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Joachim Garraud, David Guetta's Co-Producer, at Mansion This Sat.

Like fellow Frenchman Laurent Garnier, house DJ Joachim Garraud cut his teeth at Paris nightclub Boy, ground zero for the country's techno scene. Unlike most DJs, however, he came in with a fully rounded musical background, having spent seven years training at the French Academy of Music Percussion ... 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 >>

The Shelborne Announces Its Heavyweight WMC Lineup

I know, I know, WMC talk already -- yikes, we just celebrated the new year. But if you've got any interest in WMC then you know that the Shelborne always grabs absolutely stellar lineups who play legendary parties. If you like big-room house music, you've already been to some of these, and you alrea ... More >>

Shelborne Announces WMC Opening Pool Party With David Guetta ... For $10!

The scaling back of this past Art Basel Miami Beach was noticeable, with fewer freebies and lower-key events. So it's safe to assume that the final big event of the "season," Winter Music Conference, is going to look a little different overall this year, too. It's doubtful that megawatt DJs wil ... More >>

Head Spins: DJ Cee Pee

Kicking the soundtrack for America's Backyard.

Joachim Garraud

Kicking the soundtrack for America's Backyard.

David Guetta

Kicking the soundtrack for America's Backyard.

Set List: David Guetta

Kicking the soundtrack for America's Backyard.

Q&A: Lil Jon Talks Crunk Rock, Pitbull, and Fine Wine With New Times

​No one gets to the top of the pop charts by being a complete idiot. Well, of course it happens for some folks once or twice. But besides a knack for hooks, it takes some serious sharp thinking to stay there. So don't make the mistake of thinking the rapper/producer/all-around svengali Lil Jon is ... More >>

Lil Jon talks Crunk Rock, Pitbull, and fine wine

​No one gets to the top of the pop charts by being a complete idiot. Well, of course it happens for some folks once or twice. But besides a knack for hooks, it takes some serious sharp thinking to stay there. So don't make the mistake of thinking the rapper/producer/all-around svengali Lil Jon is ... More >>

Moving Units: Top Five Albums at Local Independent Music Stores

Moving Units is a weekly column on Crossfade tracking the best-selling albums at South Florida independent record stores. Top 5 Albums for the week of October 25 - 31Seattle-based indie artist Brandi Carlile topped Uncle Sam's charts this week with her newest release, "Give Up The Ghost".​Uncle ... More >>

F*@(&ck Him, He's Famous: David Guetta at Mansion This Saturday

​After eluding the annals of popular dance music for practically ever, France finally got with the program in the late '90s thanks to a quirky little duo by the name of Daft Punk. It didn't take long after that for France to grow its own crop of DJ superstars, the prime example of which is David G ... More >>

David Guetta

​After eluding the annals of popular dance music for practically ever, France finally got with the program in the late '90s thanks to a quirky little duo by the name of Daft Punk. It didn't take long after that for France to grow its own crop of DJ superstars, the prime example of which is David G ... More >>

Miami's DJ Craze To Play Coachella

​...Speaking of DJ Craze (check the previous post on this blog for an un-missable nugget of joy he passed along), Miami's finest DJ champ will head to the desert this summer to play Coachella for the first time. On the mega-festival's second day, Saturday, April 17, he'll take the stage with frequ ... More >>

Damn Right, It’s Better Than Yours

​...Speaking of DJ Craze (check the previous post on this blog for an un-missable nugget of joy he passed along), Miami's finest DJ champ will head to the desert this summer to play Coachella for the first time. On the mega-festival's second day, Saturday, April 17, he'll take the stage with frequ ... More >>

David Guetta, Kid Cudi's Miami-Shot "Memories" Video Premieres

Apparently, French DJ/producer/clubland killjoy David Guetta and once-respectable, now-mild-douchebag MC Kid Cudi filmed a video in Miami -- and pretty damn near our offices. Thankfully, it was for the Guetta song "Memories" which is nowhere near as annoying as "Sexy Bitch." In the video, Guetta and ... More >>

Mark Knight

Apparently, French DJ/producer/clubland killjoy David Guetta and once-respectable, now-mild-douchebag MC Kid Cudi filmed a video in Miami -- and pretty damn near our offices. Thankfully, it was for the Guetta song "Memories" which is nowhere near as annoying as "Sexy Bitch." In the video, Guetta and ... More >>

Dancing, Drugs, and Fine Dining

Apparently, French DJ/producer/clubland killjoy David Guetta and once-respectable, now-mild-douchebag MC Kid Cudi filmed a video in Miami -- and pretty damn near our offices. Thankfully, it was for the Guetta song "Memories" which is nowhere near as annoying as "Sexy Bitch." In the video, Guetta and ... More >>

