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Ultra Music Festival 2013's Lineup and Set Times

Under normal circumstances, Ultra Music Festival has pushed even the most seasoned EDM addicts to the very brink of physical and emotional collapse. But now UMF has expanded to two entire weekends (AKA six whole days), which just might turn certain (weaker) members of the Crossfade team into pathet ... More >>

Ten Most Exciting Acts at Ultra Music Festival 2013

Ultra Music Festival 2013 Phase 3 Lineup: Tommie Sunshine, Dieselboy, Kleinenberg

With just 29 days till Downtown Miami's Bayfront Park becomes totally flooded with LED-wielding beat freaks ... Ultra Music Festival 2013 has announced its Phase 3 lineup. Among this final round of 40-plus acts: Intrepid Ultra defender Tommie Sunshine, along with Marco Bailey, Christian Smith, DJ M ... More >>

Ultra Music Festival 2013: Ten Acts We're Excited to See

In almost month, Ultra Music Festival will kick off its six-day marathon of EDM madness in Bayfront Park and with it bring a slew of electronic acts to Miami, some of which you can catch pretty often at Miami-area nightclubs and others that rarely (if ever) make Magic City cameos.We were really hopi ... 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 >>

Ultra Music Festival 2013 Announces Phase 1 Lineup: Tiesto, Kaskade, Avicii, 25 Others

Three reasons Ultra Music Festival 2013's gonna be epic, beat freaks. 1. The EDM megafest has expanded from three days to two whole uhntz-uhntz-ing weekends. 2. Swedish House Mafia and Deadmau5 are gonna be the primary party starters. 3. The just-announced Phase 1 linuep, including 13 extra DJs, 13 ... More >>

Eric Prydz, Doctor P, Porter Robinson, Others at Identity Festival 2012 in Miami, August 4

See the 55-photo slideshow from Identity Festival 2012 at Klipsch Amphitheater as well as The Fashion at Identity Festival Miami. Identity Festival 2012 With Eric Prydz, Excision, Doctor P, Porter Robinson, Le Castle Vania, Audrey Napoleon, and others Klipsch Ampitheater at Bayfront Park, Miami Sat ... More >>

Alex Niggemann Talks Poker Flat, Soulfooled and Paranoid Funk

It's quite appropriate that Berlin DJ-producer Alex Niggemann titled his debut long player Paranoid Funk. It's a clever description of his sound, which can be dark and moody. Or anxious like a bout of drug-induced paranoia. But a Niggemann track is never lacking in proper floor-ready funk goodness ... More >>

Get Physical Nacht at Treehouse March 24

WMC 2012: M.A.N.D.E.A.R., DJ T, and Audiofly Headline Get Physical 10-Year Anniversary

​Originally the brainchild of Berlin tech-house veterans M.A.N.D.Y., Booka Shade, and DJ T, Get Physical Music has been going strong for a full decade ago now. In fact, Winter Music Conference 2012 marks the label's ten-year anniversary, as well as its return to Miami for yet another highly anti ... More >>

Identity Festival signals dance music's true arrival on the American scene

Identity Festival 2011: A Guide for Bros, Girls, Hip-Hoppers, Snobs, and Hipsters

​Dance music's gonna blow up! That's the kind of ecstatic chatter that's been endlessly parroted by pop commentators in 2011. However, this perception that electronic tuneage has been waiting idly on the sidelines just isn't true. Dance music crossed over a long time ago. In case you hadn't not ... More >>

Afrobeta Talks Under the Streets, Identity Festival, and 40-Person Bear Hugs

Photo by Daniel Sannwald​For five years, Cuci Amador and Tony Smurphio have been playing together as Afrobeta. These two are pros at getting crowds sweaty and riled up. Right now, they're getting ready to kick off a summer tour with the Identity Festival by throwing one more party at the Electri ... More >>

Identity Festival Tickets On Sale Today

Photo by Daniel SannwaldAfrobeta bring a little 305 to Identity Festival.​Quick reminder: Tickets for Miami's stop on the Identity Festival are currently on sale via idfestival.com. Passes range from $40 general admission to $400 on-stage VIP, which includes food and drinks.And in an interesting t ... More >>

Identity Electronic Music Festival Announces Three Ticket Packages for May 20 Presale

Get your fix with Steve Aoki.​If, like Crossfade, you're a total electronic music junkie, you must be going crazy, chewing your lips, and sweating through your DayGlo t-shirt. You just want that uhntz uhntz. And so far, the Identity Festival has been playing plenty of purposefully secretive game ... More >>

