Swedish House Mafia

Alesso at LIV Nightclub May 23

Alesso Unleashes Swedish Uhntz-Uhntz at LIV Miami on May 23

If Swedish music were a piece of furniture, it'd be a Bestå/Framstå set-up, Ikea's top-of-the-line entertainment storage combo. Like the Bestå/Framstå, Swedish acts come in several sizes and variations -- ABBA, The Cardigans, The Tallest Man on Earth, Lykke Li, and Peter, Bjorn and John, just ... More >>

John Dahlbäck Talks Swedish House, Toolroom Knights and the American EDM Scene

Thanks in no small part to a certain House Mafia, Sweden is becoming synonymous with electronic dance music to the mainstream masses of the world. But if there's one artist who's truly repping his country, it's DJ-producer and label magnate John Dahlbäck. He's been pumping out his own brand of edg ... More >>

"Party Hard" With Andrew W.K., But Know "Your Rules" in Fort Lauderdale on April 7

​Sure, Tiësto and Swedish House Mafia party on private planes, flooding fuselages with champagne on their epic 36,000-mile-high ravers. And yeah, rappers like Lil Wayne and Rick Ross make it rain millions at King of Diamonds, unleashing cash-money thunderstorms on big-booty girls like Tip Drill a ... More >>

Mugshots Friday: Ultra Music Fest Edition

​Every Friday, Riptide brings you the most eye-catching mugshots taken the previous week (or thereabouts) in Miami-Dade County. Yes, there is some mockery of bad neck tattoos, but also adulation directed at perps who just plain look more badass than we ever will. This is the italicized intro to th ... More >>

Six Best Club Parties on South Beach This Weekend

​A week's worth of panic attacks, insomnia, depression, and paranoid delusions, no we're not having showing signs of ecstasy withdrawal. We're on team Deadmau5 and we're showing signs of EDM withdrawal. It's been four days since WMC wrapped, pulling the digital needle off the MP3 record player a ... 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 >>

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 >>

Top Winter Music Conference 2012 Parties For Saturday, March 17

​It's Winter Music Conference. So for the last 24 hours, we here at Crossfade have been raving and raging with a gang of incurable beat freaks, hardcore partiers, Junior Boys, sun junkies, and Miami nightlife legends. But we've taken a 45-minute nap on the dance floor, slugged a Red Bull smooth ... More >>

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

​It's Winter Music Conference. So for the last 24 hours, we here at Crossfade have been raving and raging with a gang of incurable beat freaks, hardcore partiers, Junior Boys, sun junkies, and Miami nightlife legends. But we've taken a 45-minute nap on the dance floor, slugged a Red Bull smooth ... More >>

Winter Music Conference, Ultra Music Festival, and Miami Music Week expand to nine days for 2012

​It's Winter Music Conference. So for the last 24 hours, we here at Crossfade have been raving and raging with a gang of incurable beat freaks, hardcore partiers, Junior Boys, sun junkies, and Miami nightlife legends. But we've taken a 45-minute nap on the dance floor, slugged a Red Bull smooth ... More >>

Tiësto Parties on a Plane With Swedish House Mafia: "We Were Shooting Corks at the Pilots!"

​Who leads a sexy life of million-dollar beats, limitless bottles, sweaty groupies, massive megaclubs, rooftop condos, famous friends, and international travel aboard personally branded private jets? Well, we certainly don't. But Tiësto does. And as usual, the Dutch electronic dance music supers ... More >>

Six Best South Beach Club Parties This Weekend

​What can the South Beach Food and Wine Festival offer inebriated beat freaks? Well, funneling tubs of butter at Paul Deen's Sunday Brunch may be the best hangover cure after a weekend filled with deep house, tech-shit, and Dutch trance. The Food Network's invading the sands of South Beach over ... More >>

Jonathan Cowan Talks WMC, Ultra, and Why Swedish House Mafia Is "Bullshit" UPDATED

