Simian Mobile Disco

Ultra 2013: Deadmau5 Proves He's a Real Person, Rejects the Easy Headliner Gimmicks

How quickly some stars have ascended in the EDM boom. Just a few years ago, in 2009, Toronto-based producer Deadmau5 could be found at Ultra Music Festival on the live stage, essentially opening up for Simian Mobile Disco. Last night, though, trying to get the main stage to witness his fest-closing ... 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

Simian Mobile Disco's James Ford Talks New Unpatterns Album and WMC 2012

​If there is one act that rarely disappoints, it's Simian Mobile Disco. We've caught the duo so many times live that we've started to lose count. From a cavernous light show at the now-defunct Studio A to an odd New Year's Eve booking at the Shore Club, what stays consistent is James Ford and Jas ... More >>

Tensnake Makes His Miami Debut at WMC 2012 and Ultra Music Festival

​Before Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week became a spring breaker's paradise, it was all about discovering new music and artists. When did we all lose sight of that? Well, if you look close enough, you'll still find there are acts worth discovering. Just let us introduce you to Tensnak ... More >>

Hard Cruise Sailing Out of Port Everglades January 2012

Photo by Daniel De Las CasasDiplo at Hard Miami.​Miami, couldn't get enough of Hard's measly one-day event at Grand Central last week? Well, you're in luck! Hard is returning to South Florida in January 2012 with its first-ever Hard Cruise!We noticed flyers scattered around the city during Miami M ... More >>

Simian Mobile Disco at Ultra Music Festival 2011 Day Two, March 26

Photo by Jose D. DuranSimian Mobile Disco at Ultra 2011.​It seems like Simian Mobile Disco has taken a bit of a tumble lately. In shedding their electro-house sound and adopting a darker techno approach, it seems they've lost quite a few fans. We remember a few years ago, in 2008, when the duo ... More >>

Crossfade's Ultra Fest Chat With Simian Mobile Disco

​If you've only ever heard debut album Attack Decay Sustain Release, you might think otherwise. But Simian Mobile Disco was never just a killer indie-dance crew. Sophomore record Temporary Pleasure had its fair share thudding, tech-y moments, not the least on sparkling, climactic "10,000 Horses ... More >>

The Shit Robot Show Explodes at the Vagabond's Fixed Freakout

Victor Gonzalez iPhoneThe Shit Robot ShowLast night at the Fixed Freakout, Marcus Lambkin's Shit Robot Show made its Miami debut at the Vagabond in front of an ecstatic crowd of electro-poppers. Churning out reworked tracks from his back catalogue, the Irish-bred, Germany-based producer provided the ... More >>

Simian Mobile Disco's Delicatessen Party at Eve, March 24

​Ultra Week, or Miami Music Week, or the Week Formerly Known as Winter Music Conference, is amazing in that on any given night, there are a number of world-class lineups from which to choose. That can be a bad thing too, though, because with so many competing events, some deserving parties never r ... More >>

Simian Mobile Disco Does Delicatessen at Eve and Ultra 2011 in the Same Week!

​By the mid 2000s, Simian Mobile Disco was among the leaders of the indie-dance crossover pack. Its in-your-face, heavily vocal pump-ups were largely responsible for getting rock kids out on the floor again, thanks to the infectious sass of monster tracks such as "Hustler," off 2007 debut Attack D ... More >>

Keep It Hard With Gary Richards at Grand Central March 24

​Gary Richards wants to introduce you to your new favorite party. It's called Hard, and since 2007 it's been drawing thousands of electro heads together for messy free-for-alls in Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco. Next city in Richards's sights? Miami, of course. A DJ and record industry ... More >>

Simian Mobile Disco at Eve March 24 and Ultra March 26

Hard Miami with Diplo, Tiga, and SebastiAn at Grand Central March 24

Ultra Music Festival 2011 Sells Out

Photo by Ian WitlenIf you don't have tickets for Ultra, you aren't going to be able to catch Deadmau5.​That's it, folks. According to Ultra Music Festival's site, tickets to this year's event are gone with 34 days left until the festival. Will more be made available? We're not sure, but we're work ... More >>

Count Down to Ultra Music Festival 2011 With Simian Mobile Disco's Fresh Meat Mondays

photo via the Windish AgencySimian Mobile Disco​We love the trend Kanye started with his G.O.O.D. Fridays series of MP3s that led up to the release of his last album. Ever the maddeningly savvy businessman, Yeezy proved that free music -- executed well and released with careful marketing -- is an ... More >>

Underworld, Duran Duran, Kaskade Added to Ultra Music Festival 2011 in Phase Two Lineup

​Early this morning, Ultra Music Festival organizers announced Phase Two of its lineup. Added to the 2011 bill are Duran Duran, Underworld, Kaskade, will.i.am, Erick Morillo (Live), Sasha (Vortek Live), Fedde Le Grand, Avicii, and The Disco Biscuits.Also confirmed is our previous announcement that ... More >>

