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March 27, 2012
The Seven Ravers You Meet at Ultra Music Festival
Woah, wait a minute. What happened this weekend? We thought we were in Miami. But as soon as we crossed over Biscayne Boulevard we found ourselves in the middle of EDM insanity. We were surrounded by thousands of colorful, crazy-eyed people-creatures. Some of them had furry ears and tails, some ... More >>
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March 27, 2012
Madonna's Response to Deadmau5: "I Don't Support Drug Use and I Never Have"
Appearing with electro-house meatball Avicii at Ultra Music Festival may be providing Madonna with a buzz boost on par with Betty White's reinvention as a party-rockin' hornball grams. First, the entire world seemed to shit its collective pants at the mere sight of Lady MDNA onstage at Ultra. We ... More >>
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March 27, 2012
Ultra Music Festival: Here's a Girl Having a Full-Blown Romance With a Tree, UPDATED With New Angle and Bonus Naked Dude
There are so many beautiful moments in this YouTube video of a girl making out with and humping a tree at Ultra Music Festival. Our favorite comes at the 1:40 mark, when she sassily slaps it and tells it to shut up before hurling her body at the tree. What did the tree say, girl?And tree, cherish ... More >>
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March 26, 2012
Bassnectar at Ultra Music Festival 2012: A 15-Photo Recap
Bassnectar is the sound of a thousand meteors crashing into Earth. On the last night of the fest, his heavy metal/electronic alchemy destroyed Ultra Music Festival 2012's Live Stage as 6,500 beat freaks raved, raged, and howled. His hourlong set ripped through more genres, samples, and live eff ... More >>
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March 26, 2012
Deadmau5 to Madonna: "Fuck Off, You Fucking Idiot"
Read Crossfade's post about Madonna's Ultra Music Festival 2012 and watch the full six-minute and 52-second clip of Madonna's Ultra appearance. Uh-oh, Deadmau5 is pissed off again. The last time he unleashed his fury on Ultra Music Festival in a 12-minute YouTube rant, slamming the electronic ... More >>
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March 26, 2012
Magnetic Man at Ultra Music Festival 2012: A 15-Photo Recap
Magnetic Man is a collabo between three dubstep dudes from the UK -- DJs Benga, Skream, and Artwork -- who met at a record store in the '90s and have been raging ever since. They're all big-name DJs and producers in their own right. As Magnetic Man, though, Benga, Skream, and Artwork have a maj ... More >>
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March 25, 2012
Ultra Music Festival 2013 Dates Announced
Are you beat-freaking kidding me? We're still uhntz-uhntz-ing around Ultra Music Festival 2012, waiting for EDM riot-starter Kaskade, David "The French Tickler" Guetta, and super-Dutch trance man Armin van Buuren to hump up onto the Main Stage and bring this sweaty, pheremone-soaked festival of ... More >>
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March 22, 2012
Ultra Music Festival 2012 Announces Live YouTube Stream, Rave Naked at Home
Ultra Music Festival sold out months ago. So unless you're wiling to drop $7,500 on a VIP package or purchase ridiculously marked-up General Admission scalper tickets, quit bitching and accept the fact that you're not going to catch Tiësto in his (second) hometown. Instead, settle for second b ... More >>
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March 21, 2012
Ultra Music Festival 2012 Set Times Available on Ultra App
Normally, in year's past Ultra Music Festival's organizers send us a photo version of the artist set times the day before the festival takes place. But in keeping with this year's bigger-and-better approach, you don't have wait until then to know the set times.Head over to the iPhone App Store or ... More >>
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March 21, 2012
Northbound Biscayne Boulevard Closed Thursday Through Monday for Ultra
Ultra Music Festival is taking it to the streets. Literally. A few blocks of northbound lanes on Biscayne Boulevard will be closed starting Thursday night through early Monday morning. Plan your route accordingly, and as a favor to yourself and the drivers who can't avoid it, consider staying out ... More >>
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March 20, 2012
SBTRKT Talks American Dubstep, Post-Dubstep, and Ultra Music Festival
When we mentioned SBTRKT (pronounced subtract) in our list of of ten most exciting acts at Ultra Music Festival, we were being dead serious. The British musician is often pigeonholed as post-dubstep. But in reality, he carefully navigates EDM genres, splicing disparate styles and influences lik ... More >>
Music
March 15, 2012
Winter Music Conference, Ultra Music Festival, and Miami Music Week expand to nine days for 2012
When we mentioned SBTRKT (pronounced subtract) in our list of of ten most exciting acts at Ultra Music Festival, we were being dead serious. The British musician is often pigeonholed as post-dubstep. But in reality, he carefully navigates EDM genres, splicing disparate styles and influences lik ... More >>
Blogs
March 13, 2012
Who Wants Free Tickets to Ultra Music Festival's Can U Feel It Movie Premiere?
