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Holy Ship!!! 2014 Announces Lineup: Skrillex, Duck Sauce, Diplo, 43 Others

Ahoy, beat freaks!!! The bad news: Holy Ship!!! 2014 is sold out. The slightly less bad news: You can join a waiting list, just in case some weak-ass cruiser cops out and cancels his trip. And now the good news: Everyone's favorite uhntz-uhtnz-ing high seas adventure has just announced a 45-act l ... More >>

Ten Most Played-Out EDM Songs

Some songs just never die. You could run them into the ground at 100 mph, but they'll be right there around the corner, waiting to be dropped in the very next set you hear. Some of them have been around for decades. And some of them are new, but feel as old and used as a middle-aged whore. In a w ... More >>

Hotflush Miami, With Scuba, Eric Prydz, George Fitzgerald, Dusky at Electric Pickle March 23

Boys Noize and Skrillex's Dog Blood at Ultra Music Festival 2013

Spring Breakers Movie Is "Like a Drug Experience" With a Skrillex Soundtrack

"A little sun can bring out your dark side." And that's nothing we don't know. But it's also the tag line of Harmony Korine's upcoming teen-flick-gone-mad Spring Breakers. You know, the one starring a gangster James Franco and a barely dressed Selena Gomez, hitting theaters Friday, March 22. Korin ... More >>

Boys Noize and Skrillex's Dog Blood Doing Ultra 2013, (Probably) Revealing New Material

Whoever heard of an EDM duo with only two songs playing Ultra Music Festival? Well, when the act's two members are world-renowned DJ-producers Boys Noize and Skrillex, even an electronic dance music institution like UMF will make a special exception. Dog Blood, a crazy collab project from the Ge ... More >>

Electric Flurry, the "World's Largest Foam Party," Predicts Indoor Snow at Grand Central

Punxsutawney Phil is quite possibly the worst friggin' groundhog weatherman in the world. Not only did the Pennsylvanian woodchuck predict an early spring about a week before a massive snowstorm ravaged the Northeast, Bill Murray's Groundhog Day co-star also failed to mention that at least one par ... More >>

Top Ten Hairstyles in Music History: From Beatle Mop Top to Skrillex's EDM Mullet

You know how you can tell a rock star from any average Joe on the street? Their hair, duh. Real rock stars have crazy quaffs. You see a rock star with lame, everyday hair, and you can rest assured they're just a poser butthead. Same goes for people on the street. If you don't know who they are, bu ... More >>

Ultra Music Festival 2013 Phase 2 Lineup: Alesso, Eric Prydz, Snoop Dogg, Tons More

Just when you thought the party couldn't get any better, Ultra Music Festival has announced its Phase 2 lineup. So let's not bother with the formalities. Here's who's been added: Alesso, Benny Benassi, Dirty South, Dog Blood (Boys Noize & Skrillex), Eric Prydz, Fedde Le Grand, Hardwell, Loco D ... More >>

Happy 25th Birthday, Skrillex! Top 25 Moments, From Baby Pics to Grammys

Today, Sonny Moore turns 25. It's been 25 years of dreaming, hard living, rule breaking, game changing, love, laughter, angry lyrics, highs and lows -- and of course, lots and lots of bass dropping. Moore, famously known the world over as American dubstepper Skrillex, has always had a fanatic lo ... More >>

Top Ten Dance Moves Aboard Holy Ship!! 2013 in Animated GIF!

The EDM cruise Holy Ship!! journeyed from Fort Lauderdale to the Bahamas this past weekend, and we're still recovering. A highlight was an afternoon spent on a pristine private island in the Bahamas for an afternoon of sun, surf, cocktails and the kind of dancing not seen since MTV Spring Break. To ... More >>

Fashion Freakouts Aboard Holy Ship!!

