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50 WTF Quotes From Ultra 2013

"What the fuck does unicorn taste like?" Stardust. Rainbows. Maybe black-market horse meat from Miami's C-9 basin. There's really no way to know, though. Because this fabulous one-horned equine creature doesn't actually exist. Except when you're raving, raging, and tripping out at Ultra Music Fest ... More >>

Ultra 2013: Richie Hawtin Delivers Sensory Overload, No Bottle Anthems With Two-Hour UMF Set

This year's main stage at Ultra Music Festival has seemed particularly heavy on so-called "confetti house," the lineup rife with marquee names from VIP-heavy megaclubs. But the (relatively) more underground sounds of dance music -- or at least those not so concerned with encouraging bottle sales - ... More >>

Ultra 2013: Top Five Trends, From Big Beautiful Butts to No Hipsters

Things that are cool in one context are often not cool in others. For instance, if you arrived at the Pitchfork Music Festival in your kandi best, you would certainly not be the belle of the ball. You'd be a lame-o freak in neon, crying over a box of doughnuts on her way home. But just as location ... More >>

Ultra 2013: Five Best Moments, From Snoop to Naked Dudes and 70-Year-Old Ravers

Welcome to Ultra land. The weather is perfect. The kids are nice. There are "No Guns Allowed." But famous lady rapper side-boob is plentiful. So are the naked dancing dudes. And even 70-year-old ravers feel totally at home. Quite honestly, Ultra Music Festival is paradise, if you're into fist-pump ... More >>

The Six Bad Bitches You Meet at Ultra Music Festival

Damn, Ultra Music Festival is a mad house. Everywhere you look, it's neon titties, the bottom half of an ass, or some kind of sexy rabbit hoppin' around with a lollipop in her cheek. Last year, we introduced "The Seven Ravers You Meet at Ultra Music Festival." But this time, we're giving it up to t ... More >>

Ten Raver Tips on How to Dress for Ultra 2013

They danced. They rolled. They yelled: Glitter! Yes, these are ten talkative fashionistas of Ultra Music Festival 2013. Certainly, there were some better dressed, and others more sensibly garbed. But the following folks found during night one of 2013's three-day shit fest -- they were the ones who ... More >>

Ultra 2013: Boys Noize, Crystal Castles, and Nicolas Jaar Live!

We're going to be honest with you. When Ultra Music Festival announced its entire 2013 live stage lineup, we were underwhelmed. The scope of the roster was perfect, but it seemed to lack the kind of anchor act that sets the standard for everyone else. Last year, Ultra had Kraftwerk, Miike Snow, DJ ... More >>

Ten Best Late-Night Restaurants Post-Ultra

As Miami gears up for its biggest weekend of the year, so do the businesses that will be affected by it. After a battle with the city, Ultra Music Festival begins today in a two-weekend extravaganza that will bring more revenue to Miami than LIV sees the entire year. That's a big deal, considering t ... More >>

Ultra Music Festival, Winter Music Conference, and Miami Music Week 2013

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Louis Puig: "It Is True, I Sold Club Space"

It's that time of year again. And no, we're not exactly talking about Ultra Music Festival, Winter Music Conference, and Miami Music Week. We here at Crossfade are actually referring to the receipt of Louis Puig's incredibly detailed semi-annual "tell-it-like-it-is letter regarding EDM." His late ... More >>

Ultra Europe Announces Phase 2 Lineup: Afrojack and Hardwell

Ultra Music Festival loves theatrics. We're all sitting here, biting our nails to find out about Phase 2 lineup. And finally ... Today is the day! UMF organizers are happy to announce the addition of Afrojack and Hardwell to the list of headliners performing at this year's Ultra Europe in Croatia ... More >>

Sofia Vergara Slips a Nip at Story NYE! Plus Seven Other Celebrity Titties

Story Nightclub has only been open for, like, a week and a half, and it's already made the front page of TMZ for a hilarious celebrity nip slip. Our homies Cultist reported that Modern Family's Sofia Vergara came down to the new SoBe club to party with Kaskade, but ended up getting so hella drunk t ... More >>

Carl Cox, Half-Naked Party Girls, and NYE 2013 at Mansion Miami: A 25-Photo Recap

Spending New Year's Eve with Carl Cox is so sexy. On the last day of 2012, true acid house aficionados and horny people of all kinds gathered at Mansion Miami to ring in NYE. Females felt up their friends. Dudes oogled the half-naked party girls who'd been paid to ride poles and dole out premium l ... More >>

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 >>

Ultra Music Festival's Ultra Europe Announces Headliners: Avicii, Armin Van Buuren, Carl Cox

Ultra Music Festival is the best. We here in Miami are super spoiled to have it every year. But don't you wish you could pick up and take that experience overseas? OMG, you totes can now! Experience the joy of UMF at a greater cost! It's going to be just like Ultra Miami except in Croatia! And you ... More >>

Bromantic Wednesday Night: The Ultra Movie, Swedish House Mafia, and Getting Hard

​Even though Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week have turned into a nine days of EDM, we've keep it pretty low key. Until last night. First stop: The world premiere of Ultra Music Festival's Can U Feel It concert documentary. Standing there on the red carpet was sort of surreal -- mainl ... More >>

Mansion on Dennis Ferrer Incident: "We Had to Make a Call When His Set Cleared the Venue"

