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Ten Best Pool Parties During WMC and Miami Music Week 2013

Hard Miami 2013 Announces Set Times

Get Hard! 'Cause the Destructo (AKA Gary Richards) and his Los Angeles party promotions enterprise have just announced the set times for all three of their Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week 2013 ragers. From Nadastrom, Dirtybird Boys, and Destructo at the annual two-night Grand Central ... More >>

Ten Best Pool Parties During Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week 2013

Winter Music Conference used to be a whole week of industry insiders schmoozing it up and trading records, but now it's all about the pool parties. And does that really bother anyone? If so, you've probably never actually oiled up for one of these sexy things. So stop being a snob and start strippi ... More >>

Destructo, Drinks, and Dirty Grooves Killed It at His & Hers at the Garret

Saturday night is for him. It's also for her. Thanks to Poplife, it's for everyone, because the non-gender-specific get-down His and Hers is in full-swing at Grand Central's upstairs Garret. This weekend brought EDM mastermind, composer, and connoisseur Destructo to the loft for its second installm ... More >>

Hard Miami Announces Pool Party Lineup: Felix Da Housecat, Baauer, 13 Others

Y'all ready to get your HARD on? It's beginning to look a lot like springtime. And as such, electro bangers will soon drown out every other noise Miami generates in a 24-hour period -- construction, traffic, chusmeria -- as part of the March tradition known as Winter Music Conference and Miami Mu ... More >>

DJs Playing Basketball for Charity at WMC 2013: MANIK, Lee Foss, Matt Tolfrey, 11 Others

There will be an epic DJ battle during Winter Music Conference 2013. But this one won't be fought behind the decks. It's going down on the basketball court. Yes, the Red Blue Classic on March 19 is WMC's inaugural DJ basketball game -- a chance for enthusiasts of the sport (and Miami isn't short of ... More >>

Lights Out Festival With Felix Da Housecat, RJD2, Felix Cartal in Miami, July 21

See also "Lights Out Festival Promises 'a Jaw-Dropping Experience.'" Lights Out Festival With Felix Da Housecat, RJD2, Felix Cartal, and others Soho Studios, Miami Saturday, July 21, 2012 Better Than: Sitting at home, playing with your finger gloves. For their first proper party, the guys behin ... More >>

Lights Out Festival With Felix da Housecat, RJD2, Felix Cartal at Soho Studios July 21

Who Wants Free Tickets for Lights Out Festival With Felix Da Housecat, RJD2, Felix Cartal?

See also "Lights Out Festival Promises 'a Jaw-Dropping Experience.'" Ever tried to achieve a state of PLUR-y ecstasy without the aid of entactogenic drugs? Well, neither has Crossfade. But if we were about to attempt such a thing, Dementia Events' Lights Out Festival at Soho Studios on July 21 see ... More >>

Ultra Music Festival's Carryon Afterparty Schedule: Tiësto, Kaskade, Dirty South, Armin van Buuren

​Attention passengers. You're normally allowed one carry-on per flight. But Ultra Music Festival is going to go ahead and upgrade that to about 10. No, we're not actually flying anywhere, but Ultra is spreading the love with their Carry On series of after parties throughout Miami Music Week. Fes ... More >>

No Sugar Added 2012 Announces Two-Day Lineup for Miami Music Week: Paul Oakenfold, Carl Craig, and 71 Others

Carl Craig says, "Get off the white stuff, beat freaks."​The United States of America is totally addicted to the white stuff. Strung out, fat, unfocused, cranky, fiending -- we are a nation of shrubby slaves to the cane, cube, and spoonful whose bodies (and minds) could never be called beach-read ... More >>

Felix da Housecat Meow Mix in Preparation of Party Time at LIV

Chtfn​Felix Da Housecat is prancing back to South Beach, readying his paws for a party attack at glossy superclub LIV. A member of the electro elite, he first made a name for himself on the mid '80s Chicago dance scene. Over the past decade, the DJ-producer has worked closely with Miss Kittin, J ... More >>

The Rapture's U.S. Tour Stops at Grand Central October 17

​When we last saw the Rapture, it was at Nocturnal, of all places, alongside the Miami Heat's DJ Irie and electro icon Felix Da Housecat. Odd lineup? Definitely. It was one of those liquor-sponsored events that took over the 11th Street nightclub on a weekday for the sole purpose of creating "br ... More >>

Cat Scratch Fever

Final Electro Frontier

Ursula 1000 at the American Legion March 4

Ursula 1000 Time Travels on DMT to the Mod Miami Festival March 4

​Working under an assumed fame name inspired by '60s Swiss sex bomb Ursula Andress and the pseudo-futuristic numerical suffixes used to sell Atomic Age household appliances (i.e. The Cubla Carpet Sucker 500!), Brooklyn-via-Miami mixmeister Ursula 1000 (born Alex Gimeno) has spent ten post-mill ... More >>

