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Ten Most Played-Out EDM Songs

Some songs just never die. You could run them into the ground at 100 mph, but they'll be right there around the corner, waiting to be dropped in the very next set you hear. Some of them have been around for decades. And some of them are new, but feel as old and used as a middle-aged whore. In a w ... More >>

Ten Best Music-Related Things Under $10 to Do in Miami This Weekend

"Everybody's working' for the weekend." Oh, Loverboy, you may have been wrong about a lot of things, but were you right about that.The weekend is finally and you can't let it go to waste because before you know it, it will disappear as quickly as Loverboy and the rest of the '80s faded away.That doe ... More >>

Six Best Parties on South Beach This Weekend

Winter Music Conference, Miami Music Week, and Ultra Music Festival are all over. But this is Miami. We don't just part one week out of the year. We keep the beat alive all year long! Some of the DJs can't stand to leave, and can you blame them? We've got the sexiest floors, the most lavish VIPs, a ... More >>

Win Free Passes to Exclusive Motorola Music Lounge and Party With EDM VIPs UPDATED

Sure, Ultra Music Festival is happening this weekend. But why party with everyone else, when you can party with the electronic dance music VIPs? The Motorola Music Lounge, presented by Sol Republic and hosted by Sirius XM, will return to an undisclosed location for the fourth consecutive year to se ... More >>

Top 13 Hardcore Ravers at Ultra 2013 in Animated GIF!

By Jacob KatelSociety got the best of ya? Go to Ultra Music Festival and leave the normal world behind. Here, you can feel free to get half naked, customize your brain, and put some neon in your life. Deep inside the endless well of bass, you just might find yourself. Here are 13 hardcore ravers w ... More >>

Ultra 2013 Starts Now! And EDM Has Conquered Miami, America, the World

Electronic dance music has conquered Miami. And America. And the world. For more than three decades, it had remained a mostly underground phenomenon, epitomized by illegal raves held beneath highway overpasses in the UK or after-hours parties thrown in downtown Detroit's abandoned warehouses. But o ... More >>

Ultra Music Festival 2013 Releasing Official Soundtrack From Tiesto, Avicii, 28 Others

Ultra Music Festival is nothing without the music. Well, that and the thousands of attendees. But the people wouldn't come knockin' if the beat didn't stay rockin'. That being said, the Ultra fest folks are working with the people at Ultra Records to bring you "what is guaranteed to be one of the b ... More >>

Ultra Music Festival 2013 Phase 2 Lineup: Alesso, Eric Prydz, Snoop Dogg, Tons More

Just when you thought the party couldn't get any better, Ultra Music Festival has announced its Phase 2 lineup. So let's not bother with the formalities. Here's who's been added: Alesso, Benny Benassi, Dirty South, Dog Blood (Boys Noize & Skrillex), Eric Prydz, Fedde Le Grand, Hardwell, Loco D ... More >>

Opium Group's Miami Music Week 2013 Phase One Lineup: Afrojack, Digweed, Ten Others

It's that time of year, beat freaks. The MIA is being flooded with uhntz-uhntz. And contributing to this dangerously rising tide, the Opium Group has just revealed eight shows at four clubs for Miami Music Week 2013. Oh, and that's only Phase One. From March 13 to 24, a relentless six-day stretch ... More >>

Miami's 13 Best New Year's Eve Parties

Miami's 13 Best New Year's Eve 2013 Parties

When Miami throws an end-of-year blowout, it's guaranteed that everyone is going home broke. And drunk. And accompanied by some creepy-sexy stranger who'll ask for money in the morning. So if you wanna wake up in 2013 with empty pockets, a booze-damaged brain, and a bed full of hot mess, check out ... More >>

LIV Miami's Massive NYE Week: Diplo, Dada Life, Calvin Harris, Afrojack

Spoiler alert: The world isn't about to end. But that doesn't mean we can't drink like it will. At LIV, the club rats will saying goodbye to 2012 with almost a whole week of superstar DJs and an endless supply of champagne. If you party hard enough, just wait for the apex of the set and squint .. ... More >>

Y100's Jingle Ball at the BB&T Center December 8

Six Best Club Parties on South Beach This Week

Welcome to SoBe. A strange and beautiful seaside oasis where it's considered perfectly normal to spend one's entire life wandering barefoot and half-naked through the streets and across the sands in pursuit of fallen coconuts and horny tourists. Other "normal" South Beach behavior: Auditioning for ... More >>

Six Best South Beach Club Parties November 8 to 14

Who Wants Free Tickets for Afrojack's Jacked Tour at Mansion Miami?

Whether unloadin' uhntz-uhntz at Ultra Music Festival or gettin' totally Jacked on South Beach, this Dutchman always comes equipped with his own MIA club crew, including "the tall guy with the weird glasses and the big afro." But like all true party pros, Nick Van De Wall (AKA Afrojack) is endless ... More >>

Y100 Jingle Ball Lineup Confirmed: Justin Bieber! Flo Rida! Psy! Definitely!

