Ralph Falcon

VIPs for Vodka

Laundry Bar Closing For Good -- Sort Of

Murky In America

Express success means don't leave home without busting a move

Program Notes 33

Express success means don't leave home without busting a move

Winter Music Conference Event Listings

Find all the best parties taking place March 25-29.

Winter Music Conference Event Listings

Find all the best parties taking place March 24-29.

Armand Pena

Find all the best parties taking place March 24-29.

New Year's Eve Listings

Find all the best parties taking place March 24-29.

Beyond the Ultra World

The legendary Ultra Music Festival celebrates its 10th birthday.

DJ Theo

The legendary Ultra Music Festival celebrates its 10th birthday.

Oscar G

Made in Miami (Star 69)

Nervous Anticipation

Oscar G delivers the Miami sound on a New York dance music powerhouse

Give Peace a Dance

Miami wises up and takes part in “the dance aid for the new millennium”

Murk

Set list

South Beach Gets Murked

Set list

The House Oscar Built

Miami legend Oscar G releases a new CD and continues to solidify Miami's place in the dance music universe

Booty Mover

Armand Pena will play hip-hop for you, but he really likes house music, okay?

WMC Events

Listings, listings, listings

Hit Parade

A nonscientific tip sheet of WMC's breakout tracks

Murk

Murk (Tommy Boy)

BEST CLUB DJ

Oscar G

Win Factor

Two awards shows -- one upstart, one established -- battle for the dance music industry's respect

Oscar G & Ralph Falcon

Bangin' Progressive Beats "MURK"

BEST LOCAL ELECTRONICA ARTIST

Funky Green Dogs

Name Game

Dance stars Funky Green Dogs might hype California, but they're all Miami

Letters from the Issue of April 25, 2002

The Everglades, dead fish, and dictators

Reverb

The Everglades, dead fish, and dictators

Oscar G at Hoy Como Ayer's Tropicasa Wednesday Night Party

Oscar G comes home Wednesday nights at Hoy Como Ayer.Since 2001, Oscar G has been Space's resident DJ and the main reason why patrons still flock to the all-night 11th Street mainstay. Not to mention the fact that he's done remixes for artists like Madonna and Pet Shop Boys and as one-half of Murk ( ... More >>

Head Spins: Stefano Ravasini

This hustler houses it out.

WMC 2010: Danny Tenaglia, Victor Calderone, Austin Leeds On Board for Pacha Miami

Austin Leeds​Here in Crossfade we may always hype up the new or up and coming, but plenty of people come to Winter Music Conference to listen to the old standbys, and we don't blame 'em. It's perhaps the only week in the United States you can catch them all back to back. And if anyone knows how to ... More >>

WMC 2010: Nervous Records Party, Plus Oscar G. and King Britt Dates

Photo by Pier Nicola D'AmicoKing Britt has released his final traditional dance music album.Back in the good old days of vinyl, it seemed like every DJ with a love of four-four beats was running around New York City with a Nervous Records bag. That little sweating cartoon guy logo was ubiquitous in ... More >>

Sunset Music Festival Tries Another Massive at Soho Studios This Saturday

via myspace.com/georgeacostaTrance god George Acosta headlines the festival.​The sprawling event space Soho Studios, in the heart of Wynwood's warehouse district, seems to be just made for massive, all-night parties. Still, the venue is cavernous indeed, and few promoters have been able to truly p ... More >>

Sunset Music Festival

via myspace.com/georgeacostaTrance god George Acosta headlines the festival.​The sprawling event space Soho Studios, in the heart of Wynwood's warehouse district, seems to be just made for massive, all-night parties. Still, the venue is cavernous indeed, and few promoters have been able to truly p ... More >>

Oscar G at Mansion September 25

via myspace.com/georgeacostaTrance god George Acosta headlines the festival.​The sprawling event space Soho Studios, in the heart of Wynwood's warehouse district, seems to be just made for massive, all-night parties. Still, the venue is cavernous indeed, and few promoters have been able to truly p ... More >>

Oscar G Drops His Double-Disc Live From NYC at Mansion This Saturday

​We here in Miami treat our homegrown party boys like kings of the club. And local house head Oscar G wears one of Miami's biggest, shiniest crowns. He's led a thousand wild warehouse orgies at Space, launched Billboard destroyers ("Fired Up" with Ralph Falcon) and underground booty bombs, and rep ... More >>

DJ Mag Returns to the Shelborne With Two Weeks Worth of Parties

Sander Kleinenberg​Why choose between Winter Music Conference and Ultra Music Festival, when you can have both? DJ Mag has decided to do exactly that this year as it once again takes over the Shelborne, and its nightclub Shine, for two weeks worth of parties.Highlights include the return of DJ Mag ... More >>

Opium Group's Ultra Week Lineup: David Guetta, Bob Sinclar, Calvin Harris, and Others

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 >>

Ten Crossfade-Approved Parties for the Second Week of Winter Music Conference 2011

What do you call Snoop Dogg on ecstasy? DJ Snoopadelic, apparently.​The human body is an amazing biological machine. You can try your best to irreversibly damage its every last cell by subjecting it to a sleepless six-day WMC spree of ass-pounding party music, 36-hour dancing blackouts, and a diet ... More >>

Lazaro Casanova Talks Studio M.O., petFood Label, and Miami March Madness

​Last year was a big one for Miami homeboy Lazaro Casanova, and 2011 looks to be even bigger for the up-and-coming DJ-producer. Once the wunderkind of Miami's indie dance scene when he presided over downtown's infamous Revolver party in the late 2000s, he has since graduated to the international s ... More >>

WMC 2011: Ten best parties March 10 to 13

​Last year was a big one for Miami homeboy Lazaro Casanova, and 2011 looks to be even bigger for the up-and-coming DJ-producer. Once the wunderkind of Miami's indie dance scene when he presided over downtown's infamous Revolver party in the late 2000s, he has since graduated to the international s ... More >>

Oscar G, Peter Rauhofer, and Others at Nervous Records' Pool Party at the Clevelander March 27

Rep the real shit with Oscar G and Nervous Records.​From all the way back in the day when street-level party music label Nervous Records was first founded in 1991, the master plan was always straight-up support for the deepest and grittiest parts of the house and hip-hop subcultures. "The true ... More >>

Man Drowns During Pool Party at the Clevelander

​The busy Miami Music Week festival claimed at least one life this weekend when a man drowned during a pool party at the Clevelander hotel. The 40-year-old man from out of town was swimming in the hotel's pool after drinking heavily and drowned. The hotel was hosting the Nervous Pool Party at ... More >>

Ten Years of Biz Martinez: The Miami Nightlife Maestro Lists His Most Epic Career Moments

​Biz Martinez makes magic happen. And pulling rabbits out of hats is for amateurs. As music director and talent buyer for LIV and Arkadia at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach, Biz is the ringmaster, drawing big-ticket bookings week after week. Flash back to 2001 and you won't find that superhero stre ... More >>

Miami's Six Best New Year's 2012 Electronic Dance Music Parties

Wolf Lamb vs. Soul Clap!​It's been a phenomenal year for underground electronic dance music in Miami. If 2010 was the year that we put training wheels on our EDM bike, then we were riding that sucker with no hands in 2011. There was a non-stop barrage of world-class bookings. And none of it wo ... More >>