Identity Festival Miami Lineup Revealed

Hercules and Love Affair​More news on the upcoming Identity Festival happening August 25 at the Klipsch Amphitheater at Bayfront Park: There is now a Miami-specific lineup for the event. And while it unfortunately excludes some of our favorites (Modeselektor and Pete Tong), there are still plenty ... More >>

Identity Festival at Klipsch Amphitheater (Bayfront Park) August 25, Early Bird Tickets on Sale May 20

Kaskade headlines Identity Festival.​As promised here are more details on the upcoming Identity Festival, which stops in Miami August 25. The one-day event will happen at the recently renamed Bayfront Park Amphitheater, now known as Klipsch Amphitheater at Bayfront Park.Early bird tickets will go ... More >>

Identity Electronic Music Festival Stops in Miami August 25

Rusko coming to Miami with Identity.​Can't wait till March 2012 for another big dose of electronic music? Well, there may be a temporary cure when Identity, a summer traveling electronic music festival, stops in Miami on August 25.Details at the moment are vague. There is no word about a specifi ... More >>

Maceo Plex Talks Sexy Dancefloor Destruction

​Last week we previewed the upcoming January 21 performance by Maceo Plex at the Electric Pickle. The acclaimed American DJ-producer is Eric Estornel, who also goes by Maetrik and Mariel Ito -- it depends on whether he's feeling dark, sci-fi, or sexy. He's been rocking the decks since the early ... More >>

Booka Shade Drops a Remix of "Regenerate" and a Free Promo Mix

​German tech-house sensations Booka Shade have always colored outside the lines, whether it's with their one-of-a-kind performances or the exquisite Get Physical output. They've also maintained a prolific pace over the years, releasing six albums to date, including 2010's critically acclaimed ... More >>

Ten Raddest Album Covers of the Internet Era: Daft Punk, Cut Copy, Booka Shade, and More

​If you're old enough to remember vinyl LPs, then you know that album design used to be an art unto itself. Who doesn't fondly remember rolling a fatty across the face of iconic sleeves such as the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band or Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon?  But toda ... More >>

Swedish House Mafia's Sebastian Ingrosso Talks Masquerade Motel, WMC, and Paris Hilton

​Only a couple of years ago, Swedish House Mafia members Sebastian Ingrosso, Steve Angello, and Axwell were an underground triumvirate known mostly to hardcore partiers, EDM addicts, and wannabe DJs. But now these three club thugs are making serious moves into the mainstream. With its new album ... More >>

Get Physical Label Releases Eighth Anniversary Compilation

​Since first launching in 2002, the Berlin-based Get Physical imprint has emerged as a global touchpoint for some of the most critically-acclaimed electronic dance music of the new millennium. Forged by the creative alliance of famed producers Booka Shade, M.A.N.D.Y. and DJ T as a launching pad fo ... More >>

MP3: Afrobeta - "Two Different Worlds"

​Afrobeta needs little introduction to Crossfade readers, but the band is finally and deservedly gaining some serious international traction. Of course, there was that performance at the massive Glastonbury festival, and a gig with Booka Shade in Ibiza (!) around the same time. Now, they've also g ... More >>

Q&A with Marc Romboy, Playing the One Year Anniversary Block Party at Electric Pickle on Friday

​For going on two decades, German DJ/producer Marc Romboy has established himself as one of the preeminent figures of electronic dance music through a rare combination of innovative vision and heartfelt reverence for the classic forms. A childhood fascination with synthesized sounds, via the likes ... More >>

WMC 2010: Get Physical Party with M.A.N.D.Y., DJ Hell at Charcoal Studios, March 27

M.A.N.D.Y.​As we reported back in January, this year's Get Physical party is scheduled to take place at Charcoal Studios on March 27 during Winter Music Conference. The only act we could confirm then was M.A.N.D.Y., but now we've been made aware of the full lineup of artists taking over the Wynwoo ... More >>

WMC 2010: Annual Get Physical Party Will Happen at Charcoal Studios, March 27

via physical-music.comM.A.N.D.Y.​Last night, I hit up the official Get Physical label site while looking for some info on Philipp Jung of M.A.N.D.Y.'s upcoming DJ gig at Space on the 23rd. On a lark, I decided to hit the little "Miami" tab on the label's tour dates page, and lo and behold.... M.A. ... More >>

