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Ultra 2013: Hot Chip "Do It, Do It, Do It" for a Disappointingly Small Crowd

We're starting to sound like a broken record. (Pun not intended. Every DJ uses Ableton these days anyway.) Hot Chip is easily one of the most influential electronic (or dance rock or indie electro or whatever you want to call it) acts of the past decade. They're almost this generation's New Order. ... More >>

Ultra 2013: Swedish House Mafia's Last Show Ever Was Celebratory, Not Sad

The end of any Ultra Music Festival weekend is when things start to get real. After three full days of dancing and pounding music, mostly in the sun, only the strongest make it to the end, and even they can get cranky. So while positive vibes ruled over 99 percent of the festival, as Swedish House ... More >>

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 >>

Carl Cox at Ultra Music Festival 2013

Twenty Best Club Parties During WMC and Miami Music Week 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 >>

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 >>

Six Best Club Parties on South Beach January 10 to 12

Six Best Club Parties on South Beach This Weekend

Why does SoBe get such a bad rap, bro? Sure, it's crawling with rich douchebags in button-down dress shirts. And the parking sucks. And the drinks are ridiculously expensive. But it's also home to formerly law-breaking Frenchmen, $10 underground minimal techno throwdowns, and the Mustache Revolut ... More >>

Ultra Music Festival 2013 Announces Phase 1 Lineup: Tiesto, Kaskade, Avicii, 25 Others

Three reasons Ultra Music Festival 2013's gonna be epic, beat freaks. 1. The EDM megafest has expanded from three days to two whole uhntz-uhntz-ing weekends. 2. Swedish House Mafia and Deadmau5 are gonna be the primary party starters. 3. The just-announced Phase 1 linuep, including 13 extra DJs, 13 ... More >>

Ten Best EDM Parties During Art Basel Miami Beach 2012

Art Basel Miami Beach 2012: A Six-Party Weekend Guide

Art Basel Miami Beach is officially in full swing. So even though we've already hit you with the ten best EDM parties and the fifteen best parties period ... The awesome arty parties just won't stop keep cropping up. And the best thing about these six? Some of them are totally free! See also -F ... More >>

Fifteen Best Parties at Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week 2012

​Maybe you're planning to spend the entire weekend performing glowstick tricks at Ultra Music Festival. Or enjoying the lavish amenities at Swedish House Mafia's Masquerade Hotel. Or bleep-bloop-ing around Biscayne Bay aboard the Biscayne Lady. But if not, you need a beat-freaking plan. In total ... More >>

Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week's 15 best parties March 22 to 25

Junior Boys at the Vagabond March 16

Ultra Music Festival 2012 Announces Phase 2 Lineup With 144 New Beat-Freaking Acts

​Check out Ultra Music Festival 2012's Phase 1 lineup. There are only five weeks left till epic levels of uhntz-uhntz turn Downtown Miami into a 150,000-person public orgy! Back in December, Ultra Music Festival announced its initial 92-act roster. And just 14 days later, the fest "completely s ... More >>

Israeli EDM Sensation Guy Gerber Talks Working With Diddy, Lil Wayne, and Drake

​Guy Gerber is that rare breed of electronic dance music producer who's always done his own thing. And "Stoppage Time," his 2004 breakthrough hit on John Digweed's Bedrock label, was a slice of epic big-room techno that became a global club anthem and continues to sell by the truckload.Today, Gerb ... More >>

Ten Female DJ-Producers Putting the Boys to Shame in 2011

Maya Jane Coles​The electronic dance music community has always been a major sausage fest. But why? The ladies like to get down on the dance floor just as much as the gents. And they certainly have plenty to contribute behind the decks and in the studio. Nevertheless, for decades, the superstar DJ ... More >>

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

Ultra Music Festival 2011 is more diverse than ever

Glimpse Talks Analog Fetishes and Recording at the Zoo

​There's a fascinating duality at the core of UK producer Glimpse's work. It's the duality of control vs. loss of control. On one hand, he favors analog studio production over digital, reckoning that today's automated digital tools eschew the elements of human spontaneity and imperfection -- he gr ... More >>

Anjunabeats Adds Gabriel & Dresden, Cosmic Gate, Super 8 & Tab, and Nine Others UPDATE

