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Ultra Music Festival 2013's Lineup and Set Times

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 >>

Flume on Death, Hard Miami, Getting High

Flume is an Australian kid signed to Mom Pop Records who's been lighting up the sales charts with his chilled-out electronica. This week, he's in town for Hard Miami, a show at Bardot, and a few days off before a North American tour. Here's what he has to say about Ultra Music Festival, getting ... More >>

Radiq on EDM, Film Scores, and His Miami Debut at Foreign Exchange WMC 2013

As the name suggests, it's quite a melting pot of international artists at the Foreign Exchange party. Among other countries, there's Mexico, represented by Balcazar & Sordo, Venezuela by Fur Coat, Spain by El_Txef_A, and Italy by Lula Circus. But the artist who's scoring the most frequent-flie ... More >>

SET Reopening for Miami Music Week 2013

"Luxury and white-glove service." That's what South Beach socialites and club wreckers alike should expect from the new SET. In early January, we here at Crossfade reported that the Opium Group club would be closing for renovations in order to become the Miami nightlife spot "where true VIPs pop c ... More >>

Last Resort 2013, With Maceo Plex, Michael Mayer, Tiger & Woods, at Villa 221 March 24

Maceo Plex at WMC, Miami Music Week, and Ultra Music Festival 2013

Danny Daze at Ultra Music Festival 2013

Ultra Music Festival, Winter Music Conference, and Miami Music Week 2013

Twenty Best Club Parties During WMC and Miami Music Week 2013

George FitzGerald Talks Ultra Debut: "The Lineup Is Insane, It's Humbling"

Forward-thinking EDM nerds (we here at Crossfade included) are totally geeking out about the Hotflush label's exclusive Winter Music Conference 2013 showcase at the Electric Pickle on March 23. And one of the artists we're most psyched to see is U.K. DJ/producer George FitzGerald, making his Miami d ... More >>

Maceo Plex Talks Jupiter Jazz Debut EP, Ultra Music Festival, and WMC/MMW 2013

Maceo Plex is pretty much the biggest thing in underground dance music right now. He's definitely one of the most highly anticipated acts playing next week for Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week 2013. You'll get to catch him at several parties, not the least of which are his Ellum label s ... More >>

Twenty Best Club Parties During Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week 2013

Who will survive Ultra Music Festival, Winter Music Conference, and Miami Music Week 2013? With UMF becoming a two-weekend behemoth and WMC/MMW turning into a ten-day smackdown, the month of March in the MIA has officially become an insane EDM endurance test. And here is the most important rule: Do ... More >>

Red Bull Guest House With Fool's Gold, DFA, OWSLA Take Over Dream South Beach Hotel

Red Bull gives you wings. But the Austrian energy-beverage giant also gives you a reason stay up all night. And no, we're not talking about the 27 grams of sugar in an 8.3-ounce can. We're talking about the company's forthcoming 3:30 a.m. sunrise breakfast parties on South Beach during Winter Musi ... More >>

Maceo Plex on Ultra Music Festival Debut: "I'm Going to Bring Everything I've Got"

Among the legion of global superstars alighting in Miami for Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week 2013, one name carries some pretty serious weight at the moment: Maceo Plex. DJ/producer and Ellum label boss Eric Estornel's rise to international stardom over the last couple of years has be ... More >>

Snoop Lion Headlining Bamboo Miami Beach's WMC and Miami Music Week 2013 Lineup

With the kickoff of Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week just a little over seven days away, our anxiety has reached an all-time high. Only Election Day voting lines throughout South Florida, it seems, are longer than our WMC Party Guides, and that's becoming increasingly difficult to handle ... More >>

Opium Group's MMW 2013 Phase Two Lineup: Richie Hawtin, Maceo Plex, Porter Robinson

And the uhntz-uhntz continues ... Last month, the Opium Group dropped its Phase One lineup for Miami Music Week 2013, revealing eight shows at four clubs: Mansion, Cameo, SET, and Mokai. Now almost exactly four weeks later, the clubbin' conglomerate has unveiled its Phase Two slate, including MMW ... More >>

Shelborne's WMC 2013 Pool Parties: Murk, Erick Morillo, Victor Calderone, and Others

