Ibiza

Louis Puig: "It Is True, I Sold Club Space"

It's that time of year again. And no, we're not exactly talking about Ultra Music Festival, Winter Music Conference, and Miami Music Week. We here at Crossfade are actually referring to the receipt of Louis Puig's incredibly detailed semi-annual "tell-it-like-it-is letter regarding EDM." His late ... More >>

Giles Smith on Secretsundaze: "We've Never Been About Fads, Just Quality Timeless Music"

London has been a major electronic dance music hub since the rave boom of the late '80s. And when it comes to London house and techno parties with an authentic underground ethos, the name Secretsundaze reigns supreme. Launched by DJ-producers Giles Smith and James Priestly, the party has been going ... More >>

Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week pool party guide, March 17 to 23

Eight Best Club Parties on South Beach This Weekend

​Bro, what a mission! We just moved into a new place outside the city limits y los vesinos are already starting to piss us off. They've got three huge dogs, one of which insists on barking super early in the morning while the other two stare us down through a crack in the wooden fence. We're l ... More >>

Ultra Music Festival Boat Party Cruise With Pukka Up on March 21

​Ultra Music Festival, much like the Universe itself, is constantly expanding. Over the past 14 years, what started as a one-day party on Miami Beach has morphed into a huge corporate monster with a million heads. Rather than one day of debauchery, you get three days, plus an UMF concert document ... More >>

Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week Pool Party Guide

​Ostensibly, Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week provide thousands of very serious electronic dance music fans with an annual opportunity to meet, mingle, and discuss the current state of EDM.But c'mon, that's bullshit. The truth: Both WMC and MMW are just excuses for totally out-of-contr ... More >>

Ultra Music Festival Announces World Tour Stops in Argentina, Ibiza, Poland, Korea, Brazil

​Beware, beat freaks! The raving masterminds behind Ultra Music Festival have already colonized and conquered Downtown Miami in the name of electronic dance music, annually deploying an entire army of furry-booted troops and uhntz-uhntz-ing explosives experts to terrorize Biscayne Boulevard cond ... More >>

tINI on DJ Gender Divide: "The House Scene Is Not Defined by Gender, Everyone Is Welcome"

​Miami, meet tINI. Who is she? Only one of the transtlantic tech-house scene's most accomplished female DJ-producers. It helps that she's a card-carrying member of Loco Dice's beloved Desolat family, which means regular headlining slots at EDM hostpots from her native Berlin to Ibiza. Then there ... More >>

DJ Three Waxes Poetic About Ten Dance-Floor Weapons

​You'd be hard-pressed to find a more encyclopedic guru of house and techno than Chistopher Milo AKA DJ Three. And it's no surprise, given he's one of the most highly regarded tastemakers on the underground American EDM scene. The Florida native has been commanding dancefloors since the early '90 ... More >>

Steve Lawler Talks Raving, Ibiza, and Viva Music

​The title King of Space (as in the Ibiza dance mecca) is one of the highest accolades that an international EDM DJ can ever hope to earn. But let's face it -- being a megaclub resident doesn't necessarily give you the old-school cred that comes with having been a mover and shaker since the dawn ... More >>

Norman Doray Talks Strictly Ibiza to Amsterdam and Partying Like a Frenchman

​Frenchman Norman Doray plays with the big boys. Coming straight from Ibiza where he hit up the Swedish House Mafia's Masquerade Motel, Mr. Doray is dropping into Arkadia at the Fontainebleau this Thursday for the weekly Subliminal Sessions party. Co-producer of "Chase The Sun", last summer's epi ... 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 >>

Luke Makes House His Home

French Tech House Sensation Okain Makes Miami Debut at Electric Pickle This Friday

​When confronted with the phrase French electronic dance music, you probably think of Daft Punk's glossy stadium house or brash punky indie electro by the likes of Justice. But recently, les français have also emerged as formidable proponents of underground tech house, thanks to hot labels like F ... More >>

Five Reasons Steve Angello Should Move to Miami and Become Our Full-Time Lover

​Miami is totally obsessed with Steve Angello. And obviously, the Swedish House Mafia member and Size Records label boss loves us back. How can we tell? Well, Stevie dropped the first hint when he and his fellow Mafia men -- Axwell and Sebastian Ingrosso -- co-dedicated a song to us. It's called ... More >>

