Pete Tong

Coachella 2013: Top Five EDM Moments

Amid the crazy sea of hipsters, hippies, old folks, pre-teens, and babies(!), Coachella's weekend one was also packed with EDM revelers ready to get their fist-pumping music fix. In fact, it seems that dance music lovers are growing in numbers so much that every other car in line at the campground ... More >>

Skream on His Post-Dubstep Sound and Mix for Pete Tong's All Gone: Miami 2013

BBC Radio 1 DJ and chief global EDM tastemaker Pete Tong's All Gone: Miami compilation series has become a definite staple of WMC and Miami Music Week. The double-disc mix album, with a disc each mixed by Tong and a guest artist, serves as a yearly snapshot of the international EDM Zeitgeist. The s ... More >>

UR1 Offers Free Basel Concerts: Daniel Johnston, LA Riots, Bob Sinclar, Pete Tong

Bummed the UR1 Fest didn't go down during Art Basel Miami Beach week? Well, "as a courtesy to loyal fans and customers," the "UR1 Music & Art Festival Team" would like to offer some free tix. No, not to its eventual two-day pan-sensory extravaganza. Just four of this weekend's concerts, like D ... More >>

UR1 Promises to Announce "New Festival Dates Along With Refund Procedures"

Promises. In July, UR1 Festival organizers pledged to bring "a true celebration of art and music" to this year's Art Basel Miami Beach week. But two weeks ago, after assembling an awesome two-day "EDM, pop, hip-hop, and rock" lineup led by Kanye West and Lou Reed, "The UR1 Music & Art Festival ... More >>

UR1 Festival Tickets On Sale! Right Effing Now!

See also "Kanye West, Lou Reed, Offspring Headlining UR1 Festival" -- plus "M.I.A., Fun., Seven Others Added to UR1." Hey, kid. No more waiting for the man. The time has finally come. UR1 Festival tickets are on sale! Right effing now! The ambitious first-time art and music festival will be making ... More >>

M.I.A., Miike Snow, Bloc Party, Fun., Five Others Added to UR1 Festival Lineup

Some people felt a little underwhelmed when we here at Crossfade revealed that Kanye West, The Offspring, Keane, Cocoon Heroes, Lou Reed, Erick Morillo, and Bob Sinclar had been tapped to perform at the first-ever UR1 Festival at Bayfront Park during Art Basel Miami Beach week. Well, another nine n ... More >>

Dutch House Mafia

Beat The Beat Up

Miami's Best Albums of 2011: Danny Daze's Your Everything/Fall Away From Love EP

​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 >>

Metric Conversion

Felix da Housecat Meow Mix in Preparation of Party Time at LIV

Chtfn​Felix Da Housecat is prancing back to South Beach, readying his paws for a party attack at glossy superclub LIV. A member of the electro elite, he first made a name for himself on the mid '80s Chicago dance scene. Over the past decade, the DJ-producer has worked closely with Miss Kittin, J ... More >>

Cat Scratch Fever

DJ Mix by BBC Radio 1's Heidi, Playing Treehouse This Sunday

​When it comes to electronic dance music, there's probably no greater benchmark for superior taste than BBC Radio 1. From the eminent Pete Tong's long-standing Essential Mix to shows by esteemed tastemakers like Gilles Peterson and Annie Mac, Radio 1 has been the first to break EDM's cutting- ... More >>

Identity Festival at Klipsch Amphitheater (Bayfront Park) August 25, Early Bird Tickets on Sale May 20

Kaskade headlines Identity Festival.​As promised here are more details on the upcoming Identity Festival, which stops in Miami August 25. The one-day event will happen at the recently renamed Bayfront Park Amphitheater, now known as Klipsch Amphitheater at Bayfront Park.Early bird tickets will go ... More >>

Identity Electronic Music Festival Stops in Miami August 25

Rusko coming to Miami with Identity.​Can't wait till March 2012 for another big dose of electronic music? Well, there may be a temporary cure when Identity, a summer traveling electronic music festival, stops in Miami on August 25.Details at the moment are vague. There is no word about a specifi ... More >>

Swedish House Mafia's One Night Stand at the Masquerade Motel, March 26

Photo by Yesenia HernandezSinning with Swedish House Mafia.​Sunday, a day typically reserved for Jesus. And if I were a praying man, I'd probably throw on a pair of kakis and confess that I was involved in a massive seaside dry-hump last night. Forgive me, Father, for I have sinned. Over the cour ... More >>

Pete Tong's Pool Party: Not a Lotta Pool, Whole Lotta Dance

Pete Tong's Pool Party With Sam Zarif, Sleepy & Boo, Nervo, Joris Voorn, Sharam, Kaskade, James Zabiela, Pete Tong, Luciano, Richie Hawtin, and Riva Starr Surfcomber Hotel Friday, March 25 Better Than: Being at Ultra. After navigating one smoky cloud of weed after another at SXSW, it was surpr ... More >>