Beware the Ides of March. No, not because someone's planning to stab you in the back a la Brutus. But rather because this year's Winter Music Conference kicks off on March 15, meaning you only have about three weeks of fake tanning sessions, CrossFit classes, and detoxing left until you're rolling ... More >>

Flying Circus Announces WMC 2013 Lineup: Lee Curtiss, Azari & III, Tiefschwarz, 19 Others

Now going on its sixth year, Flying Circus has emerged as one of the foremost mid-week Winter Music Conference parties. Back in 2011, Luca Saporito of UK DJ-production duo Audiofly reminisced with Crossfade about the fateful day in 2008 when he teamed up with SAFE Miami to launch the party last-mi ... More >>

Robbie Rivera's Juicy Beach 2013 Phase Two Lineup: Mord Fustang, Hot Mouth, 16 Others

Two weeks ago, Robbie Rivera kicked off the beat-freaking season by revealing the nine-act Phase One lineup for Juicy Beach 2013. The roster was already loaded with Mr. Rivera, Bob Sinclar, Cosmic Gate ... But the Juicy crew still promised more "all star talent to be announced in the coming weeks." ... More >>

Ultra Music Festival 2013 Phase 3 Lineup: Tommie Sunshine, Dieselboy, Kleinenberg

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 >>

Last Resort Announces WMC 2013 Lineup: Maceo Plex, Tale of Us, Soul Clap, 17 Others

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 >>

Ultra Music Festival 2013 Phase 2 Lineup: Alesso, Eric Prydz, Snoop Dogg, Tons 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 >>

Matt Tolfrey Talks Leftroom Label and His New Word of Mouth Album

NOTE Matt Tolfrey and a number of other shows have been moved from the Electric Pickle to Villa 221, because of a temporary club closure. In an Internet-era dance music market oversaturated with labels and releases, London's Leftroom Records has emerged as a veritable touchstone for quality tech-h ... More >>

Eats Everything Talks UK Hardcore, Bass Music, and New EP on Dirtybird

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 >>

Maxxi Soundsystem on Collabo With Miami's Danny Daze and Loving the Electric Pickle

There are far too many electronic dance music artists blowing up because of sheer hype these days. Too many bedroom producers stitching tired old samples and DJ tools and saturating the market with unremarkable dancefloor fodder. But every once on a while, we're treated to flashes of genius, like t ... More >>

PillowTalk and Five Other Live Acts Redefining Electronic Dance Music

Disc jockeying is certainly a respectable craft. It requires certain skills, like programming a track selection and beatmatching/mixing records. But let's face it, we give DJs way too much credit -- all they do is play records. There's something about the improvisational spontaneity and the hands-o ... More >>

Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week 2012: A Daily Party Guide

​Check out today's top WMC and MMW parties -- plus Crossfade's fifteen best parties. Honestly, if you're gonna survive 96 hours of Winter Music Conference, Miami Music Week, and Ultra Music Festival, then your emergency EDM supply kit will need to include a gas mask, goggles, a bikini and/or bana ... More >>

Top Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week Parties for Friday, March 23

​Are you ready to spend the next three days penned inside the gates of Bayfront Park like some kinda wild, half-naked, EDM-addled party animal? With just 18,000 seconds till Ultra Music Festival starts uhntz-uhntz-ing like a raver dry heaving after too many pep pills, you might be frantically pre ... More >>

Daily party plan for WMC and Miami Music Week, March 22 to 25

WMC 2012: PillowTalk on Breakthrough Success and Destroying All Genres

San Francisco's Samuel Doylestien, Ryan Williams, and Michael Tello are all accomplished DJ-producers. But as PillowTalk, they've been making even bigger waves. This year alone has seen the threesome signed to some of the most hotly tipped labels in the international house and techno scene: Visionq ... More >>

Danny Daze on Miami Clubs: "Telling DJs What to Play Because of a Douchebag Spending Three Grand on a Table"

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 >>

The Overthrow Taking Over Mamushka's For MMW, Making it Hard 2 Leave Next Sunday

​During WMC 2010, White Room (currently Eve) was the unofficial DJ VIP room. Except, it wasn't really VIP. DJ and fans easily hung out side by side. It was the only place were the average partygoer could find him or herself talking with some of the best EDM and DJ acts. It's where we talked Annie ... More >>