​While popular electronic music has become synonymous with hugely inflated ticket prices, tables full of empty bottles, and mindlessly overproduced big-room bangers, Miami's own Jonathan Cowan keeps the fire burning for the South Beach's long-lost underground. For Winter Music Conference 2012, Th ... More >>

John Dahlback at Amnesia February 18

​While popular electronic music has become synonymous with hugely inflated ticket prices, tables full of empty bottles, and mindlessly overproduced big-room bangers, Miami's own Jonathan Cowan keeps the fire burning for the South Beach's long-lost underground. For Winter Music Conference 2012, Th ... More >>

Eight Best Club Parties on South Beach This Weekend

​Sweet Jesus, why would anyone want to set sail aboard a cruise ship and party with a bunch of hipsters this weekend when there are so many great tiki-tiki parties on South Beach? Just kidding. We'd much rather be aboard the Carnival Imagination for the second annual Bruise Cruise than landlocke ... More >>

Ultra Music Festival 2012's Ten Most Exciting Acts

​Coachella's lineup got announced on Monday. And personally, we were underwhelmed. But it got us thinking how excited we are for Ultra Music Festival 2012. Sure, Deadmau5 may think the number of headliner acts on the bill is horrible. But we have to disagree with you, Zimmerman. We haven't been ... More >>

Five most expensive New Year's Eve celebrations

​Coachella's lineup got announced on Monday. And personally, we were underwhelmed. But it got us thinking how excited we are for Ultra Music Festival 2012. Sure, Deadmau5 may think the number of headliner acts on the bill is horrible. But we have to disagree with you, Zimmerman. We haven't been ... More >>

Max Vangeli and AN21 at LIV December 26

​Coachella's lineup got announced on Monday. And personally, we were underwhelmed. But it got us thinking how excited we are for Ultra Music Festival 2012. Sure, Deadmau5 may think the number of headliner acts on the bill is horrible. But we have to disagree with you, Zimmerman. We haven't been ... More >>

Max Vangeli and AN21 Kick Off Miami's Five-Day NYE Weekend at LIV on December 26

Start sayin' bye to 2012 with Max Vangeli and AN21.​Totally contradicting Western civilization's standard calendar, New Year's Eve now lasts a lot longer than just one night. Especially on Miami Beach. In this land of endless neon and fake boobs, NYE has become a five-day holiday weekend pac ... More >>

Space Terrace Goes (Almost) All Ages With Steve Angello's Thanksgiving Party

Photo by Yesenia Hernandez​Forget about your parents' stupid rock 'n' roll. That shit's for old people. If 2011 at the Fillmore has taught us anything, it's that the house is never more packed and awesome than during the monthly Honeymoon Series party, when the room quakes with entertaining, dar ... More >>

Ten Best Halloween Parties in Miami

Photo by Justin Namon​Back when you were just a seven-year-old sugar junkie, Halloween was a pretty simple gig. It was all about dressin' up like a murderer, hittin' the streets after dark, and gettin' that candy. But then you got too old to Trick or Treat. And that's the moment when All Hallows' ... More >>

Bob Sinclar's Opening Night Party at Amnesia Miami

Photo by Gaby Izarra​See the full 44-photo Amnesia Grand Opening With Bob Sinclar slideshow. Bob Sinclar With Philippe B. Amnesia Miami Friday, October 21, 2011 Better Than: A foam party, which the old Amnesia Miami was known for. It was the same charming faces in a new and unexplored domain. W ... More >>

Top Ten Guilty Pleasures of '90s Dance

Haddaway: If it's wrong to love him, we don't want to be right.​If you're a clubland regular, then you've probably noticed what a major comeback the classic '90s dance sound has made in the last couple years. You can hear it from the jacking house revival of underground acts like Hercules & Lo ... More >>

Steve Angello at LIV May 6

Haddaway: If it's wrong to love him, we don't want to be right.​If you're a clubland regular, then you've probably noticed what a major comeback the classic '90s dance sound has made in the last couple years. You can hear it from the jacking house revival of underground acts like Hercules & Lo ... More >>

