Damian Lazarus

Crosstown Rebel

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 >>

Eight best Winter Music Conference cruises March 17 to 23

​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 >>

Crosstown Rebels' Get Lost at Electric Pickle March 24

​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 >>

WMC 2012: Eight Best Electronic Dance Music Cruises

When in Rome, you shuffle through the Vatican Museums and the Colosseum with a tour group. Guided by a dopey ex-pat, you learn the condensed histories of these places, take cliché family photos, and drop serious Euro coinage on overpriced gelato. When in Miami, however, you drop a hundred bucks an ... More >>

Damian Lazarus Talks Crosstown Rebels, Get Lost, and the EDM Underground

​This Friday, Wynwood electronic dance music emporium the Electric Pickle will be celebrating three years of nonstop boogie. And they'll be doing it in style and in typical fashion by booking two stars of the international house and techno scene, UK DJ-producer and One Records boss Adam Shelton an ... More >>

Crosstown Rebels' Get Lost 2012 Lineup: Maceo Plex, Art Department, Droog and Others

​What started out as a fairly modest afterhours party at the former Studio A space in Downtown Miami in 2006 has since evolved into the WMC event par excellence. Of course, we're talking about Crosstown Rebels' Get Lost. And now in its seventh installment, this party has pretty much come to epit ... More >>

Ultra Music Festival 2012 Sold Out With 73 Days Until Start

​That's it, folks! According to its website, Ultra Music Festival 2012 is officially sold out with 73 days remaining until the first day of the festival. This breaks last year's record, when tix sold out on February 18 with a full 34 days left before the fest.Of course, Ultra's 2012 lineup, feat ... 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 >>

Deniz Kurtel on Her LED Installation at Get Lost Art Basel This Sunday

​With all the world-class concerts and dance parties complementing the art fair and gallery action, Art Basel Miami Beach is becoming the perfect marriage of art and music. And none of the myriad international luminaries visiting Miami this week embody that more than Deniz Kurtel. She might be be ... More >>

Art Basel Miami Beach 2011's Ten Best Parties and Concerts

​With all the world-class concerts and dance parties complementing the art fair and gallery action, Art Basel Miami Beach is becoming the perfect marriage of art and music. And none of the myriad international luminaries visiting Miami this week embody that more than Deniz Kurtel. She might be be ... More >>

Art Basel Miami Beach 2011 Music Guide: All the Acts Announced So Far

​Right now, Miami is being swarmed by art fairs, galleries, and artists from across the globe. Of course, we're talking about Art Basel Miami Beach. A side benefit to all this arty international activity is the influx of awesome music to entertain all the jetsetters. And naturally, Crossfade is k ... More >>

Droog on Art Basel Get Lost: "Expect a No-Holds-Barred Vibe"

​In 2011, it's been virtually impossible to escape the sounds of Culprit on international dancefloors. Not that you'd want to, because the Los Angeles-based imprint is responsible for some of the year's most banging cuts by tech-house luminaries like Lee Foss, MANIK, Shonky and Inxec. Behind the ... More >>

Art Basel Miami Beach 2011's Ten Best Parties, Concerts, and Strip Shows

Via facebook.com/TamaraSkyGet your Basel happy ending with Tamara Sky, The Overthrow, and Hard 2 Leave.​Check out Crossfade's blogs on other awesome Basel week events like YACHT, Salem, James Murphy's Special Disco Version, Yelle, and GZA. It might seem like a really rad idea to spend the next fo ... More >>

Crosstown Rebels Announce Get Lost Art Basel Lineup at the Electric Pickle December 4

​If there's one WMC/Miami Music Week party that keeps locals and jetsetters buzzing year-round, it's Crosstown Rebels' Get Lost. Last March marked the party's sixth installment and third year at the Electric Pickle, a venue which has proven ideal for this marathon event, with its sunny patio sett ... More >>

Download DJ Three's Mix and Go Underground at Eve This Sunday

​These days, the term underground gets thrown around a little too easily in the electronic dance music scene. Certainly not all DJs can boast the same sort of authentic subterranean cred as Christopher Milo, AKA DJ Three. It's a relentless comittment to the musical cutting-edge at the expense of ... More >>

Listed and SAFE Bring Radio Slave, Matt Tolfrey, and Others to Hotel Victor March 25

DJ-producer Dan Ghenacia headlines Listed Plays It Safe​If you're a regular of Miami's EDM scene, then you've surely attended a SAFE party. They've been responsible for many of the top international house and techno bookings of the last several years, hosting memorable recurrent performances b ... More >>

Your Anti-Guido Party Guide to Ultra Week in South Beach

We guarantee guido DJ Pauly D of Jersey Shore is NOT in this guide.​If you're a discerning local EDM lover, then you probably have a love-hate relationship with the month of March. On one hand, it's the best month out of the year in Miami for the sheer awesomeness of parties and bookings. On th ... More >>

