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Ultra 2013: Avicii Does Country Music and Eric Prydz Proclaims "Love You" UMF!

We knew we were in for something special after speaking with Swedish progressive house DJ-producer Eric Prydz about Ultra Music Festival 2013. Shit, just having the aerophobic house master on this side of the pond is enough an occasion to plant your ass at UMF's main stage at 7:50 p.m. sharp on a ... More >>

Carl Cox on the Rise of Ultra Music Festival: "There's No Other Event of Its Kind"

Back when most of us were only concerned with what kind of Underoos we were going to wear that day, Carl Cox was already peddling dance music. And while DJs today enjoy playing atop enormous stages with seizure-inducing light shows, it's safe to say that in the late '80s, Cox was playing strictly un ... More >>

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

It sucks to be broke. Especially when Ultra Music Festival, only the best EDM festival on Planet Earth, is going down, and your friends, who were lucky enough to score tickets, are constantly reminding you of all the missed fun by posting pictures of Tiësto, Calvin Harris, and Swedish House Mafia ... More >>

Tommie Sunshine to EDM Haters: "If You Can't Feel This Music, You're Dead Inside"

Remember when Eminem was all "nobody listens to techno"? Lolz. Guess Moby won that battle. "Without Me" topped charts just ten years ago. But in the past decade, pop culture has made a complete 180-degree turn. It's like Tommie Sunshine told us: "You could go outside right now into a crowd, throw ... More >>

Ultra 2013: "Free, Festival-Wide Wi-Fi!!!"

If, like Crossfade, you've ever tried to tweetcast a trip to the Port-a-Potty while waiting all weekend in line to take a pee at Ultra Music Festival ... Or attempted YouTube-ing a video of some guy making out with a pile of trash behind the dubstep tent ... Or even tried frantically emailing mom ... More >>

Disclosure Talks Ultra Fest Debut: "Bigger Production, Light Show, We Are Very Excited!"

UK production duo Disclosure is a definite contender for biggest EDM success story of the new decade. There's the matter of the pair's precociousness: wunderkind brothers Howard and Guy Lawrence started releasing music when they were only 15 and 18 years old. And what music! Their chops in the stud ... More >>

Avicii Hotel's "Bromance" Package a Bargain at $7,300, Plus Three Other Epic Room Rates

For the world traveler with a discerning taste in electronic dance music, finding a hotel that not only meets traditional quality standards--like Egyptian linens, an assortment of erotic art books, and a 60-inch LED television--but also keeps European house music on loop in the lobby had always been ... More >>

Boys Noize and Skrillex's Dog Blood Doing Ultra 2013, (Probably) Revealing New Material

Whoever heard of an EDM duo with only two songs playing Ultra Music Festival? Well, when the act's two members are world-renowned DJ-producers Boys Noize and Skrillex, even an electronic dance music institution like UMF will make a special exception. Dog Blood, a crazy collab project from the Ge ... More >>

Top Five Trap Stars on Ultra Music Festival 2013's Trapped Stage

Everybody loves trap music. It's been around for decades on the Southern hip-hop scene, but 2012 saw the trap house get raided by electro and house producers. And despite the fact that the EDM trap phenomenon is barely a year old, Ultra Music Festival has already granted the genre its own showcase. ... More >>

DJ Pauly D Launches REMIX Cocktails, EDM Booze Line at South Beach Wine & Food Fest

If you're going to listen to a DJ Pauly D set and you care at all about the legitimacy of the art form, you'll need to get very, very drunk. But if you just really like clubbing and tanning and Pauly D, you'll still probably want to get very, very drunk. In either case, Pauly D knows his audience ... More >>

Ultra Music Festival Announces North American Tour, Headlined by Fedde Le Grand

Ultra Music Festival is goin' on tour, beat freaks. So if you don't have the massive cash stash for a road trip to the flagship in the MIA (or enough frequent flyer rewards points for a jet ride to Ultra Europe in Croatia), just rendezvous with the UMF crew, Fedde Le Grand, and Sultan Ned Shepard ... More >>

EyeParty EDM Glasses Add "Shot of Visual Adrenaline," Feel Like Drugs for Your Eyes

The last time that a kaleidoscope of bright colors bounced rhythmically to the beat of Swedish House Mafia's "One," we promised ourselves to never drop a hallucinogenic drug at a music festival again. It was a very bad trip. But then we started thinking: How would we stomach overproduced electro b ... More >>

EDM's Ten Best Tracks and Albums of 2012

EDM was bigger and badder than ever this year. Lady Gaga went on tour with electro-wunderkind Zedd. Skrillex won three Grammys. Shit, even the American Music Awards created an EDM category, because it's what the kids demand. Of course, with so much marketing value and commercial viability to the ... More >>

