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Why the Corporate Takeover of EDM Was Inevitable: The Straight Bros are On Board

You're not likely to hear many heavy-handed conversations about business at Ultra Music Festival this weekend, but if you do, it will more than likely be about billionaire Robert F.X. Sillerman's plans to buy up just about everything related to electronic dance music and consolidate it all under SFX ... More >>

Jimmy Edgar Talks Magick, Studio Wizardry, and Hypnotic Power of EDM

As you read this, a lot of would-be Jimmy Edgar imitators are sitting in their bedroom studios scratching their heads and wondering why they can't sound like him. That's because nobody sounds like Jimmy Edgar except Jimmy Edgar himself. From the start, his sound was so freethinking that the Detroit ... More >>

Miami's Jonny Cruz Talks Drum 'n' Bass, My Favorite Robot, His New Label, and Basel Week

Puerto Rico is not necessarily known as an electronic dance music hotbed, but the island did spawn one Jonny Cruz, a DJ-producer who has started making waves on the international tech-house scene these last couple years. It helps that Cruz is a card-carrying member of the artist collective behind h ... More >>

Six Best South Beach Club Parties, November 1 to 4

The Revenge Talks Next 6th Borough Project Album, Disco Edits, and New Live Show

House music is currently embroiled in a hot steamy love affair with its own past. Look no further than the lush slow-mo vintage grooves of Scotland's The Revenge, AKA Graeme Clark. As a master of the disco edit, Clark is keeping the old-school tradition of garage legends like Larry Levan alive. But ... More >>

Rick Wade on EDM: "People Are Tired of Trendy Disposable Tracks and They're Starved for Substance"

The classic house revival is well underway, sweeping across the international dance music scene as young producers who weren't even old enough to walk in the '90s revel in that decade's sound. Sadly, a lot of these kids are probably unaware that among the pioneers of that deep house sound they love ... More >>

New Order at Ultra Music Festival, March 23 (With Video of "Ceremony" and More!)

​It'd be an understatement to say New Order's performance at Ultra Music Festival last night was a rare treat. Instead, it was a benchmark for Ultra's ultimate booking muscle and its massive importance on the local concert landscape. Let's be real -- when could you ever expect to see both New Or ... More >>

Video: Neon Indian at Ultra Music Festival 2012

​The collective celebration of electronic dance music (otherwise known as Ultra Music Festival) finally kicked off yesterday at Bayfront Park. And a few hiccups aside, everything seemed to go smoothly. We had gotten so used to the layout at Bicentennial Park that first thing we did was survey the ... More >>

Miike Snow Brings Out the Animals at Ultra Music Festival 2012

​Taking the stage in matching all-black, zip-up satin jackets and dark skinny denim, Miike Snow looked like members of some sort of Orthodox Hipster cult. The long beards sported by two members didn't dissuade the comparison. And the faithful turned out, with one of the youngest crowds attracted ... More >>

Mugshots Friday: He's Sexy and He Knows It

​Every Friday, Riptide brings you the most eye-catching mugshots taken the previous week (or thereabouts) in Miami-Dade County. Yes, there is some mockery of bad neck tattoos, but also adulation directed at perps who just plain look more badass than we ever will. This is the italicized intro to th ... More >>

Win Free Ultra Music Festival 2012 Tickets by Entering Miami Music Week Sweepstakes

​Exactly 14 days ago, Ultra Music Festival 2012 sold out. And the wailing of sad, ticketless beat freaks could be heard in dark, lonely nightclubs all around the globe. But then the fest offered its oh-so-disappointed children some consolation, announcing a whole series of official Miami Music We ... More >>

Ultra Music Festival 2012 Is "90 Percent Sold Out! Act Now Before It's Too Late!"

​Code red! Trip the alarm! Now dance! We here at Crossfade have just received a superurgent email with a subject line that shouts, "Ultra Music Festival 90% Sold Out! Last Chance To Purchase Tickets!" Now, for all of us who've been victimized by corporate marketing scare tactics in the past, Ul ... More >>

Danny Howells Talks Two Decades in the Game and the Possibility of Semi-Retirement

​There's not a hell of a lot of electronic dance music DJs from the old school who remain hip with today's young underground cognoscenti. But the UK's Danny Howells is definitely one of them. Maybe it's his boundless charisma behind the decks. Or his self-dubbed "deepsexyfuturistictechfunkhouse" ... More >>