Time to Hobnob

Apparently, French DJ/producer/clubland killjoy David Guetta and once-respectable, now-mild-douchebag MC Kid Cudi filmed a video in Miami -- and pretty damn near our offices. Thankfully, it was for the Guetta song "Memories" which is nowhere near as annoying as "Sexy Bitch." In the video, Guetta and ... More >>

The Shapeshifters Play Mansion on May 8

​Pulling off the whole big-room commercial house music thing without falling into the lowest common denominator is no easy feat (I'm looking at you, David Guetta,) but The Shapeshifters have managed to find that difficult balance between mainstream appeal and true musical quality fairly successful ... More >>

The Shapeshifters

​Pulling off the whole big-room commercial house music thing without falling into the lowest common denominator is no easy feat (I'm looking at you, David Guetta,) but The Shapeshifters have managed to find that difficult balance between mainstream appeal and true musical quality fairly successful ... More >>

Yves LaRock mixes it up at Mynt

​Pulling off the whole big-room commercial house music thing without falling into the lowest common denominator is no easy feat (I'm looking at you, David Guetta,) but The Shapeshifters have managed to find that difficult balance between mainstream appeal and true musical quality fairly successful ... More >>

David Guetta's New Track and Video With Fergie AND LMFAO: the Dance Music Apocalypse?

Alright, so at the beginning, Crossfade didn't have anything particular against David Guetta. We admired his particular brand of Gallic panache, and his unabashed goal in taking dance music back into the pop realm. We drunkenly got excited about "Love is Gone" more times than we would now care to ad ... More >>

Top Ten Musical Atrocities Dance Music Has Managed To Survive

Yesterday, we alerted you to David Guetta's newest track "Gettin' Over You," featuring Fergie, Chris Willis, and LMFAO. It sounds like every other track Guetta has produced in the last three years -- but taken to a much scarier, getting-raped-in-a-dark-alley kind of level. We dubbed it the "dance mu ... More >>

Jack Your Party

Yesterday, we alerted you to David Guetta's newest track "Gettin' Over You," featuring Fergie, Chris Willis, and LMFAO. It sounds like every other track Guetta has produced in the last three years -- but taken to a much scarier, getting-raped-in-a-dark-alley kind of level. We dubbed it the "dance mu ... More >>

305 Live: Flo Rida, Iceberg, Mayday and More in Local Hip-Hop News

Photo by David "Dro" Rosario​Flo-Rida teams up with the ultra-trendy David Guetta to releases his latest single off his upcoming album The Only One. The song is also featured on the Step Up 3D soundtrack. The song is called "Club Can't Handle Me" where Flo handles the main vocals and David Guetta ... More >>

305 Live: Pitbull, Rick Ross, Flo-Rida, and More in Local Hip-Hop News

Photo courtesy of Univision​-- Pitbull (pictured on the right with his artist Nayer) walked the red blue carpet and performed last night at the Premios Joventud that aired live from the BankUnited Center located at the University of Miami's Coral Gables campus. He didn't win any awards, but most o ... More >>

Rihanna Creates a New Dance Anthem with "Only Girl (in the World)"

​Rihanna's always turned heads with her choices in fashion, boyfriends, and song title choices (umbrella, anyone?). But now we think she might be attempting to change genres with her fifth studio album, Loud."Yes it is called LOUD," Rihanna told fans during a live chat recently. "Get LOUD everybod ... More >>

Swedish House Mafia's Axwell Talks Topping the Charts and 24 Hours in the Life of an Ibiza DJ

Axwell: He wears the sunglasses at night.​Miami's big-room house heads have been raving for months about Swedish House Mafia's upcoming Halloween Masquerade Motel ball at the Scope Art Fair tent tonight.Earlier this week, we caught up with the dynamic trio's Sebastian Ingrosso for an, er, eng ... More >>

David Guetta Basel Party at Mansion December 4

Photo by Ellen Von UnwerthDavid Guetta​You can hate him all you want, but David Guetta is a superstar. He stays away from the high-brow EDM that music lovers fawn over, instead delivering house music that's easily digestible to the mainstream music consumer. When was the last time you went to a pa ... More >>

David Guetta Talks Art Basel, Pop Success, and the Rift Between WMC and Ultra

Photo by Ellen Von Unwerth​You can hate him all you want, but David Guetta is a superstar. He stays away from the kind of high-brow EDM that music lovers fawn over, instead delivering house music for the mainstream music consumer. He's also won a Grammy and found massive success as the producer f ... More >>

