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Ultra 2013, Free and Live on YouTube and Digital Radio: Check the Streaming Schedule

Too broke to uhntz-uhntz at Ultra? Stuck in Boise, Idaho? Well, no worries. 'Cause UMF organizers have hooked up free, live broadcasts on both YouTube and online radio network Digitally Imported. So you can even rave and rage at home alone! And it'll cost you absolutely nothing! Just like last yea ... More >>

Ultra Music Festival 2013's Lineup and Set Times

Under normal circumstances, Ultra Music Festival has pushed even the most seasoned EDM addicts to the very brink of physical and emotional collapse. But now UMF has expanded to two entire weekends (AKA six whole days), which just might turn certain (weaker) members of the Crossfade team into pathet ... More >>

Ten Raver Tips on How to Dress for Ultra 2013

They danced. They rolled. They yelled: Glitter! Yes, these are ten talkative fashionistas of Ultra Music Festival 2013. Certainly, there were some better dressed, and others more sensibly garbed. But the following folks found during night one of 2013's three-day shit fest -- they were the ones who ... More >>

Ultra Music Festival 2013 Phase 3 Lineup: Tommie Sunshine, Dieselboy, Kleinenberg

With just 29 days till Downtown Miami's Bayfront Park becomes totally flooded with LED-wielding beat freaks ... Ultra Music Festival 2013 has announced its Phase 3 lineup. Among this final round of 40-plus acts: Intrepid Ultra defender Tommie Sunshine, along with Marco Bailey, Christian Smith, DJ M ... More >>

Ultra Music Festival 2013 Phase 2 Lineup: Alesso, Eric Prydz, Snoop Dogg, Tons More

Just when you thought the party couldn't get any better, Ultra Music Festival has announced its Phase 2 lineup. So let's not bother with the formalities. Here's who's been added: Alesso, Benny Benassi, Dirty South, Dog Blood (Boys Noize & Skrillex), Eric Prydz, Fedde Le Grand, Hardwell, Loco D ... More >>

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IndepenDANCE Pool Party 2012 Celebrates Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness

It took 56 signatures and seemingly endless bloodshed. But on July 4, 1776, 13 American colonies became independent of the British Empire and the United States of America was born. Though electronic dance music was still centuries away on that fateful day, some scholars suggest that the Declaratio ... More >>

Avicii and Madonna Meet Molly at Ultra Music Festival 2012

​The Main Stage lineup on Saturday was impressive with both Fatboy Slim and Justice warming up the crowd for headliner Avicii. But at 11:07 p.m., the Swedish DJ was nowhere to be found. And so the restless crowd started chanting his name, "Avicii! Avicii! Avicii!" Maybe the tactic worked. Beca ... More >>

Fatboy Slim at Ultra Music Festival 2012

​Back in the 1990s, Fatboy Slim helped establish the standard for EDM producers breaking through to the mainstream. A decade and half later, DJs and producers are once again showing up on Top 40 and what's left of MTV. We're not saying Slim has any sort of axe to grind. But it's quite possible a ... More >>

Hard's Holy Ship! 2013 Electronic Music Cruise Sold Out in 28 Hours

​The world's greatest sea-bound rave has sold out a full year from its next scheduled sailing date. Just last month, Hard's Holy Ship! hit the high seas for its maiden voyage, carrying Skrillex, Steve Aoki, Fatboy Slim, Diplo, A-Trak, and 3000 bikini-ready party people to the Bahamas and back. ... 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 >>

Hard's Holy Ship! Electronic Music Cruise "Will Return in 2013"

​Exactly 26 days ago, Hard's Holy Ship! electronic music cruise packed Skrillex, Steve Aoki, Fatboy Slim, Rusko, Diplo, A-Trak, dozens of other professional party starters, and 3000 beat freaks onto the MSC Poesia for a full weekend of uhntz-uhntz-ing across the high seas. And yes, there were a ... More >>

Photos: Skrillex, Steve Aoki, and 2000 Beat Freaks Aboard Holy Ship! Music Cruise

​Fist-pumping for four straight days inside a 12,000-square-foot spa! Dancing to 169 BPMs in the sushi bar's zen garden! Slamming tropical cocktails in the mojito bar at 2 a.m. with Skrillex, Steve Aoki, Fatboy Slim, Diplo, A-Trak, and 2000 beat freaks! Over the weekend, the inaugural edition of ... 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 >>

Who Wants Free Tickets for HARD's Holy Ship! Kickoff Party? Plus Bromance Records Swag!

Get intimate with Bromance Records' Brodinski and Gesaffelstein.​What's a bromance? Well, according to the t-shirts worn and tote bags toted by gentleman DJs Brodinski and Gesaffelstein, it's "a close but non-sexual relationship between two (or more) men, a form of homosocial intimacy." And jus ... 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 >>

Hard's Holy Ship Cruise Announces Final Lineup and Full Music Schedule

​Get Hard 'cause it's almost time to cruise. Nine months ago, Crossfade reported that the Los Angeles party posse, electronic music festival, and touring club event run by Gary Richards (AKA Destructo) was planning to take its electro steez to the high seas aboard the MSC Poesia, sailing out of P ... More >>

Pitbull Announces Club 305 Cruise, a "Magical Voyage Coming in 2012"