Moby Coming to Ultra Music Festival 2011; Phase Two Acts Will Be Announced Soon

Moby​It's been a while since the Phase One acts for Ultra Music Festival 2011 were announced. So, what's taking so long? Well, the wait will soon be over, as our sources tell us to expect something next week. We aren't entirely sure who will be on the Phase Two lineup since Ultra's organizers se ... More >>

Tiga and Diplo Headline Hard Miami at Grand Central March 24 UPDATE

​We already broke the news that Hard was returning to the Magic City -- only this time it's going to be a proper club event at Grand Central on Thursday, March 24. Now the lineup has popped up. And while Simian Mobile Disco in nowhere in sight (not that we expected it, the duo is hosting a party ... 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 >>

Simian Mobile Disco Serving Up Delicatessen at Eve March 24, Plus Free Album Download

Simian Mobile Disco​We already broke the news that British duo Simian Mobile Disco will be performing live at Ultra Music Festival Saturday, March 26. But before that, the duo will be hosting a party, dubbed Delicatessen, where attendees can expect a DJ set.Our first reaction is that Eve may be to ... More >>

Ultra Music Festival 2011 Phase One Lineup: Simian Mobile Disco, Empire of the Sun, Erasure, David Guetta, and More (UPDATE)

Simian Mobile Disco​Ultra Music Festival revealed its Phase One lineup announcement early this morning via Facebook. The lineup really shows an ambitious mix of live indie-dance bands, usual crop of house DJs, and more experimental electronic musicians. Really, it's one of the best lineups for the ... More >>

Simon Baker

Simon Baker Slams the Recently Renovated and Reopened Club Space This Saturday

​The buildup's been gradual. Actually, that's an understatement. But now after nearly two decades spent refining his take on techno house, first behind the decks and then behind the soundboard, Leeds DJ-producer Simon Baker is finally gearing up for the release of his debut artist effort on Ralph ... More >>

The Arctic Monkeys school Miami in the best of northern Brit rock

Q&A With Nick O'Malley of the Arctic Monkeys, Playing the Fillmore Miami Beach Tomorrow Night

The Arctic Monkeys, with bassist Turner second from right.​Thursday's show at the Fillmore marks the Arctic Monkeys' first performance in Miami Beach, but the Sheffield, England rockers already count a famous local resident as an unlikely fan: Diddy. About this time last year, the band was in New ... More >>

WMC 2010: Boys Noize Headlines Last-Minute Fixed WMC Freakout Saturday

Boys Noize is going to freakout Saturday at Grand Central.​There is cutting it close and then there is just waiting to last possible minute. NYC party Fixed chose the later. Its annual Fixed WMC Freakout just got announced. This party has hosted some big names over the years including Justice, Ero ... More >>

Over the Weekend: Phish, Lady Gaga, and Simian Mobile Disco

Vacation is over, South Florida. After two weeks of back-to-back long weekends, we are finally returning to our same ol' routine for a while at least. In case you were elsewhere visiting ungrateful relatives, here is what you missed over the weekend:Phish at American Airlines ArenaPhoto by Ben Thack ... More >>

Blowfly

Bump 'n' Grind 2009: A Look Back at This Year's Club Bangers

Another year in the books. It is just us or did 2009 seemed to rush by like it was in overdrive? Still, 2009 was another stellar year for clubland, music and all. The economic recession didn't prove to be the wet blanket many had predicted it would be. The nightclubs are still here and people are st ... More >>

Blowfly to Play Australia's Big Day Out Festival; Warm-Up Show on January 1 in Fort Lauderdale

The Big Day Out Festival is one of those "some-day" trips to daydream about. An annual series of massive one-off fests throughout Australia and New Zealand, it's like a Reading or Leeds done Down Under, with the world's biggest festival draws ever. This year's edition features seven dates from Jan ... More >>

NYE 2010: Simian Mobile Disco at the Shore Club

Simian Mobile Disco​Is it Winter Music Conference yet? No? How odd. Because that seems to be the only time British electro-house duo Simian Mobile Disco ever make it down to Miami. Not that we are complaining. When we heard they were on the bill for Shore Club's New Year's Eve celebration we may o ... More >>

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 inn ... More >>

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 ... More >>

Electro provocateur Peaches hits Revolution this Friday

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 ... More >>

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, ... More >>

Party Hard. Or Else.

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 ... More >>

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 st ... More >>

Must-See Acts on Ultra's Lineup

Best Dance-Floor Anthems of 2008

The year's finest tracks, both mixed and unmixed.

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 dr ... More >>

Miami's Best Live Music of 2008

From GWAR to Torche, the acts that rocked the Magic City.

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 da ... More >>

Head Spins: Danny Daze

A Miami native turned roadmaster.

I'm a WMC Survivor

The highlights of this year's Winter Music Conference.

Simian Mobile Disco

Attack Decay Sustain Release (Interscope Records)

Fantastic Voyage

New Young Pony Club’s long-awaited debut puts the female spunk back in punk-funk