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 >>
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 >>
It's that time of year, beat freaks. The MIA is being flooded with uhntz-uhntz. And contributing to this dangerously rising tide, the Opium Group has just revealed eight shows at four clubs for Miami Music Week 2013. Oh, and that's only Phase One. From March 13 to 24, a relentless six-day stretch ... More >>
Good morning, beat freak. Over the last seven days, you've gotten down with a genderqueer rapper in Overtown, raged at each and every free fucking party on the sked (not to mention WMC and MMW's fifteen best club bashes), and hit the Skrillex mosh pit at Ultra Music Festival. You've moombahed ... More >>
Photo by Alex BroadwellJohn Digweed during MMW 2011.The official start of Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week is less than a month away, and local venues are starting to reveal all the beat-wrapped goodies. One of the bigger juggernauts of the week, of course, is the Opium Group, which ... More >>
John Digweed: the man, the myth, the legend. You'll get to see all three when the UK electronic dance music titan alights at Gryphon nightclub this Sunday.And this is no ordinary club date. It's a stop on Digweed's current North American tour in support of Structures Two, a whopping 3-CD compilat ... More >>
Remember progressive house? With its trippy hippie whimsy, these days it's considered the punchline to a joke by many an EDM snob. But prog reigned supreme during the '90s, when artists like Sasha, John Digweed and Way Out West ruled the international scene. Maybe folks were less utilitarian abou ... More >>
These days, the term underground gets thrown around a little too easily in the electronic dance music scene. Certainly not all DJs can boast the same sort of authentic subterranean cred as Christopher Milo, AKA DJ Three. It's a relentless comittment to the musical cutting-edge at the expense of ... More >>
Few old-school DJs have stood the test of time and garnered the sort of enduring fanatical following that UK veteran Danny Howells enjoys today. Schooled during the house boom of the late '80s, Howells would land his first major residency with John Digweed's legendary Bedrock club night in 1991. ... More >>
Photo by Drew Ressler/Rukes.comWe put money on the Mau5 and the cheese-eater paid off.Yes, we here at Crossfade are degenerate gamblers. And 12 days ago, we proved it by laying down a few bets on the outcome of the Beatport Music Awards. Well, the winners have been announced and we totally f ... More >>
Photo by Alex BroadwellDigweed behind the decks at the Vagabond.You tweetcasted from the port-a-potty. You got goofy and sunburned with Simian Mobile Disco, Boys Noize, and a middle-aged, glowstick-wielding paramedic at Day Two of Ultra Music Festival. And then (so long as you didn't overdo it ... More >>
David Guetta does Opium.When we polled you, the reader, about what to call the week of events happening around Ultra, 67 percent of you decided Ultra Week would be the best moniker. For Google's sake, we sort of agree with you, even if the name carries connotations of Ultra's dominance.The Opium ... More >>
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 >>
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 >>
Courtesy Carmel OphirCarmel Ophir is well known as a nightlife veteran in Miami, DJ, co-owner of The Vagabond (with DJ John Digweed), and owner of Creations production company. Ophir's life is all about music, but it's also all about food. Like a musician who's riffing, once Ophir gets started ta ... More >>
It's been a sensational year for Seattle-based DJ-producer Dave Pezzner, who despite almost two decades of experience under his belt was virtually unknown by the international EDM community until very recently. For over fifteen years, he banged out quirky glitch-house and breaks as production d ... More >>
UK progressive house titan John Digweed hardly needs an introduction anywhere people get down to electronic music beats, lazers and glowsticks. Since his '90s decade-defining forays alongside Sasha and their famed Northern Exposure compilation series, Digweed has become one of the most ubiquitous ... More >>
The Electric Zoo festival, which launched just last year, is New York City's somewhat latecoming answer to Detroit's Movement Electronic Music Festival and Miami's own Ultra -- better late than never, right? 2009's successful inaugural event at Randall's Island Park in Manhattan summoned over 26, ... More >>
Electronic music and its surrounding industry generally exists in a separate plane from the rest of the world's troubles. The music is, after all, most often about dancing and going out -- a form of escapism. And even if things are generally going to the shitter, people are still going to want to ... More >>
Finally the moment all of you South Beach club rats have been waiting for: The Opium Group has released its official 2010 WMC lineup. With its vast real estate of glitzy big-room venues, including clubs Mansion, Louis, SET, and Cameo, the Beach's ubiquitous nightlife conglomerate is responsible f ... More >>
Welsh DJ/producer Sasha (born Alexander Paul Coe) is that rare breed of artist that has managed to balance massive commercial success and notoriety with artistic integrity throughout his long-standing career. I won't go into too many details about his myriad accolades through the years, which inc ... More >>
Legendary British DJ/producer Stave Lawler will be playing at Gryphon Nightclub at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino this Thursday night. A child of the '90s UK rave scene, Lawler got his start organizing some of the infamous M42 Motorway illegal parties as a teenager, before getting his bi ... More >>
In the ongoing spirit of philanthropy that seems to have taken over Miami's dance music scene (with recent charitable events like "The Vagabond for a Cause" with John Digweed and "Dance for a Cause" featuring Chris Fortier at Electric Pickle) Technique Miami presents "Get Funk'd Up" at Soho Studi ... More >>
John Digweed is not only one of the biggest superstar DJs ever, but he's got a heart just as extra-large. The man has spun to thousands at the biggest venues and festivals in the world, but tonight he touches down at the Vagabond for a more intimate, down-to-earth event. He and Vagabond co-owner Car ... More >>
The highlights of this year's Winter Music Conference.
(Un)expected highlights from Ultra
A heavy bookend tests festival's endurance
Be aurally adventuresome
A conversation with DJ, producer, and label owner John Digweed
A man of few words, dance music hero Sasha talks with his hands
A look at what sells and what sells out at Thee Sixth Annual Zen Muzik Festival
Sasha and Digweed; Mem Shannon
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