Holy Ship!! It's been mere days since that rager returned to Port Everglades, but we can't get the memories to stop looping through our heads. What an ass-clapping good time that was. All the great DJs, the run-ins with our idols, the slutty girls walking around with almost nothing on but booze an ... More >>

Holy Ship!! Superfan on Dancing With A-Trak, Smoking With Skrillex, Raving With Obama

Aboard the Holy Ship!! one gets to mix and mingle with big-name DJs. "Hey, there's Zedd in line for pasta salad! Wow, there's Dillon Francis in the elevator! Oh damn, Diplo is out on the beach swimming with all the fans! Jackbeats just bought all those people shots!" With this mesh of artists and ... More >>

Holy Ship!! 2013: An Epic Three-Day Recap

There were a lot of grim faces on Monday morning as the electro-loving masses emerged off the MSC Poesia (AKA the EDM party boat Holy Ship!!) and did a slow zombie shuffle through U.S. customs and back into the real world (AKA Fort Lauderdale). Here in the industrial port, the sky was overcast, a ... More >>

Holy Ship!! 2013, Day One: Major Lazer, Justice, and Surprise Guest Skrillex!

On Friday afternoon, nearly 3,000 raver chicks, dude guys, scenesters, club kids and DJs assembled at a port in Fort Lauderdale and boarded the MSC Poesia, AKA Holy Ship!! (There are two exclamation points because this is the second edition of the EDM party cruise put on by L.A.'s Hard Events.) The ... More >>

Ten Best EDM Tracks and Albums of 2012

Holy Ship!! 2013 Announces Set Times and Full Cruise Schedule

Holy Fucking Ship!! The three-day activities and music schedule for the most massive EDM cruise was just released. And now our pants are a little heavier. There are some returning favorites, like A-Trak's DJ lessons and Dillon Francis's mini-golf tournament. There will be wet-dream back-to-back s ... More >>

Skrillex Quest, the Dubstep Video Game: An Extremely Detailed Breakdown

Don't let Skrillex near your old NES games. He'll fuck them shits up. That's the take-away message of Skrillex Quest, a new glitched-out collaboration between the dubstep dynamo and browser-adventure king John Oda. Based on the original gold-plated Legend of Zelda, the simple RPG features about 3 ... More >>

Araabmuzik, "MVP of the MPC," Headlining Mansion Miami's Super Fridays

One of the first critiques hurled at electronic music (usually from an individual of the guitar-bass-drums persuasion) is the performers "aren't doing anything." This is a valid charge. Are you really trying to tell us in between smashing people in the face with cake and washing it off with a water ... More >>

OWSLA Tour at Grand Central November 1

Ellie Goulding Breaks Up With Skrillex, Announces Trip to South Beach

Continental drift is ultimately to blame for electronic dance music's latest heartbreak. Had the continents not started shifting 250 million years ago, London might've only been a short domestic flight from Los Angeles, and Skrillex would still be dating Ellie Goulding. According to The Sun, the ... More >>

OWSLA Tour: Kill the Noise, M Machine, and Nick Thayer at Grand Central on November 1

Yo, be very, very quiet. We're hunting rabbits. Skrillex's OWSLA imprint is going on tour to showcase its variety of sounds and next-level skillset, and we're going to catch us some choice bunny meat from Kill The Noise, M Machine and Nick Thayer at Grand Central on Wednesday, November 1. The labe ... More >>

Ten Ten EDM Memes of All Time! From Daft Hands to Kim Jong Il Dropping the Bass

EDM is the biggest thing on the planet and everyone loves a joke. So when you put your favorite DJs together with five-second rounds of Photoshop, everyone wins! Hell, you could even use MS Paint. Let's be real, we're all just button-pushers at the end of the day. We here at Crossfade have scoure ... More >>

Dillon Francis Signs Titties as Tiesto in "Masta Blasta" Vid: An Extremely Detailed Breakdown

Sorry, Eminem. There's a new Mr. Just Don't Give A Fuck. And he ain't passin' out no shits neither. Who is famous enough to have the scene on fire? But not famous enough for anyone to know who he is? Who has the balls to pretend to be the richest man in all of EDM, pulling up in a limo and signing ... More >>

Kanye West Hires Skrillex to Produce Next Album, Maybe DJ Wedding to Kim Kardashian

"Yo Skrill, College Drop it hard!" Or, uh, something like that ... It came out yesterday that Skrillex got all up in the studio with Kanye West, and as far as Skrill knows, he worked on a track that will be West's "first song" on the follow-up to Yeezy's 2010 slab, My Beautiful Dark, Twisted Fanta ... More >>

Ten Signs of the Dubpocalypse! From Bieber and Muse to Dubstep Cereal Commercials

