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  • Blogs

    March 25, 2012

    Top Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week Parties for Sunday, March 25

    ​Check out Crossfade's daily WMC and MMW party guide -- plus the fifteen best parties. The King Rat says, "This is The End." In less than 24 hours, Winter Music Conference, Miami Music Week, and Ultra Music Festival will be over. The clubs will close. The uhntz-uhntz will fade. The sticks will ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 24, 2012

    Top Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week Parties for Saturday, March 24

    ​Good morning, beat freak. Over the last seven days, you've gotten down with a genderqueer rapper in Overtown, raged at each and every free fucking party on the sked (not to mention WMC and MMW's fifteen best club bashes), and hit the Skrillex mosh pit at Ultra Music Festival. You've moombahed ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 21, 2012

    Top Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week Parties for Wednesday, March 21

    ​Happy hump day, beat freaks. How fuckin' rowdy was Steve Aoki last night at Mansion? The Dim Mak Miami party was so worth the $2,500 VIP table for six. Our frat bros loved it. They met so many women named Molly, flirted with all of them. In fact, after Aoki's set, Molly and the guys ended up ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 21, 2012

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    March 17, 2012

    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 >>

  • Music

    March 15, 2012

    Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week's 15 best parties March 22 to 25

    ​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 >>

  • Music

    March 15, 2012

    Winter Music Conference yacht parties March 16 to 25

    ​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 >>

  • Music

    March 15, 2012

    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 >>

  • Calendar

    March 15, 2012

    Come Out of Musical Hibernation

    ​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 >>

  • Blogs

    March 6, 2012

    Winter Music Conference 2012's Record Collectors Show: A Five-Point Survival Guide

    ​Record fairs are like hypercompetitive, cut-throat, life-or-death archaeological digs. But instead of some swarthy scientist digging up the missing link between man and ape or some rugged Indiana Jones type discovering lost civilizations, you've got über-nerds frothing at the mouth, damn near re ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 27, 2012

    WMC Yacht Parties Are Dangerously Funky

    ​Maritime travel has been uncharacteristically sketchy in 2012. First, the inaugural Holy Ship electro-cruise ran aground in the Bahamas on January 7. It took five tugboats nearly 15 hours to dislodge the MSC Poesia from land, putting a serious damper on Steve Aoki's poker tournament. Less than ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 23, 2012

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    September 28, 2011

    Audiofly's Luca Saporito Talks Follow My Liebe, Flying Circus, and Partying in Miami

    ​As far as international EDM artists go, there's very little that Audiofly's Luca Saporito and Anthony Middleton haven't accomplished in their ten-year run. In fact, the London-based duo's accolades are pretty much any aspiring DJ-producer's wet dream. They own Supernature, one of the most hotly ... More >>

  • Music

    March 17, 2011

    Ultra Music Festival 2011 is more diverse than ever

    ​As far as international EDM artists go, there's very little that Audiofly's Luca Saporito and Anthony Middleton haven't accomplished in their ten-year run. In fact, the London-based duo's accolades are pretty much any aspiring DJ-producer's wet dream. They own Supernature, one of the most hotly ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 17, 2011

    Las Vegas Nightlife Superior to Miami's, Says Las Vegas Weekly

    Welcome to Las Vegas, the supposed EDM capital of the United States.​Maybe it's the heat that has Las Vegas Weekly's Sarah Gianetto claiming that Las Vegas' nightlife scene is vastly superior to Miami's.Excuse us. Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha! Oh, sweet baby Jesus. We haven't read something that fun ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 14, 2011

    Hard's Gary Richards Talks Pool Parties and Ultra Music Festival

    Gary Richards, founder of Hard.​Hard is ready to take over Miami's party scene. Since 2007, Hard has been giving dance music fans in the West Coast their fix with regular events that consistently feature a killer lineup. It isn't hard for, er, Hard to sell out a 30,000-person event. And with Los A ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 24, 2011

    Eight Crossfade-Approved Parties for the First Week of Winter Music Conference 2011

    You're gonna need speed to keep up with Sydney Blu.​Thanks to the sudden, nasty breakup between Winter Music Conference and Ultra Music Festival, the month of March in Miami just might kill us all. Basically, the party plan has gone from a five-day freakout to an insanely unhealthy four-week mar ... More >>

  • Blogs

    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

    December 15, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    October 29, 2010

    Swedish House Mafia's Sebastian Ingrosso Talks Masquerade Motel, WMC, and Paris Hilton

    ​Only a couple of years ago, Swedish House Mafia members Sebastian Ingrosso, Steve Angello, and Axwell were an underground triumvirate known mostly to hardcore partiers, EDM addicts, and wannabe DJs. But now these three club thugs are making serious moves into the mainstream. With its new album ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 31, 2010

    WMC 2010: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

    We are sort of stretching this since Winter Music Conference wrapped up Sunday, but it just took a while to finally sit down and process everything we did over the course of last week. But here it is, our final call on all the great and not-so-great things that we experienced last week.Photo by Sant ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 29, 2010

    WMC 2010: Backstage Q&A with Passion Pit and Pirate Stereo at Safe House on Friday

