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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 >>

Ten Best Pool Parties During WMC and Miami Music Week 2013

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 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 >>

Wolfgang Gartner Gives It Hard to South Beach's Story Nightclub, January 18

Wolfgang Gartner Story Nightclub, South Beach Friday, January 18, 2013 If LIV is among the world's premiere locations for high-profile socializing and progressive house, then SoBe's new hotspot Story Nightclub is Miami Management Group's answer to a bottle-service "alternative." As much as a club w ... More >>

Six Best Club Parties on South Beach January 17 to 23

Six Best Club Parties on South Beach This Week

Whenever we here at Crossfade manage to slink out from behind our grimey laptops, take a shower, slip on some clean jeans, escape the office, and empty our bank accounts, there's only one reason ... A hard-core, seven-day beach party. These are the six best club parties on South Beach this week. ... More >>

Generation Wild Tour 2013 Announces 19 Dates, Promises EDM and "Hedonism"

Free-spirited? Supersexy? "Hungry for hedonism, music and an extraordinary lifestyle"? Welcome to Generation Wild, a "unique concept tour," according to the official hype, "ready to explode in a city near you." The beat-freaking lineup: Awesome "Bong" bro Deniz Koyu, the 17-year-old Spanish EDM ph ... More >>

Win Free Tickets for Porter Robinson, Plus Merch and Meet-and-Greet at Story Nightclub

Who wants to party with Porter Robinson, score some awesome swag, and enjoy a one-on-one hang sesh? Well, you don't have to flee a pack of wolf-like beasts, sprint through some creepy forest, jump off a cliff into unknown waters, swim past a long-lost underwater city, and then free fall for several ... More >>

Story Nightclub's January 2013 Lineup: R3hab, Porter Robinson, Wolfgang Gartner, Others

Last week, Story Nightclub kicked its doors open with a massive New Year's Eve 2013 lineup. But just because the year has been rung and we're all getting used to dating things "'13," doesn't mean the Story crew's gonna let the mood lighten up. The rest of January is filling up with hot headliners ... More >>

Ten Best EDM Tracks and Albums of 2012

Skrillex Quest, the Dubstep Video Game: An Extremely Detailed Breakdown

Don't let Skrillex near your old NES games. He'll fuck them shits up. That's the take-away message of Skrillex Quest, a new glitched-out collaboration between the dubstep dynamo and browser-adventure king John Oda. Based on the original gold-plated Legend of Zelda, the simple RPG features about 3 ... More >>

Ten Nugent Predicts "President to Destroy America!" Top Ten Tweets on Obama's Win

We did it America! Whether you're superstoked or running to your local Walmart to stock up on guns, the people have made their voice heard, and we will have four more years of President Barack Obama. It took a lot of hard work and dedication from many to get here. And for those of us feeling a si ... More >>

Ultra Music Fest, Ultra Records Forge "Global Alliance" as "The Worldwide EDM Authority"

Until earlier this morning, the electronic dance music scene lacked synergy. But Ultra Music Festival founder and CEO Russell Faibisch and Ultra Music president Patrick Moxey have since rectified the situation. In a joint statement released by both parties, Ultra Music Festival and Ultra Music ( ... More >>

Identity Festival 2012 at Klipsch Amphitheater August 4

Audrey Napoleon: "I Want to Be the Gaga of Electronic Music, That's My Goal"

See also "Who Wants Tickets for Identity Festival in Miami?" and "ID 2012 in Miami: Full Lineup and Set Times." Identity Festival 2012 in Miami is 52 hours away! And no doubt the city's epic partiers are gearing up to get down with Eric Prydz, Wolfgang Gartner, Madeon, and all those other big-name ... More >>

Identity Festival 2012 in Miami: Full Lineup and Set Times

See also "Who Wants Tickets for Identity Festival in Miami?" -- plus Crossfade's interview with Eric Prydz and "ID 2012's Five Most Exciting Artists." Got your arctic fox spirit hoodie? Sleeveless "Beef Cake" t-shirt? Frosty fake Wayfarer shades? Skyn extra-lubricated condoms? Free Identity Festiva ... More >>

The Five Ravers You'll Meet at Identity Fest 2012 in Miami

See also Crossfade's interview with Eric Prydz and "Identity Festival 2012's Five Most Exciting Artists." Identity Festival is coming, and many of you are no doubt running around the city, calling everyone you know, trying to finalize all your "preparations" for Saturday, August 4. It's an excitin ... More >>

Identity Festival 2012's Five Most Exciting Artists

See also "Identity Festival 2012 Announces Tour Schedule and Lineup, Tries Again in Miami." Last year, the Identity Festival turned out to be a real tease. There was the threat of a hurricane. The party got canceled. And we here in Miami never even got the chance to get down. But this summer, ID F ... More >>

Six Best Club Parties on South Beach This Weekend

General Ignacio Zaragoza Seguín. You probably don't recognize the name. But General Seguín is the reason you'll tape a felt mustache to your clean-shaven face and inadvertently offend 66 percent of the Hispanic population in the United States on Saturday. Without his leadership, the Mexican arm ... More >>

Justin Bieber, Lady Gaga, and Eight Other Undercover Alien Pop Stars

If there's anything we've learned from the Men in Black movies, it's that aliens are everywhere. They could be on the bus, in the break room, or even singing to us on MTV. Those movies always include fun little pop culture cameos and MIB III director Barry Sonnenfeld recently announced the upcoming ... More >>

