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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 >>

Five Raddest Stage Setups at Ultra 2013

There's so much bass and lasers pumping through downtown Miami, it might break off the mainland and becom a new, free-floating island. That's thanks to the millions upon millions of dollars that have gone into insuring that Ultra Music Festival 2013 is the most aggressively technological production ... More >>

Ten Most Exciting Acts at Ultra Music Festival 2013

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 >>

Ten Best Songs for Forgetting Your Ex and F#$%ing the Pain Away

Breaking up sucks. But the best way to get over that shitty someone is getting back up on it with someone else. No, we don't mean jump right into another relationship. That'd foolish and it won't heal anything. What a freshly broken heart needs is a strange, meaningless sexual encounter with someon ... More >>

DJ Jessica Who: Spinning the Globe

Best of Miami 2011: Best Live Music Venue

In anticipation of the upcoming Best of Miami issue hitting newsstands June 16, here is a sneak peek at one category and its winner.​Best Live Music VenueGrand Central697 N. Miami Ave.Miami 33136305-377-2277grandcentralmiami.com

Lollapalooza 2011 Announces Lineup With Eminem, Girl Talk, DFA 1979, and 122 Others

​It's time to start planning your road trip to Lollapalooza land 'cause King Perry Farrell just released his 125-name guestlist for this August's three-day Grant Park extravaganza. And if you don't wanna be left at the gate, crying and clawing the dirt like a pauper, you better buy a full-weekend ... More >>

Parallels Return to Miami at the Vagabond May 21

​Isn't it funny how sometimes a band's name could give you a false impression of what the actual band does? Mmm, irony. Tasty. Who the hell knows why Canadian synth-pop duo Parallels decided to go with that name. And who the hell cares? A rose by any other and all that, right? But despite readil ... More >>

Crystal Castles at Ultra Music Festival 2011 Day Three, March 27

Victor Gonzalez​Crystal Castles Ultra Music Festival's Live Stage  March 27, 2011 Better Than: David Guetta at Ultra's Main Stage.  Alice Glass is so adorable. She's so damn cute and Canadian I just want to pour maple syrup all over her skinny indie frame and eat her up like a mounta ... More >>

Crystal Castles at Ultra Music Festival March 27

Ultra Music Festival 2011 is more diverse than ever

Crystal Castles Bring Eight-Bit Chaos to Ultra Music Festival

Crystal Castles' Alice Glass and Ethan Kath.​Say you're playing the 1983 Atari console game Crystal Castles, in which Bentley Bear must collect gems to advance. Bentley accidentally ingests a jewel and falls through a hallucinogenic tunnel that spirals into a secret level filled with panicky confu ... 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 >>

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 >>

Moby Coming to Ultra Music Festival 2011; Phase Two Acts Will Be Announced Soon

Moby​It's been a while since the Phase One acts for Ultra Music Festival 2011 were announced. So, what's taking so long? Well, the wait will soon be over, as our sources tell us to expect something next week. We aren't entirely sure who will be on the Phase Two lineup since Ultra's organizers se ... More >>

Crystal Castles at Grand Central, September 11

Photo by Ian WitlenCrystal Castles' Alice Glass goes manic.​As we wrap up 2010, Crossfade looks back at the best live performances of the year. View the full list of Miami's Best Concerts of 2010. Crystal Castles September 21, 2010 Grand Central Is it possible? Has Crystal Castles' glitchy goth ... More >>

BFGF at the Electric Pickle December 23

Ultra Music Festival 2011 Phase One Lineup: Simian Mobile Disco, Empire of the Sun, Erasure, David Guetta, and More (UPDATE)

Simian Mobile Disco​Ultra Music Festival revealed its Phase One lineup announcement early this morning via Facebook. The lineup really shows an ambitious mix of live indie-dance bands, usual crop of house DJs, and more experimental electronic musicians. Really, it's one of the best lineups for the ... More >>

The Chemical Brothers Headline Ultra Music Festival 2011

Photo by Hamish BrownThe Chemical Brothers​If the news of Rökysopp or Crystal Castles didn't get you excited about this year's three-day Ultra Music Festival, the news of UK big beat legends, the Chemical Brothers, being added to the lineup will. An inside source at the festival confirmed that th ... More >>

Röyksopp Confirmed to Perform at Ultra 2011

​Norwegian duo Röyksopp just released upcoming list of North American tour dates. On that list is a scheduled stop at Ultra Music Festival on Friday, March 25. This is in addition to an already confirmed appearance by Crystal Castles the following day on March 26. Festival Outlook says Erick Mori ... More >>

Ultra Music Festival 2011 Happening March 25-27, Outside of WMC Dates [UPDATE]