Nobody balls harder than the Y100 Jingle Ball. Earlier this week, we here at Crossfade posted a leaked copy of the annual holiday concert's 2012 talent roster. The rumored superstars: Justin Bieber! Flo Rida! Psy! Ke$ha! Enrique Iglesias! One Republic! Fun.! Afrojack! Zedd! And six other superawe ... More >>

Y100's Jingle Ball 2012 Lineup Leaked: Justin Bieber, Flo Rida, and Psy ... Maybe

Thanks to the Internet, nothing is a secret. Were you drunk leaving a club this weekend? That little gem is probably on some bouncer's Instagram as we speak. Are you sexting your nanny? A screenshot of that will be on Facebook in no time unless you give her a raise. And if you leave an importa ... More >>

Afrojack Announces Second Leg of Jacked Tour, Coming to Mansion Miami on November 9

Wanna get Jacked? Again? That's right ... Even though Mr. Nick van de Wall (better known among beat freaks as Afrojack) just slammed Miami with a two-night stand in June, the 24-year-old DJ, producer, fist-pumper, vodka-guzzler, and certified Pitbull bro is already heading back to the Beach. Havin ... More >>

Happy Birthday, Michael Jackson! The Five Worst Posthumous Insults to MJ's Memory

Poor little Michael Jackson. He was a weirdo. But on his 54th birthday, we ask ourselves, "Was the King of Pop ever really happy?" Maybe when he was dancing. Or hugging loyal fans. Or riding his totally awesome ferris wheel. But we can almost guarantee he wouldn't be happy with the way we've all ... More >>

Ten Richest DJs: From Pauly D to Deadmau5, Swedish House Mafia, Skrillex, and Tiesto

See also "The 15 Richest Musicians: From Jay-Z to Rihanna, Justin Bieber, and Dr. Dre" and "Eight Richest Musicians in Their Teens and 20s." Dear haters ... Even though beefcake-y blonde Dutch disc jockey Tiësto is kind of a corporate whore, he's also a pranksterish dude who enjoys talking shit, ... More >>

Ultra Music Festival TV Hits YouTube, Free Stream of Can U Feel It EDM Documentary

We want our UMF TV. And this is it ... A new YouTube channel featuring original EDM-themed content from the people at Ultra Music Festival and Final Kid productions. The channel premieres worldwide on Wednesday, July 11, with UMF Revisited - Episode #1: Avicii which follows the Swedish superstar ... More >>

DJ Paris Hilton Pisses Off Samantha Ronson and Deadmau5: "It's Like Calling Myself a Doctor After Reading WebMD Twice"

See also "Paris Hilton's DJ Debut Sucked Balls" and "Jane Bang's Diss Track: 'Keep Sucking on That Afrojack Dick.'" Paris Hilton stabbed electronic dance music in the heart last month when she made her DJ debut at the Pop Music Festival in Brazil. Sounding like a "prepubescent child on downers" a ... More >>

DJ Paris Hilton Slapped With Dis Track by Jane Bang: "Keep Sucking on That Afrojack D**k"

See also "Paris Hilton's DJ Debut Sucked Balls: An Extremely Detailed Breakdown." Everyone is jumping on the Paris Hilton hate train ever since she wrecked that bitch in Brazil. The latest hit comes from New York City's Jane Bang, who just released an electro dis track that calls the heiress out ... More >>

Paris Hilton's DJ Debut Sucked Balls: An Extremely Detailed Breakdown

And the award for shittiest, most tragic DJ in the entire universe goes to ... The slut in the awkward construction paper dress! Oh, we mean Paris Hilton, obviously. Remember when Crossfade told you that Paris was bound to ruin everything with her DJ premiere at the Pop Music Festival in Brazil? W ... More >>

Afrojack's Jacked Summer 2012 Tour at Mansion Miami, June 15

See the full 35-photo slideshow of Afrojack at Mansion. Afrojack With Shermonology, Quintino and R3hab Mansion, Miami Beach Friday, June 15, 2012 Afrojack is like the USPS. Neither rain nor sleet nor snow can stop him from bringing the heat to his home away from home. Thankfully, that happens to b ... More >>

Who Wants Free Tickets for Afrojack's Jacked Summer Tour at Mansion Miami?

Break out your rubber underwear and alien-eye sunglasses, beat freaks. 'Cause if the official video trailer for Afrojack's Jacked 2012 Summer Tour is even 69% accurate, this Dutch dude's two-night stand at Mansion is guaranteed to be a serotonin-soaked stroboscopic freakfest of totally epic proport ... More >>

Afrojack's Jacked Summer Tour at Mansion June 15 and 16

Six Best Club Parties on South Beach This Weekend

Win free tickets for Afrojack's Jacked Summer Tour at Mansion. The Marlins are barely over .500 and still six games back in the NL East. The Heat trail the Oklahoma City Thunder by a game in the NBA Finals and the Dolphins just signed Chad Ochocinco. Clearly, there's a lot to be upset about, Miam ... More >>

