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Burning Man

  • Blogs

    April 12, 2012

    Mr. C to America: "Hijack the EDM Scene Back from Europe!"

    If the EDM industry handed out high ranks for badassery and length of time spent on the battlefield, like they do in the military, Mr. C (AKA Richard West) would surely be a general by now. Yes, this UK rave veteran has pretty much been through it all. West got his start MCing in the late '80s semi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 16, 2012

    Damian Lazarus Talks Crosstown Rebels, Get Lost, and the EDM Underground

    ​This Friday, Wynwood electronic dance music emporium the Electric Pickle will be celebrating three years of nonstop boogie. And they'll be doing it in style and in typical fashion by booking two stars of the international house and techno scene, UK DJ-producer and One Records boss Adam Shelton an ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 2, 2012

    Lee Burridge to Fellow DJs: "Be Brave and Play From the Heart, Not From the Wallet!"

    There's something almost mythical about DJ Lee Burridge. He's like the Johnny Appleseed of electronic dance music -- a wide-eyed nomad roaming the Earth and planting the seeds of quality sound wherever he goes. Over the years, it's a journey that's taken him from the grassy fields of UK raves to Ho ... More >>

  • Culture

    December 1, 2011

    Guide to 2011 Art Basel Miami Beach Fairs

    This year's best picks: Pig pens, pop-up pianos, and hip-hop pioneers.

  • Blogs

    November 29, 2011

    Ten Best Things to Do During Art Basel Miami Beach 2011

    ​Regardless of your approach, the sad truth is it's impossible to catch every piece of art worth experiencing during Basel week. With 250 exhibitors at the Miami Beach Convention Center, not to mention hundreds of others operating at the more than a dozen satellite fairs, this year's tenth edition ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 31, 2011

    Dolphins on Acid and Dubstep Billy Goats: Top Five YouTube Party Animals

    Yo, that monkey is totally hardcore!​A wise man once said, "All music is shit to God." Crossfade is not that wise, but we have to agree. And let's face facts, humanity: Ever since we all got kicked out of the Garden of Eden, music has sucked.You wanna know why? 'Cause everyone knows the freer yo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 19, 2011

    Occupy Wall Street: 8 Things Protesters Should Stop Doing To Be Taken More Seriously

    We're on the fence about flutes.​Yesterday, we wandered around the Government Center in Downtown Miami-- site of the Occupy Miami tent-camp-- and found ourselves, well, a bit underwhelmed by the protest scene. By now, Occupy Wall Street and Occuoy Miami protesters must know that their critics ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 15, 2011

    Yoruba Records' Osunlade Talks Spirituality, Burning Man, and His Final House Album

    ​What do Sesame Street, Patti LaBelle and the West African Yoruba religion have in common? Well, they're all part of legendary DJ-producer and Yoruba Records chief Osunlade's fascinating story. Back in the '70s, he started out by juggling different musical gigs, like composing for Sesame Street an ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 27, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    July 7, 2011

    Charlie Sheen Finally Admits He's A Juggalo

    ​Try, if you can, to imagine a grosser Burning Man. Not that the annual, drug-fueled New Age neverland orgy isn't gross. It is. But in addition to the week-long, middle-of-nowhere mass discharge of bodily fluids onto crystals, Burning Man also has mind-boggling works of art and provides a unique, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 21, 2011

    Download DJ Mix By Lee Burridge, Playing Soho Studios and Eve This Weekend

    ​The reputation of UK DJ Lee Burridge spans the entire globe, from Hong Kong and Thailand's local EDM scenes, which he helped foster throughout the '90s, to the Burning Man Festival in Nevada, which inspired his free-spirited Get Weird parties. Boasting a genre-bending amalgamation of styles, fr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 29, 2011

    Cayamo Cruise 2012 Steams Out to Sea February 5 to 12 With Lyle Lovett, John Prine, and Others

    Cruising with Lyle Lovett.​For the last four years, the folks at Sixthman have steamed out to sea with the annual Cayamo Cruise, a week-long luxury vacation that also happens to be a seven-day music festival. Last Thursday, organizers announced that the fifth annual edition of Cayamo will take p ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 28, 2010

