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 >>
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 >>
With Made Event's longstanding Sunday School party going kaput before Winter Music Conference 2012, revelers were deprived of a properly epic closing party. But then SAFE Miami, Embrace Miami, and Liaison Artists came to the rescue with their first annual installment of Last Resort at Villa 221, th ... 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 >>
Its recent commercial explosion notwithstanding, electronic dance music culture in the U.S. has been mostly marginal. But in the UK, EDM has been a continuously growing massive mainstream movement since the late '80s. So much so, that music critics often speak of the UK hardcore continuum, an ongoi ... More >>
Maybe you're planning to spend the entire weekend performing glowstick tricks at Ultra Music Festival. Or enjoying the lavish amenities at Swedish House Mafia's Masquerade Hotel. Or bleep-bloop-ing around Biscayne Bay aboard the Biscayne Lady. But if not, you need a beat-freaking plan. In total ... More >>
Miami homeboy Danny Daze (AKA Daniel Gomez) blew up big time in 2011 thanks to a bass-heavy dancefloor bomb called "Your Everything" signed to Jamie Jones and Lee Foss's Hot Creations label. Needless to say, the record made our cut for Miami's Best Albums of 2011. And it put Danny's name on the lips ... More >>
UK disco-house crew Crazy P has been rocking the scene for two decades. But in 2011, they finally started to get massive international recognition for their irresistibly groovy vocal tuneage. Fronting the band is charismatic chanteuse Danielle Moore, who joined Crazy P founding members James Baron ... More >>
While popular electronic music has become synonymous with hugely inflated ticket prices, tables full of empty bottles, and mindlessly overproduced big-room bangers, Miami's own Jonathan Cowan keeps the fire burning for the South Beach's long-lost underground. For Winter Music Conference 2012, Th ... More >>
This Friday, Wynwood electronic dance music emporium the Electric Pickle will be celebrating three years of nonstop boogie. And they'll be doing it in style and in typical fashion by booking two stars of the international house and techno scene, UK DJ-producer and One Records boss Adam Shelton an ... More >>
Jamie Jones and Lee Foss's Hot Creations label has spawned a major stylistic trend across the transatlantic tech-house scene, with many an imitator wielding their darkly sexed-up bass-heavy sound. And among Hot Creations' growing collective of elite producers is Milan-based duo Clockwor ... More >>
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 >>
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 >>
To close out the year, Crossfade is picking its favorite albums by 305 artists. Check out the full list of Miami's Best Albums of 2011. Danny Daze Your Everything/Fall Away From Love EP (Hot Creations) Despite the 305 being a transatlantic house and techno mecca during WMC, we hadn't really sp ... More >>
In 2011, most international EDM fans can probably agree that if there's one act currently rocking their world, it's Hot Natured, the explosive DJ-production duo of Jamie Jones and Lee Foss. That's because Hot Natured are eclectic groove mixologists, stirring and shaking everything -- from disco t ... More >>
Cocodrills' Adam Cruz and Christian "Pridef" Diaz.After years of being knee-deep in the grime of Miami's nightlife and music scene, Cocodrills have become experts on the city's best music spots, the best places for a meal, and the best summer drinks. Before catching the duo tonight at the Elect ... More >>
Steve BugThe LINK crew has been busy all year booking some of the biggest stars on the international techno scene at venues like Space and the Electric Pickle. And earlier this month, LINK auspiciously kicked off its new Summer Sessions with world-renowned DJs Heidi and Bill Patrick at TreeHous ... More >>
If you've partied in Miami in the last decade, you've heard DJ-producer Danny Daze (AKA Daniel Gomez) throwing down at venues like Rokbar, LIV, and former downtown hangout White Room. And if you haven't clubbed with Mr. Daze, then you will soon, because homeboy is about to blow up in a major ... More >>
The Electric PickleMiami is inseparable from her nightlife and clubs. But she's also a gold-digging, glamor-drunk whore. Ninety percent of the establishments around town (especially in South Beach) cater to people with a truly masochistic approach to nightlife, and it's all because of that in ... More >>
Having released his debut EP to immediate acclaim on Josh Wink's Ovum label in January 2010, NYC wunderkind Chris Manik made the leap from virtual unknown to internationally celebrated "It" producer in little more than year. MANIK has since joined the artist rosters of chic labels like Poker Flat ... More >>
We guarantee guido DJ Pauly D of Jersey Shore is NOT in this guide.If you're a discerning local EDM lover, then you probably have a love-hate relationship with the month of March. On one hand, it's the best month out of the year in Miami for the sheer awesomeness of parties and bookings. On th ... More >>