Dig the Digweed

Haddaway: If it's wrong to love him, we don't want to be right.​If you're a clubland regular, then you've probably noticed what a major comeback the classic '90s dance sound has made in the last couple years. You can hear it from the jacking house revival of underground acts like Hercules & Lo ... More >>

Five Reasons Steve Angello Should Move to Miami and Become Our Full-Time Lover

​Miami is totally obsessed with Steve Angello. And obviously, the Swedish House Mafia member and Size Records label boss loves us back. How can we tell? Well, Stevie dropped the first hint when he and his fellow Mafia men -- Axwell and Sebastian Ingrosso -- co-dedicated a song to us. It's called ... More >>

Ten Electronic Dance Music Legends We Wish Had Come to Miami in March

Aphex Twin, if you're reading this, please come to Miami!​WMC and Ultra Week have come and gone. There were mind-blowingly awesome DJ lineups and there were majorly overrated ones. Sure, March has never disappointed. But there's no denying how bloated and commercial certain chunks of the EDM in ... More >>

Tinie Tempah at Ultra Music Festival 2011 Day One, March 25

Photo by Ian WitlenTinie Tempah at Ultra 2011.​If you live in Miami, you might think you live in the most dance-music-saturated place on Earth -- unless, of course, you've spend a lot of time in the U.K. Dance music is part of the pop fabric here, with synth sounds regularly charting on pop radio. ... More >>

Trip to Ultra Land! Crossfade's 15-Act Itinerary for Ultra Music Festival 2011

Trip to Ultra and rip your hair out with Rusko.​Let's be prepared, beat freaks. There is absolutely no reason to wait till we're trapped at the bottom of a 1000-foot k-hole to start planning our Ultra Music Festival itinerary. So before digging out our dosage, stripping down to our rubber unde ... More >>

Ultra Music Festival 2011 is more diverse than ever

Trip to Ultra and rip your hair out with Rusko.​Let's be prepared, beat freaks. There is absolutely no reason to wait till we're trapped at the bottom of a 1000-foot k-hole to start planning our Ultra Music Festival itinerary. So before digging out our dosage, stripping down to our rubber unde ... More >>

The 26th Annual International Dance Music Awards at Dolce, March 10

Camille LambSinger Chris Willis performs "Gettin' Over You"​So it wouldn't be entirely accurate to say that everyone who matters in dance music attended the International Dance Music Awards at Dolce last night. But even if Armin Van Buuren and Deadmau5 couldn't make the event, a few high-class yet ... More >>

Make it Funky

Camille LambSinger Chris Willis performs "Gettin' Over You"​So it wouldn't be entirely accurate to say that everyone who matters in dance music attended the International Dance Music Awards at Dolce last night. But even if Armin Van Buuren and Deadmau5 couldn't make the event, a few high-class yet ... More >>

Dirty South at SET January 23

Camille LambSinger Chris Willis performs "Gettin' Over You"​So it wouldn't be entirely accurate to say that everyone who matters in dance music attended the International Dance Music Awards at Dolce last night. But even if Armin Van Buuren and Deadmau5 couldn't make the event, a few high-class yet ... More >>

Avicii Brings Swedish Big-Room Beats to LIV This Saturday

DJ-producer Tim Berg, AKA Avicii.​Rookie DJ-producer Tim Berg (AKA Avicii) is only 22 years old. But his resume already reads like that of a seasoned industry heavyweight. In 2008, after topping BBC Radio 1 luminary Pete Tong's Fast Trax poll, the Swedish prodigy dropped his breakthrough release " ... More >>

Above & Beyond Taking Over Ice Palace March 24

Above & Beyond​What are we calling that period between March 22 and 28? Ultra Week? Miami Electronic Music Week? We need to come to a consensus so we don't get too confused. Just the other day, Crossfade announced Swedish House Mafia's party happening opposite Ultra, and now British trance t ... More >>

