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Check Yo' Ponytail tour at Grand Central November 5

Franki Chan Talks Iheartcomix, Party Plans, and How to Check Yo Ponytail

​It is finally time to Check Yo Ponytail. For the last 11 days, Iheartcomix's Franki Chan, Media Contender's Danny Johnson, and Zane Landreth have been streaking across the country -- L.A. to San Fran, San Diego, Denver, Portland, Seattle, Chicago, and NYC -- with Spank Rock, Big Freedia, and ... More >>

Spank Rock Talks His New Album, WMC, and Hooking Up With Boys Noize

​Spank Rock's debut full length, 2006's YoYoYoYoYo, paired the frantic tempo and raunchy sensibility of Baltimore-style club music with the shimmering glean of indie electro-pop and the impressively elastic flow and sharp diction of MC Naeem Juwan. The album painted a perfect picture of the raunch ... More >>

Parallels at the Vagabond May 21

​Spank Rock's debut full length, 2006's YoYoYoYoYo, paired the frantic tempo and raunchy sensibility of Baltimore-style club music with the shimmering glean of indie electro-pop and the impressively elastic flow and sharp diction of MC Naeem Juwan. The album painted a perfect picture of the raunch ... More >>

Parallels' Twinkling Synth-Pop Invades the Vagabond May 21

Paralells singer Holly Dodson.​Parallels' makeup is a simple one: Two artists forming one streamlined band, lean but efficient. The Canadian synth-pop duo is comprised of Holly Dodson and Cameron Findley. Dodson is the vocalist, Findley the drummer. Both compose. Both produce. But each one is resp ... More >>

Atari Teenage Riot at Culture Room in Fort Lauderdale September 13

Atari Teenage Riot​You know the current crop of noisy electronic acts like Crystal Castles and Sleigh Bells? Well, they owe a lot to a certain Berlin hardcore outfit spearheaded by Alec Empire, Hanin Elias, Carl Crack, and Nic Endo. They were better known as Atari Teenage Riot and throughout the ' ... More >>

Ten Photo Highlights From Day Three of the Ultra Music Festival 2011

Photo by Ian WitlenYou know it's over when a giant, sexy rabbit shows up.​Yesterday, the great nation of Ultra Land was 150,000 pookie heads strong. And yet today, it's just an enormously empty concrete expanse peppered with mangled pacifiers, rolling tufts of yarn hair, and discarded furry boots. ... More >>

Keep It Hard With Gary Richards at Grand Central March 24

​Gary Richards wants to introduce you to your new favorite party. It's called Hard, and since 2007 it's been drawing thousands of electro heads together for messy free-for-alls in Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco. Next city in Richards's sights? Miami, of course. A DJ and record industry ... More >>

Hard Miami with Diplo, Tiga, and SebastiAn at Grand Central March 24

​Gary Richards wants to introduce you to your new favorite party. It's called Hard, and since 2007 it's been drawing thousands of electro heads together for messy free-for-alls in Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco. Next city in Richards's sights? Miami, of course. A DJ and record industry ... More >>

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

​Gary Richards wants to introduce you to your new favorite party. It's called Hard, and since 2007 it's been drawing thousands of electro heads together for messy free-for-alls in Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco. Next city in Richards's sights? Miami, of course. A DJ and record industry ... More >>

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 >>

WMC and Ultra's complicated breakup

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 >>

Windish Agency's Steve Goodgold: WMC Lacked Open Communication

​It feels like we are beating a dead horse when it comes to Winter Music Conference vs. Ultra Music Festival news -- even Louis Puig got in on the action by accusing Ultra of forcing booked acts to sign exclusivity contracts (something the festival's been doing for years) and greed.On the other en ... More >>

Ess & Emm Giving Cafeina the Maple Leaf Touch for The Eh Team Friday

Photo by JipsySasha Lauzon (right) and Michelle Leshem are Ess & Emm.​It's not a secret that Canadians love South Florida. Every time you are stuck behind some idiot on I-95, it's almost a guarantee that their license plate says Je me souviens. Still, our neighbor to the (way up) north have gi ... More >>

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 ... More >>

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 ... More >>

CMJ Music Marathon Wrap-Up, Part Two

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 ... More >>