M.A.N.D.Y. headlines Get Physical Yacht Party.No WMC would be complete without a few yacht parties. And this March has, count them, four stellar lineups aboard the infamous Biscayne Lady.From big-room house heavyweights like Desyn Masiello to underground techno stars like Reboot, there's a bi ... More >>
Art Department headline Get Lost.If there was one 2010 WMC party that left peeps buzzing for the rest of the year, it was Crosstown Rebels' now-legendary fifth installment of Get Lost at the Electric Pickle. Maybe it was the vibrant, sunny setting of the Pickle's patio. Or the casual blend of int ... More >>
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 >>
Soul Clap: hungry for the vinylIt seems like only a few years ago that the international EDM scene was in some sort of minimal techno dark age. The sounds were cool and slick and oh-so-Berlinesque, but they just weren't very fun. Fast-forward to 2011 and Boston's Soul Clap have helped kick-star ... More >>
For awhile now, Toronto DJ-producers Jonny White and Kenny Glasgow have been established scene veterans. But nothing could have prepared them (or the world) for the tsunami wave of their 2010 debut release as Art Department, "Without You." A monstrous bass-driven banger oozing with raw ... More >>
NYC-based DJ-producer Chris Manik is on fire right now. In little more than twelve months he's made a formidable leap from virtual unknown to internationally celebrated "It" boy, with releases on top labels like Ovum and Poker Flat. Specializing in a delectably deep and bass-heavy fusion of t ... More >>
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 >>
French DJ/producer Dyed Soundorom is one of the hottest properties of hip Parisian tech-house label Freak n'Chic, home to a slew of international favorites like Jamie Jones, Shonky, and Chris Carrier. Originally a club kid and promoter in the late-90s and early-'00s Parisian house music scen ... More >>
Photo by Nicole CussellClick here to view all the photos from this event.Lee Foss and Ryan ElliottElectric Pickle, MiamiFriday, May 21, 2010Better Than: The increasingly boring-ass state of dance music at the rest of downtown's venues on Friday nights. The Review: While the buzz surrounding Lee Foss ... More >>
The PL0T crew has nothing short of a musical extravaganza in store for us this weekend with a triple showcase at the Electric Pickle featuring Ryan Elliott and Lee Foss on Friday night and Soul Clap during a special Sunday afternoon session. DJ Ryan Eliott, whose new compilation record we reviewe ... More >>
Yes, WMC ended on Sunday, but considering I ended my experience some time technically on Sunday, I've just now gotten my head screwed back on straight. Blame the amazing Get Physical WMC party on Saturday night/Sunday morning, the best edition of that party yet. But I'll get to that shortly. From ... More >>
Paul Morris started the booking agency AM Only in 1995, while he was a student at the University of Florida. It was a fortuitous time, right when dance music was about to break big into this country's consciousness. As electronic sounds shifted through the rave scene and beyond, AM Only continued ... More >>
You wouldn't know it by his minimal but funky robo-beats, but Parisian star Dan Ghenacia started off his DJ career enamored of deep house. Yes, he was lured to the psychedelia dark side during a year abroad in California, and brought back the soulful sounds to his native Paris, where he started o ... More >>
Sure, all the big Crosstown Rebels stars were just here for the Rebel Rave tour at Space this past Saturday. A WMC stop, though, with a Crosstown Rebels Get Lost party, is an absolute requirement. (Besides, sounds like some fans, and even DJs, weren't too thrilled about how the night at Space we ... More >>
Since alighting on Brooklyn's underground dance music scene with partner Zev Eisenberg in 2001, DJ/producer Gadi Mizrahi has emerged as one of the most influential tastemakers in the wider international network of EDM labels and collectives. As a DJ and co-owner of the Wolf Lamb imprint, he has ... More >>
When Andrei Osyka, Brett Griffin, and Justin Sloe first met in the Los Angeles dance music scene at the turn of the millennium, little could they have known that their newly forged creative partnership would comprise one of the West Coast's hippest EDM collectives by the end of the decade. As DJ ... More >>
The PL0T kids are at it again! Tonight brings a last minute double serving of deep techy goodness at the Electric Pickle with transatlantic favorites Matt Tolfrey and Crazy Larry in tow. Young British DJ/producer Matt Tolfrey has made his steady upward move from local pub DJ to internationally-re ... More >>
Jose D. DuranCirca 28's former home to become the Electric Pickle.The sudden closure of Circa 28 late last year came as a shock to us. However, after the bar parted ways with Sweat Records' Lolo Reskin, Circa's Saturday nights were never really the same. By the end, Safe promoter Diego Martinelli ca ... More >>
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