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The summer is typically when EDM acts travel to dance-music mecca Ibiza, Spain, but as dance music's upsurge in popularity in America continues, this year, all the action will be coming to a town near you.

Last year, L.A.-based "King of Cool" Kaskade brought America the Identity Festival, the country's first touring dance music festival, and now he's stepping things up with the 50-plus-date Freaks of Nature Tour. And he's bringing a few friends along for the tour, which runs from June through August (including a stop to perform at Lollapalooza).

"I'm bringing along my homeboys Alvin Risk, Fareoh, Treasure Fingers and Le Castle Vania, to a city near you really soon," Kaskade revealed to MTV News. "It's going to be a ridiculous summer!"

To mark the occasion, and certainly in an endearing salute to his California fans he got his start in music in San Francisco Kaskade debuted a video on Monday (April 23) announcing two blockbuster dates, one of which will make Kaskade the first solo electronic dance musician to ever headline Los Angeles' Staples Center.

The video begins at the scene of Kaskade's headline-grabbing 2011 impromptu street performance in Hollywood, where thousands of fans took to the streets with the LAPD on the scene, in full riot gear.

Through a montage of big, banging performances, set to his latest single with Skrillex, "Lick it," Kaskade revealed July 27 and 28 dates in L.A. and San Francisco, respectively, reminding the state of California that "I have not forgotten you."

"We are ready to rock it out on the Freaks of Nature Tour," Kaskade told MTV News. "Had to end that announcement with the West Coast ... I can't wait to get back to California!"

Pre-sales for Los Angeles and San Francisco will be available Tuesday with general on-sale tickets becoming available Friday at 10 a.m. PST. For a full list of tour dates, go to freaksofnaturetour.com.

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Whatever entrepreneurial renaissance is happening, there is still a need to encourage more women and minorities to climb on the bandwagon.

Tamar-Melissa Huggins decided to tackle this issue first-hand after watching an episode of the Black in America television show that featured the NewME Accelerator, which supports minority entrepreneurs in the United States.

Inspired, Ms. Huggins created the Toronto-based Driven Accelerator Group, a digital startup accelerator for businesses led by minorities women, African-Canadians and South Asians.

Driven Accelerator was created to bridge the gap we see in the tech community when it comes to minority founders, said its founder and chief executive officer in an interview.

I feel we are offering something unique and different because we are trying to provide exposure to minority founders, and encourage minorities to start the next Facebook or the next Twitter. I have always had a passion to help other people when it comes to business, and I felt starting the accelerator was the best thing to do.

Driven will operate a 12-week program that will provide five companies with guidance on business and prototype development and the preparation of a pitch for a demo day that will cap things off.

Ms. Huggins said she is interested in people who have created mobile computing, Web-based and cloud computing startups. Driven will take a 4-per-cent equity stake in each company that is part of the program.

These are people who understand their specific market and have a prototype, but need the assistance on the business end of it, said Ms. Huggins, who has a public relations and digital background.

Each company will also receive assistance from a team of mentors that includes Ceridian Dayforce president David Ossip, technology journalist Amber MacArthur, Social Media Group founder Maggie Fox and marketing executive April Dunford. A mentor will make a presentation to a company about a particular topic, as well as participate in an informal dinner series during which entrepreneurs will have the chance to ask questions and share their opinions.

Driven, which will be housed at the Foundery co-working space in downtown Toronto, has not raised money yet to provide financial help to companies that join the accelerator.

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