​File this under "Fuck yes!" Mr. Worldwide, Pitbull, wants to get wild with you, and "2,500 of his closest friends" on the inaugural Club 305 Cruise. Earlier today, Armandito Christian Perez tweeted in the third person, "Pitbull wants you to join him on the party marathon that will be @Club30 ... More >>

Six Career Phases of the Incredible Transforming Mr. C, Playing Treehouse Sunday

​Few artists on the international EDM scene have undergone as many career permutations as UK veteran Richard West, AKA Mr. C. The guy is a veritable chameleon. And over the course of three decades, he's shifted gears numerous times.Today, Mr. C remains a force to be reckoned with. You can catch hi ... More >>

Identity Festival signals dance music's true arrival on the American scene

Identity Festival 2011: A Guide for Bros, Girls, Hip-Hoppers, Snobs, and Hipsters

​Dance music's gonna blow up! That's the kind of ecstatic chatter that's been endlessly parroted by pop commentators in 2011. However, this perception that electronic tuneage has been waiting idly on the sidelines just isn't true. Dance music crossed over a long time ago. In case you hadn't not ... More >>

Dirty South Talks Beats, Bikinis, Fireworks, the Fourth of July, and "Coming Home"

​You've probably heard Dirty South's remix of Diddy and Skylar Grey's "Coming Home" being dropped by one of the ever-rotating superstar DJs on the Beach. Or maybe you've heard it straight from the man himself, as he frequently makes the rounds of Miami. Either way, the Australian DJ-producer is ... More >>

Fatboy Slim with Dirty South at the Surfcomber Hotel's IndepenDANCE closing pool party July 4

Fatboy Slim Talks American Independence, Pool Parties, and Laser Attacks

​It's been 235 years since the Founding Fathers won us our freedom from all those evil, red-clad limeys. The war is so over. And yet Brit club-killer Fatboy Slim (AKA Norman Cook) seems to be plotting a counterattack for this Fourth of July. Admittedly, Crossfade is frazzled. And you should be wo ... More >>

Fatboy Slim, Laidback Luke, Rusko, Steve Aoki Setting Sail Aboard Hard Cruise 2012

Fatboy Slim, your electronic music captain.​There is finally a lineup for the upcoming Hard Cruise -- now cleverly named Holy Ship! -- departing from Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale on January 6, 2012 and returning on January 9. The four-day cruise will travel Port Lucaya in the Bahamas and a p ... More >>

Mark Knight at Space May 14

Fatboy Slim Brings His Rockafeller Skank to Arkadia December 31

Fatboy Slim​Around the turn of the century, it seemed at one point that Fatboy Slim (AKA Norman Cook) would be the first superstar DJ. While he reached an incredible level of success Stateside, it paled in comparison to his European achievements. Hey, a dance sequence to the tune of "The Rockafel ... More >>

Moving Units: Radio-Active Records' Top 5 Releases for March 30-April 5

Google "Big Black" if this isn't hilarious to you ​In our Moving Units column, Mike Ramirez at Fort Lauderdale's Radio-Active Records  graciously keeps us up-to-date and comments on the current releases flying out of his store each week.Two was the magic number last week, and things have only ... More >>

MP3 of the Day: Tamara Sky, Pussy Violence II Mix

​It's here! Winter Music Conference officially begins today. What better way to get pumped up that with a DJ mix. Crossfade obsession and DJ Tamara Sky sent us the follow up to her last year's Pussy Violence mix, this one titled Pussy Violence II Lip Service.The mix feature hipster dancefloor clas ... More >>

Friday Night: Fatboy Slim at LIV

photo by Maria PerezFatboy SlimFriday, June 19, 2009LIV at the Fontainebleau, Miami BeachBetter Than: paying $70 worth of parking tickets.The Review: Let me start off by warning Crossfade readers that this review might get a bit ugly. I'll do my best to remain as objective as possible about the musi ... More >>

Fatboy Slim

Praise Fatboy Slim's Dancefloor Dynamics at LIV on Friday, June 19

Fatboy Slim will be forever preserved in the mainstream pop culture annals as that funk soul brother who all but left so-called "electronica" behind as he crafted commercial-ready dance hits. Seriously, his late Nineties/early 2000 hits are so massive that they need not even be named. (Oh, here are ... More >>

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Featured Acts

(Un)expected highlights from Ultra

2006: The Year the Superstar DJ Died

Dinosaurs rule the dance floors no more

What Does It Mean?

Underground Vibes

Meet Ubiquity, one of the best independent labels in America

Fatboy Slim

Palookaville Astralwerks

Gorge! Binge! Purge!

Schematic Records lays out an electronic banquet worthy of the Roman Empire

Norman Cook, Paul Oakenfold

All Star Breakbeats, Bust a Groove (Hypnotic)

Continent Divide

Dance music may never hit as big in the United States as in Europe, but maybe for these DJs it doesn't matter

Organic Itinerary

DJ Dave Ralph has a new sound and a new address

Phoenecia

Brownout
Schematic

Mix & Remix

Welcome to Miami Beach's annual Winter Music Conference, where the elite meet to discuss the future of the beat

Pepe Deluxe

Super Sound (Emperor Norton)

Better Living Through Chemistry

The Chemical Brothers return to Miami with more block rockin' beats

By the Numbers

Japanese composer/remix artist Nobukazu Takemura

Best Jukebox

Lost Weekend

Rotations

Boogie Nights, Business Days