L.A.'s Droog Play Electric Pickle on Friday

​When Andrei Osyka, Brett Griffin, and Justin Sloe first met in the Los Angeles dance music scene at the turn of the millennium, little could they have known that their newly forged creative partnership would comprise one of the West Coast's hippest EDM collectives by the end of the decade. As DJ ... More >>

DJ T

Get Physical With DJ T at Electric Pickle on Thanksgiving Eve

Proof that music journalists are sometimes good for something, Thomas Koch, a.k.a. DJ T, made his true mark in the industry by founding Groove magazine some 20 years ago. With Koch at the helm as editor and publisher, it quickly became the bible in his native Germany for everything related to electr ... More >>

Heidi

Relive WMC (A Little) This Saturday: Heidi (Get Physical) Spins at the Vagabond

via physical-music.com​Let's just get this out of the way first: Heidi absolutely, never, ever fails to straight-up kill it on the dancefloor. As one of the leading lights of the Get Physical label stable -- home of M.A.N.D.Y., Booka Shade, et. al. - she was also their first female signing. This B ... More >>

Get Physical with Booka Shade

German electrohouse superproducers rock out live.

WMC 2009: Is SXSW Cannabilizing WMC?

Kyle MunzenriederKid Sister at Don't Mess with Texas during SXSW.Before heading off to see Wavves (for the third time in 36 hours, as it turned out) an No Age (for the second time in 24), one of the last shows I saw at last week's SXSW was Kid Sister at the Don't Mess with Texas fest. Flanked by DJ ... More >>

WMC Preview: Q&A With Booka Shade

The international dance floor domination of the German electro-house duo Booka Shade, as well as that of the record label they co-founded, Get Physical, came serendipitously. "The plan was not to have a plan," says Arno Kammermeier, half of the twosome, of Get Physical's heady early days. It was aro ... More >>

Must-See Acts on Ultra's Lineup

Ultra Vivid Wow!

The massive two-day festival remains a homegrown labor of love by two South Florida locals.

Get Physical Miami Playground at Charcoal Studio CANCELED MOVED

Not happening! Back on!We received word that Get Physical Miami's event Saturday, March 28 at Charcoal Studio has been canceled. Calls to Charcoal Studio confirmed that it was true. We still are looking into the specific reason why the party was scraped. We did some snooping around on our own and we ... More >>

M.A.N.D.Y. vs. Booka Shade at Get Physical at Charcoal Studios

If there is one party you must never, and I mean never miss, it's Berlin-label Get Physical's Winter Music Conference party. For the last two years, Studio A has served as its venue, so we were a bit worried about where the party would move to this year. We finally got our answer: Charcoal Studios i ... More >>

Full Ultra Music Festival Lineup Revealed

So in addition to yesterday's news of the unexplainable choice of booking the Black Eyed Peas for next month's Ultra Music Festival, the final phase of the lineup has been announced. Notable additions include Rinton, Rye Rye, Surkin, Para One and Shiny Toy Guns to Day 1, and MSTRKRFT, BT Laptop Symp ... More >>

Ultra Music Festival Announces Phase Two of Its Lineup

Ultra Music Festival released the second phase of its lineup, and while the biggest names in the list offer no big surprises, a number of other, smaller acts added to the bill demonstrate more of the festival's forward-thinking approach this year. So here are the titans who will play (again): Paul ... More >>

Free Podcast from DJ Alex Caso Features "Miami Stoner Disco"

Few local DJs in any genre have such a scarily deep and broad knowledge of music as Alex Caso. Able to wax poetic on and dig deep into any genre from psychedelic garage nuggets, to Jamaican rocksteady, to robotic electro, Caso's consequently spun everywhere from straight-up raves to hipster hotspots ... More >>

Best Dance-Floor Anthems of 2008

The year's finest tracks, both mixed and unmixed.

Top Dance Albums of 2008

Any knucklehead with DSL and a laptop can now make an electronic track. With a half hour of clicking and fiddling, you can sample enough cheesy beats and mashups to clog arteries from here to Berlin. Simple dropdown mouse maneuvers can transform electro tracks into progressive house tracks (from dr ... More >>

Head Spins: Jenna Vicious

A tech-house hottie leaves Miami blind-sided.

M.A.N.D.Y. at Circa 28 on Saturday

WMC Preview: Interview with M.A.N.D.Y.!

Album Reviews: Booka Shade, Henrik Schwartz, Ricardo Villalobos