Legion of Boom

Lee Foss Talks Globetrotting, Hot Creations Label and 2010 Success

​Few artists had a greater impact on the transtlantic EDM scene in 2010 than DJ-producer Lee Foss. Both with his solo work and Hot Natured side project with Jamie Jones, Foss's singular brand of moody, bass-driven electro-funk dominated the charts and international dancefloors all year, while spaw ... More >>

The Age of Aquarius

Loco Dice Gets Pure Gangsta at Space This Saturday

​With a name like Dice Corleone on his birth certificate, you know Loco Dice has to be pure gangsta. Which makes it kind of fitting that the international techno sensation was originally a hip-hopper. Born in Tunisia and raised in Germany, Dice started out as rapper, playing support slots for th ... More >>

Panic Bomber's Discipline EP

​Panic BomberDiscipline EP (YYZ Records)Our love affair with Miami's most quixotic musician continued in 2010 thanks to the quiet release of the Discipline EP on Canada's YYZ Records. After dropping his first full-length, Getting On My Mind, in late 2009, this three-track EP, released in March, al ... More >>

Nic Fanciulli at SET December 12

Nic Fanciulli Talks Success, Ibiza, and His New Deleted Label

​Earlier this week, we previewed Nic Fanciulli's upcoming December 12 show at SET. The last twelve months have seen the acclaimed British DJ-producer positioned as one of the top EDM stars in the world, while his esteemed Saved imprint continues to enlist some of the most talented producers in the ... More >>

Nic Fanciulli Brings the Transatlantic Zeitgeist to SET December 12

​British DJ, producer and label magnate Nic Fanciulli has steadily climbed the international ranks over the course of the past decade, positioning himself as one of the biggest stars in electronic dance music. His career had an auspicious start in the early '00s when his fledgling production wor ... More >>

Clive Henry Talks the EDM Underground and His New Crosstown Rebels Record

​Few artists out there embody the spirit of the EDM underground as much as British DJ-producer Clive Henry. As one half of seminal production duo Peace Division, he helped define '90s tech house. And as a long-standing resident of the infamous Circo Loco afterhours party at DC10 club in Ibiza, he ... 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 >>

Swedish House Mafia plays Scope Art Fair October 30

Swedish House Mafia vs. Tinie Tempah's "Miami 2 Ibiza": The Hottest Record in the World?

photo via facebook.com/swedishhousemafia​.... Well, it is, according to BBC Radio One's Zane Lowe, who dubbed the house supergroup's latest track "the hottest record in the world today" this past Thursday. In dance music, 2010 is officially the year of Swedish House Mafia. The holy triumvirat ... More >>

Breaking: Club Space Closing Indefinitely After Labor Day Weekend

​Club Space will close its doors after Labor Day Weekend for renovations. The   infamous land of early - morning fist - pumping will be using the holiday weekend to host two "Closing Parties" before an indefinite hiatus. Space's web site announced the closing with a newspaper-style ... More >>

Deep Beach House Party

WMC 2010: Q&A With Wally Lopez, Playing Mynt, Nikki Beach, Space, and the Surfcomber

​​Wally Lopez is hands-down the most well-known DJ/remixer in the world right now representing Spain. Born and still based in Madrid, the bespectacled electro-house champion got his start in radio, first spinning dance grooves on the air at just 13 years old. Over the years, he moved throughout ... More >>

Robbie Rivera's Juicy Beach party offers some lineup curveballs

The 25 worst moments in dance music history

A look at 2009 in dance music

Roger Sanchez

Alex Gaudino

Sound Plus Vision

UK house DJ Steve Lawler brings his multimedia extravaganza to the Magic City

Club Planet

For Erick Morillo, it's all about booty calls and disco balls

Chow Down Under

It's January, so naturally we look forward to Australia Day

Graze Merrick Park

Walk around the mall flowers and taste these tapas daisies

Tapping into Tapas

Tapas, er wait, miniature cuisine is taking hold in the biggest of kitchens

Beach Bacchus

The good, the bad, the Nikki Beach

Beatzilla

Bogdan Raczynski blew up Ibiza. Now he's ready to do damage in Miami.

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

A Foot in the Deck

DJ Edgar V. has no problem with being popular

Acosta Nation

Resident DJ George Acosta is on a diplomatic mission

Sex and the Single Raver

DJ porn? Yes, the world of dance music has changed somewhat -- from righteous to raunch