LIV Miami's Massive NYE Week: Diplo, Dada Life, Calvin Harris, Afrojack

Spoiler alert: The world isn't about to end. But that doesn't mean we can't drink like it will. At LIV, the club rats will saying goodbye to 2012 with almost a whole week of superstar DJs and an endless supply of champagne. If you party hard enough, just wait for the apex of the set and squint .. ... More >>

Drake Announces New Year's Eve 2013 Pool Party at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach

Drake still loves Miami. Sure, he

Story's Epic NYE 2013 Week: Swedish House Mafia, Avicii, Tiesto, Deadmau5

Story Nightclub, the newest premiere party destination on South Beach, hasn't even opened its doors. And yet this joint has already announced an absolutely epic end-of-year lineup. The new hot spot, formerly Amnesia, is going in on 2013 mad hard, pushing a full week of non-stop superstar DJ action. ... More >>

Art Basel Miami Beach 2012 Music Guide: Acts Announced So Far

Sure, we like to pretend the week of Art Basel Miami Beach (AKA Miami Art Week) is all about the glorified flea market happening either side of the causeway. But you just want to party. You can't afford to pay $10,000 for a bike covered in Saran Wrap and called "Untitled." But you can afford the cov ... More >>

Skrillex Quest, the Dubstep Video Game: An Extremely Detailed Breakdown

Don't let Skrillex near your old NES games. He'll fuck them shits up. That's the take-away message of Skrillex Quest, a new glitched-out collaboration between the dubstep dynamo and browser-adventure king John Oda. Based on the original gold-plated Legend of Zelda, the simple RPG features about 3 ... More >>

Six Best South Beach Club Parties, November 1 to 4

Six Best Club Parties on South Beach This Weekend

In the immortal words of hip-pop visionaries Loving My Friends and Others, more commonly known as LMFAO: "We're in Miami, bitch." In fact, we here at Crossfade are drink-all-day, play-all-night, party-rocking freaks who spend every Thursday-through-Sunday getting wasted in the megaclubs, wearing Va ... More >>

DJ Seasunz: A Murder Kills a Nightlife Scene

Slide show: DJ Seasunz: Murder Ends Miami's All-Ages Club Scene.

The Casualties on Why Techno Sucks: "We All Listen to Terrible Music, But F#$% That Stuff"

See also "The Casualties Talk Cops: 'Dude, Have a F#$%in' Beer, Relax, Stop Abusing Your Power.'" Punks don't dance. They mosh, pogo, slam, skank, stage-dive, crowd-surf, and circle jerk. So expect a raging riot when the Tonight We Unite tour and 1000 nasty maniacs rage into Downtown Miami's Grand ... More >>

Best of Miami 2012 - Best Dance Club: LIV

​Want access to our Best Of picks from your smartphone? Download our free Best Of app for the iPhone or Android phone from the App Store or Google Play. Don't forget to check out the full Best of Miami® 2012 issue June 12 online and June 14 in newsstands.Best Dance ClubLIVFontainebleau Miami Beac ... More >>

Avicii Totally "Le7els" Miami at American Airlines Arena, June 8

See the full 39-photo slideshow of Avicii at the American Airlines Arena. Avicii's Le7els Tour American Airlines Arena, Miami Friday, June 8, 2012 Better Than: It being past 11 p.m. and not knowing your kids' whereabouts. Avicii is taking over. He's captured the hearts and minds of America's ne ... More >>

Gotye Announces 2012 North American Tour With Miami Concert on October 7

Despite the fact that Gotye had two solo LPs under his belt before releasing last year's Making Mirrors, it wasn't until the Australian released a xylophone-heavy track that he became a household name. This week, "Somebody That I Used to Know" became the year's biggest hit, comfortably spending it ... More >>

Nicky Romero at LIV Nightclub May 24

The 15 Richest Musicians: From Jay-Z to Rihanna, Justin Bieber, and Dr. Dre

Forbes just released its list of the "World's Most Powerful Celebrities," a somewhat arbitrary compilation that ranks everyone from athletes to movie stars to radio personalities "based on entertainment-related earnings plus media visibility (exposure in print, television, radio and online)." Acco ... More >>

Nicky Romero Feeds the EDM Addicts at LIV on May 24

Miamians are addicts. They can't get enough bottle poppin'. They can't get enough of lookin' pretty. And they certainly can't get enough fist-pumpin'. Thankfully, they live in the dance music capital of the United States. So there's a never-ending onslaught of sets from the best of the best in hous ... More >>

"Party Hard" With Andrew W.K., But Know "Your Rules" in Fort Lauderdale on April 7

​Sure, Tiësto and Swedish House Mafia party on private planes, flooding fuselages with champagne on their epic 36,000-mile-high ravers. And yeah, rappers like Lil Wayne and Rick Ross make it rain millions at King of Diamonds, unleashing cash-money thunderstorms on big-booty girls like Tip Drill a ... More >>