Dubstep. Once upon a time, like back in 2008, that was a word almost no one in the United States knew existed. Now it's superdivisive and no can escape it. Whether you love dubstep or hate it, claim to only listen to "real" dubstep, or are a total brostep fanboy, the genre has become a monster tha ... More >>

Skrillex Announces Miami Show at Mansion on September 28, Tickets on Sale This Saturday

Shave the sides of your head right after buying Skrillex tickets on Saturday morning and it will have grown back by the time his show hits Mansion on September 28. But you'll still have tickets to see Skrillex unleash his magical diarrheic iPod. For such an intimate gig, it's almost certain that Sk ... More >>

Nickelback's Chad Kroeger and Avril Lavigne! The Five Worst Pop Collaborations

Did you guys just feel that rip in the space-time continuum? Literally the two shittiest musical artists of all time, Nickelback's Chad Kroeger and Avril Lavigne, are in the studio, making an album together. These two Canadian hacks are combining their talents as the world's most-hated musicians t ... More >>

Skrillex, Topless Girls, Drinking, and Partying: An Extremely Detailed Breakdown of His Behind-the-Scenes Video in Miami

Skrillex is on a speedboat flying through the Biscayne Bay. He's on his way to commit mass murder at Ultra Music Festival where he will kill beats and cause a massive dubstep bloodbath. For now, he's just another cracker tourist on the water in Miami. But soon, his massive legion of bass worshipin ... More >>

Madonna Crashes Avicii's Set at Ultra 2012, Namedrops Ecstasy, Shakes "Meaty ASS"

​According to malaki9332, a dedicated viewer of Ultra Music Festival 2012's live YouTube stream, the abbreviation "MDMA = MaDonna's Meaty ASS." That is incorrect. In fact, the initialism refers to methylenedioxymethylamphetamine (street name Ecstasy), a so-called entactogenic drug that'll make yo ... More >>

Top Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week Parties for Thursday, March 22

​Who's straight fiending for some beats? Well, with just 31 hours, 29 minutes, and 55 seconds till it's time for you and 150,000 other furry-booted beat freaks to crash the gates at Ultra Music Festival, you will soon be overdosing on the uhntz-uhntz. In the meantime, though, there's no reason t ... More >>

The Best of SXSW Music: Thursday 3/15/2012

If you're familiar with chaos theory, which in its basic form is the attempt to find patterns in the random acts of shit on Earth, then you may understand the difficulty that comes with describing a full day at SXSW. To break down the bright, scintillating chaos, Village Voice Media's roving music e ... More >>

Skrillex as part of Ultra Music Festival 2012 at Bayfront Park March 23

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Ultra Music Festival 2012's Top Seven Artists Under 25: Avicii, Skrillex, and Five Others

​​The EDM game is tough. Before you get the big dollars, you've got to pay your dues and take a few hits. So it's no surprise most of these heavy hitters are well into their 30s or even older. But over the last couple of years, there's been a youth invasion of the scene. And suddenly, some of ... More >>

Ten Reasons to Not Hate Skrillex

Photo by Bruno Postigo​David Guetta might have changed the entire sound of commercial pop and Deadmau5 may have gotten legions of clubbers to don faux rodent heads. But there's no question that over the past year, the hottest name in electronic dance music is Skrillex, born Sonny Moore. The pol ... More >>

Top Ten Animals Dancing to Dubstep

​Dubstep is officially one of those genres that started out as one thing, ended up another, and now nobody can tell if music (as a whole) is even good. Maybe it's great? But it's probably terrible. With Skrillex's pop canonization by the Grammys, there isn't a lone old-timey basshead who hasn't y ... More >>

Hard's Holy Ship! 2013 Electronic Music Cruise Sold Out in 28 Hours

​The world's greatest sea-bound rave has sold out a full year from its next scheduled sailing date. Just last month, Hard's Holy Ship! hit the high seas for its maiden voyage, carrying Skrillex, Steve Aoki, Fatboy Slim, Diplo, A-Trak, and 3000 bikini-ready party people to the Bahamas and back. ... More >>

Hard's Holy Ship! Electronic Music Cruise "Will Return in 2013"

​Exactly 26 days ago, Hard's Holy Ship! electronic music cruise packed Skrillex, Steve Aoki, Fatboy Slim, Rusko, Diplo, A-Trak, dozens of other professional party starters, and 3000 beat freaks onto the MSC Poesia for a full weekend of uhntz-uhntz-ing across the high seas. And yes, there were a ... More >>

