Subject: Simian Mobile Disco

• Hercules & Love Affair Also to Play Ultra's Second Day

  Hah! Ultra is sounding better and better! Looks like the organizers have also flip-flopped their booking M.O. this year. Since the festival's expansion into a two-day affair, things have generally gone more experimental the first night, with the classic dance music titans taking over the second day and night. Not so this year. In our previous post about the first lineup announcement, we mentioned Cut Copy, Deadmau5, Crystal Castles, the Presets, Simian Mobile Disco, and Busy P. Those guys will

  December 8, 2008

• Top Dance Albums of 2008

  Any knucklehead with DSL and a laptop can now make an electronic track. With a half hour of clicking and fiddling, you can sample enough cheesy beats and mashups to clog arteries from here to Berlin. Simple dropdown mouse maneuvers can transform electro tracks into progressive house tracks (from dry and synthetic to wet and gushy), rhythm tracks can be tempo-tweaked with an upward toggle to change a Timbaland beat into a Chromeo one. Add some T-Pain-esque pitch-correction vocals to your between

  December 18, 2008

• WMC 2009: Ultra Day 1 Dissapoints, Noizy Boys at Louis and Erol Alkan Tears Up The Vagabond

  Justin NamonBoys Noize being a little shy at Louis.Yes, I'm not going to be very popular by saying this, but Day 1 of Ultra Music Festival sucked. Perhaps it was the nerve of organizers scheduling Santigold for a 5 p.m. performance slot (WTF?), or Bloc Party canceling, or perhaps LMFAO taking the stage during the Black Eyed Peas performance to cement what is certain to be their one-hit wonder status by singing "I'm in Miami, Bitch!" Everything was bad -- really bad!The only real highlight for me

  March 28, 2009

• Must-See Acts on Ultra's Lineup

  March 19, 2009

• Ultra Vivid Wow!

  The massive two-day festival remains a homegrown labor of love by two South Florida locals.

  March 19, 2009

• Best Dance-Floor Anthems of 2008

  December 25, 2008

• Miami's Best Live Music of 2008

  December 18, 2008

• Head Spins: Danny Daze

  A Miami native turned roadmaster.

  July 17, 2008

• I'm a WMC Survivor

  The highlights of this year's Winter Music Conference.

  April 3, 2008

• Simian Mobile Disco

  October 18, 2007

• Fantastic Voyage

  August 30, 2007

• Flyer of the Week: DJ Falcon at SET August 8

  Flyer designed by Michael Tamzil | tamzdesigns.com​In the vaguely menacing gloam of this first dying decade of the 21st century, the people continue to party hard. It's an obsessive, have-fun-or-die type of mindset that cannot be deterred, no matter the consequences. And to a large extent, Frenchy sensations Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter of Daft Punk can be held responsible, driving as they do the party zeitgeist among hardcore, indie dance kids -- both superyoung and sorta

  July 31, 2009

• Party Hard. Or Else.

  August 6, 2009

• Dialed In: Last Week's Top Ten From UM Radio "The Voice"

  Dialed In is a weekly column on Crossfade tracking the top-ten lists on South Florida's campus radio stations. Click here to view the top tracks from previous weeks.Top Albums for the week of September 28 - October 3University of Miami- WVUM 90.5 FM, "The Voice"Where's Pony Pony Run Run? Last week, electro-poppers Delorean shot up the charts to the #2 spot​The voice is not your typical college radio station. They pride themselves on introducing new and innovative music to the greater Miami are

  October 6, 2009

• Concert Review: Busy P at Electric Pickle, October 31

  Photo by Jipsy​Click here to view more photos from this event.Busy PSaturday, October 31, 2009Electric Pickle, MiamiBetter Than: The prefect pair of alt breast, y'all.If websites like Hipster Runoff have taught us anything is that when the alt community comes together for a 'meaningful' experience, it can be a beautiful thing. It seemed like all of hipster-dom, both local and foreign, were at one of two places Halloween night: O.H.W.O.W. for NeckFace's premiere Miami exhibition, Devil's Discip

  November 3, 2009

• Electro provocateur Peaches hits Revolution this Friday

  November 5, 2009

• Concert Review: Peaches at Revolution, November 7

  Photo by Ian Witlen​Click here to view photos from this event.Peaches with MENFriday, November 7, 2009Revolution Live, Fort LauderdaleBetter than: Rockin' out with your cock out.Peaches is anything but subtle. After the curtains parted, the audience was instantly led into her surreal, hypersexual world. Draped in a woolly coat, she and her band, Sweet Machine, kicked things off with "Mud" off her latest release I Feel Cream. The Simian Mobile Disco-produced track stands out as a bit of an oddi

  November 9, 2009

• Dialed In: Last Week's Top Ten From UM Radio "The Voice"

  Dialed In is a weekly column on Crossfade tracking the top-ten lists on South Florida's campus radio stations.Top Albums for the Week of November 8 - 15 University of Miami- WVUM 90.5 FM, "The Voice"The voice is not your typical college radio station. They pride themselves on introducing new and innovative music to the greater Miami area while offering a refreshing alternative to commercial radio. Their daytime programming focuses on electronica and Indie and their evening specialty shows range

  November 17, 2009