Tommie Sunshine

Ultra 2013, Free and Live on YouTube and Digital Radio: Check the Streaming Schedule

Too broke to uhntz-uhntz at Ultra? Stuck in Boise, Idaho? Well, no worries. 'Cause UMF organizers have hooked up free, live broadcasts on both YouTube and online radio network Digitally Imported. So you can even rave and rage at home alone! And it'll cost you absolutely nothing! Just like last yea ... More >>

Ultra Music Festival 2013's Lineup and Set Times

Under normal circumstances, Ultra Music Festival has pushed even the most seasoned EDM addicts to the very brink of physical and emotional collapse. But now UMF has expanded to two entire weekends (AKA six whole days), which just might turn certain (weaker) members of the Crossfade team into pathet ... More >>

Carl Cox on the Rise of Ultra Music Festival: "There's No Other Event of Its Kind"

Back when most of us were only concerned with what kind of Underoos we were going to wear that day, Carl Cox was already peddling dance music. And while DJs today enjoy playing atop enormous stages with seizure-inducing light shows, it's safe to say that in the late '80s, Cox was playing strictly un ... More >>

Major Lazer's Walshy Fire on Boring EDM Shows: "People Really Appreciate 'Different'"

Ultra Music Festival has never offered much homegrown local flavor. Even as the globally minded EDM fest has broadened its musical scope to include rappers, R&B stars, and indie bands, the other sounds -- reggae, salsa, merengue, authentic Miami Bass -- that keep much of the 305 dancing the rest ... More >>

Ultra 2013 Starts Now! And EDM Has Conquered Miami, America, the World

Electronic dance music has conquered Miami. And America. And the world. For more than three decades, it had remained a mostly underground phenomenon, epitomized by illegal raves held beneath highway overpasses in the UK or after-hours parties thrown in downtown Detroit's abandoned warehouses. But o ... More >>

Tommie Sunshine at Ultra Music Festival 2013

Ultra Music Festival, Winter Music Conference, and Miami Music Week 2013

Ten Best Free Parties During Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week 2013

Tickets to Ultra Music Festival: $299.95. Winter Music Conference passes: $475. Seeing all your favorite DJs and producers: Priceless. No, it literally won't cost you anything. The best kept secret of the whole WMC and Miami Music Week party train: you can catch some of the hottest names in the gam ... More >>

Tommie Sunshine to EDM Haters: "If You Can't Feel This Music, You're Dead Inside"

Remember when Eminem was all "nobody listens to techno"? Lolz. Guess Moby won that battle. "Without Me" topped charts just ten years ago. But in the past decade, pop culture has made a complete 180-degree turn. It's like Tommie Sunshine told us: "You could go outside right now into a crowd, throw ... More >>

Ten Best Pool Parties During Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week 2013

Winter Music Conference used to be a whole week of industry insiders schmoozing it up and trading records, but now it's all about the pool parties. And does that really bother anyone? If so, you've probably never actually oiled up for one of these sexy things. So stop being a snob and start strippi ... More >>

Ultra, WMC, and MMW 2013 Guide

Every March, Miami is seized by total EDM insanity, reverberating with bass, techno, house, trance, and everything electronic. With Ultra Music Festival (this year expanding to two weekends), Winter Music Conference, and Miami Music Week all falling within the same ten-day span, the uhntz-uhntz wi ... More >>

Knife Party Set to Release New EP of "Seizure Music," Hit Ultra Music Festival 2013

Seizure music, death electro, and derpstep. Those are the extreme EDM genres Knife Party's Rob Swire and Gareth McGrillen use to describe their music, which reveals a couple of things about these Australian dudes: (1) they don't take themselves too seriously and (2) they dig dangerous fun. After ... More >>

Ten Best EDM Cruises During WMC and Miami Music Week 2013

Nightclubs? Boring. Music festivals? Too landlocked. Yacht parties? Now you're talking! Every year during the month of March, South Florida's private yacht rental business booms as electronic dance music fanatics flock to the region for Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week's EDM cruises. S ... More >>

Ultra 2013: "Free, Festival-Wide Wi-Fi!!!"

If, like Crossfade, you've ever tried to tweetcast a trip to the Port-a-Potty while waiting all weekend in line to take a pee at Ultra Music Festival ... Or attempted YouTube-ing a video of some guy making out with a pile of trash behind the dubstep tent ... Or even tried frantically emailing mom ... More >>

Carl Cox and Friends Return to Ultra Music Festival With Mesmerizing "Mega-Structure"

Ultra is more than an annual music festival. It's an EDM institution. Just like British house legend Carl Cox. Every year at UMF, the Carl Cox and Friends arena (which has been with the fest for its entire 15-year history) gets bigger, better, and brighter. But it doesn't only exist in Miami. It al ... More >>

Disclosure Talks Ultra Fest Debut: "Bigger Production, Light Show, We Are Very Excited!"