Are you among the legions of sad, ticketless beat freaks who failed to score three-day Ultra Music Festival passes before the big sellout of 2012? Well, real-life raves are overrated. And we here at Crossfade suggest that you forget about furry boots, caffeinated booze, babes of both sexes, pep ... More >>
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March 12, 2012
Ultra Music Festival Boat Party Cruise With Pukka Up on March 21
Ultra Music Festival, much like the Universe itself, is constantly expanding. Over the past 14 years, what started as a one-day party on Miami Beach has morphed into a huge corporate monster with a million heads. Rather than one day of debauchery, you get three days, plus an UMF concert document ... More >>
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March 5, 2012
Avicii Brings "Levels," Philanthropy, and PLUR to Ultra Music Festival on March 24
Rising Swedish star Avicii is one of the hottest DJ-producers in contemporary house music. His massive hit "Levels," which samples recently deceased Etta James's "Something's Got a Hold on Me," gets so much play that it's almost become obnoxious. But before you start hating on the guy for no r ... More >>
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February 28, 2012
Flying Lotus Bringing Avant-Hop Beats to Ultra Music Festival on March 24
Flying Lotus isn't like most acts you'll encounter at Ultra Music Festival. The Los Angeles native, born Steven Ellison and known as "FlyLo" to his fans, doesn't make dance music -- at least not in the traditional sense. The acclaimed knob fiddler (Pitchfork named his Cosmogramma the 14th best ... More >>
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February 23, 2012
Miike Snow Bringing New Album, Happy to You, to Ultra Music Festival
Attention party animals! Sweden's Miike Snow will be breaking it down at Ultra Music Festival, and you don't wanna be caught slippin'. No, Miike Snow is not a man. It's a group of electro-pop producers -- Christian Karlsson, Pontus Winnberg, and Andrew Wyatt -- that's created some of the biggest ... More >>
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February 23, 2012
Ultra Music Festival's Documentary, Can U Feel It, Premiering During Miami Music Week
You'll laugh. You'll cry. You'll uhntz-uhntz uncontrollably. That's right ... We're talking about Ultra Music Festival's 45-minute concert documentary, Can U Feel It: The UMF Experience. With a cast of 200 uber-mega-superstar DJs, lazer-wielding robots, tattooed mice men, half-naked electro g ... More >>
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February 17, 2012
Ultra Music Festival Announces World Tour Stops in Argentina, Ibiza, Poland, Korea, Brazil
Beware, beat freaks! The raving masterminds behind Ultra Music Festival have already colonized and conquered Downtown Miami in the name of electronic dance music, annually deploying an entire army of furry-booted troops and uhntz-uhntz-ing explosives experts to terrorize Biscayne Boulevard cond ... More >>
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February 16, 2012
Ultra Music Festival 2012 Announces Phase 2 Lineup With 144 New Beat-Freaking Acts
Check out Ultra Music Festival 2012's Phase 1 lineup. There are only five weeks left till epic levels of uhntz-uhntz turn Downtown Miami into a 150,000-person public orgy! Back in December, Ultra Music Festival announced its initial 92-act roster. And just 14 days later, the fest "completely s ... More >>
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February 14, 2012
Richie Hawtin Added to Ultra Music Festival 2012 Lineup
Do you hear that uhntz-uhntz in the distance? It's been 53 days since Ultra Music Festival 2012 announced its Phase 1 lineup, "a sprawling 92-act roster that ranges from massive dance superstars Avicii, Tiësto, David Guetta, Kaskade, and Fedde Le Grand to electronic music legends Kraftwerk, Ne ... More >>
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January 24, 2012
Win Free Ultra Music Festival 2012 Tickets by Entering Miami Music Week Sweepstakes
Exactly 14 days ago, Ultra Music Festival 2012 sold out. And the wailing of sad, ticketless beat freaks could be heard in dark, lonely nightclubs all around the globe. But then the fest offered its oh-so-disappointed children some consolation, announcing a whole series of official Miami Music We ... More >>
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January 10, 2012
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 >>
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January 4, 2012
Ultra Music Festival 2012 Is "90 Percent Sold Out! Act Now Before It's Too Late!"