Crosstown Rebels' Get Lost Lineup: Art Department, Jamie Jones, Lee Foss, and Others

Art Department headline Get Lost.​If there was one 2010 WMC party that left peeps buzzing for the rest of the year, it was Crosstown Rebels' now-legendary fifth installment of Get Lost at the Electric Pickle. Maybe it was the vibrant, sunny setting of the Pickle's patio. Or the casual blend of int ... More >>

Miami's Five Best Electronic Dance Music DJ Crews of 2010

​Although Miami's hosted WMC for decades and booked commercial DJ heavyweights at megaclubs like Space for years, it's only recently that there's been a steady influx of quality underground EDM bookings. And if 2010 was any indication, you could almost say the MIA is starting to become an electron ... More >>

Art Basel's best bands and DJs

​Although Miami's hosted WMC for decades and booked commercial DJ heavyweights at megaclubs like Space for years, it's only recently that there's been a steady influx of quality underground EDM bookings. And if 2010 was any indication, you could almost say the MIA is starting to become an electron ... More >>

DJ Harvey Talks Turntablism, Disco Breaks, and Black Cock

DJ Harvey: He aims to please​DJ Harvey Bassett's resume reads like the very history of vanguard music since the '70s. Born and bred in Cambridge, UK, he was an original '77 punk rocker whose band The Ersatz saw rotation on John Peel's legendary radio show. But soon enough, he traded his drums ... More >>

Crosstown Rebels' Damian Lazarus Talks Rebel Rave and the Regrettable Obsolescence of Vinyl

Crosstown Rebels exec Damian Lazarus.​Clubland can be a wasteland. But former Dazed & Confused music editor, current Crosstown Rebels label exec, and minimal DJ-producer Damian Lazarus is a natural-born opponent of mediocrity, unearned hype, and cash-bloated trash. For the last ten years, h ... More >>

M.A.N.D.Y. and Get Physical Work It Out at Art Basel December 2

Get Physical label guy and M.A.N.D.Y. member Philipp Jung.​It's time to work it out, bitches. Slip on your sleeveless hoodies and bike shorts, suck some Red Bull, and stretch like a cheerleader 'cause Get Physical label guy and M.A.N.D.Y. member Philipp Jung is back for Basel 2010. You can defini ... More >>

Damian Lazarus storms Electric Pickle August 28

Get Physical label guy and M.A.N.D.Y. member Philipp Jung.​It's time to work it out, bitches. Slip on your sleeveless hoodies and bike shorts, suck some Red Bull, and stretch like a cheerleader 'cause Get Physical label guy and M.A.N.D.Y. member Philipp Jung is back for Basel 2010. You can defini ... More >>

Get Physical Label Releases Eighth Anniversary Compilation

​Since first launching in 2002, the Berlin-based Get Physical imprint has emerged as a global touchpoint for some of the most critically-acclaimed electronic dance music of the new millennium. Forged by the creative alliance of famed producers Booka Shade, M.A.N.D.Y. and DJ T as a launching pad fo ... More >>

WMC 2010 Better Late Than Never Friday Recap: Circoloco, Ghostly X 10, Annie Mac Presents

​Yes, WMC ended on Sunday, but considering I ended my experience some time technically on Sunday, I've just now gotten my head screwed back on straight. Blame the amazing Get Physical WMC party on Saturday night/Sunday morning, the best edition of that party yet. But I'll get to that shortly. From ... More >>

WMC 2010 Better Late Than Never Saturday Recap: Get Physical's Varsity Workout at Charcoal Studios (With Photos and Video)

photo by Nicole CussellThe evening's headliners had interesting choices in headgear.​To view a full slideshow from this event, click here. Saturday, I took a day of rest and hibernated rather than try to hit up any day parties. I knew I was going to get sweaty as hell at Get Physical's annual ... More >>

Get Physical

photo by Nicole CussellThe evening's headliners had interesting choices in headgear.​To view a full slideshow from this event, click here. Saturday, I took a day of rest and hibernated rather than try to hit up any day parties. I knew I was going to get sweaty as hell at Get Physical's annual ... More >>

WMC 2010: Tiefschwarz, Damian Lazarus, Matthew Dear Added to Get Physical Night Party Lineup, Ticket Giveaway

Tiefschwarz​Local promoter Diego Martinelli called us Monday to tell us he felt the Get Physical party lineup needed some extra oomph. So what's a promoter to do? Add more mega-wattage to an already awesome DJ lineup, of course.Added is the brother DJ duo out of Berlin Tiefschwarz who are already ... More >>

WMC 2010: Win Free Tickets to Get Physical's Beach Party, March 25 at the Gansevoort South

