Swedish House Mafia

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 >>

Ultra Ravers Boost Miami Tourism, Pack Hotels Through March at $238.12 Per Night

South Floridians owe beat freaks and frat boys a drink. Fueled almost entirely by Red Bull, Molly, and (presumably) a little bit of cocaine, sunburned college students from the Midwest, foreign ravers, and Ultra Music Festival organizers rallied to resurrect South Florida's economy in March. See a ... More >>

EDM's Five Most Annoying Buzzwords

Whether you like it or not, dance music runs the world and therefore the cultural lexicon. We're going to go ahead and say that's a bad thing. Our hashtag-driven, buzz-worthy reality is giving us a headache, mostly because you dancing assholes can't stop saying the same shit over and over again. Y ... More >>

Ultra Music Festival Announces 2014 Dates

The uhntz-uhntz hasn't even died down. But just minutes after wrapping its six-day 2013 edition with Swedish House Mafia's last show ever, Ultra Music Festival has already announced a plan for next year's insane EDM extravaganza. "See you all next year at Ultra Music Festival 2014!" the fest's org ... More >>

Ultra 2013: SpaceGhostPurrp Talks Tattoos and Raider Klan at a Rave (Video)

SpaceGhostPurrp can be a prickly dude. He's so young, smart, and deep. And all that online attitude. You can't help but envy him his complexity and talent and resent what sometimes comes off as a sense of entitlement. But when we met up with the Carol City rapper at Ultra Music Festival where he p ... More >>

The Six Bad Bitches You Meet at Ultra Music Festival

Damn, Ultra Music Festival is a mad house. Everywhere you look, it's neon titties, the bottom half of an ass, or some kind of sexy rabbit hoppin' around with a lollipop in her cheek. Last year, we introduced "The Seven Ravers You Meet at Ultra Music Festival." But this time, we're giving it up to t ... More >>

Five Raddest Stage Setups at Ultra 2013

There's so much bass and lasers pumping through downtown Miami, it might break off the mainland and becom a new, free-floating island. That's thanks to the millions upon millions of dollars that have gone into insuring that Ultra Music Festival 2013 is the most aggressively technological production ... More >>

"Deadmau5 Will Die" and Five Other Disturbing Raver Predictions for Ultra 2013

Will Ultra Music Festival 2013 descend into chaos? Probably not. The UMF peeps run a very tight operation. The kids have got access to lots of free water and wi-fi. There are cops all over the streets. And the vibe is almost universally pleasant. But there have been bad omens: City commissioner M ... More >>

Generation Wild Got V-Day Crazy With Deniz Koyu and Danny Avila at LIV Miami

Generation Wild Tour With Deniz Koyu, Danny Avila, dBerrie and Mikael Weermets Thursday, February 14, 2013 Better Than: Speed dating for a Valentine's companion. Did the youth of Miami prove they party hardest? Last night, the Generation Wild Tour made its stop at LIV for a crowd of eye-contact e ... More >>

Ultra Music Festival 2013 Phase 3 Lineup: Tommie Sunshine, Dieselboy, Kleinenberg

With just 29 days till Downtown Miami's Bayfront Park becomes totally flooded with LED-wielding beat freaks ... Ultra Music Festival 2013 has announced its Phase 3 lineup. Among this final round of 40-plus acts: Intrepid Ultra defender Tommie Sunshine, along with Marco Bailey, Christian Smith, DJ M ... More >>

Ultra Music Festival 2013's Weekend Two Is Officially Sold Out

Well, it finally happened. Tickets for weekend two of Ultra Music Festival 2013 have officially sold out. That means the possibility of a trip to Miami's annual dance mecca is quickly slipping out of your slow-grabby reach. Yes, you still have a shot at purchasing weekend one tickets or six-day ... 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 >>

Ten Best EDM Tracks and Albums of 2012

Who Wants Free Tickets for Steve Angello and Story Nightclub's Grand Opening?

It's gonna be a Story ... Next week, the latest nightlife project from LIV owner David Grutman will be opening at 136 Collins Avenue (i.e. the space that used to be Opium Garden and Prive and then Amnesia Miami) with an absolutely epic NYE 2013 lineup. All week, Avicii and Tiësto wil be bro-ing ... More >>

Deadmau5 Returns to Ultra Music Festival in 2013

We here at Crossfade imagine this was the conversation, which must have taken place on Deadmau5's couch while cuddling adorable kitty cats. "Baaaaby, I want to go to Ultra this year," said Katt Von D, all tatted and pretty and in some tank top. "But shnookums, Ultra Music Festival and I don't get ... More >>

Back in Black Halloween Rave Returns to Midtown Miami With Dirty South and Others

