Subject: Crystal Castles

• CMJ Music Marathon Wrap-Up, Part Two

  October 27, 2008

• Fauxbama Challengers Emerge

  November 10, 2008

• First Phase of Ultra Lineup Announced! Santogold, Crystal Castles, Cut Copy, and More

  Billboard unveiled this morning the very first phase of the lineup for the 2009 Ultra Music Festival, and it's actually time to get excited. As the festival has expanded in size, its organizers have made laudable stabs at taking the lineup into the new dance-music frontiers of the 21st century. Yes, all your favorite dino DJs will still play, but this coming year's edition features even more innovative groups that ride the rock/electronic edge, including a few who have rarely played Miami, like

  December 5, 2008

• Hercules & Love Affair Also to Play Ultra's Second Day

  Hah! Ultra is sounding better and better! Looks like the organizers have also flip-flopped their booking M.O. this year. Since the festival's expansion into a two-day affair, things have generally gone more experimental the first night, with the classic dance music titans taking over the second day and night. Not so this year. In our previous post about the first lineup announcement, we mentioned Cut Copy, Deadmau5, Crystal Castles, the Presets, Simian Mobile Disco, and Busy P. Those guys will

  December 8, 2008

• Bump 'n' Grind 2008: A Look Back at This Year's Club Bangers

  Back in my days over at Miami Nights, I liked to close out the year by looking back at all the music I discovered where I spend most of my time -- in nightclubs. It's always interesting to see what makes it big the following year, because downtown club in particular tend to be ahead of the curve. So maybe I should call this list the Club Hits of 2009?But feel free to argue with me -- in fact, I encourage it. I love a good "You're music list sucks!" argument.10. M.I.A."Paper Planes (DFA Remix)"(X

  December 24, 2008

• Saturday Night: Candyland 13 at SoHo Studios

  Photo by Logan FazioCandyland 13Soho Studios, MiamiSaturday, December 27, 2008Better Than: I expected.The Review:Culture and other similar promotions groups, in an effort to shrug off the nasty mainstream perceptions of the Nineties dance scene, like to call their large-scale events music festivals. But let's be honest about Candyland 13, held this past Saturday at the cavernous Soho Studios in Wynwood. If an event has such a name followed by a numeral, takes place in a warehouse decorated in so

  December 29, 2008

• Disgruntled Musician Panic Bomber Brings His Dancefloor Manifesto to the Vagabond on Friday

  Retro video game nerds, don't get too excited. Friday's guest act at the Vagabond has nothing to do with the mostly forgotten Nineties Nintendo game, but rather has appropriated the moniker, a la Crystal Castles, to broadcast a fascination with retro bleeps and bloops. The multicolor, 8-bit style graphics festooning Panic Bomber's various web presences should give you a clue as to where the project's influences lie: in the golden era of electro, acid funk, and anything that involved a vocoder. W

  January 5, 2009

• 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 Van Dyk and Armin Van Buuren. Another dance legend to play is Moby, who didn't appear at Ultra last year, but is generally always lurking around during WMC and thus seems not too rare. But remember th

  January 9, 2009

• HEARTSREVOLUTION, Guns 'n' Bombs at Vagabond March 8

  Choose your own adventure when HEARTSREVOLUTION comes to The Vagabond March 8.The Scion A/V Tour is coming back to Miami for the millionth time March 8. This time its to celebrate the CD release Pioneer, a Scion A/V mix by French record label Kitsuné. The tour's first stop is Miami at The Vagabond and will feature L.A. DJ duo Guns 'n' Bombs, electro act HEARTSREVOLUTION and Belgian DJ/producer Beni.HEARTSREVOLUTION will actually be performing live. The New York duo have often been compared to C

  February 11, 2009

• Black Eyed Peas to Perform at Ultra Music Festival (UPDATED)

  Black Eyed Peas bringing their humps to Bicentennial Park.There are some things in this world better left unexplained, but this is definitely not one of them. It's been confirmed that the Black Eyed Peas (yes, the very same ones that created the weapon of mass destruction called "My Humps") are set to perform at Ultra Music Festival next month. The Peas join other previously announced acts like The Prodigy, Paul Van Dyk, Tiesto, Bloc Party, Carl Cox, Deadmau5, Crystal Castles, Ting Tings, Santog

  February 12, 2009

• 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 Symphony and Stanton Warriors to Day 2. The Bloody Beetroots and L.A. Riots are scheduled to perform both days, while The Whip's Day 2 appearance has been switched to Day 1, and Late of the Pier has switc

  February 13, 2009

• Random Abum Review: MSTRKRFT - Fist Of God

  MSTRKRFTFist Of God(Dim Mak)Three words: Worst. Album. Ever. MSTRKRFT should be glad we don't have a rating system here on Crossfade, because if we did, they would rightfully receive a zero-star rating from us. Honestly, we really wanted to like this album, but there is just no getting around how big of a mess it truly is.Signs that this album was going to be an utter failure was easy to spot when the duo left its label Last Gang, home of Crystal Castles, Metric, Tiga and Chromeo, for Dim Mak, a

  March 17, 2009

• WMC 2009: Ultra Day 1 Dissapoints, Noizy Boys at Louis and Erol Alkan Tears Up The Vagabond

  Justin NamonBoys Noize being a little shy at Louis.Yes, I'm not going to be very popular by saying this, but Day 1 of Ultra Music Festival sucked. Perhaps it was the nerve of organizers scheduling Santigold for a 5 p.m. performance slot (WTF?), or Bloc Party canceling, or perhaps LMFAO taking the stage during the Black Eyed Peas performance to cement what is certain to be their one-hit wonder status by singing "I'm in Miami, Bitch!" Everything was bad -- really bad!The only real highlight for me

  March 28, 2009

• WMC 2009: Crystal Castles at Ultra Music Festival

  Santiago FelipeCrystal Castles vocalist Alice Glass at Ultra Music Festival Day 2.Ultra Music Festival '09: Crystal CastlesSaturday, March 28, 2009Bicentennial Park, MiamiBetter than: Everything else at Ultra -- seriously.The lights dimmed at the Bayfront Stage at Ultra Music Festival and from the darkness emerged the silhouette of the lead singer Alice Glass, a petite girl who looks like that goth girl in high school who kept to herself and nobody bothered to mess with because everyone thought

  March 29, 2009

• Get BFGF

  May 28, 2009

• Must-See Acts on Ultra's Lineup

  March 19, 2009

• Panic Bomber

  January 8, 2009

• MP3 of the Day: "BFGF Anthem" by BFGF, Performing at Poplife at White Room Tomorrow Night

  photo by Jill Weisberg, via myspace.com/bfgfbandEver loved your sugar pie honeybunny pookie bear soooo much that your relationship already felt like beautiful music? I guess that's what Me She and Chris V of new local act BFGF were feeling, and they decided to express that feeling in song. And thus, the enamored couple (look, they even have the same haircut) formed a little electro-pop called BFGF -- y'know, uh, boyfriend and girlfriend! Together, they make lo-fi dance music that Crystal Castles

  May 29, 2009