Identity Festival 2012 Announces Tour Schedule and Lineup, Tries Again in Miami on August 4

Perhaps the third time's the charm? When the Identity Festival set out on its inaugural summer tour across the United States last year, Miami was left out after the threat of a hurricane that never hit. Organizers tried to reschedule the show at a later date. But it proved too difficult to accompl ... More >>

Wolfgang Gartner Has a Change of Heart, Kills Set at Ultra

​Electro warrior Wolfgang Gartner threw down a killer closing set Friday night at Ultra, but just 24 hours earlier he could hardly imagine being in our fair city--let alone enjoying it. The LA-based DJ let out his feelings on Twitter, tweeting, "sitting in my home on the opposite side of the coun ... More >>

Ultra Music Festival 2012's Top Seven Artists Under 25: Avicii, Skrillex, and Five Others

​​The EDM game is tough. Before you get the big dollars, you've got to pay your dues and take a few hits. So it's no surprise most of these heavy hitters are well into their 30s or even older. But over the last couple of years, there's been a youth invasion of the scene. And suddenly, some of ... More >>

Tiesto Dedicates Club Life Album to Miami: "Clubs Are My Favorite, Crowds Are Inspiring"

​Did you know that Tiësto (AKA the Led Zepplin of EDM) considers Miami to be his second home? It's true. When the Dutch superproducer isn't slaving away in his pimped-out studio, doing the uhntz-uhntz on the sands of Ibiza, or partying with Swedish House Mafia on a plane while getting wasted, sp ... More >>

Dancegiving at America's Backyard November 26

Say Thanks With Dancegiving Music Festival, Wolfgang Gartner, Diplo, and MSTRKRFT

​Each year 'round Thanksgiving, we here at Crossfade like to sit around the conference room table and share the things for which we're most thankful. And while we're plenty grateful for the web hits Justin Bieber's baby drama produced this year, we're even more grateful for a crazy little thing ca ... More >>

Langerado Announces 2011 Lineup With Trey Anastasio, Death Cab for Cutie, and 29 Others

Trey Anastasio says: "Langerado effing rocks!"​It's been almost three months since Crossfade got word that Langerado was being resurrected for the 2011 music festival season. Straight away, the organizers made it clear that the fest's lineup wouldn't be announced till June 1. And while that anno ... More >>

Deathface Talks Blood Baths, Ritual Sacrifice, and the Overthrow's Black Magick Party

via facebook.com/deathfacekills​Once upon a time, Chicago-bred, L.A.-based DJ/producer Johnny Love was best known on underground dance floors as half of Guns and Bombs. That project, as the name implies, was all about going hard and going big, full of searing chainsaw basslines and "subtlety" tu ... 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 >>

Ultra Music Festival 2011 Phase One Lineup: Simian Mobile Disco, Empire of the Sun, Erasure, David Guetta, and More (UPDATE)

Simian Mobile Disco​Ultra Music Festival revealed its Phase One lineup announcement early this morning via Facebook. The lineup really shows an ambitious mix of live indie-dance bands, usual crop of house DJs, and more experimental electronic musicians. Really, it's one of the best lineups for the ... More >>

Q&A With Bass Kleph, Playing Cameo on Friday

​Like world-renowned contemporaries Dirty South, Bag Raiders and TV Rock among others, Sydney-based DJ/producer Bass Kleph (born Stu Tyson) has been riding the crest of the wave of an Australian electronic dance music renaissance since the late '00s. But Tyson has in fact been honing his craft for ... More >>

Photos: Breakbot at Grand Central, Wolfgang Gartner at LIV, and More

Photo by Lex HernandezBreakbot and Jessica Who.​Last night, Ed Banger DJ/producer Breakbot got everyone into the groove with his funk-meets-electro set. It was definitely one of the better DJ sets we've heard all year -- WMC included. Photographer Lex Hernandez captured Breakbot's Grand Central de ... More >>

Classixx is L.A.'s new dynamite duo

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 >>

WMC 2010: James Zabiela, Steve Angello at Beatport Beach Party March 26-28

James Zabiela taking over the sands of South Beach.​Here we almost thought online music store Beatport was going to entirely pull out of this year's Winter Music Conference, but it seems at the last minute they've managed to put something together. Definitely on the smaller scale than last year, B ... More >>

WMC 2010: Opium Group Lineup With Sasha & Digweed, Pryda, Erol Alkan and More

​Finally the moment all of you South Beach club rats have been waiting for: The Opium Group has released its official 2010 WMC lineup. With its vast real estate of glitzy big-room venues, including clubs Mansion, Louis, SET, and Cameo, the Beach's ubiquitous nightlife conglomerate is responsible f ... More >>

Concert Review: Wolfgang Gartner at Mansion, December 12

Photo by Sarah TylerClick here to view more photos from this event.I went to Mansion on Saturday night in order to find out what's happened to electro house. This energetic style, blended with equal parts electro and indie dance rock, exploded on the international scene in 2006 but lost most of its ... More >>

Wolfgang Gartner Plays Mansion on Saturday

​In the world of short-lived electronic dance music fads, electro house is pretty much dead, extinguished by the very intensity with which it alighted on the international dance music scene in 2006-2008. The same brash and abrasive over-the-top sound that made electro house exciting a couple years ... More >>