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Six Best Parties on South Beach This Week

Deep house fans should be excited about this week's South Beach party madness. The tides are really turning, and it seems like the house revival is real and crashing upon our shores. But that's not to say we're heading into a week without nasty, in-your-face, raw energy. And trance fanatics can rej ... More >>

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

It's Friday and come 5 p.m., you'll want to run out of the office as if you were escaping the zombie apocalypse. You rush home with the intention to get ready for one of the last parties of WMC, but then realize that you blew all your money on all the other parties at the Clevelander, Shelborne, an ... More >>

Ten Best Free Parties During Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week 2013

Tickets to Ultra Music Festival: $299.95. Winter Music Conference passes: $475. Seeing all your favorite DJs and producers: Priceless. No, it literally won't cost you anything. The best kept secret of the whole WMC and Miami Music Week party train: you can catch some of the hottest names in the gam ... 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 >>

Life in Color: Diplo, Benny Benassi, R3hab at "World's Biggest Paint Party" in Miami

Life In Color With Diplo, Benny Benassi, R3hab, David Solano and more Miami Convention Center, Miami Friday, December 28, 2012 Better Than: Rollin' through the Sherwin-Williams store geeked up on mollies. "Does Miami go hard in the motherfucking paint?" Yeah, we do. We let it drip from our chin a ... More >>

Congorock at Mansion October 19

Six Best Parties on South Beach This Weekend

Wow, it's the weekend already? What the hell even happened these last few days? We here at Crossfade still feel kinda drunk from last Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. But that's just how it goes. Like they say, the best cure for a hangover is another four days full of drinking and banging be ... More >>

Congorock on Blogging, Hipster Electro, and Whether EDM Is Actually Wimpy

EDM has America by the throat. But how did it get to be this way? Well, we can't say definitively. Although, it kinda started with blogging hipsters in 2006. Hell, some of the DJs making waves on the scene today started out as bloggers, like Italian electro badass Congorock. He remembers the good ... More >>

Congorock Talks Afro-Disco, Record Shopping in Manila, and Collabo Track With Sean Paul

These days, you can't go outside without hearing the sickeningly familiar strains of "Le7els." But before that sweet melody had the scene on fire, the go-to track of the moment was a little edgier. Congorock is the Italian electro monster behind massive anthem "Babylon," which he never even thought ... More >>

Congorock Teams With Sean Paul, Announces 2012 North American Tour

Let me see you dutty wine to the bassline, girl. Bitches all over the world are going to drop it low when Italy's massive electro monster Congorock drops his new track with dancehall superstar Sean Paul at the end of September. The track called "Bless Di Nation" will coincide with a sleek music v ... More >>

Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week 2012: A Daily Party Guide

​Check out today's top WMC and MMW parties -- plus Crossfade's fifteen best parties. Honestly, if you're gonna survive 96 hours of Winter Music Conference, Miami Music Week, and Ultra Music Festival, then your emergency EDM supply kit will need to include a gas mask, goggles, a bikini and/or bana ... More >>

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

​On StubHub, Ultra tickets are going for $800 and Masquerade Motel passes cost $400. Beat freaks have seemingly lost their minds, clearly forgetting that the national average for a gallon of regular gas is nearly $4. Who in their right mind would drop half-a-stack on house music? Not Crossfade ... More >>

Top four free Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week parties, March 23 and 24

Electronic Dance Savings

Fifteen Best Parties at Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week 2012

​Maybe you're planning to spend the entire weekend performing glowstick tricks at Ultra Music Festival. Or enjoying the lavish amenities at Swedish House Mafia's Masquerade Hotel. Or bleep-bloop-ing around Biscayne Bay aboard the Biscayne Lady. But if not, you need a beat-freaking plan. In total ... More >>

Five Best Free Parties for Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week

​March is total mayhem for the Miami music fan. For a solid week, the world's greatest DJs descend upon the city to make our clubs, hotels, and poolside bars their bitch. With over 300 parties, it's nothing to drop hundreds before the workweek even ends. But it doesn't have to be that way. There ... More >>

Top Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week Parties for Tuesday, March 20

​Are you still alive? Yes? Good. Because there are still six more days of partying. God help your liver.Today marks the official start of Miami Music Week (AKA Ultra Week), so that means big parties from here on out. Still, if you are looking for something a bit more underground, head for Downtown ... More >>

Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week's 15 best parties March 22 to 25

No Sugar Added 2012 Announces Two-Day Lineup for Miami Music Week: Paul Oakenfold, Carl Craig, and 71 Others

Carl Craig says, "Get off the white stuff, beat freaks."​The United States of America is totally addicted to the white stuff. Strung out, fat, unfocused, cranky, fiending -- we are a nation of shrubby slaves to the cane, cube, and spoonful whose bodies (and minds) could never be called beach-read ... More >>

Opium Group's Miami Music Week 2012 Lineup: Dirty South, John Digweed, and More

Photo by Alex BroadwellJohn Digweed during MMW 2011.​The official start of Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week is less than a month away, and local venues are starting to reveal all the beat-wrapped goodies. One of the bigger juggernauts of the week, of course, is the Opium Group, which ... More >>

Miami Trio Brass Knuckles Talks Electrik Circus, Nervous Records, and "Lie to You"

Meet Brass Knuckles, a three-man production team that moonlights as a live electronic band. Repping the 305 to the fullest, Danny D'Brito, Tony Livadas, and Anthony Pisano have played all the biggest venues while also producing their own reoccurring party, Electrik Circus, at Grand Central. Over th ... More >>

Congorock and Bondage Girls at Grand Central's Electrik Haunted Circus Halloween Bash

Photo by Lex Hernandez​When the Electrik Circus pitched its tent at Grand Central in June, the place was packed with cotton candy, crytozoological balloon animals, and sad, sexy twin nymphs. This time, though, it was Halloween weekend and the Circus was freaking haunted. Sure, there was still ple ... More >>

Laidback Luke's Super You & Me at LIV Brought Out Superhero Babes and SoBe Barbarians

Photo by Lex HernandezThe very rare SoBe barbarian.​Yeah, it's easy to feel like a freaking superhero when you're rolling fast, hard, and free. You might even look pretty awesome. But just wait till the next morning. Last night, Dutch DJ and crazy rave-y ringmaster Laidback Luke brought his Supe ... More >>

Photo Evidence From Benny Benassi's Ultra Week Kickoff at Mansion

Photo by Marie-JosseBenny Benassi behind the decks at Mansion.​Last night at Mansion, Italian electro-house DJ Benny Benassi warmed up his turntables --- and our town --- for his performance at the Ultra Music Festival. The world-renowned musician, maybe still best known for his 2002 hit "Satisf ... More >>

Final Electro Frontier

Ultra Music Festival 2011 Sells Out

Photo by Ian WitlenIf you don't have tickets for Ultra, you aren't going to be able to catch Deadmau5.​That's it, folks. According to Ultra Music Festival's site, tickets to this year's event are gone with 34 days left until the festival. Will more be made available? We're not sure, but we're work ... More >>

Opium Group's Ultra Week Lineup: David Guetta, Bob Sinclar, Calvin Harris, and Others

David Guetta does Opium.​When we polled you, the reader, about what to call the week of events happening around Ultra, 67 percent of you decided Ultra Week would be the best moniker. For Google's sake, we sort of agree with you, even if the name carries connotations of Ultra's dominance.The Opium ... More >>

Underworld, Duran Duran, Kaskade Added to Ultra Music Festival 2011 in Phase Two Lineup

​Early this morning, Ultra Music Festival organizers announced Phase Two of its lineup. Added to the 2011 bill are Duran Duran, Underworld, Kaskade, will.i.am, Erick Morillo (Live), Sasha (Vortek Live), Fedde Le Grand, Avicii, and The Disco Biscuits.Also confirmed is our previous announcement that ... More >>

One Night Only

WMC 2010: One Night Only at Karu & Y, March 26

​Paul Morris started the booking agency AM Only in 1995, while he was a student at the University of Florida. It was a fortuitous time, right when dance music was about to break big into this country's consciousness. As electronic sounds shifted through the rave scene and beyond, AM Only continued ... More >>

WMC 2010: Mad Fools Party with Buraka Som Sistema, Kill the Noise, Jokers of the Scene at Electric Pickle March 27

J-Wow of Buraka Som Sistema (front) making his Miami debut during WMC.​Finally, here it is. Poplife has announced its annual WMC party, and not a moment to spare -- cutting it close there kids. This year Miami's perennial hipster party is teaming up with Mad Decent and Fool's Gold to bring you Mad ... More >>

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