San Fran duo Gabriel & Dresden.​After stocking Sunday School for Degenerates with 30 stellar DJs such as minimal mastermind Richie Hawtin and then another 10 including Guy Gerber, Heidi, and Jesse Rose, Made Event's gotten busy bringing the bang to its other Ultra week engagement, the Anjunab ... More >>

Armin Van Buuren Confirmed for Ultra 2011 (UPDATE)

Armin Van Buuren​Even with the first phase of Ultra Music Festival 2011 acts announced, there are still a few more DJs and bands being added here and there while we all wait for the full second phase of acts to be revealed.Dutch DJ Armin Van Buuren is the latest to be confirmed for Ultra, taking p ... More >>

Funkagenda and Magda Both Spin at Space This Saturday

Photo via m-nus.comMagda make the tea​After a blowout weekend celebrating its 10-year anniversary, this Saturday Club Space presents a serious bill of out-of-town stars that should keep the lines at the door as long as ever. In the main room is London-based favorite Funkagenda, which hits Miami in ... More >>

King Britt and Andrea Ferlin Play Electric Pickle Friday

​House meets techno this Friday when both King Britt and Andrea Ferlin take over the Electric Pickle for a night of eclectic transatlantic dance grooves. Philadelphia native King Britt has been a long-time staple of the international EDM community, having gotten his start in the early 90's on lege ... More >>

Alexi Delano and Camea

Camea & Alexi Delano Play Parkwest on Friday, February 5

​Two big names in the contemporary underground techno scene will be alighting on Parkwest nightclub in downtown on Friday, February 5, Brooklyn-based DJ/producers Camea and Alexi Delano. Camea Hoffman is a classically-trained musician boasting a darkly sexy and funked-up brand of minimal techno wi ... More >>

Miami's DJ Craze To Play Coachella

​...Speaking of DJ Craze (check the previous post on this blog for an un-missable nugget of joy he passed along), Miami's finest DJ champ will head to the desert this summer to play Coachella for the first time. On the mega-festival's second day, Saturday, April 17, he'll take the stage with frequ ... More >>

Matt Tolfrey and Crazy Larry Play Electric Pickle Tonight

​The PL0T kids are at it again! Tonight brings a last minute double serving of deep techy goodness at the Electric Pickle with transatlantic favorites Matt Tolfrey and Crazy Larry in tow. Young British DJ/producer Matt Tolfrey has made his steady upward move from local pub DJ to internationally-re ... More >>

Paco Osuna at Fierce Angel on Friday

​Paco Osuna's musical journey began like that of most aspiring young producers, making tracks and cutting his teeth on the decks as a teen in the '90s, before his international career got jump-started when he earned a residency at the legendary club Amnesia in Ibiza, and subsequently joined the ro ... More >>

Magda and Troy Pierce

Don't Touch My Techno

Q&A With Mathew Jonson, Playing at Electric Pickle this Friday

​Canadian-born producer Mathew Jonson is one of the more virtuosic and boldly innovative figures of contemporary techno. Boasting a masterful and nuanced command of electronic studio production, early breakthrough tracks like "Decompression", released on Richie Hawtin's Minus label, earned Jonson ... More >>

Magda and Troy Pierce at Space on Saturday, August 29

​The Techno Loft at Space has very quickly become Miami's premier venue for the slickest big room international techno, and this summer alone has seen stellar performances by the likes of Steve Bug, Camea, and Adultnapper. Saturday, August 29 brings Minus label legends Magda and Troy Pierce, two o ... More >>

Sunday School for Degenerates Returns for Another Debauched Techno Marathon

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Saturday: Guti Afterhours at Eden Terrace Garden

Techno Box and the usual suspects of Miami's techno afterhours scene present Guti live at Eden Terrace Garden on Sunday dawn. This young Argentinian prodigy boasts one of the most imaginative and genre-bending sounds in contemporary house and minimal techno. A virtuosic jazz pianist with a penchant ... More >>

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 >>

Dave Seaman Returns to Shine at the Shelborne on Friday

www.windishagency.comThe Leeds-born house DJ Dave Seaman, is by now, is a worldwide household name in electronic music, with countless mix albums and original releases, a record label (Audio Therapy), and a constant international touring schedule calibrated with military precision. But in the mid- t ... More >>

David Squillace to Play the S.A.F.E. Party at Circa 28 on Saturday

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