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Six Best Club Parties on South Beach January 10 to 12

Six Best Club Parties on South Beach This Weekend

Why does SoBe get such a bad rap, bro? Sure, it's crawling with rich douchebags in button-down dress shirts. And the parking sucks. And the drinks are ridiculously expensive. But it's also home to formerly law-breaking Frenchmen, $10 underground minimal techno throwdowns, and the Mustache Revolut ... More >>

Dutch House Mafia

Beat The Beat Up

Ultra Music Festival TV Hits YouTube, Free Stream of Can U Feel It EDM Documentary

We want our UMF TV. And this is it ... A new YouTube channel featuring original EDM-themed content from the people at Ultra Music Festival and Final Kid productions. The channel premieres worldwide on Wednesday, July 11, with UMF Revisited - Episode #1: Avicii which follows the Swedish superstar ... More >>

Nicky Romero at LIV Nightclub May 24

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 >>

New York Times Article says, "Electronic Dance Music is the New Rock 'N Roll"

The New York Times ran a piece today titled, "Electronic Dance Genre Tempts Investors," as though everybody didn't already know that there is good money in booze and titties. The article cites the rise of the dance music megabashes - Electric Daisy, Hard and, of course, Ultra Music Festival - as a ... More >>

Ultra 2012 Says David Guetta "Means More to EDM Than Anyone in the United States"

​Ultra Music Festival's MC introduced David Guetta as "the man that means more to electric dance music than anyone in the United States." Hmm, of all time? Definitely not. At the moment? You could make a strong argument for that. Is he the DJ currently making the most money off of it in the US? ... More >>

Apollonia Label Launch Party at Treehouse March 20

David Guetta at Ultra Music Festival March 25

David Guetta, Dance Music's Pop Ambassador, Playing Ultra Music Festival on March 25

​​A few years ago, David Guetta was just another house music DJ who was huge in Europe and not nearly as well known here in the United States. Then came 2009, the year that the Parisian (one of France's top DJs since at least the late '80s) released his fourth album, One Love, and produced "I ... More >>

Miami's Mansion Nightclub Stops DJ Dennis Ferrer's Set for Not Being "Commercial Enough"

​​Mansion has always catered to a very mainstream crowd with very commercial taste in music. That's no secret. When the club isn't booking Top 40 hip-hop stars, it's only going after the most commercial names in EDM, like Swedish House Mafia, David Guetta, and Afrojack. But this past weekend, ... More >>

Richie Hawtin Added to Ultra Music Festival 2012 Lineup

​ Do you hear that uhntz-uhntz in the distance? It's been 53 days since Ultra Music Festival 2012 announced its Phase 1 lineup, "a sprawling 92-act roster that ranges from massive dance superstars Avicii, Tiësto, David Guetta, Kaskade, and Fedde Le Grand to electronic music legends Kraftwerk, Ne ... 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 >>

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 >>

Beatport Music Awards: A guide to picking the big winners

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

David Guetta at Mansion for Art Basel December 4

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 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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Yves LaRock mixes it up at Mynt

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Dancing, Drugs, and Fine Dining

Mark Knight

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 >>

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

David Guetta

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 >>

Lil Jon talks Crunk Rock, Pitbull, and fine wine

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 >>

Head Spins: DJ Cee Pee

Kicking the soundtrack for America's Backyard.

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 >>

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 >>

Joachim Garraud

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 >>

David Guetta

Set List: David Guetta