    Afrobeta's Cuci Amador and Tony Smurphio Talk Piano Lessons, MTV in the '80s, and Being College Hippies

    Photo by Karla Garcia​Man, the last time we hung out with local new wave-y freestyle faves Afrobeta was way back in June at Grand Central. So after almost five months spent zigzagging between the recording studio and big-ticket gigs like Glastonbury, Burning Man, and Space Ibiza, this Saturday's ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 9, 2010

    Otto Von Schirach, Tokimonsta, and Eprom at Trinumeral Festival's First Night

    The Trinumeral Festival With Otto Von Schirach, Tokimonsta, Eprom, Panic Bomber, and More Friday, October 8, 2010 7th Circuit Stuidos Better Than: The actual day when the digits align in auspicious numeric sameness? When we arrived Panic Bomber was on the stage, dressed in the tightest black leath ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 4, 2010

    Nonstop EDM This Weekend: Joris Voorn, Lee Burridge, Radio Slave and More

    Joris Voorn is playing SET on Sunday​Clearly the action at last week's Detroit Electronic Music Festival carried over to Miami this weekend, because it's just nonstop stellar bookings Friday through Sunday at various hotspots throughout the city. Friday, June 4To start things off tonight, the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 16, 2010

    Protest: "The Cruelest Show on Earth" at American Airlines Arena

    via ARF​If you see grown men dressed in elephant costumes on Biscayne Boulevard today, it's not conceptual art. Nor are they practicing for Burning Man or coming from a really good rave. Activists from the Animal Rights Foundation of Florida (ARFF) plan to dress as ringmasters, clowns, and tiger ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 14, 2010

    Q&A with Gadi Mizrahi (Wolf Lamb) Playing Electric Pickle on Friday

    ​Since alighting on Brooklyn's underground dance music scene with partner Zev Eisenberg in 2001, DJ/producer Gadi Mizrahi has emerged as one of the most influential tastemakers in the wider international network of EDM labels and collectives. As a DJ and co-owner of the Wolf Lamb imprint, he has ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 31, 2009

    Concert Review: Mathew Jonson at Electric Pickle, August 28

    ​Mathew JonsonFriday, August 28, 2009Electric Pickle, MiamiBetter than: Any mere DJ set (as in records being spun) or any other "live PA", for that matter, in recent memory. I really can't sing enough praise for the Electric Pickle's consistent quality of electronic dance bookings since the venue ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 26, 2009

    Q&A With Mathew Jonson, Playing at Electric Pickle this Friday

    ​Canadian-born producer Mathew Jonson is one of the more virtuosic and boldly innovative figures of contemporary techno. Boasting a masterful and nuanced command of electronic studio production, early breakthrough tracks like "Decompression", released on Richie Hawtin's Minus label, earned Jonson ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 16, 2009

    Burn After Viewing

    ​Canadian-born producer Mathew Jonson is one of the more virtuosic and boldly innovative figures of contemporary techno. Boasting a masterful and nuanced command of electronic studio production, early breakthrough tracks like "Decompression", released on Richie Hawtin's Minus label, earned Jonson ... More >>

  • Music

    October 9, 2008

    Lee Burridge

    ​Canadian-born producer Mathew Jonson is one of the more virtuosic and boldly innovative figures of contemporary techno. Boasting a masterful and nuanced command of electronic studio production, early breakthrough tracks like "Decompression", released on Richie Hawtin's Minus label, earned Jonson ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 13, 2008

    The Rhythm Is Gonna Get You

    Tonight! At the screening of Festival in the Desert.

  • Culture

    April 19, 2007

    Waiting for the Snow

    Mad Cat Theatre contemplates life, death, and molting in Animals & Plants

  • News

    March 31, 2005

    The Bitch

    Seven-Year Kitsch

  • Year End

    December 23, 2004

    Dance, Dance Revolution

    This was the year electronic dance music got its head -- and its ass -- out of the past.

  • Calendar

    September 30, 2004

    Staying Alive

    This was the year electronic dance music got its head -- and its ass -- out of the past.

  • Music

    October 16, 2003

    Various Artists

    Desert Sessions Volumes 9 & 10 (Ipecac)

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