UK production duo Disclosure is a definite contender for biggest EDM success story of the new decade. There's the matter of the pair's precociousness: wunderkind brothers Howard and Guy Lawrence started releasing music when they were only 15 and 18 years old. And what music! Their chops in the stud ... More >>

Tiesto on Ultra: "It's Been Very Good to My Career"

It's easy for EDM snobs to hate on Tiësto. The Dutch DJ/producer's house and trance records are nuggets of music easily consumed by the masses. They aren't always risky or forward-thinking, but they seem to get the job done and, more important, make a lot of people happy. Sure, Tiësto didn't do ... More >>

Tommie Sunshine Says America's Youth Needs EDM: "It's Keeping Them Alive"

We hereby nominate Tommie Sunshine for PLUR President. He seems to be the most positive, well-intentioned person on the planet. But for all his posi vibes, he's not afraid to stand up and fight. When Ultra Music Festival's two-weekend 2013 party plan came under fire from the City of Miami commissio ... More >>

Ultra Music Festival 2013 Releasing Official Soundtrack From Tiesto, Avicii, 28 Others

Ultra Music Festival is nothing without the music. Well, that and the thousands of attendees. But the people wouldn't come knockin' if the beat didn't stay rockin'. That being said, the Ultra fest folks are working with the people at Ultra Records to bring you "what is guaranteed to be one of the b ... More >>

Top Five Trap Stars on Ultra Music Festival 2013's Trapped Stage

Everybody loves trap music. It's been around for decades on the Southern hip-hop scene, but 2012 saw the trap house get raided by electro and house producers. And despite the fact that the EDM trap phenomenon is barely a year old, Ultra Music Festival has already granted the genre its own showcase. ... 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 >>

Miami Mayor Tomas Regalado on Ultra 2013: "One Weekend Is Enough, People Complain About the Kids"

As usual, the City of Miami commission meeting convened at 9 a.m. today. Amid discussion of telecommunication contracts and waste management, our municipal pols will also decide whether vice chairman Marc Sarnoff was correct when he called Ultra Music Festival fans a "urinating, defecating ... thr ... More >>

Ultra 2013: Organizers Willing to Work With City on Downtown Traffic, Security Concerns

Marc Sarnoff still hasn't returned repeated calls to Crossfade about his anti-Ultra Music Festival stance. But considering Tommie Sunshine's push to get EDM fans to call and email him, we're pretty sure he's been busy the last for the last few 24 hours. However, we do finally have a response for U ... More >>

Irvine Welsh Defends Ultra: "I'm Disappointed in Miami, the Fest Breathed Life Into a Dead Downtown"

Contrary to Marc Sarnoff's alarmist claims, EDM fans aren't all "kids on some sort of mind-altering drug" with a fetish for "urinating, defecating, or throwing up" on the streets of Downtown Miami. Just take Irvine Welsh, the 54-year-old Scottish author of Trainspotting and 11 other books. He's bee ... More >>

Marc Sarnoff's Spokesperson: Commissioner Doesn't Want to "Shut Down" Ultra

We here at Crossfade have been trying to get Miami commissioner Marc Sarnoff's side of the Ultra Music Festival story for approximately 48 hours. Today, we finally got a chance to talk to his spokesperson about the commissioner's attempt to curb Ultra's second weekend. "We are not talking about s ... More >>

Ultra Music Festival 2013: Commissioner Wants To Kill Second Weekend Because Attendees Are On "Mind-Altering Drugs"

Yesterday, Crossfade broke the news that Commissioner Marc Sarnoff had introduced a resolution "disapproving" of the second weekend of Ultra Music Festival.We still don't entirely understand whether the commission could actually force the festival to cancel its second weekend, and repeated messages ... More >>

Tommie Sunshine on City of Miami vs. Ultra: "Way to Demonize the Visitors Who Make Money to Cover Your Asses"

Despite Ultra Music Festival's annual $79 million contribution to the local economy, City of Miami commissioner Marc Sarnoff believes the "event will be disruptive to the local business community and area residents due to noise, nuisance behavior of festival goers, and grid lock traffic." After all ... More >>

Lazaro Casanova Talks Studio M.O., petFood Label, and Miami March Madness

​Last year was a big one for Miami homeboy Lazaro Casanova, and 2011 looks to be even bigger for the up-and-coming DJ-producer. Once the wunderkind of Miami's indie dance scene when he presided over downtown's infamous Revolver party in the late 2000s, he has since graduated to the international s ... More >>

Glitzy House Kittens

Glitzy House Kittens

WMC 2010 Thursday Day Recap: Kaskade Listening Party and Digweed Cruise

​Electronic music and its surrounding industry generally exists in a separate plane from the rest of the world's troubles. The music is, after all, most often about dancing and going out -- a form of escapism. And even if things are generally going to the shitter, people are still going to want to ... More >>

One Night Only

WMC 2010: One Night Only at Karu & Y, March 26

​Paul Morris started the booking agency AM Only in 1995, while he was a student at the University of Florida. It was a fortuitous time, right when dance music was about to break big into this country's consciousness. As electronic sounds shifted through the rave scene and beyond, AM Only continued ... More >>

Video: Peaches "I Feel Cream"

If you spent the earlier part of the decade at places like Piccadilly Garden, Soho Lounge or I/O Lounge--all now deceased venues--you are familiar with Peaches. Along with acts like Felix Da Housecat, Miss Kittin, Larry Tee and Tommie Sunshine, she's is pretty much responsible for ushering in the el ... More >>

On the List: Rising Up From the Dead Just in Time for Halloween

​Oooooohhh! This is the ghost of nightlife past coming to haunt your dreams of weekend debauchery. It's been a while since I've recapped all there is to do across the Magic City, but let's hope I can revive the column from the dead for what's left of 2009.If you've been vigilant you know that I've ... More >>

South Florida According to Brooklyn: How I Became More Open-Minded to New Music

Photo by Justin Namon, thepopnessparty.comTo read past installments of South Florida According to Brooklyn, click here.What I would like to talk about this week is what I've realized more recently is the coolest thing about music: the fact that it keeps changing and evolving. It's funny because what ... More >>

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