Ultra Music Festival 2012 Announces Lineup: Avicii, Tiësto, David Guetta, and 89 Others

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 >>

Röyksopp Gets Cosmic at Ultra Music Festival 2011

​Röyksopp albums, like all good things in life, come to those who wait. The duo of Svein Berge and Torbjørn Brundtland first began experimenting with synthesizers together as kids in their small, sub-Arctic hometown of Tromsø, Norway. "I remember seeing this documentary when I was seven, I th ... More >>

Concert Review: The Swell Season at the Fillmore Miami Beach, May 24

photo by John HoodThe Swell Season's Glen Hansard​The Swell SeasonThe Fillmore Miami BeachMonday, May 24, 2010Better Than: Any heady lullabies you've ever heard. The Review: There was an air of quiet excitement at the Fillmore Miami Beach Monday night, in advance of the Swell Season's Mi ... More >>

Juan Atkins reflects on 25 years of Detroit techno

Rising techno star Troy Pierce plays Club Space's loft Saturday

Q&A with DJ Ralph Lawson of 2020Soundsystem, Playing LIV on Saturday

​In this age of laptop-toting faux live electronic dance music acts, an actual band employing actual live instrumentation and vocals is a rare thing, especially when said band is delivering funked-out dancefloor bangers like 2020Soundsystem. The musical brainchild of Leeds-based DJ and esteemed 20 ... More >>

Shit Robot

DFA's Shit Robot at the Vagabond October 16

​That little "influences" box on a musician's MySpace page is usually a repository for not-funny irony or complete bullshit. Shit Robot's, however, is as sincere and accurate as this single-man-act's name is not -- name-checked here are early electronic heavyweights like Carl Craig, Andrew Weather ... More >>

Oktoberfest Miami Now at Fritz and Franz Bierhaus in Coral Gables

via oktoberfestmiami.comThat better not be Bud Lite.​Once upon a time, the Germans decided to contribute their own booze, food, and music festival to the world. They had yet to come up with Kraftwerk, the art scene sucked, and they had plenty of kegs stored up in mountain caves to keep cool, so th ... More >>

The Cosmic Twins Land

Derrick May and François K team up for one night only at Nocturnal.

Dave Aronberg Really, Really Likes Rush (the Band, Not the Limbaugh)

The Buzz takes there "5 Questions" video series to Democratic Attorney General candidate Dave Aronberg. The first few minutes are all blah-blah "this is why I should be elected stuff," then some talk about who has the bumper sticker advantage (?), but then at the 3:22 mark Aronberg takes time to ... More >>

"Cosmic Twins" Derrick May & François K Play Nocturnal's Eden Terrace Garden on June 20

A heads up to Miami's techno lovers: Pornograph Events has one hell of a double booking lined up for June, with legends Derrick May and François K scheduled to play Nocturnal's Eden Terrace Garden on Saturday, June 20. For those of you born yesterday, Derrick May is one of Detroit's legendary Belle ... More >>

Diplo's World Beat

Thank this DJ/producer for the growing global funk at WMC.

The Sound of Legend

DJ/producer Arthur Baker helped invent electro's backbone.

Head Spins: Danny Daze

A Miami native turned roadmaster.

Josh Gabriel

Black Spade

To Serve with Love (Om Hip Hop)

Snares Trap

Venetian Snares gives New Times his first U.S. interview in two years.

Signifying Something

Sound Team has just the right combo of folkways and krautrock

Hot Chip

Rage against the establishment

New Times's top DVD picks for the week of December 6

Across the Universe

The Secret Machines slow time and stretch space with psych-rock monuments

Hit Parade

Our annual nonscientific tip sheet for WMC/M3's breakout tracks

Various Artists

DFA Compilation #2 DFA Records

The Bitch

The Bell Tolls For Spree

Rock For Light

Every Miami youngster has a little bit of Uprokk in them

Local Heroes

Rump Shaker

Want to hear the true sound of Miami? Check out bass veteran DJ Laz

This Week's Day by Day Picks

Ready to Rumble

Anthony Rother's magical electro world

On Top of Pop

Has there ever been a money machine quite like Madonna?

Uncle Luke

Something Nasty
Luke Records

Kulchurkampf: 365 Days of Pop Music

From trance to hip-hop, there's not much in between

Black Roots, White Fruit

Somewhere between Detroit and Düsseldorf, electronic dance music lost its soul

Electric Avenues

Can Openers

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