Shake Ass and Guzzle Jungle Juice With the TBD Crew at Bar Tonight

Get your non-ironic '90s fix with Salt-N-Pepa and the TBD crew.​See the cut for a free download of A Totally Non-Ironic TBD Party Mix. When you shake ass to Salt-N-Pepa's superfun 1986 sex song "Push It" while guzzling a gallon's worth of rubyfruit jungle juice shots, you better really, really, ... More >>

DJ Mag Returns to the Shelborne With Two Weeks Worth of Parties

Sander Kleinenberg​Why choose between Winter Music Conference and Ultra Music Festival, when you can have both? DJ Mag has decided to do exactly that this year as it once again takes over the Shelborne, and its nightclub Shine, for two weeks worth of parties.Highlights include the return of DJ Mag ... More >>

Miss Kittin at Vagabond January 14

Junior Sanchez Talks New Albums and Pop Projects

​World-renowned DJ-producer Junior Sanchez hardly needs an introduction. Like his homies Erick Morillo and Harry "Choo Choo" Romero, Sanchez was bred in New Jersey's seminal '90s Latin house scene. He would cut his teeth spinning at legendary NYC hotspots like Limelight and the Shelter. As a me ... More >>

Miss Kittin, Queen of Electroclash, Arrives at Vagabond January 14

Miss Kittin​Ah, electroclash. The dance genre known for its analog rhythms and monotone vocals. Part krautrock, part electro, it was a genre doomed to fail from the start. Why? Well, once you heard one electroclash track, you've pretty much heard them all.That's not to say there weren't some genui ... More >>

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Felix Da Housecat at Grand Central Friday

Felix Da Housecat: The DJ with nine lives.​Seems like Grand Central's opening weekend is going to be a busy one. We already talked about Thursday night's grand opening as well as Saturday's massive event with Major Lazer. Well, you might as well camp out at venue the entire weekend because it was ... More >>

When You're 21, You're No Fun

Benny Benassi Plays Mansion on Saturday, January 30

​There's hardly anyone who was around in 2003 and didn't get caught up in the pure unadulterated pleasure -- guilty, or otherwise -- of Benny Benassi's mega-hit "Satisfaction". Praised by the likes of Carl Cox, Roger Sanchez and Darren Emerson and played ad nauseum by big-room DJs and radio statio ... More >>

Passion Pit, Caspa Added to Ultra Music Festival 2010 Lineup UPDATE

Photo by Chrissy PiperPassion Pit​Here comes the Ultra Music Festival shuffle! You have to remember nothing is concrete even on the day of the festival (Bloc Party canceled last year at the last minute). According to an official press release from Ultra's organizers, indie-rock band Passion Pit ha ... More >>

Ultra Music Festival 2010 Phase 1 Lineup Announced UPDATE

​I rarely ever take flier handouts while walking at night around South Beach, but for some reason as I was leaving Klutch I took an Ultra flier from a guy. Honestly, the first thing I felt was exhaustion because I don't know if I can handle the fact that Winter Music Conference is already creeping ... More >>

Video: Peaches "I Feel Cream"

If you spent the earlier part of the decade at places like Piccadilly Garden, Soho Lounge or I/O Lounge--all now deceased venues--you are familiar with Peaches. Along with acts like Felix Da Housecat, Miss Kittin, Larry Tee and Tommie Sunshine, she's is pretty much responsible for ushering in the el ... More >>

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Felix da Housecat Returns to Miami on October 14 at LIV

These days everyone likes to pretend they didn't like electroclash at the turn of the millennium, and that it's in general a blight on the illustrious hipster recent past. (Give it another couple years and it'll be time for an electroclash "revival.") But for all that little flash in the pan's embar ... More >>

Head Spins: Mike Deuce

He's got your Money $hot.

Acceptable in the '00s

Calvin Harris didn't create disco, but he sure is giving it a new swing.

Village Voice's 35th Annual Pazz & Jop Poll is Online

Tommie Sunshine

VIPs for Vodka

Acid Over?

DJ Pierre is back making the sound he helped create

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Miss Kittin

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"Tweak!" (Rude Photo)

Building a Better Nightclub

Can the developers of a new superbar keep the dance floor packed?

Set List

Ryan Evans

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Playboy: The Mansion soundtrack Koch

Dance, Dance Revolution

This was the year electronic dance music got its head -- and its ass -- out of the past.

Don't Speak

A man of few words, dance music hero Sasha talks with his hands

Miss Kittin

Radio Caroline Volume One Emperor Norton

Blow Out

Notes on 27 parties in six nights at WMC

Miss Kittin & the Hacker, Goldenboy with Miss Kittin

First Album, Or (Emperor Norton)

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