Code red! Trip the alarm! Now dance! We here at Crossfade have just received a superurgent email with a subject line that shouts, "Ultra Music Festival 90% Sold Out! Last Chance To Purchase Tickets!" Now, for all of us who've been victimized by corporate marketing scare tactics in the past, Ul ... More >>
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December 23, 2011
Ultra Music Festival 2012: Knife Party, Chase & Status Added to Lineup
Chase & StatusMiamiMusicWeek.com has announced that Knife Party (a side project involving Pendulum's Rob Swire and Gareth McGrillen) and British duo Chase & Status have been added to the lineup for Ultra Music Festival 2012. Our sources at the festival say the leak is correct.Other confir ... More >>
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December 23, 2011
Ultra Music Festival 2012 Announces Lineup: Avicii, Tiësto, David Guetta, and 89 Others
Avicii: Ultra 2012's Saturday night headliner.Big news, beat freaks. After months of teases, hype, and promises that it "will be bigger than last year," there's finally been a major development in the ongoing saga of Ultra Music Festival's 2012 lineup. Of course, we here at Crossfade have spe ... More >>
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December 16, 2011
New Order to Perform at Ultra Music Festival 2012
New OrderOur sources at Ultra Music Festival have leaked some big news, telling us that an appearance by New Wave icons New Order at this year's festival has been confirmed. The band, of course, is best known for hits like "Blue Monday," "Age of Consent," and "Bizarre Love Triangle," all of whic ... More >>
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December 15, 2011
Ultra Music Festival 2012: Armin Van Buuren, BK & Mr. E Announce (Sort of) Appearances
Armin Van Buuren.We've been snooping around the last few weeks, hoping someone would slip up and announce they are scheduled to perform at Ultra Music Festival 2012, scheduled to take place at Bayfront Park. Of course, there are already some who have strongly hinted that they will be making an ap ... More >>
Blogs
November 17, 2011
Ultra Music Festival's Russell Faibisch on WMC: There Was Never a Rift With Conference
Via Ultra Music Festival's FlickrAlmost exactly one year ago, Ultra Music Festival and Winter Music Conference suffered a "deeply complicated and very public breakup" after 13 years of peaceful, symbiotic coexistence. A few months later, just before Ultra 2011, we asked the fest's cofounder and ... More >>
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October 6, 2011
Ultra Music Festival Premieres Movie Trailer for New Can U Feel It? Concert Documentary
Ultra Music Festival is an insanely intense sensory experience. Three days of ecstatic raving, bro-on-bro PDA, and other miscellaneous forms of debauched misbehavior alongside all your fave DJs and 150,000 beat freaks rocking goggles, glowsticks, furry boots, yarn hair, and sweat-soaked novelty ... More >>
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July 5, 2011
Cut Copy Performing Live at Grand Central September 30
Photo by Timothy SaccentiCut CopyWhile Australian electro-rockers Cut Copy technically "kicked off" the tour for their latest album, Zonoscope, at this year's Ultra Music Festival, rest assured they are coming back to give Miami a proper show in a non-festival setting. On September 30, the band r ... More >>
Blogs
April 7, 2011
Tune into Riotgear's Mocean District Radio Show Today With Guest H.O.S.H.
Diynamic Label's H.O.S.H.If you're deep into the South Florida EDM scene, then you've probably heard of Riotgear, the DJ duo of Andy Pate and Bobby Bassett. And you definitely heard them if you went to Ultra Music Festival last month, where they rocked the main stage. What you may not know is ... More >>
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April 7, 2011
Macho, Macho Fan
Diynamic Label's H.O.S.H.If you're deep into the South Florida EDM scene, then you've probably heard of Riotgear, the DJ duo of Andy Pate and Bobby Bassett. And you definitely heard them if you went to Ultra Music Festival last month, where they rocked the main stage. What you may not know is ... More >>
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March 27, 2011
Fedde Le Grand Rocks Like a G6 at Ultra Music Festival 2011 Day Two, March 26
So, Fedde Le Grand rocked the hiz. Back in 2006, homie exploded out of the Netherlands with "Put Your Hands Up 4 Detroit" and landed loads of worldwide awards, including several International Dance Music Awards. He released his debut, 2009's Output, on his own Flamingo Recordings imprin ... More >>
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March 27, 2011
Ultra Bingo: Glowsticks
OMFG, the Ultra Music Festival grounds are littered with glowsticks. There are red ones, blue ones, green ones, bright ones, dull ones, dead ones, smashed ones, fat ones, skinny ones, short ones, long ones, and some you don't even want to touch for fear of dibutyl phthalate contamination and STDs ... More >>
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March 27, 2011
