Peter Tran says:
    10 years ago

    we had that up here in Minneapolis for one of the stages. it was pretty dope

  35. Leandro Ygonia says:
    10 years ago

    Californian police are such fucking twats this is really no surprise.

  36. Kimberly Torres says:
    10 years ago

    I officially have a problem with the police. Fuck them , for being so rude and cutting off a show and an amazing song.No Respect.. Fuck the police FTSFTSFTSFTSFTSFTSFTS FUCK THE SYSTEM!

  37. Lotus Revolt says:
    10 years ago

    True, but pigs don’t listen to nirvana, no fukkin way. Don’t compare the two, it makes me sick lol

  38. Ronin Cheburashka FaceKontrol says:
    10 years ago

    What’s Nirvana?

  39. Nicholas Entz says:
    10 years ago

    you are gonna have to repeat that… and make sense this time.

  40. Michael Iso Raw says:
    10 years ago

    They want to be mean uncle dick and pull the plug out right during a song. You can’t just do that! PORTER ROBINSON IS THE SHIT FOR NOT COMPLYING! I HOPE I WOULDn’t HAVE EITHER!

  41. Mason Duran says:
    10 years ago

    right. We just don’t call it a “riot”, is all.

  42. Pijanec Tomislav says:
    10 years ago

    It’s happening more often than you think in the US.

  43. Pijanec Tomislav says:
    10 years ago

    Lotus Revolt You mean the “pigs” that are doing their jobs just like your dad is probably doing his? Or do you mean the true “pigs” that gave the original order?

  44. Marc Leloux says:
    10 years ago

    Anyone knows the lyrics of The State? Yeah, exactly…

  45. Courtney Urbani says:
    10 years ago

    Not cool man

  46. Michael Storbeck says:
    10 years ago

    What I don’t get is why people live next to The Earl Warren Showgrounds and make noise complaints, they have concerts there all the time, I saw Adventure club and crizzly there and there was no problems with cops and noise complaints.

  47. Michael Storbeck says:
    10 years ago

    What I don’t get is why people live next to The Earl Warren Showgrounds and make noise complaints, they have concerts there all the time, I saw Adventure club and crizzly there and there was no problems with cops and noise complaints.

  48. Jess Hong says:
    10 years ago

    WHY

  49. Michael Iso Raw says:
    10 years ago

    Its cool of the police to just first thing shut the music off? I would of made durr just like porter it was definitely going to have to happen. Musix isnt noise pollution. Police state merica miltarize the sherf lulz

  50. Holden Nakamura says:
    10 years ago

    I guess the police just don’t understand our language ;P.

  51. Jontus Hodge says:
    10 years ago

    haha so true!

  52. Travolta McMilkies says:
    10 years ago

    Wow, the music is SUCH a problem. People having a funtime, good vibes. Noise complaint sounds fishy. This whole situation is just plain dumb. Sorry Porter, Sorry music lovers.

  53. Dinosaur says:
    10 years ago

    Nicholas Entz : Does everyone commenting about “how dumb Americans are”, realize that Porter Robinson is from the USA…?

    what doesn’t make sense about that?

  54. Alex Valenzuela says:
    10 years ago

    this has def happened to me before…. THANK THE LORD FOR IV FOOT PATROL.

  55. Ho-ting Corleone says:
    10 years ago

    Noise complaint? Bullshit

  56. Abu Bakr says:
    10 years ago

    oh dont mind him, he is just trying to be funny and get some likes on his comment..

  57. Zackary John F says:
    10 years ago

    what song is this by porter?

  58. Mathew Scanlan says:
    10 years ago

    good, that tune sounded shite anyway.
    just isn’t DnB, know what I mean?

  59. Caleb Harlow says:
    10 years ago

    then being smartest is the hardest

  60. Caleb Harlow says:
    10 years ago

    you argument is literally the oldest form of being wrong ever. Your saying that most cops would jump if told to jump off a bridge, that they are blind followers of a system. so please don’t protect cops in any way ever please. They are solely here to suppress the population even if that is not the individuals intent.

  61. Miracolo Cogno says:
    10 years ago

    Idolo Porter <3.

  62. Alexander Buss says:
    10 years ago

    lol a cop isnt allowed to listen to nirvana and all cops are followers of our government system and have no free will? haha you guys probably just have fucked up too much in your lives and blame the cops for trying to set you straight. chill out umad

  63. Chris Brubaker says:
    10 years ago

    I don’t think you understand what slander is.

  64. Chris Brubaker says:
    10 years ago

    Language

  65. Alex Ramos says:
    10 years ago

    do u even MURICA?

  66. Ryan Gene Lefief says:
    10 years ago

    Lotus Revolt , I have plenty of “pig” friends, all of which would love to hear Nirvana.

  67. Shafi Shaik says:
    10 years ago

    this is ridiculous…… tht was music festival…. and wat abt event manager organizer…where the fuck them at..

  68. Bobby Iacobelli says:
    10 years ago

    If they want silence and void instead of the sound and colors and life, maybe they should consider the alternative…buzzkills…

  69. Reuben DeOro says:
    10 years ago

    Pijanec Tomislav Nope he means PIGS that over glorify their job as a PUBLIC SERVANT.

  70. Bobby Iacobelli says:
    10 years ago

    Maybe so…but like getting stopped mid-orgasm its surely gonna incite some wrath

  71. Bobby Iacobelli says:
    10 years ago

    Lots of cops are good peoples…but i’m sure the Gestapo had a few sweethearts in its ranks from time to time too…but cmon lets get real here..the minute any music scene starts respecting authority too much, is the minute it loses it’s purpose lies down and dies.