Photo by Ian WitlenDeadmau5 at Ultra Music Festival 2010.​UPDATE: Ultra's official site has been updated, confirming all the information reported here earlier.UPDATE x2: Early-bird general admission tickets are sold out! That has to be some kind of record. Tickets are now $179.95, and are only ava ... More >>

Five Wackiest Electronic Music Genres You've Never Heard Of

myspace.com/anamanaguchiAnamanaguchi is freaking us out!​The best thing about electronic music is its limitlessness. Having thrown aside the sonic limitations of rock's overdone guitar-bass-drums combo, synthesizer music can sound like virtually anything. And it does. Electronic music has spaw ... More >>

Crystal Castles Return to Miami For Ultra Music Festival 2011

Crystal Castles are returning to Miami.​This has to be some kind of record. It's October 21 and we already know at least one act confirmed to appear at Ultra Music Festival 2011. Today, Crystal Castles' publicist sent out a press release confirming a North American spring tour which includes a Mar ... More >>

Phantogram's Five Awesomest Songs: A Primer for This Saturday's Show at Electric Pickle

Photo by Doron Gild​We've seen our fair share of guy-girl electro-rockers shaking it up in Miami lately, like The Golden Filter and Crystal Castles. So we can see why you might debate whether or not to bother with another one this Saturday. But Phantogram is one band you really gotta see ... More >>

Miami Hurricane Runs Front Page Story on Dangers of Four Loko

​You can't accuse University of Miami student newspaper The Miami Hurricane of not knowing their audience well: college students looking to get drunk for cheap. Today's edition of the bi-weekly paper carries a front page story on the dangers of Four Loko. For those of you who don't know Four Loko ... More >>

Last Night: Crystal Castles at Grand Central, September 11

Photo by Ian WitlenAlice Glass of Crystal Castles performing live at Grand Central, Miami.​Click here to view photos from Crystal Castles at Grand Central.Crystal CastlesSaturday, September 11, 2010Grand Central, MiamiBetter Than: Your old-school Gameboy.Let's discuss the elephant in the room: Why ... More >>

Crystal Castles in Miami at Grand Central Saturday, September 11

Crystal Castles at Grand Central Ticket Giveaway

​The hottest ticket this weekend might be for the Crystal Castle show, along with local artist Panic Bomber, at Grand Central this Saturday. Even at $40, we hear they are going fast! So being the awesome blog that we are, we decided giveaway a pair (that's two tickets) to the show this weekend, co ... More >>

New Batch of $40 Crystal Castles Tickets Available, and No Age Does a Remix of Their Song "Baptism"

via their MySpace page​We all freaked out when we heard tickets for Saturday's Crystal Castles show at Grand Central sold out everywhere. But alas, our prayers have been answered. A new batch of $40 tickets have been made available for purchase.Only about 200 of them were released, so once those a ... More >>

Caribou Live Performance at Grand Central October 19

The man they call Caribou, Daniel Snaith.​We expect things to really take off at Miami's only mid-size live venue, Grand Central, in the fall. There are plenty of rumors -- some that can be confirmed, others that are still a bit murky -- about who will be stopping by in the coming months. Well, he ... More >>

Crystal Castles' Alice Glass Punches Fan in the Face -- And He Still Loves Her Anyway

​Anyone that's already gotten tickets for Crystal Castles' performance at Grand Central on September 11, probably has an idea of what they're getting themselves into. Sure, lead vocalist of the electronic dance duo, Alice Glass, has a tendency to drunkenly stumble on stage and slur her words while ... More >>

Depeche Mode-Inspired Local Band Crystal Cadillac Releases Debut EP on Friday

​If you're a fan of Cut Copy, you'll love Miami Beach incarnation Crystal Cadillac. Dark dance rockers Brett Thorngren and Gil Bitton (former lead singer of Endo) have teamed up to form the band in all of its synthy-pop goodness, and they're releasing their debut 4-song EP this Friday at the Vagab ... More >>

Crystal Castles Live at Grand Central September 11 UPDATE

Photo by Marc PannozzoCrystal Castles return to Miami for the first time since 2009.​Easily contenders to top every end-of-the-year poll for the amazingly superb follow-up to 2008's Crystal Castles, for the similarly named Crystal Castles (AKA Crystal Castles II), Ethan Kath and Alice Glass have s ... More >>

La Roux Adds Second South Florida Show at Mansion August 6

La Roux wants to show Miami some love too.​Praise Jebus! There is a god, and his name is Roman Jones! For those of us already dreading the drive up to Fort Lauderdale's Culture Room to see La Roux perform live on August 4 have another option. Mansion has booked the British electropop outfit two da ... More >>

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, ... More >>

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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 d ... More >>

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 st ... More >>

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 bi ... More >>

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 ... More >>

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 ... More >>

Panic Bomber

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 gr ... More >>

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. ... More >>

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 da ... More >>

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 ... More >>

Fauxbama Challengers Emerge