Last Halloween weekend, Midtown Miami played ghost host to the "largest dance music costume party in the U.S.," transforming a 70,000 square-foot arena into a maddening scene of titties, booze, and bass-fueled mayhem. It was a sold-out event for Go Big Productions, topped by headliners like Swedish ... More >>

Six Best Club Parties on South Beach August 16 to 22

Six Best Club Parties on South Beach This Weekend

Dude, South Beach is gonna be boiling over with beats and babes this weekend. Oh, and totally famous European DJs, who'll be invading SoBe's best clubs for four straight nights of expensive and illicit uhntz-uhntz. From a pair of Italians who've been in the game since the mid '90s to a Dutchman who ... More >>

Beat The Beat Up

Kaskade's Freaks of Nature Tour at Klipsch Amphitheater July 14

Kaskade on EDM Critics: "Anytime Something's on Top, People Will Be Ripping It Down"

Oh, yes, America. The freaks are living (and dancing) among us. Ever since EDM went massive in 2011, kids with glowsticks have been controlling popular music charts, invading the nation's arenas and stadiums like little ecstatic fireflies, and flooding the Internet with YouTube videos of themselves ... More >>

Swedish House Mafia Announce Breakup, Last Show in Sweden on November 24

Who's going to save the world after November 24? Not Swedish House Mafia, because Axwell, Steve Angello, and Sebastian Ingrosso have announced via swedishhousemafia.com that this last leg of tour dates will officially be SHM's last. The supergroup's been dropping mega-hits since 2008. But surprisi ... More >>

Swedish House Mafia Member Steve Angello's Most Inspiring Tweets!

Before he tackles Warsaw at UMF Poland or co-headlines Hackney Weekend in London with the likes of Jay-Z, Rihanna and Kasabian, Swedish House Mafia's Steve Angello will swing through South Beach to get his Miami fix. The 29-year-old DJ is performing live at Amnesia Miami on Friday, June 1. But bef ... More >>

Andrew W.K. at Revolution Live April 7

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

WMC 2012 parties at the Shelborne Beach Resort and Shine March 16 to 25

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 >>

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

Steve Angello Playing LIV, Spends "More Time Mixing Than With My Daughter"

Facebook​If Tiësto is the Led Zeppelin of Electronic Dance Music, a title bestowed upon the Dutch DJ by 1,400 beat freaks who took our recent poll, what does that make Steve Angello? He's one-third of EDM royal family Swedish House Mafia, the only crew powerful enough attempt an Ultra upstaging ... 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 >>

Sebastian Ingrosso, Erick Morillo, Bob Sinclar at Scope Art Arena October 29

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 >>

Swedish House Mafia's Sebastian Ingrosso Announces Halloween Costume Party in Miami

Sebastian Ingrosso's gonna Go Big on Halloween weekend.Every weekend, you finish work, catch dinner and drinks with friends, catch some more drinks, and maybe some pills at the club ... And before you know it, you're waking up Sunday morning (uh, afternoon) and you're passed out under a car. On Hal ... More >>

Video: Crowd Goes Nuts Outside Oversold Swedish House Mafia Show

via YouTube​The online uproar over a clash between Miami Beach cops and Swedish House Mafia fans all started when thousands of ticket-holders were denied entrance to the group's show. Tensions skyrocketed as at least two thousand people who'd paid stood in the sun for hours, until they eventually ... 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 >>

Beatport Music Awards: A guide to picking the big winners

A Quick Guide to Betting on the 2011 Beatport Music Awards

Are you really gonna bet on Guetta?​Go ahead and call us degenerate gamblers. But we here at Crossfade are hardly alone in the belief that life is infinitely less boring when you're betting on it. Whether the action is competitive vodka-guzzling, the Westminster Kennel Club dog show, or the arriv ... 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

Miami Music Guide and Party Listings for Ultra Music Festival 2011

​The Ultra Music Festival isn't just a concert. It's now a week-long electronic and alternative musical free-for-all featuring the world's best talent and over 150,000 fans. Sure, the big show is sold out. But in the Miami nightlife universe, the many satellite parties orbiting the main event may ... More >>

Avicii at LIV January 8

Steve Angello at LIV January 1

Swedish House Mafia's Steve Angello Returns to Miami (Again!) at LIV January 1

​If he hasn't already made plans to build himself a giant geodesic disco dome atop the Fontainebleau Hotel, Swedish House Mafia member Steve Angello's top priority in 2011 should be purchasing a prime SoBe condo. Ever since he and fellow Mafia men Axwell and Sebastian Ingrosso headlined the main ... More >>

Steve Angello at Space November 27

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 >>

Jack Your Party

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 >>

Ultra Music Festival Announces Phase Two of Its Lineup

Ultra Music Festival released the second phase of its lineup, and while the biggest names in the list offer no big surprises, a number of other, smaller acts added to the bill demonstrate more of the festival's forward-thinking approach this year. So here are the titans who will play (again): Paul ... More >>