Ralph Falcon

Danny Daze at Ultra Music Festival 2013

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 >>

Who Wants Free Tickets for Danny Daze's Homecoming Show at Story Nightclub?

Growing up in the 305, Danny Daze started out as a 13-year-old DJ inspired by the ass-quaking bass of DJ Laz, Crazy Legs, and Dynamix II. "I really got influenced by the b-boy scene in Miami -- Hot Wheels, Thunder Wheels," he told Crossfade last year. "Then little by little got into the rave scene ... More >>

Danny Daze's Top Five Miami Jams of All Time

DJ-producer Danny Daze is an international player now, zigzagging around the global party circuit and throwing down at all the hotspots from Los Angeles to Ibiza to Melbourne. But for Danny, it all started in Miami -- the place he still calls home. Back in March, he reminisced with Crossfade about ... More >>

Ten Best Miami Bands of All Time

Oscar G Drops New Beats Solo Album Today

When talking about Miami house, Murk is a name that reigns supreme. The seminal DJ-production duo of Oscar Gaetan and Ralph Falcon not only put Miami on the house music map in the early '90s, but they also cut some of the biggest house classics, period. But what is Miami house? Does the 305 house ... More >>

Top Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week Parties for Sunday, March 25

​Check out Crossfade's daily WMC and MMW party guide -- plus the fifteen best parties. The King Rat says, "This is The End." In less than 24 hours, Winter Music Conference, Miami Music Week, and Ultra Music Festival will be over. The clubs will close. The uhntz-uhntz will fade. The sticks will ... More >>

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

Top Winter Music Conference 2012 Parties For Sunday, March 18

​After spending the past three days getting wasted and shaking ass all over SoBe, uhntz-uhntz-ing around Biscayne Bay aboard the Tikki Beach, and getting pruney in the Shelborne's pool, you're fucking pooped on partying. And like EDM quirkmeister Riva Starr's mustachioed clubber baby, you're whin ... More >>

Top Winter Music Conference 2012 Parties For Friday, March 16

​It's finally here! Winter Music Conference starts today. And while the big, splashy parties don't really get going until next week, there are still plenty good reasons why you should start your electro rendezvous today.Word to wise, if you are heading to South Beach car pool or cab it, we're hear ... More >>

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

​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 would have been possible wit ... 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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

WMC 2011: Ten best parties March 10 to 13

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Oscar G at Mansion September 25

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 >>

Sunset Music Festival

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Head Spins: Stefano Ravasini

This hustler houses it out.

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 >>

Armand Pena

Laundry Bar Closing For Good -- Sort Of

Beyond the Ultra World

The legendary Ultra Music Festival celebrates its 10th birthday.

DJ Theo

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”

VIPs for Vodka

Murk

Set list

South Beach Gets Murked

Oscar G

Made in Miami (Star 69)

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?

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

Program Notes 33

Murky In America

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