​Yes we're already giving away tickets to the annual Get Physical night party, which, with the lineup addition of Tiefschwarz and Matthew Dear, is shaping up to be even better than last year's. In Crossfade's eyes, anything Get Physical touches is golden, so we're excited about not just the label' ... More >>

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: Crosstown Rebels Get Lost Five-Year Anniversary

​Sure, all the big Crosstown Rebels stars were just here for the Rebel Rave tour at Space this past Saturday. A WMC stop, though, with a Crosstown Rebels Get Lost party, is an absolute requirement. (Besides, sounds like some fans, and even DJs, weren't too thrilled about how the night at Space we ... More >>

Jamie Jones plays the Rebel Rave Tour at Club Space

​Sure, all the big Crosstown Rebels stars were just here for the Rebel Rave tour at Space this past Saturday. A WMC stop, though, with a Crosstown Rebels Get Lost party, is an absolute requirement. (Besides, sounds like some fans, and even DJs, weren't too thrilled about how the night at Space we ... More >>

Techno Takes Over the Design District Tonight

Miami's techno heads are hardly out of options tonight with internationally renowned DJ/producers Simon Baker and Todd Bodine in tow at Grass and the Electric Pickle, respectively. SAFE's Art Basel special at Grass last weekend, featuring Radio Slave and Argy, seemed to mark the resurgence of the De ... More >>

Simon Baker

Miami's techno heads are hardly out of options tonight with internationally renowned DJ/producers Simon Baker and Todd Bodine in tow at Grass and the Electric Pickle, respectively. SAFE's Art Basel special at Grass last weekend, featuring Radio Slave and Argy, seemed to mark the resurgence of the De ... More >>

Matt Tolfrey and Crazy Larry Play Electric Pickle Tonight

​The PL0T kids are at it again! Tonight brings a last minute double serving of deep techy goodness at the Electric Pickle with transatlantic favorites Matt Tolfrey and Crazy Larry in tow. Young British DJ/producer Matt Tolfrey has made his steady upward move from local pub DJ to internationally-re ... More >>

Heidi

​The PL0T kids are at it again! Tonight brings a last minute double serving of deep techy goodness at the Electric Pickle with transatlantic favorites Matt Tolfrey and Crazy Larry in tow. Young British DJ/producer Matt Tolfrey has made his steady upward move from local pub DJ to internationally-re ... More >>

Relive WMC (A Little) This Saturday: Heidi (Get Physical) Spins at the Vagabond

via physical-music.com​Let's just get this out of the way first: Heidi absolutely, never, ever fails to straight-up kill it on the dancefloor. As one of the leading lights of the Get Physical label stable -- home of M.A.N.D.Y., Booka Shade, et. al. - she was also their first female signing. This B ... More >>

Damian Lazarus

via physical-music.com​Let's just get this out of the way first: Heidi absolutely, never, ever fails to straight-up kill it on the dancefloor. As one of the leading lights of the Get Physical label stable -- home of M.A.N.D.Y., Booka Shade, et. al. - she was also their first female signing. This B ... More >>

MP3 of the Day: "Dr. Whisker's Theme" by Damian Lazarus, at Electric Pickle this Friday

Damian Lazarus came to performing music from the enemy side: He started out as a music journalist, a notorious profession in his native England. Still, even as he worked as an editor at the legendary lifestyle mag Dazed and Confused, it was all part of a planned gradual move into the industry. "I di ... More >>

Winter Music Conference Event Listings

Find all the best parties taking place March 25-29.

Winter Music Conference Event Listings

Find all the best parties taking place March 24-29.

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Circa 28 Gets Electrified

Jose D. DuranCirca 28's former home to become the Electric Pickle.The sudden closure of Circa 28 late last year came as a shock to us. However, after the bar parted ways with Sweat Records' Lolo Reskin, Circa's Saturday nights were never really the same. By the end, Safe promoter Diego Martinelli ca ... More >>

On the List - Aquabooty, Shine, Fedde Le Grand and Damian Lazarus

Last weekend was a busy one, but there is still plenty of momentum going in the nightlife scene to keep things going. The highlight this weekend of course being the reopening of the Fontainebleau Miami Beach. In case you've been hiding under a rock, the hotel is celebrating its reopening with a pa ... More >>

Damian Lazarus

Last weekend was a busy one, but there is still plenty of momentum going in the nightlife scene to keep things going. The highlight this weekend of course being the reopening of the Fontainebleau Miami Beach. In case you've been hiding under a rock, the hotel is celebrating its reopening with a pa ... More >>

Home Listening

Last weekend was a busy one, but there is still plenty of momentum going in the nightlife scene to keep things going. The highlight this weekend of course being the reopening of the Fontainebleau Miami Beach. In case you've been hiding under a rock, the hotel is celebrating its reopening with a pa ... More >>

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