Steve Angello at Space November 27

Above & Beyond​What are we calling that period between March 22 and 28? Ultra Week? Miami Electronic Music Week? We need to come to a consensus so we don't get too confused. Just the other day, Crossfade announced Swedish House Mafia's party happening opposite Ultra, and now British trance t ... More >>

Bloody Beetroots Speed Metal Their Way Through Mansion, October 13

​The Bloody BeetrootsWednesday, October 13, 2010Mansion, Miami BeachBetter than: A root canal.DJ sets are always awkward to review. There are hardly any of the theatrics of a live performance, and the only skill you can assess is whether or not the mix was any good. But Bloody Beetroots never disa ... More >>

Club Space closing parties

​The Bloody BeetrootsWednesday, October 13, 2010Mansion, Miami BeachBetter than: A root canal.DJ sets are always awkward to review. There are hardly any of the theatrics of a live performance, and the only skill you can assess is whether or not the mix was any good. But Bloody Beetroots never disa ... More >>

Lil Jon Talks Chris Brown, Kicking Out That Labor Day Crunk

​When it comes to having a crunk-ass time, there are only a few people who really kill it. Maybe Jack Daniels? Perhaps David Hasselhoff? Another dude on that list is your boy Lil Jon (real name Jonathan Mortimer Smith -- who knew, right?). He's man who's never seen without his pimp cup and he's tu ... More >>

Jack Your Party

​When it comes to having a crunk-ass time, there are only a few people who really kill it. Maybe Jack Daniels? Perhaps David Hasselhoff? Another dude on that list is your boy Lil Jon (real name Jonathan Mortimer Smith -- who knew, right?). He's man who's never seen without his pimp cup and he's tu ... More >>

Steve Angello

​When it comes to having a crunk-ass time, there are only a few people who really kill it. Maybe Jack Daniels? Perhaps David Hasselhoff? Another dude on that list is your boy Lil Jon (real name Jonathan Mortimer Smith -- who knew, right?). He's man who's never seen without his pimp cup and he's tu ... More >>

Swedish House Mafia

​When it comes to having a crunk-ass time, there are only a few people who really kill it. Maybe Jack Daniels? Perhaps David Hasselhoff? Another dude on that list is your boy Lil Jon (real name Jonathan Mortimer Smith -- who knew, right?). He's man who's never seen without his pimp cup and he's tu ... More >>

Crobar Worldwide does the official WMC pool parties at the Eden Roc

​When it comes to having a crunk-ass time, there are only a few people who really kill it. Maybe Jack Daniels? Perhaps David Hasselhoff? Another dude on that list is your boy Lil Jon (real name Jonathan Mortimer Smith -- who knew, right?). He's man who's never seen without his pimp cup and he's tu ... More >>

Passion Pit, Caspa Added to Ultra Music Festival 2010 Lineup UPDATE

Photo by Chrissy PiperPassion Pit​Here comes the Ultra Music Festival shuffle! You have to remember nothing is concrete even on the day of the festival (Bloc Party canceled last year at the last minute). According to an official press release from Ultra's organizers, indie-rock band Passion Pit ha ... More >>

Ultra Music Festival 2010 Phase 1 Lineup Announced UPDATE

​I rarely ever take flier handouts while walking at night around South Beach, but for some reason as I was leaving Klutch I took an Ultra flier from a guy. Honestly, the first thing I felt was exhaustion because I don't know if I can handle the fact that Winter Music Conference is already creeping ... More >>

The New Year's Eve EDM Lowdown

Miami's big-room nightclubs usually go all out for New Year's Eve celebrations by booking some of the biggest names in international dance music, and this year is no exception. Here's the lowdown on some of the top NYE parties going down on Thursday night: ​Cocoon Label Party at Nocturnal's Eden T ... More >>

Must-See Acts on Ultra's Lineup

Miami's big-room nightclubs usually go all out for New Year's Eve celebrations by booking some of the biggest names in international dance music, and this year is no exception. Here's the lowdown on some of the top NYE parties going down on Thursday night: ​Cocoon Label Party at Nocturnal's Eden T ... 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 >>