    Pirate Stereo​Another Winter Music Conference in the books, party people. And if you're reading this, it means you survived, which is commendable in and of itself. One always comes out the other side a little worse for wear, but satisfied. This year was no different.Friday we passed by Bayfront Pa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 24, 2010

    WMC 2010: Made to Play Showcase at White Room Rules First Day

    We charmed British DJ Annie Mac on the first night of WMC.​We normally try to conserve our energy the first few days before getting too crazy the rest of the week, but how could we skip out on the first night of Winter Music Conference? In fact, there were a few good reasons to nix the sleeping fo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 23, 2010

    WMC 2010: Q&A With Wally Lopez, Playing Mynt, Nikki Beach, Space, and the Surfcomber

    ​​Wally Lopez is hands-down the most well-known DJ/remixer in the world right now representing Spain. Born and still based in Madrid, the bespectacled electro-house champion got his start in radio, first spinning dance grooves on the air at just 13 years old. Over the years, he moved throughout ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 19, 2010

    WMC 2010: Uffie Skipping Out on Conference, Source Says

    Uffie, no more.​Bad news kids: Electro Lolita Anna-Catherine Hartley, AKA Uffie, will not be stopping by Miami next week for Winter Music Conference. According to a source, the Ed Banger chanteuse decide to rehearse for her upcoming tour in support of her debut album, Sex Dreams & Denim Jeans, ... More >>

  • Music

    March 18, 2010

    WMC survival basics

    Uffie, no more.​Bad news kids: Electro Lolita Anna-Catherine Hartley, AKA Uffie, will not be stopping by Miami next week for Winter Music Conference. According to a source, the Ed Banger chanteuse decide to rehearse for her upcoming tour in support of her debut album, Sex Dreams & Denim Jeans, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 27, 2010

    WMC 2010: MN2S 15th Anniversary Party with Martin Solveig, Armand Van Helden at Klutch, March 26

    Armand Van Helden​British house music label and booking agency Milk'n'2 Sugars has been contributing to the dance music scene for 15 years. So it's only fitting that they celebrate the milestone during the biggest gathering devoted to electronic music, Winter Music Conference.The agency will take ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 30, 2009

    Saturday: Nick Catchdubs at Poplife

    Ian MeyerIf you missed Fool's Gold co-founder, Nick Catchdubs, during Winter Music Conference, don't make the same mistake twice. Not going to rehash too much on why Catchdubs holds a special place amongst many blog-house (electro-house/nu-rave/whathaveyou) fans, except that he is genius when in con ... More >>

  • Music

    March 26, 2009

    Diplo's World Beat

    Thank this DJ/producer for the growing global funk at WMC.

  • Blogs

    October 21, 2008

    Q&A with Treasure Fingers

    Thank this DJ/producer for the growing global funk at WMC.

  • Music

    April 3, 2008

    I'm a WMC Survivor

    The highlights of this year's Winter Music Conference.

  • Music

    March 20, 2008

    Winter Music Conference

    Everything you ever, ever wanted to know about the spin event of the century.

  • Music

    January 31, 2008

    Hector Romero and Lexicon Avenue

    Everything you ever, ever wanted to know about the spin event of the century.

  • Music

    March 15, 2007

    Spring Break

    Upstart conference M3 goes on hiatus

  • Music

    March 16, 2006

    Dance, Dance Evolution

    Conference flexes its gene pool

  • Music

    March 31, 2005

    What Does It Mean?

    Conference flexes its gene pool

  • News

    March 18, 2004

    The Next Big Thing

    At the M3 music conference it was that audacious crossbreed The Grey Album

  • Music

    March 11, 2004

    DJ Petting Zoo

    Put your hands where all eyes can see

  • Film

    March 4, 2004

    Information Society

    Film, video, graphic, and even cell phone art will be seen on the scene at WMC

  • Music

    January 15, 2004

    Rogue State

    The new M3 Summit wants to make an impact at this year's Winter Music Conference. Just don't mention WMC.

  • Music

    January 8, 2004

    Dropping the Ball

    New Year's Eve missions prove memorable

  • Music

    March 27, 2003

    Blow Out

    Notes on 27 parties in six nights at WMC

  • News

    March 27, 2003

    Beach Head

    At the Winter Music Conference, P. Diddy blows up dance music while the U.S. blows up Iraq

  • Music

    March 6, 2003

    Win Factor

    Two awards shows -- one upstart, one established -- battle for the dance music industry's respect

  • News

    April 12, 2001

    Sex and the Single Raver

    DJ porn? Yes, the world of dance music has changed somewhat -- from righteous to raunch

  • News

    March 22, 2001

    Mix & Remix

    Welcome to Miami Beach's annual Winter Music Conference, where the elite meet to discuss the future of the beat

  • Music

    May 13, 1999

    Kulchur

    Welcome to Miami Beach's annual Winter Music Conference, where the elite meet to discuss the future of the beat

  • Music

    March 20, 1997

    Into the Night

    Welcome to Miami Beach's annual Winter Music Conference, where the elite meet to discuss the future of the beat

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