Illenium Rising

• Published in: Billboard Vol. 136; no. 4; pp. 40 - 45
• Main Author: Bain, Katie
• Format: Trade Publication Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York P-MRC 09-03-2024
• Subjects: Bass music; Dance music; Drug overdose; Electronic music; Musical performances; Pandemics; Las Vegas Nevada; United States > US
• ISSN: 0006-2510

The friend found Miller unresponsive, thrust naloxone - the opioid overdose reversal medication - up his nose and dialed 911. If not for his mom's sense that something was wrong, it's unlikely that I'd be here in Miller's house on this chilly February afternoon in Los Angeles to talk with him about his incredible success as electronic producer Illenium. Sitting in the cave-like home studio within his large and otherwise light-filled house, Miller, 33, dotes on his dogs - the regal Belgian Malinois Grace and a small but fierce blonde dachshund whose dedicated Instagram account has 23,000 followers and for whom the house's Wi-Fi network, "Palace du Peanut," is named - holding them in arms covered in sacred geometry and Eye of Sauron tattoos. Miller says he only bought the L.A. house in 2021 because "I was spending so much money on hotels and studio spaces here that it made more financial sense." With nearly 33,000 attendees, the July 3, 2021, performance, according to Boxscore, broke the record for the biggest dance music event for a single headliner in U.S. history.