Mugshots Friday: Ultra Music Fest Edition

​Every Friday, Riptide brings you the most eye-catching mugshots taken the previous week (or thereabouts) in Miami-Dade County. Yes, there is some mockery of bad neck tattoos, but also adulation directed at perps who just plain look more badass than we ever will. This is the italicized intro to th ... More >>

Winter Music Conference, Ultra Music Festival, and Miami Music Week expand to nine days for 2012

Ultra Music Festival 2012's Top Seven Artists Under 25: Avicii, Skrillex, and Five Others

​​The EDM game is tough. Before you get the big dollars, you've got to pay your dues and take a few hits. So it's no surprise most of these heavy hitters are well into their 30s or even older. But over the last couple of years, there's been a youth invasion of the scene. And suddenly, some of ... 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 >>

Tommy Trash Prevents the Dance Music Apocalypse at Amnesia on February 27

Compare the Sarah Connor in the original Terminator to the Sarah Connor in Terminator 2.The former? Straight chillin' in the '80s, teasing her hair and shrieking like a useless wench whenever murderous robots from the future popped out from around the corner. The latter? A total badass -- Straight h ... More >>

Win Free Ultra Music Festival 2012 Tickets by Entering Miami Music Week Sweepstakes

​Exactly 14 days ago, Ultra Music Festival 2012 sold out. And the wailing of sad, ticketless beat freaks could be heard in dark, lonely nightclubs all around the globe. But then the fest offered its oh-so-disappointed children some consolation, announcing a whole series of official Miami Music We ... More >>

Steve Angello Playing LIV, Spends "More Time Mixing Than With My Daughter"

Facebook​If Tiësto is the Led Zeppelin of Electronic Dance Music, a title bestowed upon the Dutch DJ by 1,400 beat freaks who took our recent poll, what does that make Steve Angello? He's one-third of EDM royal family Swedish House Mafia, the only crew powerful enough attempt an Ultra upstaging ... More >>

Six Best Club Parties on South Beach for Martin Luther King Day Weekend

​The threat of 50-degree weather this weekend has Miami in a freezing frenzy. Folks are worried Target's going to run out of space heaters and flannel jammy pants. Winn-Dixie's low on hot chocolate, Home Depot's out of fire wood, and PetSmart doggie parkas are on back order. The end is undeniabl ... More >>

Ultra Music Festival 2012 Is "90 Percent Sold Out! Act Now Before It's Too Late!"

​Code red! Trip the alarm! Now dance! We here at Crossfade have just received a superurgent email with a subject line that shouts, "Ultra Music Festival 90% Sold Out! Last Chance To Purchase Tickets!" Now, for all of us who've been victimized by corporate marketing scare tactics in the past, Ul ... More >>

Ultra Music Festival 2012 Announces Lineup: Avicii, Tiësto, David Guetta, and 89 Others

Avicii: Ultra 2012's Saturday night headliner.​Big news, beat freaks. After months of teases, hype, and promises that it "will be bigger than last year," there's finally been a major development in the ongoing saga of Ultra Music Festival's 2012 lineup. Of course, we here at Crossfade have spe ... More >>

New Year's Eve 2012: Deadmau5's Rat Riot at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach

Via facebook.com/deadmau5​Where will you be when the Mau5head drops on 2012? Well, if you happen to be a club rat worth his or her weight in gourmet cheese and all-you-can-drink champagne, then you're gonna be holed up at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach ordering entire wheels of Roquefort and endle ... More >>

Dig the Digweed

Empire of the Sun at Ultra Music Festival 2011 Day Two, March 26

Empire of the Sun at Ultra 2011.​There is no arguing here. Best. Ultra. Performance. Ever. Most were foolishly duped into checking out Underworld and Deadmau5's performances on the Main Stage. But you foolish punks missed out on one the best moments in the festival's entire history.Only once hav ... More >>

Amanda Lepore, Justin Bond, and Cazwell Ringing In New Queer's Eve at Lords South Beach

Courtesy of Peace BisquitCazwell and Amanda Lepore​In a recent episode of NBC's 30 Rock, Jenna was sad 'cause she was going to miss out on going to Elton John and Tom Ford's New Queer's Eve. She had broken up with her cross-dressing boyfriend Paul, just as they were planning to go together as ... More >>

Kaskade puts a decade's experience into a new album

A Chat with Dan Black: Wonky Pop, Breakups, Biggie Smalls, and the Ultra fest

​A couple of months ago, British electro-indie-art-rock-retro-pop guy Dan Black made his first trip to Miami to play Dirty Hairy at LIV. (Check out a video here.) That night, he sat down with the New Times to talk about emerging music genres, ex-bandmates, copyright squabbles with the bride of B.I ... More >>

Ultra Music Festival grows again in 2010

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 >>

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