Last Resort at Villa 221 March 25

Crosstown Rebels' Get Lost at Electric Pickle March 24

WMC 2012: Visionquest, Maceo Plex, Joris Voorn Headline Last Resort at Villa 221

​For a few years there, Made Event's Sunday School made up a big slice of the underground house and techno pie during WMC week, especially with heavyweights like Richie Hawtin, Luciano and Seth Troxler aboard their whopping 36-hour marathon lineup. But alas, Sunday School is no more. The party we ... More >>

No Sugar Added 2012 Announces Two-Day Lineup for Miami Music Week: Paul Oakenfold, Carl Craig, and 71 Others

Carl Craig says, "Get off the white stuff, beat freaks."​The United States of America is totally addicted to the white stuff. Strung out, fat, unfocused, cranky, fiending -- we are a nation of shrubby slaves to the cane, cube, and spoonful whose bodies (and minds) could never be called beach-read ... More >>

Opium Group's Miami Music Week 2012 Lineup: Dirty South, John Digweed, and 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 >>

Damian Lazarus Talks Crosstown Rebels, Get Lost, and the EDM Underground

​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 >>

Crosstown Rebels' Get Lost 2012 Lineup: Maceo Plex, Art Department, Droog and Others

​What started out as a fairly modest afterhours party at the former Studio A space in Downtown Miami in 2006 has since evolved into the WMC event par excellence. Of course, we're talking about Crosstown Rebels' Get Lost. And now in its seventh installment, this party has pretty much come to epit ... More >>

Laura Jones on Sudden Success: "Months Ago, I Was Stuck in a 9-to-5, Hating Every Minute"

​UK DJ-producer Laura Jones will be making her Miami debut this Saturday. But in a way, it's actually a homecoming. That's because DJs like Matt Tolfrey (who would later sign her to his hotly tipped Leftroom imprint) introduced Jones to the world by dropping her tracks all over town during this ... More >>

Crosstown Rebels Announce Get Lost Art Basel Lineup at the Electric Pickle December 4

​If there's one WMC/Miami Music Week party that keeps locals and jetsetters buzzing year-round, it's Crosstown Rebels' Get Lost. Last March marked the party's sixth installment and third year at the Electric Pickle, a venue which has proven ideal for this marathon event, with its sunny patio sett ... More >>

Maceo Plex's Top Five Miami Rave Classics

​If you're at all in the loop of what's been going on in the international EDM underground this year, then there's little chance you've missed the meteoric rise of producer Eric Estornel, AKA Maceo Plex. And if you attended the now-legendary 2011 edition of Crosstown Rebels' Get Lost party durin ... More >>

Death On The Balcony's Paul Hargreaves Talks Disco, Success, and the Magicbag Label

Death On The Balcony​We here at Crossfade pride ourselves on breaking new international talent ahead of their debut Miami performances. And UK disco-house sensations Death On The Balcony are one act we've been following closely all year in anticipation of its first apperance this side of the pond. ... More >>

Murmur Presents Nofitstate = Your Ultra Week Crash Course in Contemporary Underground House

​Various Artists Murmur Presents Nofitstate(Murmur Records)murmurrecords.com If you decide to prep for Ultra Week by listening to only one compilation album of contemporary underground house, then make it Murmur Presents Nofitstate. With almost thirty tracks spanning two discs, this record offers ... More >>

Crosstown Rebels' Get Lost Lineup: Art Department, Jamie Jones, Lee Foss, and Others

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 >>

Maceo Plex at Electric Pickle January 20

Maceo Plex Talks Sexy Dancefloor Destruction

​Last week we previewed the upcoming January 21 performance by Maceo Plex at the Electric Pickle. The acclaimed American DJ-producer is Eric Estornel, who also goes by Maetrik and Mariel Ito -- it depends on whether he's feeling dark, sci-fi, or sexy. He's been rocking the decks since the early ... More >>

Maceo Plex Gets Moody at Electric Pickle January 21

​DJ-producer Eric Estornel is a veritable chameleon of electronic dance music. In a career spanning almost two decades, he's shifted musical styles as often as he has monikers. His extensive discography boasts atmospheric techno as Maetrik, twisted electro as Mariel Ito, and moody deep house as ... 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 >>