Garrix is managed by Scooter Braun, best known as Justin Bieber’s manager and, more recently, Kanye West’s. He is promoting “ In the Name of Love,” his new single with Bebe Rexha, which is being co-released through his own imprint, STMPD RCRDS.

He resembles a human smiley-face emoji, the personification of PLUR.īefore his set, Garrix is due at an iHeartRadio event across the Strip, where he is supposed to give a toast to a group of radio programmers. His friends call him “Marty.” The 20-year-old Dutch EDM superstar is here to headline a Las Vegas superclub in which he is too young to drink or gamble. Fresh-faced and beaming, he is wearing a long black tunic-style shirt and slightly resembles Zac Efron, or a boy priest. As if out of nowhere, Martin Garrix suddenly appears. The lobby is filled with tourists whose expectations for the Vegas experience were formed by Hollywood: They have come here expecting glamour, money, sex, and a tinge of atomic-age paranoia - the urgent desperation of chasing a pleasurable high into the night, and a cool, softly lit place to recover late into the next day.

When you walk into the the MGM Grand, the first thing you notice is the sillage of cigarette smoke and chlorine, conjuring classic Las Vegas sleaze in the best way.

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