Your Mysterious One-Night Stand at Swedish House Mafia's Masquerade Motel

​You really, really, really want to spend the night at Swedish House Mafia's Masquerade Motel. But how do you even find the place? Well, you could always try to track the synthy cinematic overload of the club-killing triumvirate's superhit single "One" to its source. However, here's another (ad ... More >>

Pete Tong Talks Two Decades in the Game and the Future of Dance Music

​Few individuals have had as lasting an impact on electronic dance music as legendary British DJ Pete Tong. An early proponent of house, he has been one of the most highly regarded tastemakers in the world for a quarter-century now. This March, Tong comes to town for his annual Surfcomber po ... More >>

Pete Tong's Pool Party at the Surfcomber Hotel March 25

Avicii at LIV January 8

Avicii Brings Swedish Big-Room Beats to LIV This Saturday

DJ-producer Tim Berg, AKA Avicii.​Rookie DJ-producer Tim Berg (AKA Avicii) is only 22 years old. But his resume already reads like that of a seasoned industry heavyweight. In 2008, after topping BBC Radio 1 luminary Pete Tong's Fast Trax poll, the Swedish prodigy dropped his breakthrough release " ... More >>

Pete Tong Talks Cockney Slang, Florida's Disco Heyday, and Lazy DJs

​After three decades on the scene, Brit legend Pete Tong's got nothing to prove. He's been a critic, an A&R guy, a producer, a BBC jockey, and one of the most massive club DJs in the world. But still he's hitting the decks hard, night after night. It's almost like the guy's on a deranged missi ... More >>

Pete Tong at Mansion October 27

Pete Tong Issues a Wikipedia Correction and Announces Concert at Mansion October 27

Bruce Davison​Don't believe Wikipedia. When it comes to the origin of that infamous singsong Cockney slang phrase, "It's all gone Pete Tong" (Translation: "It's all gone wrong"), the online compendium of crowdsourced information is entirely inaccurate. As Mr. Tong himself will tell you, it wasn't ... More >>

Pete Tong at Set

Listen to Tong & Spoon's "Muchness"; Pete Tong Gig Sunday at Set

via facebook.com/petetong​The man, the myth, the legend: What is there left to say about Pete Tong to anyone remotely familiar with dance music? In the pantheon of international DJ gods, he's pretty much Zeus (though Paul Oakenfold may beg to differ). He's the guy who, through his forever-running ... More >>

Trent Cantrelle

Electric Zoo Festival: Full Final Lineup Announced

​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 >>

Dirty South

Dirty South Hits Mansion This Saturday, June 5

Dirty South's methodical mixing skills can, perhaps, be traced back to the DJ's humble beginnings. Born Dragan Roganovic in Belgrade, Serbia, the encroaching unrest in then-Yugoslavia sent his family packing to Melbourne, Australia when he was 13 years old. Already a budding music nut, young Roganov ... More >>

Pete's Pool Party

Crobar Worldwide does the official WMC pool parties at the Eden Roc

WMC 2010: Pete's Pool Party, March 26

​The annual Radio One pool party is almost eerily absent this year, but don't worry about getting wrapped up in brand names. All of the superstar DJ talent will be here anyways, and still helmed by the legendary Pete Tong -- they'll just be playing under the banner of "Pete's Pool Party." It's jus ... More >>

WMC 2010: Q&A With Cedric Gervais

​Cedric Gervais, Miami's king of Space, has a lot to live up to at this year's WMC. Last year, his moody, slow-burning jam "Mauri's Dream" scored an "essential tune of the week" nod on Pete Tong's BBC One radio show for almost a month running. With that coronation, the track soon became the big-ro ... More >>

Fedde Le Grand

Pete Tong at Mynt Lounge on Tuesday, October 27

​Pete Tong is hardly a man who needs introduction. The hardworking and ubiquitous British DJ, radio personality, label head and perennial host of legendary BBC Radio 1's Essential Mix is one of the most highly-regarded tastemakers in the world of electronic dance music. An early proponent of house ... More >>

All Hail the Tong

Full Ultra Music Festival Lineup Revealed

So in addition to yesterday's news of the unexplainable choice of booking the Black Eyed Peas for next month's Ultra Music Festival, the final phase of the lineup has been announced. Notable additions include Rinton, Rye Rye, Surkin, Para One and Shiny Toy Guns to Day 1, and MSTRKRFT, BT Laptop Symp ... More >>

Ultra Music Festival Announces Phase Two of Its Lineup

Ultra Music Festival released the second phase of its lineup, and while the biggest names in the list offer no big surprises, a number of other, smaller acts added to the bill demonstrate more of the festival's forward-thinking approach this year. So here are the titans who will play (again): Paul ... More >>

Cedric Gervais

Josh Gabriel

Get Mau5-Trapped

White-hot producer Deadmau5 hits Mansion.

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Terry Mullan

Tomato, Tomato

With "As the Rush Comes," Gabriel & Dresden establishes itself as dance music's favorite odd couple