Ultra Music Festival 2012 Sold Out With 73 Days Until Start

​That's it, folks! According to its website, Ultra Music Festival 2012 is officially sold out with 73 days remaining until the first day of the festival. This breaks last year's record, when tix sold out on February 18 with a full 34 days left before the fest.Of course, Ultra's 2012 lineup, feat ... More >>

Will Dubstep Finally Die in 2012? Five Signs the End Is Near

​For all the hype still surrounding it, dubstep won't be popular forever. From collaborations with Korn to Christmas carol remixes, signs of its imminent demise are springing up all over the place. But will 2012 be the year that dubstep finally dies? Or will it desperately cling to life and linge ... More >>

Skrillex's Dubstep Mothership Lands at the Fillmore Miami Beach, December 17

Skrillex With 12th Planet Fillmore Miami Beach December 17, 2011 Better Than: All other dubstep productions. Yeah, that's a pretty big statement to make. But, well, we just made it. "Holy shit. WTF?" The first words that came to mind when I saw it. Daft Punk had its pyramid. Deadmau5 has his cub ... More >>

12th Planet Gives Us His DJ Playlist for the Apocalypse

According to doomsday fearmonger Zecharia Sitchin, the "12th Planet" (or Nibiru) is a hypothetical planet hidden in the outskirts of the solar system that will collide with Earth and destroy all life as soon as 2012. In a way, Nibiru is like dubstep. It came flying out of obscurity like a meteor, c ... More >>

Skrillex, 12th Planet, Two Fresh, and Nadastrom at the Fillmore Miami Beach December 17

MTV Exploits EDM Scene for Web Hits; Compiles Arbitrary "Best of" List

​Music Television is seemingly jumping onto the electro dance train, recognizing that beat freaks love making it rain web hits by reading about their favorite DJs on the internet -- a practice Crossfade's all too familiar with, Ultra. About an hour ago, MTV News posted its incomplete list of Bes ... More >>

Hard's Holy Ship Cruise Announces Final Lineup and Full Music Schedule

​Get Hard 'cause it's almost time to cruise. Nine months ago, Crossfade reported that the Los Angeles party posse, electronic music festival, and touring club event run by Gary Richards (AKA Destructo) was planning to take its electro steez to the high seas aboard the MSC Poesia, sailing out of P ... More >>

Say Thanks With Dancegiving Music Festival, Wolfgang Gartner, Diplo, and MSTRKRFT

​Each year 'round Thanksgiving, we here at Crossfade like to sit around the conference room table and share the things for which we're most thankful. And while we're plenty grateful for the web hits Justin Bieber's baby drama produced this year, we're even more grateful for a crazy little thing ca ... More >>

Miami DJ-Producer Jesp Talks Political Science of Pop and Raging Through the Recession

Pop music doesn't have to be supersmart. It's for out-of-control bouts of shouting, makeout sessions, and screaming along with when traffic on 826 is moving in slow-mo. But Miami DJ-producer Joseph Espinoza (AKA Jesp) thinks that pop should be both fun and intelligent. In fact, his dabbling in oste ... More >>

12th Planet Talks Dubstep, Brostep, and Why Skrillex is the Future

​Tomorrow marks dubstep ambassador 12th Planet's much-anticipated return to Miami, when he'll headline an evening at Grand Central rounded out by Juan Basshead, MC Jumanji, Animal Krackerz, and Mike Deuce. We reached him recently to chat about the past and current state of heavy bass. But th ... More >>

12th Planet Talks Pop Production, DJ Craze, and Hardcore

​When 12th Planet (AKA John Dadzie) talks, the world of bass music listens. That's because, as we explain in last week's mini-feature on the DJ, producer, and label co-founder, the man has been hardcore since (electronic) hardcore was a new genre. Though it's as a dubstep producer that he's ga ... More >>

Identity Festival at Klipsch Amphitheater (Bayfront Park) August 25, Early Bird Tickets on Sale May 20

Kaskade headlines Identity Festival.​As promised here are more details on the upcoming Identity Festival, which stops in Miami August 25. The one-day event will happen at the recently renamed Bayfront Park Amphitheater, now known as Klipsch Amphitheater at Bayfront Park.Early bird tickets will go ... More >>