Ten Signs You Might Have Woken Up at Ultra Music Festival
Sure, Ultra Music Festival's a good time. But if you aren't careful, it can get the better of you. Greater men (and ladies) than you have fallen waste to the onslaught of this three day electro extravaganza. So there's a decent chance that you might have, in the midst of your merrymaking, gone ... More >>
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March 27, 2011
Tweetcasting a Trip to the Port-a-Potty at Ultra Music Festival 2011
One of the quintessential Ultra Music Festival experiences that rarely gets any press is the average attendee's trip to the port-a-potty. Well, I was waiting in line last night at 10:14 p.m. trying not to piss my pants and thought, "Somebody's gotta document it. Why not me?" But whipping out my ... More >>
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March 26, 2011
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 >>
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March 26, 2011
Ultra Bingo: Deadmau5 Head
Late last night, just as midnight hit and the Ultra Music Festival's Main Stage MC was breaking up the party, we saw an enormous creature pop out of a hole in the ground. We were like, "WTF?" And then we took a closer look ... It was actually a human human being in a homemade Deadmau5 head w ... More >>
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March 26, 2011
Ultra Bingo: Non-Relevant '80s Band
Holy crap, how could we forget? The non-relevant '80s band! Of course, this particular Ultra Bingo square was explicitly concocted in honor of Duran Duran. Just look closely and you'll see that the illustration is actually the cover of 1983's multi-platinum Rio. But when we were at Ultra Music ... More >>
Blogs
March 24, 2011
Set Times For Ultra Music Festival 2011
Deadmau5's set on Saturday starts at 10:30 p.m. at the main stage.Tomorrow's the day! And finally, Ultra Music Festival's organizers have released the entire list of set times for the massive three-day gathering.It really helps a lot knowing beforehand what to expect when attending a festival the ... More >>
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March 18, 2011
Deadmau5 Searches for the Electronic Cheese at Ultra Music Festival 2011
Photo by Drew ResslerMr. Mau5 is an electro idol.Remember when Deadmau5 was just a break from the Carl Cox tent at Ultra Music Festival back in 2008? Those were the days. By 2009, he graduated to the live stage. And last year, the rodent rager scored the first-ever sold-out solo date at the Miami ... More >>
Music
March 17, 2011
Ultra Music Festival 2011 is more diverse than ever
Photo by Drew ResslerMr. Mau5 is an electro idol.Remember when Deadmau5 was just a break from the Carl Cox tent at Ultra Music Festival back in 2008? Those were the days. By 2009, he graduated to the live stage. And last year, the rodent rager scored the first-ever sold-out solo date at the Miami ... More >>
Blogs
March 17, 2011
Underworld's Karl Hyde talks Frankenstein, Kubrick, and the Ultra Music Festival
Underworld, the UK-based electronic duo of Rick Smith and Karl Hyde, has been the vehicle for an audio-video conflux that rose to prominence from the post-acid house scene of the '90s, and really hit the public consciousness after the song "Born Sippy .NUXX" was used to great effect in Danny Boyl ... More >>
Blogs
March 3, 2011
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 >>
Blogs
February 21, 2011
Study Claims Ecstasy Doesn't Damage Brain (No Wonder Ultra Sold Out)
Photo by Ivon David RojasA reveler at Ultra Music Festival. Miami's credentials as a cocaine capitol are well established, but for that last weekend every March during the Ultra Music Festival, it's no secret an extravaganza of ecstasy use takes hold of the city. Now, one of the largest studies i ... More >>
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January 25, 2011
What Are We Gonna Call the Week of Ultra Music Festival?
Photo by Ian WitlenHelp us help the confused Ultra ravers.As conference approaches, if someone is "winning" the battle of the dueling electronic music weeks in March, it's definitely Ultra Music Festival. That's not to say Winter Music Conference will be a total dud. In the coming weeks, though, ... More >>
Blogs
January 7, 2011
Afrobeta Remix Contest Could Put You Onstage at Ultra 2011
AfrobetaWe love a good contest, especially when the grand prize is a chance to play for thousands at an enormous electronic music festival. And that's exactly what Afrobeta, their label Do IT Music Group, and Ultra Music Festival are offering every wannabe DJ-producer.The deal? You gotta take a s ... More >>
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December 20, 2010
Sunday School for Degenerates Gets Freaky During Ultra Music Festival March 25
Rejoice freaky party people 'cause Made Event's massive Sunday School for Degenerates throwdown is back for another year. And just as we speculated last week when announcing the Anjunabeats party, class will be convening alongside Ultra Music Festival and not WMC. Like the 2010 edition (and Abo ... More >>
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