​Earlier this week, we told you about South Beach's Mansion kicking its headliner Dennis Ferrer off the decks mid-set for not playing "commercial enough." And then we followed up with Mr. Ferrer's remarks about the incident. Well, after much backlash and shit-talking about the nightclub from EDM ... More >>

Ultra Music Festival's Documentary, Can U Feel It, Premiering During Miami Music Week

​You'll laugh. You'll cry. You'll uhntz-uhntz uncontrollably. That's right ... We're talking about Ultra Music Festival's 45-minute concert documentary, Can U Feel It: The UMF Experience. With a cast of 200 uber-mega-superstar DJs, lazer-wielding robots, tattooed mice men, half-naked electro g ... More >>

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Ten Years of Biz Martinez: The Miami Nightlife Maestro Lists His Most Epic Career Moments

​Biz Martinez makes magic happen. And pulling rabbits out of hats is for amateurs. As music director and talent buyer for LIV and Arkadia at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach, Biz is the ringmaster, drawing big-ticket bookings week after week. Flash back to 2001 and you won't find that superhero stre ... More >>

Party Behind the Iron Curtain with Umek at Mansion This Saturday

​Some DJs were raised with all the spoils of Western capitalism, weaned on Tower Records and Top 40 radio. Others, like Uros Umek, grew up in the Eastern Bloc during the Cold War era, cut off from the West and deprived of even basic commodities like music on vinyl. For him and his peeps, electr ... More >>

Deadmau5 Searches for the Electronic Cheese at Ultra Music Festival 2011

Photo by Drew ResslerMr. Mau5 is an electro idol.​Remember when Deadmau5 was just a break from the Carl Cox tent at Ultra Music Festival back in 2008? Those were the days. By 2009, he graduated to the live stage. And last year, the rodent rager scored the first-ever sold-out solo date at the Miami ... More >>

Ultra Music Festival 2011 is more diverse than ever

Ultra cofounder Russell Faibisch talks expansion plans and making peace with WMC

Ultra Cofounder Russell Faibisch Talks Expansion Plans and Making Peace With WMC

Photo by Ian Witlen​After 13 years, Ultra Music Festival has managed to push aside the week that helped create it. Ballsy as the move may have been, we all knew Ultra had long overshadowed Winter Music Conference. With the conference's attendance at just 3,763 last year, the festival managed to se ... More >>

Armin Van Buuren Confirmed for Ultra 2011 (UPDATE)

Armin Van Buuren​Even with the first phase of Ultra Music Festival 2011 acts announced, there are still a few more DJs and bands being added here and there while we all wait for the full second phase of acts to be revealed.Dutch DJ Armin Van Buuren is the latest to be confirmed for Ultra, taking p ... More >>

Nic Fanciulli at SET December 12

Nic Fanciulli Talks Success, Ibiza, and His New Deleted Label

​Earlier this week, we previewed Nic Fanciulli's upcoming December 12 show at SET. The last twelve months have seen the acclaimed British DJ-producer positioned as one of the top EDM stars in the world, while his esteemed Saved imprint continues to enlist some of the most talented producers in the ... More >>

Nic Fanciulli Brings the Transatlantic Zeitgeist to SET December 12

​British DJ, producer and label magnate Nic Fanciulli has steadily climbed the international ranks over the course of the past decade, positioning himself as one of the biggest stars in electronic dance music. His career had an auspicious start in the early '00s when his fledgling production wor ... More >>

Head Spins: DJ Manuvers

Head Spins: DJ Manuvers

​Miami may not have completely shed its reputation as a party mecca, even for its full-time residents. But with cats like DJ Manuvers coming up and taking over, we might one day also be known for our work ethic.Of course you might expect some fast action from one whose name is both a noun and a ve ... More >>

WMC 2010: Q&A With Cedric Gervais

​Cedric Gervais, Miami's king of Space, has a lot to live up to at this year's WMC. Last year, his moody, slow-burning jam "Mauri's Dream" scored an "essential tune of the week" nod on Pete Tong's BBC One radio show for almost a month running. With that coronation, the track soon became the big-ro ... More >>

Benny Benassi Plays Mansion on Saturday, January 30

​There's hardly anyone who was around in 2003 and didn't get caught up in the pure unadulterated pleasure -- guilty, or otherwise -- of Benny Benassi's mega-hit "Satisfaction". Praised by the likes of Carl Cox, Roger Sanchez and Darren Emerson and played ad nauseum by big-room DJs and radio statio ... More >>

Mad About Miami: Moby Loves White Room Most (And the Carl Cox Tent at Ultra)

​Being a Miami native, I'm always curious to hear what folks think about my hometown. And, as you might suspect, I'm not afraid to ask. When it's bold-faced name folks, I get even more curious. Not that their thoughts are any more or any less important than those of plain text folks, mind you; but ... More >>

Interview With Chef Jeremiah of Bullfrog Eatz, Rick Ross' Personal Chef

Image via myspace.com/bullfrogeatz Chef Jeremiah Bullfrog is a professional caterer and personal chef to the Boss, Rick Ross. Short Order recently spoke to Bullfrog via email and asked him a few questions.New Times: What's your name, where you from, what do you do, how did you get started?Chef Jerem ... More >>

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