Afrojack on Loving Playstation, the Internet, Disney Cartoons, and His Summer 2012 Tour

What could RPGs, the Internet, Pitbull, Disney cartoons, the Grammys, and dirty Dutch house beats possibly have in common? Simply, 24-year-old Nick van de Wall, better known to Miami's party crowd as superstar DJ Afrojack. The award-winning, chart-topping, Pitbull-collabing import from the Netherla ... More >>

Afrojack Changes Miami Venue for Jacked Summer Tour to Mansion, Adds Second Gig

Afrojack is bummed. "Just found out some of my shows are postponed till November [because] of production delays," he tweeted earlier this morning. "Maybe [I'll] just go back to blackroom [and] strobes." Though his June 16 gig in Miami was spared postponement, production delays did trigger a venu ... More >>

Afrojack Says He "Didn't Know Shit" About Paris Hilton's DJ Debut

Hey, Afrojack. Remember when we found out that Paris Hilton is debuting her DJ career at Pop Music Festival next month in Brazil, and we thought it was stupid? Then we were like, "Wait, isn't she dating Afrojack?" And we got kind of upset because we thought maybe you had something to do with it. ... More >>

Paris Hilton to Make DJ Debut in Brazil, Ruin Everything

Electro is so dead. When Madonna jumped on the EDM train and started yelling about her friend Molly, it was bad enough. But now, famous-for-being-rich-and-skanky Paris Hilton is poised to hop on that bleeping-blooping choo-choo and wreck it in front of thousands of Brasileño dance music fans. The ... More >>

Billboard Latin Music Awards: The Winners and Losers

Three hours. Three long hours of fake tears, fake tits, and fake singing. It's the nonsense that we sit through so that you don't have to. Admit it, you didn't watch last night's Billboard Latin Music Awards on Telemundo, that's why you're reading this recap. Instead, you spent the evening watchin ... More >>

Afrojack Announces Jacked Summer 2012 Tour With Miami Show at Bayfront Park on June 16

Dutch DJ-producer Afrojack just announced his Jacked summer tour with a stop at Miami's Klipsch Amphitheater at Bayfront Park on Saturday, June 16, and it's being billed as his most ambitious roadtrip to date. It's not hard to see why he's bringing the big guns -- boasting 30 headlining shows, a Gr ... More >>

R3hab at LIV February 11

R3hab Bringing the Ruckus to LIV on February 11

​The best dance parties aren't the ones you can escape with your sexy intact. Great nights are the ones that leave your hair a mess and clothes covered in booze. Maybe you wake up the next morning with a headache and a couple of mysterious bruises. Never mind the consequences, epic ragers are t ... More >>

Nine Best South Beach Club Parties This Weekend

​Have y'all gotten a head start on this year's tax return by filing early? How much money are you getting back? Got enough cash to pop bottles with The Boss and party with "The Big Bad Wolf"? Check out Crossfade's guide to this weekend's best parties on South Beach. Whether you're celebrating Ri ... More >>

Five most expensive New Year's Eve celebrations

Five of Miami's Most Expensive New Year's Eve 2012 Parties

Fly your millionaire flag like Ricky Rozay.​With all the talk of Occupy this and Occupy that, people have been a little hesitant to flaunt their wealth in 2011. Richer, please! It's time to put that P.C. bullshit to bed and ring in the New Year as your great-grandfather, John D. Rockefeller, wou ... More >>

Miami DJ-Producer Jesp Talks Political Science of Pop and Raging Through the Recession

Pop music doesn't have to be supersmart. It's for out-of-control bouts of shouting, makeout sessions, and screaming along with when traffic on 826 is moving in slow-mo. But Miami DJ-producer Joseph Espinoza (AKA Jesp) thinks that pop should be both fun and intelligent. In fact, his dabbling in oste ... More >>

Good Luck Chuck

Afrojack at Mansion August 6

Afrojack Returns to Miami August 6

​This past year has been a whirlwind for Dutch electronic music producer and techno-house DJ Afrojack, AKA Van de Wall. In addition to endlessly touring the US and sitting on a treasure trove of unreleased tracks, including collaborations with Tiesto, Steve Aoki, and Omarion, the international p ... More >>

12th Planet Talks Pop Production, DJ Craze, and Hardcore

​When 12th Planet (AKA John Dadzie) talks, the world of bass music listens. That's because, as we explain in last week's mini-feature on the DJ, producer, and label co-founder, the man has been hardcore since (electronic) hardcore was a new genre. Though it's as a dubstep producer that he's ga ... More >>

Steve Aoki at Mansion July 2

Lollapalooza 2011 Announces Lineup With Eminem, Girl Talk, DFA 1979, and 122 Others

​It's time to start planning your road trip to Lollapalooza land 'cause King Perry Farrell just released his 125-name guestlist for this August's three-day Grant Park extravaganza. And if you don't wanna be left at the gate, crying and clawing the dirt like a pauper, you better buy a full-weekend ... More >>

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Head Spins: DJ Ruen

The house-heavy party rocker.