  72. Manuel DjPekas Veliz says:
    10 years ago

    FUCK THE POLICE! CAN’T FIGHT REAL CRIME SO THEY STOP THE PARTY THEY CAN’T ENJOY! FUCK THEM!

  73. John Molina says:
    10 years ago

    Americans aren’t Americans without a sense of self-hatred!

  74. John Molina says:
    10 years ago

    Americans aren’t Americans without a sense of self-hatred!

  75. Andryu Mori says:
    10 years ago

    I was peaking during that song.

  76. Andryu Mori says:
    10 years ago

    🙁

  77. Brian M Clinedinst Wymer says:
    10 years ago

    cops are low lifes if they cant have fun they got to ruin everyone elses fun… that’s just how snitches are programmed these days.

  78. Debbie Graham says:
    10 years ago

    speaking of snitches… lol

  79. Rozie Kim says:
    10 years ago

    how did I NOT know about this festival.. and that is crap.

  80. Rozie Kim says:
    10 years ago

    how did I NOT know about this festival.. and that is crap.

  81. Antonio Merchant-Bunkley says:
    10 years ago

    ^ Has never been here…because he’d get his face stomped even worse than his profile picture depicts it…

  82. Justin Scott Flores says:
    10 years ago

    thats what happens when you have a bunch of old conservative fucks living around the area who can’t appreciate the feelings and freedoms of music, they SHOULD’VE STARTED A RIOT!!!! Next music festival, DO IT!!! #RIOTFORMUSIC

  83. Holden Laplante says:
    10 years ago

    That’s Bullshit, I would of been soo pissed if I was there.

  84. Danny Cusolito says:
    10 years ago

    @Nicholas Entz: People are commenting on this article claiming america is “killing the edm scene” and what not, on an article about an amazing american DJ who is also being backed up by everyone. Do you need me to sound out the words for you too?

  85. Aiden Aslin says:
    10 years ago

    That is so true he should be put in jail for that

  86. Dominic Souza-Larimore says:
    10 years ago

    what would make me want to riot though is having language cutoff right before the chorus

  87. Alec DiRienzo says:
    10 years ago

    at 2:22 it sounds like those dragons from the lord of the rings are right there!

  88. Alex Leach says:
    10 years ago

    Doesn’t matter where he’s from; we’re talking about America as a country, not as an individual from it.

  89. John Paul Carrillo says:
    10 years ago

    HOLY CRAP! THIS IS MY VIDEO! XDDDDD

  90. Anny Lola says:
    10 years ago

    seirously

  91. Anny Lola says:
    10 years ago

    Cutting off the power is more likely to cause a riot since music=love, no music=no love=RIOT TIME!

  92. Aiden Cole O says:
    10 years ago

    Yours isn’t much better champ…

  93. Aiden Cole O says:
    10 years ago

    Pihanec, Their job is to keep the peace and protect the common good, Shutting him off in the middle of the song is just a show of power… actually a clear abuse of power… Interesting some of the types attracted to becoming an officer.

  94. Max Peng says:
    10 years ago

    Who riots to Language.. seriously?

  95. Cory Lee says:
    10 years ago

    Cops be hatin’

  96. Justin Hien says:
    10 years ago

    Oh, yeah this is the article I read I didn’t know it was your video

  97. Danny Cusolito says:
    10 years ago

    an individual cut the power on the stage; not the entire country.

  98. Danny Cusolito says:
    10 years ago

    an individual cut the power on the stage; not the entire country.

  99. Jonas Schiefferdecker says:
    10 years ago

    A.C.A.B.

  100. Cesar Vences says:
    10 years ago

    I have a better quality video

  101. Erivera Reyes says:
    10 years ago

    Bacon.r

  102. Roger Kelly says:
    10 years ago

    Bobby and Dominic both good points. But as a world famous dj think porter intended to play language the whole way through though, that would’ve pacified the crowd for sure. The fuzz made the bright decision of drop blocking haha.

  103. Daniel Wells says:
    10 years ago

    How dare they cut the power through a truly amazing song like Language… F**k the police.

  104. Frank Clementi says:
    10 years ago

    What is unknown to our generation, is that riots commonly broke out at Grateful Dead shows. These riots are what kept the music going.

  105. Jason Weinberg says:
    10 years ago

    seen plenty of parties shutdown in my time but the one that stands out the most was the chemical bros being shut down midset at tangeirne in revere. the place was totally peaking when the plug got pulled.

  106. Angelo Skrodzki says:
    10 years ago

    this is stupid. edm music is dying in America bc this.

  107. Seth Blake says:
    10 years ago

    soo…a noise complaint at a Porter Robisnon concert….then they arrested him for starting a riot? a riot….at a house music concert…i don’t even…

  108. Jim Johnson says:
    10 years ago

    That shit wouldn’t happen in LA my niggas.

  109. Grant Phillips says:
    10 years ago

    Lol. Every major riot of the past 20 years has been in los Angeles.

  110. Grant Phillips says:
    10 years ago

    Lakers lost. Riot!!!!!!

  111. Jim Johnson says:
    10 years ago

    lol not like that tho

  112. Jon Smith says:
    10 years ago

    lol. Tazer Tom…

  113. GTE+ says:
    10 years ago

    lol

  114. Christopher Dimes says:
    10 years ago

    fuck those little piggies. I think we can all get behind something and that is these police officers! lets fuck em in the ass!

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