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

Building a Better Nightclub

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

Miss Kittin

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

Head Spins: Mike Deuce

He's got your Money $hot.

Acid Over?

DJ Pierre is back making the sound he helped create

Acceptable in the '00s

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

Tommie Sunshine

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

Are You Still Here?

Polo may be a no-go, but Björk likes to pogo

Felix da Housecat

Polo may be a no-go, but Björk likes to pogo

Felix Da Housecat

"Tweak!" (Rude Photo)

Set List

Ryan Evans

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

Beach Head

At the Winter Music Conference, P. Diddy blows up dance music while the U.S. blows up Iraq

WMC 2003

The week rolls on with more sun, sex, and sounds

Lounge Wizard

DJ Ursula 1000 swings home triumphant

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

Felix da Housecat

Playboy: The Mansion soundtrack Koch

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 >>

Felix da Housecat

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 >>

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 >>

The New Year's Eve EDM Lowdown

Miami's big-room nightclubs usually go all out for New Year's Eve celebrations by booking some of the biggest names in international dance music, and this year is no exception. Here's the lowdown on some of the top NYE parties going down on Thursday night: ​Cocoon Label Party at Nocturnal's Eden T ... 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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

When You're 21, You're No Fun

​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 >>

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 >>

Glitzy House Kittens

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 >>

Glitzy House Kittens

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 at Vagabond January 14

​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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Eight Crossfade-Approved Parties for the First Week of Winter Music Conference 2011

You're gonna need speed to keep up with Sydney Blu.​Thanks to the sudden, nasty breakup between Winter Music Conference and Ultra Music Festival, the month of March in Miami just might kill us all. Basically, the party plan has gone from a five-day freakout to an insanely unhealthy four-week mar ... More >>

Ursula 1000 at the American Legion March 4

You're gonna need speed to keep up with Sydney Blu.​Thanks to the sudden, nasty breakup between Winter Music Conference and Ultra Music Festival, the month of March in Miami just might kill us all. Basically, the party plan has gone from a five-day freakout to an insanely unhealthy four-week mar ... More >>

WMC 2011's eight best parties

You're gonna need speed to keep up with Sydney Blu.​Thanks to the sudden, nasty breakup between Winter Music Conference and Ultra Music Festival, the month of March in Miami just might kill us all. Basically, the party plan has gone from a five-day freakout to an insanely unhealthy four-week mar ... More >>

Final Electro Frontier

You're gonna need speed to keep up with Sydney Blu.​Thanks to the sudden, nasty breakup between Winter Music Conference and Ultra Music Festival, the month of March in Miami just might kill us all. Basically, the party plan has gone from a five-day freakout to an insanely unhealthy four-week mar ... More >>

Dance Till Death With Designer Drugs at the Fillmore Miami Beach July 23

​Electronic music producers Michael Vincent Patrick and Theodore Paul Nelson, better known as Designer Drugs, represent the grimy underground club scene of the New York-Philly axis. Don't expect to ever find them there, though. Almost as soon as Patrick and Nelson began the project, halfway throug ... More >>

Designer Drugs Talk Hardcore/Softcore, Sex Cult, and the Dark Art of Remixing

​Last week, Crossfade urged you to gobble some Designer Drugs and dance till death at the Fillmore Miami Beach's July edition of the more-or-less monthly Honeymoon Series. So ... Did you heed that advice? Did you cop a dose? Did you snag tix? Well, if not, here's our second attempt to get you to ... 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 >>

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 >>

Cat Scratch Fever

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 >>

Bob Sinclar's Opening Night Party at Amnesia Miami

Photo by Gaby Izarra​See the full 44-photo Amnesia Grand Opening With Bob Sinclar slideshow. Bob Sinclar With Philippe B. Amnesia Miami Friday, October 21, 2011 Better Than: A foam party, which the old Amnesia Miami was known for. It was the same charming faces in a new and unexplored domain. W ... More >>