David Guetta at Mansion for Art Basel December 4

Photo by Ellen Von Unwerth​You can hate him all you want, but David Guetta is a superstar. He stays away from the kind of high-brow EDM that music lovers fawn over, instead delivering house music for the mainstream music consumer. He's also won a Grammy and found massive success as the producer f ... More >>

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 >>

Go Dutch

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 >>

French Star DJ Joaquim Garraud Kicks Off the New Year at SET This Saturday

In 2010, SET was major purveyor of high-profile EDM bookings. So it makes sense that the club would kick-start the new year with French house heavyweight Joaquim Garraud. The chart-topping DJ-producer cut his teeth spinning on the '90s Parisian club scene. But his greatest accolades are as a studi ... 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 >>

IDMA 2011 Nominees Announced and Crossfade Picks the Winners

James Murphy deserves an IDMA or two.​Every year, coinciding with Winter Music Conference, the International Dance Music Awards (IDMAs) recognizes those who make electronic music great. Sure, it's not exactly the Grammys or MTV's Video Music Awards. But dammit, it's a homegrown awards show and tha ... More >>

Opium Group's Ultra Week Lineup: David Guetta, Bob Sinclar, Calvin Harris, and Others

David Guetta does Opium.​When we polled you, the reader, about what to call the week of events happening around Ultra, 67 percent of you decided Ultra Week would be the best moniker. For Google's sake, we sort of agree with you, even if the name carries connotations of Ultra's dominance.The Opium ... More >>

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 >>

The 26th Annual International Dance Music Awards at Dolce, March 10

Photo by Camille LambWynter Gordon perfrorms "Dirty Talk" at the IDMAs.​So it wouldn't be entirely accurate to say that everyone who matters in dance music attended the 26th Annual International Dance Music Awards at Dolce last night. But even if Armin Van Buuren and Deadmau5 couldn't make the eve ... More >>

The 26th Annual International Dance Music Awards at Dolce, March 10

Camille LambSinger Chris Willis performs "Gettin' Over You"​So it wouldn't be entirely accurate to say that everyone who matters in dance music attended the International Dance Music Awards at Dolce last night. But even if Armin Van Buuren and Deadmau5 couldn't make the event, a few high-class yet ... More >>

A Quick Guide to Betting on the 2011 Beatport Music Awards

Are you really gonna bet on Guetta?​Go ahead and call us degenerate gamblers. But we here at Crossfade are hardly alone in the belief that life is infinitely less boring when you're betting on it. Whether the action is competitive vodka-guzzling, the Westminster Kennel Club dog show, or the arriv ... More >>

Beatport Music Awards: A guide to picking the big winners

Are you really gonna bet on Guetta?​Go ahead and call us degenerate gamblers. But we here at Crossfade are hardly alone in the belief that life is infinitely less boring when you're betting on it. Whether the action is competitive vodka-guzzling, the Westminster Kennel Club dog show, or the arriv ... More >>

Tinie Tempah at Ultra Music Festival 2011 Day One, March 25

Photo by Ian WitlenTinie Tempah at Ultra 2011.​If you live in Miami, you might think you live in the most dance-music-saturated place on Earth -- unless, of course, you've spend a lot of time in the U.K. Dance music is part of the pop fabric here, with synth sounds regularly charting on pop radio. ... More >>

Chuckie's Back

Photo by Ian WitlenTinie Tempah at Ultra 2011.​If you live in Miami, you might think you live in the most dance-music-saturated place on Earth -- unless, of course, you've spend a lot of time in the U.K. Dance music is part of the pop fabric here, with synth sounds regularly charting on pop radio. ... More >>

David Guetta Releases New Video With Flo Rida, Talks Hip-Pop Crossover

Photo by Nabil Elderkin​Turn on any Top 40 or urban radio station these days and it's clear there's been a massive sonic sea change. Gone from the biggest hits are the old trunk-rattling, snare-heavy, often Middle Eastern-inspired beats that dominated the mid 2000s. In their place is unabash ... More >>

12th Planet Talks Pop Production, DJ Craze, and Hardcore

​When 12th Planet (AKA John Dadzie) talks, the world of bass music listens. That's because, as we explain in last week's mini-feature on the DJ, producer, and label co-founder, the man has been hardcore since (electronic) hardcore was a new genre. Though it's as a dubstep producer that he's ga ... More >>

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

Yelle is coming back to reclaim its Basel band status.​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 enter ... More >>

MTV Exploits EDM Scene for Web Hits; Compiles Arbitrary "Best of" List

​Music Television is seemingly jumping onto the electro dance train, recognizing that beat freaks love making it rain web hits by reading about their favorite DJs on the internet -- a practice Crossfade's all too familiar with, Ultra. About an hour ago, MTV News posted its incomplete list of Bes ... More >>