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While popular electronic music has become synonymous with hugely inflated ticket prices, tables full of empty bottles, and mindlessly overproduced big-room bangers, Miami's...
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Ostensibly, Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week provide thousands of very serious electronic dance music fans with an annual opportunity to meet, mingle, and discuss...
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Attention, party animals! Sweden's Miike Snow will break it down at Ultra Music Festival and you don't wanna be caught slippin'.
Of course, Miike Snow is not a man. It's a...
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If Neon Indian's Ultra Music Festival set is anywhere near as cartoonishly trippy as its Adult Swim-produced video for newish single "Fallout," get ready to have your brain...
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Rising Swedish star Avicii (AKA Tim Bergling) is one of the hottest DJ-producers in contemporary house music. His massive hit "Levels," which samples recently deceased Etta...
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In terms of bleep-bloop music, few do it better than the French. Over the past decade, Pedro Winter's Paris-based Ed Banger Records has dropped some of house music's dopest...
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When French musician Anthony Gonzalez began recording as M83, his deeply dreamy signature sound was a total anomaly. The year was 2001, and the electronic music world was...
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A few years ago, David Guetta was just another house music DJ who was huge in Europe and not nearly as famous in the United States. Then came 2009, the year the Parisian (one...
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Born Steven Ellison and known as FlyLo to his fans, Flying Lotus isn't like most acts you'll encounter at Ultra Music Festival. The Los Angeles native doesn't make dance music...
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Before Steve Aoki was voted DJ Most Likely to Waste Champagne, he already had a pretty sweet reputation as the head of Dim Mak Records.
When he started the label in 1996,...
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What began as a fairly modest after-hours bash at downtown Miami's former Studio A space in 2006 has evolved into the WMC event par excellence. We're talking about Crosstown...
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What do bass and barbecue sauce have in common? Well, they're the main ingredients of Dirtybird's infamous Golden Gate BBQ parties.
Of course, Dirtybird is the beloved label...
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Known to fanatics and followers as the High Duke of Dance or simply PVD, professional party starter Paul Van Dyk (born Matthias Paul) is a total beat-freaking legend.
Over...
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For the past few years, Made Event's Sunday School made up a big slice of the underground house and techno pie during Winter Music Conference week, especially with...
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When you're talking about French electronic dance music, the first name that comes to mind is David Guetta, right? Umm, that's only if your EDM is spoon-fed to you by Top 40...
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We certainly don't need to tell you that the Brits rule electronic dance music. London specifically has been an EDM capital for decades, and the scene doesn't ever seem to...
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Paul Bearer has a face like a bulldog, knuckles like rebar, a heart full of granite, and a chin made of steel. He has a voice like a rock slide, a sick sense of humor, and the...
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The ever-rolling bass waves created by Miami's tectonic booty claps in the '80s have tsunamied through space-time and crashed across Canadian borders.
The proof: low-end...
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Octogenarians, rejoice! Fellow 80-something and Great Depression survivor Tony Bennett will be at a South Florida casino for a two-night stand this weekend. Both Friday and...
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Soulfulness can come from unlikely sources. For electronic duo Junior Boys, that means the industrial Canadian city of Hamilton, Ontario, and the considerable pipes of...